ChA. 13 Special Topics
Instructors
Steven Wein, M.D.
Laurie Levinson, Ph.D.
April 7 – May 19, 2022
Thursdays, 7:00 – 8:25 pm
Course Description
This course is given in partnership with the child analysis programs of Columbia and PANY. Common childhood psychopathologies and special diagnostic and technical challenges will be addressed from both evidence-based knowledge and the psychoanalytic perspective. Clinical material will be used to illustrate how analytic understanding augments our knowledge of the pathology and can be applied to treatment.
Course Objectives
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1) identify special situations in child and adolescent analysis and their relationship to different developmental stages
2) generate specific treatment approaches for children and adolescents in special treatment situations.
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. Adoption
CLASS 1: April 7, 2022
Guest Instructor: Paul Brinich, PhD
REQUIRED READINGS
Brinich, P.M. (1995). Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Adoption and Ambivalence. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 12(2):181-199.
Brinich, P. M. (2009, November). Varieties of adoptive experience. Paper presented to the Alliance for Psychoanalytic Schools at the Lucy Daniels Center for Early Childhood, Cary, NC, on November 6, 2009. (Unpublished paper)
Harmon, R.J. Wagonfeld, S. Emde, R.N. (1982). Anaclitic Depression—A Follow-Up from Infancy to Puberty. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 37:67-94.
SUPPLEMENTARY READINGS
Krementz, J. (1982). How it feels to be adopted. New York: Knopf.
II. Transference and Countertransference
CLASS 2: April 14, 2022
Guest Instructor: Judith Chused, MD
REQUIRED READINGS
Chused, J. F. (1990). Neutrality in the Analysis of Action-Prone Adolescents. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 38:679-704.
Chused, J. F. (1987). Idealization of the Analyst by the Young Adult. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 35:839-859. (The clinical material in here is from a 20 yo and 22yo, but the ideas are very relevant to late adolescents.)
Chused, J. F. (1988). The Transference Neurosis in Child Analysis. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 43:51-81. (Talks about children and adolescents, but the material on two adolescent girls points out the difference between using the analyst as an object for identification and as a transference object.)
III. Race
CLASS 3: April 21, 2022
Guest Instructor: Beverly Stoute, MD
REQUIRED READINGS
Stoute, B. J. (2019). Racial Socialization and Thwarted Mentalization: Psychoanalytic Reflections from the Lived Experience of James Baldwin’s America. American Imago, 76:335-357.
SUPPLEMENTARY READINGS
Adams, C. J. (2021). Black Youth: Self-making, Creativity and the Assertion of Hybrid Black Identities. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 74:59-76.
IV. Eating Disorders
CLASS 4: April 28, 2022
Guest Instructor: Sarah Fox, MD
REQUIRED READINGS
Goodsitt, A. (1985). Self Psychology and the Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa. In Handbook of Psychotherapy for Anorexia Nervosa & Bulimia, ed. David M. Garner and Paul E. Garfinkel, The Guilford Press, pp 55-82.
Grynick, K. L. (2016). Enduring Perfectionism: Seeing Through Eating Disorder Recovery and America’s Cultural Complex. Journal of Infant, Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy, 15:369-380.
Novack, D. (2016). To Know Another Inside and Out: Linking Psychic and Somatic Experience in Eating Disorders. Journal of Infant, Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy, 15:278-288.
Reilly, E. A. (2004). The Case of the Bulimic Mafia and the Tools of their Trade. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, 18:374-389.
V. Sex and Gender
CLASS 5: May 5, 2022
Guest Instructor: Kirsten Dahl
REQUIRED READINGS
Dahl, E. K. (1988). Fantasies of Gender. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 43:351-365.
Balsam, R. (2001). Integrating Male and Female Elements in a Woman’s Gender Identity. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 49:1335-1360.
Knight, R. (2014). Free to Be You and Me: Normal Gender-Role Fluidity—Commentary on Diane Ehrensaft’s “Listening and Learning from Gender-Nonconforming Children”. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 68:57-70.
VI. Forensic Issues
CLASS 6: May 12, 2022
Guest Instructor: Stephanie Brandt, M.D.
REQUIRED READINGS
Brandt, S. (2020). Editor’s introduction to the special issue: Interdisciplinary perspectives on domestic violence and coercive control. Int. J. Appl. Psychoanal. Studies, 17:211–214.
Brandt, S., and Rudden, M. (2020). A psychoanalytic perspective on victims of domestic violence
and coercive control. Int. J. Appl. Psychoanal. Studies, 17:215–231.
Emma Katz. PowerPoint Presentation on “Children and Coercive Control”
VII. The Acting out Adolescent
CLASS 7: May 19, 2022
Guest Instructor: Anna Balas, M.D.
Dr. Balas has assigned the Langley paper as well as the Novick discussion to be discussed in depth. Please read carefully and jot down your own reactions and thoughts.
The supplemental reading delineates what is meant by developmental object as distinct from “corrective emotional experience” and is a companion piece to the challenging case described by Dr. Langley.
REQUIRED READINGS
Langley, J. (2020). A Suicidal Adolescent: The Rocky Path from Physical Pain to Psychological Awareness. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 73:119-127.
Novick, J. (2020). The Courage to Grow: Creative Transformation in Patient and Child Analyst. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 73:128-130.
SUPPLEMENTARY READINGS
Neely, C. (2020). The Developmental Object and Therapeutic Action. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 73:109-118.