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.

Syllabus

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

Title: Depersonalization in the Context of the Social Unconscious

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

Syllabus

Required Reading:

Guralnik, O. & Simeon, M.D. (2010). Depersonalization: Standing in the spaces between recognition and interpellation. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 20:400-416.

Rozmarin, E. (2017). The Day After in Therapy. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 27:119-121.

Optional Readings:

Benjamin, J. (2017). “The Wolf’s Dictionary”: Confronting the triumph of a predatory world view. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 53:470-488.

Benjamin, J. (2021). Acknowledgment, harming, and political trauma: Reflections after the plague year. Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 18:401-412

Class 6 5/13/25

No CE’s - Process group

Class 7 5/20/25

Title: Becoming More Alive & Real: Exploring The Ontological Dimension of Psychoanalysis

Teacher: Michael Mervosh, M.Ed.

Syllabus

Required Reading:

Thomas H. Ogden (2024). Ontological Psychoanalysis in Clinical Practice, The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 93:1, 13-31, DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2024.2314776

Optional Readings:

Ken Corbett (2021). Credo – So Our Live Glide On. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, (31)(3):253-261

Ofra Eshel (2021). (2020). Out of the Depths I Cry To You, Psychoanaltic Inquiry, (40)(2):109-119

Class 8 5/27/25

Title: What Alive Means, Part 2: Exploring Transitional Objects & Intermediate Space

Teacher: Michael Mervosh, M.Ed.

Syllabus

Required Reading:

Thomas H. Ogden (2024). Ontological Psychoanalysis in Clinical Practice, The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 93:1, 13-31, DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2024.2314776

Optional Readings:

Ken Corbett (2021). Credo – So Our Lives Glide On. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, (31)(3):253-261

Markman, H. (2020). Embodied attunement and participation. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 68(5), 807–834.

Gabel, S. (2020). D. W. Winnicott and religion: The intermediate area of experiencing as a dissociative phenomenon. British Journal of Psychotherapy, 36(1), 4–21.

Goldberg, P. Notes on locating Winnicott

Class 9 6/3/25

Title: Clinical Approaches to Working with Dreams

Teacher: George Herrity, Psy.D, MSW

Syllabus

References/Readings 

Required:

Fink, B. (2017). A clinical introduction to Freud: Techniques for everyday practice. WW Norton & Company. (Chapter 3: Dreams: The royal road to the unconscious pp. 65-121.)

Optional:

Goodwyn, E., & Reis, J. (2020). Teaching dream interpretation to psychiatric residents. Psychodynamic Psychiatry, 48(2), 140-151.

Roesler, C. (2023). Dream interpretation and empirical dream research–an overview of research findings and their connections with psychoanalytic dream theories. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 104(2), 301-330.

Wolitzer, M. (2024). Dreaming A Narcissist. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 72(2), 331-336.

Class 10 6/10/25

Title: Clinical Approaches to Working with Dreams - Class 2

Teacher: George Herrity, Psy.D, MSW

Syllabus

References/Readings 

Required:

Roesler, C. (2023). Dream interpretation and empirical dream research–an overview of research findings and their connections with psychoanalytic dream theories. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 104(2), 301-330.

Optional:

Fink, B. (2007). Fundamentals of psychoanalytic technique: A Lacanian approach for practitioners. WW Norton & Company.

Goodwyn, E., & Reis, J. (2020). Teaching dream interpretation to psychiatric residents. Psychodynamic Psychiatry, 48(2), 140-151.

Wolitzer, M. (2024). Dreaming A Narcissist. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 72(2), 331-336.

Class 11 6/17/25

Title: Reflections on Learning Together

Teacher: Sharon Bernstein, Ph.D.

Syllabus

References/Readings 

1. Smith, K. R. (2021). Introduction. In Therapeutic ethics in conflict and dialogue. Routledge.

2. Smith, K. R. (2021). Therapy against ethics and the ethics of therapy. In Therapeutic ethics in conflict and dialogue. Routledge.

3. Smith, K. R. (2021). Therapy and the modern identity. In Therapeutic ethics in conflict and dialogue. Routledge

4. Smith, K. R. (2021). Chapter 4 . In Therapeutic ethics in conflict and dialogue. Routledge.

Class 12 6/24/25

No CE’s - Process group

Workshop 6 Weekend Workshop 6/8/25

10 am - 2 pm
Syllabus details to come!
No CE’s will be offered for this event.