DIVISION I COURSE DESCRIPTIONS : SECOND YEAR - 2007/08

210
Rubin
1st Trimester
10 sessions
Sullivan and the Beginnings of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis
Tuesdays, 7:15 - 8:30 p.m.
This class will provide an in-depth focus on Harry Stack Sullivan's work.  The historical context of his ideas and work, his developmental schema, the centrality of anxiety, and key concepts (i.e. security operations, detailed inquiry, parataxis, dissociation) are elaborated in a theoretical and a clinical framework.  Students and instructors present clinical vignettes for clarification of the basic principles of treatment.  Differences between the interpersonal orientation and approaches of other schools will be clarified.

211
S. Brown
1st Trimester
10 sessions
Development - Current Research in Child Development
Tuesdays, 8:45 - 10:00 p.m.
The wide range of current developmental research studies in infancy and childhood will be surveyed as to their potential clinical implications.  Attachment theory and research will be a prominent part of this course.

212
P. Bromberg and L. Brown
1st Trimester
10 sessions
Case Seminar in Clinical Process
Thursdays, 8:00 - 10:00 p.m.
Emphasis will be on listening to clinical process in a manner that reveals how patient and analyst, through their complex, multi-layered relationship, are dissociatively enacting some aspects of their immediate experience that are excluded from cognitive representation and therefore cannot be explicitly addressed. Several members of the class will present process material using audiotape recordings of their ongoing work with a patient in psychoanalytic therapy or psychoanalysis. What the class experiences as it listens will be the matrix of discussion and, hopefully, will be related to relevant theoretical and clinical issues that broaden in scope as the seminar progresses. The goal is to facilitate increasing sensitivity to the interface between what is affectively enacted as dissociated communication and whatever is taking place consciously for each participant.

220
Frie
2nd  Trimester
10 sessions
Psychoanalysis in Context: A History of Ideas
Tuesdays, 7:15 - 8:30 p.m.
This course provides a historical and theoretical overview of psychoanalysis, from Descartes, Freud and the birth of modernism through Lacan, intersubjectivity, and postmodernism.  Its aim is to help the student understand and contextualize the key concepts and ideas which make up the psychoanalytic cannon in general, and the interpersonal school in particular.

221
Buechler
Kanwal
2nd Trimester
5 sessions
3 rd Trimester
10 sessions
Psychopathology - Issues of Diagnosis, Considerations of Entity versus Process and Character
Tuesdays, 8:45 - 10:00 p.m.
This course will deal with issues of diagnosis, character and the range of psychopathology.  How a psychoanalytic perspective compares with a DSM-IV classification and the impact of diagnostic considerations on the analyst's technique will be explored.

222
Pantone
8 sessions
Wilner
7 sessions
2nd & 3rd Trimester
15 sessions
The Analytic Interaction: Transference - Countertransference
Thursdays, 7:30 - 9:30 p.m.
(A) 8 sessions
(B) 7 sessions
Transference and Countertransference issues as both an aid and  hindrance will be discussed through student presentations and the literature.

230
Kuriloff
3rd Trimester
10 sessions
Modern Interpersonal and Relational Perspectives
This course will be the third course in a second year survey of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis beginning with Sullivan's work and taking the student into the present.  Both linkages to the past and the uniqueness of current positions are to be defined and compared.  This course will build on the two previous courses in presenting contemporary interpersonal and relational views.

231
Hart
3rd Trimester
5 sessions
Ethics in Psychoanalytic Practice
Tuesdays, 8:45 - 10:00 p.m.
This course addresses ethical issues in contemporary psychoanalysis with an emphasis on matters clinical.  Utilizing readings and case examples brought in by the instructor and the participants, the class aspires to serve as a forum for ethical group supervision.  Particular attention will be paid to boundary conditions and to potential conflicts between the psychoanalytic endeavor and the contexts within which it is undertaken.  Also addressed will be the unique contribution of a psychoanalytic sensibility to the formulation of an ethical stance.

232
Lippmann
3rd Trimester
5 sessions
Advanced Dream Seminar
Thursdays, 7:30 - 9:30 p.m.
A wide-ranging and critical exploration of the central and complex position of dreams within clinical and theoretical psychoanalysis (especially within Interpersonal Psychoanalysis). Through readings, lecture, discussion and especially in practice and in imaginative play with dreams within the clinical context, the aim of this advanced seminar is to increase candidates' capacity for appreciation, puzzlement, freedom and effectiveness in engaging with the multiple meanings of dreams at various stages in analysis.