Psychoanalytic Principles of Child Development

Course Description

Instructor

David Sawyer, M.D.

October 21 – November 18, 2024
Mondays, 7:00 – 8:00 pm

Location: ZOOM

Pay Fee – $225  — REGISTRATION IS CLOSED.

Course Description

This is a course designed to help clinicians of all levels become more aware of child development phases from a psychoanalytic perspective: the pre-oedipal, oedipal, latency, and early, middle and late adolescent phases. The course will highlight how certain issues affect child development at the different stages: sibling trauma, separation anxiety, beating fantasies, the origin and evolution of childhood narcissism, family romance fantasies (oedipal and latency fantasies) and object removal in adolescence. The discussion of these universal childhood fantasies is facilitated by a study of certain classical papers and current considerations of these issues. Clinical examples will be offered to illustrate the concepts being presented.

5 Contact Hours. 5 CME/CE credits offered. 

Educational Objectives

Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to:

  1. Describe the psychoanalytic nature of developmental phases in childhood: i.e., pre-oedipal, oedipal, latency, and early, middle, and late adolescence.
  2. Explain which principles organize development, including progression and fixation, the formation of unconscious fantasies, unconscious conflict, and the influence of parenting and parent psychology in order to recognize clinically significant developmental issues in childhood: sibling trauma, separation anxiety, sadomasochism, family romance fantasies, the evolution of narcissism, and object removal.

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.
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 this program and its content.
DISCLOSURE: None of the planners or presenters of this CE program has any relevant financial relationships to disclose.
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.

Physicians
ACCME Accreditation Statement
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 New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
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AMA Credit Designation Statement
The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this live activity for a maximum of [5] AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
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Disclosure Statement
The APsA CE Committee has reviewed the materials for accredited continuing education and has determined that this activity is not related to the product line of ineligible companies and therefore, the activity meets the exception outlined in Standard 3: ACCME’s identification, mitigation and disclosure of relevant financial relationship. This activity does not have any known commercial support.
Schedule of Classes & Course Readings

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READINGS ARE CONFIRMED.

Class 1: October 21, 2024
REQUIRED READINGS:

Freud, S. (1914). On Narcissism: An Introduction. The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Volume XIV (1914-1916): On the History of the Psycho-Analytic Movement, Papers on Metapsychology and Other Works, 67-102.

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SUPPLEMENTAL READINGS:

Knight, R. (2022). Reconsidering Development in Psychoanalysis. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 75:215-232.

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Class 2: October 28, 2024
REQUIRED READINGS:

Freud, S. (1919). ‘A Child is Being Beaten’ A Contribution to the Study of the Origin of Sexual Perversions. The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Volume XVII (1917-1919): An Infantile Neurosis and Other Works, 175-204

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SUPPLEMENTAL READINGS:

Novick, J. & Novick, K. (2022) A Metapsychological Framework for Sadomasochism. International Journal of Psychoanalysis 103:1038-1056.

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Class 3: November 4, 2024
REQUIRED READINGS:

Freud, S. (1909). Family Romances. The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Volume IX (1906-1908): Jensen’s ‘Gradiva’ and Other Works, 235-242.

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Class 4: November 11, 2024
REQUIRED READINGS:

Frank, Anne, 1929-1945 author. The Diary of a Young Girl: the Definitive Edition. New York:Doubleday, 1995. pp. 140-149.

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McCuller, Carson. The Member of the Wedding. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1946. pp. 1-23.

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SUPPLEMENTARY READINGS:

Gilmore, K. (2019). Is Emerging Adulthood a New Developmental Phase?. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 67:625-653.

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Class 5: November 18, 2024
REQUIRED READINGS:

Bowlby, J. (1960). Separation Anxiety. Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 41:89-113.

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SUPPLEMENTARY READINGS:

Gilmore, K. (2009). The status of developmental curriculum in North American psychoanalysis. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 90:885-904.

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Gilmore, K. (2011). Pretend Play and Development in Early Childhood (with Implications for the Oedipal Phase). Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 59:1157-1181.

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Gilmore, K. (2013). The Theory of Sibling Trauma and the Lateral Dimension. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 67:53-65.

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