404: Technique V: Comparative Psychoanalytic Theory and Technique
Instructors
Jean Roiphe, M.D.
Adam Libow, M.D.
February 24 – May 26, 2027
Wednesdays, 8:40 – 10:0 pm
No class: 4/21
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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 will consider the implications for technique of different theoretical models of psychoanalysis. We will invite analysts who practice using different theoretical models—Ego Psychology, Contemporary Kleinian, Relational Psychoanalysis, and Self Psychology—to address the same clinical material of an ongoing psychoanalysis. Through doing so, we will try to understand the similarities and differences in their approaches to psychoanalytic listening and technique. Candidates are expected to have a basic familiarity with these different theoretical models as a pre-requisite for this course. Third and Fourth Year students combined. Course usually alternates with 301.
Educational Objectives
After attending this course, participants should be able to:
1. formulate the technical implications of varying theoretical schools of psychoanalysis.
2. critically evaluate the ways a theoretical position influences–or fails to influence–a clinician’s technical approach to listening to clinical material and conducting an analysis.
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).
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.
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I. Some important epistemological and methodological considerations as we as we attempt to compare different theories and their implications for technique
CLASS 1: Wednesday, February 24, 2027
REQUIRED READINGS
Smith, H.F. (2003). Can we Integrate the Diverse Theories and Practices of Psychoanalysis? JAPA, 51S:127-144
Sandler, J. (1983). Reflections on Some Relations Between Psychoanalytic Concepts and Psychoanalytic Practice. IJP, 64:35-45
II. What is Psychoanalytic Process? And (how) do different theoretical and technical approaches change how it is conceptualized?
CLASS 2: Wednesday, March 3, 2027
REQUIRED READINGS
Abend, S.M. (1990). The Psychoanalytic Process: Motives and Obstacles in the Search for Clarification. Psychoanal. Q., 59:532-549.
Ornstein, P.H. (2004). The Elusive Concept of the Psychoanalytic Process. JAPA 52:15-41.
Rudden, M.G. and Bronstein, A. (2015). Transference, Relationship and the Analyst as Object: Findings from the North American Comparative Clinical Methods Working Party. Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 96(3):681-703. [Read pp.702-703]
III. What we will be listening for: considering technical implications of different theories
CLASS 3: Wednesday, March 10, 2027
REQUIRED READING
Kernberg, O.F. (2001). Recent Developments in the Technical Approaches of English-Language Psychoanalytic Schools. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 70:519-547
Cooper, A.M. (1989). Concepts of Therapeutic Effectiveness in Psychoanalysis: A Historical Review. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 9:4-25
IV. Contemporary Kleinian
**CLASS 4: Saturday, March 13, 2027 9:30 AM – 11 AM on ZOOM (link will be distributed)
Discussant: David Taylor, M.D.
REQUIRED READINGS FOR CONTEMPORARY KLEINIAN MODEL
Joseph, B. (1985). Transference: The Total Situation. IJP, 66:447-454
Spillius, E.B. (1992). Clinical Experiences of Projective Identification. New Lib. of Psycho-Anal., 14:59-73
SUPPLEMENTAL READING
Joseph, B. (2013). Here and Now: My Perspective. Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 94(1):1-5.
Hinshelwood, R. (2018) Intuition from Beginning to End? Bion’s Clinical Approaches. British Journal of Psychotherapy,34:198-213
**CLASS 5: Saturday, March 20, 2027 9:30 AM – 11 AM on ZOOM (link will be distributed)
Discussant: David Taylor, M.D.
V. Ego Psychology
CLASS 6: Wednesday, March 31, 2027
Discussant: Eric Marcus, M.D.
REQUIRED READINGS FOR EGO PSYCHOLOGY MODEL
Abend, S.M. (2005). Analyzing Intrapsychic Conflict. Psychoanal. Q., 74:5-25
Marcus, E.R. (1999). Modern Ego Psychology. JAPA., 47(3):843-871
CLASS 7: Wednesday, April 7, 2027
Discussant: Eric Marcus, M.D.
VI. Discussion: Comparing and Contrasting the Two Models
CLASS 8: April 14, 2027
VII. Self Psychology
CLASS 9: Wednesday, April 28, 2027
Discussant: Sharone Ornstein, M.D.
REQUIRED READINGS FOR SELF PSYCHOLOGY MODEL
Ornstein, P.H. and Ornstein, A. (2003). The Function of Theory in Psychoanalysis. Psychoanal. Q., 72:157-182
Halpern, J. and Ornstein, S. (2018). Self-Experience within Intersubjectivity: Two Clinicians’ Use of Self Psychology. In: Introduction to Contemporary Psychoanalysis: Defining Terms and Building Bridges, ed. Marilyn Charles, Ph.D., Routledge, pp. 165-190.
CLASS 10: Wednesday, May 5, 2027
Discussant: Sharone Ornstein, M.D.
VIII. Relational Psychoanalysis
CLASS 11: April 8, 2027
Discussant: Joyce Slochower, Ph.D.
REQUIRED READINGS
Slochower, J. (2017). Going Too Far: Relational Heroines and Relational Excess. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 27: 282-299.
Bromberg, P. M. (2012). Stumbling Along and Hanging In: If This Be Technique, Make the Most of It!. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 32:3-17.
SUPPLEMENTAL READINGS
Aron, L. (1991). The Patient’s Experience of the Analyst’s Subjectivity. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 1(1), 29-51.
Tublin, S. (2011). Discipline and Freedom in Relational Technique. Contemp. Psychoanal., 47:519-546
CLASS 12: Wednesday, May 19, 2027
Discussant: Joyce Slochower, Ph.D.
IX: Discussion: Comparing and Contrasting the Four Models
CLASS 13: Wednesday, May 26, 2027