Dr. M. Goldberger
Dr. Rajiv Gulati

Week 1. INTRODUCTION TO ANALYTIC ATTITUDE

Schafer, R. (1983) The Analytic Attitude. Chapter 1, pp.3-13.

Brenner, C. (1976) Psychoanalytic Technique and Psychic Conflict. Sections dealing with "analytic attitude": Ch. 1. pp.23-34;
Ch. 5. pp.108-114; 125-132; Ch. 7. pp.l67-175.

Week 2. WHOSE REALITY IS IT ANYWAY?

Schwaber, E. (1995) The patient's psychic reality. Paper given at December meeting of Am. Psan. Ass'n. To be distributed.

Hoffer, A. (1985) Toward a definition of psychoanalytic neutrality. JAPA 33:771-795.

Week 3. WHEN IS AN INTERVENTION AT THE "RIGHT" LEVEL? (WHAT DOES "EQUIDISTANT" MEAN?)

Freud, A. (1936) The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense.
Chapters 1, 2 and 3.

Fenichel. O. (1941) Problems in Psychoanalytic Technique. Prepared excerpts will be distributed.

OPTIONAL:

Pray, M. (1994) Two different methods of analyzing defense. J. Clin. Psan., 3:87-126.A comparison between Brenner and Anna Freud with many clinical examples given in detail.

Week 4. Cont'd from previous week.

Gray, P. A Guide to Analysis of the ego in conflict. In The Ego and the Analysis of Defense. Chap. 8, pp. 173-192. Jason Aronson, NY, 1994.

Arlow, J. (1979) The genesis of interpretation. JAPA 27s:374-206

Week 5 . ANALYTIC ATTITUDE RE: SUPEREGO MANIFESTATIONS (Superego analysis vs. subtle use of analyst's influence)

Strachey, J. (1934) The nature of therapeutic action of
psychoanalysis. Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 50:275-292, 1969

Apfelbaum, B. & Gill, M. (1989) Ego analysis and the relativity of defense: technical implications of the structural theory. JAPA 37:1071-1096.

Week 6.

Gray, P. (1990) The nature of the therapeutic action in psychoanalysis. JAPA 38:1083-1097.

Gray, P. (1987). On the technique of analysis of the superego. Psan. Quart., 56:130-154.

Week 7 ANALYTIC ATTITUDE AND THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THEORY AND PRACTICE

Sandler, J. (1983) Reflections on some relations between psychoanalytic concepts and psychoanalytic practice. Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 64:35-44

Stein, M. (1981) The unobjectionable part of the transference. JAPA 29:869

Week 8

Kris, A. (1990) The analyst's stance and the method of free association. PSC, 45:25-39.

Gill, M. (1994) Psychoanalysis in Transition. A personal View. Hillsdale, NJ: Analytic Press. Chapter 3: One-person and two-person psychology. Pp. 33-47. Chapter 4: Neutrality. Pp. 49-59.

Week 9 ANALYTIC ATTITUDE IN THE TRANSITION FROM PSYCHOTHERAPY TO PSYCHOANALYSIS

Bernstein, S. (1983) Treatment preparatory to psychoanalysis. JAPA 31:363-390.

Levine, H. (1965) Psychotherapy as the initial phase of a psychoanalysis. Int.Rev. Psycho-Anal. 12:285-296.

Week 10

Bernstein, S. (1990) Motivation for psychoanalysis, transition from psychotherapy. Psan. Inq. 10:21.

Kulish, N. (1996) A phobia of the couch: a clinical study of psychoanalytic process. Psan. Quarterly 65:465-494.