204: Continuous Case Seminar
Instructors
Theodore J. Jacobs, M.D.
Lissa Weinstein, Ph.D.
September 8, 2025 – March 2, 2026
Mondays, 7 – 8:25 pm
No class: 9/22, 10/13, 12/22, 12/29, 1/19, 2/16
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Course Description
This seminar will introduce students to clinical psychoanalytic work by means of ongoing process notes from a beginning case, presented weekly. Based on knowledge gained in courses #105A, #105B, #106, and on their own clinical experience, students will have the opportunity to actively discuss the clinical situation as it unfolds. Topics will include modes of analytic listening, the formulation and timing of analytic interventions, as well as problems of the initial phase of analysis.
Course Objectives
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to
- enhance their analytic listening abilities
- identify at least two problems which may arise in the initial phase of analysis
- describe how different frames of analytic thought may be integrated and how this can influence the formulation and timing of analytic intervention, and the roles of relationship and insight
Evaluation Method
Each student’s participation in class discussion and demonstration of understanding of the course objectives, readings and clinical material is assessed in a written evaluation by the instructor(s).
Continuing Education
Psychologists
New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY – 0073.
New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education programs for psychologists. New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its content. DISCLOSURE: None of the planners and presenters of this CE program has any relevant financial relationships to disclose.
Social Workers
New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW – 0317.
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READINGS FOR 2025 CLASS ARE CONFIRMED.
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CLASS 1: September 8, 2025
REQUIRED READING
Brenner, C. (2006). Psychoanalysis or mind and meaning. Psychoanalytic Quarterly Monograph, Chap. 1 & 2
CLASS 2: September 15, 2025
REQUIRED READING
Brenner, C. (2006). Psychoanalysis or mind and meaning. Psychoanalytic Quarterly Monograph, Chap. 3 & 4
CLASS 3: September 29, 2025
REQUIRED READING
Jacobs, T. Phenomenology in Clinical Practice: A Personal View. (unpublished paper)
Jacobs, T. (2013). On Beginnings: The concept of the therapeutic alliance and the interplay of transferences in the opening phase. In: The Possible Profession, Chap. 1, Routledge.
CLASS 4: October 6, 2025
REQUIRED READING
Loewald, H. W. (1960). On the Therapeutic Action of Psycho-Analysis. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 41:16-33.
CLASS 5: October 20, 2024
REQUIRED READING
Poland, W.S. (1992). Transference: “An Original Creation”. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 61:185-205.
CLASS 6: October 27, 2025
REQUIRED READING
Coltart, N. (1996). Handling the transference. In: The Baby and the Bathwater. Karnac Publishers.
CLASS 7: November 3, 2025
REQUIRED READING
Faimberg, H. (1996). ‘Listening To Listening’. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 77:667-677.
CLASS 8: November 10, 2025
REQUIRED READING
McLaughlin, J. (1988). The analyst’s insights. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 57:370-388.
CLASS 9: November 17, 2025
REQUIRED READING
Bollas, C. (1987). Expressive uses of the countertransference. In: The Shadow of the Object. New York: Columbia University Press. Chap. 12.
CLASS 10: November 24, 2025
REQUIRED READING
Jacobs, T. J. (2001). On Misreading and Misleading Patients: Some Reflections on Communications, Miscommunications and Countertransference Enactments1. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 82:653-669.
CLASS 11: December 1, 2025
REQUIRED READING
Arlow, J. (1995). Stilted listening. Psychoanalysis as discourse. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 64:215-233.
Schwaber, E. (1992). Countertransference: The analyst’s retreat from the patient’s vantage point. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 73:349-361.
CLASS 12: December 8, 2025
REQUIRED READING
Klauber, J. (1971). The relationship of transference and interpretation. In: Difficulties In the Analytic Encounter. New York/London: Jason Aronson. Chap 2, 25-44.
CLASS 13: December 15, 2025
REQUIRED READING
Renik, O. (1993). Analytic Interaction: Conceptualizing Technique in Light of the Analyst’s Irreducible Subjectivity. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 82:553-571.
CLASS 14: January 5, 2026
REQUIRED READING
Jacobs, T. (1999). On the Question of Self-Disclosure by the Analyst: Error or Advance in Technique?. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 68(2):159-183.
CLASS 15: January 12, 2026
REQUIRED READING
Bach, S. (2016). Problems of Narcissistic Love. In: Chimeras and Other Writings: Selected Papers of Sheldon Bach (pp.199-216). Astoria, NY: IP Books.
Bach, S. (2016). On Treating the Difficult Patient. In: Chimeras and Other Writings: Selected Papers of Sheldon Bach (pp.217-228). Astoria, NY: IP Books.
CLASS 16: January 26, 2026
REQUIRED READING
Kris, A. (1990). Helping Patients by Analyzing Self-Criticism. JPA 38:605-636. Also in: Kris, A. Selected Papers, IP Book (2024).
CLASS 17: February 2, 2026
REQUIRED READING
Aron, L. (1991). The Patient’s Experience of the Analyst’s Subjectivity. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 1:29-51.
CLASS 18: February 9, 2026
REQUIRED READING
Kohut, H. (1984). The Curative Effect of Analysis. In: How Does Analysis Cure? Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. Chap. 6, 80-110.
CLASS 19: February 23, 2026
REQUIRED READING
Ogden, T.H. (2004). The analytic third: Implications for psychoanalytic theory and Technique. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 73:167-195.
CLASS 20: March 2, 2026
REQUIRED READING
Jacobs, T. (2013). Imaginary Gardens; Real Toads: On Memory and its Uses in the Analytic Process. In: The Possible Profession, Chap. 4, 68-82.
SUPPLEMENTAL READING
Ogden, T. (2024). Ontological Psychoanalysis in Clinical Practice. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 93:13-31.
Poland, W.S. (2013). The Analyst’s Approach and the Patient’s Psychic Growth. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 82(4):829-847.
Taiana, C. (2022). “Day’s Residues”: One Vertex among Many. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 70:637-664.
Tuckett, D. (2019). Ideas prevented from becoming conscious: On Freud’s unconscious and the theory of psychoanalytic technique. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 100:1068-1083.
Yerushalmi, H. (2013). On the Therapist’s Yearning for Intimacy. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 82(3):671-687.