Sigmund Freud, Melanie Klein, Jacques Lacan, Donald Winnicott, Wilfred Bion & Carl Jung.
These seminars are to introduce 6 major psychoanalytic theorists and are a gentle introduction to psychoanalytic theories. They are for anybody who has an interest in understanding the psychodynamic theories about the mind and the therapies that have evolved from these. However, they are particularly intended for those in training courses in the helping professions whose courses are often limited in their psychodynamic focus. They would also be helpful to psychiatry trainees for the psychotherapy written case.
The seminars will explore the beginnings of psychodynamic theory with Freud and their further development by Klein. Then the often dauntingly difficult ideas of Winnicott, Bion and Lacan will be examined. To complement these the course will finish by embracing the creativity of the ideas of Jung.
DETAILS
Online: Via Zoom
Duration: 18 week course, weekly for 1.5 hours
Date: 9th April – 6th August 2026
Time : Thursdays, 7.00 p.m. – 8.30 p.m. (Adelaide, South Australia)
Cost : $790
This course will not be recorded
NOTE: The last day for registration & payment is 20th March, 2026
SEMINAR LEADER BIO
Dr. Robin Chester is a Training Analyst with the Australian Psychoanalytic Society (APAS) a Fellow/Member College of Psychiatrists since 1978, APAS member since 1987, has a PhD in Psychoanalytic Studies (Monash) topic on the role of paradox in psychoanalytic theory & practice. He is also the Senior Visiting Consultant Flinders Medical Centre, formerly lecturer at Edith Cowan University & has presented numerous papers on psychoanalysis in Australia, Europe & England.
CONTACT: For queries please email: aippsychoanalysis@gmail.com
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