Professional Development Course "Contemporary Psychoanalysis: Theory and Practice"

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State Institution "South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University named after K.D. Ushynsky"
and the Ukrainian Psychoanalytic Union
announce admission to the professional development program in Specialty 053 Psychology under the certificate program
"Contemporary Psychoanalysis: Theory and Practice."

Program duration: 11 months, 364 contact hours (60 ECTS credits).

Mode of study:

• online (Zoom platform)

• monthly study blocks (30 academic hours of lectures and 8 academic hours of supervision, workshops, and seminars)

Who is this program for?

• Psychoanalysts who hold a university degree in Psychology and have completed psychoanalytic training.
• Anyone interested in studying psychoanalysis for professional practice, personal relationships, or personal development.

Upon successful completion of the program and passing the final assessment, participants will receive either a Professional Development Certificate issued by the State Institution "South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University named after K.D. Ushynsky" or a Certificate of Program Completion.

Program start date: October 16, 2026.

The program includes the following educational components:

LECTURES:
• Psychiatry for the Psychoanalyst: Clinical Orientation, Psychopathology, and Professional Boundaries;
• Introduction to Neuropsychoanalysis;
• Sexology and Sexual Pathology in Psychoanalytic Practice;
• Contemporary Clinical Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy;
• Contemporary French Psychoanalysis: Clinical Perspectives;
• Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP): Overview and Core Principles;
• Adolescence That Never Ends: The Contemporary Subject in Psychoanalytic Practice;
• Contemporary Clinical Thinking;
• Psychoanalytic Business Consulting and Organizational Psychodynamics;
• Psychological Expert Assessment in Forensic Practice;
• Skin Psychoanalysis;
• Psychic Transformations in Times of War: Psychoanalytic Theory and Clinical Practice.

PRACTICAL SEMINARS:
• Structure, Symptom, Diagnosis, and Treatment Planning;
• Emotional Drives and Their Role in Human Development;
• Sexuality as Clinical Thinking;
• Negative Transference;
• Ordinary Psychosis: A Reconsideration;
• Diagnosis Based on Object Relations Theory and Discussion of Diagnostic Impressions with the Patient;
• The Speaking Body: Body Image and New Forms of Suffering;
• Clinical Research and Psychoanalytic Work with Narcissistic Persecutors and Their Victims: Women's Stories;
• Femininity, Jouissance, and the Rejection of the Feminine;
• Love After Love? Paradoxes of Love in Contemporary Discourse;
• Sexuality After the Sexual Revolution: New Symptoms and New Forms of Enjoyment;
• "Skin Psychoanalysis: An Introduction Through Esther Bick's (1968) Article." Conceptual Map: Skin-Ego, Body Image, and Bick's Concept of Psychic Skin—Similarities and Differences.

Tuition fee: UAH 90,000 (payable in five installments of UAH 18,000 every two months) or UAH 75,000 if the full tuition is paid in advance.

Admission to the program is based on an interview.

To apply, please complete the application form:
https://docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLSeNPXf.../viewform...

For more information, please contact by phone or Telegram:
+38 097 511 31 69
Program Academic Director – Olena Pavlivna Pavlovych.

Faculty:

Olena Borovyk (Ukraine) – Psychodynamic psychotherapist; Member of the Ukrainian Psychoanalytic Union; Master's degree in Neuropsychology, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.

Iryna Valiavko (Ukraine) – PhD in Philosophy; Senior Research Fellow at the H.S. Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; Psychoanalyst; Crisis Psychologist; Lecturer at the International Institute of Depth Psychology; Member of the UPU Ethics Committee; Art Therapist; Member of the Ukrainian Art Therapy Association.

Tetiana Vodianina (Ukraine) – Psychoanalyst; Lecturer at the International Institute of Depth Psychology; Author of the course "Psychological Support for Soldiers on the Frontline" for military chaplains; Author and lecturer of the specialization "Psychological and Psychoanalytic Work with Military Personnel and Their Families: Theory and Clinical Practice"; Commander of the volunteer battalion's practical psychologists unit.

Inna Davies (Finland) – Psychologist; Psychoanalyst; Vice President of the Ukrainian Association of Psychoanalysis; Certified Specialist, Training Psychoanalyst, and Supervisor of the European Confederation of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapies (ECPP); Lecturer in the Master's Program in Psychology at Université Côte d'Azur (France).

Liudmyla Kopishynska (Ukraine) – Psychologist specializing in work with children and adolescents; Lecturer at the Institute for Analytical Research and Contemporary Education and the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.

Oleksii Lemeshchuk (Ukraine) – Psychoanalytic Therapist; Certified TFP Therapist; Director of the Ukrainian Association for Transference-Focused Psychotherapy; Member of the International Society for Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (ISTFP); PhD candidate in Psychology; Coordinator of advanced training programs with Otto Kernberg (USA), Frank Yeomans (USA), Tennyson Lee (UK), Monika Karska (USA), and others.

Olena Medvedieva (Ukraine) – Psychologist; Psychoanalyst; Certified Psychologist (Postgraduate Certificate in Psychology, University of Birmingham and University of Liverpool, UK); Certified Family, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist; Therapeutic and Business Mediator; Lecturer in educational psychoanalytic projects in Ukraine and abroad; Training Psychoanalyst of the certification project "Theory of Psychoanalysis and Skills in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy"; Founder of the International Academy of Psychoanalysis and MedvedevaAcademy.

Iryna Mykhailoshyna (Bulgaria) – Medical Doctor; Psychologist; Psychoanalyst; Certified Specialist of the European Confederation of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapies; Certified Training Psychoanalyst of the Ukrainian Psychoanalytic Union; Lecturer at the Master's Program in Psychology, Université Côte d'Azur (France).

Liliana Radchenko (Ukraine) – Psychoanalyst; Certified Specialist of the Ukrainian Association of Psychoanalysis; Lecturer at the International Institute of Depth Psychology.

Serhii Uhrium (France) – Psychoanalyst; Master of Psychoanalysis, Université Paris VIII; Member of the Division of Psychoanalytic Psychology and Psychotherapy of the National Psychological Association of Ukraine; EuroPsy Certified Psychologist; Lecturer in psychoanalytic specialization and professional development programs; Author of professional publications.

Oleh Khrystenko (France) – Freudian-Lacanian Analyst; Master's degree in Psychology, Université Côte d'Azur (France); Lecturer in psychoanalytic disciplines; Member of the Ukrainian Psychoanalytic Union and the Division of Psychoanalytic Psychology and Psychotherapy of the National Psychological Association of Ukraine.