PPC Classes

Instructor: Michelle Paley

Instructor: Patricia Gilmore, L.M.H.C. This course offers an exploration of transference and countertransference as central organizing principles in psychodynamic and psychoanalytic treatment. Beginning with the foundational Freudian formulation, this course ... Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Course: Transference and Countertransference

Instructors: Lynne Harkless, Sheri Ashcraft. Loss is a more common experience in our lives than most of us fully recognize. We experience loss not only in the death of a ... Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Course: The Centrality of loss in Everyday Life and Clincal Work

Instructors: Stefania Prendes-Alvarez, Ph.D., Daniel Sheridan, Ph.D., Gretchen Suarez, L.M.H.C. This class provides a supervision experience for three students who will present and share clinical case material. Through discussion and ... Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Course: Psychodynamic Supervision

Instructor: Stefania Prendes-Alvarez, MD This class explores the concept of resistance in psychodynamic psychotherapy...how it manifests in the therapeutic relationship, its many meanings, and its role in the patient’s internal ... Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Course: Resistance as Communication

Instructor: Andrew Lagomasino, Psy.D. This class introduces students to self psychology with an emphasis on clinical application After brief grounding in Kohut's core ideas, the focus will shift to technique: ... Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Course: Self Psychology in the Room: Recognizing Selfobject Transference and Responding Clinically

Instructor: Gennifer Lane Briggs, L.C.S.W. This class explores Winnicott's core contributions as living clinical tools rather that historical theory. Topics will include the holding environment, the true and false self, ... Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Course: Winnicott and the Clinical Relationship

Instructor: Daniel Sheridan, Ph.D. This course explores the many ways the unconscious communicates through symbols, metaphor, dreams, enactments, and the clinician's own reverie. Drawing on clinical case material and psychodynamic ... Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Course: Learning to Listen to the Language of the Unconscious

Instructor: Autumn Ning, M.D. This class address ethical dimensions of psychodynamic clinical work - not as a set of rules to follow but as a living, ongoing dimensions of practice. ... Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Course: Ethics in Clinical Practice

Instructors: Meyrav Barak, L.M.H.C. This class addresses enactment and transference as they arise in the treatment of difficult patients. Drawing on clinical case material, students will examine how enactments emerge, ... Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Course: Enactment, Transference, and Difficult Patients

Instructor: Alexandra Sredni, Psy.D. This class offers and introduction to the integration of psychoanalytic theory and Zen Buddhist thought as applied to clinical practice. Drawing on Bion's theoretical framework alongside ... Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Course: An Introduction to the Integration of Psychoanalytic and Zen Buddhist Theory

Instructor: Ana Eriksen, M.D. This class introduces students to Mentalization Based Therapy (MBT) as a structured clinical approach for working with emotionally dysregulated patients presenting with borderline and narcissistic symptoms. ... Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Course: Metalization Based Therapy: Technique Dysregulated Patients