Psychoanalytic Training Schedule B

* Please note: Additional hours of Supervised Clinical Experience are required for a total of 1500 Clock Hours (750 of these may be documented Professional Development) in order to be licensed, but not for Education requirement for licensure / graduation.

EACH SEMESTER IS FIFTEEN (15) WEEKS.

The following are approximate divisions for allowing a 15 week (absolute) semester and may slide depending where the class day and holidays fall on the calendar:

FALL Semester begins last week in August and ends second week in December

WINTER Semester begins third week in December and ends fourth week in March

SPRING Semester begins last week in March and ends first week in July

SUMMER Semester begins second week in July and ends third week in August

Students are not permitted more than four weeks of vacation time and preferably in the summer months, if possible. Classes, supervision and treatment are all suspended on major holidays.

Psychoanalysis Course Descriptions

 

PSYCHOANALYSIS 501 PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT
Prerequisite: Psychoanalysis: 509 A&B: Professional Ethics, Law & Psychoanalytic Research Methodology

Course Description
Consideration is given primarily to the psychological development of the person from birth till death. The course begins with an empirical examination of the most currently accepted material on human development. This having been set forth, attention is then brought to the various psychoanalytic theories of development of personality. Among the psychoanalysts to be considered are: Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, Erik Erikson, Peter Blos, John Bowlby, D.W. Winnicott, Margaret Mahler, Rubin and Gertrude Blanck, James Masterson, Susan Kavaler-Adler, Beatrice Beebe and Frank Lachmann.

PSYCHOANALYSIS 502 PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY OF PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
Prerequisites: Psychoanalysis 509: Professional Ethics, Law & Psychoanalytic Research
Methodology. Psychoanalysis 501: Personality Development or Instructor’s permission.

Course Description
This course attempts to explain mental disorders or psychopathology from the perspective of psychoanalytic thinking. Initially, discussion is given to current research methods in psychopathology – individual cases, correlation, experimental design, genetics, culture, replication and research ethics. Attention is then given to approaches
taken by specific psychoanalytic thinkers: Freud’s explanation of the neurosis and changes in theory from id psychology to ego psychology; Sullivan and interpersonal psychoanalysis; Wilhelm Reich’s character formation; Melanie Klein and the British Object Relations School – Fairbairn and Winnicott; psychoanalysis of identity and self – Erikson; contemporary Freudian revisionists – Schafer, Loewald, Lacan. Major consideration is given to Fenichel’s explanations: motives and mechanisms of defense, anxiety hysteria, organ neuroses, obsession and compulsion, pregenital conversions, “perversions,” depression and mania; schizophrenia, character disorders. Finally, in depth consideration is given to the writings of Kernberg, Kohut, Masterson, Beebe and Lachmann.Some consideration is given to philosophical impact on psychoanalysis.

PSYCHOANALYSIS 503 PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY OF DIAGNOSIS
Prerequisites: Psychoanalysis 509: Professional Ethics, Law & Psychoanalytic Research Methodology. Psychoanalysis 501 Personality Development, Psychoanalysis 502 Psycho-analytic Theory of Psychopathology or latter two with instructor’s permission.

Course Description
Examination of various psychoanalytic views in diagnosing various psychopathologies or abnormal behaviors; brief discussion of clinical assessment, diagnosis, classification issues and history of diagnosis; need for diagnosis in treatment planning; psychoanalytic character diagnosis according to classical Freudian drive theory, ego psychology, object relations and self psychology; consideration of developmental levels in making diagnosis; primitive and higher order defensive processes; character organization; discussion of drive, affect, temperament, defenses and adaptive processes, level of object relations in making diagnosis of anti-social, narcissistic, schizoid, paranoid, depressive, manic,
masochistic, obsessive, compulsive, hysterical and dissociative personalities; Blanck’s diagnosis in terms of organizing process. Masterson’s use of developmental theory and intrapsychic structure in narcissistic personality diagnosis; his differential diagnosis: narcissistic versus borderline disorder. In depth consideration of diagnostic approaches to
borderline and narcissistic disorders. The diagnosis of hysteria from Freud though object relations theorists; philosophical bearing on theory and practice.

PSYCHOANALYSIS 504 SOCIOCULTURAL INFLUENCE ON GROWTH AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
Prerequisites: Psychoanalysis 509 Professional Ethics, Law & Psychoanalytic Research Methodology. Psychoanalysis 501 Personality Development, Psychoanalysis 502 Psycho-analytic Theory of Psychopathology or latter two with instructor’s permission.

Course Description
Consideration is given to the influence of society, culture and history on growth and psychopathology and developing the student’s sensitivity to these issues in psychoanalytic treatment. Discussion of human diversity; women’s biology; cross-cultural studies; cultural standards and trends; racial awareness. Abnormal behavior in historical context; integrative approach to psychopathology; sociocultural influences on anxiety, somatoform, dissociative, mood, eating, sleep, physical, sexual, gender identity, substance, personality, schizophrenia, developmental and cognitive disorders. Lecture and discussion on international and historical cases of psychopathology; special illustrative consideration given to historical and cross cultural perspectives on hysteria; Masterson’s sociocultutural influences on the real self; relationship between psychoanalysis and anthropology.

PSYCHOANALYSIS 505 USE OF DREAMS AND SYMBOLIC PROCESSES IN TREATMENT
Prerequisites: Psychoanalysis 509 Professional Ethics, Law & Psychoanalytic Research Methodology. Psychoanalysis 501 Personality Development or instructor’s permission.

Course Description
Freud said, “the dream is the royal road to the unconscious.” Dreams and symbolic processes are invaluable tools in psychoanalytic treatment especially at times when the analyst seems bewildered as to what is happening in the treatment. Further, the symbolic process is a means by which the analysand is able to transcend the mundane and reach for an all embracing view of reality. Careful consideration is given to Jung’s ways of approaching the unconscious, individuation, symbolism, ancient myths and modern man; reading and discussion of the classical works of Freud on the methods of dream interpretation: condensation, displacement, latent to manifest, secondary revision, wish fulfillment and other processes operative. Having been grounded in classical Jung and Freud, the course turns to comparative analysis of a dream from the Freudian, Jungian, culturist, object relations, phenomenological, and gestalt approaches. Students will present dreams from their cases for interpretation and use in treatment.

PSYCHOANALYSIS 506 ANALYSIS OF RESISTANCE, TRANSFERENCE, COUNTERTRANSFERENCE, AND TERMINATION
Prerequisites: Psychoanalysis 509 Professional Ethics, Law & Psychoanalytic Research
Methodology. Psychoanalysis 501 Personality Development or instructor’s permission.

Course Description
This course deals with resistance, transference, countertransference and termination as they manifest themselves and are dealt with in the psychoanalytic process. The contributions of the following psychoanalysts are considered on these issues: S.Freud, A.Freud, Reik, Reich, Sullivan, Greenspan, Langs, Kernberg, Masterson, Blanks, Kohut, Bergman and others. Consideration is given to the ego’s defensive operation, abstinence rule, parataxic distortion, classification of resistances; working alliance; techniques of analyzing the transference; intractable transference reaction; and the transference manifestations in various pathologies; therapist errors from countertransference; transmuting internalizations; idealizing and mirror transferences; termination of successful / unsuccessful treatment; termination with various personality disorders; reanalysis.

PSYCHOANALYSIS 507 CASE SEMINARS ON PSYCHOANALYTIC CLINICAL PRACTICE
Prerequisites: Psychoanalysis 509 Professional Ethics, Law & Psychoanalytic Research Methodology; Psychoanalysis 501 Personality Development; and any one of the
following: Psychoanalysis 502, 503, 505, 506, 507.

Course Description
In these case seminars, there will be background readings and discussion on psychoanalytic techniques and the cases as set forth by Langs, Greenson, Sharpe, Horney, Sullivan, Kavaler-Adler, Beebe and Lachmann. Students will present their cases and the technical insights of the authors will be brought to bear upon their case material. Topics will include the goals of psychoanalytic therapy; assessment; ground rules for treatment; understanding patient communications; manifest and latent content; therapeutic interventions; questions and clarifications; confrontation; reconstruction; supportive interventions; what is required of the psychoanalyst; neurotic conflict and attempts at solution.

PSYCHOANALYSIS 508 PRACTICE IN PSYCHOPATHOLOGY AND PSYCHODIAGNOSIS
Prerequisites: Psychoanalysis 509 Professional Ethics, Law & Psychoanalytic Research Methodology; Psychoanalysis 501 Personality Development; Psychoanalysis 502 Psychoanalytic Theory of Psychopathology; Psychoanalysis 503 Psychoanalytic Theory of Diagnosis.

Course Description
This course is practical in orientation in that it deals with examining psychopathology and making a diagnosis of abnormal disorders. Consideration is first given to distinguishing psychological from organic disorders, then to insight and symptom oriented interviewing, methods to assess mental status, and steps in making a diagnosis. Although students already have familiarity with psychoanalytic theories of psychopathology and diagnosis, there will be additional readings in disorder-specific interviewing. Clinical material will be illustrated from the students’ cases. Then the focus of the course will be the presentation of cases from the DSM in which pathology will be examined from both the DSM and psychoanalytic perspectives and diagnosis made from both these perspectives. In the final sessions, students will present their own case material for psychoanalytic diagnosis.

PSYCHOANALYSIS 509 A & B. PROFESSIONAL ETHICS, LAW and PSYCHOANALYTIC RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
No prerequisites.

Course Description
Since psychoanalysis is proposed as a part of behavioral science, its methods have to be acceptable by the standards of scientific methodology. This course will cover some basic statistical concepts and tests, empirical reasoning, ethics in experimenting and research, observation and measurement, reliability and validity, hypothesis testing. A critique is made of the meaningfulness of psychoanalytic concepts and the validity of Freud’s methodology and reductionism. Psychoanalysis is examined in the light of scientific method; theory and the nature of evidence; observation; scientific credibility of personality types, dream analysis, oedipal theories, female castration complex; outcome, process and developmental research; final psychoanalytic case presentation. Ethical issues are considered: ethical decisions, values, multicultural perspectives and diversity issue; client rights and analyst responsibility; confidentiality; boundaries and multiple relationships; professional competence; supervision; ethics in couple, family, group, community work; discussion of ethics cases; the law and mental health professionals; mandated reporting of sexual abuse of children <http://www.nysmandatedreporter,org/default2.html>.

PSYCHOANALYSIS 510 INTEGRATION : PSYCHOANALYSIS AND MULTI-MODAL THERAPIES
Prerequisites: This course is taken after all previous psychoanalysis courses have been completed.

Course Description
This course attempts to integrate the psychoanalytic method with other forms of psychotherapy. The treatment of a certain disorder would be called multi-modal therapy; an exploration whereby both the psychoanalytic model and one or more non- psychoanalytic therapies are integrated into the treatment of various disorders. Topics included are cyclical psychodynamics; behavioral, cognitive analytic, existential, interpersonal, experiential therapies; the integration of traditional and non-traditional approaches: hermeneutic, ,feminist, spiritual healing, Buddhism, religious; psychotherapy integration with specific disorders: anxiety, depression, character, substance abuse, organic.