206: Technique III: Midphase

Course Description

Instructors

Howard Bliwise, M.D.
Alla Sheynkin, Psy.D.

January 3 – March 20. 2024
Wednesdays, 7:00 – 8:25 pm
No class: 2/7

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:

  1. describe, demonstrate, and apply psychoanalytic technical principles (such as transference, countertransference, insight, interpretation, etc.) to their clinical work.
  2. 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).

Schedule of Classes & Course Readings

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.

I. Transference

CLASS 1: January 3, 2024
REQUIRED READINGS

Bird, B. (1972). Notes on Transference: Universal Phenomenon and the Hardest Part of Analysis. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn. 20:267-301

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Stein, M. (1981), The Unobjectionable Part of the Transference. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn. 29:869-892

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Joseph, B. (1985). Transference: The Total Situation. Int. J. Psychoanal. 66:447-454

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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 10, 2024
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

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Reich, A. (1973). Empathy and Countertransference. In: Psychoanalytic Contributions. New York: Int. Univ. Press, pp. 344-360

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SUPPLEMENTAL READINGS

Abend, S.M. (1985). Countertransference and Psychoanalytic Technique. Psychoanal Q. 58:374-395.

III. Countertransference

CLASS 3: January 17, 2024
REQUIRED READINGS

Brenner, C. (1985). Countertransference as Compromise Formation. Psychoanal Q. 54:155-163

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Ogden, T.H. (1995). Aliveness and Deadness of the Transference-Countertransference. Int J. Psychoanal. 76:695-710

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IV. Neutrality and Therapeutic Alliance

CLASS 4: January 24, 2024
REQUIRED READINGS

Brenner, C. (1979). Working Alliance, Therapeutic Alliance and Transference. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn. 27(S):137-158

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Greenson, R. (1965). The Working Alliance and the Transference Neurosis. Psychoanal. Q. 34:155-181

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Renik, O. (1996). The Perils of Neutrality. Psychoanal. Q 65:496-517

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SUPPLEMENTAL READINGS

Blum, H.P. (2016). Interpretation and Contemporary Reinterpretation. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 36:40-51.

V. Case Presentation

CLASS 5: January 31, 2024

Case Presentation

VI. Resistance and Defense

CLASS 6: February 14, 2024
REQUIRED READINGS

Kris, E. (1956). The Personal Myth. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn. 4:653-681

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Gray, P. (1973). Psychoanalytic Technique: the Ego’s Capacity to view Intrapsychic Activity. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn. 21:474-494

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VII. Resistance and Interpretation

CLASS 7: February 21, 2024
REQUIRED READINGS

Gray, P. (1992). Memory as Resistance, and the Telling of a Dream. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn. 40:307-326

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Kris, E. (1951). Ego Psychology and Interpretation in Psychoanalytic Therapy. Psychoanal Q. 20:15-30

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Schafer, R. (1983). The Analysis of Resisting. Chapter 10 In: The Analytic Attitude. New York: Basic Books, pp 164-182

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VIII. Reconstruction

CLASS 8: February 28, 2024
REQUIRED READINGS

Arlow, J.A. (1991). Methodology and Reconstruction. Psychoanal. Q. 60:539-563

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Schafer, R. (1983). Psychoanalytic Reconstruction. Chapter 12, In: The Analytic Attitude. New York: Basic Books, pp 193-203

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Reider, N. (1953). Reconstruction and Screen Function. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn. 1:389-405

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IX. Case Presentation

CLASS 9: March 6, 2024

Case Presentation with Navah Kaplan, Ph.D.

X. Memory and Reconstruction

CLASS 10: March 13, 2024
REQUIRED READINGS

Kris, E. (1956). The Recovery of Childhood Memories in Psychoanalysis. Psychoanal. Study Child. 11:54-88

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Rosen, V. (1955). Reconstruction of Traumatic Childhood Event: Case of Derealization. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn. 3:211-221

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XI. Insight

CLASS 11: March 20, 2024
REQUIRED READINGS

Horowitz, M.H. (1987). Some Notes on Insight and Its Failures. Psychoanal Q. 56:177-196

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Kris, E. (1956). On Some Vicissitudes of Insight in Psychoanalysis. Int. J. Psychoanal. 37:445-455.

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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.