Fifth Year

Full Year

Psychoanalytic Process V - Advanced process

Psychoanalysis M9525x-M9526y

<p>Drs. Chaplan, Gutman and Halperin, associate instructors; Drs. Gilmore, Munich, and Schneier, instructors. 32 hours; (December - June). Monday 1:30-3 p.m.</p>

This process course will focus on therapeutic action. Using material from candidates' ongoing analytic material, we will attempt to link what is suggested in the literature, how those perspectives contribute or inhibit change, what might constitute moments of change or stalemate, and how can one tell if change has taken place. The later readings will serve as an introduction into the next segment that will take up more contemporary articles and focus more on countertransference. This series serves to integrate the fourth year series on Countertransference , with particular attention to how the analyst’s efforts to bring about change reflect the incorporation and integration of different theories of therapeutic action – i.e.: “what did the analyst think she was doing to the patient when she did that?” Selected readings on contemporary views of therapeutic action will enrich the discussion of candidate presentationsof case material.

View reading list for countertransference (subject to change)

Fall

Psychoanalytic Ethics and Practice

Psychoanalysis M9537x

Dr. Barnhill, chair. 12 hours (September-October). Monday 1:30-3 p.m.

In this course, candidates will become familiar with ethical issues in psychoanalytic treatment including: boundaries and boundary violations, psychoanalytic views of money, sexual excitement in the clinical situation, love in the analytic setting, risk factors for sexual misconduct and confidentiality issues relevant to the psychoanalytic setting.At the end of this course, candidates will be able to identify risk factors both in themselves and in their colleagues.;They will also have some understanding of the relevant legal standards and penalties for significant ethical violations

Spring

Critical Thinking - technique: perspectives on interpretation of unconscious conflict

Psychoanalysis M9334y

<p>Drs. Halpern and Rees, course chairs. 4 hours (January). Monday 11 a.m - 12:45 p.m.</p>

Two classes for senior candidates provide an opportunity for candidates to hear faculty present clinical material and debate issues of technique. These two classes are designed to provide a forum for candidates from different years to hear each other’s ideas and to hear faculty articulate their ways of thinking about controversial questions of technique in relation to clinical process.

see course syllabus here

Writing and Formulating, V (senior case colloquium)

Psychoanalysis M9527x-M9528y

Dr. Schneier, Instructor: Dr. Park, Associate Instructor, Instructors; 10 hours (October - November). Monday 1:30-3 p.m.

See description for M9127

The objective of this course is for candidates to learn to write and orally present to their whole group their current understanding of their longest running case. We ask them to convey how they now think about the shifts that have taken place in defensive operations, internal object relations, inner fantasy life and outward life situations. Included in this discussion is their comfort with discussing their countertransference and how it helped or hindered the analytic process. This is an exercise that is a culmination of all they have learned in their individual writing courses, their process course and their supervsion.