Block 2 Course Overviews:

This block will be on development and the different psychoanalytic theories that aim to elaborate how an infant comes into being

Block 2 Class Dates and Course Materials:

Class 1 01.16.24

Syllabus

Freud

Solms

Optional Reading:

The Neurobiological Underpinnings of Psychoanalytic Theory and Therapy

On the scientific prospects for Freud’s theory of hysteria

Class 2 01.23.24

Instructors: Loren Sobel, Mike Mervosh

Syllabus

Reading 1 (please see syllabus for video link if you’d rather watch it than read the transcript)

Reading 2

Class 3 01.30.24

Syllabus

Notes on some Schizoid Mechanisms

On the Sense of Loneliness

Loneliness and Integration

Cass 4 02.06.24

Instructor: Bill Cornell

Title: Neo-Kleinian Voices

Syllabus

Revisiting the Psychoanalytic Object: Introduction

The Object Invades: Illustration and Implications

A technique for facilitating the creation of mind

Supplementary reading:

Some questions concerning states of fragmentation: unintegration, under-integration, disintegration, and the nature of early integrations

The Experience of the Skin in Early Object Relations

The Pre-Narrative Envelope

Infants of Subjective Experience

The sense of an Emergent Self

Invasive Object

Class 5 02.13.24

Instructor: Kevin Smith

Title: An Introduction to Winnicott

Syllabus

Mind and its Relation to the Psyche-Soma

Winnicott and Psychoanalysis

Class 6 02.20.24

Instructor: Bill Cornell

Title: Winnicott

Syllabus

Ego Integration

Motility, Aggression, and The Bodily 1: An Interpretation of Winnnicott

Class 7 02.27.24

Instructor: Miriam DeRiso

Title : D.W. Winnicott's Transitional Object, Transitional Space, and Playing: Applications to Contemporary Psychoanalysis with Adults

Syllabus

Transitional Object

Ontological Psychoanalysis or “What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?”

Class 8 03.05.24

Instructor: Patricia Donohue

Title: Decentering and disrupting normative knowledges: critical engagements with developmental theories

Syllabus

What Divides the Subject

Can We Decolonize Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice?

Queer Use of Psychoanalytic Theory as a Path to Decolonization: A Narrative Analysis of Kleinian Object Relations

Impingement in Mothering

Class 9 03.12.24:

Instructor: Kevin Smith

Title: Attachment Theory: Key Concepts, Research, and Therapeutic Relevance

Syllabus

Attachment and Sexuality Ch 8

Attachment Theory and Psychoanalysis

Attachment Classifications

Adult Attachment

Class 10 03.19.24:

Instructor: Alyson Kepple

Title: Infant Research and Psychoanalytic Engagement

Syllabus

Class Outline

Some Contributions of Empirical Infant Research to Adult Psychoanalysis

Mother—Infant Mutual Influence and Precursors of Psychic Structure

Class 11 03.26.24:

Instructor: William Cornell

Title: Exploring the Erotic Nature of Early Parent/Infant Relations: Critical Reflections on Mother-Infant Research & Attachment Theories

Syllabus

Discussion

Eroticism in the Maternal Matrix

In the Beginning is the Mother

Supplemental

Understanding the Sexuality of Infants within Caregiving Relationships in the First Year

Bad Blood Revisited: Attachment and Psychoanalysis

Class 12 04.02.24:

Instructor: Miriam DeRiso

Title: Boston Change Process Study Group: Implicit Relational Knowing and Psychoanalysis with Adults

Syllabus

Non-Interpretive Mechanisms in Psychoanalytic Therapy

Body Rhythms and the Unconscious

Contextualizing Attunement Within the Polyrhythmic Weave: The Psychoanalytic Samba

Workshop 2

Title: Authenticity and Autonomy Viewed through a Lens of Cultural Situatedness

Syllabus

Reading:

The Ethics of memory

 The Healer”s Bent: Solitude and Dialogue in the Clinical Encounter