An emphasis is given to the management of resistance in the clinical situation. Discussion of current supervised analytic cases. We also study ethics and case write ups. The complementary roles of drives, affects, ego, conflict, compromise, object relations and superego in the formation of psychic structure are all considered. During the first year of this course we looked at psychic development from several different yet complementary perspectives.
Areas covered include anxiety, phobia, hysteria, and obsessional neurosis.
Dr. Roni Cohen. While not exclusively the case, the main emphasis will be on the British Object Relations Theorists. One or two cases are followed closely throughout the year. We study the analytic process, with special attention to transference, resistance, analytic alliance, and reconstruction. We also discuss and practice writing about the analytic process, using cases of all the participants.