Advanced Psychodynamic Theory

Herb Stein M.D.   

PTY-A - 2nd Year
Winter 2008-09

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Week 1: Conflict and Compromise

*Waelder, R. (1930) The Principle of Multiple Function:  Observations on Overdetermination in Selected Papers of Robert Waelder, ed. Guttman, S. New York: International Universities Press (1976).  pp. 68-83.  Read pp. 68-74 (remainder optional).

Brenner, C. (1982) The Mind in Conflict, pp. 109-119.

Week 2: Conflict Seen in the Office

*Gray, P. (1990) The Nature of Therapeutic Action in Psychoanalysis, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 38: 1083-1097.

Week 3: Superego formation: The Personal Conscience

*Freud, S (1933) New Introductory Lectures. SE: 22: 61(bottom)-65(top),

Sandler, J; Holder, A; Dare, C; and Dreher, A (1997). Freud’s Models of the Mind. Madison: International Universities Press, pp 172-177

Week 4: Mental Representations: Self and Object Representations

*Sandler, J. & Rosenblatt, J. (1962) The concept of the representational world. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child 17:128-145.

Week 5 and 6: Unconscious Fantasy

*Arlow, J. A. (1969) Unconscious Fantasy and Disturbances of Conscious Experience. Psychoanalytic Quarterly 38: 1-27.

*Arlow, J.A. (1959) The structure of the déjà vu experience (Read “Case Report”). Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 7, pp 614-625.

Week 7: Transference

*Blum, H.P. (1971) On the Conception and Development of the Transference Neurosis. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 19:41-53 

Week 8 and 9: Development of the Adult Mind

*Freud, S. (1908) Three Essays on Sexuality. SE 7: 173-199.

Tyson, P and Tyson, R. “Development” in Psychoanalysis: The Major Concepts ed. Moore, B. and Fine, B. pp. 401-414

Week 10: Overview

*Brenner, C. (2002) Conflict, compromise formation, and structural theory. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly 71:3, pp 397-418.