*= Available on PEP.  

Optional readings will not be provided to you by the Institute. 

Class 1

No assigned reading. There is a one-page Course Objectives document on the CD.

Class 2

1) Class handout, on CD.

2) Selections from The Interpretation of Dreams: Irma’s Injection, The Botanical Monograph, “Non Vixit” and Self-Dissection. On CD as “Readings from Interp of Dreams.rtf.”

Optional Reading:

Grinstein A (1980): Sigmund Freud's Dreams: Irma’s Injection. The Botanical Monograph, Self-Dissection, “Non Vixit” (Chaps. 1, 2, 17, 12)

Schur M (1966): Some additional "day residues" of the "specimen dream of psychoanalysis." In Psychoanalysis - A General Psychology. Essays in Honor of Heinz Hartmann, ed. R Loewenstein, et al. NY: IUP, pp. 45-85

Class 3

1) Class handout, on CD.

Optional Reading:

Bradlow P, Coen SJ: Mirror masturbation. Psychoanal. Quarterly, 1984; 53: 267-285.

Coen SJ: Sexualization as a predominant mode of defense. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 1981; 29: 893-920.

Reich A: Narcissistic object choice in women. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 1953; 1: 22-44.

Reich A: Masturbation and self-esteem. In: Annie Reich: Psychoanalytic Contributions. NY: IUP, 1973; pp. 312-333.

Class 4

1) Class handout, on CD.

2) Freud S (1914): On Narcissism: An Introduction. SE 14:73-102.

Optional Reading:

Reich A: A contribution to the psychoanalysis of extreme submissiveness in women. Psychoanal Quart, 1940; 9:470-480.

Reich A: Pathologic forms of self-esteem regulation. Psychoanal Study Child, 1960; 15: 215-232.

Parkin A: On sexual enthrallment.  J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 1964;  12: 336-356.

Sandler J, et al.: The ego ideal and the ideal self. Psychoanal Study Child, 1963;18:139-158.

Class 5

1) Class handout, on CD.

2) Freud S (1915): Instincts and Their Vicissitudes SE 14: 117-140.

Class 6

1) Class handout, on CD.

Class 7

1) Class handout, on CD.

2) Bach S, Schwartz L (1972): A dream of the Marquis de Sade: Psychoanalytic reflections on narcissistic trauma, decompensation, and the reconstitution of a delusional self. JAPA 20: 451-475.

Class 8

1) Class handout, on CD.

2) Freud S (1917 [1915]): Mourning and Melancholia. SE 14: 243-258.

Class 9

1) Class handout, on CD.

2) Freud S (1921): Group Formation and the Analysis of the Ego. SE 18: 65-144. (There may be some reduction in the number of pages assigned).

Class 10

1) Class handout, on CD.

2) *Kris, AO (1994): Freud's treatment of a narcissistic patient. IJP 75: 649 - 664.

Highly recommended optional reading:

Riviere J (1936) A contribution to the analysis of the negative therapeutic reaction. IJP 17: 304-320.