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Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 19, Pp. 389
Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 19, Pp. 389
Paradigm
This course examines the way in which certain early papers led to subtle shifts in
key psychoanalytic concepts which eventually gave way to a more pervasive
epistemological shifts in psychoanalytic thinking. The course then explores the ways in
which this shift changed our theoretical and clinically/technical understanding of some of
these concepts.
Please note that not all readings listed will be assigned. The class will decide on which
articles to concentrate, or different segments of the class will read different papers.
Week 1: Introduction
Mitchell, S.A.. Ch1. The Relational Matrix (#1) and Ch 2 “Drive” and the
Relational Matrix.(#2) In, Relational Concepts. Ppl 17-62
Yalom- Lying on the Couch- optional over the course of the semester.
Part I. The first weeks of the semester focus on a reading of early relational papers
which created a background against which a subtle paradigm shift began to evolve.
Class sessions will focus on a careful reading of these papers and on the theoretical
and technical implications which follow from them.
Week 3: Constructivism
Hoffman, I.Z. (1991) Toward a social-constructivist view of the psychoanalytic
situation. Psychoanalytic Dialogues. 1, pp 74-105 (#6)
Hoffman, I.Z. (1992) Some Practical implications of a social- constructivist
view of the psychoanalytic situation. Psychoanalytic Dialogues. 2, pp. 287-304.(#7)
Stern, D. (1983) Unformulated Experience. Contemporary Psychoanalysis.
19(1), pp. 71-99. (#8)
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Week 4: Early Papers II
Mitchell, S.A. (1993) Ch 3. The Two Revolutions Taken Together. In Hope
and Dread in Psychoanalysis. pp. 67-91 (#9)
Ghent, E. (1990) Masochism, submission and surrender: masochism as a
perversion of surrender. Contemporary Psychoanalysis. 26(1). Pp. 108-135. (#10)
Aron, L. (1991) The patient’s experience of the analyst’s subjectivity.
Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 1(1). Pp. 29-51. (#11)
Part II. The second section of this course will focus on the reformulations of models
of mind which have become widely accepted within the relational perspective. The
emphasis will be on reconsiderations of psychoanalytic technique which emerge
from these reformulated mental models.
Week 6: Intersubjectivity
Benjamin, J. (1990) Recognition and destruction? An outline of
intersubjectivity. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 7 (suppl.) pp. 33-47. (#16)
Ogden, T. (1994) The analytic third: Working with intersubjective clinical
facts. International Journal of Psychoanalysis. 75: Pp. 3-19. (#17)
Stolorow, R. and Atwood, G. (1992) Three realms of the unconscious. In
Contexts of being: The intersubjective foundations of Psychological Life. The Analytic
Press. (#18)
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Davies, J. M. and Frawley, M. G. (1991) Dissociative processes and transference-
countertransference paradigms in the psychoanalytically oriented treatment of adult
survivors of childhood sexual abuse. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 2(1) Pp. 5-36. (#22)
Davies, J.M. and Frawley, M.G., (1994) Chs 4 and 9 In Treating the Adult
Survivor of Childhood Sexual Abuse: A Psychoanalytic Perspective. (#23)
Part III. The last third of the semester will focus on a study of the ways in which
ideas about transference and countertransference have shifted within the relational
model, with a particular emphasis on the relationship between the analyst’s use of
his/her own subjectivity and the facilitation of a self reflective process within the
patient.
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Slochower, J. A. (1996) Holding and Psychoanalysis: A Relational Perspective.
Chapter 2. Pp. 13-33. (#34)
Weel 12: The Analyst’s Subjectivity and the Self Reflective Process. Part II
Slavin. M. and Kriegman, D. (1998) Why the analyst has to change? Psa. Dial.
8(2). (#35)
Fonagy, P. (2002) Mentalization and Affect Regulation. Chapters 10 (#36)
Mitchell, S. A. (1999) Relationality Chapter 7. New Jersey: The Analytic
Press. (#37)
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