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Saturday, March 28, 2026

9:00 am - 4:00 pm Central Time

UTSW - NC8.212

2201 Inwood Rd, Dallas, TX 75390

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via Zoom

6.00 credit hours

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In this workshop, Dr. Jennifer Kunst will provide an in-depth exploration of key concepts of psychoanalysis from the vantage point of the dynamic process of personality development. She will draw from the ideas of Sigmund Freud, Melanie Klein, and Wilfred Bion, applying their ideas to the challenges of modern life as well as clinical practice. Key concepts include various ways of conceptualizing the unconscious, the life and death instincts, psychic equilibrium and psychic change, the Oedipus complex, the interplay between dependence and independence, transference, and the interaction between internal and external worlds. She will utilize clinical case material, movie clips, poems, and stories to bring these concepts to life. Two live role plays will demonstrate how these concepts can be applied to actual clinical psychotherapy practice.

Upon completion of this workshop, participants should be able to:

1. Name three models of describing the unconscious

2. Identify one purpose and one result of the death instinct

3. List two factors that help a person choose psychic change over psychic equilibrium

4. Differentiate Freud’s conceptualization of the Oedipus complex from Klein’s conceptualization of the Oedipus complex

5. Identify two unconscious obstacles to developing healthy dependence

6. Differentiate two ways of understanding the transference

7. Name the unconscious mechanism that links the internal world to the external world.

Co-hosted with: Dallas Psychoanalytic Center