Most courses meet once a week for 15 weeks, at 90 minutes per session. In order to receive credit for a course, no more than three absences are permitted during a semester. In extenuating circumstances, the candidate may request from the instructor permission to do extra work as compensation for further absences.
101.2 Personality Development and Psychoanalytic Perspective
This is the first of a two-part course that will review psychoanalytic thought from Freud to contemporary theorists. The focus of this course will be on Freud's early shift from the Topographic to the Structural Model of the mind, underscoring his internal struggle between grounding psychoanalysis in psychology vs. biology. The course will then look at the American school of Ego Psychology built on the Freudian foundation and the theorists that enhanced that theory.
102.1 Psychoanalytic Process I: A Practicum in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Different Psychopathological Conditions
This course will introduce the student to the psychoanalytic situation. Emphasis will be on the initial phase of treatment, with particular focus on the experience-near empathic treatment stance. The course will also deal with major clinical issues such as transference, resistance, and free association. The student will learn how to diagnose and treat the different psychopathological conditions of the self. Throughout this course a focus will also be on the ethical considerations of treatment.
Return to top103.1 Psychoanalytic Theory of Psychodiagnosis: Introduction to the Works of Heinz Kohut I
This course will familiarize the candidate with the psychoanalytic theory of psychodiagnosis through an examination of the early writings of Heinz Kohut, in particular with a close reading of his 1971 monograph The Analysis of the Self. Throughout this review, the focus will be on the experience-near empathic treatment stance as the method by which Kohut arrived at his diagnostic understanding of the narcissistic transferences and how these are distinguished from the transference neurosis, the borderline personality disorder, and the psychotic/schizophrenic self disorders. A major focus will also be on Crayton Rowe's undifferentiated selfobject transference, which is an extension of Kohut's concept of the selfobject
Return to top104.2 Personality Development and Psychoanalytic Perspective II
This course is the second half of course 101.2 that continues a comparison and contrast of different psychoanalytic models of development that have evolved from the understanding of human personality development. It will trace the evolution of British and American Object Relations Theories, culminating in the early discovery by Heinz Kohut of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology. Focus in the latter study will be on Kohut's early writings on empathy, narcissism, the development of the theory of the self, and the selfobject concept. As well, emphasis will be on the fundamental shift from a biology-based drive/defense psychology (id, ego, and superego) to a psychology based on the self and selfobject needs.
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