Scholarly Reading and Writing III

Donald Moss and Joseph Reppen

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Week #1: Introductory Remarks—On the place of reading/writing within a psychoanalytic curriculum. “Unconscious constraints on writing”—Donald Moss, PANY Newsletter. This article can be found at www.med.nyu.edu./pany/bulletin/unconscious.html

Weeks #2-3: On a consideration of “standards”:

*Week #2: On a particular way of reading—“Towards the development of common editorial standards”, David Tuckett, (1998), IJP, 79: 431-48.

Week #3: A critical response to Tuckett—“Yes, we have bananas”, (2005), IJP, 86: 993-1009.

Week #4: An example of an encounter with standards: A submitted text, an editorial response, a request for major revisions. (Text and editorial response to be provided by instructors).

Weeks #5-6: The use of clinical examples as a rhetorical device, a means of persuasion:
(1) * “Addiction to near death”, Betty Joseph, IJP (1982), 63: 449-56.
(2) * “A contribution to the psychoanalysis of extreme submissiveness in women”, Annie Reich, The Psychoanalytic Quarterly (1940), 9: 470-80.

Weeks #7-8: The use of clinical examples as a rhetorical device, a means of persuasion: Contributions from candidates, three each week.

Weeks # 9-10: On argument without the use of example:

(1)Week #9
“The relevance of psychoanalysis to an understanding of terrorism”— Stuart W. Twemlow, IJP, 86: 957-963, 2005.
“Rejoinder”, Lawrence Friedman, IJP, 86: 963-969, 2005.
“Response”, S. Twemlow, IJP, 86: 969-974, 2005.
(2) Week #10
Contributions from candidates