2026-2027 One Year Program Materials

Instructors:

Syllabus information

Please email your syllabus and any associated readings to admin@wpacommunity.org no later than 14 days prior to your scheduled class. This ensures sufficient time for processing and distribution of materials.

Syllabus Template

APA Requirements checklist for syllabus creation

Guide for accurate references/readings

CE Instructions:

-Please be sure to sign in with your name to all classes you attend. After signatures are collected you will be contacted by our CE Coordinator, Darcy Schatz, to complete your evaluation. Once you complete the evaluation, you’ll be able to download a signed CE certificate.

Writing Reflection Guidelines

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Students:

Class Dates and Course Materials

Class 3. 11.16.26
6:15pm-9pm

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

Title: Sex In The Kitchen & In The Office

Instructor: Adam G. Haglund, LCSW, and Bill Cornell, M.A., TSTA (P)

Syllabus

Required Viewing

None

Required Reading:  

Sex and the Kitchen: Thoughts on Culture and Forbidden Desire. (2012) Atlas, Galit Ph.D., Psychoanalytic Perspectives (9): 220–232

Reckoning with Sexuality. (2019) Kulish, Nancy Ph.D., International Journal of Psychoanalysis (100) (6): 1216–1236

Between Lust and Libido: Sex, Psychoanalysis, and the Moment Before. (1999) Dimen, Muriel Ph.D., Psychoanalytic Dialogues (9) (4): 415–440

Glocer Fiorini, L. (2019). Polyphonies of sexuality: Debates about theories/debates about paradigms. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 100(6), 1256–1269.

Optional Reading: 

Supplemental Media Offerings:

Class 2. 10.19.26
6:15pm-9pm

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

Title: Alone and Together, Together and Alone. Trusting and Knowing, Knowing and Trusting

Instructor: Sharon Bernstein, Ph. D.

Syllabus

Required Viewing

Movie: Soul (2020). A Disney animated film, available on Disney+; to rent on Fandango and AppleTV.

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

Required Reading:  

The Dialectical Needs for Autonomy, Relatedness, and the Emergence of Epistemic Trust. (2019) Luyten, Patrick PH.D., Campbell, Chloe PHD, Fonagy, Peter PHD

Reflections on the Contributions of Sidney J Blatt: Psychoanalytic Psychology (36) (4): 328-334

Optional Reading: 

Partners in Thought:  A Clinical Process Theory of Narrative. (2009) Stern, D.B. PH. D The Psychoanalytic Quarterly 78: 701- 731.

Destruction Reconceived: On Winnicott’s ‘The Use of an Object’ and Relating through Identifications. (2016) Ogden, Thomas. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis (97)(5): 1243-1262

Revisiting Destruction in ‘The Use of the Object’. (2017) The Psychoanalytic Quarterly (86)(1):109-148

Supplemental Media Offerings

1. Edward Tronick’s Still Face Experiment. Edward Tronick, Ph. D. YouTube. (3 minutes)
   

2. The Conversation. Daniel Goldin and Daniel Posner. On the subject of “Otherness”. Part 1
   Spotify Podcast

Class 1. 09.21.26
6:15pm-9pm

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

Title: Coming To Terms with Truth In Psychoanalysis: Engaging Complexity, Paradox & Not Knowing

Instructor: Michael Mervosh, M.Ed.

Syllabus

Required Viewing

Movie: “The Christophers” (2026). Directed by Steven Soderbergh. View with a subscription on Hulu or Disney+, or to rent on Prime Video.

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

Required Reading:  

Ogden, Thomas. (2016). On Language and Truth in Psychoanalysis. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, (85)(2):411-426.

Optional Reading: 

Blass, Rachel. (2018) The Quest for Truth as the Foundation of Psychoanalytic Practice: A Traditional Freudian-Kleinian Perspective. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, (85)(2):305-337.

Messler-Davies, Jody. (2016) The Man Who Would Be Everything (To Everyone): The Unconscious Realities and Fantasies of Psychic Truth and Change. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, (85)(2):361-389.