Psychoanalytic Fellowship Curriculum

Course Description

Instructors

Anna Miari, M.D.
Gabriela Shelley, M.D.

October 8, 2024 – April 15, 2025
Tuesdays, 8:00 – 9:30 pm 

The Fellowship Seminars are held every first and third Tuesday of each month, October – April, except for the months of October and February when meetings will be held on the second and fourth Tuesday.

Continuing Education

No CME or CE credits are offered for the Psychoanalytic Fellowship.

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. Introduction

CLASS 1: October 8, 2024 (second Tuesday)
REQUIRED READINGS

Shedler, J. (2022). That Was Then, This is Now: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy for the Rest of Us. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 58:405-437.

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Busch, F. (2009). On Creating a Psychoanalytic Mind: Psychoanalytic Knowledge as a Process. Scand. Psychoanal. Rev., 32(2):85-92.

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II. Case Presentation

CLASS 2: October 22, 2024 (fourth Tuesday)


III. Goals of Psychoanalysis/ Process of Change

CLASS 3: November 12, 2024 — NOTE THIS IS A DATE CHANGE
REQUIRED READINGS

Jacobs, T.J. (2001). Reflections on the Goals of Psychoanalysis, the Psychoanalytic Process, and the Process of Change. Psychoanal Q., 70(1):149-181.

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Ticho, E.A. (1972). Termination of Psychoanalysis: Treatment Goals, Life Goals. Psychoanal Q., 41:315-333.

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IV. Case Presentation

CLASS 4: November 19, 2024


V. Conflict/ Compromise Formation

CLASS 5: December 3, 2024
REQUIRED READINGS

Willick, M. S. (1991). Chapter 6: Working with Conflict and Deficit in Borderline and Narcissistic Patients. Conflict and Compromise: Therapeutic Implications, 74:77-94.

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Abend, S.M. (2005). Analyzing Intrapsychic Conflict: Compromise Formation as an Organizing Principle. Psychoanal Q., 74(1):5-25.

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VI. Case Presentation

CLASS 6: December 17, 2024

VII. The Roads

CLASS 7: January 7, 2025
REQUIRED READINGS

Freud, S. The Interpretation of Dreams. Chapter 2

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Arlow, J. A. (1969). Unconscious Fantasy and Disturbances of Conscious Experience. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 38:1-27.

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VIII. Case Presentation

CLASS 8: January 21, 2025


IX. Transference

CLASS 9: February 4, 2025  — DATE CHANGE
REQUIRED READINGS

Freud, S. (1915). Observations on Transference-Love (Further Recommendations on the Technique of Psycho-Analysis III). The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, 12:157-171.

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

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X. Case Presentation

CLASS 10: February 25, 2025 (fourth Tuesday)


XI. Countertransference

CLASS 11: March 4, 2025
REQUIRED READINGS

Jacobs, T.J. (1993). The Inner Experiences of the Analyst: Their Contribution to the Analytic Process. Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 74:7-14.

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Gabbard, G. O. (2001). A contemporary psychoanalytic model of countertransference. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 57(8): 983–991.

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XII. Case Presentation

CLASS 12: March 18, 2025

XIII. Neuropsychoanalysis –  Bridging Brain and Mind

CLASS 13: April 1, 2025
REQUIRED READINGS

TBD


XIV. Case Presentation

CLASS 14: April 15, 2025