Year 1
Title: Pillars of Psychodynamic Treatment Faculty: John Kamphaus, MD & Susan Rosenberg, LCSW
List of Readings:
Class 1:
Defining Treatment (Gabbard, “Long-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy”, Chapter 1 “Key Concepts”, p1-25; McWilliams, “Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy”, Chapter 1 “What Defines a Psychoanalytic Therapy?”, p1-26).
Class 2:
Assessing the Patient (Cabaniss, “Psychodynamic Psychotherapy”, Chapter 3, “Creating a Safe Space and Conducting an Assessment, p17-26, Chapter 4, “Assessing Domains of Function”, p27-46; Gabbard “Long-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy”, Chapter 2 “Assessment, Indications, and Formulation” p31-51).
Class 3:
Beginning Therapeutic Work (Cabaniss “Psychodynamic Psychotherapy”, Chapter 7, “Informed Consent and Collaborative Goal Setting”, p71-79; Chapter 8 “Setting the Frame and Establishing Boundaries”, p80-93; McWilliams, “Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy”; Gabbard “Long-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy”, Chapter 3, “The Nuts and Bolts of Psychotherapy”, p53-71).
Class 4:
Neutrality and Creating a Safe Space (Cabaniss, “Psychodynamic Psychotherapy”, Chapter 9, “Developing a Therapeutic Alliance” p94-102, Chapter 10 “Technical Neutrality”, p103-110; Gabbard “Long-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy”, Chapter 4, “Therapeutic Interventions”, p75-96).
Class 5:
Reflection and Intervention (Gabbard, “Long-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy”, Chapter 5, “Goals and Therapeutic Action”, p99-119; McWilliams “Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy” Chapter 6 “Basic Therapy Processes”, p132-162).
Class 6:
Resistance and Working Through (Cabaniss, “Psychodynamic Psychotherapy”, Chapter 20 “Free Association and Resistance”, p219-232; Chapter 29, “Working Through” p343-351; Gabbard, “Long-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy”, Chapter 6 “Working With Resistance”, p123-139).
Class 7:
Transference and Countertransference (Cabaniss, “Psychodynamic Psychotherapy”, Chapter 21 “Transference”, p 234-252; Chapter 22 “Countertransference” p254-265; Gabbard, “Long-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy”, Chapter 7 “Identifying and Working With Countertransference”, p157-175).
Class 8:
Racial Issues in Psychodynamic Treatment (Leary, K. (2000). Racial enactments in dynamic treatment. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 10, 639 – 653; Layton, L. (2006). Racial Identities, Racial Enactments, and Normative Unconscious Processes. Psychoanal. Q., 75(1):237-269).
Title: Culture, Diversities, and Psychoanalysis Faculty: Angelica Tratter, PhD and Jay Unterberg, PhD
Readings:
Session: 1 - How we listen with “radical openness” for history, context, and culture
HART, A (2020) – Principles of teaching issues of diversity in a psychoanalytic context. Contemporary
Psychoanalysis, 56 (2-3): 404-417.
TUMMALA-NARRA, P (2016) – Attending to indigenous narrative. In Psychoanalytic Theory and Cultural
Competence in Psychotherapy, American Psychological Association, Washington, DC, Chapter 4, pp. 85-110.
Optional:
Psychoanalytic Authors on the Couch: Usha Tummala-Narra and Anton Hart in conversation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCrrEHql_0s&t=704s
Session: 2 -Social psychoanalysis and the impact of culture in the making of our minds
LAYTON, L (2006) – Racial identities, racial enactments, and normative unconscious processes. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 75 (1): 237-269.
LAYTON, L (2020) – Editor’s Introduction: Social psychoanalysis: centering power dynamics and affirming our interdependence and Author’s general introduction: Toward a social psychoanalysis: culture, character, and normative unconscious processes In Toward a Social Psychoanalysis. Culture, Character, and Normative Unconscious Processes. Relational Perspectives Book Series, Routledge, pp. XIV-XXII.
Optional:
TUMMALA-NARRA, P (2016) – A historical overview and critique of the psychoanalytic approach to culture and context. In Psychoanalytic Theory and Cultural Competence in Psychotherapy, American Psychological Association, Washington, DC, Chapter 1, pp. 7-29.
Session: 3 - How the mind gets racialized
DALAL, F (2006) – Racism: Processes of detachment, dehumanization, and hatred. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 75(1): 131-161.
Optional:
STOUTE, B (2019) – Racial socialization and thwarted mentalization: Psychoanalytic reflections from the lived experience of James Baldwin’s America. American Imago, 76 (3): 335-357.
BALDWIN, J – My Dungeon Shook: Letter to my nephew on the one hundredth Anniversary of the emancipation. In James Baldwin: Selected Essays. The Library of America (1998) [reprinted by permission of the James Baldwin Estate from The Fire Next Time by Vintage Books (1963)], pp. 292-295.
https://progressive.org/magazine/letter-nephew/
Session: 4 - Cultural dimensions of intersubjectivity in the therapy room - How the therapist’s cultural background affects her work
DAVIES, J (2011) – Cultural dimensions of intersubjectivity – Negotiating “sameness” and “otherness” in the analytic relationship. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 28(4): 549-559.
SUCHET, M (2004) – A relational encounter with race. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 14(4): 423-438.
Session: 5 – Whiteness
SUCHET, M (2007) – Unraveling whiteness. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 17 (6): 867-886.
Optional:
ALTMAN, N (2006) – Whiteness. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 75 (1): 45-72
Session: 6 - The immigrant experience
BOULANGER, G (2016) – Seeing double, being double: Longing, belonging, recognition, and evasion in
psychodynamic work with immigrants. In Immigration in Psychoanalysis; Locating Ourselves. Ed. Julia Beltsiou, Routledge, pp. 53-68.
AKTHAR, S (2014) – The mental pain of minorities. British Journal of Psychotherapy, 30 (2): 136-153.
Optional:
AKHTAR, S (1995) – A Third Individuation: Immigration, Identity, and the Psychoanalytic process. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 43: 1051-1084.
Session: 7 – Introduction to intersectionality
KANWAL, G (2021) – More than simply human: Intersectionality in psychoanalytic theory, practice, and
establishment. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 57(2): 270-305.
Session: 8 - Course review and the discussion of the key concepts we explored in the context of Toni Morrison’s short story
MORRISON, T – Recitatif
Title: Psychodynamic Formulation Faculty: Marc Litle, MD
Readings:
Session 1:
McWilliams: Introduction and Conceptual Issues p 1-6.
McWilliams: Chapter 1 – “Why Diagnose?” p7-20
Cabiness: Part 1 (Chapter 1-3) – “Introduction to the Psychodynamic Formulation” p3-14
Botton, Alain de.(2002). The Art Of Travel. Curiosity
Session 2:
Cabiness: Part 2 (Chapter 4-8) – “Describe” p17-68 (Self, Relationships, Adapting, Cognition, Work and Play)
Herman, Amy E. (2016) Visual Intelligence: Sharpen Your Perception, Change Your Life Ch 3 and 9
Session 3:
Cabiness Part 3 (Chapter 9-12) – “Review” p75-133 (What We’re Born With – Genetics and Prenatal Development, The Earliest Years, Middle Childhood, Later Childhood and Beyond)
Munslow, Alun (1997) Deconstructing History. Introduction
Session 4:
Cabiness Part 4 (Chapter 13-18) – “Link” p135-211 (Trauma, Early Cognitive and Emotional Difficulties, Conflict and Defense, Relationships With Others, The Development of the Self, Attachment)
Sprengnether, Madelon. (1996) Confessions of the Critics. Mourning Shakespeare: My Own Private Hamlet
Session 5:
McWilliams: Chapter 2 – “Psychoanalytic Character Diagnosis” p21-42
McWilliams: Chapter 3 – “Developmental Levels of Personality Organization” p43-69
Andresen, Jeffry J, (1991) Contemporary Psychoanalysis Biblical Job: Changing the Helper’s Mind
Session 6:
Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual: Chapter 1 – “Personality Syndromes P-Axis” p15-74
Griffin, Fred L.(2016). Creative Listening and the Psychoanalytic Process: Sensibility, Engagement, and Envisioning. Ch 1 and 6
Title: Psychodynamic Diagnosis Faculty: Scott Nelson, PhD
Title: Transference & Countertransference Faculty: H. Monty Evans, PhD
Readings::
WEEK ONE
Freud, S. (1912). The Dynamics of Transference. The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, , Volume XII (1911-1913):
Strachey, J. (1934) “The Nature of the Therapeutic Action of Psychoanalysis.” International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 15:127-159.
WEEK TWO
. Joseph, B. (1985) Transference: The Total Situation. IJP:, (66):447-454.
Winnicott, D.W. (1949). Hate in the Counter-Transference. IJP, 30:69-74.
WEEK THREE
Bollas, C. (1982) On the Relation to the Self as an Object. IJP, 63:347-359
.Loewald, H.W. (1986) Transference-Countertransference. JAPA,34:275-287.
WEEK FOUR
Stolorow, R.D., Lachman, F.M. (1984) Transference: Future of an Illusion. Annual of Psychoanalysis, 12, 19-37.
Fossage, J.L. (1994). Toward Reconceptualizing Transference: Theoretical and clinical considerations. IJP,75:265-280.
WEEK FIVE
Aron, L. (1991), The Patient’s Experience of the Analyst’s Subjectivity. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 1:29-51.
Hoffman, I.Z. (1983) The Patient as Interpreter of the Analyst’s Experience, Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 19:389-422.
WEEK SIX
Mitchell, S.A. (1988). The Analyst’s Knowledge and Authority. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 67:1-31.
Ogden, (1991). Analyzing the Matrix of Transference. IJP,72:593-605.
Title: Ethics and Boundaries Faculty: Gayle Marshall, LCSW & Joan Raff, LCSW
Readings:
Week 1
American Psychoanalytic Association - Ethics Case Book, Second Edition, edited by Paul A. Dewald, M.D. & Rita W. Clark, M.D., I.A, Principles and Standards of Ethics for Psychoanalysts, pg. 1-8.
Also, II, Introduction to the American Psychoanalytic Association Case Book on Ethics, xxix-xxxii.
Shafer, Roy (1983). The Analytic Attitude, Karnac Books, Routledge, 2018. Chapter 1, pg. 3-13.
Hall, Jane (2004). Roadblocks on the Journey of Psychotherapy, Jason Aronson, 2004. Chapter 7, “Professional Dilemmas,” pg. 189-209.
Week 2
Gabbard, G. & Lester, E. (1995). Boundaries and Boundary Violations in Psychoanalysis, Basic Books, Chapter 3, “The Analytic Frame, Analytic Boundaries, & the Analytic Object,” pg. 38-53.
Week 3
Gabbard, G. & Lester, E. (1995). Boundaries and Boundary Violations in Psychoanalysis, Basic Books, Chapter 7, “Nonsexual Boundary Violations,” pg. 122-147.
Week 4
Wallace, E. (2007). “Losing a Training Analyst for Ethical Violations: A Candidate’s Perspective.” International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 88:1275-1288.
Week 5
Celenza, A. & Gabbard, G. (2003). “Analysts Who Commit Sexual Boundary Violations: A Lost Cause?,” Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 51, 2, Spring 2003, pg. 615-636.
Gabbard, G. (1996). “Lessons to Be Learned from the Study of Sexual Boundary Violations.” American Journal of Psychotherapy, Vol. 50, No.3, Summer 1996, pg. 311-322.
Week 6
Akhtar, S. (2002). “Forgiveness.” Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 71:175-202.
Additional recommended readings:
Seelig, Beth (2017), “Altruism and Boundary Violation,” Psychoanalytic Inquiry, (37)(7):474-486.
Powell, D. (2018), “Race, African Americans, and Psychoanalysis: Collective Silence in the Therapeutic Conversation,” Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, vol. 66 , December 2018, (6):1021-1049.
Msebele & Brown (2011), “Racism in the Consulting Room.” Psychoanalytic Review, 98(4),August 2011, 451-492.
Title: Introduction to Ego Psychology Faculty: Jerry Lewis, MD & Fred Gioia, MD
Readings
Year 1: Introduction to Ego Psychology
Session 1:
Sandler, J et al. (1997): Freud’s Models of the Mind: An Introduction. Karnac Books, London. Chapters 11,12 & 13, pages 153-184.
Arlow, J.A. in Rothstein, A. Editor(1985): Models of the Mind: Their Relationships to Clinical Work. IUP, New York. Chapter 2, “The Structural Hypothesis,“ pages 21-33.
Session 2:
Arlow, J (1996) The Structural Model, In, Textbook of Psychoanalysis, E. Nersessian and R. Kopff editors, Washington DC, American Psychiatric Press, Chapter 2, pages 57-87.
Brenner, C (1996) The Psychoanalytic Theory of Symptom Formation and Pathologic Character Formation, In, Textbook of Psychoanalysis. E. Nersessian and R. Kopff editors, Washington DC, American Psychiatric Press, Chapter 5, pages 171-187.
Session 3:
Vaillant G.E. (1993): The Wisdom of the Ego. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. Chapters 1(pages 6-27) and 2(pages 28- 75).
Session 4:
Vaillant G.E. (1993): The Wisdom of the Ego. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. Chapters 4(pages 96-117) and 6(pages 141- 174).
Session 5:
Auchincloss, Elizabeth (2015): The Psychoanalytic Model of the Mind. American Psychiatric Publishing, Washington DC. Chapters 8-10, pages 129-185.
Session 6:
Solms, Mark (2013) The Conscious Id, Neuropsychoanalysis, 15:1, 5-19.
Kessler, Luba (2013) Conscious Id on Unconscious Id or Both: An Attempt at “Self” -Help. Neuropsychoanalysis, 15:1, 48-51.
Zellner, Maggie (2013) Where Ego Was, There Id Shall Be? Some Implications of the “Conscious Id” for Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Neuropsychoanalysis, 15:1, 76-79.
Sletvold, Jon (2013), The Ego and the ID Revisited Freud and Damasio on the Body Ego/Self, Int. J. Psychoanal., (94)(5): 1019-1032.
Title: Freud & the Unconscious Faculty: Wolfgang Rosenfeldt, MD
Readings:
Class One:
Freud’s Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis Lectures 1-4
Homework: Listen/search for at least one parapraxis from your clinical practice, daily life, or the media, and, using contextual clues, try to interpret its meaning
Class Two:
Chapter 2 “The Unconscious Is the Exact Opposite of the Conscious:
How the Unconscious Manifests Itself in Speech and Symptoms” from Bruce Fink’s A Clinical Introduction to Freud
Video: How Does Your Mind Work? The Unconscious. HeathMD Youtube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwAwTCW1h8Q
Class Three: Repression
Second Lecture on repression of Freud’s 1909 Five Lectures on Psychoanalysis (Clark University)- 8 pages
Freud’s Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis Lecture 19 (30 pages)
Class Four: The Sense (Versus Seeming Non-Sense) of Symptoms
Chapter 1 “Tracing a Symptom Back to its Origins” (pages 1-14 ONLY) from Bruce Fink’s A Clinical Introduction to Freud
Freud’s Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis Lecture 17 (14 pages)
Class Five: The First Case
Breuer, J. (1893). Fräulein Anna O, Case Histories from Studies on Hysteria. The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Volume II (1893-1895): Studies on Hysteria, 19-47 (pages 19-40 ONLY)
Class Six:
Breuer, J. (1893). Fräulein Anna O, Case Histories from Studies on Hysteria. The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Volume II (1893-1895): Studies on Hysteria, 19-47 (p. 41-END)
Chapter 1 “Tracing a Symptom Back to its Origins” (p. 14-END) from Bruce Fink’s A Clinical Introduction to Freud
Title: Object Relations Theory Faculty: Judy Kane, MD & Jonna Barta, PhD
Readings:
The book “Psychoanalytic Theories,” by Peter Fonagy and Mary Main, 2003, WHURR Publishers (F&T on the syllabus) has a wealth of information about object relations theories and attachment, in a very dry form. Several chapters are listed as additional reading. The class may choose to divide and conquer this material. The purpose of this reading is to add context and a broader perspective to our discussion. Each participant will be expected to bring in one interesting thing they learned from their portion of this reading to share with the class.
Session: 1
Segal, Hannah. Introduction to the Work of Melanie Klein. First published in 1973 by Hogarth Press. Current edition published in 2018 by Routledge, N.Y.
Chapter 2: Phantasy, pp 11-23
Chapter 3:The Paranoid-Schizoid Position, pp 24-38
Chapter 4: Envy, pp 39-53
Additional Reading: F&T- The Klein Bion Model part 1, pp 118-127
Session: 2
Segal, Hannah. Introduction to the Work of Melanie Klein.
Chapter 6: The Depressive Position, pp 67-81
Chapter 7: Manic Defenses, pp 82-91
Chapter 8: Reparation, pp 92-102
Additional Reading: F&T- The Klein Bion Model part 2, PP 127-136
Session: 3
Ogden, T. (2004). An Introduction to the Reading of Bion. Int. J. Psychoanal., 85(2): 285-300.
Bion, W. (1959). Attacks on Linking. Int. J Psychoanal., (40): 308-315.
Ogden, T. (2010). Why Read Fairbairn? Int. J. Psychoanal. 91(1): 101-118
Additional Reading: F&T- The ‘Independent’ School of British Psychoanalysis part 1, pp 137-153
Session: 4
Balint, M. (1949). Early Developmental States of the Ego. Primary Object Love. Int. J. Psychoanal. (30): 265-273
Winnicott, D. (1953) Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena—A Study of the First Not-Me Possession. Int. J. Psychoanal. (34):89-97
Kohut, H. and E. Wolf. (1978). The Disorders of the Self and their Treatment: An Outline Int. J. Psychoanal. (59):413-425
Additional Reading: F&T- The ‘Independent’ School of British Psychoanalysis part 2, pp 153-164 and North American Object Relations Theorists part 1, pp 165-185
Session: 5
Kernberg, O. (1967). Borderline Personality Organization. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assoc. 15:641-685.
Optional: Kernberg, O. et al (2008). Transference Focused Psychotherapy: Overview And Update. Int. J. Psychoanal. 89(3):601-620
Additional Reading: F&T- North American Object Relations Theorists part 2, pp 185-203
Session: 6
F&T (assigned) Bowlby’s Attachment Theory Model, pp 230-254 Diamond, D. (2004). Attachment Disorganization – The Reunion of Attachment Theory And Psychoanalysis. Psychoanal. Psychol. 21(2):276-299
Title: Psychoanalytic Listening Faculty: Lorie Ammon, LPC
Readings:
Session: 1 Listen How?
"The analyst must turn his unconscious like a receptive organ towards the transmitting unconscious of the patient." -- S. Freud. 1912
Lesson Objective: Identify several perspectives on psychoanalytic listening. Fred Griffin, MD will attend this class to discuss class questions about his article below.
Readings:
1. Akhtar, Salman. (2012) Psychoanalytic Listening, Chapter One: Four Kinds of Listening. Pp. 1-23 (23 pp)
This reading will introduce four types of listening identified by Dr. Akhtar (i) objective listening, (ii) subjective listening, (iii) empathic listening, and (iv) intersubjective listening, along with their theoretical bases and expected technical results.
2. Fred Griffin MD., Clinical Conversations between Psychoanalysis and Imaginative Literature
This reading will expand the participant's awareness and develop a deeper listening practice using literature. (20 pp)
Session: 2 Listening to Actions
"The patient does not remember anything of what he has forgotten or repressed but acts it out. He reproduces it not as a memory but as an action." Sigmund Freud
Lesson Objective: Participants will evaluate concepts that help discern the meanings of a patient's behavior.
Readings:
Akhtar, Salman. Psychoanalytic Listening: Methods, Limits, and Innovations, Taylor and Francis. Chapter Four, Listening to oneself, pp. 81-101 (20 pp)
This chapter demonstrates how the analyst' pays attention to his subjective experience as a rich source of information about the analysand's communications. It synthesizes the ego-psychological, object relations, and relational and intersubjective vantage oints.
Session: 3 Listening to oneself
"The doctor's unconscious is able, from the derivatives of the unconscious which are communicated to him, to reconstruct that unconscious which has determined the patient's free associations." Sigmund Freud (1912)
Lesson Objective: Evaluate what goes on within the analyst's mind and how an ongoing awareness deepens the clinical process by listening to our "countertransference" phenomenon.
Readings:
Jarreau, A. (2017). Intuiting the unknown. In Emotional Presence in Psychoanalysis. 108-119. (pp. 10)
Freud's and Bion's technique of listening with the unconscious sets us up to be emotionally affected, which initially can feel catastrophic.
Session: 4 Analytic tools of the trade
"We have noticed that no psychoanalyst goes further than his own complexes and internal resistances permit." —Sigmund Freud
Lesson Objective: Participants will consider how close listening to patients is integral to listening closely to our emotional responses via experience. In this class we will hear some clinical material from Chris Heath, MD
Readings:
Ogden, T. (1997) Reverie and Metaphor: Some Thoughts on How I Work As A Psychoanalyst. International Journal of Psychoanalysis 78:719-732 (13 pp)
The author describes how he listens for what feels most alive and most real in each analytic encounter, at an unconscious level in the analytic relationship.
Session: 5 Empathic Listening
“Empathy is the capacity to think and feel oneself into the inner life of another person.” -Heinz Kohut
Lesson Objective: Understanding the concept of empathy in its clinical usage as synonymous with a mode of analytic listening.
Reading:
Schwaber, Evelyn. (1981). Empathy: A mode of analytic listening. Psychoanalytical Inquiry, 1, 357–392. (35 pp)
This paper illustrates how we gather the data of depth psychology via empathic listening techniques to hear the patients' transferences.
Session: 6 Creative Listening and Psychoanalytic Process
Lesson Objective: Explore analytic listening as active engagement of analysts with their patients and focus on a collaborative analytic process.
Fred Griffin, MD will attend this class to give you a personal opportunity to ask him questions regarding his book and the two chapters assigned below.
Readings:
1. Griffin, F. (2016). Chapter 1. Acts of Psychoanalytic Listening. In Creative Listening and the Psychoanalytic Process: Sensibility, Engagement, and Envisioning. (17 pp)
2. Chapter 6 Embodied Analytic Listening, Creative Listening, and the Psychoanalytic Process, Fred L. Griffin pp 88-117 London: Routledge Publishing. (27 pp)