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What Makes Therapy PSA?
October 5, 2020 @ 6:30 pm - 7:45 pm, Wyman Classroom
Integrated Child & Adult Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (ICAPP)
2020-21, 1st Block — Mondays, 6:30-7:45pm
Kelly Lippman, LMHC
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October 5, 2020 — Listening and communicating — 2
[33 pages]
Listening for unconscious conflict and defenses
McWilliams and Cabaniss give examples of some of the most well-know psychic defenses. Brenner gives a more detailed picture of how defense is related to conflict. Brenner’s definition of defense differs from McWilliams and Cabaniss, and paves the way to explain compromise formations – what Brenner believes comprises all of our psychic life, both healthy and pathological.
(Read just page 117 in the second McWilliams reading.)
McWilliams, N. (1994). Psychoanalytic Diagnosis. New York: The Guilford Press. pp96-100.
McWilliams, N. (1994). Psychoanalytic Diagnosis. New York: The Guilford Press, pp117-121.
Cabaniss, D. (2013). Psychodynamic Formulation. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. pp42-43.
Brenner, C. (1979). The Components of Psychic Conflict and its Consequences in Mental Life. Psychoanal Q., 48:547-567 (excerpts)
