DIVISION I COURSE DESCRIPTIONS : CLINICAL CASE SEMINARS - 2007/08

510
Ehrenberg
1st Trimester
10 sessions
Clinical Case Seminar - Working at the Intimate Edge
Tuesdays, 11:45 - 1:15 p.m.
This seminar will focus both on theory and practice.  Detailed clinical data of participants and the instructor will be used to illustrate and discuss issues of working at the intimate edge.

520
E. Singer
2nd Trimester
10 sessions
Clinical Case Seminar
Tuesdays, 1:45 - 3:15 p.m.
The focal point of this seminar will be the role of the analyst's personality as it affects the course of the analysis.  Candidates will present vignettes from their work for discussion.

521
M. Abramis
2nd Trimester
10 sessions
Clinical Case Seminar
Will be held at instructor's office.
Wednesdays, 1:00 - 2:30 p.m.
In this case seminar, we will focus on patient and analyst
difficulties tolerating intense affect, particularly as related to disruption in the frame (e.g. time, money, space, analytic
attitude).  Participants will present detailed process from psychotherapy or psychoanalytic cases.

522
A. Rosen
2nd Trimester
10 sessions
Clinical Case Seminar
Wednesdays, 11:00 - 1:30 pm
The purpose of this course is to deepen inquiry into the analytic process. The class will present process material of their ongoing work. Every member of the group will be encouraged to discuss their understanding of the presenter’s material using images, theory, personal life history, group process. Part of the goal of the course is to help candidates find a way to use the group to facilitate understanding of transference and countertransference issues. Each individual in the group will be encouraged to find the necessary conditions to reveal themselves and best use the group for deeper understanding of their clinical work.

530
Issacharoff
Nachmani
3rd  Trimester
10 sessions
Clinical Case Seminar
Tuesdays, 1:00 - 2:30 p.m.
This case seminar will explore the connection and relationship between psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. The instructors will use clinical vignettes presented by the candidates to illustrate the weave of these two modalities. Advanced candidates will be expected to hone their their abilities to move from one modality to the other, feeling equally comfortable strengthening healthy ego defenses and promoting curiosity and creativity in their patients.   

531
Zaphiropoulos
3rd Trimester
10 sessions
Clinical Case Seminar on the Hysterical Personality
Thursdays, 6:30 – 8:00 p.m.
The developmental and functional aspects of the hysterical personality will be traced by focusing on the experience of the patient and the analyst in the therapeutic situation. Case presentations by seminar members and selected readings will serve as the basis for this course.

532
I. Hirsch
3rd Trimester
10 sessions
Interpersonal and Relational Approaches to Countertransference: A Clinical Seminar
Wednesdays, 2:00 - 3:15 pm •
After an introductory lecture on the variety ways the concept of countertransference is conceptualized and used among the major contemporary psychoanalytic traditions, the remainder of the seminar will be devoted examining this as it is enacted in clinical process. I plan to present the opening clinical illustration, and subsequent to this each class member will be asked to present his or her own clinical material. The focus of my commentary will highlight how analysts' unwitting participation impacts clinical process, and how analysts' awareness of this affords the possibility of a more rich therapeutic interaction.