Adult Psychoanalytic Curriculum

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Adult Psychoanalytic Curriculum

Third Year

Time

8:30am - 9:50am

1st Trimester

Theory VI
British Object Relations

2nd Trimester

Scholarly Reading & Writing III

3rd Trimester

Narcissism and Borderline States

10:00am - 11:20am

Psychoanalytic Practice Development

Continuous Case

Ethics

11:30am - 12:50am

Depression

Technique III:
Contemporary Views of the Psychoanalytic Process

Continuous Case

Ethics

Reading List
The goals of this course are to increase sensitivity to ethical dilemmas that occur in psychoanalytic practice and to consider these problems from several points of view. Discussion will focus on developing consensual solutions, if possible.

Vignettes that have been written for the Ethics Casebook of the American Psychoanalytic Association will be used to illustrate topics such as confidentiality, analyst impairment, exploitation and boundary problems, and professional relationships. Contributions from the class about their own experiences will be given priority for attention.

We will use the methods of ethical analysis including how to identify the conflicts of interest and multiple players as well as the inevitable biases and assumptions that permeate all value systems. Expectations about gender, age, illness, status, friendship, finance and family all affect thinking about ethical issues.

The application of a Code of Ethics to real situations is fraught with
difficulties. The practice of thinking about this using vignettes will help to prepare analysts for a professional life where these concerns will not be denied and avoided.

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Psychoanalytic Practice Development

Depression

Technique III
Contemporary Views of the Psychoanalytic Process

Reading List

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Theory VI
British Object Relations

Reading List

Candidates read seminal works of Melanie Klein and the original "Kleinian" analysts with a psychoanalyst trained in the Kleinian tradition in London. These works are understood as being grounded in Freud's incipient theory of the relationship between ego and object in The Ego and the Id and in his theorization of the drive in Instincts and Their Vicissitudes. The class then moves to the post-Kleinian contributions of Winnicott, Strachey, Bion and others. The theoretical focus is on the clinical understanding of primitive mental states.

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Scholarly Reading and Writing III

Reading List

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Continuous Case

Ongoing process from a candidate case is presented to illustrate the early middle phase of analytic process, including considerations of transference, transference neurosis, resistance and interpretation.

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Continuous Case II

Ongoing process from a candidate case is presented to illustrate the later middle phase of analytic process, including considerations of transference, transference neurosis, resistance and interpretation.

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Developing an Analytic Practice

Once we have developed psychoanalytic skills, how do we identify and bring patients to the psychoanalytic treatment that will benefit them? This course focuses on the issues involved in moving a psychotherapy patient to psychoanalysis, and on the therapeutic considerations involved in recommending psychoanalysis as the treatment of choice. Instructors present their own material and welcome candidates' presentations of their own patients for whom they are considering recommending psychoanalysis.

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Theory VII
Narcissistic and Borderline States

Reading List

This course is an historical reconstruction of the problems which narcissism has presented to the classical model of neurosis, both in theory and practice. We examine the alternate schools which have arisen as attempts to answer these problems, focusing on the British school of object relations (Klein,Winnicott, Fairbairn) and the Americans (Mahler, Kohut and Kernberg). We explore the implications for the theory of affects and object relations, the inherent connections of object loss, mourning and identification, and especially the reciprocal relation of transference and countertransference. The course is grounded in the developmental findings of contemporary infant research.

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