First Semester Session 1: September 7, 2013 Instructor: Sue Mendenhall Psy.D., M.S.W. The Longitudinal Studies Sroufe, L. Alan, Byron Egeland, Elizabeth A. Caroson, and W. Andrew Collins (2005), The Development of the Person: The Minnesota Study of Risk and Adaptation from Birth to Adulthood. New York: The Guilford Press. Table 4.1, Salient Issues in Development, p. 66. Chapter 12, Behavioral and Emotional Disturbance, pp. 239-264. Grossman, Klaus #, Karin Grossman, and Everett Waters eds. (2005), Attachment from Infancy to Adulthood: The Major Longitudinal Studies. Preface, pp. ix-xii.chapter 9, Attach Representations, Secure Base Behavior, and the Evolution of Adult Relationships: The Stony Brook Adult Relationship Project, by Judith Crowell and Everett Waters, pp. 223-244. Lyons-Ruth, K. (2003). Dissociation and the Parent-Infant Dialogue: A Longitudinal Perspective from Attachment Research, JAPA, vol. 51, #3, pp. 884-910. Questions: 1. What is the pathways model of the development of pathology? 2. Describe two connections between adult attachment style and adult relationships. 3. What parenting qualities are associated with disorganized attachment? Session 2: September 21, 2013 Instructor: Estelle Shane Ph.D. Attachments Arietta Slade and Karlin Lyons Ruth Reading: We are going to be discussing articles written by two very important contributors to the literature on Attachment Theory (2006) Karlen Lyons-Ruth's The Interface Between Attachment and Intersubjectivity, published in Psychoanalytic Inquiry; and (2013) Arietta Slade's The Origins of Connectedness: A Look at Attachment, Fear, and Safety, to be presented at the 2013 Conference on the Psychology of the Self 1
I know it is helpful to have in mind a few questions as you read, so please consider the following: 1. How does Lyons-Ruth distinguish the principal mode of attachment of the human infant from that of other primates? 2. What evolutionary advantage does that confer on the human being? 3. What are the clinical implications that may be drawn from her work with children and mothers? 4. What novel focus does Slade take on attachment theory? How does she distinguish her vision of attachment theory from other models? 5. Explain what Slade calls the core principle of attachment theory? 6. What are the clinical implications that can be drawn from her particular understanding of attachment theory? We can talk about these and any other comments or questions you may have when we meet. I'm looking forward to meeting with you! Estelle Shane Session 3: October 5, 2013 Instructor: Peggy Dubois IST Stolorow/Atwood Stolorow, R Intersubjective-Systems Theory: A Phenomenological-Contextualist Psychoanalytic Perspective Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 23:383-389,2013 Atwood,G.,Stolorow,R. Legacies of Golden Ange A Memoir of a Collaboration The Humanistic Psychologist. 41:285-300,2013 1) How do these authors think about phenomenology? 2) How do these authors think about personal themes? 3) How do these authors think about context? Session 4: October 12, 2013 Instructor: Lynne Jacobs Donna Orange Orange, D. Intersubjective Systems Theory A Fallibilist s Journey Pp. 237-248 Orange, D. (1999) From Cartesian Minds to Experiential Worlds in Psychoanalysis Pp. 1-20 2
Session 5: November 2, 2013 Instructor: Howard Bacal Specificity Theory Doesn't (Lanham, MD: Jason Aronson, 2011) Chapter 1 The Need for a New Theory of Therapy (pp. 1-6). Doesn't (Lanham, MD: Jason Aronson, 2011), Chapter 2 The Use of Theory in Psychoanalytic Practice (pp. 7-13). Doesn't (Lanham, MD: Jason Aronson, 2011), Chapter 3 How Specificity Theory Changes Clinical Practice (pp. 15-29). Session 6: November 16, 2013 Instructor: Edith (Edie) Boxer Psy.D., M.S.W. Relational Theory- Stephen Mitchell Mitchell, S. 1986. The Wings of Icarus. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 22(1), 107-132. Please note the following thoughts when reading this article and we will expand from there when we meet. Clinical examples will be helpful both to you as you read and to bring to class to assist us in understanding Mitchell's ideas. Note: Mitchell's summary at the end of the section titled Illusion as Defense. The summary begins " Thus, although deriving from very different psychodynamic traditions and assumptions... Then, beginning with the section Illusion as Growth, note how Mitchell discusses "Illusion as defense; illusion as the growing edge of the self. Then, proceed to the section titled A Synthetic Approach and read carefully/prepared to discuss how "The determination of emotional health vs. psychopathology, when it comes to narcissistic illusions, seems to have less to do with the actual content of the illusions, and more to do with the attitude of the person about that content." How does Mitchell use the mythological figure of Icarus in this article? In the section, Clinical Implications, what does the author tell us is his clinical posture which best facilitates the resolution of narcissistic phenomena? 3
Mitchell, S. (2000). You've Got to Suffer If You Want to Sing the Blues: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Guilt and Self-Pity. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 10:713-733. In this article, perhaps one of Mitchell's last before his untimely, sudden, and unexpected death, he writes about a brief episode with one of his analysands that "highlights for me both the surprising ways in which personal stories are brought to life in psychoanalysis and the centrality of the self-pity/guilt axis in making sense of those stories." 1) What is Ed's story and how did Mitchell's and Ed's interactions as well as Mitchell's analytic work, help us to think about the questions Mitchell asks almost at the end of the clinical example? 2) What is the Zero-Sum Game? 3) Mitchell discusses self-pity (Pathos) and guilt as appearing "deceptively simple because they are feelings." But, he goes on to say---"feelings of guilt and self-pity really originate in complex attitudes we take toward ourselves. Be prepared to think and talk about how Mitchell explains these two feelings theoretically. Are there similarities and/or differences? Session 7: December 14, 2013 Instructor: Helen Grebow Ph.D.,Psy.D. Mentalization Theory Fonagy, P. and Target, M. (1998). Mentalization and the changing aims of child psychoanalysis. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 8:87-114. Grebow, H. (2008). A tale of two minds: Mentalization and adult analysis. International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology, 3;16-33. Questions: (1) Do difficulties with mentalization reflect lack of capacity, a developmental deficit, or a defensive disavowal/protection against traumatic experience? (2) Is mentalizaion an individual developmental achievement or is it a property of a relational system? (3) What types of contexts contribute to the establishment of a capacity to mentalize as well as to the maintenance of reflective function? 4
Session 8: December 21, 2013 Instructor: Joye Weisel-Barth Ph.D.,Psy.D. Mal Slavin and Donnel Stern TBD Session 9: January 4, 2014 Instructor: William Coburn Ph.D,Psy.D Complexity and Systems Theory Coburn,W. from Psychoanalytic Complexity Attitudes that Matter In Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (In press, Routledge) Chapter 2 Attitudes Coburn,W. from Psychoanalytic Complexity Attitudes that Matter In Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (In press, Routledge) Chapter 4 Complexity Theory and Emotional Life Important Note: DO NOT COPY OR DISSEMINATE WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF THE AUTHOR Session 10: January 18, 2014 Instructor: Michael Pariser Comparative Theories; IST and Relational Bacal, H. (2011) Specificity theory: The evolution of a process theory of psychoanalytic treatment, American Imago, Vol. 68, No. 2, pp. 267-286. Hoffman, I (1998) Ritual and spontaneity in the psychoanalytic process, Chapter 4: The patient as interpreter of the analyst's experience (see especially pp: 115-132), Hillsdale, NJ: Analytic Press. Slavin, M. O., & Kriegman, D. (1998) Why the analyst needs to change: Toward a theory of conflict, negotiation and mutual influence in the therapeutic process, as it appears in L. Aron & A. Harris (Eds.) (2005) Relational Psychoanalysis, Volume II: Innovation and Expansion. Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press. 5