Year 1: 30 didactic classes; 6 process groups; 2 workshops

Intro Series (4-5 classes)

09.16.25 Personal descriptions of analytic sensibility All faculty encouraged to come

09.23.25 The framing of psychoanalytic therapy Sharon Bernstein
Ethics and Sensibilities : and so we begin
Syllabus
Readings:
1. Mc Williams, Nancy. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: A Practitioner’s Guide, The Guilford Press , New York 2004 Chapters 1 and 2

2. Smith, Kevin R, Therapeutic Aims and Human Flourishing

09.30.25 The Framing of Psychoanalytic Therapy George Herrity

Syllabus
Readings:
Required:

McWilliams, N. (2004). Psychoanalytic psychotherapy: A practitioner's guide. Guilford Press.

- Chapters 3: The Therapist’s Preparation pp. 46 – 72.

- Chapter 4: Preparing the Client pp. 73 – 98.

Optional:

Briggs, S., Netuveli, G., Gould, N., Gkaravella, A., Gluckman, N. S., Kangogyere, P., & Lindner, R. (2019). The effectiveness of psychoanalytic/psychodynamic psychotherapy for reducing suicide attempts and self-harm: systematic review and meta-analysis. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 214(6), 320-328.

Shedler, J. (2020). Where is the evidence for “evidence-based” therapy? 1. Outcome research and the future of psychoanalysis, 44-56.

Tarzian, M., Ndrio, M., & Fakoya, A. O. (2023). An introduction and brief overview of psychoanalysis. Cureus, 15(9).

10.07.25 The framing of psychoanalytic therapy Kevin Smith

Syllabus

Readings:
Required Readings:

McWilliams, N. (2004). Psychoanalytic therapy: A practitioner’s guide. Chapters 5 & 6. Guilford Press.
Smith, Kevin R. (2025). Three aspects of therapeutic practice. (Handout for this class.)
Kepple, Alyson & Smith, Kevin R. (2025). Psychoanalytic theories answer four fundamental questions. (Handout for this class.)

Supplemental readings (not required):

Aron, L. & Atlas, G. (2019). Dramatic dialogue: Dreaming and drama in contemporary clinical practice. Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 16, 249-271.

Bekes, V. & Hoffman, L. (2020). The “something more” than working alliance: Authentic relational moments. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 68, 1051-1064.

Geist, R. A. (2020). Interpretation as carrier of selfobject functions: Catalyzing inborn potential. Psychoanalysis, Self and Context, 15, 338-347.

10.14.25 Introduction to Situatedness Patricia Donohue

Syllabus

Required Readings (3):

Crane, L. S. (2020). Invisible: A mixt Asian woman’s efforts to see and be seen in psychoanalysis. Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 21(2), 127-135.

Jones, A. L. (2020). A Black woman as an American analyst: Some observations from one woman’s life over four decades. Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 21(2), 77-84.

Burch, B. (2021). Engaging the whitewashed countertransference: Race unexpectedly appears for therapy. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 31(1), 28-37.

Supplemental Materials (3):

Dajani, K. G. (2022). The social unconscious: Then and now. International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, 19(2), 179-186.

Layton, L. (2006). Attacks on linking: The unconscious pull to dissociate individuals from their social context. In Psychoanalysis, class and politics (pp. 107-117). Routledge.

Aron, L. (2000). Self-reflexivity and the therapeutic action of psychoanalysis. Psychoanalytic psychology, 17(4), 667.

Q1. Blending of How is the Human Mind Structured with What Motivates us and how do these motivations contribute to development

10.21.25 Process Group Landaiche

10.28.25 Freud Bill Cornell

Freud’s Theory of Mind: The Centrality of Repression and the Development of Unconscious and Conscious Mental Processes

Syllabus

References/Readings:

1. Shulman, M.E. (2021), What Use is Freud? Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 69: 1108-1113. For the purposes of this class, pages 1108-1110 are essential reading.

2. Ogden, T.H. (2020). Toward a revised form of analytic thinking and practice: The evolution of analytic theory of mind. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 86, 219-243. For the purposes of this class, please read pages 219-225. The remainder of this paper will be relevant over the course of subsequent classes.

3. Freud, S. (1915). Repression. The Standard Edition, Vol. 14, 141-158.

4. Freud, S. (1911). Formulations on the two principles of mental functioning. The Standard Edition, Vol. 12, 213-226.

11.04.25 Freud Bill Cornell

Evolution of American Ego Psychology from Freud’s Original Concepts

Syllabus

References/Readings :

1. Loewald, H.W. (1950). Ego and reality. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 32: 10-18.

2. Poland, W. S. (2002). The interpretive attitude. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 50: 807-826.

3. Novac, A. & Blinder, B.J. (2021). Free association in psychoanalysis and its links to neuroscience contributions. Neuropsychoanalysis, 23: 55-81.

11.11.25 Freud Bill Cornell

11.18.25 Kleinian model of the mind Loren Sobel

11.25.25 Kleinian model of the mind Loren Sobel

12.02.25 Process Group Landaiche

12.9.25 Kleinian model of the mind Loren Sobel

12.16.25 Winnicott & Models of the Mind Miriam DeRiso

01.13.26 Winnicott & Models of the Mind Miriam DeRiso

01.20.26 Winnicott & Models of the Mind Miriam DeRiso

01.27.26 Waddel and the baby: tying Freud, Klein, Winnicott (Bion too but that will not yet have been covered) Sharon Bernstein

02.03.26 Process Group Landaiche

02.10.26 Waddel and the baby: tying Freud, Klein, Winnicott (Bion too but that will not yet have been covered) Sharon Bernstein

02.17.26 Waddel and the baby: tying Freud, Klein, Winnicott (Bion too but that will not yet have been covered) Sharon Bernstein

02.24.26 Neuropsychoanalysis (structure of mind, motivations and development) Noah Rahm

03.03.26 Neuropsychoanalysis (structure of mind, motivations and development) Noah Rahm

03.10.26 Neuropsychoanalysis (structure of mind, motivations and development) Noah Rahm

03.17.26 Process group Landaiche

03.24.26 Dissociative model (Interpersonalists and Relationalists: Ferenczi, Sullivan, Levenson, Stern, Bromber, Davies etc.) Mike Mervosh and/or George Herrity

03.31.26 Dissociative model (Interpersonalists and Relationalists: Ferenczi, Sullivan, Levenson, Stern, Bromber, Davies etc.) Mike Mervosh and/or George Herrity

04.07.26 Dissociative model (Interpersonalists and Relationalists: Ferenczi, Sullivan, Levenson, Stern, Bromber, Davies etc.) Mike Mervosh and/or George Herrity

04.14.26 Attachment Theory Kevin Smith

04.21.26 Attachment Theory Kevin Smith

04.28.26 Process group Landaiche

05.05.26 Attachment Theory Kevin Smith

05.12.26 Infant Observation, Self Psych, Intersubjectivity Theory Alyson Kepple

05.19.26 Infant Observation, Self Psych, Intersubjectivity Theory Alyson Kepple

05.26.26 Infant Observation, Self Psych, Intersubjectivity Theory Alyson Kepple

06.02.26 --1 additional class to hold open for now--

06.09.26 Process group Landaiche