The Evolution of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis: From Ferenczi, Sullivan &
Fromm to Contemporary Psychoanalysis (PDPSA.4580.001)
This course is co-taught with the first and last meetings held together.
Ann D’Ercole (917-494-3082) and Barbara Suter (212-595-5543)
Mondays 2:45-4:25 p.m.
Barbara Suter 9/15-10/27: 498 West End Ave. 3B
Ann D’Ercole 11/1-12/15: 600 Columbus Ave. 7D
What is important about interpersonal psychoanalysis?
This course provides candidates with a foundation in the history of interpersonal
psychoanalysis. We discuss major contributors, their theories and how these
theories influence our understanding of the contemporary psychoanalytic
process. For example, we discuss the relationship between Sullivan’s concept of
selective inattention with the concept of dissociation; and Sullivan’s focus on the
two- person analytic field with an interest in the analyst and the analyst’s
personality.
We begin with Ferenczi, Sullivan, Fromm, Thompson, Fromm-Reichman and
other pioneers discussing the development of their key concepts, and their
contributions to an understanding of the psychoanalytic process. Then we
examine how subsequent generations of theorists have utilized and elaborated
on these initial concepts. We ask candidates to consider what we learn from a
study of these ideas and how they continue to inspire our clinical work.
Through out the course we will discuss how the initial interpersonal perspective
influenced, enlivens and enriches our understanding of the clinical
psychoanalytic process. We draw on our own case material and ask candidates to
bring in questions from their clinical work. Recommended readings may be
discussed depending on the interests of the candidates.
9/15 Week one:
Co taught Ann D’Ercole and Barbara Suter
Introduction: American Cultural School of Interpersonal
Psychoanalysis.
Interpersonal Psychoanalysis in a historical context: Sullivan
(1892-1949), Thompson (1893-1958), Fromm (1900-1980)
Frieda Fromm-Reichmann (1889-1957) and other pioneers.
READ THE FOLLOWING BEFORE FIRST MEETING
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Readings:
F. Barton Evans III, (2005) In Harry Stack Sullivan:
Interpersonal Theory and Psychotherapy. NY:Routledge. Part 1.
Historical Perspectives, Chapter 1. Introduction. Pgs. 3-20.
Harry Stack Sullivan (1892-1949)
Sullivan, H.S. (1954) Conceptions. NY:W.W. Norton, Lecture
5: Pgs. 87-117.
Sandor Ferenczi (1873-1933)
Ferenczi, S. (1988). Confusion of Tongues Between Adults
and the Child—The Language... Contemp. Psychoanal.,
24:196-206.
Barbara (1) September 22, 2014
Week Two: Sullivans’ Basic Concepts
Readings:
F. Barton Evans III, (2005) In Harry Stack Sullivan:
Interpersonal Theory and Psychotherapy. NY:Routledge. Part II,
Basic Concepts, Pgs. 55-72.
Bromberg, P. (1980) Empathy, Anxiety and Reality.
Contemporary Psychoanalysis 16:223-236.
Barbara (2) September 29, 2014
Week Three: The Zodiac Club
Readings:
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Fromm, E. (1955) The Sane Society. Chapter, The Key to
Humanistic Psychoanalysis. NY:Rinehart & Co. Pgs. 27-43;
58-66.
Thompson, C.M. (1964). Interpersonal Psychoanalysis NY
Basic Books. Chapter 25, pgs. 243-248.
Frieda Fromm-Reichmann
Fromm-Reichmann, F. (1970). Principals of Intensive
Psychotherapy. Chicago, University Press. pgs. 107-127.
Barbara (3) October 6, 2014
Week Four: The Synergy of Sullivan and Fromm
Readings:
Thompson, C. (1979). Sullivan and Fromm. Contemp.
Psychoanal., 15:195-200. (5 pgs)
Lesser, R.M. (1992). Frommian Therapeutic Practice: "A Few
Rich Hours". Contemp. Psychoanal., 28:483-494. (12 pgs)
Barbara (4) October 13, 2014
Week Five: Analyst as Co Participant (Observation):
The psychoanalytic process and the legacy of the pioneers
Readings:
Tauber, E. (1959) Countertransference re-examined. In
Epstein. L. and Feiner. Eds. Countertransference, New York
Aronson Pg. 59-69. (11 pgs)
Singer, E. (1977) The fiction of analytic anonymity. In J.
Frank ed. The Human Dimension in Psychoanalytic Practice.
New York: Grune & Stratton. (12 pgs)
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Barbara (5) October 20, 2014
Week Six
Legacy of the Pioneers: Participant Observation and Detailed
Inquiry.
Readings:
Levenson, E.A. (1989). Whatever Happened to the Cat?—
Interpersonal Perspectives on t... Contemp. Psychoanal.,
25:537-553.
Gill, M.M. (1983). The Interpersonal Paradigm and the
Degree of the Therapist's Involvement. Contemp.
Psychoanal., 19:200-237. Excerpt pages (read 210 to 217)
Ehrenberg, D.B. (1974). The Intimate Edge in Therapeutic
Relatedness. Contemp. Psychoanal., 10:423-437.
Barbara (6) October 27, 2014
Week Seven: Dreams
Readings:
Lippmann, P. (1996). On Dreams and Interpersonal
Psychoanalysis. Psychoanal. Dial., 6:831-846.
Blechner, M. (1995) The Patient’s Dreams and the
Countertransfrence. Psychoanal. Dial., 5:1-25.
Ann (1) November 1, 2014
Week Eight: Conceptions of the Self
Readings:
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Sullivan, H. Interpersonal Theory of Psychiatry. Beginning
of self-system Pgs. 110-122
Wolstein, B. (1987). Anxiety and the Psychic Center of the
Psychoanalytic Self. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 23:631658.
Levenson, E. (1984). Harry Stack Sullivan—The Web and the
Spider. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 20:174-188.
Ann (2) November 10, 2014
Week 9: Mystification, Language and Communication
Readings:
F. Barton Evans III, (2005) In Harry Stack Sullivan:
Interpersonal Theory and Psychotherapy. NY:Routledge. Part
III. Applications, Chapter 6. Interpersonal theory of mental
disorder, Pgs. 131-160.
Levenson, E. (1988). The Pursuit of the Particular—On the
Psychoanalytic Inquiry Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 24:116.
Feiner, A. (1996).Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered.
Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 32:411-425
Ann (3) November 17, 2014
Week 10: Selective Inattention -Dissociation
Readings:
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Bromberg, P.M. (2001). The Gorilla Did It: Some Thoughts
on Dissociation, the Real, and the R... Psychoanal. Dial.,
11:385-404
Stern, D.B. (1983). Unformulated Experience, —From
Familiar Chaos to Creative Disorder. Contemp. Psychoanal.,
19:71-99.
Wilner, W. (1999). The Un-Consciousing of Awareness in
Psychoanalytic Therapy. Contemp. Psychoanal., 35:617-628.
Ann (4) November 24, 2014
Week 11: Evolution of Interpersonal Contributions to
Gender and Sexuality
Readings:
Flax, J. (2002). Resisting Woman: On Feminine Difference in
the Work of Horney, Thompson,... Contemp. Psychoanal.,
38:257-276.
Blechner, M. (2005 ) The Gay Harry Stack Sullivan:
Interactions Between His Life, Clinical... Contemp.
Psychoanal., 41:1-20.
Ann (5) December 1, 2014
Week 12: Culture and Context
Readings:
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D’Ercole, A. (2012) Nella mia famiglia: Race, Gender, and
the Intergenerational Dilemmas of Being a Witness.
Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 48:451-482.
Kuriloff, E. (2001) A Two-Culture Psychology: National and
Ethnic Origin in the Therapeutic Dyad. Contemporary
Psychoanalysis, 37:673-681.
Bonovitz, C. Locating Culture in the Psychic Field:
Transference and Countertransference as Cultural Products.
(2005) Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 41:55-76.
Ann (6) December 8, 2014
Week 13
Participant observation/co-participation
enactment/transformation
Levenson, E. (1972). The Fallacy of Understanding. New
York: Basic Books Ch. 13, 14 pgs.
Wolstein, B. (1975). Countertransference: The
Psychoanalyst's Shared Experience and Inq... J. Amer. Acad.
Psychoanal., 3:77-89.
Hirsch, I. (1993). Countertransference Enactments and Some
Issues Related to External Factors... Psychoanal. Dial., 3:343366.
Barbara and Ann December 15, 2014
Week 14 Conclusions
Readings:
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Levenson, E. (2002). And the Last Shall be First: Some
Observations on the Evolution of Interpersonal
Psychoanalysis* Contemporary Psychoanalysis 38:277-285.
Levenson, E.A. (2006). Fifty Years of Evolving Interpersonal
Psychoanalysis. Contemp. Psychoanal., 42:557-564
Suggested Readings:
Aron, L. (2005) On the Unique Contribution of the
Interpersonal Approach to Interaction: A Discussion of
Stephen A. Mitchell's "Ideas of Interaction in
Psychoanalysis." Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 41:1, 20-34.
Barnett, J. (1980) Interpersonal processes, cognition and the
analysis of character. Contemporary Psychoanalysis,
16:397-416.
Blechner, M.J. (2006). Love, Sex, Romance, and
Psychoanalytic Goals. Psychoanal. Dial., 16:779-791.
Bonovitz, C. (2005) Locating Culture in the Psychic Field:
Transference and Countertransference as Cultural
Products. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 41:55-76.
Bromberg, P.M. (1991). On Knowing One's Patient Inside
Out: The Aesthetics of Unconscious communication.
Psychoanal. Dial., 1:399-422.
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Buechler, S. (1988). Joining the Psychoanalytic Culture.
Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 24:462-469.
Cooper, A. & Witengerg, E. (1985) The “Bogged-down”
treatment. Contemporary Psychoanalysis 21:2.
Crastnopol, M. (2006). Untangling Views of Self in
Interpersonal and Relational Theories. Contemporary
Psychoanalysis ,42:529-533
Crowley, R.M. (1978). Are Being Simply Human and
Uniqueness Opposed?. Contemp. Psychoanal., 14:135-139.
D’Ercole, A. (2011) I’ll Have What She’s Having”:
Commentary on “Women on the Couch: Genital
Stimulation and the Birth of Psychoanalysis” by Karen E.
Starr and Lewis Aron. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 21(04),
pp. 398-405.
D’Ercole, A. (2011) On the Road or at the Destination:
Regardless, It’s About Transformation. A review of
Transforming Narcissism: Reflections on Empathy, Humor,
and Expectations, by Frank M. Lachmann, The Analytic
Press, 2008, pp. 487.
D’Ercole, A. & Drescher, J. (2004) (eds) Uncoupling
Convention: Psychoanalytic Approaches to Same-Sex
Couples and Families. The Analytic Press: Hillsdale, NJ.
D'Ercole, A. (1996) Postmodern ideas about gender and
sexuality: The lesbian woman redundancy. Psychoanalysis
and Psychotherapy. 13:2, 142-152.
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D'Ercole, A. (2001) Postmodern ideas about gender and
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D'Ercole, A. & Waxenberg, B. (1999) Beyond the feminine
ideal: The body speaks. In M. Dimen and A. Harris (eds.)
Storms in Her Head. Other Press.
D'Ercole, A. (1999) Designing the lesbian subject: Looking
backwards, looking forwards. In R. Lesser and E.
Schoenberg (eds.) That obscure subject of desire: An
interdisciplinary study of Freud's female homosexual.
Routledge Press.
Ehrenberg, D.B. (2006). The Interpersonal/Relational
Interface: History, Context, and Personal Reflections.
Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 42:535-550.
Eisold, K. (2003). Toward a Psychoanalytic Politics. J. Amer.
Psychoanal. Assn., 51S: 301-321.
Epstein, L. (197) The therapeutic function of hate in the
countertransference. Contemporary Psychoanalysis,13: 442461.
Ferenczi, S. (1988) The Clinical Diary of Sándor Ferenczi,
Edited by Judith Dupont, translated by Michael Balint and
Nicola Zarday Jackson, Harvard University Press.
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Fiscalini, J. (1994). The uniquely interpersonal and the
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Fiscalini, J. (2006). Coparticipant Inquiry: Analysis as
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Fromm, E. (1941) Escape from Freedom, Avon Books, Ch. 5
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Fromm, E. (1964). Humanism and Psychoanalysis.
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Fromm, E. (2000). Autobiographical Sidelights by Erich
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