Psychoanalytic Core Concepts

Drs. Glick and Stern

Dr. Chriss – Associate Instructor

2014-15

Please consider buying the Textbook of Psychoanalysis 2nd edition, as many readings are from
that (and it will serve you well as a reference throughout training).  

Class 1: The Unconscious

Kris in Gabbard Textbook of Psychoanalysis 2nd Edition "Unconscious Processes" Chapter 4
Pine F The Four Psychologies (1988) JAPA 36:571-596

Class 2: Motivation
Eagle in Gabbard "Theories of Motivation" Chapter 3

Class 3: Defense
Abend S Psychic conflict and concept of defense (1981) Psa Q 50:60-76
LaFarge L in Gabbard Textbook of Psychoanalysis 2nd Edition "Defense and Resistance" ch. 7

Class 4: Resistance, Transference and Countertransference

Schafer R in The Analytic Attitude, chs 5 & 10
Samberg E and Marcus E in Person, Cooper, Gabbard Textbook of Psychoanalysis 1st edition
(2005) "Process, Resistance and Interpretation" ch 15

Class 5:Creating the Analytic Clinical Situation

Gabbard G Countertransference: emerging common ground IJP 1994 76:475-485
Cooper A Changes in Psychoanalytic Ideas: Transference Interpretation JAPA 1987 35:77-98

Class 6: Analytic Process

Vaughan, S.C., Roose, S.P. (1995). The Analytic Process: Clinical and Research Definitions. Int.
J. Psycho-Anal., 76:343-356

Optional:
Goldberg P in Gabbard Textbook of Psychoanalysis 2nd Edition "Process Resistance and
Interpretation" Ch. 20

Class 7: Therapeutic Action

Greenberg J in Gabbard Theories of THerapeutic Action and their Clinical Consequences ch. 19

Class 8: Review and Wrap up.  

no reading assigned