Extension Course: Modern Conflict Theory in Practice
Instructor
April 4 – 25, 2024
Thursdays, 8:30 – 10:00 pm
Pay fee – $210 — registration is now closed.
Please note registration will close on April 2 at 5 pm.
6 Contact Hours. 6 CME/CE credits offered. See details below.
Course Description
Dr. Ian Buckingham was formerly President of NYPSI and Director of NYPSI’s Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Program. He is also on the faculty of NYPSI and NYU Medical Center.
Course Objectives
After attending this course, participants will be able to:
1. Describe Freud’s traditional structural theory.
2. Describe Charles Brenner’s revisions of traditional structural theory.
3. Explain how evolutionary biology helps us understand the functioning of the mind.
Continuing Education Information
Psychologists
New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY – 0073.
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Social Workers
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Physicians
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of [6] AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s)* to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. *Financial relationships are relevant if the educational content an individual can control is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company.
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READINGS ARE CONFIRMED.
I. Contemporary Structural Theory
CLASS 1: April 4, 2024
Freud first formulated his Structural Theory of the mind in 1926. The Theory was subject to substantial revision over the course of the next 60 years and Contemporary Structural Theory has been most comprehensively described by Brenner in “The Mind in Conflict”. In this session we shall review the status of the contemporary structural model with particular emphasis on the concepts of the drives, affects and defense.
REQUIRED READINGS
Brenner, C. (1982). The Mind in Conflict. New York: International Universities Press. [Read Chapters 2-4]
Brenner, C. (1982). The Mind in Conflict. New York: International Universities Press. [Read Chapters 5-8]
SUPPLEMENTARY READINGS
Brenner, C. (1982). The Mind in Conflict. New York: International Universities Press. [Read Chapters 9-11]
Brenner, C. (1982). The Mind in Conflict. New York: International Universities Press. [Read Chapters 12-13]
LaFarge, L. (2017). From “Either/Or” to “And”: The Analyst’s Use of Multiple Models in Clinical Work. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 65:829-844.
Litowitz, B. E. (2014). Introduction: The Theorist and the Theory. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 62:983-985.
II. Modern Conflict Theory I
CLASS 2: April 11, 2024
Contemporary Structural Theory has been substantially amended over the quarter-century following its formulation in 1982. This process of amendment has been described most fully by Brenner in several papers during this time. In this class we shall review some of these.
REQUIRED READINGS
Brenner, C. (1994). The Mind as Conflict and Compromise Formation. Journal of Clinical Psychoanalysis, 3:473-488.
Brenner, C. (1998). Beyond the Ego and the Id Revisited. J. Clin. Psychoanal., 7(1):165-180.
Brenner, C. (2002). Conflict, Compromise Formation, and Structural Theory. Psychoanal Q., 71:397-417.
SUPPLEMENTARY READINGS
Dawkins, Richard (1989). The Selfish Gene (second ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press
III. Modern Conflict Theory II
CLASS 3: April 18, 2024
In this class we shall continue reviewing the revision of Contemporary Structural Theory and examine the psychoanalytic understanding of human motivation and its convergence with some of the ideas of Evolutionary Biology to attain a description of Modern Conflict Theory.
REQUIRED READINGS
Brenner, C. (2008). Aspects of Psychoanalytic Theory: Drives, Defense, and the Pleasure-Unpleasure Principle. Psychoanal Q., 77:707-717.
Peskin, M.M. (1997). Drive Theory Revisited. Psychoanal Q., 66:377-402.
Peskin, M. M. (2001). Back to Basics: The Psychoanalytic Conceptualization of Motivation. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 21:658-674.
SUPPLEMENTARY READINGS
Christian, C. (2015). Intersubjectivity and Modern Conflict Theory. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 32:608-625.
IV. Modern Conflict Theory in Practice
CLASS 4: April 25, 2024
The application of Modern Conflict Theory to clinical practice has been well described by Brenner in his monograph “Psychoanalysis or Mind and Meaning”. In this class we will be guided by this monograph in considering how Modern Conflict Theory influences clinical work.
REQUIRED READINGS
Brenner, C. (1991). Chapter 7: Conflict and Compromise: Therapeutic Strategies for Clinicians. Conflict and Compromise: Therapeutic Implications, 74:97-106.
Brenner, C. (2006). Psychoanalysis or mind and meaning. New York: The Psychoanalytic Quarterly. [Read Chapters 2-5]