401: Writing IV: Psychoanalytic Scholarship
Instructors
Adele Tutter, M.D.
Daria Colombo, M.D.
January 27 – March 17, 2025
Mondays, 8:35 – 10:00 pm
No class: 2/17
Co-requisites
Candidates must have or have had at least two cases in supervised psychoanalysis to be eligible for upper level courses.
Course Description
This course has two central aims: the first is to develop a topic of the student’s choice into a possible submission to a scholarly journal; the other is to learn to function as peer reviewers of other’s work, including both fellow students and outside papers, in order to understand the foundations of written clinical and scholarly contributions. The ability to participate in the wider psychoanalytic community as editors, peer reviewers for journals, or writers is a capacity that can be developed, and this course intends to create a foundation for, and encouragement of such activities. Fourth year students only.
Evaluation Method
Each student’s participation in class discussion and his or her demonstration of understanding of the course objectives and reading material is assessed in a written evaluation by the instructor(s).
These articles are protected under relevant copyright regulations. They are available in the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute Electronic Reserve for your convenience, and for your personal use.
READINGS ARE CONFIRMED.
I. Introduction to Clinical Writing & Peer Review Exercise: Paper to be assigned.
CLASS 1: January 27, 2025
- Introduction to psychoanalytic journals and paper submission
- Different kinds of contributions:
Book Reviews
Clinical contributions
Interdisciplinary work
Commentaries - Researching the literature
- Discussion of ideas for individual writing projects
II. Confidentiality
CLASS 2: February 3, 2025
REQUIRED READINGS
Lafarge, L. (2024). What we do, What we Say, What we Don’t Say: Confidentiality in the Publication of Clinical Writing. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 93:77-103.
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III. Developing Clinical Ideas
CLASS 3: February 10, 2025
REQUIRED READINGS
Collins, S. (2024). On the Belatedness of Psychoanalytic Clinical Writing. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 93:157-181.
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Lemma, A. (2023). Writing and Intimate Privacy. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 71:1041-1045.
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IV.
CLASS 4: February 17, 2025
REQUIRED READINGS
Litowitz, B. E. (2022). Writing to be Part of the Conversation. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 70:427-429.
V.
CLASS 5: February 24, 2025
REQUIRED READINGS
Kantrowitz, J. L. (2022). Writing as a Path for Discovery. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 70:231-234.