Join our free community education event led by Dr. Bernadine Han, a psychoanalyst and addiction psychiatrist, exploring how psychodynamic theory helps us understand addiction as a response to emotional pain, trauma and unmet needs, and how this perspective can deepen empathy and support recovery.

What you’ll learn:

• Core psychodynamic concepts relevant to addiction, including emotional regulation and the self-medication hypothesis
• How substance use can serve as an adaptation to psychological distress, trauma or unmet needs
• Ways a psychodynamic perspective can deepen empathy and inform compassionate approaches to recovery