Development V: Adolescence

PSA - Third Trimester 2006-07
Fourth Year Candidates
10:00 a.m. - 11:20 p.m.

Charles Goodstein, M.D.
Barbara Deutsch , M.D.

Our focus in this course is on the ways adolescence affects development and is represented within the analysis of an adult.

The burgeoning personality that is in place at the outset of adolescence is a product of the contributions of earlier phases of development. A major task of adolescence is the recapitulation of these earlier phases, with a fresh re-working, and the discovery of new syntheses. But psychic development involves discontinuities as well as continuities, and within adolescence, there are new challenges and new opportunities, with the potential for dramatic changes and an impact on future adaptation.

Meeting 1. Psychoanalysis and Adolescence1905-1958

A. Freud: “The ego and the id at puberty; Instinctual anxiety during puberty.” In The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense, 1936, Chapters 11 and 12, pp. 137 -172. (or 1942, Chapters 11 and 12, pp.149-189)

*A. Katan: “The role of "displacement" in agoraphobia.” IJP, 1951, 32: 41 - 50.

*A. Freud: “Adolescence.” PSC, 1958, 13: 255 - 278.

Meeting 2. Pre-Adolescence

P. Blos:  “Preadolescent drive organization.” In The Adolescent Passage: Developmental Issues, by P. Blos, IUP, 1979, 105-116.

*K. Dalsimer: "Preadolescence: The Member of the Wedding," in Female Adolescence, Yale University Press 1986 pp 13-26 or "From pre-adolescent tomboy to early adolescent girl: an analysis of Carson McCullers' The Member of the Wedding." PSC, 34, 1979, 445 - 461.

Meeting 3. Transformations

*P. Blos: “The second individuation process in adolescence” PSC, 22: 1967.
162-186

*K. K. Novick, and J. Novick: “Postoedipal Transformations: Latency, Adolescence, and Pathogenesis.” JAPA, 1994, 42: 143-169

Meeting 4. Early Adolescence

P. Blos: “Phases of adolescence: Early adolescence.” In On Adolescence: A Psychoanalytic Perspective. New York: The Free Press, 1962, Chapter III, pp. 75 - 87.

*P. Blos: “The initial stage of male adolescence.” PSC, 1965, 20:145 - 158.

Meeting 5. Sexuality and Gender

P. Blos: “Masturbation” in On Adolescence: A Psychoanalytic Perspective. New York: The Free Press, 1962, Chapter IV, pp. 159 - 169.

*E. A. Plaut and F. Hutchinson: “The role of puberty in female psychosexual development.” IRP, 1986, 13, 417 - 432

Meeting 6. Object Relations/Parent Relations

P. & R. Tyson: “Object relations in adolescence”, in Psychoanalytic Theories of Development, pp. 113 - 116

*E.K. Dahl: “Daughters and mothers. Aspects of the representational world during adolescence”, PSC, 1995; 50, 187 - 204

A. Esman: “Fathers and adolescent sons”, in Father and Child (edited by Cath, Gurwitt, and Ross), pp. 265 - 274

Meeting 7.  Superego, Ego Ideal, Character Formation

*H. Blum: “Superego formation, adolescent transformation, and the adult neurosis”, JAPA, 1985, 33, 887-909

*P. Blos: “The genealogy of the ego idea”. PSC, 1974, 29, 43-88

*P. Blos: “Character formation in adolescence”, PSC, 1968; 23, 245-63

Optional:

*Settlage: “Cultural values and the superego in late adolescence”, PSC, 1972, 27: 74-92

Meeting 9. Adolescent Psychopathology

P. Blos: “The Concept of Acting Out in Relation to the Adolescent Process”, in The Adolescent Passage, 254 - 277

*R. King and A. Apter: “Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Adolescent Suicide.” PSC, 1996, 51: 491-511

*H. Schwartz: “Bulimia: Psychoanalytic Perspectives”, JAPA, 1986, 34: 439-462

Meeting 10. Late Adolescence/The Adolescent Phase in the Adult Patient

*S. Ritvo: “Late adolescence - Developmental and clinical considerations”, PSC, 1971, 26: 241-63.

*P. Blos: “The place of the adolescent process in the analysis of the adult.” PSC, 1989; 44: 3-18.

T.J. Jacobs: “On the Adolescent Neurosis” (Presented at PANY, November, 2005)
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