Psychopathology I: Childhood

Lynne Rubin, PhD.

PTY-CA – 1ST Year
Spring 2010

*Available on P.E.P

Meeting 1
Thomas, R. Parent Guidance Series, No. 2-7. National Association for Mental Health.  

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

[Optional: Smyke, A. “Theories of Spoiling and Fear of Spoiling: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives”, in The Signal, Newsletter of the World Association for Infant Mental Health, Vol. 5, No.4, October-December, 1997.]

Meeting 2
Metapsychological Profile with Explanations, from the Hanna Perkins Center, Cleveland, Ohio.

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

Meeting 3
*Furman, E. “On Trauma: When is the Death of a Parent Traumatic?” PSC 41:191-208, 1986.

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

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

Meeting 4
*Cohen, P. and Grant, B., "Observation of a Toddler during a Crisis". Bulletin of the Anna Freud Centre, 1985, PSC: 8:275-281.
*Gaensbauer, T., “Trauma in the Preverbal Period.” PSC 50:122-149, 1995

Meeting 5
*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.

Meeting 6
*Lament, C. “The Diagnostic Profile: XIV. A Latency Girl.” Bulletin of the Anna Freud Centre.

*Davids, J., The Trustmeter: "The Analysis of an Anxious Latency Boy." Bulletin of the Anna Freud Centre, 1989, PSC:12:143-165.

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
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.

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

Meeting 9
*Pine, F. “On the Concept of Borderline in Children.”  PSC. 29:341-368. 1974..

*Cohen, Y. “Grandiosity In Children With Narcissistic and Borderline Disorders – A Comparative Analysis.”  PSC. 46:307-324,1991.

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.]