IPTAR Bulletin - Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research

YEAR TWO
In the second year, courses focus on two broad areas. One examines major
theoretical developments in Freudian psychoanalysis growing from Freud’s
writings. Courses address the evolution of structural theory, with consideration
to developments in ego psychology, modern conflict theory, and the
way in which concepts of structural development, object relations, and selfesteem
regulation have been developed within a Freudian framework. Introductions
to the work of Klein andWinnicott form the second part of this
year-long theoretical sequence.
The second broad area examines the process of psychoanalytic diagnosis and
psychoanalytic understandings of the major diagnostic conditions.The goal is
to identify what has gone wrong in a given condition and why it has gone
wrong in that particular way. These questions necessarily involve considerations
of dynamic and structural variables.This sixteen-week didactic course
is followed by a sixteen-week clinical case seminar that focuses on the influence
of diagnosis on analyzability,the psychoanalytic frame,prognosis,and technique.
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I. FURTHER EVOLUTION OF FREUDIAN ANALYSIS
Contemporary Freudian Psychoanalytic Theory
(Sixteen Weeks)
Joseph Cancelmo, Psy.D. / Neal Vorus, Ph.D. (alternating years)
This course traces the development of Freudian psychoanalytic theory from
ego psychology through contemporary Freudian psychoanalytic theorists.
Focusing on Anna Freud, Hartmann, Kris and Loewenstein, Jacobson, Arlow,
Brenner,and Loewald,but including other theorists as the instructor wishes,the
course traces how central Freudian conceptions such as drive, ego, object,
structure, and superego have evolved, and how these changes have led to differing
definitions of contemporary Freudian theory and technique within the
Freudian spectrum. The instructor may choose to trace the evolution of different
concepts by looking at how different questions posed by successive
theorists led to changing emphases.The instructor may also focus on how
changes in the psychoanalytic political world – the analyst’s external environment
– also influenced theoretical change. The course should give students
some notion of how and why these different theoretical developments have led
to differing ideas about the nature of psychoanalytic practice.
Klein and the Neo-Kleinians
(Eight Weeks)
Monica Carsky, Ph.D. / Karen Komisar Proner, M.S. (alternating years)
This seminar will focus on Melanie Klein's seminal papers. It will look at how
Klein's ideas developed from Freud's theoretical thinking, in particular his
later papers, and from Abraham's theoretical explorations on early stages of
libidinal organization and object relations. Concepts considered are: the
establishment of early object relations, the pre-stages of oedipal conflict and
superego formation, and Klein's theory of the paranoid-schizoid and depressive
positions. The latter are essential to an understanding of Klein's ideas
about psychotic anxieties, unconscious fantasy, and the interrelation between
internal and external reality.
Winnicott and the Middle Group
(Eight Weeks)
Naama Kushnir-Barash, Ph.D. / Corliss Parker, Ph.D.(alternating years)
The work of D.W. Winnicott and various members of the Middle Group will be
discussed. Winnicott’s theoretical and clinical papers will be the primary focus.
His ideas about early development including children’s emerging capacities to
symbolize, to play, and to experience increasingly more complex states of differentiation,
relatedness, and aloneness will be examined. In addition, papers
on true/false self, transitional phenomena, and aspects of the psychoanalytic
situation including regression,transference,and countertransference phenomena,
will be studied.
II. DIAGNOSIS AND ANALYZABILITY IN THE
PSYCHOANALYTIC SITUATION
Psychoanalytic Diagnosis I and II
(Sixteen Weeks)
Marvin Hurvich, Ph.D. / Seymour Moscovitz, Ph.D.(alternating years)
This course presents a psychoanalytic approach to diagnosis that details
differences between levels of psychic structure. Neurotic, narcissistic, borderline,
and psychotic organizations are examined with regard to ego and superego
functioning, drive-defense conflicts, deficits, and adaptive implications
unique to each. These differences are highlighted by a delineation of symptom
formation at the various structural levels. Differences between sub-groupings
within psychotic, borderline, and neurotic ranges are considered.
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