Psychoanalytic Cases and Perspectives 2020

Relational Psychoanalysis – Jean Wixom

Objectives:

• 1.     Be able to recognize the central tenets of Relational Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and distinguish them from other analytic perspectives.
• 2.     Be able to describe the concept of intersubjectivity and its place in the therapeutic relationship.
• 3.     Be able to identify enactments as they occur in psychotherapy.
• 4.     Develop facility in using countertrasference reactions as an avenue for recognizing enactments in psychotherapy.
• 5.     Develop a therapeutic language for successfully interpreting enactments in psychotherapy.

References:

 

Self Psychology – Jerry Brandell

Objectives:

• 1.     Be able to describe the basic self psychological ideas of optimal frustration/gratification, traumatic disappointments and their sequelae, self cohesiveness, and structural deficit vs. structural conflict.
• 2.       Be able to identify the central role of empathy in both a developmental and clinical treatment context. 
• 3.       Be able to recognize the developmental function of selfobjects and how they relate to Kohut’s concept of transmuting internalization.
• 4.       Be able to apply the self psychological concepts of therapeutic action (as defined in the literature of self psychology) to clinical work.
• 5.       Be able to recognize the varieties of selfobject transference, as defined by psychoanalytic self psychology.

References:

Bacal, H.A. (1994). The Selfobject Relationship in Psychoanalytic Treatment. Progress in Self Psychology, 10, 21-30.

Kohut, H. (2018). Select papers from The Search for the Self: Select Writings of Heinz Kohut: 1978-1981, P. Ornstein, ed. Routledge Press.

Kohut, H. (2009). Select chapters from Restoration of the Self.  University of Chicago Press (originally published in 1977 by International Universities Press). 

Kohut, H. (1984). Select chapters from How Does Analysis Cure?  University of Chicago Press.

Shane, E. (2018). A Relational Self Psychological Approach to the Clinical Situation. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 28(6), 687-695.

Schreiber, D. (2019). In Heinz-sight: Towards a Contemporary Understanding of Expansiveness and the Grandiose Self.  Psychoanalysis, Self, and Context, 14(4), 413-427.

Zimmerman, P.B. (2019).  On Leading and Trailing Edge: Toward a New Conceptualization of What is Curative in Psychoanalysis.  Psychoanalytic Review, 106(4), 291-303.

Classical Psychoanalysis and Ego Psychology, Michael Shulman

Objectives:

At the end of this segment students will be able to:

1. Identify the distinct parts of both Freud’s major models of the mind, the topographic and the structural models.
2. Describe the historical development of ego psychology from its roots in Freud’s structural model into the early part of the 21^st century.
3. Formulate three distinct ways that defenses manifest themselves within therapy session process. 
4. Explain the content versus process distinction in the study of psychoanalytic therapies.
5. Analyze the limitations of the structural theory and ego psychology that lead to the need to supplement these theories in the history of the psychoanalytic psychotherapies.

Readings:

9/14     Chapter “The unconscious” in S. Frosch (2003), Key concepts in psychoanalysis. New York: New York University Press. Pp. 11-18.

Freud, S. (1900). The dream of Irma’s injection. The interpretation of dreams. From volume 4, The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud. London: Hogarth Press, pp. 106-121.

9/21 and 10/5   Sections 1-5 of S. Freud (1926)., The question of lay analysis. From volume 20, The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud. London: Hogarth Press.

Leffert, M. (2010). Why one should (or shouldn't) read Freud: Commentary on “Returning to Freud” by Richard D. Chessick. J. Amer. Acad. Psychoanal., 38(3):441-449.

Maetzener, C. (2015).  Book review of Diary of an Analysis with Freud: “Wie Benimmt Sich Der Prof. Freud Eigentlich?” Ein Neu Entdecktes Tagebuch Von 1921 Historisch Und Analytisch Kommentiert (“How Does Prof. Freud Actually Behave?” A Newly Discovered Diary From 1921 with Historical and Analytic Commentary), edited by A. Koellreuter. Giessen: Psychosozial-Verlag, 2010, 319 pp., €32.90.  Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 63(2):337-350

10/12    Ogden, T. (2005). This art of psychoanalysis: Dreaming undreamt dreams and interrupted cries. In This art of psychoanalysis: Dreaming undreamt dreams and interrupted cries, pp. 1-18. London: Routledge.  (2005). What I would not part with.  In This art of psychoanalysis: Dreaming undreamt dreams and interrupted cries, pp. 1-18. London: Routledge, pp. 19-26.

10/19   Ogden, T. (1992). Comments on transference and countertransference in the initial analytic meeting.  Psychoanalytic Inquiry 12: 225-247.

10/26 and 11/2   Davison, T., Pray, M., Bristol, C. and Welker, R.  (1996). Defense analysis and mutative interpretation. In Danger and defense: The technique of close process attention, M. Goldberger, ed., pp. 1-52. Northvale, NJ: Aronson.     

Busch, F. (2013). Transforming the under-Represented: The unacknowledged influence of ego psychology. Canadian J. Psychoanal., 21(2):292-312.

Object Relations – Peter Wood

Objectives:

1.  Formulate cases incorporating object relations concepts.

2.  Use clinical interventions centered in an understanding of the patient’s object relations.

3.  Recognize and begin to use countertransference and projective identification in clinical work.

4.  Identify and describe object-relations dryads in psychic functioning.

5.  Describe the meaning and importance of holding and containment in object relations theory and practice.

References:

Ogden, T. (1983). The Concept of Internal Object Relations IJP, 64:227-241

Summers, F. (1994) An Object Relations Paradigm for Psychoanalysis, in Object Relations Theories and Psychopathology, Hillsdale, NJ.  The Analytic Press

Yeomans, F, Clarkin, J, Kernberg, O. (2002) A Primer of Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for the Borderline Patient. Jason Aronson.  Pp 13-35, 55-63

Bollas, .C (1979). The Transformational Object. IJP, 60:97-107

Bollas, .C (1982).On the Relations to the Self as an Object  IJP, 63:347-359

Charles, M.  (2018) Introduction to Contemporary Psychoanalysis.  NY: Routledge.  Chap 4.  A Contemporary Kleinian/Bionian Perspective

Slochower, J. (2018).  D.W. Winnicott: holding, playing, and moving toward mutuality.  In Charles, M. (ed.), Introduction to Contemporary Psychoanalysis.  NY: Routledge.

Additional Readings

Ghafouri, S.,  Summers, F.,  Dehghani, M. and  Shahboulaghi, F. (2020). Process of Object Relation Therapy Based on Transference and Potential Space in Patients with Major Depressive Disorder: A Grounded Theory Study. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 37(1):77-81

Kernberg, O. (2015). Neurobiological correlates of object relations theory: The relationship between neurobiological and psychodynamic development.  International Forum of Psychoanalysis, 24(1):38-46.

Grotstein, J. (1982). Newer Perspectives in Object Relations Theory. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 18:43-91