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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)

 

 



Infancy and Toddlerhood

The Michigan Psychoanalytic Council

September 10 – October 15, 2007

Brenda Lovegrove Lepisto, Psy.D.

 

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.)

 

Week 1  Introduction to Infancy

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.

 

Week 2 Development of the Ego

                Video “Right from the Start”

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)

Lepisto, B. L. Case Study of an Infant and her Mother.

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

 

Week 3 Development of the Self

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).

 

Week 4 Toddlerhood

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.)

 

Week 5  Toddlerhood 

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)

 

Week 6  Clinical Implications

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.

Recommended Readings:

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.

 

 

 


Preschool and Latency Development

The Michigan Psychoanalytic Council
Fall 2007,  Oct. 22-Dec. 10, 2007

Brenda Lovegrove Lepisto, Psy.D.

 

 

 

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.

 

Week 1 Ego & Psychic Development

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)

 

Week 2 Oedipal Phase

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.

 

Week 3 Shifting to Latency

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)

 

Week 4 Gender Identity and the Body

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)

 

Week 6 Early Latency

Video 7 Up

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.

 

 

Week 5 Latency

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.

 

Week 7 Theory of Mind and Affective Development

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.

 

Week 8 Development of Humor

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

Wrap up

 

  


 

Continuous Case Conference
The Michigan Psychoanalytic Council

Carol Levin, M.D.

 

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.

 

 

 


 

Preadolescence and Adolescence

The Michigan Psychoanalytic Council

Brenda Lovegrove Lepisto, Psy.D.

  

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.

 

Week 1  Introduction: The Beginning of Adolescence

            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.

 

Week 2  Early Adolescence: Cognitive, Psychological, and Physical Changes

            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.

 

Week 3 Gender Identity

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

 

 

Week 4 Changes in cognition in the adolescent

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

 

Week 5  Mid-Adolescence: the 14–17-year old

            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.

 

Week 6  Late Adolescence and Early Adulthood

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.

   


 

Adult Development

The Michigan Psychoanalytic Council

Brenda Lovegrove Lepisto, Psy.D.

Winter 2008,  March 10 – April 14, 2008

 

 

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.

 

Week 1  Conceptualization of Adult Development

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)

Hoffman, I. (1988). At Death’s Door.   https://www.dspp.com/papers/hoffman.htm

 

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)

 

Week 3 Separation-Individuation Phenomena in Adulthood

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)

 

Week 4 Adult Development – Self Psychological Perspective

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)

 

Week 5 Psychoanalytic Perspectives of Midlife

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)

 

Week 6 The Older Patient in Psychoanalysis

            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).

 

 

  

 


 

                    Introduction to the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual
The Michigan Psychoanalytic Council

Brenda Lovegrove Lepisto, Psy.D.

517.333.0332

[email protected]

 

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.

Required Text: Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (PDM) (2006)

 

Week 1  Introduction to PDM

Classification of Adult Mental Health (pp. 1- 13).

                        Psychodynamic Interview

                        Beginning Discussion of Personality Patterns (pp. 29- 64)

 

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

                        (pp. 71-85)

                        Case Examples and Practice Diagnosis

           

Week 3  Symptom Patterns: The Subjective Experience – S Axis (91-146)

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

                        Case Examples and Practice Diagnosis

           

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)

        Case Examples and Practice Diagnosis


 

Intensifying Treatment
Michigan Psychoanalytic Council

Instructor: Carol Levin

 

10 Weeks:  March 3-May 12, 2008 
Mondays, 11:00 AM-12:30 PM

 

                                

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.

 

Abbreviations

 

PP Psychoanalytic Psychology

PD Psychoanalytic Dialogues

 

Week 1—March 3, 2008

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

 

Week 2—March 10, 2008

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.

 

Week 3—March 17, 2008

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

 

Week 4—March 24, 2008

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

 

Week 5—March 31, 2008

Ibid. Chapter 5:  Attachment to Abuse, pp. 126-157.

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

pp. 71-91

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

 

Week 6—April 7, 2008

Hall:   Chapter 6:  The Many Faces of Rage, pp. 161-186.

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

 

Week 7—April 14, 2008

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.

 

Week 8—April 28, 2008

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. 

 

Week 9—May 5, 2008

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.

 

Week 10—May 12, 2008

Beuchler, S.  (1995)  Hope as inspiration in psychoanalysis.  PD 5:63-74.

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

 

 

 


Self Psychology
The Michigan Psychoanalytic Council

Instructor: David B. Klein, Ph.D.

 

 

Section  I:  The Work of Heinz Kohut (5 Weeks)

 

Week 1

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

     with adolescents and young adults.  W.W. Norton.

                   Chapter 4: Empathic Environment and the Grandiose Self, pp.47-60

                   Chapter 5: Building Psychic Structure That Regulates Self-Esteem. pp. 61-76

                   Chapter 6: The Admiring Selfobject and the Idealized Selfobject, pp. 77-94

 

Week 2

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

         treatment of narcissistic personality disorders. Int. Univ. Press

                   Chapter 2: The Idealizing Transference, pp. 37-56

                   Chapter 6: Types of Mirror Transferences: A Classification According To

                                      Developmental Considerations, pp. 105-132 

 

Week 3

Kohut, H. (1977).The restoration of the self . Int. Univ. Press. 

                   Chapter 1: The Termination of the Analysis of Narcissistic Personality   

                                       Disorders, pp. 1-62

 

Week 4

 Kohut, H. (1979). Two analyses of Mr. Z.  International Journal of 

         Psychoanalysis, 60, 3-27.

 

Week 5

Kohut, H. (1984).  How does analysis cure?   University of Chicago Press.

                   Chapter 9: The Role of Empathy in Psychoanalytic Cure,

                   pp.172-192.

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

          Progress in self psychology, volume 6 (pp.3-10). Guilford Press.

 

Section II: Further Development of Self Psychology (5 Weeks)

 

Week 6- Twinship, and Compensatory Structures

 

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

         psychology, volume 14 (pp. 85-105. Guilford Press.

 

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

         A. Goldberg (Ed.), Progress in self psychology, volume 13 (pp. 3-19).

         Also read Discussion by James Fosshage (pp.21-27) and Response by Marian

         Tolpin (pp.29-31).

 

                    

Week 7-  Development of the Self – Infant research and Self Psychology

 

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).

         Analytic Press. 

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.

 

Week 8 – The Self and Adult Development

 

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

          introduction. In A. Goldberg (Ed.). Progress in self psychology, volume 6

          (pp. 93-109). Guilford Press.

Ornstein, A. (1999). Changing patterns in parenting: Comments on the origin and

           Consequences of unmodified grandiosity. Progress in self psychology, volume 15

           (pp.245-258). Guilford Press.

 

Week 9 – Technique 1

 

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.

 

Shane, Morton & Shane, Estelle (1998) Optimal responsiveness and a search for

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

         Patients ( pp. 75-96). 

 

Week 10 – Technique 2

 

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

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

         self psychology (pp. 163-185). Analytic Press

 

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

         S. Kaplan (Eds.), Reflections on self psychology (pp. 187-202).

 

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

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

                   Chapter 4: Ten Principles of Technique, pp. 87-112   

 

 


 
Relational Theory and Practice 
The Michigan Psychoanalytic Council
Lynne Tenbusch, Ph.D

 

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?

 

 

We will use the following books and articles:

 

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 1, Aron, Lew, MEETING OF THE MINDS, 1996. Analytic Press. Ch. 1,2,3,

 

Week 2, Aron, Ch 4,5,6.

 

Week 3, Aron Ch 7,8,9.

 

Week 4, Mitchell, S. RELATIONALITY, 2000, Analytic Press, Ch. 1,2,3.

 

Week 5, Mitchell, Ch. 4,5,6,7.

 

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

 

Week 7, Hoffman, Ch. 3,4,5.

 

Week 8, Hoffman, Ch. 6,7,8.,9.

 

Week 9,  Selected readings, Benjamin, Jessica

 

Week 10, Selected readings, Bromberg, Phillip and Stern, Donnell

 

 

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

 

Lynne G. Tenbusch, Ph.D.

734-973-3232

 


  

Introduction to the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual
The Michigan Psychoanalytic Council

Lynne Tenbusch, Ph.D.

 

 

Week 1: Introduction, Birgit Wolz, Phd. Part 1 and 2.

 

Week 2: Birgit Wolz, Ph. D. Part 3 and 4.

 

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.

 

Week 9,10: PDM Part III, Conceptual and Research Foundations. Pg. 383-511.

 

 



Beginning Phase of Analysis
The Michigan Psychoanalytic Council

Karen Baker, L.M.S.W.

WINTER 2008

 

 

Address:          555 E. William, Ste 25E, Ann Arbor 

Phone:             734-996-8185 

e-mail:            

 

  

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

be used for illustration.

  

2/20/08

Week 1

                                                            Assessment

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

 

 

2/27/08                                               

Week 2

                                                            Assessment

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.

           

                                                           

3/5/08                                                 

Week 3

Setting the Stage for Treatment

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

 

 

3/12/08                                               

Week 4

Creating Analytic Patients

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

                                  

3/19/08                                               

Week 5

Treatment Structure

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.

 

                                                           

3/26/08                                               

Week 6

The Opening Phase

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.

4/2/08                                                 

 

Week 7

The Opening Phase with Modification

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.

           

 

4/9/08                                                 

Week 8

The Therapeutic and Working Alliance

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.

 

Hausner, R. (2000). The therapeutic and working alliances. JAPA 48:155-187.

 

 

4/16/08                                                           

Week 9

                                                            Free Association

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.

 

 

4/23/08                                               

Week 10

                                                            Analytic Attitude

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.

 

 


 

POSTMODERNISM AND ITS IMPACT
ON CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY AND PRACTICE

 The Michigan Psychoanalytic Council
Lynne G. Tenbusch, Ph.D.

 

Weeks 1 & 2:  A PRIMER ON POSTMODERNISM, Grenz, Stanley J., (1996). Pg 11-123.

 

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.

 

 


Psychopathology, Symptom Formation and Assessment
The Michigan Psychoanalytic Council
Robert Hooberman, Ph.D.

                                                  

 Winter 2007-2008

 

 

Classical

Brenner, C.  The Mind in Conflict

 

Modern Analytic

McWilliams, N. Psychoanalytic Diagnosis, pp..5-145

McWilliams, N.  Psychoanalytic Formulation

 

Object Relations

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

 

Relational

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

 

Self Psychology

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


BasicConcepts in Psychoanalysis
The Michigan Psychoanalytic Council
Suanne Zager, L.M.S.W.
 

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.

 

9/15/07- The Unconscious

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

 

9/22/07- Psychic Conflict 

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

 

9/29/07- Psychic Determinism

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

 

10/6/07-  Defense

Anna Freud, The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense, 1966 IUP, Inc.

 

10/13/07- Phasic Development

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

 

10/20/07- Phasic Development cont’d.

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

 

10/27/07- Oedipal

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

 

11/3/07- Oedipal Cont’d

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

 

11/10/07- Topographical and Structural Theory

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.

 

11/17/07 Discussion


Introduction to the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual

The Michigan Psychoanalytic Council
Instructor: Suanne Zager, L.M.S.W.
 

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 1:  Introduction to PDM. Read pp 1-13

 

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 3. Personality Patterns continued.

 

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

 

Week 5. Mental Functioning continued

 

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 7. Symptom Patterns continued.

 

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?

 

Week 10. How to utilize the PDM in your practice.