Adolescence: Psychoanalytic Theory, Developmental Experience, and Treatment Issues
G89.4457 Spring 2015
Marsha Levy-Warren, Ph.D.
415 Central Park West, Suite 1EL
New York, New York 10025-4855
(212) 873-2997
mlevywarren@aol.com
Week 1: Wed1/28
Introduction: A Psychoanalytic Theory of Development
Objectives:
- Students will be able to discuss and analyze a psychoanalytic theory of
development
WEEK 2: Wed2/4
What does it mean to think developmentally in doing psychoanalytic work?
Reading:
Levy-Warren, M.H. (2008), Wherefore the Oedipus Complex in Adolescence? Its
Relevance, Evolution, and Appearance in Treatment. Studies in Gender and
Sexuality, vol. 9, no. 4: 322-348.
Ehrensaft, D. (2008) It Ain’t Over Until the Fat Lady Sings: Commentary on
Wherefore the Oedipus Complex in Adolescence? By Marsha H Levy-Warren.
op.cit.:349-364.
Levy-Warren, M.H. (2008) The Oedipal Position and the Sociocultural Moment,
Therapeutic Motion, and Developmental Bedrock. op. cit.: 365-369.
Tyson, P. & R, (1990), The history of the developmental perspective in
psychoanalysis [chapter 1] and The theory of the developmental process [chapter
2], pp 7-37 in Psychoanalytic Theories of Development. New Haven: Yale University
Press.
Objectives:
- Students will be able to interpret the meaning of thinking developmentally in
psychoanalytic work
WEEK 3: Wed2/11
How is the advent of puberty a transformational experience from a developmental
standpoint?
Reading:
Levy-Warren, M. (1996) Adolescent development (Chapter1:3-29), Early adolescent
genitality (Chapter 2:35-65). In The Adolescent Journey: Development, Identity
Formation, and Psychotherapy.
Loewald, H. (1980) The waning of the Oedipus Complex. (chapter 23-384-404) in
Papers on Psychoanalysis. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Optional:
What is the significance of masturbation and bodily ownership in development?
Blos, P. (1962) Masturbation. On Adolescence. chapter 4: 159-169.
Laufer, M. (1968) The body-image, the function of masturbation, and adolescence:
Problems of Ownership of the Body. PSC .vol. 23:114-137.
Objectives:
- Students will be able to analyze and describe the advent of puberty as a
transformational experience from a developmental standpoint
WEEK 4: Wed2/18
What distinguishes female pubertal development?
Reading:
Garrod et. al. (1992) Courting danger, in Adolescent Portraits, pp 19-47.
Hillman, A. On being thirteen.
Shopper, M. (1979) The (re)discovery of the vagina and the importance of the
menstrual tampon. In M. Sugar, (ed.) Female Adolescent Development: 214-233
Objectives:
- Students will be able to identify what distinguishes female pubertal development
WEEK 5: Wed2/25
What distinguishes male pubertal development?
Reading:
Bell, A. (1964) The significance of the scrotal sac and testicles for the prepuberty
male. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 34: 182-206.
Moravia, A. (1950) Agostino. Two Adolescents, 3-110.
Objectives:
- Students will be able to identify what distinguishes male pubertal development
WEEK 6: Wed3/4
What do we mean by the advent of adolescent sexuality in adolescents and in their
families?
Reading:
Katan, A (1951) The role of “displacement” in agoraphobia. IJPsa:32:41-50.
Levy-Warren, MH (2001) A contemporary look: adolescents and the incest taboo.
JICAP, Vol 1, no. 4: 123-140.
Levy-Warren, M (1996) Middle adolescent genitality: gender and sexuality in the
world of peers (chapter 3: 69-100). The Adolescent Journey: Development, Identity
Formation, and Psychotherapy.
Objectives:
- Students will be able to analyze and explain the advent of adolescent sexuality in
adolescents and their families
WEEK 7: Wed3/11
What is the nature of the adolescent separation/individuation process?
Reading:
Blos, P. (1967) The second individuation process of adolescence. PSC. 22:162-186.
Levy-Warren, M.H. (1999) I am, you are, and so are we: a current perspective on
adolescent separation/individuation theory," Adolescent Psychiatry, volume 24: 324.
Objectives:
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Students will be able to discuss and interpret the nature of the adolescent’s
separation/individuation process.
WEEK 8: Wed3/18
SPRING RECESS: No Class
WEEK 9: Wed3/25
What are some of the lasting psychic structural transformations of adolescence?
Reading:
Freud, A. (1958) Adolescence. PSC. 13: 255-278.
Jacobson, E. (1961). Adolescent moods and the remodeling of the psychic structures
in adolescence. PSC. 16: 164-183.
Kaplan, L.J. (1996). The stepchild of psychoanalysis, adolescence. American Imago.
53:257-268.
Objectives:
- Students will be able to identify some of the lasting structural transformations in
adolescence
WEEK 10: Wed4/1
What is the importance of the ego ideal in development [and in life]?
Reading:
Blos, P. (1974) The genealogy of the ego-ideal. PSC, vol. 29: 43-88.
Levy-Warren, M. H. (1996) Late adolescent genitality: adult identifications and the
mature ego ideal (chapter 4: pp. 103-130), op. cit.
Objectives:
- Students will be able to discuss the importance of the ego ideal in development
and in life
WEEK 11: Wed4/8
How does culture enter into a schema for development and in orientations toward
treatment?
Reading:
De Vito, E., Novick, J., Novick, K, K. (2000) Cultural Interferences with Listening to
Adolescents. Journal of Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy, vol. 2: 77-100
(with Levy-Warren commentary).
Levy-Warren, M. (1996) Mature ethnocultural identity: Leaving home, belonging,
finding a place (chapter 5: pp. 131-149). op. cit.
Marans, S. (2008) Fear and Trauma: Challenges to Listening and Hearing. Journal of
Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy, vol. 7. no.s 3-4:165-175.
Optional:
Levy-Warren, MH (1994) Child‘s play amidst chaos, vol. 51:3: 359-368.
Objectives:
- Students will be able to analyze and describe the role of culture in a
developmental schema and treatment orientations
WEEK 12: Wed4/15
How do we conceptualize the superego in light of contemporary developmental and
cultural considerations?
Reading:
Settlage, C.S. (1972) Cultural values and the superego in late adolescence. PSC, vol.
27: 74-92.
Schafer, R. (1960). The loving and beloved superego in Freud’s structural theory.
PSC. vol V: 163-188.
Objectives:
- Students will be able to analyze and formulate the superego in light of
contemporary developmental and cultural considerations
WEEK 13: Wed4/22
What are some of the basic principles for doing developmentally-informed
treatment with adolescents?
Reading:
Levy-Warren (1996) Adolescent psychotherapy: beginning, middle, and end
(chapter 6: pp. 155-187); Frozen at the brink: An early adolescent’s wish not to see
(chapter 8: pp. 205-228); A middle adolescent’s wish to stay at home (chapter 9: pp.
229-252), op. cit.
Meeks, J.E. & Bernet, W. (1970) The therapeutic alliance with the adolescent, in The
Fragile Alliance. pp. 68- 97.
Objectives:
- Students will be able to identify and distinguish some of the basic principles of
developmentally-informed adolescent treatment.
WEEK 14: Wed4/29
What is the nature of the treatment relationship with adolescents?
Reading:
Levy-Warren, MH (2005) To weep, to laugh, to mourn, to dance: Key factors for
therapeutic change in the clinical exchange with an adolescent girl. Journal of Infant,
Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy: 4(4):351-372.
Siegler,A. et al. (1995) Searching for Common Ground: The New Pluralism,
Psychoanalytic Review, 82 (4): pp. 497-533.
Winnicott, D.W. (1971) The Use of an Object and Relating through Identifications, in
Playing and Reality, pp. 86-94.
Objectives:
- Students will be able to discuss and analyze the nature of the treatment
relationship with adolescents
WEEK 15: Wed5/6
What are some of the current diagnostic/ historical issues that we need to consider
in treating adolescents?
Reading:
Fonagy, P, Gergely, G, Jurist, E.L, and Target, M. (2002) Developmental issues in
normal adolescence and adolescent breakdown. In Affect Regulation, Mentalization,
and the Deevelopment of the Self, New York: Other Press.
Levy-Warren, M H (2008) In a Fast-Moving Thicket: Treating Adolescents Today. ,
op. cit: 192-198.
Levy-Warren, MH and Levy-Warren, A (2005) I am/might be/am not my diagnosis:
a look at the use and misuse of diagnoses in adolescence. Journal of Infant, Child, and
Adolescent Psychotherapy: 4(3): 282-29
Optional:
What are some of the typical pathological issues that arise in adolescence?
Director, L. (2000) Understanding and treating substance abuse: systems, families,
and individual meaning. The Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent, Psychotherapy
. volume 1: 97-113.
Mogul, S. L (1980) Asceticism in adolescence and anorexia nervosa, in The
Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, vol 35: pp. 155-175.
Objectives:
- Students will be able to identify the current diagnostic/ historical issues that we
need to consider in treating adolescents
WEEK 16: Wed5/13
How is adolescence represented in adult treatment?
Reading:
Blos, P., Jr. (1990) Adolescent fixation in adult psychopathology, in Child and
Adolescent Analysis: Its Significance for Clinical Work with Adults,, edited by Scott
Dowling, APA Association, pp. 67-79.
Jacobs, T.J. (2000) Early adolescence and its consequences, in Journal of Infant,
child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy, pp. 135-157.
Novick, J. (1990) The Significance of adolescent analysis for clinical work with
adults, in Dowling, op. cit., pp. 81-94.
Tyson, P. (1990) The adolescent process and adult treatment, in Dowling, op. cit.,
pp. 95-105.
Objectives:
- Students will be able to discuss and analyze how is adolescence represented in
adult treatment