This set of presentations is about the up-to-date psychoanalytic understanding of psychic development and its application to treating patients in psychotherapy or psychoanalysis. It will cover the entire human life span beginning from the 'pre-self' (the prenatal determinants of personality) to the 'post-self' (the posthumous persistence of self as an internal object of others). Interspersed between these two poles shall be the psychosocial tasks of infancy, toddlerhood, oedipal phase, latency, and adolescence. However, unlike the customary ending at this point, the course will go on to a piecemeal deconstruction of adult development, focusing upon the major milestones of marriage, parenthood, midlife, changing relationships with parents and children, aging, infirmity, and death. The clinical utility of these ideas shall be established by the presentation of ten specific therapeutic measures that un-block thwarted development or create it in the first place. Ample illustrations from daily life, poetry, movies, and clinical practice will be provided.

Hosted by MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute live in Orleans, MA for 15 CEs. For more info, visit the event website.