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at human experience.

Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis / Psychoanalytic Training / Certificate in Psychoanalysis

Middlesex University / NSPC / Postgraduate Certificate in Psychotherapy Studies

Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis / Selected advanced seminars, clinical consultations, and theoretical studies

2026–2027

• The Opening Phase of Psychoanalysis — Nancy Burke

• Lacanian Diagnostic Structures in Relation to Clinical Structures — Derek Hook

• Psychoanalysis and Subjectivities in Transit — Patricia Ghevorci

• Case Conference — Suzan Rosenfeld

• Psychoanalytic Essentials for Couple Therapists: An Extended Study of Theory, Formulation and Technique — Peter Reiner

• Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Race and Difference — Sheldon George

• Advanced seminar with Gabriel Tumipanba

2025

• Freud on Hatred, Aggression, Sadism and Violence — Alan Bass

• Meeting Bion’s Challenge: Daring to Imagine — Selected Fact: A Clinical Case Study — Anne Reiner

• Beyond Neurosis: Freud’s Theory of Representation and Expansion of Psychoanalytic Technique — Howard Levine

2024

• On Breathing in Psychoanalysis — Jamieson Webster

2023

• Personality Differences and Their Implications for Psychotherapy — Nancy McWilliams

• Winnicott and Relational Holding Model — Joyce Slochower

2022

• Perpetrator Ghosts, Persecutory Objects: The Inheritance of History — Sue Grand

• Psychoanalytic Treatment of Psychosis — Charles Turk

• The Psychoanalytic Movement: Quantity, Affect, Representation, Time — Dominique Scarfone

• The Therapy Relationship: Countertransference, a Dialogue of Unconsciouses and the Use of Self — Alan Bass

• Race, Social Class and Culture in Psychoanalytic Therapy — Neil Altmann

2021

• Aesthetic Sensibilities, Primary Process and Metaphor — Marilyn Charles

• Trauma, Shame and Mourning — Peter Shabad

• Projective Identification, Enactment, Reverie and Interpretation — Joseph Newirth

Department of Neuropsychology / Training Group on the Neuropsychoanalytic Theoretical Framework in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy / Andrea Clarci

Lacanian Training / The Topology of “Lacan’s Direction of Treatment” Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis / Instructor: Gardner Fair, PhD

Advanced study of Lacanian topology, the clinical direction of treatment, and the relationship between formalization and psychoanalytic technique.

Zur Institute — Advanced Clinical Training

• Advanced Topics in Clinical Supervision

• Adopting a Trauma-Informed Lens in Clinical Supervision

• Risk Management: The Suicidal Patient

Clinical / Psychoanalytic Supervision / Division 39, American Psychological Association

Group Consultation / Psychoanalytic Treatment of Psychosis / Charles Turk, PhD

Clinical Supervision and Consultation — Frank Summers, PhD

Harvard Medical School

• Immunology Fundamentals

• Dementia: A Comprehensive Update

• Neurology and Psychiatry of Women

University of Oxford

• Philosophy of Religion

• Introduction to Ethics: Philosophical Contributions

• An Introduction to Islam and Islamic Philosophy

• Language and Identity

Existential Academy, London

• Existential Crisis of Motherhood

• ADHD

• Gender Fluidity

Zur Institute

• Existential-Humanistic and Existential-Integrative Therapy — Kirk J. Schneider, PhD

• Advanced Clinical Supervision

• Trauma-Informed Clinical Supervision

Additional Clinical Training

• Pediatric Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder — American Psychological Association

• Attachment Theory, Psychopathology and Intervention Techniques

• Narrative Psychotherapy — Dulwich Centre, Istanbul

• Teletherapy in the Time of COVID-19

• Psychoanalytic Perspectives During Massive Community Crisis

Psychoanalytic and Existential Study Groups / Advanced Psychoanalytic–Existential Perspectives / 27-week advanced group

Introduction to Psychoanalytic and Existential Theory / 40-week curriculum / Multiple groups

Embodiment and Psychoanalysis: Understanding the Developmental Perspective / 6-week seminar

Psychoanalysis and Philosophy: The Intersection in the Consulting Room

Psychoanalytic–Existential Theories / 8-week curriculum / Two groups

Understanding Winnicottian Terms in Mental Health / Intensive Seminar

Clinical Case Study with Psychoanalytic and Existential Theories / 8-week Seminar

Play Theory in the Psychotherapy Room / Short-term study group

Philosophical Reflections on Psychoanalytic Readings / Two academic terms / 14-week curriculum

Support Group for Syrian Refugee Women, Istanbul / 10-week program

Coordinated by the Istanbul Bilgi University Clinical Psychology Program.

Boğaziçi University — Student Guidance and Counseling Center Volunteer Work

Boğaziçi University — Student Guidance and Counseling Center / Volunteer Work with Counselors

Working Psychosis with Existential Psychotherapy — Buenos Aires

First Turkish-Greek Existential Therapy Conference — Istanbul

Other presentations on existential and psychotherapeutic themes — Istanbul / Online

• Psychoanalysis and psychopathology

• Psychosis, symbolization, and personality organization

• Lacanian clinical theory and diagnostic structures

• Psychoanalytic perspectives on mood disorders

• Dissociation and psychic fragmentation

• Psychoanalytic approaches to depression and chronic depression

• Psychosomatic phenomena and somatic disorders

• Psycho-neuro-endocrinology and psycho-neuro-immunology

• Embodiment and psychoanalytic developmental theory

• The analytic third and symbolization

• The collective unconscious and contemporary psychoanalytic thought

• Anxiety and obsessive-compulsive phenomena

• Relational and family dynamics

• Psychoanalysis, philosophy, and existential thought