2025-2026 One Year Program Materials

Class Dates and Course Materials:

Class 1. 09.15.25
6:15pm-9pm

Location:
201 South Highland Ave
Suite 101
Pittsburgh, PA 15206

Title: Psychoanalysis and the Importance of Meaning-Making

Instructor: Miriam DeRiso, Ph.D.

Syllabus

Movie: “Lars and The Real Girl” (2007)

On: Amazon Prime Video, Google Play, Apple TV, You Tube, and on DVD at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh (many copies)

Please watch the movie before class. Class discussion will be based on the film.

Required Reading:  

Shedler, J. (2022) that Was Then, This Is Now: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy For The Rest Of Us, Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 58:2-3, 405-437

Optional Reading: 

Peltz, R. (2020). Activating Lifeness in the Analytic Encounter: The Ground of Being in Psychoanalysis. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, (30)(3):267-282

McWilliams, N. (2021) Diagnosis and Its Discontents: Reflections on Our Current Dilemma. Psychoanalytic Inquiry 41: 565-579.

Ogden, T. (2019) Ontological Psychoanalysis or “What do you want to be when you grow up?”. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, (88)(4):661-684.

Class 2. 10.20.25
6:15pm-9pm

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201 South Highland Ave
Suite 101
Pittsburgh, PA 15206

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Class 3. 11.17.25
6:15pm-9pm

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201 South Highland Ave
Suite 101
Pittsburgh, PA 15206

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Class 4. 12.22.25
6:15pm-9pm

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201 South Highland Ave
Suite 101
Pittsburgh, PA 15206

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Class 5. 1.19.26
6:15pm-9pm

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201 South Highland Ave
Suite 101
Pittsburgh, PA 15206

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Class 6. 2.16.26
6:15pm-9pm

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201 South Highland Ave
Suite 101
Pittsburgh, PA 15206

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Class 7. 3.16.26
6:15pm-9pm

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201 South Highland Ave
Suite 101
Pittsburgh, PA 15206

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Class 8. 4.20.26
6:15pm-9pm

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201 South Highland Ave
Suite 101
Pittsburgh, PA 15206

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Class 9. 5.18.26
6:15pm-9pm

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201 South Highland Ave
Suite 101
Pittsburgh, PA 15206

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