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PSYCHOLOGY

Sigmund Freud and the Development of Psychoanalysis

SPRING PN226

Wednesday

Michelle Sludds-Hickey

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) is credited with founding psychoanalysis, a therapeutic method in which the patient lies on a couch while the analyst sits behind listening to the patient’s speech and interpreting the unconscious material emerging within it. He left twenty-four volumes of published work, in addition to many letters of correspondence. This course provides an introduction to Freud’s key ideas on hysteria, the unconscious, dreams, sexual development, parapraxes (‘Freudian slips’) and jokes, pleasure, and the individual and society. We will also examine two of his famous case studies, one on neurosis and a second on psychosis.

BELFIELD    
8 Wednesdays Jan 30, Feb 6, 13, 20, 27, Mar 6, 13, 20 7.30pm - 9.30pm
FEE €155    

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Tutor Details:

Michelle Sludds-Hickey (BMus (UCD); HDip Ed (TCD); MEd (TCD); Post grad dip in Counselling (TCD); BSc (Psychology); MSc (Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy - TCD); Clinical Post Grad in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy; Marriage and Relationship Counselling (ACCORD); Post graddip in Mus Ed (Hungary); LRSM; ALCM) is a counselling psychologist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist. She is a full practitioner member of the Irish Forum for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (www.ifpp.org) and the Psychological Society of Ireland (www.psihq.ie), and is a member of the Executive Committee and the Education Committee of the Irish Forum for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.

For 17 years Michelle has worked with both adolescent and adult clients on a one-to-one basis, with couples and in group-work, dealing with personal, educational, relational and professional issues. For several years she has also worked as a teacher/lecturer/examiner/supervisor, and currently lectures on the MSc in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (clinical specialisation) and the MPhil in Psychoanalytic Studies, both at Trinity College Dublin.