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Treating the Mind in Depth: A Modern Multi-Model Psychoanalytic Approach to Emotional Healing

Cuneyt Iscan, MD & Sureyya Iscan, PhD

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Week 6: August 3-5, 2026

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9:00 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. EDT

30-minute break daily

3 Half-Days (12-Hour Course)

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Course Description

This three-day workshop is designed for mental health professionals interested in deepening their understanding and clinical use of psychoanalytic theories in the treatment variety of mental health problems. In this practical and experiential course, participants will explore the integration of major psychoanalytic schools of thought in treating emotional suffering. The focus will be on recognizing unconscious patterns, working through defenses, and helping patients achieve greater emotional freedom and resilience.

The course invites clinicians to look beyond surface symptoms and into the unconscious dynamics shaping emotional suffering. Drawing from multiple psychodynamic perspectives, participants will learn how to conceptualize and intervene with complex presentations of depression, anxiety, and trauma from psychoanalytic theory and praxis. Emphasis will be placed on developing a flexible, integrative approach grounded in depth psychology and clinical technique. Participants will explore multiple psychoanalytic models, learn to integrate them into coherent clinical practice, and engage with clinical material that illustrates how theoretical concepts can guide therapeutic action.

Each day will be divided into two parts:

Theoretical Segment (2 hours): Conceptual foundations and psychoanalytic theory
Clinical Segment (2 hours): Case material, application, and supervision-style discussion

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Financial: Cuneyt Iscan has no financial relationships with ineligible organizations. He receives a speaking honorarium from MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute.

Non-financial: Cuneyt Iscan has no non-financial relationships with ineligible organizations.

Cuneyt Iscan, MD, is a board-certified psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He earned his medical degree from Ankara University School of Medicine in Turkey in 1990. He completed his psychiatry residency training at Gazi University School of Medicine and the University of Michigan. He received Wyeth-Ayerst AADPRT International Medical Graduate Award in Psychiatry in 2001. His studies continued at the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, a center specializing in treatment resistant psychiatric conditions and application of psychoanalytic treatments.

He pursued his psychoanalytic training at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. He is currently a faculty and an active member of this Institute and American Psychoanalytic Association. He is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School since 2001 and is actively involved in residency training and supervision. He has numerous publications in the form of books, book chapters and scientific papers in English and Turkish focusing on psychoanalysis, applications of psychoanalytic theory in clinical work and personality disorders. He is the author of the first book about self-psychology that was published in Turkish. Among his translations to Turkish were Heinz Kohut’s “Analysis of the Self” as well as John Gedo and Arnold Goldberg’s “Models of the Mind”. He has book chapters on biology of personality disorders, residential treatment of personality disorders, food and sexuality, fatherhood in Turkish culture. He has written about violence in post-modern society and violence and sexuality in cinema from the psychoanalytic perspective. His numerous book reviews were published in various psychoanalytic journals. He is on the Editorial Board of American Journal of Psychoanalysis.

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: Sureyya Iscan has no financial relationships with ineligible organizations. She receives a speaking honorarium from MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute.

Non-financial: Sureyya Iscan has no non-financial relationships with ineligible organizations.

Sureyya Iscan, PhD, is a psychologist and psychoanalyst. She earned her MA in Educational Psychology and her PhD in Developmental Psychology from Ankara University, School of Psychology, in Turkey. She subsequently completed a second MA and PhD in Clinical Psychology at Fielding Graduate University in Santa Barbara, California.

Dr. Iscan completed postdoctoral research fellowships at the University of Michigan and the Austen Riggs Center, followed by advanced training in psychodynamic research at the Yale Child Study Center and the Anna Freud Centre. She is a graduate of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (BPSI), where she currently serves as Vice Chair of the Curriculum Committee.

She is Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Director of Psychotherapy Education at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts. Dr. Iscan is a three-time recipient of the Paul B. Barreira Teaching Award (2016, 2018, and 2019). Her scholarly work includes numerous publications in psychoanalytic research, psychodynamic psychotherapy, and sexuality.