Psychoanalytic Psychotherapies in Practice

Block 5 Course Overviews:

Block 5 Class Dates and Course Materials:

Psychoanalytic Concepts and Their Application: Returning to Depression as Model of Mind.
Class 1 1.14.25.

Title: Exploring Projective Identification in Theory and Practice - Class 1: Foundations of Projective Identification

Teacher: Loren Sobel M.D.

Syllabus

Readings:

Spillius, E. (1992). Clinical Experiences of Projective Identification. New Library of Psychoanalysis, 14, 59–73.

Feldman, M. (1992). Splitting and Projective Identification. New Library of Psychoanalysis, 14, 74–88.

Optional Readings: 

  1. Nielsen, A. C. (2019). Projective identification in couples. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 67(4), 593-624. https://doi.org/10.1177/0003065119884943

  2. Aronson, S. (2023). Karl Abraham, the origins of projective identification and the day of atonement. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 92(3), 499-514. https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2023.2272609


Class 2 1.21.25

Title: Class 2: Advanced Considerations of Projective Identification

Teacher: Loren Sobel M.D.

Syllabus

Readings:

  1. Feldman, M. (1997). Projective Identification: The Analyst’s Involvement. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 78, 227–241.

  2. Feldman, M. (1994). Projective Identification in Phantasy and Enactment. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 14(2), 423–440.

  3. Sodré, I. (2015). Who’s Who? Notes on Pathological Identifications. New Library of Psychoanalysis, 84, 41–55.

Optional Readings: 

  1. Clarke, J. (2019). We need to talk about Fabian: Klein’s ‘lost’ theory of projective identification and the social construction of gender/queer objects. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, 33(3), 192-217. https://doi.org/10.1080/02668734.2019.1676901

  2. Báez-Powell, N. N. (2023). Ramifications of client’s use of projective identification, racism, and enactments of otherness: A nascent clinician’s struggle inhabiting her identities in the therapy room. Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, 28(2), 232–249. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41282-023-00378-5

Class 3 1.28.25

Title: The Difficult-to-Treat Patient — Focus on Pathological Organizations

Teacher: Loren Sobel M.D.

Syllabus

Required Readings:

  1. O’Shaughnessy, E. (1983). Enclaves and Excursions. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 64, 241–256

  2. Steiner, J. (1993). Perverse Relationships Between Parts of the Self. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 74, 469–480

  3. Riviere, J. (1936). A Contribution to the Analysis of the Negative Therapeutic Reaction. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 17, 304–320

Optional Readings: 

  1. Crastnopol, M. (2018). Getting Better: Impediments and Aids to Psychic Change. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 54(3), 511–539.

  2. Zeavin, L. (2019). The Elusive Good Object. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 88(1), 75–93

  3. Weiss, H. (2020). A River with Several Different Tributary Streams: Reflections on the Repetition Compulsion. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 101(6), 1172–1187

Class 4 2.04.25

Title: “Madness”—in the Therapist and the Client

Teacher: William Cornell, M.A. TSTA

Syllabus

Required Readings:

  1. Quinodoz, D. (2001). The Psychoanalyst of the Future: Wise enough to dare to be mad at times. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 82, 235-248.  

  2. Quinodoz, D. (2003). Words that touch. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 84, 1469-1485. 

  3. Mellacqua, Z. (2020). Don’t hide the madness. Chapter 10, Transactional analysis of Schizophrenia: The Naked Self. London: Routledge, 2020. 

Optional Readings: 

  1. Steiner, J. (1994). Patient-centered and analyst-centered interpretations: Some implications of containment and countertransference. Psychoanalytic inquiry, , 14, 406-422.

  2. McDougall, J. (1992-original in French, 1978). Plea for a measure of abnormality. Chapter 13, Plea for a Measure of Abnormality. New York: Brunner/Mazel, pp. 463-486.

  3. Cornell - 30 years ago

  4. Mellacqua, Z. (2020). When a mind breaks down: A brief history of efforts to understand schizophrenia. Transactional Analysis Journal, 50(2), 117-129.

  5. Cornell, W. F. (2022). Schiffian reparenting theory reexamined through contemporary lenses: Comprehending the meanings of psychotic experience. Transactional Analysis Journal, 52(1), 40–58.

Class 5 2.11.25

Process group - NO CE’s

Class 6 2.18.25

Title: Exploring Mind/Body Splitting in the Understanding of the Psychotic Dilemma

Teacher: William Cornell, M.A. TSTA

Syllabus

Required Readings:

  1. Lombardi, R. (2011). The body, feelings, and the unheard music of the senses. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 47, 3-24.  

  2. Cornell, W.F. (2022). Wishing I weren’t here: Therapeutic engagements with disembodied states. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 42, 253-265.  

  3. Lombardi, R.  (2010). The body emerging from the “Neverland” of nothingness. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 79: 879-909. 

Optional, Additional Readings: 

  1. Lombardi, R. (2016). Conversations with clinicians. Fort da, 22, 68-74. 

  2. Goldberg, P. (2022). Embodiment, dissociation, and the rhythm of life. In Harrang, C., Tillotson, D., & Winters, N. C.

(Eds.), Body as psychoanalytic object: Clinical implications from Winnicott to Bion and beyond (pp. 118–133). Routledge.


Psychoanalytic Psychotherapies in Context: Power and Powerlessness


Class 7 2.25.25

Title: Mind/Body Splitting in the schizoid character from a phenomenological perspective

Teacher: William Cornell, M.A. TSTA

Syllabus

Required:

  1. Laing, R.D. (1967). The Divided Self. New York: Pantheon Books, pp. 40-91.

  2. Atwood, G. (2015). Credo and reflections. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 25(2), 137-152.

Recommended:

  1. Akhtar, S. (2019). Hoarding: A multifactorial understanding. International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, 16(3), 145-159.

  2. Cates, L. (2018). Silencing of sadness: Finding the story in the body. Psychoanalytic Self and Context, 13(3), 259-271.

Class 8 3.4.25

Title: Introduction to Intersubjective-Systems Theory, the Phenomenological, Contextualist Perspective in Psychoanalysis

Teacher: Alyson Kepple, M.D.

Syllabus

Required:

1. Please listen to part 1 of the podcast, "The Conversation" by Daniel Goldin and Daniel Posner on the subject of "Otherness" 

https://the-conversation.simplecast.com/episodes/otherness-part-1
and come prepared to share your questions and reflections. Hopefully this will start to jog everyone’s memory a little as we will be integrating concepts from earlier classes on embeddedness, infant research and attachment. 

2. Stolorow, R. D. (2014). Undergoing the situation: Emotional dwelling is more than empathic understanding. International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology, 9(1), 80–83. 

Recommended:

  1. Stolorow, R. D., & Atwood, G. E. (1996). The intersubjective perspective. Psychoanalytic Review, 83(2), 181–194.

  2. Bugliani, A., & Rowlandson, B. (2023). The Therapist’s Struggle to Hold Hope When All Seems Lost. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 33, 351 - 367.

  3. Ferguson, H. (2023). Searching for Embodied Connection in the Age of COVID-19. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 43, 629 - 640.

Class 9 3.11.25

Title: Introduction to Self Psychology and an Expanded Conceptualization of Empathy

Teacher: Alyson Kepple, M.D.

Syllabus

Required:

1. Written reflection: Think of a recent session from within the last week and focus in on a moment when you noticed your mind wandering to a particular association (a thought or image) or felt a shift in affect within yourself in response to something your patient shared with you. Tell us what happened. What did you come to understand about your patient’s experience and your own? Did you share this with them and if so, what happened next? A brief narrative description or clinical dialogue would be great, but you can write in whatever form you want. Please bring a copy to class if you are comfortable sharing.

2. Atwood, G. & Stolorow, R. (2016). Walking the tightrope of emotional dwelling. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 26:102-107.

3. Geist, R. A. (2013). How the empathic process heals: A microprocess perspective. International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology, 8(3), 265–281. 

Recommended:

1. Geist, R. (2007). Who Are You, Who Am I, and Where Are We Going: Sustained Empathic Immersion in the Opening Phase of Psychoanalytic Treatment. International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology, 2(1), 1–26.

2. Slowiaczek, M. L. (2021). Holding on and Diving in: Reciprocity in a Therapeutic Relationship. Psychoanalysis, Self and Context, 16(3), 242–252. https://doi.org/10.1080/24720038.2021.1928137

Class 10 3.18.25

Title: Affect Regulation and the Development of the Self

Teacher: Alyson Kepple, M.D.

Syllabus

Required:

  1. Socarides, D. D., & Stolorow, R. D. (1984-1985). Affects and selfobjects. The Annual of Psychoanalysis, 12-13, 105–119.

Recommended:

  1. Beebe, B., & Lachmann, F. (2020). Infant research and adult treatment revisited: Cocreating self- and interactive regulation. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 37(4), 313–323. https://doi.org/10.1037/pap0000305

  2. Hill, D. (2021). Vitality, attunement and the lack thereof. In A. Schwartz Cooney & R. Sopher (Eds.), Vitalization in psychoanalysis: Perspectives on being and becoming (pp. 213–235). Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003139065-13

  3. Schore, A. Right brain-to-right brain psychotherapy: recent scientific and clinical advances. Ann Gen Psychiatry 21, 46 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12991-022-00420-3

Class 11 3.25.25

Process Group

Class 12 4.1.25

Title: Putting It Together

Teacher: Sharon Bernstein, Ph.D.

Syllabus

Required Readings:

1. Alvarez, A. (2012). The thinking heart: Three levels of analytic therapy with disturbed children. Routledge. (Will be provided by speaker to learners on March 18).

2. Benjamin, J. (2009). A relational psychoanalysis perspective on the necessity of acknowledging failure in order to restore the facilitating and containing features of the intersubjective relationship (the shared third). The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 90(3), 441-450. 

3. Steiner, J. (1994). Patient-centered and analyst-centered interpretations: Some implications of containment and countertransference. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 14(3), 406-422.

Block 5 Weekend Workshop 3/23/24
10am

Title: Transformation of the Therapist

Facilitators: Miriam DeRiso Ph.D., Alyson Kepple M.D.

Syllabus

Media:

https://www.amazon.com/Saint-Omer-Kayije-Kagame/dp/B0B8NK5TQ5

Required Reading:

https://necsus-ejms.org/poetics-of-refraction-black-subjectivity-and-alice-diops-saint-omer/

Optional Reading:

McKay Ph.D., Rachel Kabasakalian. “Bread and Roses: Empathy and Recognition.” Psychoanalytic Dialogues 29, no. 1 (January 2, 2019): 75–91. https://doi.org/10.1080/10481885.2018.1560870.

Jones, A. “Starvation and ‘The Dead Baby.’” Fort Da 23, no. 2 (2017): 41–65.