SCHOLARLY READING AND WRITING II

Fall Trimester
2nd Year candidates

Arden Rothstein, Ph.D.
Claudia Lament, Ph.D.

* = Available on PEP

Class 1: September 10, 2005
Read (in advance) the following two papers:

Sacks, O. (1998), "The lost mariner." In: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales. New York: Touchstone Books, pp. 23-42.

*McLaughlin, J.T. (1991), "Clinical and theoretical aspects of enactment." JAPA, 39: 595-614.

Class 2: September 17, 2005
Read (in advance)

*Rothstein, A. (1999), Sleeping and dreaming: aspects of the analysis of erotic transference," Psychoanalytic Quarterly, LXVIII, 99-109.

Class 3: September 24, 2005
Read (in advance)

*Lament, Claudia (2000), The consultation process with an adult: A child analyst’s perspective. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 48: 839-857. We will also review preliminary drafts of this paper and /or editorial comments that preceded acceptance for publication.

Class 4: October 1, 2005
Candidates will present the vignettes they have written.

Class 5: October 8, 2005
Candidates will present the vignettes they have written.

ADDITIONAL READINGS

Psychological Conflict about Writing

*Britton, R., (1994), "Publication anxiety: Conflict between communication, affiliation…" International. Journal of. Psychoanalysis, 75:1213-1224.

*Scharff, J.S. (2000), "On writing from clinical experience." JAPA, 48:421-447

General Considerations and Controversies Pertinent to Effective Clinical Writing

Bernstein, S.B. (1992), "Guidelines: Comments on treatment report writing and describing analytic process." Journal of Clinical Psychoanalysis, 1: 469-478.

Bernstein, S.B. (1998), Writing about the psychoanalytic process. Unpublished paper presented at the December, 1998 Meetings of the American Psychoanalytic Association.

* Bernstein, S.B. (2000), Discussion of R. Michels's "The case history." JAPA, 48: 381-391.

*Coen, S. J., (2000a), "Why we need to write openly about our clinical cases." JAPA, 48:449-470.

*Coen, S. J., (2000b), "Clinical discussants as psychoanalytic readers." JAPA 48:471-496.

*Michels, R. (2000), "The case history." JAPA, 48:355-375 (and the commentaries on this paper by six analysts that appear in the same volume from pages 376-416 to which Michels responds on pages 417-420).

*Reiser, L. W. (2000), “The write stuff.” JAPA, 48:351-354.

Preserving Confidentiality

*Gabbard, G., (2000), "Disguise or consent: Problems and recommendations concerning the publication and presentation of clinical material." International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 81:1071-1087.

Kantrowitz, J. (2004a), "Writing about patients: I. Ways of protecting confidentiality and analysts’ conflicts over choice of method." JAPA, 52:69-99.

Kantrowitz, J. (2004b), Writing about patients: II. Patients’ reading about themselves and their analysts’ perceptions of its effect. JAPA, 52:101-123.

Kantrowitz, J. (2004c), "Writing about patients: III. Comparisons of attitudes and practices of analysts residing outside of and within the United States." International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 85:3 pp. 691-712.

Kantrowitz, J. (2005a), "Writing about patients: IV. Patients’ reactions to reading about themselves." JAPA, 53:103-129.

Kantrowitz, J. (2005b), "Writing about patients: V. Analysts reading about themselves as patients." JAPA, 53:131-153.

JAPA – Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association
PQ- Psychoanalytic Quarterly