Development II: 6 to 12 Years

Fourth Year Adult Psychoanalytic Training (APT)
2021-22, 2nd Trimester — Fridays, 1:45-3:15pm
Ashley Harmon, MD

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February 25, 2022 — Manifestations of Aggression in Middle Childhood and Societal Implications

[20 pages]

We will discuss aggression through a self-psychological lens and further our understanding of aggression through implications in racial disparities in mental health diagnosis and treatment.  Optional readings include psychoanalytic perspectives on school violence prevention using a systemic understanding vs an individual orientation.

Sendak, M. (1963) Where the Wild Things Are. Harpercollins Publishing.

Ornstein, A. (1997) A Developmental Perspective on the Sense of Power, Self-Esteem, and Destructive Aggression. Annual of Psychoanalysis 25:145-154

Durham, J.I. (2018). Perceptions of microaggressions: Implications for the mental health and treatment of African American yout. In Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy, 17(1), pp. 52-61

Optional Reading

Pivnick, B.A. & Hassinger, J.A. (2021) The Child in the School, the School in the Community, and the Community in the Child: Linking Psychic and Social Domains in School Violence Prevention. International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies 18:330-341

Kaplan, E.B. (1976). Manifestations of Aggression in Latency and Preadolescent Girls. PSC, 31:63-78.

Herzog, J.M. (2008) Falling Down: A Girl’s Struggle with Her Oedipus Complex and Her Family’s Dilemmas. Annual of Psychoanalysis 36:62-72.