105B: Technique I: Assessment of Analyzability
Instructors
Hilli Dagony-Clark, Psy.D.
Tehela Nimroody, Ph.D.
September 8 – December 15, 2025
Mondays, 7:00 – 8:25 pm
No Class: 9/22, 10/13
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Course Description
In preparation for beginning the first analytic case, students will read and discuss some of the literature on indications and assessment of analyzability. Analytic attitude, the analytic situation, and analytic listening will also be discussed, along with ideas about transference. During the course each student will evaluate a patient (either a case from the Treatment Center or a private case) and meet individually with preceptors to discuss this evaluation which will then be presented for discussion in class. Techniques of consultation, diagnostic evaluation, and conversion from psychotherapy to psychoanalysis will also be discussed.
Educational Objectives: Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to:
1) list criteria for suitability of analyzability
2) assess a patient’s suitability for analyzability
3) discuss differences between psychoanalytic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis
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).
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READINGS FOR 2025 CLASS ARE CONFIRMED.
I. Assessment
CLASS 1: September 8, 2025
REQUIRED READINGS
Altman, N. (1993). Psychoanalysis and the Urban Poor. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 3:29-49.
Bachrach, H. M. (1983). On the Concept of Analyzability. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 52:180-203.
Waldhorn, H. (1967). “Indications for Psychoanalysis,” Monograph II, E. Joseph, editor, The Kris Study Group of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, International Universities Press, pp. 3-51.
SUPPLEMENTAL READINGS
Tyson, R. and Sandler, J. (1971). Problems in the Selection of Patients for Psychoanalysis: Comments on the Application of the Concepts of Indications, Suitability and Analyzability. British Journal of Medical Psychology, 44: 211-228.
II. Three cases
CLASS 2: September 15, 2025
III. Two cases and required reading
CLASS 3: September 29, 2025
REQUIRED READINGS
Grand, S. (1995). A Classic Revisited: Clinical and Theoretical Reflections on Stone’s Widening Scope of Indications For Psychoanalysis. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 43:741-764
Schoen, S. (2015). Afraid to Commit: Proposing Psychoanalysis and the Paradox of the Analyst’s Desire. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 51:649-679.
IV. Listening
CLASS 4: October 6, 2025
REQUIRED READINGS
Makari, G., Shapiro, T. (1993). On Psychoanalytic Listening: Language and Unconscious Communication. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 41:991-1020.
Kris, A. (1962). Chapters 1 – 4 in Free Association: Method and Process, Yale University Press, pp. 1-30.
V. Analytic Situation and Attitude
CLASS 5: October 20, 2025
REQUIRED READINGS
Freud, S. (1912). Recommendations to Physicians Practising Psycho-Analysis. The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Volume XII (1911-1913): The Case of Schreber, Papers on Technique and Other Works, 109-120
Arlow, J., & Brenner, C. (1966). Discussion: The psychoanalytic situation. In R. E. Litman (Ed.), Psychoanalysis in the Americas, International Universities Press, pp. 23-43.
Brenner, C. (1976). Introduction and Chapter I in Psychoanalytic Technique and Psychic Conflict, New York: International Universities Press, pp. 1-34.
SUPPLEMENTAL READINGS
Zetzel, E. (1970). The analytic situation and the analytic process. In the Capacity for Emotional Growth, New York: Int. Univ. Press, pp. 197-215.
Stone, L. (1961). The Psychoanalytic Situation, New York: International Universities Press. pp. 1-87 AND pp. 88-end
Stone, L. (1961). The Psychoanalytic Situation, New York: International Universities Press. pp. 88-end
VI. Transference
CLASS 6: October 27, 2025
REQUIRED READINGS
Freud, S. (1912). The Dynamics of Transference. The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Volume XII (1911-1913): The Case of Schreber, Papers on Technique and Other Works, 97-108
Freud, S. (1915). Observations on Transference-Love (Further Recommendations on the Technique of Psycho-Analysis III). The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Volume XII (1911-1913): The Case of Schreber, Papers on Technique and Other Works, 157-171.
Waelder, R. (1941-2) Lecture II: “Transference” in Psychoanalytic Quarterly, vol. 56 (1), pp.19-36. Guttman, S. & Guttman, I. Edition (1987).
VII. Cases or Readings
CLASS 7: November 3, 2025
VIII. Cases or Readings
CLASS 8: November 10, 2025
If there are no cases available, we will discuss readings pertaining to Difference Between Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.
REQUIRED READINGS
Bachrach, H.M., McNutt, E.R. (1992). Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy—Similarities and Differences: Indications, Contraindications, and Initiation. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 40:223-231.
Tyson, P., Morris, J.L. (1992). Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy – Similarities and Differences: Indications, Contraindications, and Initiation. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 40:211-221.
Weinshel, E.M. (1992). Therapeutic Technique in Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy – Similarities and Differences: Indications, Contraindications, and Initiation. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 40:327-347.
Zetzel, E. (1970) “The Analytic Situation and the Analytic Process” In: The Capacity for Emotional Growth, International Universities Press, pp. 197-215.
IX. Cases or Readings
CLASS 9: November 17, 2025
If there are no cases available, we will discuss readings pertaining to Diversity and Suitability Assessment.
Christian, C., Reichbart, R., Moskowitz, M., Morillo, R. & Winograd, B. (2016). Psychoanalysis in El Barrio. PEP Video Grants 1:10.
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Gaztambide, D. (2014). ‘Melancolia bajo un palo de mango: A review and critique of “Psychoanalysis in El Barrio”’, Division Review, 11: 33–6.
Holmes, D. E. (2022). Neutrality Is Not Neutral. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 70(2): 317–322.
X. Cases or Readings
CLASS 10: November 24, 2025
If there are no cases available, we will discuss readings pertaining to Conversion of Psychotherapy to Psychoanalysis.
REQUIRED READINGS
Bassen, C. (1989). Transference-Countertransference Enactment inthe Recommendation to Convert Psychotherapy to Psychoanalysis. Int. R. Psycho-Anal., 16:79-92.
Kernberg, O.F. (1999). Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and Supportive Psychotherapy: Contemporary Controversies. Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 80:1075-1091.
Oremland, J. D. & Fisher, C. P. (1987). Conversion of Psychotherapy to Psychoanalysis. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 35:713-726.
XI. Cases or Readings
CLASS 11: December 1, 2025
XII. Cases or Readings
CLASS 12: December 8, 2025
SUPPLEMENTAL READINGS
Ehrlich, L.T. (2010). The Analyst’s Ambivalence about Continuing and Deepening an Analysis. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 58(3):515-532.
Ehrlich, L.T. (2016). Finding Control Cases and Maintaining Immersion: Challenges and Opportunities. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 64(5):983-1012.
Kravis, N. (2013). The Analyst’s Hatred of Analysis. Psychoanal Q., 82(1):89-114.
Møller, M. (2014). The Analyst’s Anxieties in the First Interview: Barriers against Analytic Presence. Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 95(3):485-503.
Reith, B. (2015). The First Interview: Anxieties and Research on Initiating Psychoanalysis. Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 96(3):637-657.
Rothstein, A. (2010). Psychoanalytic Technique and the Creation of Analytic Patients: An Addendum. Psychoanal Q., 79(3):785-794.
Levine H. B. (2020). Reflections on Therapeutic Action and the Origins of Psychic Life. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 68(1), 9–25.
Lombardi R. (2018). Entering One’s Own Life as an Aim of Clinical Psychoanalysis. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 66(5), 883–911.