Michigan Psychoanalytic Council

Object Relations
The Michigan Psychoanalytic Council

Ellen VanDeMark, M.A.

I. Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud, "Mourning and Melancholia" (1917)

Thomas H. Ogden, "A New Reading on the Origins of Object Relations Theory," The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, August, 2002.

Additional Reading:

Alan Schore, Affect Regulation and the Repair of the Self (2002)

Chapter 8: "The Right Brain as the Neurological Substratum of Freud's Dynamic Unconscious"

II. Melanie Klein

Frank Summers, Object Relations Theories and Psychopathology (1994)

Chapter 3: "The Work of Melanie Klein"

Melanie Klein, "Envy and Gratitude" (1948)

Alan Schore, Affect Regulation and the Repair of the Self (2002)

Chapter 3: "A Psychoneurological Model of Projective Identification"

III. W.R.D. Fairbairn

W.R.D. Fairbairn, Psychoanalytic Studies of the Personality (1952)

Chapter 1: "Schizoid Factors in the Personality" (1940)

Chapter 3: "The Repression and the Return of Bad Objects" (1943)

Chapter 7: "A Synopsis of the Development of the Authors Views Regarding the Structure of the Personality" (1951)

Randall Robinson,"The Identity and Temptations of Shakespeare's Richard III" (1993)

Dept. of English Michigan State University, East Lansing. (To include a summary and excerpt from the play)

IV. Harry Guntrip

Harry Guntrip, Schizoid Phenomena, Object Relations and the Self (1976)

Chapter 1: The Schizoid Personality and the External World (1952)

Chapter 2: The Schizoid Problem, Regression and the Struggle to Preserve an Ego (1961)

V. D.W.Winnicott

D. W. Winnicott,

"Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena" (1951)

"The Capacity to be Alone" (1958)

"The Use of an Object and Relating through Identifications" (1969)

VI. Heinz Kohut

Frank Summers, Object Relations Theories and Psychopathology (1994)

Chapter 6: "The Work of Heinz Kohut"

Heinz Kohut and Ernest S. Wolf, "The Disorders of the Self'

Additional Readings:

Heinz Kohut, The Analysis of the Self

Chapter 10: "Some Reactions of the Analyst to the Idealizing Transference"

Chapter 11: "Some Reactions of the Analyst to the Mirror Transferences"

VII. Heinrich Racker

Heinrich Racker, Transference and Countertransference

Chapter 6: "The Meanings and Uses of Countertransference" (1953)

Additional Reading:

Chapter 2: "Classical and Present Techniques in Psychoanalysis" (1958)

VIII. Andre Green

Andre Green, On Private Madness

Chapter 7: "The Dead Mother" (1980)

The Dead Mother: The Work of Andre Green (edited by Gregorio Kohon) Chapter 3: Arnold H. Modell, "The Dead Mother Syndrome and The Reconstruction of Trauma"

IX. Christopher Bollas

Christopher Bollas, The Shadow of the Object: Psychoanalysis of the Unthought Known (1987) Introduction

Chapter 1: "The Transformational Object" Chapter 3: "The Self as Object"

Chapter 13: "Self Analysis and the Countertransference"

Additional Reading:

Christopher Bollas, Cracking Up (1998)

Chapter 7: "The Structure of Evil"

X. Additional Readings from Alan Schore

Alan Schore, Affect Regulation and the Repair of the Self

Selected readings to include the Appendix (therapeutic implications)

This course covers the integration of biological, psychological, gender and social development during infancy and toddlerhood. The goal of this course is twofold: first, to appreciate the biological, cognitive, psychological, gender and social development that takes place during this developmental period; second, develop an awareness of how the earliest interactions between the internal and external environment of the child, and especially the early object-relations of the child, influence the psychological development of the infant and toddler. Various theories of development will be covered (attachment theory, Kleinien theory, ego psychology developmental theory, etc.)

Tustin, F. (1994). The perpetuation of an error. The Journal of Child Psychotherapy, 20(1), 3-23.

Lepisto, B. L. (1998). The Emotional Development of Infants and Young Children. Unpublished manuscript

Freud, A. (1965). The concept of developmental lines. In Normality and Pathology in Childhood: Assessments of Development, 62-92.

Greenspan, S.I. (1988). The development of the ego: Insights from clinical work with infants and young children. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 36S, 3-55. (PEP)

Fraiberg, S. (1982). Pathological defenses in infancy. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 51, 612-635. (PEP)

Bowlby, J. (1989). The role of attachment in personality development and psychopathology. In S. Greenspan & G. Pollack (Eds.) The Course of Life, Vol. I: Infancy. (pp. 229-270). Madison, CT: International Universities Press.

Tyson, P. & Tyson, R. L. (1990). Object relations development. Psychoanalytic Theories of Development. New Haven: CT: Yale University Press (pp. 97 - 108).

Tyson, P. & Tyson, R. L. (1990). Development of a sense of self. Psychoanalytic Theories of Development. New Haven: CT: Yale University Press (pp. 118 - 128).

Tyson, P. & Tyson, R. L. (1990). Development evolution of affect. Psychoanalytic Theories of Development. New Haven: CT: Yale University Press (pp. 149 - 160).

Tolpin, M. On a the beginnings of a cohesive self: An Application of the concept of transmuting internalization to the study of the transitional object and signal anxiety. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 26, 316-352. (PEP)

Stern, D. (1985). The Interpersonal World of the Infant: A view from psychoanalysis and Developmental Psychology New York: Basic Books (pp. 162-182).

Schore, A. (1994). Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum (pp. 348-369.)

Furman, E. (1992). Self-care and the mother-child relationship. Toddlers and Their Mothers. (pp. 111-130) Madison, CT: International Universities Press

Furman, E. (1992). Fathers. Toddlers and Their Mothers. (pp. 131-146) Madison, CT: International Universities Press

Furman, E. (1992). Toileting, phallic manifestations, and the investment of body-ego. Toddlers and Their Mothers. (pp. 147-175) Madison, CT: International Universities Press.

Furman, E. (1992). The Toddler Profile. Toddlers and Their Mothers. (pp. 71-108) Madison, CT: International Universities Press. (optional but an excellent summay)

Stern, D. (1985). The “observed infant” as seen with the clinical eye. In The Interpersonal World of the Infant: A View from Psychoanalysis and Developmental Psychology. (pp. 185-230.) Basic Books: New York.

Dowling, S. (1977). Seven infants with esophageal atresia: A developmental study. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 32, 215-256.

Edgcumbe, R. Anna Freud: A View of Developmental, Disturbance and Therapeutic Techniques. London: Routledge.

Furman, E. (1992). Toddlers and Their Mothers: A Study in Early Personality Development. Madison, CT: International Universities

Greenspan, S. I. (1997). The Growth of the Mind and the Endangered Origins of Intelligence. Reading MA: Addison-Wesley:

Stern, D. (1985). The Interpersonal World of the Infant: A View from Psychoanalysis and Developmental Psychology. Basic Books: New York.

Tyson P. & Tyson, R. L. (1990). Psychoanalytic Theories of Development: An Integration. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

This course covers the integration of biological, psychological, gender and social development during the 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.

Settlage, C. F. (1989). The psychoanalytic theory and the understanding of psychic development during the second and third years of life. In S. I. Greenspan & G. H. Pollock (Eds.) The Course of Life: Vol. II Early Childhood. (pp. 365-386) Madison, WI: International Universities Press.

Edgecumb, R. M. & Burgner, M. (1975). The phallic narcissistic phase: A differentiation between preoedipal and oedipal aspects of phallic development. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 30, 161-180. (PEP)

Tyson, P. & Tyson, R. L. (1990) Development of the superego. Psychoanalytic Theories of Development. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. (207-227).

Nagera, H. (1991). The four-to-six years stage. In S. I. Greenspan & G. H. Pollock (Eds.) The Course of Life: Vol. III Middle and Late Childhood. (pp. 1-11) Madison, WI: International Universities Press.

Van Dam, H. (1991). Ages four to six: The Oedipus complex revisited. In S. I. Greenspan & G. H. Pollock (Eds.) The Course of Life: Vol. III Middle and Late Childhood. (pp. 53-71) Madison, WI: International Universities Press.

Fraiberg, S. (1959). A shift in the center of the universe. The Magic Years. Scribners: NY (pp. 179-209).

Bornstein, B. (1953). Masturbation in the latency period. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 8 65-78. (PEP)

Fast, I. (1984). Gender Identity: A Differentiation Model. Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press. (pp. 25-76 & 110-145.

Benveniste, D. (1998). Play and the metaphors of the body. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 53, 65-83. (PEP)

Furman, E. (1991). Early latency: Normal and pathological aspects. In S. Greenspan 7 G. H. Pollock (Eds.). The Course of Life, Vol. III, Middle and Late Childhood. (pp.161-203). Madison, WI: International Universities Press.

Bornstein, B. (1951). On latency. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 5, 279-285.

Kramer, S. & Rudolph, J. (1991) The latency stage. In S. Greenspan 7 G. H. Pollock (Eds.). The Course of Life, Vol. III, Middle and Late Childhood. (pp. 319-331). Madison, WI: International Universities Press.

Freedman, S. (1996). Role of selfobject experiences in affective development during latency. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 13, 101-127.

Mayes, L. C. & Cohen D. J. (1996). Children’s developing theory of mind. Journal of American Psychoanalytic Association, 44, 117-142.

Wolfenstein, M. (1951). A phase in the development of children’s sense of humor. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 6, 336-350.

Case material will be used to further enhance the candidates understanding of psychoanalytic technique and theory. Special attention will be paid to understanding the transference and countertransference. One case will be followed throughout the year. Selected readings on transference and countertransference will be assigned and utilized in the discussion of the case.

This course will cover the physical development and physiological changes that affect the psychological challenges that face the child as he/she matures from latency into an adolescent. Early, middle, and late adolescent development will be discussed. Various theories of development during these age periods will be discussed.

Offer, D. (1991). Adolescent development: A normative perspective. In S. I. Greenspan & G. H. Pollock (Eds.) The Course of Life: Vol. IV, Adolescence. (pp. 181-199). Madison, WI: International Universities Press.

Kestenberg, J. S. (1991). Eleven, twelve, thirteen: years of transition from the barrenness of childhood to the fertility of adolescence. In S. I. Greenspan & G. H. Pollock (Eds.) The Course of Life: Vol. IV, Adolescence. (pp. 17-62). Madison, WI: International Universities Press.

Kirkpatrick, M. (2003). The nature and nurture of gender. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 23, 558-571.

Rosner, H. (1972). Of music, magic and mystery: Studies in adolescent synthesis. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 20, 395-416.

Esman, A. (1991). Mid-adolescence: Foundations for later psychopathology. In S. I. Greenspan & G. H. Pollock (Eds.) The Course of Life: Vol. IV, Adolescence. (pp. 283-299). Madison, WI: International Universities Press.

Staples, H. D. & Smarr, E. R. (1991). Bridge to adulthood: The years from eighteen to twenty-three. In S. I. Greenspan & G. H. Pollock (Eds.) The Course of Life: Vol. IV, Adolescence. (pp. 407-434). Madison, WI: International Universities Press.

This course will explore the developmental 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.

Colarusso, C.A., Nemiroff, R.A. (1979). Some Observations and Hypotheses about the Psychoanalytic Theory of Adult Development. Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 60 (pp. 59-71). (PEP)

Settlage, C.F., Curtis, J., Lozoff, M., Silberschatz, G., Simburg, E.J. (1988). Conceptualizing Adult Development. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 36, (pp. 347-369). (PEP)

Week 2 From Adolescence To Midlife: Remodeling The Structure Of Adult Development

Emde, R.N. (1985). From Adolescence To Midlife: Remodeling The Structure Of Adult Development J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 33S (pp. 59-112). (PEP)

Colarusso, C.A. (1990). The Third Individuation—The Effect of Biological Parenthood. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 45, (pp. 179-194). (PEP)

Mann, C.H. (1985). Adult Development—Individuation, Separation and the Role of Reality. Contemp. Psychoanal., 21, 284-295. (PEP)

Galatzer-Levy, R. M. & Cohler, B. J. (1990). Chapter 8 The selfobjects of the second half of life: An introduction in Progress in Self Psychology, 6, 93-109. (PEP).

Tolpin, M. (1997). Chapter 1 Compensatory structures: Paths to the restoration of the self in Progress in Self Psychology, 13, 3–19. (PEP)

Colarusso, C.A. (1999). The Development of Time Sense in Middle Adulthood. Psychoanal Q., 68, (52-83). (PEP)

Colarusso, C.A. (1993). Play in Adulthood—A Developmental Consideration. Psychoanal. St. Child, 48, (225-245). (PEP)

Carney, J. K. & Cohler, B. J. (1993). Developmental continuities and adjustment in adulthood: Social relations, morale, and the transformation from middle to late life. In S. I. Greenspan and G. H. Pollack The Course of Life: Vol. IV Late Adulthood. Madison, WI: International Universities Press (199-226).

Gould, R. (1993). Transformational tasks in adulthood. In S. I. Greenspan and G. H. Pollack The Course of Life: Vol. IV Late Adulthood. Madison, WI: International Universities Press In S. I. Greenspan and G. H. Pollack The Course of Life: Vol. IV Late Adulthood. Madison, WI: International Universities Press. (23-68).

Coltart, N.E. (1991). The Analysis of an Elderly Patient. Int. J. Psycho-Analysis, 72, (209-219).

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.

Week 2 Personality Patterns – P Axis (continued) & Profile of Mental Functioning –M Axis

Profile of Mental functioning for Children and Adolescents MCA--Axis (175-196)

Week 4 Child and Adolescent Personality Patterns and Disorders PCA—Axis (207-222)

Child and Adolescent Symptom Patterns: The Subjective Experience SCA—Axis B ( 233-283)

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, using readings to develop a conceptual framework for a hopeful therapeutic attitude from several theoretical perspectives and to address issues that arise in the class participants’ clinical material.

La Mothe, R. (2001) Vitalizing objects and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. PP 18:320-339.

Hall, J.S. (2008) Psychoanalytic Education in 2008: Deepening the Treatment. Presentation to the Affiliate Council of APsaA, January 18, 2008.

Beebe, B. and Lachmann, F.M. Infant Research and Adult Treatment: Co-constructing Interactions. Hillsdale, N.J. Analytic Press. Chapter 8: Three Principles of Salience in the Organization of the Patient-Analyst Interaction: the Case of Clara, pp. 185-207.

Casement, P.J. (1991) Learning from the Patient. New York and London, The Guilford Press. Chapter 4: Forms of Interactive Communication, pp. 64-86.

Hall, J.S. (2004) Roadblocks on the Journey of Psychotherapy. Lanham, New York, etc., Aronson. Chapter 4: Inner Roadblocks, pp. 99-124

Levy, S. T. (1984) Principles of Interpretation: Mastering Clear and Concise Interventions in Psychotherapy. Aronson. Chapter 4: Interpretation of Resistance,

Levine, H.B. (2006) Case finding or case making? Intensifying the frequency of sessions and creating analytic patients. Unpublished manuscript. [Review]

Levy: Chapter 7: Special Problems and their Interpretations—Negative Therapeutic Reactions, pp. 151-156.

Schlesinger, H.J. (2003) The Texture of Treatment: On the Matter of Psychoanalytic Technique. Hillsdale, N. J., The Analytic Press. Chapter 3: Working Principles of Technique, pp. 23-46.

Stern, D. N. (2004) The Present Moment in Psychotherapy and Everyday Life. New York and London, Norton. Chapter 10: The Process of Moving Along, pp. 149-186 and Chapter 11: Interweaving the Implicit and the Explicit in the Clinical Situation, pp. 187-196.

Casement: Preface, pp. ix-x, Foreward, pp. xi-xiii, and Chapter 17: Unconscious Hope, pp. 293-307.

Shafer, Roy (2003) Bad Feelings. New York, Other Press. Chapter 8: Painful Progress: the Negative Therapeutic Reaction Reconsidered, pp. 133-147.

Hoffman, I.Z. (2007) Therapeutic Passion in the Countertransference. Keynote Address at the 27^th Annual Division 39 of the APASpring Meeting published in the American Psychologist-Psychoanalyst, Spring 2007.

Miriam Elson, (Ed.) 1987. The Kohut seminars: On self psychology and psychotherapy

Kohut, H. (1971). The analysis of the self: A systematic approach to the psychoanalytic

Basch, M.F.(1990) Further thoughts on empathic understanding. In A. Goldberg (Ed.),

Gorney, J. (1998) Twinship, vitality, pleasure. In A. Goldberg (Ed.), Progress in self

Tolpin, M. (1997). Compensatory structures: Paths to the restoration of the self. In

Stern, D. (1983). The early development of schemas of self, other, and “self with other”.

In J. Lichtenberg & S. Kaplan (Eds.), Reflections on self psychology (pp.49-84).

Tolpin, M. (1983) Discussion of papers by Drs. Stern and Sander. In J. Lichtenberg &

S. Kaplan (Eds.), Reflections on self psychology (pp. 113-123). Analytic Press.

Galatzer-Levy, R. & Cohler, B. (1990). The Selfobjects of the 2^nd half of life: An

Bacal, Howard (1998) Optimal responsiveness and the Specificity of Selfobject Experience .In H. Bacal (Ed.) Optimal responsiveness: How therapists heal their patients (pp.141-170). Northvale, NJ: Aronson.

Guidelines. In H. Bacal (Ed.), Optimal responsivess: How therapists heal their

Lichtenberg, Joseph (1983). An Application of the Self Psychological Viewpoint to

Psychoanalytic Technique. In J. Lichtenberg & S. Kaplan (Eds.), Reflections on

Treurniet, N. (1983). Discussion of paper by Dr. Lichtenberg. In J. Lichtenberg &

Lichtenberg, J., Lachmann, F. & Fosshage, J. (1996) The clinical exchange: Techniques

derived from self and motivational systems. Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press.

This course will focus on the practice of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. We will spend the first four weeks looking at the evolution of the theoretical foundations of the relational approach. Specifically we will look at the classical dictates of anonymity, neutrality and abstinence and see how relational analysts position themselves and why. We will also consider the paradigm shift from classical to relational theory and explore: How does the new paradigm inform ideas about the analyst’s authority? What are the implications about the analyst’s knowledge? What can the analyst know? How does the analyst know what she/he knows? Is this knowledge discovered or created? How does the analyst position himself/herself in relation to ‘truth?’ How does the analyst experience herself/himself in the analytic setting? How does the paradigm shift inform standards for the analyst’s behavior?

Aron, L. (1996), A MEETING OF MINDS: MUTUALITY IN PSYCHOANALYSIS. Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press. We will read the entire book. Aron provides a historical perspective on the evolution of relational psychoanalysis.

Mitchell, S.A. (2000), RELATIONALITY: FROM ATTACHMENT TO INTERSUBJECTIVITY. Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press. This will provide a theoretical foundation.

Hoffman, I.Z. (1998), RITUAL AND SPONTANEITY IN THE PSYCHOANALYTIC PROCESS. Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press. We will read the entire book which explicates one application of Relational theory to practice.

Pizer, S. (1998). BUILDING BRIDGES, THE NEGOTIATION OF PARADOX IN PSYCHOANALYSIS. Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press. We will read the entire book which offers another application of Relational theory to practice.

RELATIONAL PSYCHOANALYSIS, EVOLUTION OF A TRADITION, VOL 11. (ed.), Lew Aron and Adrianne Harris (2005).

Week 6, Hoffman, Irwin Z. RITUAL AND SPONTENEITY IN THE PSYCHOANALYTIC PROCESS, Ch. 1,2,3.

Anyone with questions about the course or further readings can call or e-mail me.

Week 3,4,5: Psychodiagnostic Diagnostic Manual (PDM), Nancy McWilliams et al., Part 1, Classification of Adult Mental Health Disorders. Pg 1-157.

Week 6,7,8: PDM, Part 2; Classification of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Disorders, pg 175-319.

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 beginning manifestations of transference and countertransference, and development of an analytic

“style”. Readings will span Freud, to contemporary theorists. Clinical material from participants and instructor will

Mc Williams, N. (1999). Psychoanalytic Case Formulation. pp. 85-157. New York: Guilford Press.

Mc Williams, N. (1999). Psychoanalytic Case Formulation. pp. 158-199. New York: Guilford Press.

Hooberman, R. (2002). Character Transformation through the Psychotherapeutic Relationship. pp. 1-72. Northvale N.J.: Jason Aronson Inc.

Hall, J. (1998). Deepening the Treatment. pp. 1-117. Northvale N.J.: Jason Aronson Inc.

Rothstein, A. (1995). Psychoanalytic Technique and the Creation of Analytic Patients. pp. 1-72. Madison, CT: International Universities Press.

Levine, H. (2007). Case finding or case making? Intensifying the frequency of sessions and creating analytic patients. (In press)

Erle, J. (1993). On the setting of analytic fees. Psychoanal. Quart., 62:106-108.

Allen, A. (1971). The fee as a therapeutic tool. Psychoanal. Quart., 40:132-140.

Bader, M.J. (1997). Cultural norms and the patient’s experience of the analyst’s business practices. Psychoanal. Quart., 66:93-98.

Tulipan, A. (1986). Fee policy as an extension of the therapist’s style and orientation. In The Last Taboo: Money as Symbol and Reality in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. ed. D. W. Krueger, pp 79-87. New York, NY Brunner/Mazel.

Furlong, A. (1992). Some technical and theoretical considerations regarding the missed session. Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 73:701-716.

Shane, E. & Shane, M. (1998). The opening phase: a developmental perspective. In On Beginning an Analysis, ed. T. Jacobs and A. Rothstein, pp 27-43 Madison, CT: International Universities Press.

Malawista, K. & Malawista, P. (1999). The opening phase of the analysis of Mr. B.: a dramatic transference phenomenon. In The Social Work Psychoanalyst’s Casebook, ed. J. Edwards & E. Rose. pp 23-46. Hillsdale, NJ. The Analytic Press.

Busch, F. (1995). Beginning a psychoanalytic treatment: establishing an analytic frame. JAPA, 43:449-468.

Porder, M. (1998). On beginning with borderline patients. In On Beginning an Analysis, ed. T. Jacobs and A. Rothstein, pp 163–178 Madison, CT: International Universities Press.

Hogan, C. (1998). Possible technical modifications in the beginning phases of the psychoanalytic treatment of patients with psychosomatic symptoms. In On Beginning an Analysis, ed. T. Jacobs and A. Rothstein, pp 229-242 Madison, CT: International Universities Press.

Wilson, C.P. (1998). On beginning with patients with eating disorders. In On Beginning an Analysis, ed. T. Jacobs and A. Rothstein, pp 243-260 Madison, CT: International Universities Press.

Curtis, H. (1979). The concept of therapeutic alliance: implications for the “widening scope”. JAPA 27:159-192.

Hanly, C. (1994). Reflections on the place of the therapeutic alliance in psychoanalysis. International Journal of Psycho-Analysis 75:457-467.

Adler, E. & Bachant, J. (1996). Free association and analytic neutrality: the basic structure of the psychoanalytic situation. JAPA 44:1021-1046.

Busch, F. (1994). Some ambiguities in the method of free association and their implications for technique. JAPA 42:363-384.

Aron, L. (1990). Free association and changing models of mind. Journal of American Academy of Psychoanalysis, 18:439-459.

Poland, W. S., (1996). Part III, Chapters 1, 2 and 3 In Melting the Darkness: The Dyad and Principles of Clinical Practice. Jason Aronson, Northvale, NJ.

Weeks 3-6: PSYCHOANALYSIS AT IT LIMITS; NAVIGATING THE POSTMODERN TURN, (ed.) Elliott and Spezzano, (2000). Pg. 1-79; 110-142; 203-294.

Weeks 7-10: BRINGING THE PLAGUE, (ed.) Fairfield, Layton, Stack. (2002). Pg 1-27 and 70-221.

I would like to be flexible in our schedule, allowing more or less time for some of the readings. If we have time we will include readings from other sources. I will also provide an additional reading list for anyone interested.

Note: The Grentz book can be purchased at Amazon.com for about $10.00. PSYCHOANALYSIS AT ITS LIMITS, is also available at Amazon. As of today, there were no used copies, though there usually are. New copy is $55.00. BRINGING THE PLAGUE is about $50.00 new. Most of the chapters in this book are articles available on the PEP disc.

Kernberg, O. F. (1982). Self, Ego, Affects, and Drives. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 30: 893-917

Dorpat, T. L. (1976). Structural Conflict and Object Relations Conflict. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 24: 855-874

Sandler, J. and Rosenblatt, B. (1962). The Concept of the Representational World. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child 17: 128-145

Bromberg, P. M. (1996). Standing in the Spaces: The Multiplicity Of Self And The Psychoanalytic Relationship. Contemporary Psychoanalysis 32: 509-535

Aron, L. (1990). One Person and Two Person Psychologies and the Method of Psychoanalysis. Psychoanalytic Psychology 7: 475-485

Summers, F. (1996). Self Psychology and Its Place Among Contemporary Psychoanalytic Theories. Annual of Psychoanalysis 24: 157-171

Fosshage, J. L. (2003). Contextualizing Self Psychology and Relational Psychoanalysis: Bi-Directional Influence and Proposed Syntheses. Contemporary Psychoanalysis 39: 411-448

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 development (oral, anal, and phallic will be covered as well.

Gamaalgard, Ph.D., Judy The Unconscious: A re-reading of the Freudian Concept in Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review, 2003 26:11-21

Barry Opatow, The Real Unconscious: Psychoanalysis As A Theory Of Consciousness, 1997, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 45:865-890

Guttorm Thorbjornsrud, Some Reflections on the Concept of Conflict in Classical Psychoanalysis and Self-Psychology, 1991. Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review, 14:123-138

Mark Kanzer, M.D., Psychic Determinism: Freud's Specific Propositions. Freud Anniversary Lecture. May 15, 1967.

Anna Freud, The Concept of Developmental Lines, 1963). Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 18:245-265

Samuel Abrams, M.D., Development, 1983). Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 38:113-139

Ernest Jones, The Phallic Phase, 1933). International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 14:1-33

Luis Kancyper, The Role of Pre-oedipal and Oedipal Factors in Psychic Life, International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 87:219-236(2006).

Thomas H. Ogden, Reading Loewald: Oedipus Reconceived, International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 87:651-666, 2006).

Brenner, Charles. (2002). Conflict, compromise formation, and structural theory. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 71, 397-418.

Gillett, Eric. (1997). Revising Freud's structural theory. Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Thought, 20, 471-500.

Van den Daele, L. (1994). Revision of the topographic and structural theories. Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Thought, 17, 407-446.

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.

Week 2: Personality Patterns and Disorders-P Axis, selected personality disorders based on class desire. Adult as well as Children and Adolescents (PCA Axis). Read pp 15-70.

Week 4. Mental Functioning- M Axis, Adult as well as Children and Adolescents (MCA Axis). Read pp. 71-90

Week 6. Symptom Patterns: The Subjective Experience-S Axis, selected symptom patterns based on class desire. Adult as well as Child and Adolescents (SCA Axis). Read pp. 91-156

Week 8. Case illustrations-Adult, Child and Adolescents. Read pp. 175-178 and 297-318

Week 9. Looking at the PDM side by side with the DSM. What are the differences? Why was the PDM written?