Contemporary Psychoanalytic concepts in everyday life

2023-2024 One Year Program Materials

Class Dates and Course Materials:


Class 1. 09.14.23
6:15pm-9pm

Location: CoHatch 5428 Walnut Street

Title: Remembering, Repeating and Working-Through

Instructor: Miriam DeRiso

Syllabus

Media: The Bear. Season 1: episodes 2, 7, and 8. Season 2: episode 6

Reading: Freud. Remembering, Repeating and Working-Through.

Class 2. 10.12.23
6:15pm-9pm

Location: CoHatch 5428 Walnut Street

Title: Knowing

Instructor: Sharon Bernstein

Syllabus

Medium : Poem: A Brief for the Defense

Reading: What Kate DiCamillo Understands About Children The New Yorker

Class 3. 11.9.23
6:15pm-9pm

Location: CoHatch 5428 Walnut Street.

Title: Thinking Psychoanalytically about the Climate Crisis

Instructor: Loren Sobel M.D.

Syllabus

Medium:

Movie: Don’t Look Up.

https://www.netflix.com/title/81252357

Reading:

Required:

1. Hope in the Anthropocene Age by Ryan LaMothe. ROOM A Sketchbook for Analytic Action

Suggested:

2. LaMoth, R. Illusions, Political Selves, and Responses to the Anthropocene Age: A PoliticalPsychoanalytic Perspective.

3. Bell D. Psychoanalytic reflections on the conditions of possibility of human destructiveness

Class 4. 12.14.23
6:15pm-9pm

Location: CoHatch 5428 Walnut Street

Title:

Instructor: Mike Mervosh

Syllabus

Readings: ON THREE FORMS OF THINKING: MAGICAL THINKING, DREAM THINKING, AND TRANSFORMATIVE THINKING

Media:

Class 5. 01.11.24
6:15pm-9pm

Location: CoHatch 5428 Walnut Street

Title: Transgenerational Haunting and Toxic Errands

Instructor: Bill Cornell

Syllabus

Media: Three Wishes

Reading: Ocean Vuong and Galit Atlas

Supplemental reading: Punch Me Up To The Gods, Strangers In Their Own Land, The reverie of resistance, & Black Boys in the Eye of the Storm

Class 6. 02.08.24
6:15pm-9pm

Location: CoHatch 5428 Walnut Street

Title: When the Ghosts Come for an Office Visit:

The Clinical Applications of Transgenerational Transmissions

Instructor: Bill Cornell

Syllabus

Media: Transgenerational Haunting in Psychoanalysis: Toxic Errands

Reading: The Texture of Traumatic Attachment

Sociopolitical Trauma: Forgetting, Remembering, and Group Analysis

Black Boys in the Eye of the Storm

Class 7 03.14.24

Location: CoHatch 5428 Walnut Street

Title: Psychoanalysis in everyday life: The impacts of smartphones and social media on us and our clients

Instructor: George Herrity

Syllabus

Media:

The Real Problem with Smartphone Addiction

Your Phone is trying to Control your Life

Connected but Alone

Technology, AI, and What Makes us Human

Reading:

Solitude

Traumatic Narcissim

Stolen Focus

Class 8 04.11.24

Location: CoHatch 5428 Walnut Street

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Class 9 05.09.24

Location: CoHatch 5428 Walnut Street

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