How Does the Psychoanalytic Process Work? New Perspectives from Cognitive Science and Affective Neuroscience

The psychoanalytic treatment process, involving exploration of emotional experience in the context of a relationship, has informed all types of psychotherapy being practiced today. Its impact can be seen in behavioral, interpersonal and experiential therapies, as well as the many different forms of psychodynamic treatment. Freud was prescient in many respects in his theory of the treatment process; as in any complex theory, however, the basic premises and their therapeutic applications need to be continuously open to examination and revision in the light of new scientific knowledge. This course will formulate a modern theory of the psychoanalytic treatment process, and its various changing forms, in the light of current work in cognitive science and affective neuroscience.

Part of the APA Online Academy Professional Development Presentation Campus.  

• Outline the basis for emotional disorders in terms of dissociation of emotion schemas and habitual maladaptive means of regulation of painful affect 
• Describe the phases of the referential process that operates to develop integration of dissociated schemas 
• Discuss current research in cognitive psychology and affective neuroscience that supports this formulation of the treatment process.

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