Development I:
The Mind of the Child: The Child’s Mind in the Adult: What We Learn From Child Analysis

PSA First Year
Winter 2006
8:30 AM – 9:50 A.M

Laurie Levinson, Ph.D.
Noah Shaw, M.D.
                                                                       
The goal of this course is to provide a beginning understanding of the internal world of the child at various stages of development, in order for candidates to get a sense of the “child within the adult.”   We would like students to get a sense of how children think and talk  and feel at different ages and stages – how they create and communicate fantasies and wishes and fears…how and why defenses develop and are manifested…and how these childhood phenomena are transformed during the developmental progression toward adulthood. We want to give a lively picture of what it is like to have a child in analysis. To that end we will include a good many clinical vignettes in addition to the assigned reading.    

* = Reading is available on P-E-P.

HOW CHILD ANALYSIS INFORMS THE WORK OF THE ANALYST OF ADULTS
Classes 1 – 3

Class 1 Reading List:

1. *Anthony, E.J. (1986) “The Contributions Of Child Analysis to Psychoanalysis.” PSC.  41: pp. 68-87.

2. Chused, J. (1990).  “How Clinical Work with Children Can Inform the Therapist of Adults” in Monograph No. 6 of Workshop Series of the American Psychoanalytic Association. pp. 37-54, published by the American Psychoanalytic Association.

Class 2 Reading List:

1. *Yanof, J.A. (1996) “Language, Communication, and Transference in Child Analysis: Part II: Is Child Analysis Really Analysis?” JAPA, 44(1), 100-116
Part I: “Selective Mutism: The Medium is the Message,” pp. 79 – 100

2. *Frankel, J. (1998) “The Play’s the Thing: How the Essential Processes of Therapy are seen Most Clearly in Child Therapy”, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 1998, 8(1), pp. 149 – 182

Class 3 Reading List:

1. *Abrams, S. (1998).  “The Psychoanalytic Process in Adults and Children”, PSC 43:            pp. 245 – 261

2.*--------(1999).  “How Child and Adult Analysis Inform and Misinform Each Other.”  Annual of Psychoanalysis, 26:3- 22

3. Clinical Case – to be assigned

PLAY AND COMMUNICATION – Classes 4 - 6

Class 4 Reading List:

1. Solnit, S. (1993).  “From Play to Playfulness in Children and Adults,” in The Many Meanings of Play: A Psychoanalytic Perspective, Solnit, et al. eds., Yale UP, 29 – 43. 

2. Ablon, S. (1993).  “The Therapeutic Action of Play and Affect in Child Analysis” in Human Feelings: Explorations in Affect Development and Meaning. S. Ablon et al.eds., 1993, The Analytic Press, pp.127 – 144. 

3. Clinical Case to be assigned

Class 5 Reading List:

1. Mahon, E.J. (1993). “Play: Its Role in Child Analysis, Its Fate in Adult Analysis,” The Many Meanings of Play: A Psychoanalytic Perspective, Solnit et al. eds, 3 Yale UP 172 – 182

2. *Chused, J (1991).  “The Evocative Power of Enactments,” JAPA, 39: 615-639.

3. Clinical Case – to be assigned

Class 6 Reading List:
 
1. Winnicott, D.W. (1971).  “Playing: A Theoretical Statement.” In Playing and Reality.  Routledge, pp 38 – 52.

2. * Wallerstein, R. and R. Lilleskov. (1977). “Nonverbal Aspects of Child and Adult Psychoanalysis,” JAPA,  25: 693 – 705.

TRANSFORMATIONS:
THE FATE OF UNRESOLVED DEVELOPMENTAL TASKS AND CONFLICTS 
Classes 7 - 10

Background Reading: 
*Freud, A (1981). “The Concept Of Developmental Lines: Their Diagnostic Significance,”  
PSC  36: 129 – 136.

Class 7 Reading List:
The Child Under Five – oral/anal traits and conflicts - envy - in children and adults…  

1. *Bornstein, B.  “The Analysis of a Phobic Child: Some Problems of Theory and Technique in                        Child Analysis,” PSC 1949, III – IV, 181 - 226

Class 8 Reading List:
Latency –   sibling rivalry – competition – co-operation

1. *Becker, T.E. (1974). “On Latency.”  PSC, 29:3-11.2.

2. *S. Fraiberg, S. (1954). “Tales of discovery of the Secret treasure” PSC 9: 218-241
           
Class 9 Reading List:
Adolescence- the capacity for creativity – sublimation - can the child “leave”?

1.  Novick, J.  (1990).“The Significance of Adolescent Analysis for Clinical Work with Adults.” in Monograph No. 6 of Workshop Series of the American Psychoanalytic Association. pp. 81-94, published by the American Psychoanalytic Association.

2. Blos, P. “Adolescent Fixation in Adult Psychopathology”, in   in Monograph No. 6 of Workshop Series of the American Psychoanalytic Association. pp. 67-79, published by the American Psychoanalytic Association.

Class 10 Reading List:
Adolescence into Young Adulthood

1. Yanof, J.  “The Analysis of an Adolescent Girl” - Paper to be distributed

The readings for the above 4 classes will consist of clinical and theoretical papers, each of which will demonstrate the way in which crucial unresolved developmental tasks continue to affect later life.

2. Tyson, P. (1990). “The Adolescent Process and Adult Treatment”, in Child and Adolescent Analysis: Its Significance for Clinical Work with Adults, Scott Dowling, ed., IUP 1990, pp. 95-105.