Classes/Workshops for the Year II
These are the readings for 2024-2025
9/24/2024–Freud/Vienna
Julia Matthews, M.D., Ph.D. (Faculty, BPSI)
Rabstejnek, C.V. (2015). History and Evolution of the Unconscious Before and After Sigmund Freud. www.HOUD.info.
Westen, D. (1997). The Scientific Status of Unconscious Processes: Is Freud Really Dead. J Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 47(4):1061-1106.
Greenberg, S.I. (1982). Fin-De-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture by Carl E. Schorske. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. Amer. J Psychoanalysis, 42:364-365. Optional
10/8/2024–Ferenczi
Mark F. Poster, M.D. (Faculty, PPSNE)
Cabre, L.J.M. (2023). The Freud-Ferenczi Dialogue after the Formulation of the Second Topic. Amer. J Psychoanalysis, 82:222-233.
10/22/2024–Anna Freud/Melanie Klein
Regina Koziyevskaya, M.D. (Faculty, PPSNE)
Segal, H. (1989). Controversial Discussion. Klein London: Karnac Books, pp. 91-111.
Mitchell, A.S. and Black, M.(1995). Anna Freud: The building block of defense theory. Freud and Beyond. Basic Books, pp. 25-34.
______ (1995). Anna Freud: Melanie Klein and contemporary Kleinian theory. Freud and Beyond. Basic Books, pp. 85-102.
11/5/2024–Donald Winnicott: Major Object Relations Contributor
Peter Lawner, Ph.D. (Guest Faculty, PPSNE)
Lawner, P. (2023). D.W. Winnicott’s Debt to and Divergence from Melanie Klein: A Psychoanalytic Genealogy. American Imago, 80(2):219-245.
______ (2023). D.W. Winnicott’s Debt to and Divergence from Melanie Klein: A Psychoanalytic Genealogy. American Imago, 80(3):475-497.
11/19/2024–Harry Stack Sullivan
Carlton Cornett, MSW (Guest Faculty, PPSNE)
Cornett, C. (2023). Interpersonal terms and concepts. Unpublished.
______ (2024). Problems in living: A theory of human interpersonal dysfunction. Unpublished.
Cortina, M. (2020). Harry Stack Sullivan and interpersonal theory: a flawed genius. Psychiatry, 83:103-109. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1080/00332747.2020.1717318.
Havens, L. (1979). Harry Stack Sullivan’s contribution to clinical method. McLean Hospital Journal, winter, 20-32.
12/3/2024–Self Psychology
Rafael Ornstein, M.D. (Faculty, BPSI)
Halpern, J. and Ornstein, S. (2017). Self-Experience within Intersubjectivity: Two clinicians’ use of self psychology. In: Introduction to Contemporary Psychoanalysis. M. Charles (ed.), Chapt. 8.
Fosshage, J.L. (2021). How Does Contemporary Psychoanalysis Work? The Two Analyses of Dr. R.F. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 41:345-350.
Kohut, H. and Wolff, E. (1978). The Disorders of the Self and their Treatment: An Outline. Internat’l J Psychoanalysis, 59:413-425.
Magid, B., Fosshage, J. & Shane, E. (2021). The Emerging Paradigm of Relational Self Psychology: An Historical Perspective. Psychoanalysis, Self and Context, 16:1-23.
Gardner, J. (2024). Forms and transformations of empathy: Subtleties and complexities of empathic communication. Psychoanalysis, Self and Context, 19(1):80-93.
Hagman, G. (2023). Destruction, survival and the use of the clinician: Preserving opportunities for selfobject exercise in work with challenging patients. Psychoanalysis, Self and Context, 18(1):14-25.
1/7/2025–Bion/Field Theory
Deborah Shilkoff, LICSW (Faculty, PPSNE)
Ferro, A. (2005). Bion. Internat’l J Psychoanal., 86(6):1535-1542.
Levine, H.B. (2022). The Logic of the Field. In: The Post-Bionian Field Theory of Antonino Ferro. The Rutledge Wildred R. Bion Studies Book Series, Chap. 2
Bionm W.R. (1959). Attacks on Linking. Internat’l J Psychoanal., 40:308-315.
Civitarese, G. (2019). On Bion’s Concepts of Negative Capability and Faith. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 88(4):751-783.
1/21/2025–Lacan
Hans Agrawal, M.D. (Guest Faculty, PPSNE)
Kirshner, L.A. (20024). Having a Live: Self-Pathology after Lacan. The Analytic Press, Chap. 2.
Fink, B. (1997). A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, Chap. 6.
2/18/2025–Interpersonal/Relational
Darlene Ehrenberg, Ph.D. (Guest Faculty, PPSNE)
Mark F. Poster, M.D. (Faculty, PPSNE)
Ehrenberg, D. (2006). The Interpersonal/Relational Interface: History, Context, and Personal Reflections. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 42(4):535-550.
3/4/2025–Neuropsychoanalysis
Vince Pignatiello, Psy.D. (Guest Faculty, PPSNE)
Solms, M. (2019). A Neuropsychoanalytic Perspective. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 39:607-624.
Kessler, L. and Kessler, R.J. (2019). Neuropsychoanalytic Explorations: Linking Practice, Theory, and Research. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 39:582-595.
3/18/2025–Intersectionality
Laurie Raymond, M.D., (Faculty, PPSNE) and E. Catherine Loula, M.D. (Faculty, PPSNE)
Saketopoulou, A. (2014). Mourning the Body as Bedrock: Developmental Considerations in Treating Transsexual Patients Analytically. J Amer. Psychoanalytic Assn., 61(5):773-806.
Samy, M. (2024). Tran in April: The Analysis of a Transgender Adolescent with Notes on the Metapsychology of Gender Transition. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 93(2):273-319.
Saketopoulou, A.& Pellegrini, A. (2023). “A Feminine Boy: Trauma as a Resource for Self-Theorization. Gender Without Identity, The Unconscious in Translation. New York. Optional
Case Consultation
Laurie Raymond, M.D. (Faculty, PPSNE) and Donna Mathias, M.D. (Faculty, PPSNE)
4/1/2025, 4/15/2025, 4/29/2025, 5/13/2025