Contemporary Developmental Perspectives:
Theory & Clinical Process
I.
The Interpersonal Situation in Infancy & Early Childhood:
Self & Mutual Regulation & Formation of Representations
Week 1:
The Interpersonal Situation & the Mother-Infant Dyad:
Self & Mutual Regulation
Sullivan, H. S. (1953), The Interpersonal Theory of Psychiatry
Chapter 7: Infancy: Interpersonal Situations, pp. 110-134.
Stern, D. N. (1995), The Motherhood Constellation
Chapter 4: The Parent-Infant Interaction, pp. 59-78.
Tronick, E. Z. & Weinberg, K. (1997). Depressed mothers and infants: the failure to
form dyadic states of consciousness. In Postpartum Depression and Child
Development, ed. L. Murray & P. Cooper. Hillsdale, NJ: Guilford Press, pp. 5485.
Beebe, B. and Lachmann, F. M. (1998). Co-Constructing inner and relational processes:
self- and mutual regulation in infant research and adult treatment.
Psychoanalytic Psychology, 15: 480-516.
Week 2:
Development of Representations:
The Interpersonal Context and the Interior of the Child
Sullivan, H. S. (1953), The Interpersonal Theory of Psychiatry
Chapter 10- Beginnings of the Self System, pp. 158-171
Stern, D. N. (1988). The dialectic between the “interpersonal” and the “intrapsychic”:
With particular emphasis on the role of memory and representation.
Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 8, 505-512.
Siegel, D. J. (1999). The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to
Shape Who We Are. Chapter 5- Representations: Modes of processing and
the construction of reality, pp. 160-207
II. Affect
Week 3: Development of Affect & Emotional Communication
Schachtel, E. (1959), Metamorphosis, Chapter 2- Affect & Action, pp. 22-33.
Schecter, D. (1980), Early developmental roots of anxiety, Journal of the American
Academy of Psychoanalysis, pp. 539-554.
Tronick, E. Z. (1989). Emotions and emotional communication in infants. American
Psychologist, 44, 112-119.
Bucci, W. (2001). Pathways of emotional communication. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 21:
40-70
Week 4: Aggression & Intergenerational Transmission of Violent Relational Patterns
Lieberman, A. F. (1996). Aggression and sexuality in relation to toddler attachment:
Implications for the caregiving system. Infant Mental Health Journal, 17(3), pp.
276-292.
Silverman, R. C. and Lieberman, A. F. (1999). Negative maternal attributions, projective
identification, and the intergenerational transmission of violent relational patterns.
Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 9: 161-186
Seligman, S. (1999). Integrating Kleinian theory and intersubjective infant research:
observing projective identification. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 9:129-159
III. Attachment Theory through an Interpersonal Lens
Week 5: Sullivan’s Contribution to Attachment Theory & its Clinical Implications
Schecter, D. (1978), Attachment, detachment, and psychoanalytic therapy. In:
Pioneers of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis, ed. D. B. Stern, C. H. Mann, S.
Kantor, & G. Schlesinger, pp. 169-196.
Liotti, G. ( 1999), Understanding the dissociative processes: The contribution of
attachment theory. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 757-783.
Cortina, M. (2001). Sullivan's contributions to understanding personality development
in light of attachment theory and contemporary models of the mind.
Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 37: 193-238
Eagle, M. (2003). Clinical implications of attachment theory. Psychoanalytic Inquiry
23: 27-53.
Week 6: Attachment & Reflective Function
Fonagy, P. and Target, M. (1996). Playing with reality: I. Theory of mind and the normal
development of psychic reality. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 77: 217233
Fonagy, P., Gergely, G., Jurist, E. L., & Target, M. (2002), Affect Regulation,
Mentalization, and the Development of the Self
Chapter 1: Attachment and reflective function: Their role in self-organization,
pp. 23-64.
Slade, A. (2007). Disorganized mother, disorganized child: The mentalization of affective
dysregulation and therapeutic change. In: Attachment Theory in Clinical Work
with Children, Eds D. Oppenheim & D. F. Goldsmith, pp. 226-250.
Week 7: Maternal/Paternal Desire and Erotic Attachments
Friedman, G. (1980), The mother-daughter bond. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 16:9097.
Ehrenberg, D. B. (1987). Current views of the role of childhood sexuality (Incest) (Panel
Presentation)—abuse and desire: A case of father-daughter incest. Contemporary
Psychoanalysis, 23: 593-603
Laplanche, J. (1997). The theory of seduction and the problem of the other.
International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 78: 653-666
Davies, J. M. (2001). Erotic overstimulation and the co-construction of sexual
meanings in transference-countertransference experience. Psychoanalytic
Quarterly, 70: 757-788
Marneffe, D. D. (2004), Maternal Desire; On Children, Love, and the Inner Life
Chapter 1- The “problem” of maternal desire
IV. Play & Symbolization in Childhood & Adolescence
Week 8: Imagination, Play, & Symbol Formation
Tauber, E. S. & Green M. R. (1959), Prelogical Experience.
Chapter 4- Symbolization & the maturation process, pp. 53-65.
Schachtel, E. (1959), Metamorphosis
Chapter 10- Perception as creative experience, pp. 237-250.
Singer, J. (1977), Imaginative play in childhood. In: International Encyclopedia of
Psychiatry, Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Neurology, ed. L. Abt & R. F. Reiss.
Boston: Van Nostrand Reinhold.
Frankel, J. B. (1998). The play's the thing; How the essential processes of therapy are
seen most clearly in child therapy. Psychoanalytic Dialogues 8: 149-182
Week 9: Adolescence & Interpersonal Matrix: Inner and Outer Worlds
Sullivan, H. S. (1953), The Interpersonal Theory of Psychiatry
Chapter 17 & 18- Early and Late Adolescence, pp. 263-312.
Schimel, J. (1973), Dilemmas of the gifted adolescent. In: Interpersonal Explorations in
Psychoanalysis, ed. E. Witenberg, pp. 169-180.
Gaines, R. (1999), The interpersonal matrix of adolescent development and treatment.
Adolescent Psychiatry, 24, 25-47
Mann, M. A. (2004), Immigrant parents and their emigrant adolescents: The tension of
inner and outer worlds. American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 64, 143-153.
V. The Nonverbal Realm, Emergent Patterns, and Intersubjectivity:
Developmental Perspectives & Process of Change in Psychoanalytic Treatment.
Week 10:
Semiotics, the Implicit, & the Role of the Nonverbal in
Development & the Analytic Situation
Lyons-Ruth, K. (1998). Implicit relational knowing: It’s role in development and
psychoanalytic treatment. Infant Mental Health Journal, Vol. 19(3):282-289.
Altman, N. (2002). Where is the action in the “talking cure”?. Contemporary
Psychoanalysis. 38: 499-513
Stern, D. B. (2002). Words and wordlessness in the psychoanalytic situation. Journal of
the American Psychoanalytic Association. 50: 221-247
Nahum, J. P. (2002). Explicating the implicit: The local level and the microprocess of
change in the analytic situation The Boston Change Process Study Group
(CPSG), Nadia Bruschweiler-Stern, Alexandra M. Harrison, Karlen Lyons-Ruth,
Alexander C. Morgan, Jeremy P. Nahum, Louis W. Sander, Daniel N. Stern and
Edward Z. Tronick. International Journal of Psychoanalysis 83: 1051-1062
Week 11: Interpersonal Patterns & Dyadic System: Developmental Origins &
Its Emergence in the Transference/ Countertransference
Wolstein, B. (1974). "I" processes and "me" patterns—Two aspects of the psychic self
in transference and countertransference. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 10:
347-357.
Levenson, E. (1988) Show and tell: The recursive order of transference. In:
How does Treatment Help: On the Modes of Therapeutic action of Psychoanalytic
Psychotherapy, Ed. Arnold Rothstein, pp. 135-145.
Lachmann, F. M. and Beebe, B. A. (1996). Three principles of salience in the
organization of the patient—analyst interaction. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 13:
1-22
Week 12:
Interlocking of Transference/ Countertranference &
Development of Intersubjectivity
Wolstein, B. (1959), Countertransference. Chapter 5, Therapy, pp. 124-155.
Lyons-Ruth, K. (1999). The two-person unconscious: Intersubjective dialogue, enactive
relational representation, and the emergence of new forms of relational
organization. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 19: 576-617
Stern, D. N. (2004). The Present Moment in Psychotherapy and Everyday Life.
Chapter 5, ‘The Intersubjective Matrix’, pp. 75-96.
Stolorow, R. D. (1997). Dynamic, dyadic, intersubjective systems: An evolving paradigm
for psychoanalysis. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 14(3): 337-346.
Week 13: Process of Therapeutic Change Based on Infant Research: The Boston Group
Stern, D. N., Sander, L. W., Nahum, J. P., Harrison, A. M., Lyons-Ruth, K., Morgan, A.
C., Bruschweilerstern, N. and Tronick, E. Z. (1998). Non-interpretive
mechanisms in psychoanalytic therapy: The ‘something more’ than interpretation.
International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 79: 903-921
Sander, L., Bruschweiler-Stern, N., Harrison, A. M., Lyons-Ruth, K., Morgan, A. C.,
Nahum, J. P., Stern, D. N., & Tronick, E. Z. (1999). Introductory Comment
Interventions that effect change in psychotherapy: A model based on infant
research. Infant Mental Health Journal, 19(3): 280-281.
Tronick, E. Z., Bruschweiler-Stern, N., Harrison, A. M., Lyons-Ruth, K., Morgan, A. C.,
Nahum, J. P., Sander, L., & Stern, D. N., (1999), Dyadically expanded states of
consciousness and the process of therapeutic change. Infant Mental Health
Journal, 19(3): 290-299.
Sander, L., Bruschweiler-Stern, N., Harrison, A. M., Lyons-Ruth, K., Morgan, A. C.,
Nahum, J. P., Stern, D. N., & Tronick, E. Z. (1999). Case illustration: Moving
along…..and, is change gradual or sudden?. Infant Mental Health Journal,
19(3):315-319.
VI. Current Trends and Controversies in Psychoanalytic Theories of Development
Week 14: Trauma & Developing Mind: Overlap of Psychoanalysis & Neuroscience
Van der Kolk, B. A. (2002). Posttraumatic therapy in the age of neuroscience.
Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 12: 381-392
Bromberg, P. M. (2003). Something wicked this way comes: Trauma, dissociation,
and conflict: The space where psychoanalysis, cognitive science, and
neuroscience overlap. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 20:558-574
Siegel, D. J. (2003). An interpersonal neurobiology of psychotherapy: The developing
mind and the resolution of trauma, pp. 1-53. In: J. Solomon & D. J. Siegel (Eds.)
Healing Trauma: Attachment, Mind, Body, and Brain.
Week 15: Developmental Conflict or Arrest & The Concept of Regression:
From Stage Theory to Chaos Theory
Bromberg, P. M. (1979). Interpersonal psychoanalysis and regression. Contemporary
Psychoanalysis, 15: 647-655.
Mitchell, S. A. (1984). Object relations theories and the developmental tilt.
Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 20: 473-499
Levenson, E. A. (1994). The uses of disorder—chaos theory and psychoanalysis.
Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 30: 5-24
Harris, A. (2005), Gender as Soft Assembly
Chapter 3- Chaos Theory as a Model for Development, 73-98