405: Continuous Case Seminar
Instructors
Eslee Samberg, M.D.
Karen Gilmore, M.D.
September 11, 2023 – March 4, 2024
Mondays, 7:00 – 8:25 pm
No class: 9/25, 10/9, 12/25, 1/1, 1/15, 2/19
Co-requisites
Candidates must have or have had at least two cases in supervised psychoanalysis to be eligible for upper level courses.
Course Description
In this continuous case conference, a child case presentation will alternate with an adult case presentation. Discussion of the analytic material of the cases will emphasize clinical theory and technique. Comparisons between analytic technique in adults and children will be made. Third and Fourth year students combined. Alternates with 303 Continuous Case Seminar.
Educational Objectives
Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to:
- describe and better utilize psychoanalytic modes of listening and intervening in order to deepen psychoanalytic treatments especially with regard to transference/countertransference configurations.
- compare adult and child analytic treatments with regard to: the psychoanalytic frame, the modes of intervention, and the goals of treatment.
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.
CLASS 1: September 11, 2023
SUPPLEMENTAL READINGS
Greenson, R.R. (1967). The Technique and Practice of Psychoanalysis, Volume I. New York: International Universities Press.
Jacobs, T.J. (2018). Theodore J. Jacobs on ‘On Countertransference Enactments’. PEP/UCL Top Authors Project, 1(1):25.
Ogden, T.H. (2018). How I talk with my patients. Psychoanalytic Quarterly.87:(3) 399-413.
Sandler, J., Kennedy, H., Tyson, R.L. (1980). The Technique of Child Psychoanalysis: Discussions With Anna Freud. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Slade, A. (1994). Making meaning and making believe: Their role in the clinical process. In A. Slade & D. P. Wolf (Eds.), Children at play: Clinical and developmental approaches to meaning and representation (pp. 81–107). Oxford University Press.
Zerbe, K. J. (2019). The Secret Life of Secrets: Deleterious Psychosomatic Effects on Patient and Analyst. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 67:185-214.