Third Year

Full Year

Psychoanalytic Theories III

Psychoanalysis M9305x-M9306y

Drs. Kenny and Kraebber, course chairs; Drs. Brown, Gilmore, Halpern, Lotterman, Marcus, and Tsolas; Dr. Desai, Associate Instructor. 64 hours (October - June). Thursday 1:00 - 2:45 p.m.

Advanced theory and concepts and their evolution. Selected current topics, new trends in theory, and their critiques. In the first segment, areas of specific focus include affect theory, internalization and identification, and current developmental issues. The second segment, in its focus on the evolution of psychoanalytic thought, includes study and critiques of the contributions and development of British and American object relations theory, theories of the self, the contribution of other current American theorists, and a review of early theorists and their current relevance. At the conclusing of this course, candidates will be facile in their understanding of the intricacies of the major psychoanalytic schools of thought.

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NOT OFFERED IN 2019-20

Psychoanalytic process, III: middle phase

Psychoanalysis M9326x-M9327y

Drs. Sabbeth and Lendvay, associate instructors; Drs. Halpern, Levitan, Moga Meersand and Wasserman, instructors. 60 hours (September-June). Monday 1:30-3 p.m.

Third year process is divided into 4 segments over the yearlong course. Segment one: Doing Child Analysis: Implications for Adult Treatment:The goal of this eight- week course is to learn how an analysis with a child or adolescent is conducted. A central focus will be to understand the analytic process in children and to see what it can tell us about doing psychoanalytic work with adults. Segment two: When Analysts Talk, What They Say:The goal of this eight- week process course is to learn what to say when talking with a patient. Based on candidates current abilities to hear psychoanalytic process and understand the patient’s dynamics, this class will focus on what one might say to the patient and why. The teachers participate with the candidates in offering what they would say and why. Segment three:Critical Thinking: The goal of this eight- week process segment has its origin in the critical-thinking segment of the curriculum. One teacher takes the role of the process teacher, responding and commenting and eliciting discussion from the class. The other teacher takes notes on the class process and tries to elicit discussion of some of the theoretical or clinical points, focusing on how they relate to traditional versus contemporary psychoanalytic theory, and how the class really feels about these points. Segment four: How Theory Informs Our Analytic Listening and Intervening:The goal of this six- week process course is to understand how analysts explicitly and implicitly use psychoanalytic theories and how this shapes what analysts hear and how they intervene. At the conclusion of the third year process, candidates will be able to think in an increasingly self-reflective and critical way about psychoanalytic process.

Fall

Theory of technique, III

Psychoanalysis M9310x

Dr. Bosworth, course chair; Drs. Allegra, Bass, Berger, Ornstein, and B. Stern, instructors; Dr. Gastelum, associate instructor. 30 hours (September-January). Monday 11 a.m. -12:45 p.m.

In this course we will discuss psychoanalytic theories of therapeutic action and how these inform psychoanalytic technique. Special consideration will be given to different ways that countertransference, erotic and sadomasochistic transferences are conceptualized and worked with. By the end of the course candidates should be able to describe theories of therapeutic action and essential techniques used in the ego psychological, Kleinian, self psychological, and relationalist schools. Candidates, reflecting on their own cases, should be able to offer theories as to how interventions they made affected change in their patients.

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NOT OFFERED IN 2019-20

Critical Thinking III: thinking about psychoanalytic theory and discourse

Psychoanalysis M9332y

Dr. Rees, instructor. 6 hours (September). Thursday 1:00-2:45 p.m.

This is a class that takes up thinking about thinking. Readings include Meehl, Grossman and Waelder. Our goal is to formulate a picture of the psychological characteristics of analysts theorize.

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NOT OFFERED IN 2019-20

Spring

Writing and Formulating, III

Psychoanalysis M9328x-M9329y

Drs. Abell and Merrill, Instructors;. 8 hours (January and April). 1:30-3:00 p.m.

see course description for M9127

Critical Thinking - technique: perspectives on interpretation of unconscious conflict

Psychoanalysis M9334y

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

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.

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