DIVISION I COURSE DESCRIPTIONS : ELECTIVE COURSES - 2007/08

610
Langan
10 sessions Reading as Stance
Trimester, day and time will be negotiated with instructor.
This seminar proposes collaboratively to construct a notion of psychological stance as a kind of reading, an active and automatic construction of experience into self-in-the-world.  Commonalities in the reading of literature, self, and another person will be considered.  Literary readings might include Nabokov, Bakhtin, Bromberg, and Winnicott, depending on the interests of the class.

611
Goldklank
1st Trimester
10 sessions
Integrating Interpersonal Psychoanalysis and Couples Therapy
Will be held at instructor's office.
Tuesdays, 12:15 - 1:45 p.m.
We will discuss an integrative psychoanalytic-systemic approach to treating couples.  Our goals are: 1.) To understand the theory of technique, and 2.) To enrich your repertoire of techniques through the analysis of videos of sessions and through discussing cases.

612
J. Schacter
1^st Trimester
10 sessions
Clinical/Analytic Research Course for Candidates and Faculty
Wednesdays, 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
The purpose of this course is to assess whether developing a research orientation towards clinical material will increase the range and scope of psychodynamic hypotheses about that material. The development of a research orientation involves enhancing awareness of the limitation of our knowledge and understanding of these clinical materials. Emphasis will be placed upon the tentativeness with which interventions should be made and the capacity to develop tolerance for uncertainty. Sessions for each patient discussed will be presented seriatim for four weeks each.

614
Gaines
1st Trimester
10 sessions
Psychoanalytic Approaches to Supervision
Will be held at instructor's office
Tuesdays 1:30 - 3:00 p.m.
This course will be aimed at students who have had no formal training in supervision or have begun doing some supervision.
While there is no cohesive model of the supervisory process, it has been more thoroughly studied and conceptualized then many clinicians realize. This course will attempt to acquaint students with that work..  This course will attempt to articulate an interpersonal/relational point of view. The main features of that point of view are an emphasis on the supervisory relationship as a collaborative endeavor, and  an alertness to the ongoing experiences of both participants in the relationship and the way those experiences can facilitate or hinder learning.
This course will aim to acquaint students with the basic tools of the supervisor and to give them some experiential exposure to their own personally based biases, blind spots, strengths, and  weaknesses as supervisors.

621
Kuriloff
2nd Trimester
10 sessions
Critical Controversies for Clinicians
Thursdays, 8:00 - 9:30 p.m.
What works with patients, and why?  This course will examine the debate in a fashion useful to the working analyst.  Is it still about making the unconscious conscious?  Transference analysis?  How do we integrate fantasy and interaction in the here & now?  Empathic listening and confrontation?  Reliving and new experience?  
Readings will vary from year to year, depending on the needs of the group, but will include works by Klein, Kohut, Sullivan, and Levenson.  Loewald, Shafer, Greenberg and other integrative thinkers will aid in our synthesis.

622
A. Harris
2nd Trimester
10 Sessions
Contemporary Perspectives on Gender
Tuesdays, 1:30 - 3:00 pm
Will be held at 80 University Place, 5^th Floor
In this course, we will study such topics as gender identity development, gender and sexuality, gender and performance, gender and embodiment, transgender and intersex phenomena. We will read some of the history of the psychoanalytic study of gender, considering the relation of psychoanalysis to social regulation. The course will have a clinical and theoretical focus.

630
Langan
3rd Trimester
10 sessions
Attending Within: Strategies of Buddhism and Psychoanalysis
Will be held at instructor's office.
Wednesdays, 1:30 - 2:45 pm
How do you decide, when sitting with a patient, or for that matter, when sitting with yourself, what to pay attention to?  A foundational assumption of psychoanalysis is that one has more leeway in choosing than at first it appears, and that by choosing differently comes the possibility of living differently.  One can alter the nature of self experience.  Similarly, a foundational assumption of Buddhism is that the givens of reality are in a profound way illusory, and that realization of how this is so leads to a profound alteration in the nature of self experience.  The strategies of Buddhism and psychoanalysis that lead toward such alteration bear comparison.  The goal of the course is to highlight attention to attention as an introspective wild card in personality change.  Its relevance is both clinical and personal.

631
S. Tublin
3rd Trimester
10 sessions
Defining Issues in Relational Psychoanalysis
Thursdays, 1:30 - 3:00 pm
The objective of this course is to highlight central principles that give  Contemporary Relational Psychoanalysis its distinct flavor.  The ten weeks will be divided into 4 content areas: mind and self in Relational theory, the analyst’s subjectivity and authority, the nature of analytic interaction and enactment, and the interface of psychoanalytic thinking with social constructionism with an emphasis on the influence of personal values and political/social categories on psychoanalytic theorizing.  Recent critiques of Relational theory and praxis will figure prominently in the course .

634
Epstein
3rd Trimester
10 sessions
Countertransference
Will be held at instructor's office.
Thursdays, 7:40 – 9:10 p.m.
Will not be given in 2007-08.
The instructor and students will present countertransference difficulties to determine both how they might be hindering the therapeutic process and how they might possibly illuminate the meaning and function of ongoing transferences and resistances. Historical and theoretical countertransference issues will be discussed as they arise in connection with the assigned readings and/or clinical material. This course may count as a clinical case seminar.

635
Beckett
3rd Trimester
10 sessions
The Psychoanalyst as Biographer: Selective Chapters from Five Works of Memoir
Will be held at instructor's office.  Time & Date may be negotiable.
Thursdays, 7:00 - 8:30 p.m.
The following works will be read and discussed in the course:
Kafka: Letters to My Father, Gorky: My Childhhod, Simon: Bronx Primitive, CK Williams: Misgivings and F. Scott Maxwell: A Measure of My Days.

636
Schaffner
Cross-Cultural Psychiatry
Course available every semester, in groups or individually by special arrangement.
Treatment problems with patients with cultural backgrounds different from that of the therapist. Emphasis is upon recognizing and understanding premises assumed in one's own and other cultures, distinguishing the psychological from the sociological, and resolving the therapist's subjective conflicts vis-a-vis the patient. Cultures may range from Far East, Mideast, European, African, Caribbean and Latin-American, to varieties within the United States.

NON-CREDIT COURSES
Other Case Seminars can be arranged by a small group of candidates with a training supervisor of its choice. Times and fees are by private arrangement with individual instructors.

Elective Studies Option

Number of sessions and times of meetings by special arrangement. A candidate (or group of candidates), upon approval by the Training Committee may elect an individual study project — either theoretical or clinical — with a tutor of his or her choice. The selection of a tutor must be approved by the Curriculum Committee prior to the initiation of discussion with the tutor. After such approval, and prior to the start of the academic year, the project or plan of study must be submitted to the Curriculum Committee for its approval.

Psychotherapy with Artists

The Institute's Artists Program, called Treatment Services for People in the Arts invites candidates to participate in an elective that should help them to become more familiar with the specific life and career issues that are typical for people in the performing and creative arts.

The Program consists of a group of Institute graduates who meet every first Thursday of the month from 1:30 p.m. until 3 p.m. to review pertinent literature, discuss cases or meet with artists for an exchange of ideas. Candidates who participate would have a priority in obtaining artist patient referrals and would also be able to have individual supervision by supervisors who are members of the Artist Program. Participating regularly in the seminar for several years would then count as one elective.

The Mentored Program for Independent Study

Beginning in the second year of training and continuing into the fourth, every candidate will be offered the opportunity to work closely with a member of the Teaching Faculty of Division I (mentor) in pursuing the scholarly study of a psychoanalytic topic of his or her choosing. The
candidate and mentor will meet monthly to discuss and guide the progress of the candidate’s independent study, which will culminate in the preparation of a short scholarly article. The article should be suitable for publication in a psychoanalytic journal or for presentation at a national conference, and may be submitted for the Kaufman Award.

Candidates will choose a mentor from anyone on the Teaching Faculty of Division I other than their personal analyst. The candidates will also select two “readers” who will be available to provide additional guidance, support, and scholarly input during all phases of the independent study. The selection of topic, mentor, and readers will be reviewed by the Chair of the Curriculum Committee by November 1st of the third year. Copies of the completed article must be sent to the mentor, the two readers, and the Chair of the Curriculum Committee by March 1st of the year of expected graduation.

This program was developed so as to make the resources of the Institute available in a structured way to candidates who have the desire to write. It is designed to encourage creativity, risk-taking, and self-expression; and to provide the opportunity for candidates to further develop themselves as writers in a field where writing contributes greatly to theoretical and clinical understanding.

The equivalent of one course at the 600 level will be offered to candidates who complete the program.

Special Services Elective Study

Participation in a Special Services will be credited as a 600 elective, since it offers both practical and theoretical learning. This will make it easier for candidates to join such Services considering their time constraints.The candidate will attend the meeting for three years and will notify the Curriculum Committee at the start. The Director of the Service will authorize the candidate’s participation in this option.