Workshop presented by Deborah Luepnitz, Ph.D
Event Price: Fees include CEs. This is a free event for HP/CPC students and candidates, $40 for CPC/HP members and nonmember students, and $75 for nonmembers who are not students.
Continued Education (CEU/CME): 2.0 credits (pending approval)
Attendance: This is a hybrid event - in person and online attendance is available
Light cocktail reception 6 - 6:30 p.m. at the Center before the presentation.
Registration Opens Soon
Course Description:
Freud believed that dream work is the "royal road" to the unconscious, and he called The Interpretation of Dreams his "best and most important book." While the "Relational turn" of the 1980s enhanced the field in several ways-- reviving an interest in trauma, redefining counter-transference, and exploring the categories of race and gender, some have asked if dream work was eclipsed in the process. Will this skill be lost to future generations?
We will begin by reviewing the classical method of dream interpretation, which continues to structure the presenter's work. However, Freud had very little to say about color, and nothing about race. With the use of clinical examples, we will see how reflecting on color and race in the unconscious can help patients grapple with questions of identity, self, and other.
Learning Objectives:
Describe three important elements of classical Freudian dream interpretation.
Discuss the meanings of color and color change in dreams.
Deborah Anna Luepnitz, Ph.D. has taught courses on psychoanalytic theory in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine for over 30 years. She is currently on the faculty of the Institute for Relational Psychoanalysis of Philadelphia. Dr. Luepnitz is the author of 3 books, including The Family Interpreted: Psychoanalysis, Feminism and Family Therapy and Schopenhauer's Porcupines: Five Stories of Psychotherapy. The latter has been translated into 7 languages, and was released last year as an Audiobook. She was a contributing author to The Cambridge Companion to Lacan, as well as to Karnac's The Winnicott Tradition. She lectures widely, and in 2003 was given the Distinguished Educator Award by the International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education. In 2004, Dr. Luepnitz launched Insight For All, a project that offers analytic treatment to homeless adults. She maintains a private practice in Philadelphia.