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Treating the Whole Person:
Revisiting the Unconscious

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Psychoanalysts Rex McGehee and Shawn Hofer discuss Freud's article The Unconscious and the interplay between our conscious and unconscious minds, and highlight Freud's topographic model as a still relevant way of understanding how the human mind operates. They consider the impact of working with the unconscious in treatment: how over time we can connect unconscious content with our conscious minds in ways that are useful in day to day life.

TOPIC

  • The unconscious mind and its role in therapeutic work
  • Working with repressed thoughts and emotions

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

  • Understand what is meant by the unconscious
  • Understand the topographic model (model of the mind)
  • Consider how the unconscious shows up in psychopathology

ABOUT

  • 1 CE Hour
  • 35 minute audio presentation
  • 5 minute exam
  • Certificate of completion

INSTRUCTOR

Rex McGehee

Rex McGehee is a highly experienced psychoanalyst, with a graduate degree from the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. He has over 30 years of teaching experience with University of Colorado; Denver, Minneapolis, Saint Louis and San Francisco Institutes. Organizer and teacher for the Western Consortium for Child Psychoanalysis. He is the Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. 
 
Dr. McGehee is particularly interested in the developmental process from infancy to adulthood. He has multiple publications primarily dealing with the psychoanalytic treatment of children and adolescents.
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