Psychoanalytic Technique – Freud and Beyond
Certificate Course with 12,5 hrs of post-graduate/ CE credits in psychoanalytic education
Instructor
Stefanie Teitelbaum, LCSW, NPsyA
When
Thursdays, 7:45pm – 9pm, April 13 – June 15, 2017
Where
99 University Place, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10003 OR VIRTUALLY (with minimal technical requirements for in real time participation and/ or via use of video-taped sessions)
Tuition
$450/ 10-week course/ 5 double-sessions. Ask for our need-based scholarships and payment arrangements (call the administrator at 646-522-1056).
Description
In this course we will explore the development and the evolution of Freud’s psychoanalytic technique. Freud’s seminal papers on technique, from 1890 to 1905, were written before the introduction of the structural model and so were developed, primarily within the framework of the topographical model which rested on the recovery of repressed memories to affect a cure. During the second phase, he grappled with transference manifestations in the clinical situation. Transference posed as a resistance to the patient’s coming to understand their internal conflicts and so it needed to be interpreted and worked through.
Later readings begin to introduce other models of technique and their theoretical underpinnings, particularly the inclusion of treating psychotic phenomenon.
Evolution, addition and departure from Freud’s ideas on psychoanalytic technique will be looked at through the works of D.W. Winnicott and Wilfred Bion. We also will use class member’s clinical material to explore applications.
Course Syllabus
Session One
Readings
Freud, S. (1893-1895). Psychotherapy of hysteria. SE II, 301-305 (only).
Freud, S. (1905). Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria. Postscript. SE VII, 112-122.
Freud, S. (1905). On psychotherapy. SE VII, 257-268.
Learning points: The candidate will be able to: a) Describe Freud’s meaning of transference, especially in the context of the occurrence of his first written comments about the concept; b) Apply the concept of transference to a current clinical case.
Session Two
Readings
Freud, S. (1912). The dynamics of transference. SE XII, 99-108.
Learning points
The candidate will be able to: a) Describe Freud’s notions of resistance and how it operates in the 3 kinds of transference; b) Apply Freud’s concept of resistance to a current clinical case.
Session Three
Readings
Freud, S. (1912). Recommendations to physicians practicing psycho-analysis. SE XII, 111-120.
Freud, S. (1913). On beginning the treatment. SE XII, 123-144.
Learning points
The candidate will be able to: a) Describe the rationale for the fundamental rule of psychoanalysis – free association – as well as other recommendations regarding the handling of fees and time in the establishment of a psychoanalytic treatment; b) Apply Freud’s concepts of free associations and handling fees and time in psychoanalytic treatment – to a current clinical case.
Session Four
Readings
Freud, S. (1911). The handling of dream-interpretation in psycho-analysis. SE XII, 91-96.
Freud, S. (1923). Remarks on the theory and practice of dream interpretation. SE XIX, 109-121.
Selections from Bion’s Cogitations about dream work.
Learning points
The candidate will be able to: a) Describe usage of dream interpretation techniques to dream work within the clinical hour; b) Apply Freud’s ideas of handling the dream interpretations to a current clinical case.
Session Five
Readings
Freud, S. (1914). Remembering, repeating and working-through. SE XII, 147-156.
Learning points
The candidate will be able to: a) Describe Freud’s theories about repetition, remembering, and working through within the psychoanalytic process; b) Apply Freud’s concept of repetition, remembering, and working through to a current clinical case.
Session Six
Readings
Bion, W.R. (1967). Notes on memory and desire. The Psychoanalytic Forum, 2(3).
Learning points
The candidate will be able to: a) Differentiate the analyst’s remembering and the analyst’s memory; b) Apply Bion’s concept of memory and desire to a current clinical case.
Session Seven
Readings
Freud, S. (1915). Observations on Transference-Love. SE XII, 159-171.
Learning points
The candidate will be able to: a) Describe Freud’s ideas about transference love and his precepts of abstinence and neutrality and how they apply to the handling of transference love; b) Apply Freud’s concepts of transference-love, abstinence and neutrality to a current clinical case.
Session Eight
Readings
Freud, S. (1937). Analysis Terminable and Interminable. SE XXIII, 216-253.
Learning points
The candidate will be able to: a) Describe Freud’s ideas about the long-lasting benefits and limitations of psychoanalysis and the necessity of periodic return to personal analysis by the psychoanalyst over the course of his/her career; b) Apply Freud’s ideas of terminable and interminable psychoanalysis to a current clinical case.
Session Nine
Readings
Freud, S. (1937). Constructions in Analysis. SE XXIII, 257-269.
Selections from Bion’s Cogitations
Learning points
The candidate will be able to: a) Discuss Freud’s observations on psychotic process and Bion’s elaboration of such processes; b) Apply Freud’s and Bion’s ideas on psychotic process as they relate to a current clinical case.
Session Ten
Readings
Freud, S. (1925). A Note upon the “Mystic Writing Pad.” In S. Freud, General Psychological Theory, Chapter XIII.
Green, A. (1975). The analyst, symbolization and absence in the analytic setting (on changes in analytic practice and analytic experience) — In Memory of D. W. Winnicott. International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 56, 1-22.
Learning points
The candidate will be able to: a) Discuss the implications of changes in practice when repression is not the primary operation of removing material from consciousness; b) Apply the concepts of symbolization and absence to a current clinical case.
Bio of the Course Instructor
Stefanie Teitelbaum, LCSW, NPsyA, B. Music – is the Supervisor, Training Analyst, Faculty of NPAP and IEA; Dean of Students, IEA; Instructor, ORI. She is the former staff psychotherapist at the Lower East Side Service Center’s Drug-Free Outpatient Program. Stefanie Teitelbaum is in private psychoanalytic practice in New York City. Contact info: 212 255-3284; 917 279-3414; .
For more information about registration and administrative issues, please contact the administrator, Dr. Inna Rozentsvit, at or 646-522-1056.