NYU Psychoanalytic Institute
Training & Education Programs

Continuous Case V
Clinical Problems in Narcissism
A patient with "borderline pathology" is presented with a view to understanding the technical and clinical issues that arise with patients who exhibit more primitive mental states. Here is an opportunity to look at direct clinical application of the ideas developed in the course Theory VII.

Scholarly Reading and Writing III

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Candidates get hands-on learning about writing for psychoanalytic journals by reviewing papers and following the course of a paper, written by one of the instructors, through the process of journal review, re-writing and re-editing. The goal is to familiarize the candidate with the writing and editing process and to begin to prepare them for analytic authorship.

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Continuous Case

Candidates' supervised analyses have progressed, and now a case is discussed through process in a more advanced phase of treatment. This may be a return to one of the cases followed earlier.

Development VI
Adolescence

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Using selected readings and case material, the developmental process is considered from pre-adolescence through early, middle and late adolescence. Theory and clinical reality are integrated, with emphasis on biological determinants, drives, ego aspects and object relations. The consolidation of character, so important in this phase of life, is discussed, as well as normality and pathology in adolescence, and how to tell one from the other.

Creativity and Symbolism

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This course examines creativity and symbolism from an analytic perspective. It includes clinical material from the analysis of a creative artist; theoretical papers on creativity as it is understood by psychoanalysis and as it enters into the psychoanalytic process; the question of symbolism, its development and role in psychic life; the application of psychoanalysis to the arts, how it may be applied and how it has been applied; and the application of the arts to understanding psychoanalytic cost of their own work in these areas.

Termination
This class revolves around clinical presentations of material from the termination phase of two psychoanalyses, usually presented by advanced candidates. These cases are discussed with a background of selected readings about the termination phase of analysis.

Psychoanalysis and Neurobiology

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Case Seminar
Macroanalysis

Crosscurrents in Psychoanalysis

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