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Personality Development

A Psychoanalytic Approach

Series of 7 Seminars: Leeds and Manchester

This course provides a detailed introduction to the key developmental factors and unconscious processes involved in the emotional life of the child and family from before birth to young adulthood. The course is held over a series of seven Saturdays and is suitable for all professionals working with children, adolescents and adults.

This course covers:

• The consideration of internal and external factors at work in the infant's developing sense of self
• The child's relationship to his/her world and the nature of family interaction
• Family functioning and the culture which supports the gradual growth of the personality
• The psychic process of the latency years
• The nature and function of adolescence and the striving towards independence and adulthood
• Problems encountered during adolescence and the ongoing influence of earlier phases of life on apparently adult concerns

Participants are be invited to think about the interplay of internal and external factors which underlie the development of personality throughout the lifecycle.  Although participants can opt into selected seminars, the course is intended to highlight the impact on later development of earlier emotional experience across the age range and therefore the course will be most meaningful if the entire series is attended.

The next series of courses will take place in late 2008/early 2009 and details will be posted here and on the News page of this site. 

Please contact the Course Administrator on 0113 343 4868 for further information.

(page updated 06/05/08)