3-Level Adult Case Conference (501)

Instructors:  Robert S. White, MD and Dhipthi Brundage, MD

via ZOOM

Format: This class will combine lecture and seminar formats; student participation is required.

About the Instructors: 

Robert S White, MD specializes in psychiatry and psychoanalysis in New Haven, CT. He graduated from the University of Virginia School of Medicine in 1973. He is affiliated with numerous hospitals including Yale-New Haven Hospital. His other affiliations include:

• Member and faculty of the Western New England Psychoanalytic Institute
• Chair of the Psychotherapy Training Program of the Western New England Psychoanalytic Society
• Member of the North American Clinical Comparative Method (CCM) since 2006
• Member of the IPA Committee on Clinical Observation since 2016
• Assist Professor of Psychiatry at Yale University

Dhipthi Brundage, MD is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. Her clinical practice entails treating adults in an outpatient setting using psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, and medications. Her educational role in the Duke University School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences involves teaching and supervising psychiatry residents. She created and directs the Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Practicum, teaches the Trauma and Language course and supervises individual residents in psychodynamic psychotherapy. Dr. Brundage is a board-certified physician trained in adult psychiatry.  She has experience in treating adults with a variety of issues including depression, anxiety, trauma, relationship struggles, and adjustment difficulties. Dr. Brundage directs the Training and Education Program at PCC and serves on the Board of Director

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Where:    via Zoom

When:   Saturdays, January 15, 22, and 29

Time:     1:30-5:30 pm

CME Credits: 12 / CE: 12 clock hours/ NBCC: 12 clock hours / All others: Letter of Attendance

Training Program Credit: Students who successfully complete this course can earn credit on the Psychoanalysis training program. If there is a course assignment, students must complete the assignment to receive training program course credit.

Continuing Education Credit: At the end of the course, participants must complete the Evaluation Form to receive continuing education credit. The instructors have signed Financial Disclosure Forms and have no commercial support that represents a conflict of interest.

Syllabus: click here

Registration and Tuition Deadline is January 8, 2022

Tuition: $235 for candidates 

Payment plans can be arranged with the Administrator

Matriculated students are not charged a course registration fee. 
Course Cancellation Policy

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Course Learning Objectives: 

Class participants will be able to 

1)    Describe clinical phenomenon and the themes that develop without using concepts from various psychoanalytic schools.

2)      Be able to describe aspects of psychoanalytic change or lack of change over time and over dimensions of psychic function.

3)      Describe the type of analytic interventions, their effectiveness, and how they facilitate analytic change.

4)      Discuss how to understand and interpret the meanings of fantasies and dreams.

5)      Discuss methods to help the analysand reveal or elaborate on the transference.

6)      Discuss ways of interpreting the meanings of transference.

7)       Describe methods for recognizing and utilizing countertransference issues.

8)      Describe the consideration of the quality of one’s interpretations as being experience-near, having continuity, and timeliness. 

9)      Discuss the helpfulness of one’s interventions as observed by changes in the patient’s productivity, affective interactions, or the ability for self-analysis.

10)   Discuss the analytic process as it evolves in the course of following one analytic case for over five years. 

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