Freud: Classical to Modern (Cohort 2)
October 21, 2024 @ 6:30 pm - 7:45 pm, Classroom Four
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2-Year Certificate Program (2YCP), Cohort 2 (Crossroads)
2024-25, 1st Term — Mondays, 6:30-7:45pm
Kelly Lippman, LMHC
Martin Bullard, LICSW
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October 21, 2024
[40 pages]
Sigmund Freud’s sixth and last child Anna Freud (1895-1982) greatly contributed to the development of psychoanalysis. Her theoretical work emphasized the importance of the Ego and its normal ‘developmental lines.’ Anna Freud’s disagreements with Melanie Klein about how to understand and work with children resulted in development of three distinct schools in the 1940’s British Psychoanalytic Society (Freudians, Kleinians, and the Independents) which you will learn more about in upcoming courses. This week’s first reading excerpts one of A Freud’s more famous works around cataloging and approaching defense mechanisms in psychoanalysis. The second reading by Perry and Bond reviews modern empirical literature about defenses while providing granular clinical examples of using them as windows into understanding psychic life and our clinical work.
The very optional paper this week is for the historical completist. The eminent psychoanalyst Robert Wallerstein (1921-2014) observes how Ego Psychology’s “monolithic hegemony” over American Psychoanalysis in the 1950’s and 1960’s fragmented and changed with the rise of alternative schools like Self Psychology, Neo-Kleinian and Relational psychoanalysis.
Seminar Objectives:
- Understand how Anna Freud’s emphasized the importance of Ego and specific defense mechanisms in her own work
- Identify specific defense mechanisms in clinical work and how they can be clinically addressed
Freud, A. (1936). Ch3, “The Ego’s Defensive Operations Considered as an Object of Analysis” in The Ego and Mechanisms of Defense, pp28-53.
Perry, J.C. & Bond, M. (2017). Addressing Defenses in Psychotherapy to Improve Adaptation. Psychoanal. Inq., 37(3):153-166
Optional Reading
Wallerstein, R.S. (2002). The Growth and Transformation of American Ego Psychology. JAPA, 50(1):135-168.
