This one-day workshop presents a functionalist approach to treatment, which is a powerful mode of psychotherapy, (and which prepares the patient for a fully psychoanalytic process). The 2026 schedule is as follows:
- April 18th, Cape Town
- July 18th, Johannesburg
All too often, even those psychotherapists who think about their work psychoanalytically, become preoccupied with the content of whatever the patient expresses, rather than the ― unconscious ― function of the patient’s expressions. All too easily, the treatment may degenerate into a procedure of coaching or counseling.
The first part of this seminar (from 8:30 am to 12:30 pm) will focus on principles of psychotherapeutic intervention (what to say to the patient, how and when). It will demonstrate functionalist principles that maximize the effectiveness of therapeutic interpretations, both by conceptualizing every psychic event in terms of their internal value as compromise formations, and by appreciating resistances as having positive value for healing.
This first part of the seminar is open to any practicing clinician.
Fee: R1,000 (R800 for registered students and psychoanalytic trainees).
The second part of the seminar (from 2 pm to 4 pm) is only for those practitioners who wish either to move a psychotherapeutic procedure toward a psychoanalytic process, or to begin a psychoanalytic treatment de novo. That is, its principles are designed for psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic trainees (whether formally candidates at an Institute or not). Participation in the first part of the seminar is prerequisite.
Fee: R1,400 (R1,200 for individuals currently in psychoanalysis at x3+ weekly)
If you are interested, write as soon as possible to: Register@RediscoveringPsychoanalysis.org
About the Facilitator: Dr Barnaby B Barratt has been an IPA Training Analyst since 1996. Among other books and papers, he is author of the award-winning trilogy: What is Psychoanalysis? (2013), Radical Psychoanalysis (2016), and Beyond Psychotherapy (2019); all published by Routledge. His next book, Free Association, is due to be released in mid-2026.