IPTAR Bulletin - Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research

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Gender in the Clinical Situation:
Rotating Case Seminar
(Eight Weeks)
Arlene Kramer Richards, Ed.D.
Gender is used as an organizing concept to approach material presented by
male and female patients in psychoanalysis. A series of clinical presentations will
bring into focus such themes as core feminine identity, the wish for and dread
of merger, differentiation, identification and dis-identification, genital anxieties,
and love and work. Selected papers on technique and theory are read.
Transference and Countertransference in
Working with the Borderline Patient:
Rotating Case Seminar
(Eight Weeks)
Andrew Druck, Ph.D. / Bennett Roth, Ph.D. (alternating years)
Through the examination of segments of the treatment process presented
by candidates, the patient’s dynamics, psychic structure, and developmental issues
are examined as they are revealed in the transference. Concurrently and
as appropriate,the countertransference is explored in terms of the transferencecountertransference
dynamic as well as in its own right. Specific aspects of the
literature are reviewed as they become relevant to the cases under discussion.
Transference and Countertransference in
Working with the Narcissistic Patient:
Rotating Case Seminar
(Eight Weeks)
Sheldon Bach, Ph.D. / Mary Libbey, Ph.D. (alternating years)
Case presentations by class members are used to examine subjective experiences,
developmental issues, and technical difficulties in working with narcissistic
patients. Readings on these issues are reviewed to illuminate the
discussion.
Application of Classical Technique with the
"Non-Classical" Patient: Continuous Case Seminar
(Sixteen Weeks)
Mark Grunes, Ph.D. / Irving Steingart, Ph.D. (alternating years)
The focus of this seminar is the psychoanalytic treatment process with a patient
who has difficulty utilizing the traditional psychoanalytic situation. The seminar
deals with the application of the psychoanalytic method, classically conceived,
for patients suffering from borderline pathology and severe narcissistic character
disturbances. Those structural issues that produce instances of transference
experience in which neither language nor action operates in a manner suited for
a classically conceived psychoanalytic process (relationship) are considered.
Either a single case or two cases will be followed throughout the seminar. In
general,the effort is to illustrate variations in interventions while retaining the
framework of the classical situation.
The Cultural Contexts of Psychoanalysis:
Healing Across Boundaries of Ethnicity and Race
(Eight Weeks)
Michael Moskowitz, Ph.D.
This course will begin with a brief overview of psychotherapy before Freud
and the transformations undergone by psychoanalysis throughout history
and culture. It will explore some of the forces that have led to current variations
in psychoanalytic theory and practice and examine how particular
forms of psychoanalysis have or have not taken root in different cultures
throughout the world.The course will focus on the idea of psychic healing as
understood across a variety of cultures, and will approach the diversity of
clinical experience from this broadened conceptual frame. All of this will be
explored in relationship to the candidates’ case presentations. Some of the
reading will be chosen based on the candidates’ interests and experience.
BEYOND THE BASIC CURRICULUM
The Beyond the Basic Curriculum program offers a series of elective seminars
to both advanced candidates (third year and beyond) and IPTAR members.
Seminars vary from year to year and include: topics not covered in the basic
curriculum, subjects candidates wish to pursue in greater depth, seminars that
explore a particular area of interest or expertise of an IPTAR faculty or Society
member,as well as courses that are required but may be taken out of sequence
to meet the requirements for licensing as a psychoanalyst. To facilitate ongoing
involvement in psychoanalytic learning,candidates are required,after completing
their basic course requirements, to take one Beyond the Basic Curriculum
seminar per year until graduation.
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