Advanced Psychodynamic Theory
Herbert Stein M.D.
Winter 2014-15
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Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the Institute for
Psychoanalytic Education. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical
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Objectives: Students should learn how to think about the mind from a
psychoanalytic/psychodynamic point of view. This will include understanding "multiple
function" and compromise formation, psychic conflict in the context of a psychotherapy
session, a psychoanalytically oriented understanding of the origins and core of
conscience, the role of unconscious fantasy, object and self representations, transference,
development within a complex model including the meaning of regression.
Week 1: Conflict and Compromise (Dec. 2)
*Wälder, R. (1936). The Principle of Multiple Function: Observations on OverDetermination. Psychoanal Q., 5:45-62. Read pp. 45-top52. Remainder optional.
Brenner, C. (1982) The Mind in Conflict, pp. 109-119.
Week 2: Conflict Seen in the Office (Dec. 9)
*Gray, P. (1990) The Nature of Therapeutic Action in Psychoanalysis, Journal of the
American Psychoanalytic Association 38: 1083-1097.
Weeks 3 and 4: Unconscious Fantasy (Dec. 16 and Jan. 6)
*Arlow, J. A. (1969) Fantasy, Memory, and Reality Testing. Psychoanal Q., 38:28-51.
*Arlow, J.A. (1959) The structure of the déjà vu experience (Read “Case Report” only).
Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 7, pp 614-625.
Week 5: Superego formation: The Personal Conscience (Jan. 13)
*Freud, S (1933) New Introductory Lectures. SE: 22: 61(bottom)-65(top),
Sandler, J; Holder, A; Dare, C; and Dreher, A (1997). Freud’s Models of the Mind.
Madison: International Universities Press, pp 172-177
Week 6: Mental Representations: Self and Object Representations (Jan. 20)
*Sandler, J. & Rosenblatt, J. (1962) The concept of the representational world.
Psychoanalytic Study of the Child 17:128-145. Read bottom p129-bottom p 136.
Remainder optional
Week 7: Transference (Jan. 27)
Eichler, Seth (2010) Beginnings in Psychotherapy. Pp. 19-21 (transference and
countertransference)
* Blum, H.P. (1982). The Transference in Psychoanalysis and in Psychotherapy: Points
of View Pas... Ann. Psychoanal., 10:117-137.
Week 8 Development of the Adult Mind (Feb. 3)
Freud’s original (sexual) model of Development
*Freud, S. (1908) Three Essays on Sexuality. SE 7: 183 to top 199.
Modern (complex) model of Development
Skim Tyson, P and Tyson, R. “Development” in Psychoanalysis: The Major Concepts ed.
Moore, B. and Fine, B. pp. 401-414 Skim: don’t need to know in detail
Week 9: Regression (Feb. 10)
Arlow, J.A. and Brenner, C. Psychoanalytic Concepts and the Structural Theory. Pp. 7183.
Eichler, Seth (2010) Beginnings in Psychotherapy. Pp. 17-top 19.
Week 10: Overview (Feb. 24)
*Brenner, C. (2002) Conflict, compromise formation, and structural theory. The
Psychoanalytic Quarterly 71:3, pp 397-418.