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2010-2011 Continuing Education Courses
Courses for 2010-2011
The Role of Mourning in Psychoanalysis and Analytic Psychotherapy
Mentalization Based Interventions: Theory and Clinical Practice
Three Ways of Thinking about Thinking Contemporary Views of Trauma: Implications for Psychotherapeutic Practice
Philosophical Problems in Psychoanalysis Psychotherapy Supervision (Course to be held 2011-2012)
Writing from Inside-Out An Introduction to the Work of Anna Freud
The Role of Mourning in Psychoanalysis and Analytic Psychotherapy
Instructor: Sybil Houlding, MSW
Educational Objectives: (1) Participants will study significant papers in the analytic literature on mourning, (2) will become familiar with theories about the psychic work involved in mourning and (3) will become attuned to failed or pathological mourning in the clinical situation.Audience: Mental health professionals; interested others.
Course Description: Mourning builds psychic structure and will be an essential part of any psychoanalysis or dynamic therapy. In this course we will read papers by Freud, Klein, and Loewald, as well as contemporary writers (Sodres, Steiner, Frankiel). We will view a film, Sand we are reading about.
6 sessions
Thursdays, 7–8:30 pmSeptember 23, 30
October 7, 14, 21, 28, 2010
255 Bradley Street, New Haven
Fee: $ 270.
Mentalization Based Interventions:
Theory and Clinical Practice
Instructors: Norka T. Malberg, PsyD and Linda Mayes, MD
Educational Objectives: To study the theoretical basis and clinical applications of mentalization based interventions.
Audience: Mental health professionals and trainees, especially those working in community based settings.
Course Description: We will explore the theory of mentalization and the existing evidence that helped influence its clinical applications. All sessions will seek to illustrate the diverse clinical applications of the mentalization based intervention by
providing clinical examples and descriptions of existing interventions (such as group work with certain populations). Specific technical considerations and
guidelines will be discussed and illustrated.
5 sessions
Tuesdays, 5:30–7 pm
October 19, 26
November 2,9,16, 2010
255 Bradley Street, New Haven
Fee: $225
Three Ways of Thinking about Thinking
Instructor: Frank W. Knoblauch, MD
Educational Objectives: To consider how observing and describing clinical material from different theoretical points of view affects our understanding of what the “data” are. To introduce approaches to clinical observation based on ideas from various psychoanalytic schools but also from non-psychoanalytic but related fields such as linguistics, semiotics, and neuroscience To learn about the theory of projective identification and some of its manifestations in an interaction between a therapist and a patient Audience: Mental health professionals and trainees (maximum 8)
Course Description: We will examine in detail and from several perspectives a 45-minute video recording and transcription of a psychotherapy session. In the first meeting we will read a chapter from John Muller’s (2000) book, Peirce, Semiotics, and Psychoanalysis and will consider the interview in terms of its “signs” and sign systems. We will go on to read some selections from Gerald Edelman’s (1989) book, The Remembered Present (a modern neuroscientific discussion of memory) to help us rethink the interview as it reveals the functioning of the participants’
“memories.” In our final meeting we will read some selections on projective identification from W.R. Bion and Thomas Ogden and relook at the interview with respect to how the two participants seem to
be affecting each other.
Three evening sessions
2 hours each
Dr. Knoblauch’s office in West Hartford.
Fee: $180
Contemporary Views of Trauma:
Implications for Psychotherapeutic Practice
Instructor: Steven Marans, PhD
Educational Objectives: This brief course will provide an overview of a psychodynamic context for understanding the phenomena of trauma. Discussions will be based on a mixture of lectures, systematic group review of traumatic phenomena, and selected readings. The intent of these sessions will be to consider the nature of current trauma-focused treatments in a broader psychodynamic
context as well as implications of the phenomena of trauma to general psychotherapeutic practice.
Audience: Mental health professionals and trainees
Course Description: Participants will learn about what Freud described as the “traumatic situation” in the context of a psychoanalytic consideration of unfolding development and symptom formation. Participants will learn about the detailed phenomenology of traumatic experience and the convergence of psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral approaches to traumafocused treatments. Participants will learn about ways in which a deep understanding of the human experience of overwhelming, traumatic events can have broad implications for considering the goals of treatment in general psychotherapeutic practice. Selected readings from: Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety (Freud, 1926), Mourning and Melancholia (Freud, 1917) and Listening to Fear (Marans, 2005).
4 sessions
Wednesdays, 6:30-8:00 pm
January 12, 19, 26
February 2, 2011
255 Bradley Street, New Haven
Fee: $180
Philosophical Problems in Psychoanalysis (To be held 2011-2012)
255 Bradley Street, New Haven
Fee: $270
Instructor: Marshal Mandelkern, MD, PhD
Educational Objectives: To examine several philosophical problems raised by psychoanalytic theory and practice.
Audience: Practitioners of analytic therapy with an interest in philosophical questions, and those with an interest in psychoanalytic theory.
Course Description: We will look at several philosophical questions raised by psychoanalytic theory and practice. The scientific basis of analysis, and the possibility of the hermeneutic alternative; the problem of free will in analysis; and the problem of consciousness. My main goal will be to highlight the problematic nature of these issues, rather than to come to any specific conclusion.
Will be held in academic year 2011-2012
Writing from Inside-Out
Instructor: Joan Wexler, MSW
Educational Objectives:• To use reading as a stimulant to writing.
• To become more familiar with your own personal writing style.
• To capture internal experience in written prose.
Audience: Mental health professionals and trainees
Course Description: Reading clinical papers along with fiction, poetry and memoir enhances our own capacity to write about our patient’s internal lives and our responses to them. Each week we will read a poem, short story or short memoir and one clinical paper. Class members write a response to the reading of no more than 500 words. The writing response may be clinical, critical or personal. Discussion will focus on what works in the writing and reading samples—what aspect of the writing conveys the inner experience of the writer and the writer’s subject noting economy, clarity, point of view, affect and style.
6 sessions
Thursdays, 5:30–7 pm
March 24, 31
April 7, 14, 21, 28, 2011
255 Bradley Street, New Haven
Fee: $270
An Introduction to the Work of Anna Freud
Instructors: Norka T. Malberg, PsyD and Victoria Morrow, M.D.
Educational Objectives: To acquaint ourselves with the work of child psychoanalyst Anna Freud, her theoretical conceptualizations and their clinical applications.
Audience: Mental health professionals and trainees, especially those working with children.
Course Description: This course will introduce the participants to the work of Anna Freud. Starting with a brief introduction to her life and work in order to provide a historical framework (e.g. the impact of the controversial discussions with Melanie Klein), the course will examine in
detail Anna Freud's major contributions such as the developmental profile and the
developmental lines and their applications to our work today. Examples of innovative
approaches to working with children away from the consulting room will be discussed.
The course will use clinical examples provided by instructors and participants to
illustrate major concepts and promote discussion regarding theoretical evolution
as well as to provide an opportunity for skill development.
8 sessions
Tuesdays, 5:30-7:00 pm
March 29
April 5, 26
May 3, 10, 17, 24, 31, 2011
255 Bradley Street, New Haven
Fee: $360