Fourth year process has four segments. Segment one discusses Various Uses of Countertransference. In segment two the focus is termination of an anysis. Segment three, Methodology,examines the epistemological commitments that underlie an analyst's interventions using a continuous case from the previous year. Segment four: Listening in terms of the macroprocess: will track a segment of an analysis from its first, second, and third years. From each year within the analysis we will choose an expression of a (conscious or unconscious) fantasy, the manifestations of a defensive constellation, and/or selected lived object relationships. We will then compare how these emerged in the various years, and also how the patient and the analyst dealt with them (differently) depending on the stage of the treatment. At the conclusion of fourth year process, candidates will be comfortable conceptualizing and describing the elements of psychoanalytic process in terms of major transferences and resistances, identifying and working with countertransference with a range of concepts particular to the termination phase of psychoanalysis, exploring the reasons for and the technical approaches to apparent stalemates and difficulties in the ordinary course of analysis, the use of dreams in psychoanalysis and looking at the arc of a treatment over years and tracing the themes throughout.
Reading list for countertransference (subject to change)
Reading liist for termination (subject to change)