Description
Eligibility
Anyone interested in learning about Sigmund Freud, Psychology Students, Counsellors, Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Social Workers, Students, Educators, PhD Scholars
What is Psychoanalytic Therapy?
Psychoanalytic therapy is a form of psychotherapy that focuses on understanding unconscious thoughts, emotions, conflicts, and past experiences that influence present behavior and relationships. Developed from Sigmund Freud’s theories, it explores how childhood experiences, hidden feelings, defense mechanisms, and unresolved emotional conflicts shape a person’s personality and emotional life.The therapy helps individuals gain insight into recurring patterns, emotional struggles, relationship difficulties, and inner conflicts through deep self-exploration, reflection, and the therapeutic relationship.
PROCESS OF REGISTRATION
SYLLABUS
Module 1 – Foundations of Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Therapy
- Introduction to Freud’s Psychoanalytic Theory
- Conscious vs Unconscious Mind
- How do childhood experiences shape adult personality?
- Why do people repeat painful emotional patterns?
- Basics of Psychodynamic Therapy (Role of Jung, Adler, Horney and psychodynamic thinkers in expanding Freud’s ideas)
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Module 2 – Personality Structure and Defense Mechanisms
- Freud’s Id, Ego and Superego
- Anna Freud’s Defense Mechanisms
- Understanding emotional avoidance and unconscious defenses (Repression, Denial, Projection, Rationalization, Displacement, Regression, Intellectualization)
- Emotional conflicts and adaptive functioning
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Module 3 – Neo-Freudians and Relationship Patterns
- Carl Jung’s Shadow & Collective Unconscious
- Alfred Adler’s Inferiority Complex
- Karen Horney’s Neurotic Needs
- Why are some people emotionally dependent while others emotionally distant?
- Understanding unconscious relationship patterns
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Module 4 – Childhood Experiences and Attachment Patterns
- Early Childhood Emotional Experiences Attachment Styles (John Bowlby’s Attachment Theory & Mary Ainsworth’s Attachment Patterns)
- Inner Child Concepts
- Why do people fear abandonment and rejection?
- Why are emotionally unavailable relationships repeated?
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Module 5 – Psychoanalytic Listening and Therapeutic Skills
- Listening Beyond Words
- Observing Unconscious Themes
- Emotional Attunement & Reflection
- Silence as a Therapeutic Tool
- What is the client indirectly communicating?
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Module 6 – Transference, Countertransference and Resistance
- Freud’s Concept of Transference
- Countertransference
- Reactions Resistance & Emotional Avoidance
- Why do clients resist change?
- Understanding Therapy Relationship Dynamics
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Module 7 – Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Techniques
- Free Association
- Interpretation
- Clarification
- Confrontation
- Working through emotional conflicts
- Identifying unconscious themes in narratives
- Psychodynamic formulations, Therapeutic interventions in psychodynamic practice
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Module 8 – Dreams, Symbols and the Unconscious
- Freud vs Jung Dream Analysis
- Manifest vs Latent Content
- Are dreams symbolic expressions of unconscious conflict?
- What do recurring dreams reveal psychologically?
- Symbolism in Dreams & Behavior
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Module 9 – Anxiety, Trauma and Emotional Conflicts
- Anxiety from a Psychodynamic Lens
- Trauma & Emotional Wounds
- Emotional Triggers & Defense Mechanisms
- Why do some emotional reactions feel uncontrollable?
- Dependency & Fear of Abandonment
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KNOW YOUR TRAINER
Time- 8pm to 9pm
Starts- 5th June to 17th July
Access to recording for 3 month
