Students gain an understanding of the primary intrapsychic challenges and achievements of puberty and adolescence. In particular, they learn how emotional needs and conflicts unfold during this developmental period, how psychic structures develop, and how maturational tasks differ for males and females.
This course will focus on historical approaches to psychoanalytic inquiry from Freud to present. Class material will trace the arc of psychoanalytic thought from 1875 to present: S. Freud: Classical – Drive theory, structural theory; A. Freud, Mahler, Hartmann: Ego psychology; Sullivan: Interpersonal; Klein, Fairbairn, Winnicott: Object relations and the British school; Bowlby: Attachment; Kohut, Erikson: Self & Identity Psychologies; Lacan: Intersubjective and Contemporary Revisionist; Spotnitz: Modern. Students may sign up for one or both sections.
This course will focus on historical approaches to psychoanalytic inquiry from Freud to present. Class material will trace the arc of psychoanalytic thought from 1875 to present: S. Freud: Classical – Drive theory, structural theory; A. Freud, Mahler, Hartmann: Ego psychology; Sullivan: Interpersonal; Klein, Fairbairn, Winnicott: Object relations and the British school; Bowlby: Attachment; Kohut, Erikson: Self & Identity Psychologies; Lacan: Intersubjective and Contemporary Revisionist; Spotnitz: Modern. Students may sign up for one or both sections.
Is the narrative an effective method for psychoanalytic education? What purpose, personal experience and growth can attain relevant results? How can the narrative be organized? What objectives are developed when applying narrative methods, and what is being accomplished? Transmission of real life experience, basic values, behaviors and emotions in the narrative contributes to a body of knowledge. The use of the narrative relates to the transfer of learning, providing the derivation of objectives from studies and observation of contemporary life, indicating important and relevant areas containing importance. Trainees/students/ learners/researchers have an opportunity discuss observation and what is being learned? Cases and self-narrative will be presented and reviewed by the group. (Narrative Analysis)
This course will explore the concept of immediacy in group therapy and how techniques that keep group members in the here-and-now help to form bonds and resolve interpersonal conflicts.
This class will explore communications between couples. We analyze what is really being said/meant, and the words used to convey a message. The psychodynamics of verbal communication versus emotional meanings will be analyzed. Students may sign up for one or both sections.
This class will explore communications between couples. We analyze what is really being said/meant, and the words used to convey a message. The psychodynamics of verbal communication versus emotional meanings will be analyzed. Students may sign up for one or both sections.
Modern psychoanalysts instruct their analysands to say everything, but analysands are limited in their ability to comply with this instruction both by unconscious resistances and also by not having the words they would need. Modern psychoanalytic interventions have largely been limited to questions and to joining what the analyst understands as the analysand’s resistances to saying everything. In this class, we will identify another type of resistance; that based on not being conscious of a feeling because the analysand does not have the words or metaphors to understand what is going on in their minds. We will explore interventions that are designed to give analysands tools to say things that would otherwise remain unarticulated.
Through reading Racial Melanchoia, Racial Dissociation, a work that both describes work with Asian Americans and Asian immigrants, as well as positing theoretical psychoanalytic ideas onto the concept of race theories. This course will explore the clinical work that takes place between therapist and patient both when race plays a role, and when it takes a less prominent role, but the therapist suspects that its role should be, at the least, approached. Examples from students welcome.
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Requirements for self-study credit to be discussed with instructor.
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