For the first year Fellowship Program, these are the readings for 2024-2025.
Fall Semester 2024
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy/An Introduction
Bliss Rand, M.D. (Faculty, PPSNE) and Mark F. Poster, M.D. (Faculty, PPSNE)
9/26/2024
(Optional) Sigmund Freud, Standard Edition (on PEP web). “The Nature of the Psychical in Some Elementary Lessons in Psychoanalysis, 1940, pp.282-286.
Sripada, B. (2015). Toward a Reappraisal of the Relationship between Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychotherapy. Psychodynamic Psychiatry, 43(3):396-422.
Stern, D.B. (2019). How I Work with Unconscious Process: A Case Example. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 55(4):336-348.
10/3/2024
Arlow, J. (1995). Stilted Listening: Psychoanalysis as Discourse. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 64:215-233.
Lothane, Z. (2010). The analysand and analyst team practicing reciprocal free association: Defenders and Deniers. Internat’l Forum of Psychoanalysis, 19:155-164.
10/10/2024
Ogden, T. (1992). Comments on Transference and Countertransference in the Initial Analytic Meeting. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 12:255-247.
Bass, A. (2007). When the Frame Doesn’t Fit the Picture. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 17:1-27.
10/17/2024
Dajani, K. (2017). The Ego’s Habitus: An Examination of the Role Culture Plays in Structuring the Ego. Internat’l J Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, 14(4):273-281.
Grand, S. (2014). Skin Memories: On race, love, and loss. Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Society, 19(3):232-249.
10/24/2024
Greenberg, J. (2015). Therapeutic Action and the Analyst’s Responsibility. J Amer. Psychoanalytic Assn., 63(1):15-32.
Poster, M. (2019). Review of “Common Factors,” Personal Reflections, and Introduction of the Shaving Brush Model of Integrated Psychotherapies.J Psychiatric Practice, 25(5):374-378.
Approaches to Formulation
Malcolm Beaudett, M.D. (Faculty, PPSNE) and Hui Wang, (Guest Faculty, PPSNE)
11/7/2024
McWilliams, N. (1999). Psychoanalytic Case Formulation. In: The Relationship between Case Formulation and Psychotherapy. Guilford Press, Chapt. 1.
Video: Warren Poland on “The Analyst’s Witnessing and Otherness”
11/14/24
Ogden, T. (2018). How I Talk with My Patients. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 87:399-413.
Video: Judy Kantrowitz on “The External Observer and the Patient-Analyst Match”
11/21/2024
Abbasi A. (2021). A Very Dangerous Conversation: The Patient’s Internal Conflicts Elaborated Through the Use of Ethic and Religious Differences between Analyst and Patient. Internat’l J Psychoanalysis, 93:515-534.
Video: Irma Brenman Pick on “Working Through in the Countertransference”
12/5/2024
Suchet, M. (2007). Unraveling Whiteness. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 17:867-886.
Video: Salman Akhtar on “A Third Individuation: Immigration, Identity, and the Psychoanalytic Process”
1/9/2025–Teletherapy
Darlene Ehrenberg (Guest Faculty, PPSNE)
TBD
1/16/2025–Ethical Practice
Meg Pillig, Psy.D. (Guest Faculty, PPSNE)
Ackerman, S. (2020). Impossible Ethics. J Amer. Psychoanalytic Assn., 68(6):561-582.
Kite, J. (2016). The fundamental ethical ambiguity of the analyst as a person. J Amer. Psychoanalytic Assn., 64(6):1153-1171.
Transference/Countertransference and the Therapeutic Relationship
Donna Mathias, M.D. (Faculty, PPSNE) and Vince Pignatiello, Psy.D. (Guest Faculty, PPSNE)
1/30/2025
Freud, S. (1915). Some Observations on Transference Love. SE 12:157-171.
Freud, S. (1911-1913). Remembering, Repeating and Working Through. SE XVII:145-156.
2/6/2025
Joseph, B. (1983). On Understanding and not Understanding Some Technical Issues. Int. J Psychoanalysis, 64:291-298.
Racker, H. (1968). The Meanings and Use of Countertransference. Int. J. Psychoanalysis Library, 73:127-173.
2/13/2025
Winnicott, D. (1969). The Use of an Object. Internat’l. J. Psychoanal., 50:711-718.
Hirsh, I. (1066). Observing-Participation, Mutual Enactment and New Classic ART. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 32:359-383.
2/20/2025
Gabbard, G. (1991). Technical Approaches to Transference Hate in the Analysis of Borderline Patients. Internat’l. J. Psychoanalysis, 72:625-636.
Loewald, H. (1991). Transference-Countertransference. J Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 34:275-287.
2/27/2025
Levenson, E.A. (1996). Aspects of Self-Revelation and Self Disclosure. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 32:237-248.
Holmes, D. (2016). Culturally Imposed Trauma: The Sleeping Dog Has Awakened. Will Psychoanalysis Take Heed? Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 26:641-654.
A Developmental Approach to Clinical Work
Carol Rubin, Ph.D. (Faculty, PPSNE) and Cathy Loula (Faculty, PPSNE)
3/13/2025
Bollas, C. (1979). The Transformational Object. Internat’l J Psychoanalysis, 60:97-107.
3/20/2025
Holmes, J. and Slade, A. (2018). Attachment in Therapeutic Practice. SAGE publications, Chpts. 3,4,5
3/27/2025
Fonagy, P. (2000). Attachment and borderline personality disorder. J Amer. Psychoanalytic Assn., 48:1129-1146.
Lyons-Ruth, K. (2006). The Interface between Attachment and Intersubjectivity: Perspective from the Longitudinal Study of Disorganized Attachment. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 26(4):595-618.
4/3/2025
Shabad, P. (1993). Repetition and incomplete mourning, the intergenerational transmission of traumatic themes. Psychoanal. Psychol., 10(1):61-75.
Loewald, H. (1979). The waning of the oedipus complex. J Amer Psychoanal. Assn., 48(4):1129-1146 (optional)
4/10/2025
Slochower, J. (2014). Holding as metaphor: The Winnicottian model. In: Holding and Psychoanalysis. New York: Routledge
Winnicott, D.W. (1960). The theory of the parent-child relationship. Internat’l J Psychoanalysis, 41:585-595.