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Course Requirements

Suitable For

  • Psychotherapists.
  • Psychologists.
  • Psychiatry professionals and psychiatrists.
  • Psychology students.
  • Mental health professionals interested in psychoanalytic psychotherapy.

Recommended: Prior knowledge of psychoanalytic theory and psychodynamic psychotherapy.

Completion of Sessions: Clinical Cases (Part 1) is recommended but not mandatory.

Course Description

This training program offers a practical introduction to psychoanalytic clinical work through the analysis of real therapeutic sessions presented in verbatim format. Grounded in contemporary psychoanalytic thinking, the program aims to develop participants’ ability to read, understand, and formulate clinical material from a psychodynamic perspective.


Through the exploration of different personality structures and clinical presentations, participants will learn to identify unconscious dynamics, defense mechanisms, transference and countertransference phenomena, and the relationship between psychopathology and personality organization. The training emphasizes the integration of psychoanalytic theory with clinical practice, enabling participants to deepen their understanding of therapeutic processes as they unfold within the consulting room.

Teaching Methods

  • Analysis of real clinical sessions presented in verbatim format.
  • Group-based dynamic discussion and formulation.
  • Clinical case analysis from a psychoanalytic perspective.
  • Integration of theory and practice through guided reflection.
  • Interactive discussions focused on personality structure, defenses, anxiety, and
    transference dynamics.

Training Duration & Schedule


Total Duration: 12 Hours

  • Introduction to Clinical Case Analysis

     * Methodology of clinical session analysis
     * Techniques used in psychoanalytic case formulation
     * Therapeutic objectives of clinical analysis

  • Clinical Case: Hysterical Personality Structure

     * Defense mechanisms
     * Transference patterns
     * Infantile sexuality and its clinical manifestations

  • Clinical Case: Obsessional Personality Structure

     * Internal conflict
     * Idealization
     * Control mechanisms and fragmentation anxiety

  • Clinical Case: Borderline Personality Organization

     * Affective instability
     * Longing for fusion
     * Transference and countertransference difficulties

  • Clinical Case: Narcissistic Personality Structure

     * Narcissistic defenses
     * Object relations patterns
     * Narcissistic injury

  • Clinical Case: Neurotic Depression

     * Repressed sadness
     * Guilt
     * Unconscious needs for punishment and deprivation

Course Outcomes

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

  • Analyze psychotherapy sessions from an advanced psychoanalytic perspective.
  • Deepen their understanding of personality structures and unconscious dynamics.
  • Identify complex manifestations of transference and countertransference.
  • Recognize sophisticated defensive organizations and their clinical implications.
  • Differentiate between interpretive and supportive therapeutic interventions.
  • Formulate psychodynamic hypotheses based on clinical material.
  • Develop greater confidence in managing therapeutic impasses and difficult clinical situations.
  • Apply psychoanalytic thinking to supervision and case formulation.
  • Strengthen their capacity for reflective clinical practice and therapeutic decision-making.

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Instructor

Dr. Elie Abou Chacra

licensed clinical psychologist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist.

PhD in Clinical Psychology and Psychopathology from Saint Joseph University of Beirut.

President of the Psychotherapy Schools Committee at the Lebanese Order of Psychologists.

Head of the Training Department at Nafsanyoun Center.

Member of the International Society of Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (ISTFP).

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