Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research
(S)elective: Pharmacotherapy and Psychoanalysis
Larry Sandberg, Fred Busch, Dave Gutman
Class #1 - November 10, 2014
Introductory Class: Overview
-Drs. Sandberg, Gutman
Readings:
Busch, F.N. and Sandberg, L.S. (2007) Introduction. In: Psychotherapy and Medication
The Challenge of Integration, New York, Analytic Press, Chapter 1 (pp. 1-6).
Busch, F. N. and Sandberg, L.S. (2007) Theoretical Bases of Combined Treatment. In:
Psychotherapy and Medication The Challenge of Integration, New York, Analytic Press,
Chapter 2 (pp. 7-22).
Suggested:
Sandberg, L. S., and Busch, F. N. (2012). Psychotherapy and Pharmacotherapy: A
Contemporary Perspective. Psychodynamic Psychiatry, 40(3) 505–532.
Class #2 November 17, 2014
The Candidate Experience
- Drs. Gutman, Busch
Readings:
Abel-Horowitz, J. (1998) Psychopharmacotherapy during an analysis. Psychoanalytic
Inquiry, 18(5): 673-701. [on PEPWEB]
Bers, S. (2006) Learning about psychoanalysis combined with medication: a nonphysician’s perspective JAPA 54:805-831.
Class #3 – November 24, 2014
Medication and Psychoanalytic Process
- Drs. Sandberg, Busch
Readings:
Busch, F. and Sandberg, L. (2008) Presumed synergy or antagonism in combined
treatment: commentary on Purcell JAPA 56: 935-943.
Purcell, S. (2008) The analyst’s attitude toward pharmacotherapy JAPA 56: 913-934
Swoiskin, M. (2001) Psychoanalysis and medication: is real integration possible?
BullMenCl 65: 143-159.
Class #4 -
December 1, 2014
Split Treatment
-Drs. Busch, Gutman
Readings:
Busch FN and Sandberg LS (2007) Split treatment. In: Psychotherapy and Medication:
The Challenge of Integration, NY, Analytic Press. Chapter 7 (pp. 105-117).
Busch FN and Sandberg LS (2007) Complex cases. In: Psychotherapy and Medication:
The Challenge of Integration, Chapter 9 (pp. 1 41-160) (read only pp. 141-146).
Gould E and Busch FN (1998) Special issues in the
psychopharmacology/psychotherapy triangle. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 18: 730745,.(read only cases 1 through 6 –pp. 736-743) [on PEPWEB]
Optional:
Kahn D (1991) Medication consultation and split treatment during psychotherapy.
Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, 19: 84-98.
Malin B (1998) Epilogue on psychoanalysis and medication. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 18:
746-762.
Class #5 - December 8, 2014
Anxiety States: Panic/OCD
-Drs. Busch, Sandberg
Readings:
Milrod, B.L. and Busch, F.N. (1998) Combining psychodynamic psychotherapy with
medication in the treatment of panic disorder. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 18: 702-715. [on
PEPWEB]
Roose, S.P. Does anxiety obstruct or motivate treatment? When to talk, when to
prescribe and when to do both. In: Anxiety as Symptom and Signal, ed. S.P. Roose
and R.E. Glick. Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press, pp. 155-169.
Optional:
Milrod BL, Busch FN, Cooper AM, and Shapiro T.: Manual of Panic-focused
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. Washington, DC, American Psychiatric Press, 1997.
Milrod B, Leon AC, Busch FN, Rudden M, Schwalberg M, Clarkin J, Aronson A, Singer
M, Turchin W, Klass ET, Graf E, Teres JJ, Shear MK: A randomized controlled clinical
trial of psychoanalytic psychotherapy for panic disorder. Am J Psychiatry. 2007;
164(2):265-72
Thompson JM, Baxter LR, and Schwartz JM: Freud, obsessive-compulsive disorder and
neurobiology, Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Thought 15: 483-505, 1992.
Class #6 - December 15, 2014
The Prescribing Analyst
- Drs. Sandberg, Gutman
Readings:
Awad, G. (2001). The effects of medication on the psychoanalytic process: the case of
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child,
56: 263-285.
Sandberg, L. (2014). On the prescribing analyst. Psa Q 83: 97-120.
Optional:
Busch, F.N. & Sandberg, L.S. (2007). Approaches to treatment: The prescribing
therapist. In: Psychotherapy and Medication The Challenge of Integration. New York,
Analytic Press, Chapter 6, pp. 83-104
Glick, R. and Roose, S. (2006) Talking about medication. JAPA, 54:745-762.
Class #7 – December 22, 2014
Exploring the Meaning of Medication
- Drs. Gutman, Busch
Readings:
Busch, R.N. & Auchincloss, E.L. (1995). The psychology of prescribing and taking
medication. In H. Schwartz, E. Bleiberg, & S. Weissman (Eds.) Psychodynamic
Concepts in General Psychiatry (pp. 401-416). Arlington, VA: American Psychiatric
Press.
Tutter, A. (2006). Medication as object. JAPA, 54, 781-804.
Class #8 – January 5, 2014
Cultural considerations
- Drs. Sandberg, Gutman
Degrazia, D. (2004) Prozac, enhancement, and self-creation. In: Prozac as a way of
life. Editors: Elliot, C. and Chambers, T., Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,
33-47.
Dumit, J. (2003) Is it me or my brain? Depression and neuroscientific facts. Journal of
Medical Humanities, 24(1/2): 35-47.