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Adult Case Conference part 1 (501) 2023S
Thursday, January 26, 2023, 6:15 PM - 8:15 PM EDT
Category: Courses

Adult Case Conference (501)
Instructor: Burt Hutto, MD

Description: The course seeks to examine closely the fine-tuned analytic process of one early phase psychoanalytic case. We will explore verbatim notes along transference, countertransference, clarification, interpretation, resistance, linking, dreams, and frame. Two-hour monthly classes will be augmented between classes by ad hoc discussions among the participants and the instructor. In this seminar participants present adult case material. A variety of technical issues related to working with adults in psychoanalysis are discussed.

Target Audience: This course is at the intermediate through advanced level.

Format: This class will combine lecture and seminar formats; student participation is required.

About the Instructor:
Burton Hutto, MD is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who is a Professor of Psychiatry at the UNC School of Medicine. He is Director of the Psychotherapy Clinic for psychiatry residents and Medical Director of the crisis unit of inpatient psychiatry at UNC Hospitals. He is a graduate of the UNC-Duke Psychoanalytic Education Program, now known as the Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas.  He is on the faculty of the Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas and serves as Director of the Psychoanalysis Program.




Where: via Zoom
When: Thursdays, January 12th, 19th, and 26th
            Thursdays; May 4th, 11th, and 18th

Time: 6:15pm to 8:15pm Eastern Time (time subject to change)

CME Credits: 12 / CE Credits: 12 / NBCC: 12 clock hours / All others: Letter of Attendance


Prerequisite: This class is open to matriculated Psychoanalytic Adult or Adult/Child students who have completed all or nearly all of the Core Curriculum at the Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas. Some exceptions to the requirements that the psychoanalytic student has finished all or almost all of the Core Curriculum may be made by the psychoanalysis program.

Training Program Credit: Students who successfully complete this course can earn credit on the Psychoanalysis training program. If there is a course assignment, students must complete the assignment to receive training program course credit.

Continuing Education Credit: At the end of the course, participants must complete the evaluation form to receive continuing education credit. The instructor(s) has signed financial disclosure form and has no commercial support that represents a conflict of interest.

Course Syllabus: Download Syllabus

Registration and Tuition Deadline is January 10.
$25 Registration Fee is due at the time of application.

Tuition: $315
$235 for students matriculated in the training programs
$290 for residents and graduate students
Payment plans can be arranged with the Administrator

Matriculated students are not charged a course registration fee. Students who register for more than one course in a semester pay only one registration fee. In special circumstances, we may accept registrations after the registration deadline, but there will be an additional $20 late registration fee.
Course Cancellation Policy




Course Learning Objectives: Class participants will be able to:

  1. Describe how to assess clinical cases for analyzability.
  2. Describe how to look for indicators that a client may be ready to move from psychoanalytic psychotherapy into psychoanalysis and how to approach the client about making this change.
  3. Describe how to recognize and intervene with resistance to free association.
  4. Discuss how to understand and interpret the meanings of fantasies and dreams.
  5. Discuss methods to help the analysand reveal or elaborate on the transference.
  6. Discuss ways of interpreting the meanings of transference.
  7. Describe methods for recognizing and using countertransference issues.
  8. Describe the consideration of the quality of one’s interpretations as being experience-near, having continuity, and timeliness.
  9. Discuss the helpfulness of one’s interventions as observed by changes in the patient’s productivity, affective interactions, or the ability for self-analysis.
  10. Discuss the analytic process as it evolves in the course of following one analytic case for over five months.

CE & CME Information

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint provider ship of American Psychoanalytic Association and Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 12 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s)* to disclose with ineligible companies* whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

*Financial relationships are relevant if the educational content an individual can control is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company. -Updated July 2021

The Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6518. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. The Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas is solely responsible for all aspects of the program.


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