206: Technique III: Midphase
Instructors
Howard Bliwise, M.D.
Alla Sheynkin, Psy.D.
December 18, 2024 – March 19, 2025
Wednesdays, 7:00 – 8:20 pm
No class: 12/25, 1/1, 2/5
Co-requisites
Candidates must have at least one case in supervised psychoanalysis to be eligible for second year courses
Course Description
This course will address core topics in clinical theory and technique: Transference, Countertransference, Therapeutic Alliance, Neutrality, Interpretation, Reconstruction, Resistance, and Insight. The readings and discussions will take up beginning and middle phases and use clinical material from the students’ cases and cases provided by other instructors.
Educational Objectives
Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to:
- describe, demonstrate, and apply psychoanalytic technical principles (such as transference, countertransference, insight, interpretation, etc.) to their clinical work.
- compare, assess, and analyze different theoretical approaches to psychoanalytic technical principles in order to expand and enrich their clinical work.
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
Physicians:
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 these programs and their content.
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 NOT YET CONFIRMED.
I. Transference
CLASS 1: December 18, 2024
REQUIRED READINGS
Bird, B. (1972). Notes on Transference: Universal Phenomenon and the Hardest Part of Analysis. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn. 20:267-301
Stein, M. (1981), The Unobjectionable Part of the Transference. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn. 29:869-892
Joseph, B. (1985). Transference: The Total Situation. Int. J. Psychoanal. 66:447-454
SUPPLEMENTAL READINGS
Abend, S.M. (1993). Inquiry into the Fate of the Transference in Psychoanalysis. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn. 41:627-625
II. Transference and Countertransference
CLASS 2: January 8, 2025
REQUIRED READINGS
Jacobs, T.J. (1983). The Analyst’s and the Patient’s Object World: An Aspect of Countertransference. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn. 31:619-642
Reich, A. (1973). Empathy and Countertransference. In: Psychoanalytic Contributions. New York: Int. Univ. Press, pp. 344-360
SUPPLEMENTAL READINGS
Abend, S.M. (1985). Countertransference and Psychoanalytic Technique. Psychoanal Q. 58:374-395.
III. Countertransference
CLASS 3: January 15, 2025
REQUIRED READINGS
Brenner, C. (1985). Countertransference as Compromise Formation. Psychoanal Q. 54:155-163
Ogden, T.H. (1995). Aliveness and Deadness of the Transference-Countertransference. Int J. Psychoanal. 76:695-710
IV. Neutrality and Therapeutic Alliance
CLASS 4: January 22, 2025
REQUIRED READINGS
Brenner, C. (1979). Working Alliance, Therapeutic Alliance and Transference. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn. 27(S):137-158
Greenson, R. (1965). The Working Alliance and the Transference Neurosis. Psychoanal. Q. 34:155-181
Renik, O. (1996). The Perils of Neutrality. Psychoanal. Q 65:496-517
SUPPLEMENTAL READINGS
Blum, H.P. (2016). Interpretation and Contemporary Reinterpretation. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 36:40-51.
V. Case Presentation
CLASS 5: January 29, 2025
Case Presentation
VI. Resistance and Defense
CLASS 6: February 12, 2025
REQUIRED READINGS
Kris, E. (1956). The Personal Myth. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn. 4:653-681
Gray, P. (1973). Psychoanalytic Technique: the Ego’s Capacity to view Intrapsychic Activity. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn. 21:474-494
VII. Resistance and Interpretation
CLASS 7: February 19, 2025
REQUIRED READINGS
Gray, P. (1992). Memory as Resistance, and the Telling of a Dream. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn. 40:307-326
Kris, E. (1951). Ego Psychology and Interpretation in Psychoanalytic Therapy. Psychoanal Q. 20:15-30
Schafer, R. (1983). The Analysis of Resisting. Chapter 10 In: The Analytic Attitude. New York: Basic Books, pp 164-182
VIII. Reconstruction
CLASS 8: February 26, 2025
REQUIRED READINGS
Arlow, J.A. (1991). Methodology and Reconstruction. Psychoanal. Q. 60:539-563
Schafer, R. (1983). Psychoanalytic Reconstruction. Chapter 12, In: The Analytic Attitude. New York: Basic Books, pp 193-203
Reider, N. (1953). Reconstruction and Screen Function. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn. 1:389-405
IX. Case Presentation
CLASS 9: March 5, 2025
Case Presentation with Navah Kaplan, Ph.D.
X. Memory and Reconstruction
CLASS 10: March 12, 2025
REQUIRED READINGS
Kris, E. (1956). The Recovery of Childhood Memories in Psychoanalysis. Psychoanal. Study Child. 11:54-88
Rosen, V. (1955). Reconstruction of Traumatic Childhood Event: Case of Derealization. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn. 3:211-221
XI. Insight
CLASS 11: March 19, 2025
REQUIRED READINGS
Horowitz, M.H. (1987). Some Notes on Insight and Its Failures. Psychoanal Q. 56:177-196
Kris, E. (1956). On Some Vicissitudes of Insight in Psychoanalysis. Int. J. Psychoanal. 37:445-455.
SUPPLEMENTAL READINGS
Abend, S. (2018). Countertransference and Psychoanalytic Technique. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 87(3): 497-515.
Cooper, S.H. (2010). An Elusive Aspect of the Analyst’s Relationship to Transference. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 79(2): 349-380.
Katz, W.W (2014). Countertransference Identification and Fantasy in Psychoanalytic Process. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 83(3): 565-594.