‼️THE FOURTH RECRUITMENT ROUND BEGINS‼️We invite psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and psychologists who need English for professional communication. The required English proficiency level for participation in the program is B1+.
♥️FEEDBACK FROM PARTICIPANTS IN PREVIOUS GROUPS: https://youtu.be/pJ3PjctvVys
🔆Course formats:
✅ Reading and translating texts (research articles, case studies, contracts)
✅ Vocabulary and conversation exercises, and role-playing games
✅ Analysis of Video Recordings of Psychodynamic Sessions
✅ Writing professional documents (case studies, analyses, contracts)
✅ Analysis of Complex Cases in English
🔥Result: Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to confidently use English in professional communication, participate in supervision sessions, read academic texts, and present their case studies and papers at international conferences. After completing the course, participants can join an intervision group, where they will discuss clinical cases from their own practice in English. After each group meeting, lexical and grammatical notes from the intervision session, along with brief personalized feedback for each participant (highlighting what went well today and what areas to work on linguistically), are sent to the group chat. This means you’ll continue to develop and become more confident in using English in a professional setting.
✨Course Syllabus
Модуль 1. Вступ до психодинамічної лексики
🔹 Topic 1. Basic Terms in Psychoanalysis and Psychodynamic Therapy
Key Concepts: unconscious, transference, countertransference, resistance, repression
An Overview of Typical Personality Organizations (According to O. Kernberg): Neurotic, Borderline, and Psychotic Levels of Personality Organization
An Overview of Defense Mechanisms: Primitive and Mature Psychological Defenses
Exercises on Translating and Using Terminology
🔹 Topic 2. Clinical Interview and Psychodynamic Diagnosis
The Purpose of a Psychoanalytic Interview and Types of Questions.
O. Kernberg’s Structural Interview – Structural Interview Questions
STIPO-R Interview – An Overview of Terminology and Structure
Role-playing: Interviewing a Patient
Additional Grammar Section – Types of Questions in English (if needed)
Module 2. Working with Clients Using a Psychodynamic Approach
🔹 Topic 3. The Therapeutic Setting and the Contract
Key Aspects of Setting: Frame, Boundaries, Therapeutic Alliance
Discussing the Therapeutic Contract
Drafting a Therapeutic Agreement in English
🔹 Topic 4. Transference and Countertransference: Working with Dynamics
Transference in psychodynamic therapy: positive transference, negative transference, erotic transference
Countertransference and its manifestations: projective identification, enactment
Analysis of clinical examples and case studies
🔹 Topic 5. Interpretation in Psychodynamic Therapy
How to Formulate Interpretations Correctly: Interpretation, Clarification, Confrontation
An Overview of Interpretation Techniques
Workshop: Formulating Interpretations in English
Module 3. Working with Different Types of Patients
🔹 Topic 6. Working with Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder
Diagnostic criteria: identity diffusion, primitive defenses, reality testing
Characteristics of the therapeutic relationship
Workshop: watching videos, discussing complex cases
🔹 Topic 7. Narcissistic Personality Organization in Psychodynamic Therapy
Types of narcissism: grandiose self, vulnerable narcissism, narcissistic rage
Vocabulary for working with narcissistic patients
Video viewing, case studies, and discussion
Module 4. Psychoanalytic Documentation and Professional Communication
🔹 Topic 8. Record-Keeping and Writing Case Reports
Vocabulary for describing a clinical case: presenting problem, developmental history, therapeutic process
Writing a brief case outline
Feedback, discussion, and text editing
🔹 Topic 9. Psychoanalytic Supervision and Conferences
How to Present a Case in Supervision: Case Presentation, Therapeutic Stance, Key Interventions
Analysis of Typical Questions and Comments in Supervision
Practice in Presenting a Case in English
🔹 Topic 10. Reading and Analyzing Psychodynamic Articles
Analysis of key articles on psychodynamic therapy (Otto Kernberg, Nancy McWilliams, and others, as chosen by the participants)
Structure of an academic text
Discussion of the article and the development of a well-reasoned position
🎤Course Instructor: Larysa Pastushok, a philologist, translator, curriculum developer, and English teacher with more than 25 years of experience, is a certified instructor under the international Cambridge CELTA qualification, a psychoanalyst, a crisis psychologist, and a member of the Ukrainian Association of Psychologists (UAP) and the Ukrainian Psychological Union (UPU). She has a personally verified C2 (proficiency) level of English.
🕰️ Time: from 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. (every Wednesday starting April 29, 2026).
📍Meeting Place: zoom.
✨Number of meetings: 10 (4 modules).
👫 Maximum number: 8–10 participants
A PRELIMINARY INTERVIEW WITH THE COURSE INSTRUCTOR IS REQUIRED; PLEASE SCHEDULE YOUR INTERVIEW VIA TEXT MESSAGE BY CALLING +380674494715 (Larisa).
💳 Cost
Payment due by April 15, 2026: 5,500 UAH (5,000 UAH for UPU members);
after that date: 6,000 UAH (5,500 UAH for UPU members).
📌Payment on the website after an interview with the course instructor!!!
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