Psychoanalytic Principles of Child Development
Instructor
October 16 – November 13, 2023
Mondays, 7:00 – 8:00 pm
Location: ZOOM
Pay Fee – $200 – 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:
- Describe the psychoanalytic nature of developmental phases in childhood: i.e., pre-oedipal, oedipal, latency, and early, middle, and late adolescence.
- 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
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.
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.
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.
Class 1: October 16, 2023
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.
SUPPLEMENTAL READINGS:
Knight, R. (2022). Reconsidering Development in Psychoanalysis. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 75:215-232.
Class 2: October 23, 2023
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
Class 3: October 30, 2023
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.
Class 4: November 6, 2023
REQUIRED READINGS:
Frank, Anne, 1929-1945 author. The Diary of a Young Girl: the Definitive Edition. New York:Doubleday, 1995. pp. 140-149.
McCuller, Carson. The Member of the Wedding. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1946. pp. 1-23.
SUPPLEMENTARY READINGS:
Gilmore, K. (2019). Is Emerging Adulthood a New Developmental Phase?. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 67:625-653.
Class 5: November 13, 2023
REQUIRED READINGS:
Bowlby, J. (1960). Separation Anxiety. Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 41:89-113.
SUPPLEMENTARY READINGS:
Gilmore, K. (2009). The status of developmental curriculum in North American psychoanalysis. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 90:885-904.
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.
Gilmore, K. (2013). The Theory of Sibling Trauma and the Lateral Dimension. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 67:53-65.