204: Continuous Case Seminar
Instructors
Theodore J. Jacobs, M.D.
Robert Penzer, M.D.
September 11, 2023 – March 4, 2024
Mondays, 7 – 8:25 pm
No class: 9/25, 10/9, 12/25, 1/1, 1/15, 2/19
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).
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
REQUIRED READING
Brenner, C. (2006). Psychoanalysis or mind and meaning. Psychoanalytic Quarterly Monograph, Chap. 1 & 2
CLASS 2: September 18, 2023
REQUIRED READING
Brenner, C. (2006). Psychoanalysis or mind and meaning. Psychoanalytic Quarterly Monograph, Chap. 3 & 4
CLASS 3: October 2, 2023
REQUIRED READING
Jacobs, T. Phenomenology in Clinical Practice: A Personal View. (unpublished paper)
Schafer, R. (1959). Generative Empathy in the Treatment Situation. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 28:342-373.
CLASS 4: October 16, 2023
REQUIRED READING
Loewald, H. W. (1960). On the Therapeutic Action of Psycho-Analysis. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 41:16-33.
CLASS 5: October 23, 2023
REQUIRED READING
Poland, W.S. (1992). Transference: “An Original Creation”. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 61:185-205.
CLASS 6: October 30, 2023
REQUIRED READING
Coltart, N. (1996). Handling the transference. In: The Baby and the Bathwater. Karnac Publishers.
CLASS 7: November 6, 2023
REQUIRED READING
Faimberg, H. (1996). ‘Listening To Listening’. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 77:667-677.
CLASS 8: November 13, 2023
REQUIRED READING
McLaughlin, J. (1988). The analyst’s insights. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 57:370-388.
CLASS 9: November 20, 2023
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 27, 2023
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 4, 2023
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 11, 2023
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 18, 2023
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 8, 2024
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 22, 2024
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 29, 2024
REQUIRED READING
Bolognini, S. (2022). Intimacy and its interpsychic equivalents. In: Vital Flaws Between Self and Non-Self. London: The New Library of Psychoanalysis. Chap 4, 45-58.
CLASS 17: February 5, 2024
REQUIRED READING
Aron, L. (1991). The Patient’s Experience of the Analyst’s Subjectivity. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 1:29-51.
CLASS 18: February 12, 2024
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 26, 2024
REQUIRED READING
Ogden, T.H. (2004). The analytic third: Implications for psychoanalytic theory and Technique. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 73:167-195.
CLASS 20: March 4, 2024
REQUIRED READING
Jacobs, T. (2017). The Role of the Relationship in the Therapeutic Action of Psychoanalysis. (unpublished paper)
SUPPLEMENTAL READING
Poland, W.S. (2013). The Analyst’s Approach and the Patient’s Psychic Growth. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 82(4):829-847.
Yerushalmi, H. (2013). On the Therapist’s Yearning for Intimacy. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 82(3):671-687.
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.