Crosscurrents in Psychoanalysis

Fall 2005

Drs. Lynne Zeavin
Elizabeth Horwitz

* = Available on PEP

WEEKS 1-5: THEORETICAL CURRENTS

Week one: KLEINIAN THEORY
Melanie Klein, “Notes on Some Schizoid Mechanisms” pp. 1-25.

Week two: KLEIN, continued:
Edna O’Shaughnessy: Bion’s Theory of Thinking and Child Analysis, in Melanie Klein Today, Mainly Practice. pp. 177-190.

Ron Britton, Oedipus in the depressive position in Belief and Imagination, pp. 29-40.

Week three: THE RELATIONAL APPROACH
Jessica Benjamin, Recognition and Destruction—An Outline of Intersubjectivity—in Relational Psychoanalysis, Volume 1 pp. 181-209.

Week four: THE CONCEPT OF THE ANALYTIC THIRD
*Thomas Ogden, The Analytic Third: Working with Intersubjective Clinical Facts IJP, 1994, vol. 75: pp. 3-19.

Week five: MENTALIZATION
*Peter Fonagy and Mary Target, Playing with Reality I: Theory of Mind and the normal development of psychic reality: IJP, 1996, vol. 77, pp. 217-233.

Weeks 6-10: CLINICAL CONCEPTS RECONSIDERED

Week six: TRANSFERENCE
*Betty Joseph, Transference: The Total Situation. IJP, 1985, vol. 66, pp.447-454.

*Brian Bird, Notes on Transference, JAPA, 1972, vol. 20, pp. 267-301.

Week seven: COUNTERTRANSFERENCE
Ted Jacobs, On Misreading and Misleading Patients: Some Reflections on Communications, Miscommunications and Countertransference Enactments in Relational Psychoanalysis, Vol 2, pp. 175-201.

Betty Joseph—Projective Identification, Clinical Aspects in Projective Identification, Projective Identification, Joseph Sandler, Ed. pp. 65-76

Joseph Sandler—Discussion of Joseph’s Paper (same volume) pp. 77-91.

Week 8: NEUTRALITY
*H. F. Smith, Subjective and Objective Listening. JAPA, 1999, vol. 47, pp. 465-484.

*Irwin Z. Hoffman, The Patient as Interpreter of the Analyst’s Experience, Contemporary Psa, 1983, vol. 19, pp. 388-422.

Week 9: NEUTRALITY
*Owen Renik, Getting Real in Psychoanalysis. Psa. Q. 1998, vol. 67, pp. 566-593.

Michael Feldman, The dynamic of Reassurance, IJP 1993, vol. 74, pp. 275-285.

Week 10: THE ANALYST’S AUTHORITY
Eagle, M. The Analyst’s Knowledge and Authority: A Critique of the New View in Psychoanalysis, JAPA 2001, vol. 49/2, pp. 457-488.

*Friedman, L. Overview: Knowledge and Authority in the Psychoanalytic Relationshipo: PSA Q 1996, vol. 65, pp. 254-265.

*Optional: Mitchell, S. The Analyst’s Knowledge and Authority, PSA Q, 1998, vol. 67, pp. 1-31