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Evolution of the Person in Childhood and Adolescence, Robert Shapiro
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Childhood and Adolescence, Robert Shapiro
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This course will survey the developmental literature from infancy
Intensive Psychoanalytic through adolescence. Emphasis will be on the classical works of
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Mahler, Stern, Winnicott, and Sullivan, among others. We will use
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the readings to discuss how a developmental perspective can be
utilized in working with adult patients. Reconstruction, transference
Bulletin of Information and countertransference, adaptation and resistance will all be
considered through a developmental lens.
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Since there has been a tremendous amount of recent literature on

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Application attachment theory, a separate course on this aspect of development will be given in the fall trimester course.

Class 1. Psychological Change as Development

Frankel, S. (2001). New and creative development through psychoanalysis. Contemporary Psychoanalysis,
37(4), 523-550.

Class 2. Reconsideration of Early Infant Studies

Pine, F. (2001). Margaret Mahler’s concepts of symbiosis and separation individuation – revisited,
re-evaluated, and refined. Unpublished paper.
Shapiro, R. (1985). Separation and individuation: The compulsion to repeat. Contemporary Psychoanalysis,
21(1), 297-308.

Class 3. Developmental Transitions

Winnicott, D. (1958). Transitional objects and transitional phenomena. In Collected papers. London: Tavistock.
(Original work published 1951)
Bergman, A. (1980). Ours, yours, mine. In R. F. Lax, S. Bach, & J. A. Burland (Eds.), RapprochementThe
critical subphase of separation-individuation (151-169). New York, Jason Aronson. :

Class 4. Relevance of Infancy Research

Stern, D. (1983). Implications of infancy research for psychoanalytic theory and practice. In L. Grinspoon
(Ed.), Psychiatry update (Vol. 2). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association.
Stern, D. (1985). The interpersonal world of the infant (Chs. 2 &11). New York: Basic Books.

Class 5. Aspects of Attachment

Schecter, D. (1978). Attachment, detachment and psychoanalytic therapy. In E. Witenberg (Ed.), Interpersonal
psychoanalysis. New York: Gardner Press.
Bollas, C. (1987). The shadow of the object (Ch. 3). New York: Columbia University Press.

Class 6: Identifications and Identity

Ross, J. (1982). From mother to father: The boys search for a generative identity and the Oedipal era. In S.
Cath, A. Gurwitt & J.M. Ross (Eds.), Father and child: Developmental and clinical perspectives (pp.
189-204). Boston: Little, Brown and Company.
Bernstein, D. (1990). Female genital conflicts, and typical mastery modes. International Journal of
Psychoanalysis, 71, 151-165.

Class 7. The Work of Childhood

Novick, K. & Novick, J. (1994). Post Oedipal transformations: Latency, adolescence, and pathogenesis.

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Sullivan, H.S. (1953). The juvenile era. In Interpersonal theory of psychiatry (Ch. 15). New York: Norton.

Class 8. Demands of Early Adolescence

Levy-Warren, M. (1996). The adolescent journey (Ch. 2, Early adolescent genitality, pp. 35-65). In. Northvale,
NJ: Jason Aronson.
Sullivan, H.S. (1953). Preadolescence. In Interpersonal theory of psychiatry (Ch. 16). New York: Norton.

Class 9. Tasks of Adolescence

Freud, A. (1958). Adolescence. The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 13, 255-278.

Class 10. Clinical Considerations with Adolescents

Hurn, H. (1970). Adolescent transference: A problem of the terminal phase of analysis. Journal of the American
Psychoanalytic Association, 18, 342-357.

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