OVERALL DESCRIPTION

A joint project with the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis in celebration of 100 years of psychoanalytic thought.  Our goal is to share with the listener some of the many new ideas which have revolutionized psychoanalysis and made it more relevant for modern psychotherapy than ever.  Many clinical examples are presented.  A refresher course on traditional Freudian theory is included.

LEARNING OBJECTIVE

Introduce the latest ideas in contemporary psychanalytic thought.

CURRICULUM SUMMARY

1.  Mark Smaller, Ph.D., BCD,        "A Freud Mini-Refresher Course."

The listener will hear again or anew the basic core ideas of psychoanalytic theory as developed by Freud, in order to have a basis for contrast with the rest of the tape series.

2.  "New Views of the Mind"  

Freud viewed the mind as if it were a physical body, with clear boundaries, interior spaces, and substances. Modern science now views the mind as an emotion-processing organ of adaptation, 75% of which develops after birth.

Fred Levin, M.D.,        "Learning in Psychotherapy," (author of MAPPING THE MIND: THE INTERSECTION OF PSYCHOANALYSIS AND NEUROSCIENCE)

The listener will hear Dr Levin discuss how learning takes place in psychotherapy and how we, as therapists, can help to bring about change in the patient.

          Stephen Mitchell, Ph.D.,      "An Object-Relations View of the Mind,"  (author of FREUD AND BEYOND)

The listener will share from his treatment experiences how an understanding of object relations can help bring about profound changes in the world view of the patient.

3.  "New Views of the Therapeutic Relationship" 

Classical psychoanalysis holds that the therapist should be a blank screen; that the emotions evoked in the therapist by the patient are an interference, a contaminant to progress. Probably nothing has become as transformed in the 100 years of psychoanalysis as the therapeutic relationship, which is now seen as the very medium through which access to the patient’s inner life is achieved and change occurs.

Arnold Goldberg, M.D.,     "Self-Psychology"  (author, THE PROBLEM OF PERVERSION: A VIEW FROM SELF-PSYCHOLOGY)

The listener will gain a beginning understanding of self-psychology and its importance in today’s clinical practice.

         Robert Stolorow, Ph.D.,     "Intersubjectivity"    (author, THE INTERSUBJECTIVE PERSPECTIVE)

The listener will gain a beginning understanding of intersubjectivity, a perspective that holds that therapy is a system in which everything about the therapist and everything about the patient combine and interact in the therapy situation as both parties attempt together to make sense of and heal the patient’s suffering.

6.  "New Views on Sexuality" 

Freud’s views of sexuality have provoked violent controversy for 100 years. Today’s gender and sexuality controversy Is between those whose views on these issues are biologically based and those who view gender differences not as biological bedrock but as socially constructed categories.

Marion Tolpin, M.D.,      "Freud and Women"    (author, HEINZ KOHUT: THE CHICAGO INSTITUTE LECTURES)

The listener will learn about Freud’s thinking about women and the current views of the psychoanalytic community. Masculinity is no longer the base line against which femaleness is contrasted.

          Richard Isay, M.D.,      "Homosexuality"   (author, BEING GAY)

The listener will hear the point of view of Dr. Isay, who has been prominent among those who have argued that sexual orientation is fundamentally constitutional and not subject to change. His ideas and activism were responsible for moving the traditional goals of the psychiatric establishment with regard to homosexuals away from its longstanding aim of using psychotherapy to turn them into heterosexuals.

8.  "New Views of the Therapeutic Work"

For Freud, cure came through remembering, rather than repeating. Contemporary psychoanalytic thought on the topic now centers on the relationship and the capacity of the therapist to enter into the subjective world of the patient.

Steven Marans, Ph.D.,     "Violent Children"

The listener will learn how these new principles apply in the streets and habitats of violent children.

          Mark Gehrie, Ph.D.,        "Impasses"      (author, IMPASSE AND INNOVATION IN PSYCHOANALYSIS: CLINICAL CASE SEMINARS)

The listener will hear how these new views can be helpful in times of impasse--being stuck--in a difficult period with a patient.