Psychopathology I: Childhood

Lynne Rubin, PhD.

PTY-CA – 1ST Year
3rd Trimester 2008-09

*Available on P.E.P

Meeting 1

Thomas, R. Parent Guidance Series, No. 2-7. National Association for Mental Health.  

Meeting 2

*Freud, A. “The Concept of Developmental Lines.” PSC 245-265. 1963.

*Freud, A. “The Concept of Developmental Lines – Their Diagnostic Significance.” PSC 36:129-136. 1981.

*Freud, A. “Problems of Pathogenesis – Introduction to the Discussion.” PSC 38:383-388. 1983.

Meeting 3

*Freud, A. “The Symptomatology of Childhood – A Preliminary Attempt at Classification.” PSC 25:19-41, 1970.

*Freud, A. “Assessment of Childhood Disturbances.” PSC:17:149-158, 1962.

*Lament, C. The Diagnositc Profile: XIV. A Latency Girl. Bulletin of the Anna Freud Centre.

Meeting 4

Sheeringa, M. and Osofsky, J., “Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Infants and Young Children.” Infant Mental Health Journal, Vol 16, Number 4, Winter 1995.

*Furman, E. “On  Trauma: When is the Death of a Parent Traumatic?” PSC 41:191-208, 1986.

*[Optional: *Gaensbauer, T., “Trauma in the Preverbal Period.” PSC 50:122-149, 1995.]

*Bernstein, A. and Blacher, R. “The Recovery of a memory from Three Months of Age.” PSC:22:156-161, 1967.

Meeting 5

*Freud, A. “The Infantile Neurosis – Genetic and Dynamic Considerations.” PSC:26:79-90, 1971.

Nagera, H. “Neurotic Conflicts” and “The Infantile Neurosis and Adult Disturbance.” Monograph series of the PSC 2, 1966. Early Childhood Disturbances. Chaps 5&6. Pp. 48-62.

Meeting 6

*Sandler, A. “Comments on Phobic Phenomena.” PSC:  44:101-114, 1989.

*Tyson, R. “Notes on the Analysis of a Prelatency Boy with A Dog Phobia.” PSC: 427-458, 1978.

*Freud, A. “Fears and Anxieties and Phobic Phenomena.” PSC: 32:85-90,1977.

Meeting 7

*Chused, J. “Obsessional Manifestations in Children.”  PSC: 54: 219-232,1999.

*Sandler, J. and Joffee, W. “Notes on Obsessional Manifestations in Children.” PSC: 20: 425-438, 1965.

Meeting 8

*Furman E. and Furman, R. “Intermittent Decathexis – A Type of Parental Dysfunction.” IJP: 65:423-432, 1984.

Mahler, M. and Kaplan, L. “Developmental Aspects in the Assessment of Narcissistic and So-Called Borderline Personalities.” In Borderline Personality Disorders, ed. P. Hartocollis, 1977.

*Beren, P. “Narcissistic Disorders in Children.”.  PSC. 47:265-278,  1992.

Meeting 9

*Pine, F. “On the Concept of Borderline in Children.”  PSC. 29:341-368. 1974.

*Fonagy, P. “Attachment and Borderline Personality Disorder.”  JAPA: 48:1129-1146, 2000.

*Cohen, Y. “Grandiosity In Children With Narcissistic and Borderline Disorders – A Comparative Analysis.”  PSC. 46:307-324,1 991.

Meeting 10

*Sherkow, S. “Evaluation and Diagnosis of Sexual Abuse in Little Girls.” JAPA 38, 347-369, 1990.

*Shengold,  “Child Abuse and Treatment Examined.” Bulletin of the Anna Freud Centre. 15:189-204. 1992.

[Optional: Teicher, Martin. “Scars That Won’t Heal: The Neurobiology of Child Abuse.” Scientific American: March 2002: 68-75.]