Psychoanalysis and Culture
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Socio-cultural Influences on Development and Psychopathology
Catherine B. Silver, PhD
R718 Fall 2010
Wednesday 7:00-8:30 pm
464 Riverside Drive, apt 101 New York, NY 10027
E-mail:
Web site: Catherine-b-silver.com
First Meeting: September 22
A general presentationof the role of social and cultural factors in psychoanalytic theorizing and clinical practice and discussion of the course outline.
Second Meeting: September 29
Introduction
1 -Perez-Foster RoseMarie, “What is Multicultural Perspective for Psychoanalysis?”
Pp.3-20, in Reaching Across Boundaries of Culture and Class: Widening the Scope of Psychotherapy, RoseMarie Foster, Michael Moskowitz and Raphael Art Javier eds., New York: Jason Aronson, 1996.
Third Meeting: October 6
Some pioneers linking the psyche to the social/cultural
- FreudSigmund, “Reflections upon War and Death, 1915.
2-Horney Karen, The Neurotic Personality of ourTime, Chap.1 and 15. New York: W.W. Norton an& Co, 1937.
3- Fromm Erich, “Individual and Social Origins of Neurosis”, American Sociological Review, Vol., 9(4):380-384 August, 1944;“Alienation” pp.20-37 The Essential Fromm: Life between Having and Being,Edited by Rainer Funk, New York: Continuum, 1995.
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Fourth Meeting: October 13
Contemporary multicultural perspectives
4 -Altman Neil, “Race, Culture and Social Class”, pp.74-118 in The Analyst in the Inner City,Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press, 1995.
5- Reis Bruce, “The subject of History/ The Object of Transference” Studies in Gender
and Sexuality, vol. 6(3):217-240, 2005.
Fifth Meeting: October 20
The Asian self and the multiplicity of identities
12 -Takeo Doi , “AMAE: A key Concept for Understanding Japanese Personality
Structure” The Anatomy of Dependence. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1973.
13 -Alan Roland,“The Cultural Self, the Personal Self, and Psychological Conflict,” In Cultural Pluralism in Psychoanalysis, New York: Routledge, 1996.
14- Alan Roland, “The Influence of Culture on the Self and Self Object Relationships.” inCultural Pluralism in Psychoanalysis, New York: Routledge, 1996.
-Alan Rolandand Catherine Silver,“The Politics of Paranoia,” The Psychoanalytic Review, April 2010.
15 -Kakar Sudi, “Psychoanalysis and Non-Western Cultures,” Intl Rev of Psychoanalysis 1985, vol.(12): 441-448.
(This meeting will take place in Dr. Roland’s office starting at 7:30 p.m. at
26 West 9th Street, Apt 4D. Buzz downstairs to get into the building, then walk right into the waiting room of the office.)
Sixth Meeting: October 27
Ethnicity and class
6 -Javier Rafael Art, “Psychodynamic Treatment with the Urban Poor” chap. 5 in Reaching Across Boundaries of Culture and Class:Widening the Scope of Psychotherapy, RoseMarie Foster, Michael Moskowitz and Raphael Art Javier eds., 1996.
7-Guarnaccia Peter; Victor DelaCancela, and Emilio Carrillo. “The Mutliple Meanings of Ataques de Nervios in the Latino Community,” Medical Anthropology, Vol.11:47-62, 1989.
8 -Seeley Karen, “The case of Rosa”, Cultural Psychotherapy: Working with Culture in the Clinical Encounter. New York: Jason Aronson, 2006.
9-Javier RafaelArt, “Vicissitudes of Autobiographical Memories in Bilingual Analysis”. Psychoanalytic Psychology, Vol.12 (3):429-438.
Seventh Meeting: November 3
Gender identitiesand gender cultures
10 -Flax Jane, “Minerva’s Owl. Fragment of a thinking life”in Disputed Subjects:essays on psychoanalysis, politics and philosophy, New York: Routledge 1993
-Silver Catherine, “Womb Envy: Loss and Grief of the Maternal Body,”Psychoanalytic Review, vol. 94(3), June 2007 (A copy will be provided).
11-MacDonald & Dorothy Smith, “A Feminist Therapy Session,” pp.155-163 in Women Look at Psychiatry, Dorothy Smith and Sara David, Eds. Ganag Publisher, 1975.
Eight Meeting: November 10
Gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and transgendered cultures
16 -Eigen, Michael. “In Praise of Gender Uncertainty,” chap.14 in Psychic Deadness, Jason Aronson, 1996.
17 -Hansbury Griffin, “Mourning the Loss of the Idealized Self: Transsexual Passage,” Psychoanalytic Social Work, Vol.12 (1):19-35, 2005.
18 -Lesser, Ronnie C. “Category Problems: Lesbians, Post modernity, and Truth,” Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Vol.13 (2):153-159, 1996.
Ninth Meeting: November 17
Transference and counter-transference issues in a cultural framework
19 - Gorkin Michael, “Counter-transference in Cross-Cultural Psychotherapy, pp.159-176, Reaching Across Boundaries of Culture and Class: Widening the Scope of Psychotherapy, RoseMarie Foster, Michael Moskowitz and Raphael Art Javier eds., 1996.
20 -Herron William G, “Development of the Ethnic Unconscious,” Psychoanalytic
Psychology, 1995, Vol.12: 521-532; Javier Rafael Art and Mario Rendon, “The Ethnic Unconscious and its Role in Transference, Resistance, and Countertransference: an Introduction,” Psychoanalytic Psychology Vol.12 (4):513-520. 1995.
21 -Fox Gladys, “But that was in another country and besides…..” Contemporary Psychoanalysis, April 2004, Vol. 40(2): 239-252.
Tenth Meeting: November 24
Transference and counter-transference issues(contd)
22 -Chodorow Nancy, The Power of Feelings,Yale University Press 1999, chaps 1-2.
23 -Kane Barbara, “Transforming Trauma into Tragedy,”Psychoanalytic Review,
92(6), Dec 2005.
Eleventh Meeting: December 1
Class and politics in the clinical setting
24 -Eigen Michael, “Election Rape” Pp. 68-77, Feeling Matters London Karnac 2007.
25 -Layton Lynne, “Attacks on Linking” Pp. 107- 117, Psychoanalysis, Class and Politics. Encounters in the Clinical Setting Nancy Hollander and Susan Gutwill, eds., New York: Routledge, 2006.
Twelfth Meeting: December 8
Anglo-American cultural assumptions: some ethical issues
26 -Kirschner Suzanne, “The Assenting Echo: Anglo-American Values in Contemporary Psychoanalytic Developmental Psychology,” Social Research, Vol.57,
No.4 (winter), 1990.
27 -Morris Karen L, “Torture and Attachment: Conscience and the Analyst’s World-Seeing Eye.” Psychoanalytic Review,2008.
Trainees are responsible for:
-Making one presentations(15-20 minutes) based on one of the units in the reading list. Try to select the unit you want as soon as possible.
-Informally discussing case material from their practice during the course of the semester.
-Writing a short 5-8 pages paper about a specific issue regarding the role of socio-cultural factors in the therapeutic process. Trainees can illustrate their ideas using their own experiencesas therapist and/or analyzand.
I would like to make this class intellectually and personally as open as possible.
I am available to talk before or after class. Just send me an e-mail to let me know that you would like to meet.
I have scanned most of the articles and chapters into a CD that will be available the first day of class. If you rather like to make you own copies from the originals (more expensive) it is also possible to do so.
The number in front of each reading corresponds to the sequence of articles on the CD. You should number the articles that you print from the CD to make it easier to locate.A few articles without numbers will be distributed or you might have to download them.
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