Minnesota Psychodynamic Clinical Social Work Association
Presents
A Path to Understanding Psychoanalytic Theories
Speaker: Kathleen Fargione, LICSW
Date: Sunday, September 24, 2023
7.00 pm, Zoom
We hope you can join us for our first Sunday Seminar of the season.
** The Zoom link will be emailed to you on Friday, September 22 **
Kathleen Fargione has extensive experience working with traumatized children and adults. In her recent work,Evolving Psychoanalytic Concepts, she draws on her work as well as her teaching experience to provide us with a walk through psychoanalytic theory, and how it can guide our work today.
A Path to Understanding Psychoanalytic Theories
Psychoanalysis today has many schools of thought, beginning with Freud’s drive theory, developing over the years to include Klein’s object relations theory, Winnicott’s maternal environment, Bowlby’s attachment theory, Kohut’s self psychology, and Stephen Mitchell’s relational theory. Trying to understand the plethora of psychoanalytic theories and their connections to one another can be a daunting task. Kathleen Fargione has written a short introduction to the major tenets of psychoanalytic theory, showing how they extended, challenged and deepened Freud’s original model of the mind. On September 24th she will talk about the process of researching and writing her book Evolving Psychoanalytic Concepts and how she understands the richness of psychoanalytic tradition.
