Advanced Psychodynamic Theory

Herb Stein M.D.                                                                                           

PTY-A - 2nd Year
Fall 2006

Week 1: Conflict and Compromise
*Waelder, R. (1930)             
The Principle of Multiple Function:  Observations on Overdetermination in Selected Papers of Robert Waelder,  ed. Guttman, S.  New York: International Universities Press (1976).  pp. 68-83.  Read pp. 68-74  (remainder optional).

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

Week 2: Superego formation: The Personal Conscience
*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 3: Conflict Seen in the Office
Gray, P. (1990)The Nature of Therapeutic Action in Psychoanalysis , Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 38: 1083-1097.

Week 4: Mental Representations: Self and Object Representations
Sandler, J. & Rosenblatt, J. (1962) The concept of the representational world. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child   17:128-145.

Week 5 and 6: Unconscious Fantasy
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. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 7. Read “Case Report” pages 614-625.

Week 7: Transference
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
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: To be announced