Psychoanalytic Theories of Personality 203

Spring 2025

12 Week Class - January 29, 2025-April 16, 2025, Wednesdays, 12:00pm-1:30pm

Live Interactive Webinar via Zoom

REGISTRATION WILL CLOSE ON JANUARY 22, 2025



System Requirements: To attend this training, one must have access to a computer, internet and Zoom. It is vital that a computer be utilized for this training, instead of a mobile device or Ipad.

Course Description

This course is designed to impart strong skills in the assessment and diagnosis of personality. We will focus on understanding developmental levels of personality organization, studying the spectrum of psychoanalytic personality theories. We will start with a historical grounding in Freud’s early writing about character, then move into a thorough introduction to Ego Psychology with its focus on conflict, defense, and adaption. We will then cover Kernberg’s seminal work on borderline structures. The course will conclude with current relational theories about personality and dissociation. We will establish both a clear grounding in the psychoanalytic theories of personality and an application to your clinical work by using them to inform your understanding of your patients and how they may relate to you.

Instructor: Catherine Bianchi PhD

Catherine Bianchi, PhD received her certificate in psychoanalysis from the Center for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis of N J in 2016. She completed the Supervision Training Program at CPPNJ in June of 2020. She is currently a CPPNJ training analyst and supervisor. Dr. Bianchi also attended the NYU Post Doctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, completing the Specialization in Trauma and Disaster Studies. She did her undergraduate work at The Johns Hopkins University, and completed her PhD at Fairleigh Dickinson University and her internship at the Rutgers School of Biomedical and Health Sciences.

She is in independent practice in Morristown, NJ, seeing adults and children. She has taught as a university lecturer since 1987. Her most recent teaching appointment has been at the Graduate School of Applied Professional Psychology at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, where she is a field supervisor and has taught the history of psychoanalysis to doctoral students in clinical psychology

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

• Identify and critique key concepts in the study of character structure and personality styles from the point of view Ego Psychology.
• Identify and critique key concepts in the study of character structure and personality styles from the point of view of Relational Theory.
• Demonstrate strong diagnostic skills for assessing personality styles and disorders.
• Demonstrate strong assessment skills for understanding developmental levels of personality organization
• Articulate the implications for different levels of personality organization and integrate them into the treatment of their patients.

Target Audience:  Suitable for Psychologists, Social Workers, Licensed Professional Counselors, Psychiatrists, Advanced Practice Nurses, Graduate Students, Marriage and Family Therapists.

Level of Sophistication: This is an Intermediate level post-graduate continuing education program. Suitable to all licensed professionals.

ADA accommodations available upon request: Requests required at least 14 days prior to course start.

Continuing Education: 

18 CEs for Counselors, Psychologists & Social Workers

Counselors: CPPNJ has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education   Provider, ACEP No. 6863. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. CPPNJ is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Psychologists:  CPPNJ is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. CPPNJ maintains responsibility for this program and its contents. 

NY Psychologists: Center for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis of New Jersey is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0165. 

Social Workers: Center for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis of New Jersey is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0757.



The New Jersey Board of Social Work Examiners, and other state boards, recognize CEs approved by the New York State Education Department.

Course Fee: $400 for members

Course Refund Policy: Up to one month before a course starts there will be a full course refund less a $50 administrative fee. Less than one month before a course starts there will be a $50 administrative fee and the payment will be applied to a future course. Once a class starts, there will be no refunds. Extraordinary circumstances will be reviewed on an individual basis.

There is no potential conflict of interest and/or commercial support for this CE event.



For more information or registration, please call 973-912-4432, visit us online at www.cppnj.org, contact us by email at cppnj@cppnj.org or at CPPNJ 235 Main St, Madison, NJ 07940