Departmental Seminars

Core Psychology Training Program Seminar

All predoctoral psychology interns participate in two year-long seminars offered by the Psychology Section (Seminar Syllabi). These seminars are primarily devoted to core issues of assessment and psychotherapeutic intervention. Faculty from throughout the Department present on a range of assessment and intervention topics, giving the interns exposure to state-of-the-art research, empirically-validated clinical methods, and contemporary ethical issues related to diversity, race, and gender. In addition, faculty and interns of the Psychology Section meet once monthly beginning in September for a special topics colloquium at which senior faculty from the Department of Psychiatry, the University, and other invited speakers discuss topics relevant to contemporary issues in clinical and community psychology.

Elective Seminar

In addition to the core didactic experiences offered by the Psychology Section and those available in each facility, weekly Department of Psychiatry grand rounds are held each Friday morning to consider a diversity of practice and research issues. Also, a number of elective Departmental seminars are offered by the faculty in psychology, psychiatry, and other disciplines. These seminars are offered usually for one trimester (October-December, January-March, April-June) and are open to psychology interns and psychiatric residents. These elective seminars change each year but typically elective seminars have included the following topics:

• Psychodynamics of Character Types: An Approach to DSM IV Axis II Disorders
• Disorders of the Self - The Spectrum of Narcissistic and Borderline Conditions in Adults and Children
• Adult Development
• Clinical Interpretation - Problems for Practice, Theory, and Research; Introduction to Psychoanalytic Theory
• Administration in Psychiatry; Law and Psychiatry; Sleep and Dream Disorders
• "Perversions" and Psychotherapy; Philosophical Perspectives On Psychiatry
• Psychological Approaches to Psychopathology and the Therapeutic Process
• Medical Ethics in Psychiatric Practice; Behavior Therapy and Hypnosis
• Science Reading Group
• Sexuality and Gender in Psychoanalysis

In addition, predoctoral interns can participate in seminars offered at the VA Connecticut Healthcare System and in the Department of Psychology at Yale University.