Psychoanalytic Student Seminars

2023 - 2024 Psychoanalytic Student Seminar

Jane Reingold, MFT, Chair

These seminars are offered as a community service intended to supplement local training with psychoanalytic clinical instruction. The courses are offered free of charge to pre- and post-doctoral psychology interns, psychiatry residents, and pre-licensed MFT and social work interns currently in clinical placements.

Program Title:Introduction to the Lacanian Clinic
Dates:Wednesdays, March 6, 13, 20, 27, 2024
Time:06:30pm – 08:00pm
Instructor:Sydney Tan, PsyD
Location:Online via Zoom
Program Fee:Free
Note:Registration is limited to 14 participants

This seminar will serve as an introduction to key concepts in Lacanian psychoanalysis. We will read Freud and Lacan and discuss the relevance of the work of Jacques Lacan to the contemporary clinic.

Readers Fee

Charges for reading material required for the seminars are not included in tuition. They are based upon copyright laws and change based on the content of the readers. The charges will be billed to you separately. Please submit your registration two weeks in advance in order to receive reading materials before the course starting date.

Program Chair:
Jane Reingold, MFT, Chair

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