Event Start Date:
Tuesday, June 30, 2026 - 6:00pm
Event End Date:
Tuesday, June 30, 2026 - 7:00pm
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 hypothesisHow substance use can serve as an adaptation to psychological distress, trauma or unmet needsWays a psychodynamic perspective can deepen empathy and inform compassionate approaches to recovery