Image 1 of 1
Introduction to Lacanian Clinical Practice (Video Lectures)
For those working in the mental health field, the work of Jacques Lacan has a paradoxical reputation, both alluring and forbidding. Lacan is perhaps best known as a flamboyant intellectual, presenting dauntingly complex ideas about subjectivity and suffering in a willfully inaccessible style. What is often left out of this picture is Lacan's status as a working analyst and therapeutic innovator, one who made a career-long commitment to training analysts and therapists, and one who continues to inspire inventive developments in the psy field to this day.
This four-part lecture series, which was offered initially as part of a live online seminar in June 2025, offers clinicians, trainees/candidates, and others with an interest in clinical psychoanalysis a way into Lacanian theory and practice, while also laying a solid foundation for further study. It presents Lacan as a powerful critic who invites us to challenge received ideas about talk therapy and those who seek it.
The lectures explore the unique Lacanian approach to pathology and diagnosis; desire and its place in therapy; transference and its handling; technique and ethics; the aims and ends of analysis; and much more. Each lecture runs for approximately one hour.
Lecture One: Desire, Jouissance, Symptom
Lecture Two: Symbolic, Imaginary, Real
Lecture Three: Neurosis, Psychosis, Perversion
Lecture Four: Strategy, Tactics, Technique
Both theoretical and practical in focus, and prepared and presented for viewers with limited familiarity with psychoanalysis and Lacan, these lectures work against the idea that psychologists, psychotherapists and counsellors must radically change their entire way of practicing in order to make good use of Lacan's ideas and contributions; instead, they offers offer a welcoming start in an adventure with psychoanalytic practice of a Lacanian flavour, one that may have both immediate and long-term effects on clinicians' ways of working.
Purchasers will receive an email containing links to view the lectures online, to which they will have unlimited access for at least one year from date of purchase.
For those working in the mental health field, the work of Jacques Lacan has a paradoxical reputation, both alluring and forbidding. Lacan is perhaps best known as a flamboyant intellectual, presenting dauntingly complex ideas about subjectivity and suffering in a willfully inaccessible style. What is often left out of this picture is Lacan's status as a working analyst and therapeutic innovator, one who made a career-long commitment to training analysts and therapists, and one who continues to inspire inventive developments in the psy field to this day.
This four-part lecture series, which was offered initially as part of a live online seminar in June 2025, offers clinicians, trainees/candidates, and others with an interest in clinical psychoanalysis a way into Lacanian theory and practice, while also laying a solid foundation for further study. It presents Lacan as a powerful critic who invites us to challenge received ideas about talk therapy and those who seek it.
The lectures explore the unique Lacanian approach to pathology and diagnosis; desire and its place in therapy; transference and its handling; technique and ethics; the aims and ends of analysis; and much more. Each lecture runs for approximately one hour.
Lecture One: Desire, Jouissance, Symptom
Lecture Two: Symbolic, Imaginary, Real
Lecture Three: Neurosis, Psychosis, Perversion
Lecture Four: Strategy, Tactics, Technique
Both theoretical and practical in focus, and prepared and presented for viewers with limited familiarity with psychoanalysis and Lacan, these lectures work against the idea that psychologists, psychotherapists and counsellors must radically change their entire way of practicing in order to make good use of Lacan's ideas and contributions; instead, they offers offer a welcoming start in an adventure with psychoanalytic practice of a Lacanian flavour, one that may have both immediate and long-term effects on clinicians' ways of working.
Purchasers will receive an email containing links to view the lectures online, to which they will have unlimited access for at least one year from date of purchase.