Block 3 Course Overviews:

Psychoanalytic Concepts and Their Application: Early States of Mind. First 6 weeks of Block 3

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapies in Context. Second 6 weeks of Block 3

Psychoanalytic Clinical Praxis Block 3

Block 3 Class Dates and Course Materials:

Psychoanalytic Concepts and Their Application: Early States of Mind
Class 1 04.09.24.

Title: Roots and Branches of the Psychoanaltic Tree

Teacher: Sharon Bernstien

Syllabus

Readings:

The Intrapsychic and the Interpersonal: Different Theories, Different Domains, or Historical Ar facts?

Class 2 04.16.24.

Title: Social Psychoanalysis and Economic Injustice: What are we doing here?

Teacher: Miriam DeRiso

Syllabus

Readings:

Who Is the Sufferer and What Is Being Suffered? Subjectivity in Times of Social Malaise

A. Friedman and O.Nakash

Supplementary Reading:

Reflections on Hollander’s “Hegemonic Mind” and How to Treat It

The Manic Society

Some psychic effects of neoliberalism: Narcissism, disavowal, perversion

Class 3 04.23.24.

Cancelled

Class 4 04.30.24.

Title: Repression as Isolation in Psychic Conflict

Teacher: Noah Rahm

Syllabus

Reading:

A Clinical Introduction of Freud (part 1)

A Clinical Introduction of Freud (part 2)

Supplementary Reading:

Repression: A Critical Assessment and Update of Freud’s 1915 Paper

A Model for Integrating Actual Neurotic or Unrepresented States and Symbolized Aspects of Intrapsychic Conflict.

Class 5 05.07.24.

Title: Repression and Intrapsychic Conflict Viewed through the lens of Socio-Cultural Suppression and Oppression

Teacher: William Cornell

Syllabus

The Social Determinates

Remembering The Sane Society

Long Shadows of Racism

Punch Me Up to the God #1

Punch Me Up to the Gods #2

Supplemental Reading:

The Social Unconscious

Class 6 05.14.24.

Title: Relational Psychoanalysis: An Introduction

Teacher: Kevin Smith

Syllabus

Readings:

Courting Surprise

Relational Psychoanalysis: An Introduction

Feeling misunderstood bilaterally (Paper copy distributed)

Supplemental readings:

The “Rituals” of the Relational Perspective

The Relational Tradition

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapies in Context

Class 1 05.21.24.

Title: Relational Psychoanalysis and the Generative Future

Teacher: Michael Mervosh

Class 2 05.28.24.

Title: Interpersonal Psychoanalysis Part 1

Teacher: George Herrity, Psy.D.

Syllabus

Readings:

Ontological Psychoanalysis in Clinical Practice

Freud and beyond: A history of modern psychoanalytic thought.

Class 3 06.04.24.

Title: Interpersonal Psychoanalysis Part 2

Teacher: George Herrity, Psy.D.

Syllabus

Readings:

Levenson, E., Hirsch, I., & Iannuzzi, V. (2005). Interview with Edgar A. Levenson: January 24, 2004. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 41(4), 593-644.

Levenson, E. A., & Slomowitz, A. (2017). Interpersonal psychoanalysis and the enigma of consciousness. Routledge.

-Introduction: p. xx-xxii

-Ch. 1 An interpersonal therapist: p. 3-7

Class 4 06.11.24.

Title: Relational Perspectives on Dissociation

Teacher: Alyson Kepple, M.D.

Syllabus

Readings:

Bromberg, P. M. (1996). Standing in the spaces: The multiplicity of self and the psychoanalytic relationship. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 32(4), 509–535.

Davies, J. M., & Frawley, M. G. (1992). Dissociative processes and transference‐countertransference paradigms in the psychoanalytically oriented treatment of adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 2(1), 5–36. https://doi.org/10.1080/10481889209538920

Class 5 06.18.24.

Title: Winnicott, Lombardi. Dissociation through these eyes

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

Syllabus

Class 6 06.25.24.

Title: SocioCultural class 2.

Teacher: Miriam DeRiso, Ph.D.

Syllabus

Block 3 workshop: June 23rd.

Title: Discovering our analytic voices and deepening our work through clinical writing

Facilitators: William Cornell, MA, TSTA, (P), Alyson Kepple, MD, Michael Mervosh, M.Ed.

Syllabus

Readings:

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapies in Practice