Origins of Psychoanalysis, Freud

Fourth Year Adult Psychoanalytic Training (APT)
2020-21, 1st Trimester — Fridays, 1:45-3:15pm
Charlotte Malkmus, MA LMHC
Donald Schimmel, PhD

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October 9, 2020 — Freud on Technique Early and Later

[42 pages]

*The mid-term class evaluation will be conducted during this session. Please use these questions to facilitate your discussion: Midterm Evaluation 2019-02-13

Seminar objectives:

1. Become familiar with Josef Breuer’s account of Anna O and how it served as a precursor to the psychoanalytic method.
2. Understand Freud’s ‘fundamental rule’ of psychoanalysis.
3. Become familiar with Freud’s view of the role of the psychoanalyst and his recommendations for how to begin treatment, e.g. Freud’s recommendation regarding ‘suggestion,’ fees, transference and resistance.

Gay, P. (ed) (1989) “Anna O.”, in The Freud Reader, pp60-78

Gay, P. (ed) (1989) “Recommendations to Physicians Practicing Psycho-Analysis and On Beginning Treatment”, in The Freud Reader, pp356-378