Middle Phase

Fourth Year Adult Psychoanalytic Training (APT)
2021-22, 2nd Trimester — Fridays, 3:30-5:00pm
Katherine Weissbourd, PhD

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Introduction

The Middle Phase is that period in psychoanalysis between the Opening Phase and Termination. This class will offer a broad overview of theories and techniques, with a focus on clinical practice. Please be prepared to bring in relevant examples from your clinical work.

Learning Objectives

After this class, students will be able to:

1. discuss transference and countertransference as conceived in one person and two person perspectives on analytic treatment
2. discuss what is mutative in psychoanalysis, and
3. understand when and how to use alternative  models of therapeutic process and intervention

December 3, 2021 — What is mutative in analysis

[28 pages]

See if you can connect Poland’s idea of the interpretive attitude to Busch’s concept of the capacity to represent. Do you find one or the other of these more helpful as you develop your analytic practice?

Pages: 26

Poland, W.S. (2002). The Interpretive Attitude. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 50(3):807-826.

Busch, F. (2013). Changing views of what is curative in 3 psychoanalytic methods and the emerging, surprising common ground. Scand. Psychoanal. Rev., 36(1):27-34.