Psychoanalytic Psychotherapies in Practice

Block 4 Course Overviews:

Block 4 Psychoanalytic Concepts and Their Application

Block 4 Psychoanalytic Psychotherapies in Context

Block 4 Class Dates and Course Materials:

Class 1 09.17.24.

Title: Orienting Toward Year 2

Teacher: Alyson Kepple, M.D.

Syllabus

Class 2 09.24.24.

Title: Psychoanalytic Aims as Ethical Proposals

Teacher: Kevin Smith, PH.D

Syllabus

Readings:

Smith, K. R. (2024). Psychoanalytic aims as ethical proposals. Unpublished paper.

Stern, D. B. Implicit theories of technique and the values that inspire them. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, (32)(1), 33-49.

Class 3 10.01.24.

Title: The Analyst’s Involvement

Teacher: Alyson Kepple, M.D.

Syllabus

Readings:

Buechler, S. (2002) More Simply Human than Otherwise. Contemporary Psychoanalysis 38:485-497

Pizer, S. A. (2014) The Analyst’s Generous Involvement: Recognition and the “Tension of Tenderness”. Psychoanalytic Dialogues 24:1-13

Class 4 10.08.24.

Title: Learning To See Ourselves

Teacher: Sharon Bernstein, Ph. D.

Syllabus

Readings:

Stern, D. B. (2004). The eye sees itself: Dissociation, enactment, and the achievement of conflict. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 40(2), 197-237.

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

Class 5 10.15.24.

Title: The Analyst’s Subjectivity and Use of Self

Teacher: Michael Mervosh, Ph.D. & Miriam DeRiso, Ph.D.

Syllabus

Readings:

Stolorow, R. & Atwood, G. (1997). Deconstructing the Myth of the Neutral Analyst: An Alternative From Intersubjective Systems Theory, Psychoanalytic Quarterly, (66):431-449

Ogden, T. (2018). How I Talk with My Patients, Psychoanalytic Quarterly, (87)(3):399-413

Optional:

Atwood, G. & Stolorow, R. (2016). Walking the Tightrope of Emotional Dwelling, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, (26)(1):103-108

Stern, D. (2022) Feels Like Me: Formulating the Embodied Mind. Psychoanalytic Inquiry 42:232-243

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapies in Context: Sexuality.

Class 6 10.22.24.

No syllabus for this class.

Class 7 10.29.24.

Title: The Analyst’s Use of Self: Privacy, Reverie, and the Intersubjective Third

Teachers: Michael Mervosh, Ph.D. & Miriam DeRiso, Ph.D.

Syllabus

Readings:

Kuchuck, S. (2018). The Analyst's Subjectivity: On the Impact of Inadvertent, Deliberate, and Silent Disclosure, Psychoanalytic Perspectives, (15)(3): 265-274.

Ogden, T. (1996). Reconsidering Three Aspects of Psychoanalytic Technique, International Journal of Psychoanalysis (77):883-899.

Optional:

Corbett, K. (2014). The Analyst’s Private Space: Spontaneity, Ritual, Psychotherapeutic Action, and Self- Care, Psychoanalytic Dialogues (24)(6):637-647.

Stern, D. B. (2024) Intersubjectivity, Field Theory, and Adrienne Harris’s “You Must Remember This”. Psychoanalytic Dialogues 3:431-433

Class 8 11.05.24

Title: The Analyst’s Use of Self: Working With Enactments, Transference-Countertransference Binds, and the Analyst’s Self States

Teacher: Michael Mervosh, Ph.D. & Miriam DeRiso, Ph.D.

Syllabus

Readings:

Messler-Davies, J. (2004). Whose Bad Objects Are We Anyway? Psychoanalytic Dialogues, (14)(6):711-732

Symington, N. (1983). The Analyst's Act of Freedom as Agent of Therapeutic Change, The International Review Of Psychoanalysis, (10):283-291.

Additional readings:

Cornell, W. (2016) Failing To Do The Job, Transactional Analysis Journal, 46:4, 266-276.

Davies, J. (2018) The “Once and Future” Focus of a Relational Psychoanalysis: Discussion of “Vitalizing Enactment”, Psychoanal. Dial., (28)(3):355-360.

Benjamin, J. (2015) Cooking Up a Storm—Together. Psychoanalytc Dialogues, (25)(3):335-343.

Class 9 11.12.24

Title: Vitalization and Treatment

Teacher: George Herrity, Psy.D., MSW

Readings:

Class 10 11.19.24

Title: Vitalization and Treatment - Class 2

Teacher: George Herrity, Psy.D., MSW

Readings:

Class 11 12.03.24

Title:

Teacher:

Syllabus

Class 12 12.10.24

No syllabus for this class.

Block 4 Weekend Workshop 12/15/24

Title: Precarities, Vulnerabilities and Interdependence

Facilitators: Patricia Donohue, PhD and William Cornell, MA, TSTA, (P).

Time: 10am to 4pm

Location: 145 44 th Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15201

Syllabus

Readings:

González, F. J. (2020). First World Problems and Gated Communities of the Mind: An Ethics of Place in Psychoanalysis. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 89(4), 741–770.

2. Judith Butler and Sunaura Taylor. (2011). Examined Life [streaming]. YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_N84BffPcM

3. Cotter, N. (2024). From poor white roots to intersectional anti-poverty solutions for all. Public Source. https://www.publicsource.org/white-poverty-black-pittsburgh-allegheny-county-research-disparities/

Supplemental Materials:

1. Newnham, N. and LeBrecht, J. (2020). Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution [streaming].

California: Netflix