Year One Curriculum
2004-2005 Version
- Introductory Session (July-August)
The purpose of this initial seminar is to provide an orientation to psychoanalytic thinking, discourse, and clinical psychoanalysis.
- 1. Introduction to Psychoanalysis and Technique (6 weeks).
Instructors:
Marie Rudden, M.D. and Jo Wright, M.D.
- 2. Developmental Psychopathology (6 weeks).
Instructor: Robin J. Renders, Ph.D.
- 3. On Reading Freud (6 weeks, elective).
Instructor: John Muller, Ph.D.
- Fall and Spring Terms (September-May)
- 1. Foundation of Psychoanalytic Theory: Writings of Sigmund Freud (28 weeks).
Instructors: Robin J. Renders, Ph.D., James L. Sacksteder, M.D.,
John Muller, Ph.D., Daniel P. Schwartz, M.D., and Edward R. Shapiro, M.D.
- 2. Psychopathology (28 weeks).
Instructors: Robin J. Renders, Ph.D.,
Marie Rudden, M.D., Barbara Stimmel, Ph.D., M. Gerard Fromm Ph.D. and Vamik Volkan, M.D., Gail Reed, Ph.D.
Description: Hysteria, Anxiety, Obsessive-compulsions, Depression, Borderline and Narcissism
- 3. Development (8 weeks).
Instructors: Rona Knight, Ph.D., Lester Friedman, M.D., Susan Sherkow, M.D., and Frank Lachmann, Ph.D.
Description: Theories of developmental processes in infancy
- 4. Theory of Technique I (20 weeks).
Instructors: Ellen Rees, M.D.,
Richard Gottlieb, M.D., Gail Reed, Ph.D. and Rona Knight, M.D.
Description: Overview of the essential elements of the psychoanalytic setting and process,
using both readings and clinical presentation.
- Summer Session of Electives (July-August, 2005)
- 1. Narcissism (6 weeks).
Instructor: Anna Ornstein, M.D.
- 2. Development (6 weeks).
Instructor: Virginia Demos, Ed.D.
- 3. Psychoanalytic Listening (6 weeks).
Instructor: Robin J. Renders, Ph.D.
- 4. Psychoanalytic Listening (6 weeks).
Instructors: Roy Schafer, Ph.D. and
Rita Frankiel, Ph.D.
2006-2007 Version
- Introductory Session (July-August)
- 1. Introduction to Psychoanalysis: Technique and the Clinical Setting (9 weeks, Saturday).
Instructors: Ellen Rees, M.D. and David Olds, M.D.
Description: This course addresses the differences between psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, the assessment of analyzability, and the clinical setting in which psychoanalysis takes place. It also addresses ideas of therapeutic action and therapeutic aims.
- Developmental Psychopathology (6 weeks, Wednesday).
Instructor: Robin J. Renders, Ph.D.
Description: This course introduces the fundamental concepts encountered in the study of
the development of personality organization from the perspectives of drive,
ego, object relations and formation of the self.
- 3. Professional Ethics I (3 weeks, Saturday).
Instructor: Russell Denea, M.D.
Description: This introduction to professional ethics reviews the particular ethical guidelines that have been developed by the different mental health disciplines (Psychology, Psychiatry, Social Work). Issues of professional ethics are then considered as they pertain specifically to the work of psychoanalysis.
- Fall and Spring (September-May)
- 1. Psychopathology (28 weeks, Wednesday and Saturday).
Instructors:
Robin J. Renders, Ph.D., Marie Rudden, M.D., Jack Miller, M.D.,
M. Gerard Fromm Ph.D. Gail Reed, Ph.D.
Description: Character, Hysteria, Phobia and Obsessive-compulsive, Depression-masochism, Borderline, Narcissism
- 2. Foundation of Psychoanalytic Theory: Writings of Sigmund Freud (22 weeks, Saturday and Wednesday).
Instructors: Russell Denea, M.D., Robin J. Renders, Ph.D., Ellen Rees, M.D.,
Edward R. Shapiro, M.D.
- 3. Theory of Technique I (20 weeks, Saturday).
Instructors: Ellen Rees, M.D. and Gail Reed, Ph.D.
- 4. Development I (8 weeks, Saturday).
Instructor: Susan Sherkow, M.D. Infancy
- Process (6 weeks, Saturday).
Description: Case Presentation
2007-2008 Version