Senior Elective

Child Psychoanalytic Training (CPT)
2019-20, 3rd Trimester — Fridays, 10:15-11:45am
Kenneth King, MD
Denise C.K. Fort, PhD

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Introduction

Child Clinical Associates will participate in an eleven-week course developed by the CA’s and course instructors focusing on modern psychoanalytic perspectives and their application in the analysis of children and adolescents.  The course with include both close reading of relevant articles and the discussion of case material that spans all developmental stages.  This case material will be drawn from published text and from the CAs and course instructors own clinical experience.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this course Clinical Associates will be able to:

1. describe how the major theories of psychoanalysis: Self-Psychology, British and American Object Relations, Modern Ego Psychology, and Relational Theory can be utilized in conceptualizing psychoanalytic work with children and adolescents. 
2. Describe how the major theories of psychoanalysis: Self-Psychology, British and American Object Relations, Modern Ego Psychology, and Relational Theory can be applied from the standpoint of technique when working analytically with children and adolescents across the developmental spectrum.

March 20, 2020 — Introduction of a Child Psychoanalytic Case and Discussion

[28 pages]

The first two weeks will introduce the analyses of two children. These analyses and their discussion provide the basis around which the other weeks revolve. The first is the analysis of a six-and-a-half-year-old girl, with discussion of the role of her internal world, oedipal constellation, the impact of trauma and the arc and technique of her analysis.

Kohn, E. I.; Huddleston, C; Kaufman, A. (2019) Analyzing Children. Ch1, pp1-28