Middle Phase

Adult Psychoanalytic Training (APT)
2019-20, 2nd Trimester — Fridays, 3:30-5:00pm
Katherine Weissbourd, PhD
Christopher J. Keats, MD

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Introduction

The Middle Phase is that period in psychoanalysis between the Opening Phase and Termination.

Learning Objectives

After this class students will be able to:

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

December 6, 2019 — 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, with examples if possible from your own clinical work.

26 pages of reading.

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.