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The Developmental Self and Object Relations Approach of James F.  Masterson and the Masterson Institute:

 Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of the Borderline, Narcissistic and Schizoid Disorders of Self

Elective Course for the One-Year and Two-Year Programs; Mandatory Course for the Full Training Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis

(can be also taken as an individual post-graduate certificate course; no pre-requisites)

Course Instructor: Loray Daws, PhD

Dates: Sept 10, 17, 24; Oct 1^st (Thursdays, 7pm – 9:45pm) & Oct 3^rd, 2020 (Saturday, 9:30am – 12:15pm), with 15 min break included

Tuition: $450 (can be paid in 2 installments, upon request). Registration: $25/course (waived for candidates in training) - can be paid by CC via PayPal - follow the link: PayPal.Me/ORINYC . Additional registration fee ($25) for non-candidates.

Location: via Virtual participation only, due to current recommendations of CDC and local government (re: COVID-19).

Virtual participation is conducted via audio/video or audio mode only (with minimal technical requirements).

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COURSE DESCRIPTION:

The work of Dr. James F. Masterson on the disorders of Self relies on various descriptive intrapsychic algorithms, enabling the treating clinician sound therapeutic ways to enhance analytic contact with analyzands/ patients/ clients that are alienated from their true self-functioning.

This course will focus exclusively on the work of Masterson and the International Masterson Institute’s approach to Borderline, Narcissistic, and Schizoid dilemmas. Emphasis will be on structural realities in the clinging and distancing borderline disorder of Self; the manifest, closet and devaluing narcissistic disorder of Self; and the pure, pseudo-narcissistic, and pseudo- borderline schizoid disorder of Self.

Attention will also be given to the importance of making a differential diagnosis, accessing the intrapsychic world of the various disorders of self, i.e., understanding the split internal world kept intact through unique defenses erected against an ‘abandonment depression,’ managing technical difficulties in the treatments of the disorders of self, as well as special considerations in the use of various intervention such as confrontation, setting of limits, the interpretation of narcissistic vulnerability, the use of transitional language with the schizoid, and much more.

A dynamic theoretical and clinical psychotherapeutic approach offered by James Masterson and Masterson Institute has two major advantages: (1) it integrates developmental theory, attachment theory, object relations theory, and neurobiological brain research theory with a psy­chology of the Self, and (2) it provides its own self-corrective tools. It allows the formation of clinical hypotheses that can be tested in the clinical arena. Beyond that, it both widens and deepens the practitioner’s area of observation and reflection, immersing one still deeper in the clinical endeavor, and equipping one to explore these complex subterranean themes with confidence and optimism.

Clinical cases will be included to illustrate the therapeutic process in treating the disorders of self as well as remaining sensitive to trauma and other related clinical phenomena.

SYLLABUS AND LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Week 1: Evolution of the MASTERSON APPROACH. STAGE I: Psychiatric Dilemma of Adolescence (1956-1968). STAGE II: Treatment of the BORDERLINE ADOLESCENT — A Developmental Approach (1968-1974). STAGE III: 1974-1983: (1) THE Psychotherapy of the  BORDERLINE ADULT — A Developmental Object Relations Approach (1976); (2) From BORDERLINE ADOLESCENT to FUNCTIONING ADULT — the TEST OF TIME (1980); (3) The NARCISSISTIC and BORDERLINE DISORDERS — the DEVELOPMENTAL Approach (1981); (4) COUNTERTRANSFERENCE and PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC TECHNIQUE (1983). STAGE IV: 1983-1988. THE REAL SELF (1985) and THE SEARCH FOR THE REAL SELF (1988). STAGE V: 1988-1996. THE EMERGING SELF (1993) and DISORDERS OF THE SELF: NEW THERAPEUTIC HORIZONS (1995)

Week 2: The BORDERLINE DISORDER of SELF

Week 3: The NARCISSISTIC DISORDERS of SELF

Week 4: The SCHIZOID DISORDER of SELF

Week 5: SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS in the MASTERSON'S APPROACH

After this course participants will be able to: 

Week 1: 1) Analyze the importance of  Masterson’s developmental self and object relations approach to disorders of self; 2) Describe the various disorders of self according to Masterson; 3) Describe the key diagnostic features of the Disorders of Self; 4) Utilize in clinical practice key concepts of  the developmental self and object relations approach to the various disorders of self.

Week 2: 1) Describe Masterson’s Mahlerian approach to the BDOS; 2) Describe the split units evident in the BDOS; 3) Describe the derivatives of the abandonment depression; 4) Utilize the various Mastersonian intervention approaches to both clinging and distancing BDOS; 5) Compare clinging to distancing defenses and its various impacts on therapeutic interventions.

Week 3: 1) Describe Masterson’s approach to the NDOS; 2) Compare the intrapsychic world of the NDOS with the BDOS; 3) Describe the split units evident in the NDOS; 4) Describe the derivatives of the abandonment depression and its impact on the fused units; 5) Utilize the various Mastersonian intervention approaches to the 3 types of NDOS; 6) Compare the various subtypes of NDOS.

Week 4: 1) Describe Masterson and Klein’s descriptive approach to the SDOS; 2) Describe the split units evident in the SDOS; 3) Describe the derivatives of the abandonment depression as seen in SDOS; 4)  Utilize the various Mastersonian intervention approaches to the schizoid dilemm; 5) Compare the attachment and non-attachment units as found in the SDOS.

Week 5: 1) Compare and analyze Masterson’s approach to various other psychotherapeutic models in the treatment of disorders of self; 2) Describe Masterson’s approach to general analytic praxis; 3) Utilize the Mastersonian approach to Trauma; 4) Compare the impact of trauma on the various disorders of self.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Main readings:

Masterson, J.F. (1972). Treatment of the Borderline Adolescent: A developmental approach. New York: Wiley-Interscience.

Masterson, J.F. (1976). Treatment of the Borderline Adult: A developmental approach. New York: Brunner/Mazel.

Masterson, J.F. (1981). Narcissistic and Borderline disorders: An integrated developmental approach. New York: Brunner/Mazel.

Masterson, J.F. (1983). Countertransference and psychotherapeutic technique. New York: Brunner/Mazel.

Masterson, J.F. (1985). The real self. A developmental, self , and object relations approach. New York: Brunner/Mazel, Inc.

Masterson, J.F. (1989). The search for the real self. Unmasking the personality disorder of our age. New York: The Free Press.

Masterson, J.F., & Klein, R. (1989). Psychotherapy of the disorders of the self. The Masterson Approach. New York: Brunner/Mazel

Masterson, J.F., Tolpin, M., & Sifneos, P.E. (1991). Comparing psychoanalytic psychotherapies. Developmental, self, and object relations. Self psychology. Short term dynamic. New York: Brunner/ Mazel publishers.

Masterson, J.F. (1993). The emerging self. A developmental, self, and object relations approach to the treatment of the closet narcissistic disorder of the self. New York: Brunner/Mazel publishers.

Masterson, J.F., & Klein, R. (1995). Disorders of the self. New therapeutic horizons. The Masterson Approach. New York: Brunner/Mazel.

Masterson, J.F. (2000). The personality disorders. A new look at the developmental self and object relations approach. Theory, diagnosis, treatment. Phoenix, Arizona: Zeig, Tucker & Thiesen, Inc.

Masterson, J.F., & Lieberman, A.R. (2004). A therapist’s guide to the personality disorders. The Masterson Approach. A handbook and workbook. Phoenix, Arizona: Zeig, Tucker & Thiesen, Inc.

Masterson, J.F. (2005) (Ed.). The personality disorders through the lens of attachment theory and the neurobiologic development of the self. A clinical integration. Phoenix, Arizona: Zeig, Tucker & Thiesen, Inc.

Additional readings:

Katz, J. (2004). The schizoid personality disorder. In J.F. Masterson & A.R. Liberman (Ed), A therapist’s guide to the personality disorders. The Masterson Approach. A handbook and workbook (pp. 91-110). Phoenix, Arizona: Zeig, Tucker & Thiesen, Inc.

Kavaler-Adler, S. (1992). The aging decline of two untreated borderline geniuses. Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, 10 (1), 77-100.

Kavaler-Adler, S. (1993). Psychic structure and the capacity to mourn. Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, 11 (1).

Kavaler-Adler, S. (1993). Object relations process in the treatment of the preoedipal character. American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 53 (1), 19-34.

Kavaler-Adler, S. (1995). Opening up blocked mourning in the preoedipal character. American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 55 (2), 145-168.

Kavaler-Adler, S. (2004). Anatomy of regret: A developmental view of the depressive position and a critical turn toward love and creativity in the transforming schizoid personality. The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 64 (1), 39-76.

Kavaler-Adler, S. (2006). My graduation is my mother’s funeral: Transformation from the paranoid- schizoid to the depressive position in fear of success and the role of the internal saboteur. International Forum of Psychoanalysis, 15, 117-130.

Kavaler-Adler, S. (2006). From neurotic guilt to existential guilt as grief: The road to interiority, agency, and compassion through mourning. Part I. The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 66(3), 239-259.

Kavaler-Adler, S. (2006). From neurotic guilt to existential guilt as grief: The road to interiority, agency, and compassion through mourning. Part II. The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 66(4), 333-350.

Kavaler-Adler, S. (2013a).  The compulsion to create: Women writers and their demon lovers. New York: ORI Academic Press.

Kavaler-Adler, S.  (2013b).  The anatomy of regret: from death instinct to reparation and symbolization in vivid case studies.  London: Karnac/Routledge.

Kavaler-Adler, S. (2014a).  The creative mystique: From red shoes frenzy to love and creativity. New York: ORI Academic Press.

Kavaler-Adler, S. (2014b).  The Klein-Winnicott dialectic: new transformative metapsychology and interactive clinical theory.  London: Karnac/Routledge

Kavaler-Adler, S. (2014c).  Psychic structure and the capacity to mourn: Why narcissists cannot mourn.  MindConsiliums, 14(1), 1-18.

Kavaler-Adler, S. (2018).  The beginning of heartache in character disorders: on the way to relatedness and intimacy through primal affects and symbolization.  International Forum of Psychoanalysis, 27(4): 207-218.

Lieberman, J. (2004). The Narcissistic personality disorder. In J.F. Masterson & A.R. Lieberman (Ed), A therapist’s guide to the personality disorders. The Masterson Approach. A handbook and workbook (pp.73-90). Phoenix, Arizona: Zeig, Tucker & Thiesen, Inc.

Manfield, P. (1992). Split self-Split object. Understanding and treating borderline, narcissistic, and schizoid disorders. Northvale, New Jersey: Jason Aronson, Inc.

Mahler, M.S. (1968). On human symbiosis and the vicissitudes of individuation. New York: International Universities Press. 

Mahler, M.S. (1972a). On the first three subphases of separation-individuation process. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 53, 333-338.

Mahler, M.S. (1972b). Rapprochement subphase of the separation process. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 41, 487-506.

Orcutt, C. (2012). Trauma in Personality Disorder: A Clinician's Handbook the Masterson Approach. Authorhouse. 

Pearson, J. (1995). Mirrors of rage: the devaluing narcissistic patient. In J.F. Masterson & R. Klein (Ed.), Disorders of the self. New therapeutic horizons. The Masterson Approach (pp.299-312). New York: Brunner/Mazel.

Pearson, J. (2004). The Masterson approach to differential diagnosis. In J.F.Masterson & A.R. Liberman (Ed). A therapist’s guide to the personality disorders. The Masterson Approach. A handbook and workbook (pp. 35-54). Phoenix, Arizona: Zeig, Tucker & Thiesen, Inc.

Bio of the course instructor: Loray Daws, PhD is a registered Clinical Psychologist in South Africa and British Columbia (Canada), and he is currently in private practice in British Columbia (Canada). Dr. Daws has published about and works in the areas of Daseinsanalysis, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, disorders of self, psychosomatic difficulties, mental health ethics, and the Rorschach. Dr. Daws serves as a Senior Faculty member at the International Masterson Institute in New York and both teaches and supervises in South Africa, Australia, and Turkey in the psychoanalytic approach to disorders of the Self. He is currently a second year candidate in training at the Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. Dr. Loray Daws is the editor of 4 books, and he also serves as the assistant editor for the Global Journal of Health Sciences in Canada, as the evaluator and international advisory board member for the International Journal of Psychotherapy, and the assistant editor for EPIS (Existential Psychoanalytic Institute and Society).

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