Curriculum
This Curriculum is for all Members-in-Training. Course are listed by level.
Enrollment Level: Required Courses
R601: Freud’s Writings I – Foundations of Psychoanalysis
R603: Psychoanalytic Theory of Human Development I
R604: Psychoanalytic Theory of Human Development II
R605: Psychoanalytic Diagnosis I
R606: Psychoanalytic Diagnosis II
R607: Analysis of Resistance
R609: Introduction to Dream Interpretation
R660A: Case Presentation by Guest Analysts (6 sessions)
R660B: Case Presentation by Guest Analysts (6 sessions)
R665: Professional Ethics in Psychoanalytic Practice
PP1: Introduction to Clinical Practice I
PP2: Introduction to Clinical Practice II
Candidates are required to take the following practicums, in sequence, after passing the Readiness for Clinical Practice evaluation or after passing Matriculation.
CP701: Clinical Practicum I
CP702: Clinical Practicum II
Case Presentation by Guest Analyst must be taken twice at the Enrollment level as R660A and R660B. It must be taken again at the Matriculation level as R760 or at the Readiness-for-Control level as R860 for a total of three times.
Matriculation Level: Required Courses
R702: Freud’s Writings II – Foundations of Psychoanalysis
R703: Psychoanalytic Theory and Treatment Implications of Ego Psychology
R704: Psychoanalytic Theory and Treatment Implications of Object Relations
R705: Psychoanalytic Theory and Treatment Implications of Self Psychology
R706: Psychoanalytic Theory, Diagnosis and Treatment of Borderline Pathology
R708: Analysis of Transference and Countertransference
R710: Psychoanalytic Research Methodology
R760: Case Presentation by Guest Analysts (6 sesssions)
R712: Psychoanalytic Clinical Case Seminar – Multiple Perspectives
R713: Psychoanalytic Technique I
R714: Psychoanalytic Technique II
R718: Soiciocultural Influence on Development and Psychopathology
R760: Case Presentation by Guest Analyst (6 sessions) (May be taken at the Matriculation level as R760 or at the RFC level as R860)
Before completing the Matriculation level, all candidates who are seeking the License in Psychoanalysis must complete at least 2 clock hours of training in the identification and reporting of child abuse and maltreatment. NPAP will provide this training.
At this juncture candidates preparing for the application for the License in Psychoanalysis have completed the coursework requirement for the Certificate of Completion.
Readiness for Control Level: Required Courses
In addition to the 7 required courses, the requirement to complete 4 elective courses, if not taken previously, must be completed at this level. Electives taken during any Winter Intersession at any level of training are counted towar the elective requirements.
R801: Case Presentation by Student Analysts I
R802: Case Presentation by Student Analysts II
R804: History of Psychoanalytic Thought
R807: Continuous Case Seminar
R809: Advanced Dream Analysis
R815: Psychopharmacology in Psychoanalysis
R860: Case Presentation by Guest Analysts (6 sessions)
Electives
Courses will not be offered every year and will periodically change.
E803 Theodore Reik Guest Lectureship
E805 Gender Development: Psychoanalytic Theory of Male and Female Development
E809: Psychoanalytic Theory of Psychosis
E810: Seminar on Freud’s Famous Clinical Cases
E813: Seminar on Masochism
E814: Contemporary Development in Kleinian Theory and Technique
E817: Advanced Seminar on Character Analysis and Treatment of the Character Disorders
E820: Current Literature on Psychoanalytic Technique
E825: Seminar on Symbolization and Creativity
E827: Independent Study of Psychoanalysis
E831: The Psychoanalytic Approach to Psychosomatic Pathology
E832: Inductions, Seductions: Through a Dark Mirror
E833: Seminar on Depression
E850: Fantasy and Unconscious Process
E856: Failures
E864: Contemporary Theories in Psychoanalysis
The following courses will cover a variety of contributions from different theoretical perspectives.
E864A: Contemporary Theories in Psychoanalysis: The Freudian Position
E864B: Contemporary Theories in Psychoanalysis: Relational Theory
E864C: Contemporary Theories in Psychoanalysis: Introduction to Bion
E864D: Contemporary Theories in Psychoanalysis: Introduction to Lacan
E866: Lesbians in Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice
E867: The Homosexual Male in Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice
E868: Seminar on Attachment Theory
E869: Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: Similarities and Differences
E872: Writing Psychoanalysis
Winter Intercession Electives: NPAP offers two 12-session semesters—Fall and Spring—with occasional summer offerings. The Fall semester runs from September to December; the Spring semester run from March through May. If summer courses are offered, they begin in June. The Winter Intercession, in January and February, offers candidates 6-session courses dealing with contemporary issues in psychoanalysis. Each of these courses counts as one-half of an elective. Winter electives enable candidates to fulfill elective requirements. Some of these courses are open to candidates at all levels of training. For candidates at any level of training, each course completed during the Winter Intersession will be counted toward their elective requirements.
Course Descriptions
R601 Freud’s Writings I – Foundations of Psychoanalysis
The overall conceptual framework of psychoanalytic theory as reflected in the sequence of Freud's writings from 1895 through 1919. (The Interpretation of Dreams is omitted and will be studied in a separate course, R609.)
Prerequisite: Enrollment
R603 Psychoanalytic Theory of Human Development I
Normal and pathological development in the pre-Oedipal and Oedipal phases. Consideration is given to libidinal phases, development of the self, maturation of the ego, and development of the superego.
Prerequisite: Enrollment
R604 Psychoanalytic Theory of Human Development II
Normal and pathological development in latency, pre-adolescence, adolescence, and adulthood.
Prerequisite: Enrollment and R603
R605 Psychoanalytic Diagnosis I
The psychoanalytic theory of anxiety states, hysterias, obsessions, and depression will be examined. The course introduces the mechanisms and features of symptom formation and character development. The course also discusses the determination of psychic structures by ego and superego functioning, the drive-defense conflict model, the structural deficit model, and the adaptational model. Diagnostic considerations are conceptualized and are used to understand the implications of patients' material and enactments, particularly in regard to the timing and formu-lation of interventions.
Prerequisite: Enrollment
Sequence Recommendation: R601, R603, R604
R606 Psychoanalytic Diagnosis II
Diagnosis II emphasizes the continuities and differences in psychic structure for character disorders, perversions, narcissistic, borderline, and psychotic organizations. Diagnostic considerations are conceptualized and are used to understand the implications of patients’ material and enactments, in regard to the timing and formulation of interventions.
Prerequisite: Enrollment
Sequence Recommendation: R601, R603, R604, R605
R607 Analysis of Resistance
The resistance seminar studies Freud’s contributions to the analysis of resistance; the role of psychic structures and functions in character analysis; manifestations of resistances; contributions from ego psychology, self psychology, and object relations theory to the theory of resistance; and methods of working therapeutically with resistances. Candidate presentations are integrated with readings.
Prerequisite: Open to candidates currently working with patients.
R609 Introduction to Dream Interpretation
An intensive study of Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams. Using this book and updating it where appropriate, this course will focus on techniques of dream interpretation and on the topographic theory of dream construction as conceptualized in the text.
Prerequisite: Enrollment
R660A Case Presentation by Guest Analysts (6 sessions)
R660B Case Presentation by Guest Analysts (6 sessions)
Candidates are offered an opportunity to hear analysts present cases and participate in collegial discussions. The Guest Analysts course also provides a model for future Case Presentation. The course must be taken again at the Matriculation level (R760) or at the Readiness-for-Control level (R860). Tuition is charged for each series.
R665 Professional Ethics in Psychoanalytic Practice
The ethics course addresses the dilemmas commonly encountered in clinical practice concerning boundaries and boundary violations, confidentiality, competence, illness, exploitation, relationship with colleagues, and other related topics. Discussions will be based on material brought in by the participants and on the Ethics Case Book, a compilation of fictitious cases illustrating the many ethical dilemmas confronting clinicians.
Prerequisite: Enrollment
PP1 and PP2 Introduction to Psychoanalytic Practice I and II
These are fundamental courses in analytic listening and the therapeutic relationship. (See the individual course descriptions that follow.) They are required of all candidates; however, licensed professionals entering the program with relevant clinical experience may apply to the Dean of Training for exemptions.
PP1 Introduction to Psychoanalytic Practice I
This course involves learning to engage the patient in the analytic process, analytic thinking, and understanding the process of putting in place the structures of treatment.
Prerequisite: Enrollment
PP2 Introduction to Psychoanalytic Practice II
This course deals with entering the treatment and includes the initial interview, establishing the therapeutic alliance and frame, and under-standing the nature of the patient’s and therapist’s conscious and uncon-scious expectations.
Prerequisite: Enrollment and PP1
CP1 Clinical Practicum I
The clinical practicum focuses upon the application of psychoanalytic concepts to psychoanalytically oriented cases. Candidates' cases are used to address the beginnings of treatment, diagnosis, dynamics, goals of treatment, and therapeutic management.
Prerequisite: Passing of either the Readiness for Clinical Practice or Matriculation evaluations.
CP2 Clinical Practicum II
A continuation of CP1, the course focuses on the practical and technical aspects of treatment. Candidates introduce issues and problems from their own clinical experience.
Prerequisite: CP1
R702 Freud’s Writings II – Foundations of Psychoanalysis
The conceptual framework of Freud's later writings from 1920 to 1939. Prerequisite: Matriculation
R703 Psychoanalytic Theory and Treatment Implications of Ego Psychology
The ego psychology course begins with Freud's evolving theories of the ego, and continues with advances in psychoanalytic theory by studying the works of Hartmann, Spitz, Anna Freud, Jacobson, Mahler, et al.
Prerequisite: Matriculation.
R704 Psychoanalytic Theory and Treatment Implications of Object Relations
Introduction to the British Object Relations theorists, including the works of Fairbairn, Balint, Guntrip, and Winnicott. The object relations model is distinguished from the classical intrapsychic model through clinical case material illustrating interpretations drawn from both theoretical models. Prerequisite: Matriculation
R705 Psychoanalytic Theory and Treatment Implications of Self Psychology
Reviews the evolution of self psychology within psychoanalysis, developing basic concepts such as self-object transferences and the empathic-introspective mode of listening and understanding, and explores the more recent developments in self psychology.
Prerequisite: Matriculation
R706 Psychoanalytic Theory, Diagnosis and Treatment of Borderline Pathology
A study of the etiology, differential diagnosis, and treatment of the borderline patient. Characteristic defenses, such as splitting and pro-jective identification, are discussed in relation to the unique trans-ferences, resistances, and countertransferences associated with borderline conditions. Readings include the theoretical views of Kernberg, Kohut, Giovacchini, Searles, and others.
Prerequisite: Matriculation
R708 Analysis of Transference and Countertransference
From both historical and differing clinical perspectives, this course explores the contributions that both the analyst and the analysand bring to the transference situation. Topics such as transference neurosis, ther-apeutic alliance, varieties of transference and countertransference, the role of cultural factors, and relevant techniques for working with trans-ference will be addressed. Clinical presentations will be integrated with theoretical considerations.
Prerequisite: Matriculation
R710 Psychoanalytic Research Methodology
The research course is designed as an introduction to the literature and methods of empirical psychoanalytic research. The course will focus upon research approaches to issues confronting psychoanalysis both as an approach to understanding mind and as clinical practice. Psychoanalytic research deals with affirming the validity of the discipline of psychoanalysis and can be divided into four domains: outcome research, process research, developmental psychoanalytic research, and conceptual research.
Prerequisite: Matriculation
R712 Psychoanalytic Clinical Case Seminar – Multiple Perspectives
Case Seminar is intended to provide the clinical experience for R713-R714. Clinical implications of multiple perspectives in psychoanalysis, along with developmental considerations in conceptualizing a therapeutic stance, will be discussed. The class discussions and assigned readings will be integrated with the candidates' case presentations.
Prerequisite: CP1 and CP2 (unless the candidate was exempted upon enrollment)
R713 Psychoanalytic Technique I
Technique I utilizes candidate cases to introduce the structure of the psychoanalytic situation and the beginning phase of treatment. Topics include comparisons between psychoanalysis and psychotherapy; mani-festations of transference, transference neurosis and resistance; free asso-ciation and the use of the couch; the therapeutic alliance; and acting-out.
Prerequisites: CP1 and CP2 (unless the candidate was exempted upon enrollment) and R712
R714 Psychoanalytic Technique II
Technique II addresses the application of the processes studied in R713 to the difficult patient─the borderline and narcissistic individual–and differentiates between the opening, middle, and termination phases of treatment. Multiple theoretical points of view are considered in for-mulating a therapeutic stance and the varied bases for analytic technique. Concepts such as analyzability, the use of self, and the ability to symbolize are studied, along with their impact on the analytic process and on countertransference. Candidate case material is used to illustrate and provide clinical focus for discussion.
Prerequisite: R713
R718 Sociocultural Influence on Development and Psychopathology
This course delves into the effects of sociocultural factors derived from ethnicity, nationality, race, class, and gender on configurations of the self, early development, and the salience of certain kinds of psycho-pathology. It further covers treatment issues involving resistance, transference, countertransference, modes of communication, and the structuring of the psychoanalytic relationship as these vary among patients from diverse cultures.
Prerequisite: Matriculation
R760 Case Presentation by Guest Analysts (6 sessions)
See course description for R660A and R660B.
R801 Case Presentation by Student Analysts I
In a workshop format, candidates learn how to conceptualize and to organize a psychoanalytic case. The course explores the writing of a clinical narrative, the candidate’s role in the narrative, and theoretical conceptualizations of the unfolding narrative. Special emphasis will be placed on how to make the treatment presentation come alive.
Prerequisite: Readiness-for-Control
R802 Case Presentation by Student Analysts II
This seminar prepares candidates for final Case Presentation. It focuses on the organization, presentation, and theoretical discussion of ongoing psychoanalytic treatment. Candidates take turns presenting cases. The instructor may assign readings relevant to the application of psy-choanalytic theory to the understanding of personality problems and their treatment. This course should be taken at the end of the curriculum and during the candidate’s second Control Analysis.
Prerequisite: R801
R804 History of Psychoanalytic Thought
Traces the development of major post-Freudian psychoanalytic ideas, the model of the psyche, the concept of the unconscious, the use and func-tion of language, and the role of determinism and theories of cure.
Prerequisite: Readiness-for-Control
R807 Continuous Case Seminar
Case material from an analysand currently in treatment with a seminar member will be presented for ongoing detailed follow-up and discussion. The patient will be selected on the basis of usefulness for delineating transference-countertransference issues, dynamics, and aspects of tech-nique. The aim is to help candidates integrate theoretical knowledge with clinical understanding in making technical interventions and inter-pretations. Specific interests of the participants will be addressed along with relevant readings.
It is highly recommended that candidates enrolling in R807 understand the need for process recording with their patients, either during or after their sessions, to enable seminar members to follow the patient; and that they be seeing patients in treatment at least three times weekly.
Prerequisite: Readiness-for-Control
R809 Advanced Dream Analysis
Advanced Dream Analysis focuses on post-Freudian contributions to the analysis of dreams. Topics covered include: contemporary emphasis on the manifest content, the primary process, and the dream context. In addition, self-state dreams, the implications of REM dream research, and initial dreams will be studied. Candidate presentations are integrated with the theoretical readings.
Prerequisite: Readiness-for-Control
R815 Psychopharmacology and Psychoanalysis
Many psychoanalytic patients require and are using psychoactive med-ication for relief of symptoms and to enhance their talk therapy. The psychopharmacology course deals with the unconscious psychodynamics involved in medication use, including resistance, compliance, trans-ference, countertransference, and the meaning of transitional phenomena. Sociocultural factors will also be reviewed. Students learn how to clarify the diagnosis based on DMS criteria and how to collaborate with the psychiatrist. Medications targeting various symptoms will be discussed for different age groups.
Prerequisite: Open to candidates who see patients
R860 Case Presentation by Guest Analysts
See course description for R660A and R660B.
E803 Theodor Reik Guest Lectureship
MITO chooses the lecturer and the topic for this course.
Prerequisite: Open to all candidates.
E805 Gender Development: Psychoanalytic Theory of Male and Female Development
The course reviews traditional theories of male and female development and re-examines gender theory.
Prerequisite: Readiness-for-Control
E809 Psychoanalytic Theory of Psychosis
Explores psychotic organization as conceptualized by theorists such as Freud, Federn, Klein, Bion, Winnicott, Elkin, Green, and Grotstein. The relevance of psychotic dynamics for various "disorders of self" (e.g., borderline, narcissistic, schizoid) is discussed. The main focus is on psy-chotic patterns and psychoanalytic ways of presenting and understanding them. The central question for the course is "What can psychosis tell us about psychoanalysis, and psychoanalysis about psychosis?"
Prerequisite: Readiness-for-Control
E810 Seminar on Freud’s Famous Clinical Cases
From Anna O. to the “Wolf Man,” Freud's great clinical-literary mas-terpieces will be reviewed for their usefulness in understanding the theoretical issues occupying Freud at the time of their composition. The clinical issues of these cases will be discussed for their significance to analytic technique.
Prerequisite: Readiness-for-Control
E813 Seminar on Masochism
Readings and clinical material highlight the psychoanalytic under-standing of the development and place of masochism in personality and psychopathology.
Prerequisite: Readiness-for-Control
E814 Contemporary Development in Kleinian Theory and Technique
Clinical application of Kleinian concepts to the psychoanalytic process will be discussed in relation to the works of Betty Joseph, Edna O’Shaughnessy, Hanna Segal, and other contemporary Kleinians.
Prerequisite: Readiness-for-Control
E816 Narcissism
The issue of narcissism is examined with a focus on theoretical considerations and clinical cases. Among the theorists studied will be Sigmund Freud, Heinz Kohut, Otto Kernberg, and Bela Grunberger. The seminar is aimed at helping the student understand the concept of narcissism from several different theoretical perspectives and the various implications for technique.
Prerequisite: Readiness-for-Control
E817 Advanced Seminar on Character Analysis and Treatment of the Character Disorders
The seminar on character analysis focuses on character and character traits as viewed from various theoretical perspectives. Course topics include: the development of character; fantasy, as it contributes to char-acter; differential diagnosis and treatment implications. Also discussed are the implications of the analyst's character on treatment. The use-fulness of the concept of character is highlighted in working with resistance, transference, and countertransference.
Prerequisite: Readiness-for-Control
E820 Current Literature on Psychoanalytic Technique
Psychoanalysis aims at obtaining certain results. This seminar studies methods of technique and their possible results. That is, questions such as “How does this intervention or interaction produce that result?” will be explored. Current readings from professional journals are discussed. Prerequisite: Readiness-for-Control
E825 Seminar on Symbolization and Creativity
The seminar focuses on symbolization in primary and secondary process thinking as manifested in dreams, metaphors, fantasies, and creativity.
Prerequisite: Readiness-for-Control
E827 Independent Study of Psychoanalysis
The candidate conducts an individual research project on a significant theoretical or clinical aspect of psychoanalysis, with the prior approval of the Dean of Faculty and Curriculum. A detailed outline with bibliog-raphy should be submitted to the Dean when requesting this course. The completed project will be evaluated by the candidate’s mentor. Credit for one course is given. The usual tuition is charged.
Prerequisite: Readiness-for-Control
E831 The Psychoanalytic Approach to Psychosomatic Pathology
Psychoanalysts have long known that early pathological object relations and psychic conflict contribute to the causation and maintenance of many physical symptoms and conditions for which medical treatments alone are often inadequate to effect improvement. Topics include early object relations and their regulatory function, family pathology, somatization as metaphor, alexithymia and resistance. Conditions covered will include neurasthenia and chronic fatigue syndrome, anorexia, colitis, infertility, impotence, eczema, asthma, and others. Case material and treatment techniques will be discussed.
Prerequisite: Matriculation
E832 Inductions, Seductions: Through a Dark Mirror
Participants explore the creative use of projective identifications, role inductions, and the technique of mirroring unconscious material. The class combines a participatory atmosphere and an emotional/cognitive integration of theory and technique.
Prerequisite: Open to all candidates.
E833 Seminar on Depression
This course explores the clinical issues and theoretical perspectives in-volved in the psychoanalytic understanding and treatment of depression.
Prerequisite: Matriculation
E850 Fantasy and Unconscious Process
Clinical applications of unconscious fantasy and its role in the organ-ization of patients' associations are reviewed. Among other topics, this seminar studies the way unconscious fantasy manifests itself in the session, the criteria for interpretation, the relation of unconscious fantasy to transference and countertransference, and the relation between uncon-scious fantasy and the patient’s actual life history. Readings from Arlow, Boesky, Grossman, and others.
Prerequisite: Readiness-for-Control
E856 Failures
The psychoanalytic literature is replete with cases of successful treat-ment, yet supervisory groups, peer groups, and discussions among analysts often lead to those cases that are deemed as failures. As in all scientific endeavors, an understanding of failure is crucial. Freud posited several factors as operative ranging from the age of the analysand, the technique, the adhesiveness of the id, and countertransference. This sem-inar will study "failed" cases by surveying the literature as well as student presentations. Topics to be discussed are: expectations; counter-transference; the fit between analyst and analysand; analyzability and topics generated by the presentations.
Prerequisite: Readiness-for-Control
E864 Contemporary Theories in Psychoanalysis
The following courses will cover a variety of contributions from different theoretical perspectives.
E864A Contemporary Theories in Psychoanalysis: The Freudian Position
In the more than half century since Freud’s last work, his theories of the mind have undergone elaboration, transformation, and correction. The contemporary Freudian position includes theoretical and technical aspects of ego psychology, self psychology, object relations, and inter-subjectivity. This course will look at current concepts that have derived from Freudian theory and their relevance to clinical work. Topics such as analytic trust, multiple perspectives, self-disclosure, sexuality, the role of theory, and enactment will be discussed. Beginning with Loewald, readings may include the contemporary work of Bach, Chused, Ellman, Frosch, Jacobs, Kulish, Phillips, Renik, Rothstein, Schwaber, and others.
Prerequisite: Readiness-for-Control
E864B Contemporary Theories in Psychoanalysis: Relational Theory
A comprehensive overview of the Relational School of psychoanalysis will be presented. Special focus will be given to the works of Stephen Mitchell, Robert Stolorow, Lewis Aron, and Irwin Hoffman. Topics such as social constructivism, intersubjectivity, and the problem of gender are emphasized. The broad implications of a relational approach to analytic practice will be examined, particularly the changes in the way analysts think about and work with countertransference. The course concludes with a discussion of future directions in relational thinking.
Prerequisite: Readiness-for-Control
E864C Contemporary Theories in Psychoanalysis: Introduction to Bion
Selected concepts from W. R. Bion's work will be explored as drawn from his writings on alpha function, beta elements, dream work, catas-trophe, faith, knowledge, love hate, psychosis and the psychoanalytic attitude. The course covers Bion's use of literature, mysticism, mathe-matics, mythology, and philosophy as integral parts of his psycho-analytic approach. How his life experiences fed his psychoanalytic vision, opening new kinds of experiencing, will also be explored.
Prerequisite: Readiness-for-Control
E864D Contemporary Theories in Psychoanalysis: Introduction to Lacan
The purpose of this course is to present a basic understanding of Lacan’s concepts from clinical and theoretical perspectives. The course will place Lacan in the history of the psychoanalytic movement and describe his relationship with the International Psychoanalytic Association. Some of his most basic formulations will be illustrated with clinical examples from Freud’s cases analyzed by Lacan and from the instructor’s and candidates’ own clinical cases.
Prerequisite: Readiness-for-Control
E866 Lesbians in Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice
The course is designed for analytic candidates who work with lesbians and who desire a deeper understanding of the clinical differences between lesbian and heterosexual women. Theory, case studies, and the writings of lesbian and heterosexual analysts will be discussed.
Prerequisite: Matriculation
E867 The Homosexual Male in Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice
The course is designed for analysts who are working with or who intend to work with homosexual males. Both theory and the clinical implications of working with homosexuality in men will be discussed.
Prerequisite: Matriculation
E868 Seminar on Attachment Theory
This course will introduce candidates to some of the major ideas offered by attachment theorists. Concepts such as attachment categories, secure base and reflective function will be studied with a view toward integrating this perspective into clinical psychoanalytic work. Prerequisite: Matriculation
E869 Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: Similarities and Differences
Distinctions and similarities between the two modalities are examined in terms of technique, neutrality/abstinence, interpretation, termination, and other features of treatment. Have the boundaries between the two modalities been blurred? Is conversion from psychotherapy to psychoanalysis possible? Current and historical views of the controversy related to the “widening scope” will be reviewed.
Prerequisite: Open to all candidates
E872 Writing Psychoanalysis
This course explores a range of issues concerning personal, theoretical, clinical, ethical, and practical aspects of writing and publishing psychoanalytic articles. Discussions and readings address motivations, anxieties, and fantasies, as well as methodological considerations such as topic selection, research, organization and development of ideas, editing, literature review, journal submission and revision protocols. Also examined are confidentiality, ethical risks and responsibilities, transference-countertransference implications and professional benefits.
Prerequisite: Open to all candidates
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