The Curriculum
Questions on this information? Please contact Stacia Super, Co-Chair, Curriculum Committee
The curriculum of the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute conforms to the Standards of the American Psychoanalytic Association for the training of physicians and other mental health professionals in psychoanalysis. Written evaluations of candidates are required from the instructors of each course. In addition to qualitative commentary, ratings of Outstanding, Satisfactory, Marginal, and Unsatisfactory are given.
Institute classes are currently split between Wednesdays (2:00 pm – 7:15 pm) and Saturdays (8:00 am to 1:15 pm) for 30 weeks during the academic year. Classes meet at the Center offices, 4545 42nd St, NW, #209, Washington DC 20016, unless otherwise indicated.
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FIRST YEAR
NO FIRST YEAR CLASSES ARE OFFERED THIS YEAR.
A candidate starting first-year courses will be expected to have progressed satisfactorily in personal psychoanalysis with a training analyst of this Institute.
If there is no First year class, individual First year candidates will take tutorials, to be arranged by the Curriculum Committee. This is the case for 2008-09. When there is a First year class, First year courses are normally as follows.
Psychoanalytic Technique
Introduction to Conducting an Analysis
Weeks 1-10
Ten sessions - 2:00 pm (Wed)
Issues in initiating psychoanalysis will be reviewed, from the assessment
through the onset of treatment. The course addresses questions of suitability;
effectiveness; similarities and differences between psychotherapy and psychoanalysis;
and the establishment of a suitable frame, including physical setting, fees,
analyst’s and patient’s roles, and other boundary issues. Candidates
will be asked to share clinical material from their work in evaluating patients
for psychoanalysis and initiating psychoanalytic treatment.
Weeks 11-20
Nine sessions - 2:00 pm (Wed) (no class on Week 14 - Colloquium)
The development and therapeutic management of transference and countertransference
in the psychoanalytic situation will be discussed. Candidates’ use
of illustrative material from their own psychoanalytic work will be supplemented
by case presentations in two sessions of early phase psychoanalytic work.
Weeks 21-30
Ten sessions - 2:00 pm (Wed)
This segment will review the analyst’s experience in the psychoanalytic
situation and its influence on the psychoanalytic process. Topics covered
include both parties’ view of the analyst’s internal experience,
the analyst’s listening perspective and use of interpretation, and
the analyst’s position with respect to neutrality and abstinence.
Candidates will be asked to share written clinical vignettes from their
work. There will be two sessions devoted to case presentations of mid-phase
analytic work, and a final session devoted to summation of the year-long
course sequence.
Psychoanalytic Theory
Weeks 1-7 - Topographic/Drive Freud
Seven sessions - 4:00 pm (Wed)
This section will take up Freud’s early theoretical and technical
formulations as set forth in his writings and published lectures. Candidates
will acquire a working knowledge of the following concepts as originally
formulated by Freud: psychical trauma; affect; unconscious mental states;
cathexis; resistance; repression; conflict; ego; neurotic symptom; dream
interpretation; condensation; displacement; anxiety; symptomatic actions;
libido; erotogenic zones; phantasy; nuclear complex; reaction formation;
latency; sublimation; component instincts; and the dynamic model.
Weeks 8-15 - Structural Freud
Seven sessions - 4:00 pm (Wed)
This section is concerned with the transition Freud made from the topographic
to the structural theory, some clinical observations that led to the articulation
of the structural theory, and the importance of the structural theory both
for a new theory of affect and as the basis for ego psychology.
Human Development / Pathological Formations
Weeks 1-10 – Introduction to Development from a Psychoanalytic Perspective
Ten sessions - 5:45 pm (Wed)
This begins the sequence that integrates normal development and pathological
formations. These classes provide an overview to psychoanalytic perspectives
on development and look at the first three years of life.
Weeks 11-20 - Developmental Perspectives on Infancy and the Early Years
Nine sessions - 5:45 pm (Wed) (no class on Week 14 - Colloquium)
This sequence presents a theoretical survey of normal and pathological psychological
development in the first three years. The course moves from early classical
theory to more contemporary perspectives on pre-oedipal development.
Weeks 21-30 - Later Toddlerhood, the Oedipus Complex, and Gender Identity
Ten sessions - 5:45 pm (Wed)
This sequence will be oriented around developmental achievements and problems
connected to the Oedipus Complex. The developmental and intrapsychic issues
that surround this important milestone will be explored, especially as it
relates to the sexual object choice, sexual expression, and sexual identity
in the child and in the adult.
Continuous Case Conference
Week 16-30 – Adult
Fourteen sessions - 4:00 pm (Wed)
This continuous case conference will focus on the psychoanalytic process
with an emphasis
on exploring how developmental concepts inform the interventions of the
analyst and are
reflected in the patient’s associations and on case formulation.
Course Cycle For Years Two, Three, and Four
SECOND YEAR
Tutorial times are to be arranged between instructors and candidates. Candidates will join the Third Year class for Case Conferences.
Psychoanalytic Technique
Weeks 1-10 - Ethics: Role, Task, and Boundary
Ten sessions – 5:45 pm (Wed) - not offered in 2008-09
Dynamics of patient-analyst interaction will be explored in terms of the
roles, tasks, and boundaries of the analytic situation. Readings, clinical
material, and video vignettes may be used for class discussion of issues
such as: the roles of analyst and patient; setting the frame and protecting
boundaries; professional ethical principles; negotiating and understanding
the fee; the history of boundary violations, including sexual boundary violations;
transference and countertransference pressures resulting in vulnerability
in the analyst; self-disclosure; illness and impairment in the analyst;
and the post-termination relationship.
Weeks 21-30 - Free Association, Resistance, Transference and Countertransference
Ten sessions – tutorial (Cereijido)
This tutorial introduces and deepens understanding of the core psychoanalytic
concepts of transference, countertransference, resistance and free association.
It explores how these ideas have evolved over time - theoretically and technically
- from a variety of psychoanalytic perspectives. Focus in the seminar is
on how we use and understand these ideas in day-to-day clinical practice.
Psychoanalytic Theory
Week 16-24 - Introduction to Melanie Klein, Bion, and the Modern British
Kleinians
Nine sessions – 4:00 pm (Wed) - not offered in 2008-09
Melanie Klein’s scientific development took place between 1919-1960
and is characterized by detailed clinical observations (including preverbal
and non-verbal communication), the creation of a framework for child analysis
using play technique, and attention to the treatment of psychotic and borderline
patients. Central concepts include the nature of phantasy, position and
projective identification. Bion describes the development of thinking, and
focuses attention on the concept of containment from the infant’s
and the mother’s perspective. More recent clinical and theoretical
developments in the work of Segal, Joseph, Steiner, Britton, and will be
discussed and related to ongoing clinical work of the class participants.
Week 25-30 – Freud Cases
Six sessions - tutorial
Weeks 25, 26 (Chused) – Little Hans
Weeks 27, 28, 29, 30 (Rosenblum) – Dora, the Rat Man
A selection of Freud’s cases will be studied in depth.
Human Development / Pathological Formations
Week 1-15 - Latency and Pre-Adolescence (Dosovitz)
Fourteen sessions - tutorial
This tutorial focuses on normal development and its relationship to pathological
conditions in the latency age and pre-adolescent developmental periods.
The establishment of the capacity for work will be studied from the perspective
of the acquisition of these developmental achievements in the latency period.
The normative perspective will be juxtaposed with deviations from the norm
as seen in children (e.g. learning problems, attentional difficulties) and
adults (e.g. work inhibitions). The pre-adolescent period will also be examined.
Continuous Case Conferences
Alternate (odd) weeks 1-30 - Child – join Third year class 8
am (Sat) (Snejnevski/Fort/Bryce)
Fourteen sessions
Alternate (even) weeks 1-30 - Adult – join Third year class 8
am (Sat) (Miller/Messina)
Fifteen sessions
An adult and a child case will be chosen by each class for presentation
with a focus on exploring the analyst’s countertransference as a vehicle
to the genesis of interpretation and analytic intervention. Careful consideration
will be given to discussing the impact of countertransference on clinical
work. All the case conferences explore the analytic process with a particular
focus on an examination of the mind of the analyst at work, with a careful
consideration of the multiple different factors to which the analyst responds
when conducting the analysis. In addition to these processes, the child/adolescent
case conference also explores the adaptations of technique necessitated
by the age and developmental level of the child. It is anticipated that
an exploration of how the analyst responds to the adaptations in technique
dictated by the immaturity of the child will prove useful in work with adults.
Writing
The purpose of the writing sequence is to help candidates demonstrate in
their case reports
that they can think psychoanalytically.
The ability to show psychoanalytic process in writing is required to prepare a case report for graduation as well as for certification by the American Psychoanalytic Association, which graduates are strongly encouraged to pursue. The writing of a psychoanalytic case is a skill unto itself. Reducing hundreds of hours of process notes and supervisory sessions to a 20 page, double-spaced report requires the candidate to cull from the material then mete out comprehensible parcels in an orderly and sequential manner. Experience shows that some candidates will find this task more daunting than others. In preparation for the fifth year case write-up, the curriculum includes one trimester writing course annually, starting in the second year when most candidates will have their cases underway.
Weeks 11-20 - Writing Course - 5:45 pm (Wed) - not offered in 2008-09
Nine sessions
The goals of this first course are 1) to introduce the candidate to a methodology
for translating the inchoate nature of the clinical hour into a few comprehensible
paragraphs that demonstrate a psychoanalytic process is occurring. 2) to
identify stylistic roadblocks that tend to obfuscate rather than elucidate
psychoanalytic process and 3) to select thematic structures that help organize
clinical material. On a rotational basis, the candidate will prepare a write-up
of two contiguous psychoanalytic hours to read aloud and discuss with the
class.
THIRD YEAR
Classes are split between Wednesdays and Saturdays.
Psychoanalytic Technique
Weeks 1-7 – Sexuality (Joseph/Crowe)
Seven sessions – 5:45 pm (Wed)
This course will explore a psychoanalytic perspective on human sexuality.
Beginning with a review of Freud's most important writings on the subject,
the course will consider masculinity and femininity, gender identity, heterosexuality,
bisexuality, homosexuality, masturbation, sexual desire fetishism, perversion.
Readings will be supplemented with clinical material provided by instructors
and class members. The objective of the course will be to become knowledgeable
about a psychoanalytic way of understanding human sexuality, to be able
to identify latent sexual material in psychoanalytic clinical work, and
to develop technical ways of addressing these concerns.
Weeks 8-15 - Dreams and Dreaming (G. Miller/Moffett/Remeikis)
Fourteen sessions - 5:45 pm (Wed)
This course will examine both our understanding of the process of dream
creation and the technique of working with dreams in psychoanalytic treatment.
Psychoanalytic Theory
Weeks 16-30 - Ego Psychology (Gruber/Cooper)
Fifteen sessions - 5:45 pm (Wed) (seven sessions per instructor)
This course tracks the evolution of structural theory from its immediate
post-Freudian roots into the present day, looking at the works of Arlow,
Brenner, Boesky, and Couch and progressing the contemporary works of Gabbard
and Weston (which integrate cognitive neuroscience with psychodynamic theory)
and the writings of other modern authors such as Bush, Gray, Pine, and Raphling.
The role of ego psychology in the development of contemporary interrelational
and intersubjective theory will be traced and discussed.
Human Development / Pathological Formations
Adolescence and Character Disturbance
Week 11-20- Adolescence (Elliott-Neely)
Nine sessions - 4:00 pm (Wed)
Adolescence as the time for reorganization and original developmental achievement
will be considered through readings on the developmental stage and through
literature related to the establishment of identity or self.
Week 21-30 - Adulthood and Character Disturbance (Blair/Paley)
Ten sessions - 4:00 pm (Wed)
After surveying normative developmental issues of young adulthood, the course
will focus on the pathology that results from failure to integrate an organized
identity, including borderline, narcissistic, and masochistic character
problems. Multiple theoretical perspectives will be used.
Continuous Case Conferences
Weeks 1-30 (odd weeks) – Adolescent (Snejnevski/Fort/Bryce)
Fourteen sessions – 8:00 am (Sat)
Weeks 1-30 (even weeks) – Adult (D. Miller/Messina)
Fifteen sessions – 8:00 am (Sat)
An adolescent case and adult case will be presented by a candidate and/or
faculty member.
The case conferences explore the analytic process with a particular focus
on an examination of the mind of the analyst at work, with a careful consideration
of the multiple different factors to which the analyst responds when conducting
the analysis.
Writing
Weeks 1-10 - Writing Course (Fritsch/Dupecher)
Ten sessions - 4:00 pm (Wed)
Assuming that the candidate has two psychoanalytic control cases in mid-phase,
the goal of this course is for the candidate to prepare for each analysand
a ten page double-spaced write-up that shows the development of one or two
themes over the course of a year in treatment. The write-up may be organized
using Bernstein’s “experiencing,” “reflecting,”
and “transitional narrative” style or other methods the candidate
develops that conveys to the reader that a psychoanalysis is being conducted.
FOURTH YEAR
Psychoanalytic Technique
Weeks 6-10 - Termination (Brunkow)
Ten Sessions, 10:00 am (Sat)
As candidates move towards the end of the core curriculum, and their cases
mature, the issue of termination is considered. Topics include: listening
for, and talking about readiness to terminate, setting a termination plan,
and process and technique in termination.
Weeks 16-20 – Advanced Formulation (Alaoglu/Gedo)
Eight sessions – 11:45 am (Sat)
A candidate case will be used to focus on psychoanalytic formulation, with
the aid of the
Psychoanalytic Diagnostic Manual (PDM).
Weeks 21-30 - Psychology of the Analyst (Lischewski/Levi)
Ten sessions – 10:00 am (Sat)
This course will focus on our expanding understanding of the psychology
of the analyst, in all its varied dimensions, with readings chosen from
a variety of theoretical considerations.
Weeks 21-26 – Advanced Topics in Psychoanalysis (Coordinator: Super)
Seven sessions – 11:45 am (Sat)
Week 21 (Ursano) – Psychological Responses to Traumatic Events
Week 23 (Mazza) – Building a Psychoanalytic Practice/The Analyst’s
Resistance to Analysis
Week 24 (Ross) – The Analyst’s Holding Environment
Week 25 (Super) – When the Analyst Gets Sick – Ethical Issues
Week 26 (Mazza) – Multiple Meanings of Money in Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalytic Theory
This section includes Self Psychology, the British Independent Tradition, American Relational, and Intersubjective schools of thought. In addition, a survey course on Neuropsychoanalysis will provide an introduction to the relationship between mind and brain.
Weeks 1-7 - Self-Psychology (Olsen/DeCuir)
Seven sessions - 8:00 am (Sat)
The contribution of self psychology to psychoanalysis are developed and
expanded through a study of the writings of Kohut, Wolf, Lichtenberg, Bacal,
Stolorow, and others. Key concepts are fleshed out, including empathic immersion,
attunement, empathic break, disruption-restoration, narcissistic rage, shame,
transmuting internalization, and the intersubjective field. The course emphasizes
applications to current clinical work.
Weeks 8-13 - British Independent Tradition (Alperovitz/Hersh) (No class
Week 14, Colloquium)
Six sessions - 8:00 am (Sat)
This course focuses on the contributions of W.R.D. Fairbairn, Harry Guntrip,
Michael Balint, Donald W. Winnicott and may also include other – more
contemporary – analysts in the Independent tradition. The Independents
or the Middle group of the British Psychoanalytic Center are not a school
that propounds any one particular theoretical, ideological, or technical
cause within analysis. Even so, there is a recognizable Independent style.
One of their most important contributions has been the exploration of earliest
child development and the effects of environmental facilitation and trauma.
These analysts placed greater emphasis on the role of the child’s
experience with its caretakers both in their models of development and of
the therapeutic process.
Weeks 15-20 - American Relational (Hershberg/Chavis)
Six sessions - 8:00 am (Sat)
This course outlines the emergence and expansion of a distinctively relational
approach to psychoanalysis. The relational approach places human relationships,
rather than biological drives, at its theoretical center. The course appraises
the theories of some of the contemporary relational theorists, such as Lewis
Aron, Stephen Mitchell, Irwin Hoffman, Jay Greenberg, Owen Renik, Jody Messler
Davies, Philip Bromberg, and Adrienne Harris. Relational psychoanalysis
Is not a unified or integrated school of thought but, rather, refers to
a diverse group of theories that focus on personal, intrapersonal, and interpersonal
relations.
Neuropsychoanalysis
Weeks 1-5 (Coordinator: Super)
Five sessions – 10:00 am (Sat)
This survey course provides an introduction to questions of the relationship
between brain and mind in several key areas: Consciousness and the unconscious,
attachment, emotion, motivation, and memory. Finally, it considers some
of the implications of neuroscientific findings for the practice of psychoanalysis.
Week 1 (Gruber) Consciousness and the Unconscious
Week 2 (Hawver) Attachment
Week 3 (Goldman) Emotion and Motivation
Week 4 (Grey) Memory
Week 5 (Winer) Neurobiology and Psychoanalysis
Human Development / Pathological Formations
Weeks 11-20 – Theory and Treatment of Complex Psychopathology (Silver/Twentyman)
Nine sessions - 10:00 am (Sat)
This course will examine the pathological formations and technical considerations
of work with patients presenting complex problems within what has been called
the “widening scope” of psychoanalysis. Topics will include
psychosis, borderline conditions, autism and perversions.
Continuous Case Conferences
An adult case will be presented with the opportunity to track the analysts’
efforts to work with similar dynamic issues in both play and verbal therapies.
As in the other Continuous Case Conferences, there will be a particular
focus on an examination of the mind of the analyst at work, with a careful
consideration of the multiple different factors to which the analyst responds
when conducting the analysis.
Weeks 1-15 - Adult (Hani/Grey)
Fourteen sessions - 11:45 am (Sat)
Writing
Weeks 21-30 - Writing Course (Keats/Chefetz)
Ten sessions - 8:00 am (Sat)
The fourth year of the writing sequence is a further elaboration of the
case writing learned in the two previous courses. Those candidates whose
control cases are already creditable may ready to write a first draft of
the graduation paper. At a minimum, the candidate will write a 15 page report
that identifies the major themes of the psychoanalysis and shows how each
theme developed over several years.
Research
Weeks 27-30 – Introduction to Research (Snejnevski)
Four sessions – 11:45 am (Sat)
This course will introduce candidates to research methods and readings in psychoanalytic research. Issues in doing research in psychoanalysis will be explored.
ADVANCED CURRICULUM (Fifth and Subsequent Years)
Course requirements for the advanced candidates represent less than half the time commitment of years 1-4: two trimester courses or one semester course. Each advanced candidate is required to take an advanced clinical course, or a clinical study group, as one of the two required trimester courses, or as the semester course. Self-assessment by candidates strongly encouraged. The choice of courses must be made each year in consultation with the faculty advisor who will help the candidate decide which course will be the most beneficial. One advanced candidate will present and discuss an ongoing analytic case for the Fellowship Program in Psychoanalysis, a group of mental health professionals and students who are interested in an introduction to psychoanalytic thinking and treatment. The presentation and discussion will be facilitated by a member of the Institute faculty chosen with input from the candidate. The seminar is designed to demonstrate to an audience relatively unfamiliar with psychoanalytic theory and technique how material unfolds in an analysis and how the mind of the analyst works, i.e., how we observe and think about what we hear and see; how we form interpretations and decide on whether and when to make them.
Fifth-year Comprehensive Seminar (Tutorial only) (Spitz, Long)
Required for 5th year candidates.
The seminar is intended to assist the candidate in writing the final 20
page case report that demonstrates the candidate has digested and integrated
psychoanalytic theory and has acquired the skill of psychoanalytic technique.
Joint Institute Clinical Case Conference — Adult (Derek Hawver, Jay
Phillips, Monroe Pray, Aurelio Zerla)
Fifteen sessions: Saturdays, 10:15-11:45 am.
Oct. 4, 18; Nov. 1,15; Dec. 6; Jan. 3, 24; Feb. 7, 21; March 7, 21; April
4, 18; May 2,16
(May 30-snow date).
This is a Continuous Case Conference for advanced candidates and graduates offered and taught jointly with the Baltimore-Washington Institute. This conference has received excellent reviews by participants in its previous four years and is held in high regard by both institutes. A number of graduates of both institutes have attended regularly and have engaged actively in the lively discussions. Classes are held at the Baltimore-Washington Center for Psychoanalysis, 14900 Sweitzer Lane, Suite 102, Laurel, MD (just off I-95, easy to find and with lots of free parking). For directions go to www.bwanalysis.org.
Study Groups and Tutorials
In place of the required formal courses, advanced candidates may undertake the study of special projects in groups of two or more, with the approval of the faculty advisors and in consultation with the Curriculum Committee. The topics may be clinical, theoretical, or applied psychoanalysis. In addition, an individual candidate may arrange a ten-session tutorial with a faculty member, which will meet the requirement for a trimester course. Study Groups and Tutorials must be formed before March 1 of the previous year.
Clinical Exploration of Prematurely Terminated Cases - Not offered in 2008-09
Ten sessions. Time and Location to be arranged. (Chused )
Maximum enrollment: 8
The experience of having an analytic case terminate prematurely (quit) is
unwanted but unavoidable. Often, the opportunity to learn from these cases
is limited to exploration between candidate and supervisor, without the
richness of focused discussion with colleagues. This course will use “failed
cases” as stimuli for inquiry into the analytic relationship and the
techniques which can facilitate the use of that relationship for a positive
therapeutic outcome.
Brain Science and Psychoanalysis
Ten sessions. Fourth Wednesdays, September - June. 8 - 9:30 pm, Dr. Winer’s
home. (Meagher, Winer)
Recent advances in the brain sciences including studies of neurodevelopment,
neurochemistry, Neuro-imaging, and neurobiology will be explored in an effort
to see how results of these studies enlarge our understanding of cognitive
and social learning, memory, affect regulation, response to trauma, and
dream theory. In each session, findings in the brain sciences will be integrated
with the theory and practice of psychoanalysis. Ten monthly meetings are
planned during the year, following the “salon” format in which
participants rotate as discussion leaders. Center members are urged to participate
in this effort to synthesize new knowledge. Candidates and members from
the Baltimore-Washington Center also participate.
Contemporary Gender Theory and Clinical Implications
Ten sessions. Dates, time, and location to be arranged. (Vande Loo)
This course will study contemporary gender theory and clinical implications.
Emphasis on recent psychoanalytic gender literature, especially since 1990,
from diverse contemporary psychoanalytic theoretical perspectives.
Psychoanalytic Perspective on Literature
Ten sessions. Second Mondays—September - June. 8 - 9:30 pm, Dr. Winer’s
home. (Winer)
This course will explore psychoanalytic perspectives on fiction, considering
both what the analyst can learn about the human condition from the author
and the understandings that psychoanalysis can bring to the text. For each
meeting we will read a short story, a novella, a play, or a manageable section
of a novel; works may be selected from both the classical and contemporary
literature. The members of this course will be drawn from both the faculty
and advanced candidate group. Each participant will be responsible for selecting
the reading for one of the sessions and for initiating the discussion. Enrollment
limited to five advanced candidates.
Psychoanalytic Theory of Creativity
Fifteen sessions. 1st and 3rd Saturdays beginning in September. Location
to be arranged.
10:00 am (Cotlove)
Historically, this long-standing group has studied the contributions psychoanalytic
literature and thought can make to the understanding of creativity, particularly
in literature, the arts, history, film-making and biography, and has focused
on outstandingly creative people in these fields. We have less frequently
undertaken studies of scientists and scientific discoveries. Most of our
efforts have been directed toward the lives, works, and wider societal contexts
of creative people.
Now we would like to adopt a somewhat different frame of reference, less the study of creative individuals than of the contexts in which creative people and creative outcomes have demonstrably arisen. We plan to begin with studies of companies and corporations in which “innovation” in research and development has become, both psychologically and economically, a major priority. Eventually we hope to be able to draw broader than individually-based conclusions about what fosters creativity or sets a spark to its arousal. This approach will certainly include the psychoanalytic study of group processes, and what frees or inhibits “thinking outside the box.”
We meet on the first and third Saturdays of the month, from 10:00 to 11:30 am.
Introduction to Andre Green
Ten sessions. Dates, time, and location to be arranged. (Cereijido)
An introduction to the work of this French psychoanalyst, focusing on his
thoughts about narcissism and borderline personality.
Clinical Explorations of Impasse
Ten sessions. First and third Wednesdays beginning in mid- November. Location
to be arranged. (Chused, Winer)
The experience of having an analytic case stalled or at impasse is both
frustrating and challenging, and an inevitable part of the analytic work.
Often, the opportunity to learn from these cases is limited to exploration
between candidate and supervisor, or between analyst and consultant, without
the richness of focused discussion with colleagues. This course will use
the participants’ presentations of cases at impasse as stimuli for
inquiry into the analytic process relationship, with the aim of discovering
techniques that can facilitate resolution of the impasse. From the presentations
general principles about how impasses are created and resolved will be developed.
Readings may be used at the group’s discretion.
Freud
Not offered in 2008-09
Ten sessions. First Mondays, September-June,
Instructors’ homes (G. Miller, Sherman, Waugaman)
This course will study selections from Freud’s work (for example,
Studies in Hysteria, Interpretation of Dreams, Case Histories, Papers on
Technique, Ego and the Id, Analysis Terminable and Interminable, or others).
Participants will study either a short selection for a single class, or
a longer selection divided over several classes. The reading assignments
will be modest in length (approximately 10-30 pages), but course members
will be expected to know the readings thoroughly. The focus of the class
will be the exegesis of the text. The instructors will alternately present.
