This series of six-monthly sessions, running from January to June 2025, offers an opportunity to learn basic psychoanalytic concepts and techniques, along with their application in clinical practice. Clinicians will discuss case material to deepen their understanding of these principles and explore their practical use throughout the sessions.
Over the course of the six monthly sessions, participants can expect to learn the following:
- Differences between psychoanalytic psychotherapy and other types of therapies, specifically the unconscious processes and the exploration of the relationship between client and therapist.
- Case formulation: Assessment and formulation of personality organization and functioning.
- Phases of treatment, therapeutic alliance, and theory of therapeutic action.
- Unconscious affect and conflict interpretation interventions. Connecting current repetition and childhood development.
- Defenses interpretation interventions.
- Transference interpretation interventions.
Target Audience: This event is intended for mental health professionals and open to the public interested in psychoanalytic perspectives. Open to members and the community.
Registration/Attendance Process: This is a hybrid event and preregistration is required.
- Register by clicking the registration button. You will receive a confirmation by email with details about the event.
- We will have a list of registrants and will check you off. You may also pay at the door. Preregistration is preferred.
- Verify attendance by signing in on the attendance sheet at in-person events. If attending online, participants must list full name under your video image to allow the Continuing Education Manager to confirm your attendance.
- Participants must have their cameras on at the beginning and the end of the event to receive credit. Note: partial attendance of a CE/CME activity will not be awarded CE/CME credit.
Accommodations & Grievances
- If you need special accommodations to attend this event, please contact the Event Coordinator.
- For any grievances or issues, please contact the Continuing Education Manager for any grievances.
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Educational Objective(s)
- Describe the key aspects of a psychoanalytic psychotherapy approach.
- Conceptualize a case using some fundamentals of psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
- Demonstrate understanding of the phases in psychoanalytic psychotherapy treatment.
- Demonstrate how to use psychoanalytic psychotherapy interventions in treatment.
- Begin applying the transference analysis intervention with their clients.
Presenter Information
Benoit Vincent, Ph.D., is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and an associate in psychoanalysis working in a private practice in Carlsbad, CA and a non-profit community agency in Escondido, CA. He also has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering. He obtained his masters in Marriage and Family Therapy from Alliant International University in San Diego, and completed advanced training for psychoanalytic psychotherapy and academic psychoanalysis at the San Diego Psychoanalytic Center (SDPC). He has been practicing for 5 years including working in school setting. He is a board member of SDPC. He has been running a business coaching practice for 10 years. Prior to his psychotherapeutic experience, he was an executive for a large corporation in charge of research and development for 30 years after working for the French CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique).
Carol Koenigsberger M.D., is a board certified psychiatrist and a psychoanalyst in La Jolla, CA. She received her medical degree from University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, completed psychiatry residency at UCSD, and completed advanced training for psychoanalytic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis at the San Diego Psychoanalytic Institute. She has been in private practice for over 10 years and is a voluntary assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at UCSD. She also has a PhD in Pharmacology from Mayo Clinic and has published peer reviewed articles in the field of Neurobiology.
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CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION CREDITS
SDPC is proud to offer CE/CME credit to Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, Psychologists and Social Workers. Continuing Education certificates of attendance will be awarded electronically in exchange for a completed evaluation form. Please see the CE/CME credits page for more information.
For refund policies or cancellations, please visit our policies page. Any other questions, contact the SDPC Continuing Education Manager.
CMA Accreditation Statement: The San Diego Psychoanalytic Center is accredited by the California Medical Association (CMA, provider #4001214) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
AMA Credit Designation Statement: The San Diego Psychoanalytic Center designates this Continuing Education activity for a maximum of 9 hours AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™️. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
CAMFT Accreditation: The San Diego Psychoanalytic Center (SDPC) is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT) as a continuing education provider, (#050121), to offer Category 1 credit for LMFT’S, LCSW’S, LPCC’S and LEP’S. SDPC as required by the California Board of Behavior Sciences. SDPC maintains responsibility for this course program and all of its content.
Disclosure Statement: The San Diego Psychoanalytic Center CE Committee has reviewed the materials for accredited continuing education and has determined that this activity is not related to the product line of ineligible companies and therefore, the activity meets the exception outlined in Standard 3: ACCME's identification, mitigation and disclosure of relevant financial relationship*. This activity does not have any known commercial support.
*Financial relationships are relevant if the educational content an individual can control is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company.
Statement of Commitment: San Diego Psychoanalytic Center does not discriminate in employment and in its educational programs and activities, including admission or access thereto, on the basis of race, national origin, color, creed, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, and gender identity.
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The San Diego Psychoanalytic Center is affiliated with the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA), the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA), and the organization of Southern California Psychoanalytic Institutes and Societies.
The San Diego Psychoanalytic Center is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.