Psychoanalytic Developmental Thinking in Our Clinical Work with Adults

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Psychoanalytic Developmental Thinking in Our Clinical Work with Adults

Presenter: Rudy Oldeschulte, MA, JD, MACP
Date(s): Feb. 11, 18, 25, 2027
Time: 7:00-8:15 PM
Sessions: 3
Credits: 3.75
Level: Beginner/Intermediate
Price: $124 (with credits), $25 (without credits)
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Description

This course is useful for beginning clinicians and more experienced ones – especially those not familiar with the many developmental theories/clinical approaches. As Winnicott noted, a developmental awareness must be ‘in your bones’ in the clinical encounter. The course will also highlight how various psychoanalytic developmental theories influence each other. A developmental framework is foundational to an understanding of the psychoanalytic clinical process. The following will be discussed – as well as more contemporary perspectives:

1. Drive theory (Freud, Abraham)
2. Ego Psychology (Hartmann, Anna Freud)
3. Object Relations (Winnicott, Klein)
4. Life Cycle (Erikson)
5. Theories of the Self (Stern, Kohut)
6. Attachment Theory (Bowlby, Ainsworth)

Course Objectives

1. Participants will be able to compare and describe the commonalities and differences of theoretical positions.
2. Participants will be able to list the fundamentals that remain the same within classical and more contemporary theoretical perspectives in both theory and technique.
3. Participants will be able to explain the necessary components of establishing a working or therapeutic alliance.Participants will be able to discuss examples of their use of countertransference as observed and experienced in the psychotherapeutic encounter.
4. Participants will be able to discuss examples of their use of countertransference as observed and experienced in the psychotherapeutic encounter.

References

1. Ogden, T. (2018). How I Talk to My Patients. In Psychoanalytic Quarterly,87(3):399-413
2. Joyce, A. (2016) Infantile Sexuality: Its Place in the Conceptual Developments of Anna Freud and Donald W. Winnicott. In Int.J. Psychoanal., (97)(3):915-931
3. Ogden, T. (2019) Ontological psychoanalysis or “What do you want to be when you grow up?” In Psychoanal.Q. 88:661-684.
4. Akhtar, S.(2018). Humility. In Am. J. Psychoanal., (78)(1):1-27

About the Presenter

Rudy Oldeschulte qualified in psychoanalysis with Anna Freud and her colleagues at the Hampstead Clinic in London (Now The Anna Freud Centre) – following graduate school at the University of Michigan. He has 40 years of clinical experience with adults, children, and adolescents in private practice, consultation to hospitals and educational institutes in the United States, Britain, and Russia.

He has held posts as teaching and supervising faculty for the College of Medicine, University of Arizona, Department of Psychiatry, as well as teaching for the British Association of Psychotherapists, St Louis Psychoanalytic Institute, and the Colorado Center for Psychoanalytic Studies. Rudy co-founded the Southwest Center for Psychoanalytic Studies (Arizona) – as the founding President. He continues to supervise and teach at the Indiana School of Medicine – Psychiatry and the St. Petersburg Society of Child Psychoanalysis (Russia). Now practicing psychoanalysis in Phoenix, Arizona, and continuing to teach developmental theory applied to work with adults, psychoanalytic developmental theory for educators, and the history and development of the British Independent Tradition.

Credit Information

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In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by the American Psychoanalytic Association and the St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute. The American Psychoanalytic Association is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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Credits Available

1. 1. 1. • Physicians: 3.75 Credits
         • Psychologists: 3.75 Credits
         • Social Workers: 3.75 Credits
         • PAs: 3.75 Credits
         • Nurses & NPs: 3.75 Nursing Contact Hours
         • Pharmacists/Pharmacy Technicians: 3.75 Credits. Pharmacists must claim credits within 30 days and provide their eProfile ID and Birthdate. APsA will not report credits claimed after 30 days or with incomplete information.
         • Interprofessional Continuing Education (Counselors, NPs, students): 3.75 Credits

Other Profession Types

Other profession types will receive a certificate of attendance upon completion of the activity and online evaluation confirming their participation. Participants may claim credit for recertification; however, their professional organization/institute holds the final say on which accredited activities they accept.

Disclosure Statement

None of the planners and presenters for this educational activity have 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. There is no commercial support for this activity. APsA verifies that all materials generated by AI are accurate, including cited publications and posttests.

COUNSELORS: The St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 5953. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. The St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

*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 December 2022