Open Analytic Theory Classes 2022-2023
Each year, the Institute opens several classes in the Analytic Training program to non-candidates. Graduates of an advanced psychotherapy program (such as the Advanced Psychodynamic Psychotherapy program affiliated with the Institute or comparable programs), individuals in psychiatric training programs, academics with a research interest in the area, along with Advanced Analytic Candidates and Faculty of the Institute may apply to take these Open Analytic Theory Classes.
Acceptance into Open Analytic Theory Classes is by application process only. For first-time applications, please apply online at least 6 weeks in advance. The returning student deadline is at least 4 weeks in advance of the start date at: https://www.stlpi.org/open-classes/
For the 2022-2023 Academic Year, the Open Analytic Theory Classes include:
CORE
Core Concepts (8 sessions)
Instructor: Alison Feit, PhD
Dates: 9/9/2022-10/28/2022* Fridays 1:15-2:30 PM, Institute Classroom ___
Course Fee: [Non-candidate (Early) $524, (Regular) $544]
[Candidate (Early) $480, (Regular) $504]
In this course, we will discuss some basic concepts of psychoanalysis, such as the unconscious, fantasy, the drive, psycho-sexuality, transference and counter-transference, topographical and structural theories, defenses, importance of dreams, and object relations. We will address a central question of psychoanalysis: why is psychoanalysis a talking cure, and how does it help?
PREREQUISITES: None
Developmental Viewpoint (32 sessions)
Instructor(s): Mary Nielsen, MD, Rudy Oldeschulte, MA, JD, Andrew Chirchirillo, PhD, Phoebe Cirio, MSW, LCSW, James Mikolajczak, MD, Jacqueline Langley, PhD
Dates: 9/9/2022-5/19/2023* Fridays 2:45-4:00 PM, Institute Classroom ___
Course Fee: [Non-candidate (Early) $2096, (Regular) $2176]
[Candidate (Early) $1920, (Regular) $2016]
Developmental Viewpoint is a two-semester study of psychodynamic development, beginning with pregnancy and infancy on into childhood developmental stages and ending with adulthood and senescence. The course engages the student’s thinking in terms of the social, emotional, affect development, and defenses. The interplay and the connections among the unconscious and conscious mental and emotional processes that influence our daily life – in our interactions with others (relationships) – will be examined more fully.
This course is part of the core curriculum, offered as an Open Class only with the full year commitment. The writings of Freud, Klein, Bion, Winnicott, Stern and others will be presented.
PREREQUISITES: None
Models of the Mind (32 sessions)
Instructor: Andrew Chirchirillo, PhD, Stuart Ozar, MD
Dates: 9/15/2022-5/11/2023 *Thursdays 7:15-8:30 PM, Institute Classroom ___
Course Fee: [Non-candidate (Early) $2096, (Regular) $2176]
[Candidate (Early) $1920, (Regular) $2016]
Psychoanalysis is both a theory of pathology and its treatment and a general theory of human behavior. The course, “Models of the Mind,” is designed to help us organize the vast array of observations and thoughts about human behavior contributed to our literature over many decades. Surveying Ego, Object Relations, Self-Psychological, Intersubjective, and Relational and perspectives, we hope to present the material in a way that allows for thoughtful discussion of what is most true and most helpful. Too often, psychoanalytic debates take on the character of contests between competing ideologies, with allegiances to ideas grounded more on transferences (allegiances) to influential analysts than to reasoned assessment of the state of our knowledge. We seek to teach thinking skills that promote the highest standards of rigorous academic discourse.
PREREQUISITES: Core Concepts
Parent/Infant Observation (32 sessions)
Instructor: Course Master, Tina M. Dale, LCSW, Instructors TBA
Dates: 9/9/2022-5/19/2023* Fridays 9:00-10:15 AM, Institute Classroom ___
Course Fee: [Non-candidate (Early) $2096 (Regular) $2176]
[Candidate (Early) $1920, (Regular) $2016]
The overall learning objective will be to enhance and deepen class participants’ skills in observing how an infant’s and toddler’s development is influenced by a socio-cultural- psychological-biological-environmental matrix, and by his or her relationships with primary objects. Participants will achieve new levels of mastery in integrating metapsychological concepts into their own thinking, applying these concepts in their observations of infants/toddlers in the family environment, and applying them to their understanding of child as well as adult patients in clinical treatment.
Presentation of individual observations will be included in every class session.
This course is offered as an open class. It will satisfy course requirements for Child Analytic training. Candidates currently enrolled in the Adult Analytic program who are interested in working with children are encouraged to take the course in addition to their adult analytic course requirements
FOURTH YEAR
Interpretation (8 sessions)
Instructor: Phoebe Cirio, MSW, LCSW
Dates: 9/9/2022-10/28/2022 *Fridays 10:30-11:45 AM, Institute Classroom ___
Course Fee: [Non-candidate (Early) $524, (Regular) $544]
[Candidate (Early) $480, (Regular) $504]
Interpretation is a clinical tool, the most significant form of intervention available in clinical psychoanalysis. To do it well requires time in the clinical setting, and thought. Thinking about interpretation is enhanced by reading the psychoanalytic literature. In this course we will examine contributions to the psychoanalytic literature on interpretation from a diverse range of theoretical perspectives, and across time. Interpretation is the use of language, in a deliberate way, to illuminate, and hopefully to mend psychic rifts. These rifts can form between the different parts of the psychic apparatus, but also between thinking and feeling, and between the mind and the body. We will devote eight weeks to exploring this work.
PREREQUISITES: Developmental Viewpoint, Models of the Mind, Freud, or permission of instructor.
Lacan (8 sessions)
Instructor: Todd Dean, MD
Dates: 12/9/2022-2/17/2023 * Fridays 10:30-11:45 AM, Institute Classroom ___
Course Fee: [Non-candidate (Early) $524, (Regular) $544]
[Candidate (Early) $480, (Regular) $504]
In this eight-week course, we will address the major theoretical concepts developed by Lacan. Starting with his early work on psychosis and “the mirror stage”, we will address the major developments in his theoretical work, including the development of discourse theory and his work on the relation of language to “the thing”. In the process, we will look at the application of such concepts as castration, superego, jouissance and fantasy in both clinical and social contexts. We will conclude with a discussion of his late paper “Science and Truth”, which addresses the relationship of science and psychology.
PREREQUISITES: Developmental Viewpoint, Models of the Mind, Freud, or permission of instructor.
Bion & Winnicott (8 sessions)
Instructor: Rudy Oldeschulte, MA, JD
Dates: 9/9/2022-10/28/2022* Fridays 1:15-2:30 PM, Institute Classroom ___
Course Fee: [Non-candidate (Early) $524, (Regular) $544]
[Candidate (Early) $480, (Regular) $504]
Jay Greenberg dubbed both Winnicott and Bion “stem-cell” (Sigmund Freud, Melanie Klein, and Jacques Lacan complete his list) — “stem-cell” in part because they provide the evolutionary origins of many contemporary psychoanalytic ideas (indeed, these two authored 6 of the top 10 most searched for texts on PEP) In this course we will take both an individual and a comparative look at the theoretical developments put forth by each of these British clinicians/theoreticians, contemporaries with one another and each having deep and intermingling roots in Kleinian earth: although, each dared to turn his gaze outward to include an external object in his formulations. Transitional objects (and phenomena), holding, reverie, container/contained, and primary maternal preoccupation are all terms frequently encountered today in all aspects of the psychoanalytic discourse. We will explore the birth and development of these concepts.
PREREQUISITES: Developmental Viewpoint, Models of the Mind, Freud, or Permission of Instructor
Integrative Theory (12 sessions)
Instructor: Britt-Marie Schiller, PhD
Dates: 11/4/2022-2/17/2023* Fridays 1:15-2:30 PM, Institute Classroom ___
Course Fee: [Non-candidate (Early) $786, (Regular) $816]
[Candidate (Early) $720, (Regular) $756]
In this course we will study three psychoanalytic thinkers who, dissatisfied with linearity of thought, seek to maintain standpoints embedded in a variety of psychoanalytic models of the human mind and human development. Hans Loewald draws on the ideas of Hartmann, Mahler, Winnicott and Kohut to create his own unique blend. As he puts it, “Much can be said for an oscillation between such various standpoints, as perhaps in their juxtaposition and combination lies the secret of success in understanding more about the conflicted and ambiguous creatures that we are.”
Thomas Ogden seeks out the dialectical interplay and tensions between opposing elements that stand in dynamic and changing relations to each other. In elaborating a conception of analytic intersubjectivity and the analytic third he draws on and integrates the ideas of Klein and Winnicott.
Jessica Benjamin seeks to elaborate a theoretical perspective in which intersubjectivity rivals but does not defeat the intrapsychic. She develops a conception of double recognition, making one’s own subjectivity known while recognizing the difference of the other’s subjectivity. Building on the work of Mahler and Winnicott she integrates the work of feminist thinking as having contributed as much as psychoanalytic theory to intersubjectivity.PREREQUISITES: Models of the Mind
The Body in Psychoanalysis (12 sessions)
Instructor: Ann Simmons, PhD
Dates: 2/24/2023-5/19/2023* Fridays 1:15-2:30 PM, Institute Classroom ___
Course Fee: [Non-candidate (Early) $786, (Regular) $816]
[Candidate (Early) $720, (Regular) $756]
DESCRIPTION TO FOLLOW
PREREQUISITES: Developmental Viewpoint, Models of the Mind, Freud, or permission of instructor.
*DATES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE.
Distance Learning is available for all courses.
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