Aleksandar Dimitrijevic, Ph.D.

Teaching Focus

I have been teaching various clinical psychology courses for almost twenty years now. I have taught psychology of mental health, psychological prevention, community psychology, psychoanalysis, and many others, on all levels of university studies and in psychoanalytic institutes. In all of them, I felt it was most important to “translate” concepts and definitions into everyday clinical practice, and from there return to artistic intuitions and cultural contexts that frame them both.

Over the last two years I mostly gave lectures in “Introduction to psychoanalysis” and “Psychotherapeutic interventions.” In the former, I try to cover development in psychoanalytic thinking and work, from Freud to Winnicott to relational psychoanalysis, with regard to its basic dimensions: psychoanalysis as therapy, personality theory, developmental theory, scientific discipline, and Weltanschauung. In the latter, I focus on elements of the practical work (resistance, countertransference, etc), as well as on the different schools of psychotherapy.