Introduction to Lacanian Clinical Practice (June 2025)
For those working in the mental health field, the work of Jacques Lacan has a paradoxical reputation, both alluring and forbidding. Lacan is perhaps best known as a flamboyant intellectual, presenting dauntingly complex ideas about subjectivity and suffering in a willfully inaccessible style. What is often left out of this picture is Lacan's status as a working analyst and therapeutic innovator, one who made a career-long commitment to training analysts and therapists, and one who continues to inspire inventive developments in the psy field to this day.
This four-part workshop will offer clinicians, trainees/candidates, and others with an interest in clinical psychoanalysis a way into Lacanian theory and practice, while also laying a solid foundation for further study. It will present Lacan as a powerful critic who invites us to challenge received ideas about talk therapy and those who seek it.
It will explore the unique Lacanian approach to pathology and diagnosis; desire and its place in therapy; transference and its handling; technique and ethics; and the aims and ends of analysis. Additionally, it will offer a Lacanian take on a range of common clinical presentations, such as depression and anxiety, eating disorders, and addiction, among others.
Practical in focus, and prepared and presented for participants with limited familiarity with psychoanalysis and Lacan, this course will work against the idea that psychologists, psychotherapists and counsellors must radically change their entire way of practicing in order to make good use of Lacan's ideas and contributions; instead, it will offer a welcoming start in an adventure with psychoanalytic practice of a Lacanian flavour, one that may have both immediate and long-term effects on attendees' ways of working.
This course will be delivered on June 8, 15, 22, and 29 at 5pm Paris time. It is open to all and will be delivered exclusively via Zoom. Sessions will run for approximately two hours, each comprising a lecture and an open discussion.
Early bird price on offer until March 31, 2025. Places are limited, and so early bookings are encouraged.
For those working in the mental health field, the work of Jacques Lacan has a paradoxical reputation, both alluring and forbidding. Lacan is perhaps best known as a flamboyant intellectual, presenting dauntingly complex ideas about subjectivity and suffering in a willfully inaccessible style. What is often left out of this picture is Lacan's status as a working analyst and therapeutic innovator, one who made a career-long commitment to training analysts and therapists, and one who continues to inspire inventive developments in the psy field to this day.
This four-part workshop will offer clinicians, trainees/candidates, and others with an interest in clinical psychoanalysis a way into Lacanian theory and practice, while also laying a solid foundation for further study. It will present Lacan as a powerful critic who invites us to challenge received ideas about talk therapy and those who seek it.
It will explore the unique Lacanian approach to pathology and diagnosis; desire and its place in therapy; transference and its handling; technique and ethics; and the aims and ends of analysis. Additionally, it will offer a Lacanian take on a range of common clinical presentations, such as depression and anxiety, eating disorders, and addiction, among others.
Practical in focus, and prepared and presented for participants with limited familiarity with psychoanalysis and Lacan, this course will work against the idea that psychologists, psychotherapists and counsellors must radically change their entire way of practicing in order to make good use of Lacan's ideas and contributions; instead, it will offer a welcoming start in an adventure with psychoanalytic practice of a Lacanian flavour, one that may have both immediate and long-term effects on attendees' ways of working.
This course will be delivered on June 8, 15, 22, and 29 at 5pm Paris time. It is open to all and will be delivered exclusively via Zoom. Sessions will run for approximately two hours, each comprising a lecture and an open discussion.
Early bird price on offer until March 31, 2025. Places are limited, and so early bookings are encouraged.
For those working in the mental health field, the work of Jacques Lacan has a paradoxical reputation, both alluring and forbidding. Lacan is perhaps best known as a flamboyant intellectual, presenting dauntingly complex ideas about subjectivity and suffering in a willfully inaccessible style. What is often left out of this picture is Lacan's status as a working analyst and therapeutic innovator, one who made a career-long commitment to training analysts and therapists, and one who continues to inspire inventive developments in the psy field to this day.
This four-part workshop will offer clinicians, trainees/candidates, and others with an interest in clinical psychoanalysis a way into Lacanian theory and practice, while also laying a solid foundation for further study. It will present Lacan as a powerful critic who invites us to challenge received ideas about talk therapy and those who seek it.
It will explore the unique Lacanian approach to pathology and diagnosis; desire and its place in therapy; transference and its handling; technique and ethics; and the aims and ends of analysis. Additionally, it will offer a Lacanian take on a range of common clinical presentations, such as depression and anxiety, eating disorders, and addiction, among others.
Practical in focus, and prepared and presented for participants with limited familiarity with psychoanalysis and Lacan, this course will work against the idea that psychologists, psychotherapists and counsellors must radically change their entire way of practicing in order to make good use of Lacan's ideas and contributions; instead, it will offer a welcoming start in an adventure with psychoanalytic practice of a Lacanian flavour, one that may have both immediate and long-term effects on attendees' ways of working.
This course will be delivered on June 8, 15, 22, and 29 at 5pm Paris time. It is open to all and will be delivered exclusively via Zoom. Sessions will run for approximately two hours, each comprising a lecture and an open discussion.
Early bird price on offer until March 31, 2025. Places are limited, and so early bookings are encouraged.