Advanced Psychodynamic Theory

Herb Stein M.D.   

PTY-A - 2nd Year
Winter 2009-10

* = Available on P.E.P. and will not be provided to you by the Institute.

Week 1: Conflict and Compromise  (November 24)

*Wälder, R. (1936). The Principle of Multiple Function: Observations on Over-Determination. Psychoanal Q., 5:45-62.            Read pp. 45-top52. Remainder optional

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

Week 2: Conflict Seen in the Office (December 1)

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

Week 3 and 4: Unconscious Fantasy (December 8 and 15)

*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 5: Superego formation: The Personal Conscience (January 5)

*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 6: Mental Representations: Self and Object Representations (January 12)

*Sandler, J. & Rosenblatt, J. (1962) The concept of the representational world. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child 17:128-145. Read bottom p129-bottom p 136. Remainder optional

 Week 7: Transference (January 19)

*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 (January 26 and February 2)

*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 (February 9)

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