I’ll admit to having a love affair with SF, then a “bitter divorce,” then a rapprochement when I got into his 1920s and 1930s stuff. The only real reason for the divorce was not Freud himself but the closed-minded, institutional religious certitude of some of his (mostly third generation) followers… and how they remained stuck in theories Pierre Janet, Al Adler and Freud himself had seen through and let go of.
I have become a fan of people like Nathan Akerman, Eric Berne, Thomas Harris and Murray Bowen, who used Freudian insights to develop family dynamics, as well as Otto Kernberg, Bill Meissner and Theo Millon who saw personality through psychodynamic lenses. And many others, including Stephen Karpman and the great games theorists.
And I’m a sucker for Harold Searles, Peter Fonagy, Ronald Fairbairn, Margaret Mahler, Melanie Klein, Erik Erikson, Harry Sullivan and the usual cast of characters. Mahler’s great student, Daniel Stern saw babies through that lens in the 1990s in a way that has contributed hugely to modern views of developmental psych.
I guess I just hope you get a good grounding in Watson, Skinner, Foa & Hayes, as well as the cognitivists and mindfulness people you already seem to know some things about… as well as the growing list of experts in the interaction of these disciplines with the autonomic nervous system like Sonya Lupien, Bruce McEwen, Bessel van der Kolk and Peter Levine.