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DPC Psychoanalytic Training & Education - Year 3
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Tuesday, September 3, 2024, 5:30 PM until 8:30 PM Central Time (US & Canada) (UTC-06:00)
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Title: Year 3: Neuro-Psychoanalysis Faculty: Fred Gioia, MD Gary Malone, MD

Readings:

1. Sep. 3 - Conceptualize the evolutionary history neurobiology of the mind 

Revision of Drive theory, 8-2020, Solms.     Sapiens (book) Chapter one pp3-20     The Archeology of the Mind, Panksepp, (book) chapter 1, pp1-47 (The last two will be used as deep references throughout the course)

2. Sep. 10 - Conceptualize how the dreaming process relates to consciousness; Conceptualize the history of our scientific understanding of the mind

The Hidden Spring, Solms. Chapters 1 and 2

3. Sep. 17 - Conceptualize the cortical fallacy of consciousness; Conceptualize the nature of experience

Above , chapters 3 and 4

4. Sep. 24 - Conceptualize the nature of feelings; Conceptualize the relation to feelings as the source of conscious experience

Above, chapters 5 and 6

5. Oct. 1 - Understand the basics of the free energy principle and how it applies to Solms’ conception of the mind; Conceptualize the functioning of a predictive hierarchy in the mind

Above, chapter 7 and 8

6. Oct. 8 - Conceptualize why and how consciousness arises; Conceptualize the integration of the cortex within the mind

Above , Chapters 9 and 10

7. Oct. 15 - Conceptualize the nature of the hard problem of consciousness; Conceptualize how a hypothetical synthetic mind could be created

Above , chapters 11 and 12

8. Oct. 22 - Integrate neurobiological conception of mental function with that of the work and theory of psychoanalysis; Broadly conceptualize the scientific standing of psychoanalysis

Read The Neurobiological Underpinnings of Psychoanalytic Theory and Therapy by Mark Solms https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00294/full

Read The scientific standing of psychoanalysis by Mark Solms https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6020924/

 

Title: Year 3: Dreams Faculty: Wolfgang Rosenfeldt, MD

Date/Time: September 3, 2024 - October 22, 2024 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

Syllabus/Readings:

Session I: What is Sleep? 

  • Zadra and Stickgold Chs. 4 and 5 (p. 41-75)    

  • Ribeiro Ch. 6 (p. 114-128)

  • (Learning objective 1)Session II: Why Do We Dream?

  • Zadra and Stickgold Ch. 7 (p.87-107)

  • Ribeiro Ch. 6 (p. 159-173)

  • (Learning objective 1)

Session III:  Dream Content and Meaning

  • Zadra and Stickgold Ch. 9 and 10 (p. 130-175)

  • (Learning objectives 1 and 2)

Session IV:  Traumatic Dreams

  • Zadra and Stickgold Ch. 13 (p. 204-226)

  • Van Der Kolk,  reading TBA

  • (Learning objectives 1 and 2)

Session V: Introduction to Clinical Work

  • Candidate discussion with their thoughts on dreams.

  • Manifest Dream Specimens

  • “The Exceptional Position of Dreams” Greenson, Psychoanalytic Quarterly 39:519-549

  • (Learning objective 3)

Session VI: Freud: Theories of  Dreams and Function Standard edition Vol IV 1900

  • Chapter 7, Interpretation of Dreams, Irma’s Injection.

  • Blum: The Changing Use of Dreams; Int J of Psychoanalysis 57:315-324

  • (Learning objectives 2 and 3)

Session VII:  Psychoanalytic Understanding of the Dream

Session VIII: Conclusion

  • Bonime: “Collaborative Dream Interpretation” 294-303; Psychodynamic Psychiatry Vol 50, No 2 Summer 22

  • Sloane: Terminal Dreams 239-260

  • Summary and Review of initial dream specimens

  • (Learning objectives 2 and 3)

Reading list

1. Zadra, A., & Stickgold, R. (2021). When Brains Dream: Exploring the Science and Mystery of Sleep. National Geographic Books.

2.Van Der Kolk, B. A. (2015). The body keeps the score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma. Penguin Books.

4. Freud, S. (2001). The Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud Vol.4: The Interpretation of Dreams (First Part). National Geographic Books.

5. Bonime, W. (1986). Collaborative dream interpretation. Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, 14(1), 15–26.

7. Blum: The changing Use of Dreams in Psychoanalytic Practice  Int.J.Psycho-Ana 57.315-324

8. Greenson: The Exceptional Position of the Dream Psychoanal Q., 39.519-549

Title: Year 3: Psychoanalytic Technique Faculty: Stephen Scherffius, MD & Laura Robertson, LPC; Scott Nelson, PhD & Scott Hickman, PsyD 
Date/Time: October 29, 2024 - January 7, 2025 5:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Readings:

Oct. 29 - Nov. 19: Self-Psychology Technique

Week 1 - Oct. 29

Wolf, Ernest S. (1988): Treating the Self: Elements of Clinical Self Psychology, Chapter 5 SelfObject Relations Disorders: Disorders of the Self 

Wolf, Ernest S. (1988): Treating the Self: Elements of Clinical Self Psychology, Chapter 8 Principles 

Goldstein, Eda G. (2001): Object Relations Theory and Self Psychology in Social Work Practice, Chapter 4 Self Psychology: Major Concepts 

Week 2 - Nov. 5

Wolf, Ernest S. (1988): Treating the Self: Elements of Clinical Self Psychology, Chapter 9 The Therapeutic Process (Objective 1)

Bromberg, P.M. (1983): The Mirror and the Mask – On Narcissism and Psychoanalytic Growth. Contemporary Psychoanalysis 20:439-4447 (Objectives 2 and 3)

Week 3 - Nov. 12

Wolf, Ernest S. (1988): Treating the Self: Elements of Clinical Self Psychology, 

Maroda, Karen (2022): The Analyst’s Vulnerability: Impact on Theory and Practice, Chapter 3 The Analyst’s Narcissistic Vulnerability 

Week 4 - Nov. 19

Davies, Jody Messler (2004) Whose Bad Objects Are We Anyway?: Repetitions and Our Elusive Love Affair with Evil, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 14:711-732 (Objectives 1 and 3)

Dec. 3 - Jan. 7: Please read the entirety of each assigned chapter. Depending on the version of the text your version may or may not show the same pagination.

Dec. 3 Chapters 4 & 5

Tublin, S. (2018). Core competency one: Therapeutic intent. In R. E. Barsness (Ed.), Core competencies of relational psychoanalysis (pp. 67-86). Routledge.

McWilliams, N. (2018). Core competency two: Therapeutic stance/attitude. In R. E. Barsness (Ed.), Core competencies of relational psychoanalysis (pp. 87-103). Routledge.

Dec. 10 Chapters 6 & 7

Pizer, S. (2018). Core competency three: Deep listening/affective attunement. In R. E. Barsness (Ed.), Core competencies of relational psychoanalysis (pp. 104-120). Routledge.

Aron, L. (2018). Core competency four: Relational dynamic: The there and then and the here and now. In R. E. Barsness (Ed.), Core competencies of relational psychoanalysis (pp. 121-141). Routledge.

Dec. 17 Chapters 8 & 9

Knoblauch, S. (2018). Core competency five: Patterning and linking. In R. E. Barsness (Ed.), Core competencies of relational psychoanalysis (pp. 142-157). Routledge.

Maroda, K. J. (2018). Core competency six: Repetition and working through. In R. E. Barsness (Ed.), Core competencies of relational psychoanalysis (pp. 158-178). Routledge.

Jan. 7 Chapters 10 & 11

Barsness, R. E., & Strawn, B. (2018). Core competency seven: Courageous speech/disciplined spontaneity. In R. E. Barsness (Ed.), Core competencies of relational psychoanalysis (pp. 179-200). Routledge.

Shaw, D. (2018). Core competency: Love. In R. E. Barsness (Ed.), Core competencies of relational psychoanalysis (pp. 201-217). Routledge.


Title: Year 3: Relational Psychoanalysis II: Theoretical and Technical Implications of a Changing Paradigm  Faculty: Harry Evans, Phd & John Kamphaus, MD

Date/Time: January 14, 2025 - March 18, 2025 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM 

Readings:

Week 1: Jan. 14 The Relational Unconscious I: Conflict, Negotiation, and Paradox

Pizer, S. (1992) The negotiation of paradox in the analytic process. Psychoanalytic Dialogues. 2(2). Pp. 

215-240.

Week 2: Jan. 21 The Relational Unconscious II: Trauma and Dissociation Part I

Davies, J. M. and Frawley, M. G. (1991) Dissociative processes and transference-countertransference paradigms in the psychoanalytically oriented treatment of adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 2(1) Pp. 5-36.

Week 3 Jan. 28 Trauma and Dissociation: Part II

Bromberg (1996) Standing in the spaces: The multiplicity of self and the psychoanalytic relationship. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 32, Pp. 509-535.

Part III. The last part of the course will focus on a study of the ways in which ideas about transference and countertransference have shifted within the relational model, with a particular emphasis on the relationship between the analyst’s use of his/her own subjectivity and the facilitation of a self reflective process within the patient.

Week 4: Feb.11 Transference/Countertransference I: Neutrality and Influence

Renik, O. (1993) Analytic interaction: Conceptualizing technique in light of the analyst’s irreducible subjectivity. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly. LXII, Pp. 55-71.

Week 5: Feb. 18 Transference/Countertransference III:The Analyst’s Subjectivity and The Patient’s Self Reflective Processes. Part I

Slochower, J. A. (1996) Holding and Psychoanalysis: A Relational Perspective. Chapter 2. Pp. 13-33.

Week 6: Feb. 25 The Analyst’s Subjectivity and the Self Reflective Process. Part II

Fonagy, P. (2002) Mentalization and Affect Regulation. Chapters 10

Week 7: Mar. 4 Transference/Countertransference: The Erotic 

Davies, J. M. (2003) Falling in love with love: Oedipal and Post-Oedipal manifestations of idealization, mourning and erotic masochism. Psa. Dial. 13(1) 1-28.

Week 8: Mar. 18  The Mother as an “Other”

Bollas, C. (1979) The Transformational Object. IJP (60):90-107.


Title: Year 3: Deepening the Treatment Faculty: Scott Hickman, Psy D Date/Time: January 14, 2025 - March 18, 2025 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

Class 1: Jan. 14

Gabbard, G., &; Ogden, T. (2009). On becoming a psychoanalyst. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 90(2), 311-327.

Freud, S. On beginning the treatment. SE Vol 12, 121-144

Class 2: Jan. 21

Ogden, T. (1992). Comments on transference and countertransference in the initial analytic meeting. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 12(2), 225-247.

Ogden, T. (2018). How I talk to my patients, The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 87(3), 399-413.

Class 3: Jan. 28

Hall, J. (1998). Deepening the Treatment. Jason Aronson. Chs: Intro-2 Rothstein, A. (1998). Psychoanalytic  Technique and the Creation of Analytic Patients. Beginning analysis with a reluctant patient (Ch 1)

Class 4: Feb. 11

Hall, J. (1998). Deepening the Treatment. Jason Aronson. Chs: 3-5

Class 5: Feb. 18

Hall, J. (1998). Deepening the Treatment. Jason Aronson. Chs: 6-8

Ehrlich, L. (2020). Analysis begins in the analyst’s mind: Conceptual and technical considerations on recommending analysis. Psychoanalysis From the Inside Out: Developing and Sustaining an Analytic Identity and Practice.

Class 6: Feb. 25

Charles, M. (2020). Borderline: A diagnostic straitjacket? Free Associations, 21(1), 50-65.

Class 7: Mar. 4

Ehrlich, L. (2020). Continuing and deepening an analysis. Psychoanalysis From the Inside Out: Developing and Sustaining an Analytic Identity and Practice.

Ehrlich, L. (2020). Maintaining an analytic mind and the confidence and desire to practice analysis. Psychoanalysis From the Inside Out: Developing and Sustaining an Analytic Identity and Practice.

Ehrlich, L. (2020). It takes three to know one: On receiving and providing consultation. Psychoanalysis From the Inside Out: Developing and Sustaining an Analytic Identity and Practice.

Class 8: Mar. 18

Ogden, T., & Gabbard, G. (2010). The lure of the symptom in psychoanalytic treatment. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 58(3), 533-544.

Ogden, T. (2016). Some thoughts on practicing psychoanalysis. Fort Da, 22(1), 21-36.

Title: Year 3: Psychoanalytic Technique

Psychoanalytic Technique From an Object Relations Perspective Faculty:Judy Kane, MD & Jonna Barta, PhD

Psychoanalytic Technique from an Ego Psychological Perspective Faculty: Jerry M. Lewis, III, MD & Fred Gioia, MD

Date/Time: March 25, 2025 - May 11, 2025 5:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Mar. 25 - Apr. 15: Psychoanalytic Technique From an Object Relations Perspective:  The Perspectives of Melanie Klein, Donald Winnicott, Wilfred Bion and Otto Kernberg

Class 1: Mar. 25

Klein, M. (1961) Thirty-Sixth Session. Narrative of a Child.  The Conduct of Psychoanalysis of Children as seen in the Treatment of a Ten Year-Old Boy.  55:171-175

Steiner, J (2017) Melanie Klein's Technique Then and Now.  Institute of Psychoanalysis UK Audio Video Project 1:15

Klein,M (1961) Second Session. Narrative of a Child.  The Conduct of Psychoanalysis of Children as Seen in the Treatment of a Ten Year-Old Boy.  55:23-27

Klein, M (1961)  Ninety-Third Session.  Narrative of a Child.  The Conduct of Psychoanalysis of Children as Seen in the Treatment of a Ten Year-Old Boy.  55:462-464

Class 2: April 1

Winnicott, D. (1955) Metapsychological and Clinical Aspects of Regression Within the Psycho-Analytic Set-Up.  Int J Psychoanal 36:16-26

Winnicott, D. (1949) Hate in the Counter-Transference.  Int J Psychoanal 30:69-74

Winnicott, D. (1969) The Use of an Object. Int. J. Psychoanal 50:711-716

Winnicott, D. (1956)  On Transference.  Int. J. Psychoanal. 37:386-388

Class 3: April 8 

Stern (2013) Field Theory in Psychoanalysis Part 2: Bionian Field Theory and Contemporary Interpersonal Relational Psychoanalysis.  Psychoanal. Dial. 23: 630-645

Brown, L (2009) Bion's Ego Psychology. Implications for an Intersubjective View of Psychic Structure. Psychoanal. Quarterly 78(1):27-55

Citavarese, G. (2020) Giuseppe Citavarese on "Ceasure" as Bion's Discourse on Method (Int. J. Psychoanal (2008  PEP/UCL Top Authors Video Collection 1:32

Class 4: April 15

Caligor, E., Kernberg, O. and Clarkin, J. (2007) The Handbook of Dynamic Psychotherapy for Higher-Level Personality Pathology.  American Psychiatric Publishing.  Chapters 2-4 pp 11-84

Kernberg, O. (2003) The Management of Affect Storms in the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Borderline Patients.  J Amer. Psychoanal. Assn. 51(2): 517-544

Kernberg, O. (2008) Transference-Focused Psychotherapy: Overview and Update.  Int J. Psychoanal. 89(3): 601-620

Apr. 22 - May 13: Psychoanalytic Technique from an Ego Psychological Perspective

Class 5 - Apr. 22:

Busch, Fred (2014): Creating a Psychoanalytic Mind: A psychoanalytic method and theory, Chapters 1,2,3 & 4, pages 1 to 45 (Studocu pages 17 to 69).

Class 6 - Apr. 29:

Busch, Fred (2014): Creating a Psychoanalytic Mind: A psychoanalytic method and theory, Chapters 5,6,7 & 8, pages 46 to 87(Studocu pages 70 to 118).

Class 7 - May 6:

Busch, Fred (2014): Creating a Psychoanalytic Mind: A psychoanalytic method and theory,

Chapters 9,10 & 11, pages 88 to 130 (Studocu pages 119 to 174).

Class 8 - May 13:

Busch, Fred (2014): Creating a Psychoanalytic Mind: A psychoanalytic method and theory,

Chapters 12, 13,14 & 15, pages 131 to 168 (Studocu pages 175 to 222).