Psychoanalytic Theory & Therapy
Course Syllabus
Psychoanalytic Theory & Therapy
PP8040
Spring Semester 2009
Tuesday 12:30-3:15
Kaveh Zamanian, Ph.D.
Office Hours:Mondays 4-7pTelephone:312.777.7683
Email:Practice:312.822.3500
Course Overview
The first part of this course will introduce students to the major theoretical tenets of psychoanalytic theory and to its technical and clinical application. Fundamental psychoanalytic concepts as outlined by Sigmund Freud will be discussed in some depth followed by subsequent development of psychoanalytic theory and practice as it pertains to theories of Object Relations, Self-psychology, Relational Psychoanalysis and Lacanian Model. Emphasis will be placed on the role of the unconscious, infantile sexuality, instinctual impulses/drives, psychic tension/conflict, use of language and derivative communication as well as understanding defense structure in lieu of character and emotional development.
The second part of the course will review the basic technical principles underlying psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Using actual case material the focus will be on the nature of therapeutic action and important aspects of patient-therapist interaction. Various aspects of technique, including but not limited to, psychoanalytic listening, importance of therapeutic frame, use of interpretation, analysis of resistance and transference, understanding and use of countertransference reactions, projective identification and therapist disclosure will be examined. Finally, sensitivity to cultural difference will be examined throughout the course in particular as it pertains to countertransference issues of working with matters of diversity.
Course Objectives
- To develop a basic understanding of major psychoanalytic concepts through summarizing and critiquing ideas.
- To formulate hypotheses about personality, relationships and a range of contextual factors on human behavior utilizing Freudian and Neo-Freudian approaches.
- To learn about the listening process from a psychoanalytic perspective including how meaning is developed in the therapeutic process.
- To formulate hypotheses about intra-psychic and interpersonal patterns and their adaptive and maladaptive impacts in significant life and therapeutic relationships.
- To apply these ideas to the practice of psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
- To integrate contextual factors related to human diversity into the application of psychoanalytic perspectives.
Course Requirements and Expectations
Attendance: Attendance is mandatory. Please inform the instructor in advance if you must miss a class under special circumstances. Students who miss two classes will lose one letter grade. Students who miss more than two classes will not receive credit for the course. In order to be respectful of all class participants please arrive for class on time.
Class Participation:
Class participation is expected and mandatory. You are responsible for each week’s assigned readings expected to arrive for each class prepared to discuss the material.
Assignments & Evaluation
By the end of the course, students will have a working understanding of basic psychoanalytic concepts and be able to apply these concepts to clinical material. All assignments will emphasize conceptual skills, critical thinking and writing skills.
Course assignments:
1)Students are expected to read the assigned material prior to class and be ready to contribute comments and questions to the discussion.
2)Writing assignments will be given based on reading and class discussion material. Each writing assignment is due a week from the assigned date and should be limited to 2 double spaced pages in length.
3)Midterm and Final exams will be distributed that will assess the students understanding and command of the material on both theoretical and practical levels.
Final Grades will be weighted in the following manner:
Class Participation10%Midterm30%
Writing Assignments20%Final Exam40%
Class Reading and Schedule
Required Texts
Casement, P. (1991). Learning from the Patient. Guilford Press. (ISBN: 0-89862-157-7).
Freud, S. (1940). An Outline of Psychoanalysis. W. W. Norton & Co., Inc. (ISBN:0-393-00151-2)
McWilliams, N. (2004). Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: A practitioner’s guide. New York: The Guilford Press. (ISBN: 1-59385-009-3).
Mitchel S.A. & Black M.J. (1995). Freud and Beyond: A History of Modern Psychoanalytic Thought. New York: Basic Books. (ISBN: 0-465-01405-4).
Viorst, J. (1986). Necessary Losses. Free Press. (ISBN: 0684844958).
Required Course Packet References
Akhtar, S. (1999). Immigration and Identity: Turmoil, Treatment and Transformation, Northvale, N.J.: Jason Aronson, pp. 109-137 (course packet).
Altman, N. (2000). Black and White Thinking: A Psychoanalyst Reconsiders Race. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 10(4): 589-605. (course packet)
Burke, N. (1998). Gender and Envy, New York: Routledge, Chapters 4 and 9 (course packet).
Friedman, J. (2006). Chinese Freud? A Fable. (course packet).
Loewald, H.W. The Transference Neurosis: Comments on the concept and the phenomenon (course packet).
Racker, H. (1968). Transference and Counter-transference, International Universities Press, Inc., Chapter 2 (course packet).
Tabin, J.K. On the way to Self. Chapters 5 & 6 (course packet).
Tansey, M.J. & Burke, W. (1989). Understanding Counter-transference, The Analytic Press, Chapters 2-4 (course packet).
Winnicott, D.W. On Transference, (course packet).
Winnicott, D.W. (1992). Through Paediatrics to Psychoanalysis: Collected Papers, pp. 229-243; and 255-262 Brunner/Mazel, Inc., (course packet).
Recommended Text
Altman, N. (1995). The Analyst in the inner City, Analytic Press, pp. 74-118 (course packet).
Berman, E. (1993). Essential papers on literature and psychoanalysis, New York University Press, pp. 139-150 (course packet).
Davies, J.M. & Frawley, M.G. (1994). Treating the adult survivor of childhood sexual abuse: A psychoanalytic perspective, New York: Basic Books, pp. 149-197 (course packet)
Freud, S. (1997). Dostoevky and Parricide, Stanford University Press, pp. 234-256 (course packet).
Friedman, J. (1998). The Origins of Self and Identity. Jason Aronson, Inc. (ISBN: 0-7657-0154-5).
Greenson, R. (1967). The Technique and Practice of Psychoanalysis, New York: International University Press, pp. 59-149 (course packet).
Hoffman, I. Z. (1998). Ritual and Spontaneity in the Psychoanalytic Process, The Analytic Press, pp. 97-133 (course packet)
Pine, F. (1990). Drive, Ego, Object, & Self, Basic Books, pp. 1-42 (course packet).
Roland, A. (1996). Cultural Pluralism and Psychoanalysis, New York: Routledge, pp. 3-21 (course packet).
Shabad, P. (2001). Despair and the return of hope, pp. 3-35 (course packet).
Shengold, L. (1989). Soul Murder, New York: Fawcett Columbine, Chapters 1-3 and 5 (course packet).
St. Clair, M. Object Relations and Self-Psychology. (1986). Brooks/Cole Publishing Co. (ISBN: 0-534-06708-5).
Yalom, I.D. (1989). Love’s Executioner, HarperCollins Publishers, Chapters 1-4 (course packet).
Zanardi, C. (1990). Essential Papers on the Psychology of Women, New York University Press, Chapters 9, 15, 16, 20, 21, and 22 (course packet).
Week One
Freud & the discovery of the unconscious: Significance of dreams and role of the unconscious; models of psychic apparatus; and from seduction to Oedipus
Required Reading
Friedman, J. (2006). Chinese Freud? A Fable. (course packet).
McWilliams, N. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: A practitioner’s guide, Chapter 1.
Recommended Reading
Bettleheim, B. Freud and Man’s Soul.
Week Two
Basic concepts of psychoanalytic theory: Psychosexual theory of development and infantile sexuality; from pleasure to reality; role of instincts/triebe/drives/needs/impulses and relevance of desire; primary narcissism & masochism and early object relations; theory of neurosis; and conflict and symptom formation
Required Reading
Freud, S. An Outline of Psychoanalysis, pp. 13-38 and pp. 81-97.
Mitchel S.A. & Black M.J. Freud and Beyond: A History of Modern Psychoanalytic Thought, Chapter 1.
Recommended Reading
Pine, F. Drive, Ego, Object, & Self, Chapters 1 & 2 (course packet).
Week Three
From Ego Psychology to Object Relations Theory: Anna Freud, Melanie Klein & D.W. Winnicottt
Required Reading
Mitchel S.A. & Black M.J. Freud and Beyond: A History of Modern Psychoanalytic Thought, Chapters 2, 4 & 5.
Recommended Reading
St. Clair, M. Object Relations and Self-Psychology, Chapters 3 & 5 (course packet).
Week Four
Lacanian Model & Self-Psychology: Jacque Lacan & Heinz Kohut
Required Reading
Mitchel S.A. & Black M.J. Freud and Beyond: A History of Modern Psychoanalytic Thought, Chapter 6 & pp. 193-205.
Recommended Reading
St. Clair, M. Object Relations and Self-Psychology, Chapter 9.
Week Five
Gender and Psychoanalysis
Required Reading
Burke, N. Gender and Envy, Chapters 4 and 9 (course packet)
Tabin, J.K. On the way to Self, Chapters 5 and 6 (course packet)
Recommended Reading
Burke, N. Gender and Envy, Chapters, 7 and 8.
Zanardi, C. Essential Papers on the Psychology of Women, Chapters 9, 15, 16, 20, 21, and 22 (course packet).
Week Six
Psychoanalytic conceptualization: A developmental and Integrative Approach
No Required Reading
Case presentation and discussion
Week Seven
Introduction to the therapeutic technique: Conditions of safety, the frame, psychoanalytic listening and the therapeutic relationship
Required Reading
McWilliams, N. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: A practitioner’s guide, Chapters 2-4.
Casement, P.J. Learning from the Patient, Chapters 1 & 2.
Recommended Reading
Freud, S. Therapy & Technique, pp.117-127, 135-157.
Week Eight
Therapeutic Technique: Use of interpretation, analysis of resistance and therapeutic action
Required Reading
McWilliams, N. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: A practitioner’s guide, Chapters 5-6.
Recommended Reading
Freud, S. Therapy & Technique, pp.157-167 (on reserve).
Greenson, R. The Technique and Practice of Psychoanalysis, pp. 59-149 (course packet).
Week Nine
Therapeutic Technique: Transference, counter-transference & projective-identification
Required Reading
Racker, H. Transference and Counter-transference, Chapter 2 (course packet).
Winnicott, D.W. On Transference (course packet).
Loewald, H.W. The Transference Neurosis: Comments on the concept and the phenomenon (course packet).
Recommended Reading
Casement, P.J. Learning from the Patient, Chapters 1 & 2 (on reserve).
Week Ten
Therapeutic Technique: Transference, counter-transference & projective-identification
Required Reading
Casement, P.J. Learning from the Patient, Chapters 3 & 4.
Tansey, M.J. & Burke, W. Understanding Counter-transference, Chapters 2 & 3 (course packet).
Recommended Reading
Racker, H. Transference and Counter-transference, Chapters 5 (course packet).
Winnicott, D.W. Through Paediatrics to Psychoanalysis: Collected Papers, pp. 194-204 (course packet).
Week Eleven
Therapeutic Technique: Therapeutic action of analysis
Required Reading
Casement, P.J. Learning from the Patient, Chapters 5, 8 and 18.
Winnicott, D.W. Through Paediatrics to Psychoanalysis: Collected Papers, pp. 229-243 and 255-262 (course packet).
Recommended Reading
Hoffman, I. Z. Ritual and Spontaneity in the Psychoanalytic Process, Chapter 4 (course packet)
Week Twelve
Culture & Psychoanalysis
Required Reading
Akhtar, S. (1999). Immigration and Identity: Turmoil, Treatment and Transformation, Northvale, N.J.: Jason Aronson, pp. 109-137 (course packet).
Altman, N. (2000). Black and White Thinking: A Psychoanalyst Reconsiders Race (course packet).
Recommended Reading
Altman, N. The Analyst in the inner City, pp. 74-118
Roland, A. Cultural Pluralism and Psychoanalysis, pp. 3-21 (course packet).
Week Thirteen
Case Conceptualization & Analysis
Required Reading
McWilliams, N. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: A practitioner’s guide, Chapter 8.
Recommended Reading
Yalom, I.D. Love’s Executioner, Chapters 1 & 2 (course packet).
Week Fourteen
Case Conceptualization & Analysis
Required Reading
McWilliams, N. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: A practitioner’s guide, Chapters 9.
Recommended Reading
Yalom, I.D. Love’s Executioner, Chapters 3 & 4 (course packet).
Week Fifteen
Trauma, Despair and Hope
Required Reading
Davies, J.M. & Frawley, M.G. Treating the adult survivor of childhood sexual abuse: A psychoanalytic perspective, pp. 149-197 (course packet)
Shabad, P. Despair and the return of hope, Chapter 1 (course packet).
Shengold, L. Soul Murder, Chapters 1-3 and 5 (course packet).
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