Block 6 Course Overviews:

Block 5 Class Dates and Course Materials:

Psychoanalytic Concepts and Their Application: Returning to Splitting as Model of Mind.
Class 1 4/8/25

Title: A Developmental Perspective on Empathy Splitting; Projection, Introjection

Teacher: Sharon Bernstein, Ph.D.

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References/Readings:

1 .Inside Lives: Psychoanalysis and the Growth of the Personality,  Margot Waddell, Routledge 1998, revised edition published H. Karma (Books) ltd. 2002

 Introduction pps. 1-5;  Chapter 1: States of Mind pps. 5-14;  Chapter 2 Beginnings pps. 15- 27; Chapter 3 Infancy: containment and reverie pps.29-43 ; Chapter 4 Infancy: defenses against pain pps. 45-59 ; Chapter 5 Early Childhhood: Weaning and Separtation pops. 60- 80. 

Class 2 4/15/25

Title: A Cultural Context for Psychoanalysis

Teacher: Kevin R. Smith, Ph.D.

Syllabus

Required Readings:

1. Harlem, A. (2009). Thinking through others: Cultural psychology and the psychoanalytic treatment of immigrants. Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, 14, 273-288. 

2. Smith, K. R. (2025). Psychoanalytic aims and psychological health: Illustrative Quotations.

Optional readings:

Gone, J. P. (2021). The (post)colonial predicament in community mental health services for American Indians: Exploration in alter-native psy-ence. American Psychologist, 76, 1514-1525. 

Hamamura, T., Chen, Z., Chan, C. S., Chen, S. X., & Kobayashi, T. (2021). Individualism with Chinese characteristics? Discerning cultural shifts in China using 50 years of printed texts. American Psychologist, 76, 888-903. 

Levine, H. B. (2016). Uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts: Romanticism and the analytic attitude. By Robert Snell. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 85, 242-247.

Class 3 4/22/25

Title: Sex, Culture, and Psychoanalysis

Teacher: Kevin R. Smith, Ph.D.

Syllabus

Required Readings:

1. Blass, R. B. (2016). Psychoanalytic controversy: Introduction to “Is the nature of psychoanalytic thinking and practice (e.g., in regard to sexuality) determined by extra-analytic, social and cultural developments?” International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 97, 811-821. 

2. Greenberg, J. (2015). Therapeutic action and the analyst’s responsibility. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 63, 15-32.  

3. Smith, K. R. (2025). Autonomy and sex: A strange relationship.

Supplemental readings (not required): 

Ogden, T. H. (2021). Analytic writing as a form of fiction. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 69, 221-223. 

Class 4 4/29/25

Title: The Social Unconscious as a Relevant Clinical Concept: Then and Now

Teachers: Patricia Donohue, Ph.D. and Miriam DeRiso, Ph.D.

Syllabus

Readings:

Gonzalez, F. J. (2020). Trump cards and Klein bottles: On the collective of the individual. Psychoanalysis Dialogues, 30:383-398.

Dajani, K. (2020). The cultural underpinnings of subjectivity and inter-subjectivity: A discussion of “Trump cards and Klein bottles: On the collective of the individual.” Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 30:399-407.

Dajani, K. (2022). The social unconscious: Then and now. International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, 19:179-186.

Class 5 5/6/25

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Class 6 5/13/25

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Class 7 5/20/25

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Class 8 5/27/25

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Class 9 6/3/25

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Class 10 6/10/25

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Class 11 6/17/25

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Class 12 6/24/25

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Workshop 6 Weekend Workshop 6/8/25

10 am - 2 pm
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