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ForwardIOP Seminar -Key Concepts in Psychodynamic Theory - Instructor Jacquelyn Harden, PsyD
2025 -26 IOP Training Seminar Series
This seminar will introduce psychodynamic theory, focusing on key concepts such as unconscious processes, transference and countertransference, defense mechanisms, and the role of early relational patterns in shaping psychological functioning. Participants will explore these concepts through readings, discussion, and clinical examples, emphasizing their application in therapeutic settings.
Learning Objectives
Understand the foundational ideas of psychodynamic theory and its historical development.
Explore the centrality of the unconscious in shaping behavior and experience.
Grasp the concept of transference and countertransference and explore their clinical significance in psychotherapy.
Understand how internal objects are formed and shape relationships and psychological functioning.
List defense mechanisms and understand their function.
Jacquelyn Harden, PsyD, is a psychologist in the Austen Riggs Center Remote Access IOP. She received her PsyD from George Fox University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in psychoanalytic studies at Norwich University. Dr. Harden also completed a 4-year postdoctoral fellowship in hospital-based psychoanalytic studies at the Austen Riggs Center. Her areas of interest include feminist perspectives in psychoanalysis, the phenomenology of psychotic experience, spirituality, and early characterological development.
Austen Riggs Center Inc. adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Medical Education. All those at Austen Riggs Center involved in the planning of this activity, including the presenter(s) listed above, report they have no relevant financial relationships with an ineligible company*.
The views and opinions expressed in this presentation are those of the presenter(s) and do not necessarily represent the official policy or position of the Austen Riggs Center.
* An ineligible company is any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
Available Credit
- 6.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
ACCME - As a Jointly Accredited Organization, The Austen Riggs Center, Inc. designates this learning activity for a maximum of 6.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
- 6.00 APA
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, The Austen Riggs Center, Inc. designates this learning activity for 6.00 continuing education credit(s) (CE) for psychology. Continuing Education (CE) credits for psychologists are provided through the co-sponsorship of the American Psychological Association (APA) Office of Continuing Education in Psychology (CEP). The APA CEP Office maintains responsibility for the content of the programs.
Austen Riggs Center, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0115.