New Psychoanalytic Approaches to Understanding and Treating Addictive Disorders (course)

This course will focus on understanding addiction as a form of self-medication, a maladaptive defense for managing unacceptable thoughts and feelings, and will emphasize treatment methods that combine psychoanalytic theory and technique with harm-reduction approaches. Case studies will be used to illustrate the theoretical material.

This course offers 9 APA CE credits; .9 CASAC CEUs.

Raul Plasencia, LCSW is a psychoanalyst with over 20 years’ experience in the field of addiction and chemical dependency. He is Clinical Director, Harlem United’s Adult Day Health Center, El Faro, and is in private practice in NYC and Hoboken.

Juliane Maxwald-Schrey, MA, CASAC, LP is a psychoanalyst who has worked extensively in the field of substance abuse counseling. She is in private practice in NYC.

Registration in now closed for this course. Please, check back for when this course will be offered again. 

Submit log

Download flier