Michigan Psychoanalytic Council Michigan Psychoanalytic Council

 FALL TERM

 This course is open only to candidates in psychoanalysis.

This course covers the integration of biological, psychological, gender, and social development during preschool and latency periods.  The vulnerabilities and conflicts of this stage for both boys and girls are elaborated. Various theories of development during these age periods will be discussed.

 This course is open only to candidates who have taken the fall course.

 This course covers the integration of biological, psychological, gender, and social development during preadolescent and adolescent periods..  The vulnerabilities and conflicts of this stage for both boys and girls are elaborated. Various theories of development during these age periods will be discussed.

 This course will explore the development issues involved in the transition from late adolescence to old age, focusing on the consolidation of identity, intimacy, and work.  Various theories of development during these age periods will be discussed.

 This course will explore how our own hopeful therapeutic attitude about the forward looking possibilities of dynamic therapy, listening for signs of our patient’s readiness, and interpreting actions as well as transferences and resistances, are at the heart of helping our patients intensify their treatments.  We will consider whether “deepening the treatment,” Jane Hall’s phrase, is the same as “intensifying the treatment” through focusing on both the instructor’s and class participants’ clinical material..

 This course will serve as an introduction to the PDM, a diagnostic system that describes an individual's full range of functioning and is based on neuroscience, treatment outcome, and various other empirical research. Class participants will have the opportunity to study selected child, adolescent and adult diagnostic classifications.

 This course will explore the origins of self psychology theory, from the writings of Heinz Kohut through the current off-shoots.  Emphasis will be placed on the exploration of the need for healthy self-object relationships, the development of narcissistic disorders in the absence of them, and the use of empathic attunement to understand the foundations upon which such disorders of the self are based.

 In this course we will read a short history of the philosophical thought by way of which postmodernism developed.  We will then study the basics of postmodernism.  Finally, we will look at psychoanalytic theory and practice to see how each has been impacted by postmodern thinking.  We will use case materials for comparison of approaches that are not informed by postmodernism.

 This course will  concentrate on providing the student with a sound basis in psychoanalytic theory from a variety of theoretical perspectives. Further emphasis will be placed on helping the student to use the theory to assess patient psychic structure and psychopathology.  These understandings provide a solid foundation for the beginning phases of treatment and for the continuing work of the analysis.  Clinical material from participants and instructor will be used for illustration.

 This course concentrates on issues revolving around the introduction of patients to the analytic process.  Issues to be explored include: development of a course of action based upon assessment, development of a treatment alliance, perspectives on free association and other treatment structure elements, ground rules and logistical concerns, the beignning manifiestations of transference and countertransference, and the development of an analytic 'style.' Readings will span Freud to contemporary theorists. Clinical material from participants and instructor will be used for illustration.

 This course will explore tenets of the relational approach, focusing on concepts of mutuality, relationality, paradox, dialectics, and enactment.  We will also explore the place of relational psychoanalysis in historical context and in the wider world of psychoanalytic thought and practice.

 This course will emphasize the importance of the unconscious and its universal power in determining human behavior.  In this course, concepts such as psychic determinism, topographic and structural theory, intrapsychic conflict, defense and symptom formation will be discussed.  Other concepts such as oedipal dynamics, phasic developmental (oral, anal, and phallic) will be covered as well..

 This course will elucidate the fundamental positions of Ego Psychology, Object Relations, and Relational Psychoanalysis.  Major proponents of each school will be presented.  Comparisons and contrasts will be made between schools with the hope that students will progress in the formation of their own unique psychoanalytic style.  This is an elective course and cannot be counted as a required course.

 This course will serve as an introduction to the PDM, a diagnostic system that describes an individual's full range of functioning and is based on neuroscience, treatment outcome, and various other empirical research. Class participants will have the opportunity to study selected child, adolescent and adult diagnostic classifications.

 This course will serve as an introduction to the PDM, a diagnostic system that describes an individual's full range of functioning and is based on neuroscience, treatment outcome, and various other empirical research. Class participants will have the opportunity to study selected child, adolescent and adult diagnostic classifications.

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