This is a seminar for those that are just starting out in the field of psychotherapy as well as for those who have been in the field for a while but want to consolidate their understandings of Freud’s basic concepts. We will be discussing basic psychoanalytic theory and technique. A text for each session will be sent to students. The instructor has a special interest in psychoanalytic history and will historically contextualize many of the ideas presented.
Instructor:
Daniel S. Benveniste, PhD, is a clinical psychologist with a private practice in Sammamish, Washington. He sees adults in counseling and psychodynamic psychotherapy. He is a Visiting Professor of Clinical Psychology at the Wuhan Mental Health Center, in the People’s Republic of China.
He writes professional articles and is the author of the following books:
Libido, Culture, and Consciousness: Revisiting Freud’s Totem and Taboo (2022),
The Interwoven Lives of Sigmund, Anna, and W. Ernest Freud: Three Generations of Psychoanalysis (2015)
The Venezuelan Revolution: A Critique from the Left (2015).
He is also the editor of Anna Freud in the Hampstead Clinic: Letters to Humberto Nágera (2015).
Originally from California, he earned his BA and MS in clinical psychology at San Francisco State University, his PhD at the California School of Professional Psychology in Berkeley/Alameda and was in supervision with Nathan Adler, PhD, for five years. He began his private practice in the San Francisco Bay Area where he was also Director of Training for two practicum training programs, supervisor at the Mt. Zion Community Crisis Clinic, and professor of graduate students at The Wright Institute, California School of Professional Psychology, Alameda, and in the Department of Social Welfare at the University of California at Berkeley.
He studied with:
Nathan Adler, PhD, a Freudian who had studied with Siegfried Bernfeld (Bernfeld was a a student of Freud's)
Joseph L. Henderson, MD, a student of Carl Jung
John Weir Perry, MD, a student of Carl Jung
Rollo May, PnD, a student of Alfred Adler
From 1999 to 2010, he lived and worked in Caracas, Venezuela, where he maintained a private practice and taught at Universidad Central de Venezuela and Universidad Católica Ándrés Bello.
In 2010 he relocated to the Pacific Northwest with his wife, Adriana Prengler, FIPA. In addition to his ongoing writing projects and teaching Chinese students online (in between yearly visits to Wuhan) he maintains a private practice in counseling and psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
In 2016 he was named Honorary Member of the American Psychoanalytic Association for his clinical work, his books on psychoanalytic history, his dedication to psychoanalytic education, and his writings that have brought psychoanalytic concepts and theories to professional and lay audiences on two continents in both English and Spanish.
Learning Objectives:
By the conclusion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Learn how to think about the Oedipus complex metaphorically.
- Listen to the patient and recognize the way something is NOT being said.
- Identify the repetition compulsion in intimate relations and in relations to authority.
Fees: $350 Alliance Members/$400 non-members
Class size limit: 30 students
Refund Policy: Refunds less a $35 handling fee will be given up until one week before the first class.
This presentation has been approved for a total of 15.0 CE’s for licensed mental health counselors and associates, marriage and family therapists and social workers by the Washington State Society for Clinical Social Work.
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