WeekTopicReading Material
1Introduction to Modern perspectivesDepth Psychology: A ‘view’ from Dieter Wyss
Wyss, D. (1966). Depth Psychology: a critical history. George Allen and Unwin, Ltd.
**Note: No preparation reading required for this week.**
2The Relational PerspectiveAron, L. (1996). A Meeting of Minds: Mutuality in Psychoanalysis. Hillsdale, New Jersey: The Analytic Press.
- Chapter 2: Relational theory and its boundaries: one- and two-person psychologies (pp. 31-64).
- Chapter 3: The patient’s experience of the analyst’s subjectivity (pp. 65-91).
Mitchell, S. A. (1988). The Intrapsychic and the Interpersonal: Different Theories, Different Domains, or Historical Artifacts?. Psychoanal. Inq., 8:472-496.
Mitchell, S. A. (1984). Object Relations Theories and the Developmental Tilt. Contemp. Psychoanal., 20:473-499.
Mitchell, S. A. (1991). Contemporary Perspectives on Self: Toward an Integration. Psychoanal. Dial., 1:121-147.
Mitchell, S. A. (1981). The Origin and Nature of the "Object" in the Theories of Klein and Fairbairn. Contemp. Psychoanal., 17:374-398.
3Mentalization-Based TreatmentBateman, A.W. and Fonagy, P. (2004). Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: Mentalization-based Treatment. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Chapter 3: Mentalization-based understanding of borderline personality disorder (pp. 55-109).
4Mentalization-Based TreatmentBateman, A.W. and Fonagy, P. (2004). Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: Mentalization-based Treatment. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Chapter 7: Strategies of treatment (pp. 203-220).
- Chapter 8: Techniques of treatment (pp. 221-267).
5Transference Focused PsychotherapyLevy, K.N., Clarkin, J.F., Yeomans, F.E., Scott, L.N., Wasserman, R.H., & Kernberg, O.F., (2006). “The mechanisms of change in the treatment of borderline personality disorder with transference focused psychotherapy.” Journal of Clinical Psychology, 62(4), 481-501.
6Transference Focused PsychotherapyYeomans, F.E., Clarkin, J.F. and Kernberg, O.F. (2002). A Primer for Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for the Borderline Patient. Northvale, New Jersey: Jason Aronson,Inc.
Part I: Who are the patients? Diagnostic issues (pp. 1-35).
Part II: What is the essence of the treatment? (pp. 37-51)
Part V: Treatment techniques (pp. 135-160)
Part IX: Requirements for doing TFP (pp. 235-241)
Part X: Practical questions in delivering the treatment (pp. 243-251)
7Dialectical Behavior therapyDimeff. L.A., & Koerner, K. (eds.) (2007). Dialectical behavior therapy in clinical practice: applications across disorders and settings. New York: Guilford Press.
Chapter 1: “Overview of dialectical behavior therapy” – Kelly Koerner and Linda Dimeff (pp. 1-18).
8Dialectical Behavior TherapyDimeff. L.A., & Koerner, K. (eds.) (2007). Dialectical behavior therapy in clinical practice: applications across disorders and settings. New York: Guilford Press.
Chapter 3: “Implementing standard dialectical behavior therapy in an outpatient setting” – Katherine Anne Comtois, Cedar R. Kooms, Sooni A. Kim, Sharon Y. Manning, Elizabeth Bellows and Linda Dimeff (pp. 37-68).
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Modern thought: Ogden
Ogden, T. H. (2001). Conversations at the frontier of dreaming. Northvale, New Jersey: Jason Aronson, Inc.
- Chapter 1: Conversations at the frontier of dreaming (pp. 1-14).
- Chapter 2: Reverie and metaphor: some thoughts on how I work as a psychoanalyst (pp. 15-46).
10To be announcedOgden, T.H. (1982). Projective identification and psychotherapeutic technique. Northvale, New Jersey: Jason Aronson, Inc.
- Chapter 1: Introduction (pp. 1-10).
- Chapter 2: The concept of projective identification (pp. 11-38).
- Chapter 3: Issues of technique (pp. 29-74).
11To be announced
Modern Thought: Bollas
Bollas, C. (1987). The shadow of the object: psychoanalysis of the unknown thought. London: Free Association Books.
- Chapter 1: The transformational object (pp. 13-29).
- Chapter 2: The spirit of the object as the hand of fate (pp. 30-40).
- Chapter 3: The self as object (pp. 41-63).
12To be announcedBollas, C. (1992). Being a character: psychoanalysis and self experience. London: Routledge.
- Chapter 1: Aspects of self-experiencing (pp. 11-32).
- Chapter 2: The evocative object (pp. 33-46).
- Chapter 3: Being a character (pp. 47-65).
13To be announcedBollas, C. (1992). Being a character: psychoanalysis and self experience. London: Routledge.
- Chapter 6: Cutting (pp. 137-143).
14To be announcedSayers, J. (2000). Kleinians: psychoanalysis inside out. Cambridge: Polity Press.
- Chapter 5: Herbert Rosenfeld: Schizophrenics and gangsters (pp. 91-112).
Scharff, D.E. (Ed.). (1996). Object relations theory and practice: an introduction. Northvale, New Jersey: Jason Aronson, Inc.
- Chapter 36: Herbert Rosenfeld’s “A clinical approach to the psychoanalytic theory of the life and death instincts” (pp. 341-348).
15To be announcedSayers, J. (2000). Kleinians: psychoanalysis inside out. Cambridge: Polity Press.
- Chapter 9: Hanna Segal: symbolism and psychosis (pp. 173-192).
Scharff, D.E. (Ed.). (1996). Object relations theory and practice: an introduction. Northvale, New Jersey: Jason Aronson, Inc.
- Chapter 35: Hanna Segal’s “Notes on symbol formation” (pp. 332-340).
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Bibliography

– Aron, L. 1996. A Meeting of Minds: Mutuality in Psychoanalysis. Hillsdale, New Jersey: The Analytic Press.
– Bateman, A.W. and Fonagy, P. 2004. Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: Mentalization-based Treatment. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
– Bollas, C. (1987). The shadow of the object: psychoanalysis of the unknown thought. London: Free Association Books.
– Bollas, C. (1992). Being a character: psychoanalysis and self experience. London: Routledge.
– Dimeff. L.A., & Koerner, K. (eds.) (2007). Dialectical behavior therapy in clinical practice: applications across disorders and settings. New York: Guilford Press.
– Grotstein, J. S. (1978). Inner Space: Its Dimensions and its Coordinates. Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 59:55-61.
Grotstein, J. S. (1979). Demoniacal Possession, Splitting, and the Torment of Joy: A Psychoanalytic Inquiry Into the Negative Therapeutic Reaction, Unanalyzability, and Psychotic States. Contemp. Psychoanal., 15:407-445.
Grotstein, J. S. (1979). Who is the Dreamer who Dreams the Dream and who is the Dreamer who Understands It—A Psychoanalytic Inquiry Into the Ultimate Nature of Being. Contemp. Psychoanal., 15:110-169.
Grotstein, J. S. (1980). A Proposed Revision of the Psychoanalytic Concept of Primitive Mental States—Part I. Introduction to a Newer Psychoanalytic Metapsychology. Contemp. Psychoanal., 16:479-546.
Grotstein, J. S. (1982). Newer Perspectives in Object Relations Theory. Contemp. Psychoanal., 18:43-91.
Grotstein, J. S. (1982). The Spectrum of Aggression. Psychoanal. Inq., 2:193-211.
Grotstein, J. S. (1983). A Proposed Revision of the Psychoanalytic Concept of Primitive Mental States, Part II—The Borderline Syndrome-Section 1: Disorders of Autistic Safety and Symbiotic Relatedness. Contemp. Psychoanal., 19:570-604.
Grotstein, J. S. (1986). The Psychology of Powerlessness: Disorders of Self-Regulation and Interactional Regulation as a Newer Paradigm for Psychopathology. Psychoanal. Inq., 6:93-118.
Grotstein, J. S. (1995). A Reassessment of the Couch in Psychoanalysis. Psychoanal. Inq., 15:396-405.
Grotstein, J. S. (1995). Projective Identification Reappraised—projective Identification, Introjective Identification, The Transference/countertransference Neurosis/psychosis, And Their Consummate Expression In The Crucifixion, The Pietà, And “therapeutic Exorcism, ” Part II: The Countertransference Complex. Contemp. Psychoanal., 31:479.
Grotstein, J. S. (1997). Integrating One-Person And Two-Person Psychologies: Autochthony And Alterity In Counterpoint. Psychoanal Q., 66:403-430.
Grotstein, J. S. (1999). Projective Identification Reassessed. Psychoanal. Dial., 9:187-203.Grotstein, J. S. (2000). Some Considerations of “Hate” and a Reconsideration of the Death Instinct. Psychoanal. Inq., 20:462-480.
Levy, K.N., Clarkin, J.F., Yeomans, F.E., Scott, L.N., Wasserman, R.H., & Kernberg, O.F., (2006). The mechanisms of change in the treatment of borderline personality disorder with transference focused psychotherapy. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 62(4), 481-501.
Mitchell, S. A. (1981). The Origin and Nature of the “Object” in the Theories of Klein and Fairbairn. Contemp. Psychoanal., 17:374-398.
Mitchell, S. A. (1984). Object Relations Theories and the Developmental Tilt. Contemp. Psychoanal., 20:473-499.
Mitchell, S. A. (1988). The Intrapsychic and the Interpersonal: Different Theories, Different Domains, or Historical Artifacts?. Psychoanal. Inq., 8:472-496.
Mitchell, S. A. (1991). Contemporary Perspectives on Self: Toward an Integration. Psychoanal. Dial., 1:121-147.
Ogden, T.H. (2001). Conversations at the frontier of dreaming. Northvale, New Jersey: Jason Aronson, Inc.
Ogden, T.H. (1982). Projective identification and psychotherapeutic technique. Northvale, New Jersey: Jason Aronson, Inc.
Sayers, J. (2000). Kleinians: psychoanalysis inside out. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Scharff, D.E. (Ed.). (1996). Object relations theory and practice: an introduction. Northvale, New Jersey: Jason Aronson, Inc.
Wyss, D. (1966). Depth Psychology: a critical history. George Allen and Unwin, Ltd.
Yeomans, F.E., Clarkin, J.F. and Kernberg, O.F. 2002. A Primer for Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for the Borderline Patient. Northvale, New Jersey: Jason Aronson, Inc.

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