Classes/Workshops for the Year II
These are the readings for 2025-2026
10/7 & 10/14/2025–Freud/Vienna
Julia Matthews, M.D., Ph.D. (Faculty, BPSI)
October 7, 2025
Freud, S. (1893). Miss Lucy R, Case Histories from Studies on Hysteria. Standard Edition, vol. 2:106-124.
Freud, S. (1893). SThe Psychotherapy of Hysteria from Studies on Hysteria. Standard Edition, vol. 2:253-305
October 14, 2025
Freud, S. (1915). The Unconscious. Standard Edition, vol. 14:066-215.
Schorske, C. (1980). Fin-De-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture New York: Vintage Books, 181-203.
Solms, M. (1997). What is Consciousness? American J Psychoanalytic Assn, 45:681-703. Optional
10/21 & 10/28/2025–Anna Freud /Melanie Klein
Ava Bry Penman (Guest Faculty) and Neal Kass, M.D. (Faculty, BPSI)
Freud, A. and Burlingham, D. (1943). War and Children. pp. 11-88.
Klein, M. (1957). Envy and Gratitude. In Envy and Gratitude, and Other Works, 1946-1963. New York: Simon and Schuster, pp. 176-235.
11/4 & 11/11/2025–Ferenczi
Mark F. Poster, M.D. (Faculty, PPSNE)
Ferenczi, S. (1928). The Elasticity of Psycho-analytic Technique. In Final Contributions to the Problems & Methods of Psycho-analysis. M. Balint (Ed.)
1955. New York: Basic Books, pp. 87-101.
______(1929). The Principle of Relaxation and Neocartharsis. ibid, pp.108-125.
11/18 & 11/25/2025–Donald Winnicott: Major Object Relations Contributor
Lilia Feinberg, M.D. (Reciprocal Member, PPSNE)
12/2 & 12/9/2025–Ego Psychology/Loewald
Julia Matthews, M.D. (Faculty, BPSI) and Mark J Goldblatt, M.D. (Faculty, BPSI)
12/2/2025
Arlow, J.A. (1963). Conflict, regression, and symptom formation. International J Psychoanalysis,, 44:12-22.
Gray, P. (1993). Paul Gray, M.D.: A brief didactic guide to analysis of the ego in conflict. J Clinical Psychoanalysis, 2(3):325-340.
12/9/2025
Loewald, H.W. (1951). Ego and Reality. International J Psychoanalysis, 32:10-18.
Loewald, H.W. (1970). Psychoanalytic Theory and the Psychoanalytic Process. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 25:45-68.
1/6 & 1/13/2026–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.
1/20 & 1/27/2026-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.
2/3 & 2/10/2026–Lacan
Hans Agrawal, M.D. (Guest Faculty, PPSNE)
Kirshner, L.A. (2004). Having a Life: Self-Pathology after Lacan. The Analytic Press, Chap. 2.
Fink, B. (1997). A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, Chap. 6.
2/17 & 2/24/2026–Interpersonal/Relational
Mark Poster, M.D. (Faculty, PPSNE) and Bliss Rand, M.D. (Faculty, PPSNE)
2/17/2026
Thompson, C. (1978). Sullivan and Psychoanalysis. Contemporary Psychoanalysis,14:488-501.
Hirsch, I. (2006). The Interpersonal Roots of Relational Thinking. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 42(4):551-556.
Optional
Hirsch, I. (2011). On Some Contributions of the Interpersonal Psychoanalytic Tradition to 21st Century Psychoanalysis. Contemporary Psychoanalysis 47(4):561-570.
______ (2016). Reflections on Ferenczi, Analytic Subjectivity, and Analytic Hierarchy. Ibid, 52(3):383-390.
2/24/2026
Ehrenberg, D. (2000). Potential Impasse as Analytic Opportunity. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 36(4):573-586.
Optional
Emanuel, C. (2019). Afterwardness and the Postrelational Turn. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 39:174-178.
Slochower, J. (2017). Going Too Far: Relational Heroines and Relational Excess.Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 27:282-299.
3/3 & 3/10/2026–Neuropsychoanalysis
Vince Pignatiello, Psy.D. (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.
3/17 & 3/24/2026–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)
4/7, 4/14, 4/21, 4/28, & 5/5/2026
83-390.