Thinking Psychoanalytically:
The Basics (101)
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- This 16-session course provides students with an essential vocabulary and a basic overview of a clinical and humanistic perspective informed by psychoanalysis.
- Students will learn about establishing a psychotherapy framework and consider how childhood development, unconscious conflict, and psychological trauma influence memory, symptoms, relationships, and a sense of self.
- Students will learn how psychoanalytic concepts can be applied to psychotherapy, diagnoses, and to understanding mature and immature defenses, transference, and countertransference.
- Students will read seminal and contemporary papers and texts, now considered to be classics in the field. They will be introduced to the work of key past psychoanalytic figures including Freud, Winnicott, and Ferenczi, as well as contemporary authors.
- Students will be introduced to the history of psychoanalysis and some of its controversies.
The weekly meetings combine lecture and seminar formats and student participation is a core component. The instructors use a minimum of jargon, thereby demonstrating how psychoanalytic insights illuminate everyday life and can assist the clinician in understanding and relating to people, regardless of the clinical setting.
This course, which focuses on how psychoanalytic ideas provide an informed approach to human motivations and behavior, has been designed for the mental health professional but is also appropriate for the interested layperson.
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Instructors:
William Meyer, MSW and
Harold Kudler, MD
Schedule:
Mondays, beginning Aug 23
6:30-8:00 pm
Location:
via Zoom
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Psychological Development Across the Life Cycle, Part 1A:
Infancy to Beginning Latency (206A)
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There are developmental challenges to be mastered throughout the life cycle from infancy through old age. Each component builds upon what has gone before as new capacities are integrated into the emerging personality. This course will explore developmental tasks and challenges from a psychoanalytic perspective including both typical features and pathological adaptations.
Part IA, 8 sessions in the fall, will focus on the establishment of psychic structures. We will examine fundamental attachments in infancy to emerging experiences of separation, autonomy, and attempts at mastery into latency. Psychic structures develop within the crucible of profound caregiving experiences. We will pay close attention to the significance of these experiences in shaping or distorting the structures we are studying.
We encourage lively discussion of readings, clinical material, and personal experiences. Students will be asked to carry one of their own patients in mind as they study the material. Students are required to take Part 1A and 1B in succession.
This class will be limited to 10 participants and will combine lecture and seminar formats; student participation is encouraged.
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Instructor:
John Tisdale, D.Min.
Schedule:
Tuesdays,
Aug 24-Oct 19
7:10-8:40 pm
Location:
via Zoom
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Development Across the Life Cycle, Part 1B: Latency to
Pre-adolescence (206B)
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There are developmental challenges to be mastered throughout the life cycle from infancy through old age. Each component builds upon what has gone before as new capacities are integrated into the emerging personality. This course will explore developmental tasks and challenges from a psychoanalytic perspective including both typical features and pathological adaptations.
Part IB will continue to build on the developmental concepts explored in Part 1A. We will explore the developmental tasks beginning at latency and continuing through preadolescence. Alternatives to a typical developmental path and the results of distortions in various developmental lines going forward are significant aspects of the course. We encourage lively discussion of readings, clinical material, and personal experiences.
This class will be limited to 10 participants and will combine lecture and seminar formats; student participation is encouraged.
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Instructor:
Nancy Livingston, MD
Schedule:
Tuesdays,
beginning Oct 26
5:30-7:00pm
Location:
This course may meet in person in Chapel Hill with a limited number of seats available.
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From Freud to Ego Psychology (202A)
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From Freud to Ego Psychology is the first of a four-part series that provides an introduction to the major phases of development in psychoanalytic theory from its origins in the latter part of the 19th century to the present.
This is an 8-session course that focuses on psychoanalytic theories originating in Freud, his contemporaries, and their successors. The ego psychological model includes ego functions, conflict-free ego sphere, the defenses, internal conflicts, and the impact of external influences and/or conflicts on ego functioning. This course is intended for clinicians at beginning through intermediate levels.
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Instructor:
Don Rosenblitt, MD
Schedule:
Tuesdays, beginning
Aug 24
5:30-7:00 pm
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Location:
via Zoom
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Object Relations is the second of a four-part series that provides an introduction to the major phases of development in psychoanalytic theory from its origins in the latter part of the 19th century to the present.
Object Relations is an 8-session course that focuses on psychoanalytic theories originating in early object relations. Theorists discussed will include Sullivan, Fromm, Klein, Fairbairn, Winnicott, and Bion. We will explore the shift from Freud's drive/structural model to the relational/structural model that has dominated psychoanalysis over several decades. We will follow themes of topography, motivation, structure, and development to learn how these theories evolve from, coexist with, and inform each other.
This course is intended for clinicians at beginning through intermediate levels.
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Instructors:
Steve Bennett, PhD
and
Amy Levy, PsyD
Schedule:
Tuesdays,
Oct 26-Dec 14
7:10-8:40p
Location:
This course may meet in person in Chapel Hill with a limited number of seats available. Also available via Zoom.
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Freud in Depth (302)
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This class explores the many contributions to psychoanalysis made by Freud and provides an opportunity to explore this material in more depth. Among the many contributions made by Freud, we will review are those related to the structural model, dreams, infantile sexuality, views about characterological patterns, mourning, symptoms, inhibitions, and anxieties.
We will also consider Freud’s thinking about issues at a more macro level including civilization and its discontents, and war, which he considered later in his career. Here, we are giving the advanced psychoanalytic student a broad exposure to Freud and his works which, although written many years ago, are still discussed, reviewed, read, and re-interpreted throughout the years following the publication of these works.
This class will be limited to 10 participants and will combine lecture and seminar formats; student participation is encouraged.
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Instructors:
Burton Hutto, MD
and
James Weiss, MD
Schedule:
Tuesdays,
August 24-
December 14
5:30-7:00pm
Location:
via Zoom
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Developmental Crises, Part 3 Adolescence (306)
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There are developmental challenges to be mastered throughout the life cycle. This course, the third in a series of four, will focus on adolescence, the period that generally falls between 12 and 20 years of age. We will use a psychoanalytic perspective to explore the intrapsychic and interpersonal developmental tasks common to this period and the issues that result from failure to master them.
We will consider differing theoretical perspectives using classic and contemporary readings. Relevant clinical material will be presented, and there will be ample opportunity for discussion.
This course is appropriate for intermediate through advanced students, as well as clinicians with extensive experience who have the permission of the instructor. This class will combine lecture and seminar formats; student participation is encouraged.
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Child Integrated Seminar (411)
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This is an ongoing Child Seminar that integrates theory and techniques in the treatment of children from birth through late adolescence. Child-Focused and Adult/Child psychoanalytic track students will be expected to participate in this seminar for approximately 33 hours per academic year for a total of 5 years beginning at the time of matriculation into one of these programs and are invited to continue after graduation. The goal is to develop an ongoing intellectual inquiry, an orientation that recognizes that the work is very complex and that ongoing study and collegial support are an integral part of the profession. The seminar will integrate ongoing case students and readings. The literature experiences will allow for exposure to the core literature relevant to these tracks.
NOTE: The PCC Psychoanalytic Committee approves psychoanalytic matriculated students replacing 12 hours of Adult Case Conference credit applied toward graduation with 12 hours of Child Integrated Seminar/Child Case Conference credit. Students must complete one Adult Case Conference (12 hours) before enrolling in Child Seminar for credit.
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Instructor:
David Smith, MD
Schedule:
Tuesdays,
beginning
Nov 2-Dec 21
7:10-8:40 pm
Location:
via Zoom
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Instructors:
Don Rosenblitt, MD
Paul Brinich, PhD
John Tisdale, DMin
Schedule:
Mondays,
Sept 13-June 13
11:00-12:30
Location:
via Zoom
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Neuropsychoanalysis (907)
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Neuropsychoanalysis is an interdisciplinary effort to integrate psychoanalysis with neuroscience which was first attempted by Freud in The Project for a Scientific Psychology (1895). In this course, we will study neuropsychoanalytic themes and concepts by reading The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness (2021) by Mark Solms, Ph.D., a psychoanalyst and neuropsychologist.
Neuropsychoanalysis does not seek to be a new school of psychoanalysis but rather links to and grounds psychoanalysis. “The brain is the organ of the mind. If we want to fully understand mental life, we must integrate the findings of neuroscience with all levels of the mind. Neuropsychoanalysis is interested in the neurobiological underpinnings of how we act, think, and feel. As we begin to link brain activity with a psychoanalytic model of the mind, even at the deepest levels, a truly dynamic understanding can emerge."
The course is open to psychoanalysts, candidates, and psychoanalytic psychotherapy students in the PCC and other analytic institutes, as well as other clinicians and academicians by permission of the instructor.
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Thinking Psychoanalytically About Self in Society (908)
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This course explores psychoanalysis as an explanatory discipline concerning individuals, society, and culture. Social life cannot be reduced to empirical social meanings related to rules and norms, legal and ideological. Whereas for sociologists the social subject is a social fact--a subject defined by rights, status, and markers of identity--for psychoanalysts, the social subject is also part of a social unconscious that is desiring and thus invested in social fantasy--for example, the fantasy of a lost paradise of white America whose Black and Native American victims cannot be mourned and are therefore subjected to attack in fantasy. Psychoanalytic concepts such as desire, sublimation, repression, loss and mourning, and trauma are applicable to cultures, given that people psychologically share their experiences and want them recognized by others.
This is a course on applied psychoanalysis using psychoanalytic concepts to explain meaning-making and social behavior. Registration is open to academic scholars in the humanities and sciences who are not practicing clinicians. PCC matriculated students may register for this course for elective credit.
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Instructor:
David M. Moore, PhD
Schedule:
Thursdays,
Sept 9 & 23,
Oct 14 & 28,
Nov 11 & Dec 9
5:30-7:30p
Location:
via Zoom
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Instructors:
Angelika Rapaport, PhD
and
Herman Rapaport, PhD
Schedule:
Fridays,
Oct 15 - Dec 10
no class Nov. 26
4:00 - 5:30 pm
Eastern time
Location:
via Zoom
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for prerequisites, required texts, and other important information.
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The Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas offers a free telephone referral service to help you find psychoanalytic assessment and treatment with a psychoanalyst or psychoanalytic psychotherapist in the Raleigh, Durham, Hillsborough and Chapel Hill area.
Psychoanalytic Referral Service: 919.685.1956
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The PCC is a welcoming community of mental health professionals who study and share the life-changing benefits of psychoanalysis. We advocate empathic, attuned mental health care, connecting people seeking therapy with highly qualified psychoanalysts and psychodynamic psychotherapists.
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CE/CME:
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and the Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.”
The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 33 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters for this educational activity has relevant financial relationship(s)* to disclose with ineligible companies* whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. The instructors of these courses have signed Financial Disclosure Forms, and have no commercial support that represents a conflict of interest.
*Financial relationships are relevant if the educational content an individual can control is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company.
-Updated July 2021-
The Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6518. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. The Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas is solely responsible for all aspects of the program.
At the end of each course, participants must complete the Evaluation Form to receive continuing education credit.
Contact: admin@carolinapsychoanalytic.org or 919 490-3213
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