Year 4
Advanced Freud: Then and Now, Psychoanalysis Through Time. Instructor- Wolfgang Rosenfeldt, MD.
Session 1: The Birth of Psychoanalysis (Early Freud).
Reading 1: Studies on Hysteria (Freud & Breuer): Preface + Case of Anna O. (25 pages).
Reading 2: The Interpretation of Dreams: Chapter VII (excerpts) — (30 pages).
Session 2: Sexuality and Development (Middle Freud).
Reading 1: Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality: Essays I & II (35 pages).
Reading 2: The Ego and the Id: Sections I & II (15 pages).
Session 3: Freud in Transition – Case Histories.
Reading 1: Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria (Dora). Selected passages focused on resistance/transference (40 pages).
Reading 2: The Psychotherapy of Hysteria (from Studies on Hysteria): Technique and Theory Sections (20 pages).
Session 4: Civilization and Culture (Freud’s Cultural Critique).
Reading 1: Civilization and Its Discontents. Excerpts (47 pages).
Reading 2 (Optional): Eros and Civilization (Marcuse): Chapters 1 and 6 (20 pages).
Session 5: The Ego, the Id, and Beyond.
Reading 1: The Ego and the Id. (40 pages).
Reading 2: Nancy McWilliams, Psychoanalytic Diagnosis, Ch. 2 (25 pages)
Session 6: Freud and the Feminine.
Reading 1: Freud, “Femininity” (from New Introductory Lectures, 20 pages).
Reading 2: Juliet Mitchell, Psychoanalysis and Feminism (excerpts, 25 pages).
Session 7: Freud Through a Modern Lens.
Reading 1: Freud, “Remembering, Repeating and Working-Through” (10 pages).
Reading 2: Jonathan Lear, Love and Its Place in Nature, Introduction and Ch. 7 Radical Evolution (30 pages).
Session 8: Synthesis and Applications — Why Freud Still Matters.
Reading 1: Adam Phillips, Becoming Freud, Chapter 5 “Psychoanalysis Comes Out” (30 pages).
Reading 2: Outline of Psychoanalysis (Freud, 1940, 15 pages)
Theory of Enduring Change Instructor: Fred Gioia, MD
Session 1 Memory reconsolidation, emotional arousal and the process of enduring change.
Lane RD, Ryan L, Nadel L, Greenberg L. Memory reconsolidation, emotional arousal and the process of change in psychotherapy: New insights from brain science. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2015; 38:1-19;
Introduction to NEC (ch. 1: Nadel and Lane)
Session 2 Recurrent maladaptive patterns
Affective origin and treatment of recurrent maladaptive patterns. (NEC ch. 14: Lane)
Boston Change Process Study Group. (2007). The foundational level of psychodynamic meaning— implicit process in relation to conflict, defense and the dynamic unconscious. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 88, 843– 860.
Session 3 Memory-Emotion Interactions
What is memory that it can be changed? (NEC ch. 2 -- Nadel);
Emotion-memory interactions: Implications for the reconsolidation of negative memories (NEC ch 6: Dunsmoor & Kroes)
Session 4 Sleep, napping, dreaming and memory reconsolidation
Stress and sleep interact to selectively consolidate and transform negative emotional memories (NEC ch. 7: Payne);
Fischmann, Tamara, Gilles Ambresin, and Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber. Dreams and trauma changes in the manifest dreams in psychoanalytic treatments–A psychoanalytic outcome measure. Frontiers in Psychology 12 (2021), 1-8.
Session 5 Two different models of emotional experience
Panksepp J, Lane R, Solms M, Smith R. Reconciling the cognitive and affective neuroscience perspectives on the brain basis of emotional experience. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 2017; 76: 187-215
The three-process model of implicit and explicit emotion (NEC ch. 3: Smith)
Session 6 Clinical manifestations of lower emotional awareness: integrating defense
and deficit views
Lane RD, Weihs KL, Herring A, Hishaw A, Smith R. Affective agnosia: Expansion
of the alexithymia construct and a new opportunity to integrate and extend Freud’s legacy. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 2015; 55:594-611.
Stonnington CM, Ritenbaugh C, Locke DEC, Hsu C-H, Lane RD. Somatization is associated with deficits in affective theory of mind. Journal of Psychosomatic Research 2013; 74(6):479-85;
Session 7
Viewing Psychodynamic/Interpersonal theory and practice through the lens of memory reconsolidation (NEC ch 12: Levenson, Angus and Pool)
Optional: Lane RD. Reconsolidation of emotional memories in psychotherapy: How corrective emotional experiences facilitate enduring change. In Change in Emotion and Mental Health (Eds. Samson A, Sander D, & Kramer D). Elsevier (in press).
Session 8 Treatment implications of the memory reconsolidation model
Lane RD. Memory reconsolidation, emotional arousal and the process of change in psychoanalysis. In Outcome research and the future of psychoanalysis: Clinicians and researchers in dialogue. (Eds: Leuzinger-Bohleber, M, Solms M, Arnold SE). Routledge, 2020, pp. 188-205.
Optional: Neuroscience of enduring change and psychotherapy: summary, conclusions and future directions (NEC ch. 18: Lane, Smith & Nadel)
Case Conference(Fall I & II) Instructors: Scott Hickman, PsyD & Stephen Scherffius, MD
Reading: There are no readings scheduled for this course.
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