This series of twelve lectures examines the theoretical development of psychoanalytic thinking through the work of Freud, Klein, Bion and Winnicott.

The lectures provide a comprehensive introduction to the principal concepts of psychoanalysis, how it can help us to understand many aspects of human experience and the practice of psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The course considers the ways in which the person comes to terms with experience and the part that dreaming, relating to others and creativity plays in this. It looks at the impact of loss and trauma and the particular patterns that emerge from childhood and continue to affect our lives throughout adulthood.

The course aims to encourage discussion and to develop our understanding of how psychoanalytic psychotherapy treats not just the surface of personal problems, seeking instead to reach the underlying, often unconscious sources of a person’s distress. The course also provides a valuable introduction to the master’s level clinical training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy with children, adolescents and adults offered by the Department of Psychiatry and the Irish Institute of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.

On completion of the course participants will receive a certificate of attendance.

How to apply

Post a completed application form to arrive before 14 September 2012 to Siobhan Doyle, Department of Psychiatry, St Patrick’s Hospital, Dublin 8 enclosing a cheque/draft/postal money order made payable to Trinity College No. 1 account.

Fee

€200. Concession rate available to students, unemployed persons and those in receipt of a social welfare pension.

Date, time and place

Wednesday evenings, 6.30 p.m. - 7.30 p.m., from 26 September 2012 until 12 December 2012, in the Trinity Centre for Health Sciences, St James’s Hospital, Dublin 8.

Further information

For further information about the course and to obtain an application form email: amdps@indigo.ie; phone: 01 272 2928.