Psychoanalytic Psychotherapies in Practice


Block 1 Class Dates and Course Materials:


Class 1. 09.19.23
Title: What are we doing here?

Speaker: Loren Sobel M.D.

Syllabus

Required Readings:

Shedler: That was then, this is now


Class 2. 09.26.23

Title: Personal and Professional Development as an Analytic Therapist

Speakers: Sharon Bernstein Ph.D., Kevin Smith Ph.D.

Syllabus

Required readings:

On becoming a psychoanalyst

Promoting the supervisees project of becoming


Class 3 10.3.23

Title: The Unconscious

Speakers: Loren Sobel M.D. Matt Allen Ph.D.

Syllabus

Required Readings:

Unthought Known, Christopher Bollas

Within, Outside, and In Between, Zeddies




Class 5 10.17.23

Title: The Frame

Speaker: Loren Sobel

Syllabus

When the Frame Doesn’t Fit

Self-Disclosure

Class 6 10.24.23

Title: The Unconscious Forces of Transference

Speaker: Michael Mervosh

Syllabus

An Elusive Aspect of the Analyst’s Relationship to Transference

Ch 2- Stumbling in the Shadows

Ch 10 - Transference

Transference as an Original creation

Class 7 10.31.23

Title: Free Association: Then and Now

Speaker: Bill Cornell

Syllabus

Free Association

The Analyst’s Stance and the Methos of Free Association

Play at Your Own Risk

Class 8 11.07.23

Introduction to Embeddedness

Speaker: Alyson Kepple and Miriam Deriso

Syllabus

Constructing the Self, Constructing America


Class 9 11.14.23

Culture in Session

Speaker: Bill Cornell

Syllabus

Sex in the Kitchen

Cultural determinants in infants and infantile determinants in cultural practices

FROM BEIRUT TO SAN FRANCISCO

Class 10 11.28.23

Subjectivity & Countertransference

Speaker: Michael Mervosh and George Herrity

Syllabus

Ch. 8 The New Bad Object and the Therapeutic Action of Psychoanalysis

Ch.11 Countertransference

Class 11 12.5.23

The Embeddedness and Embodiment of Gender: Queering and the Normative Press

Speaker: Patricia Donohue and Miriam DeRiso

Syllabus

The Queering of a Cisgender Psychoanalyst

Understanding Gender Through the Lens of Transgender Experience

The Queering of Relational Psychoanalysis: Who’s Topping Whom?

Thinking psychoanalytically, thinking better: Reflections on transgender

Workshop 12.10.23

From the Events of History to a Sense of History

Sound of Fury

The Perverse Pact: Racism and White Privilege

Sigmund Freud: German “Negro”; H.S. Sullivan: Northern American “White”: Psychoanalysis and The Fierce Urgency of Now”

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2804822

https://apps.pittsburghpa.gov/redtail/images/10645__Pittsburgh's_Inequality_Across_Gender_and_Race_JULY_2020.pdf

Class 12 12.12.23