Instructor: Catherine Bianchi, PhD. Course Objectives Basic Principles of Psychoanalytic Therapy (18:821:637: 01) This course will cover basic concepts in the psychoanalytic psychologies. Emphasis will be placed on helping students develop a psychoanalytic sensibility and familiarity with the various generations of psycho-dynamic/analytic theories and techniques. The course will illustrate the significance of various analytic ideas for technique and focus on the use of formulation as a guide for intervention. The full range of analytic interventions still currently in use and theories about their corresponding modes of therapeutic action will be explored. Finally it is hoped that the course will facilitate the ability to listen and develop the use of the self as a guiding professional tool. The use of psychodynamic/analytic techniques with special populations will be covered as per student interests. Requirements Video recordings and case material will be presented in class for discussion. A student will be asked to present case material in each class, on a rotating basis. You will also be asked to come to each class prepared to discuss how the week s reading may apply to one of your cases. A paper will be assigned. You will be asked to write about an interaction between you and one of your patients, as well as discuss your intervention and the reasoning behind it as informed by a topic discussed in class. Details of these assignments will be further discussed in class. There will be an in-class oral final. Administrative Details Grade= Oral Presentation 33% + Papers 33 % + Final 33% Instructor Availability: I ll be available to make appointments to talk to you in person on campus before or after class or during the break. You ll also have my contact info so we can arrange other times to talk when needed. Departmental and University Policies: 1
Unless otherwise noted all formal written work should use the Style Sheet of the American Psychological Association. See: http://apastyle.apa.org/ (full access via Login to Rutgers University Libraries home page: http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/) Disabilities. Students with disabilities who qualify for reasonable accommodations may arrange for these through the Office of Disability Services, Kreeger Learning Center, 151 College Avenue; dfoffice@rci.rutgers.edu Academic Integrity. Work submitted for this course must be your own. You are responsible for knowing and conforming to all professional and university standards. See: http://academicintegrity.rutgers.edu/students.shtml Required Texts: DeYoung, Patricia A. (2015). Relational Psychotherapy: A Primer, 2 nd Ed. New York: Routledge McWilliams, N. (2004). Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: A Practitioner s Guide. New York: The Guilford Press. McWilliams, N. (2011). Psychoanalytic Diagnosis, 2 nd ed. New York: The Guilford Press. Pine, F. (1990). Drive, Ego, Object, & Self: A Synthesis for Clinical Work. New York: Basic Books. Recommended: Altman, N. (2002). Relational Child Psychotherapy. New York: Other Press. Blank, G. and Blank, R. (1994). Ego Psychology: Theory and Practice, 2 nd ed. New York: Davies, J. & Frawley, M. (1994). Treating the Adult Survivor of Childhood Sexual Abuse. New York: Basic Books. Greenberg, J. and Mitchell, S. A. (1983). Object Relations in Psychoanalytic Theory. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Howell, E. (2005). The Dissociative Mind. New Jersey: The Analytic Press. Kahn, Michael. (2002). Basic Freud. New York: Basic Books. Mitchell, S. A. and Black, M. J. (1995). Freud and Beyond: A History of Modern Psychoanalytic Thought. New York: Basic Books. Stark, M. (1994). Working With Resistance. New Jersey: Jason Aronson, Inc. Stark, M. (1999). Modes of Therapeutic Action. New Jersey: Jason Aronson, Inc. 2
Van Der Kolk, B. (2014). The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma. New York: Viking Press. Wallin, D. J. (2007). Attachment in Psychotherapy. New York: The Guilford Press. Class Topics and Readings Please note that readings will be assigned as indicated below. However, we may change the readings as the semester proceeds depending on the needs of the students and their patients. 1. What defines psychoanalytic psychotherapy? -Fosshage, J.L. (1997). Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: Is there a Meaningful Distinction in the Process? Psychoanalytic Psychology, 14(3): 409-425. - McWilliams, N. (2004). Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: A Practitioner s Guide. New York: The Guilford Press. Preface, Chapters 1-5 -Recommended: -Blank, G. and Blank, R. (1994). Ego Psychology: Theory and Practice, 2 nd Ed. New York: Chapter 14, Differences between Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy 2. Freud: Dreams and the Theory of the Unconscious -Strachey, J. (1953-1974). The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Volumes 1-24, London: Hogarth Press. Freud, Revision of the Theory of Dreams -Fosshage, J.L. (1983). The Psychological Function of Dreams: A Revised Psychoanalytic Perspective. Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Thought, 6(4):641-669. 3. Implications for technique and mode of therapeutic action from Drive Theory. Working with prohibited urges and impulses. -Blank, G. and Blank, R. (1994). Ego Psychology: Theory and Practice, 2 nd Ed. New York: Chapter 2, Conflict Theory, Drive Theory, and Ego Psychological Object Relations Theory 3
-McWilliams, N. (2011). Psychoanalytic Diagnosis, 2 nd ed. New York: The Guilford Press. Chapters 1 & 2 4 & 5. Implications for technique and mode of therapeutic action from Ego Psychology. Working with Adaptation, Conflict and Defense, and Personality Styles. -Blank, G. and Blank, R. (1994). Ego Psychology: Theory and Practice, 2 nd Ed. New York: Chapter 1, Historical Roots of Ego Psychology -McWilliams, N. (2011). Psychoanalytic Diagnosis, 2 nd Ed. New York: The Guilford Press. Chapters 3 & 4 and 7-15 as assigned. 6. Implications for technique and mode of therapeutic action from Object Relations Theory. Working with the internalized other and repeating relationship patterns. -Greenberg, J. and Mitchell, S. A. (1983). Object Relations in Psychoanalytic Theory. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Chapter 9, Margaret Mahler, pages 270-303. Or other theorist as assigned. -Mitchell, S.A & Black, M.J. (1995). Freud and Beyond: A History of Modern Psychoanalytic Thought. New York: Basic Books. Chapter 5: The British Object Relations School, pages 112-138. Recommended: -Slochower, J. (1996). Holding and the Evolving Maternal Metaphor. The Psychoanalytic Review. 83(2):195-218. 7. Working Through: Conflict, Defense, and Resistance Reviewed. -Stark, M. (1994). Working With Resistance. Maryland: Jason Aronson, Inc. Introduction and Chapters 1 through 4 8. Implications for technique and mode of therapeutic action from Self-Psychology. Working with Boundaries, Identity, Agency, Esteem, and Emotional Tone. -Lessem, P. (2005). Self Psychology: An Introduction. Maryland: Jason Aronson 4
Chapters 1 6 9. The Four Psychologies: Drive, Ego, Object, Self as universal aspects of personality development. - Pine, F. (1990). Drive, Ego, Object, & Self: A Synthesis for Clinical Work. New York: Basic Books. Chapter 1-5 10 & 11. Implications for technique and mode of therapeutic action from Relational Theory. Working with enactments and the mutual impact between patient and analyst. DeYoung, Patricia A. (2015). Relational Psychotherapy: A Primer, 2 nd Ed. New York: Routledge Chapters 1-4, Chapters 5 8. Recommended: -Aaron, L. (1991). The Patient s Experience of the Analyst s Subjectivity. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 1:29-51. -Benjamin, J. (2004). Beyond Doer and Done To: An Intersubjective View of Thirdness. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 73:5-46. -Bromberg, P. M. (1996). Standing in the Spaces: The Multiplicity of Self and the Psychoanalytic Relationship. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 32:509-535. -Ogden, T.H. (2004). The Analytic Third: Implications for Psychoanalytic Theory and Technique. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 73(1):167-195. 12. Dissociative Models of Mind. The New Unconscious. -Howell, E. (2005). The Dissociative Mind. New Jersey: The Analytic Press Chapter 1, Dissociation: A Model of the Psyche Chapter 2, The Self in Context: Unity & Multiplicity Recommended -Stern, D. (1983). Unformulated Experience: From Familiar Chaos to Creative Disorder. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 19:71-99. 13. Trauma 5
-Davies, J. & Frawley, M. (1994). Treating the Adult Survivor of Childhood Sexual Abuse. New York: Basic Books. Chapter 9, Eight Transference Counter-Transference Positions -Van Der Kolk, B. (2014). The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma. New York: Viking Press. Chapter 10, Developmental Trauma: The Hidden Epidemic 14. Attachment -The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1990/02/becomingattached/308966/ -Howell, E. (2005). The Dissociative Mind. New Jersey: The Analytic Press Chapters 6 & 7 on attachment and splitting/dissociation -Wallin, D. J. (2007). Attachment in Psychotherapy. New York: The Guilford Press. Chapters 1 through 4. -Recommended: -Mitchell, S.A. (2000). Relationality: From Attachment to Intersubjectivity. New Jersey: The Analytic Press. Chapter 4, Attachment Theory and Relationality 15. Review FINAL during finals week 6