2017-18 University Bulletin 
    
    May 10, 2024  
2017-18 University Bulletin [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


 
  
  • PSI (0503) 834 - Multicultural Issues I: Sex and Gender


    Credits: 3

    This course surveys bisexual, gay, lesbian, and transgender issues in psychology and psychotherapy. Adult sexual dysfunction and gender perspectives are also examined.

  
  • PSI (0503) 835 - History & Systems of Psychology


    Credits: 3.00

    This course traces the historical roots of psychology in philosophy and physiology from the 17th century to modern times. Emphasis is given to development of experimental psychology in Germany, France, Great Britian, Russia, and the United States.

  
  • PSI (0503) 845 - Independent Guided Study


    Credits: 3

  
  • PSI (0503) 846 - Independent Study


    Credits: 1.5

    Free Note: Instructors Consent Required

  
  • PSI (0503) 848 - Ongoing Doctoral Thesis Supervision


    Credits: 0

    Supervised research on student’s dissertation topic. Registration required each semester after completion of all work except dissertation.

  
  • PSI (0503) 849 - Ongoing Dissertation Supervision


    Credits: 0.00

    Ongoing supervised research on student’s dissertation topic.

  
  • PSI (0503) 850 - Ethics and Professional Issues


    Credits: 3

    Study of the Code of Ethics and other official documents of the American Psychological Association, professional organizations, licensure, legal rights and responsibilities of the psychologist, and use of psychologists in legal proceedings.

  
  • PSI (0503) 851 - Colloquium I


    Credits: 0

    A weekly forum for presentation of visiting speakers, films, student-faculty plenary sessions, and grand rounds case presentations attended by all IAPS students and faculty.

  
  • PSI (0503) 852 - Colloquium I I


    Credits: 0

    A weekly forum for presentation of visiting speakers, films, student-faculty plenary sessions, and grand rounds case presentations attended by all IAPS students and faculty.

  
  • PSI (0503) 853 - Ongoing Dissertation Supervision


    Credits: 0

    Students complete their required internship during this semester.

  
  • PSI (0503) 858 - Doctoral Thesis IV: Dissertation Supervision


    Credits: 3.00

    Intensively supervised research practica.  Students are trained to evaluate and conduct empirical research as their dissertation study under the supervision of a mentor.

  
  • PST (0505) 800 - The Beginning Supervisory Contact


    Credits: 2.00

    This course will examine early expectations, goals and styles of both the supervisor and the supervisee, early encounters, defining the supervisee’s learning difficulties and finding ways to help the supervisee and the supervisor establish a working alliance.

  
  • PST (0505) 801 - The Supervisory Relationship and Interaction


    Credits: 2.00

    Supervisors may direct their attention to 1) the intrapsychic dynamics and relational world of the patient that the supervisee/analyst is treating; 2) the transference-countertransference and other interactions of the supervisee/analyst and patient; 3) the learning process of the supervisee/analyst; and 4) the interactions between supervisor and supervisee in the supervisory encounter.

  
  • PST (0505) 802 - Supervision as a Triadic System


    Credits: 2.00

    Supervision is a unique triadic system which should address interactions between patient and analyst as well as between supervisor and supervisee. This will be examined in terms of parallel process between treatment and supervision highlighting parallel transferences as well as self-esteem issues of both supervisor and therapist/analyst.

  
  • PST (0505) 803 - Supervision and the Training Institute


    Credits: 2.00

    Maintenance of an alliance with the therapist/analyst while providing an honest evaluation of his/her work both orally, directly to the supervisee, as well as a more formal written evaluation to be shared with the supervisee and submitted to the Director of Training at the Institute will be the focus of this course.

  
  • PST (0505) 804 - Supervisory Case Seminar I


    Credits: 2.00

    Candidates will present their work with supervisees via audio tape or oral report in addition to at least once during the year, conducting a live supervision session with one of their supervisees in front of a one-way vision mirror which the class will observe. Class discussion will follow.

  
  • PST (0505) 805 - Supervision Case Seminar II


    Credits: 2.00

    Continuation of Supervision Case Seminar I.

  
  • PST (0505) 806 - Supervision Case Seminar III


    Credits: 2.00

    Continuation of Supervision Case Seminar I and II.

  
  • PST (0505) 807 - Supervision Case Seminar IV


    Credits: 2.00

    Continuation of Supervision Case Seminar I, II and III.

  
  • PST (0505) 901 - Working with Severe Psychopathology


    Credits: 2.00

    This course starts with the premise that all psychopathology is a response to psychic pain and that these “self cures” fail to find real solutions and result in even greater suffering.  With this in mind the course explores the more severe psychopathologies; their hopes and failures.

  
  • PST (0505) 902 - Case Conference in Object Relations


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 903 - Case Seminar III


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 904 - Case Seminar IV


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 905 - Case Seminar


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 906 - Case Conference VI


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 907 - Modern Kleinian & Object Relations Perspectives in C & A Psychotherapy


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 908 - Case Seminar VIII


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 909 - Case Conference IX


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 911 - Foundations of Psychoanalysis I: Trauma and Sexuality


    Credits: 2.00

    This course introduces candidates to Freud’s earliest psychoanalytic writings, allowing them to share in the excitement of his discoveries: trauma and memory, the unconscious and dream work, defenses and psychopathology, infantile and adult sexuality.  The readings illustrate the relevance of many of Freud’s early concepts to today’s practice.

  
  • PST (0505) 912 - Foundations of Psychoanalysis II: Theories of the Mind: Unconscious Process


    Credits: 2.00

    Continue the study of the writings of Freud and other early psychoanalysts. The nature of unconscious process and the theory of narcissism are covered in depth. Manifestation in normal functioning and in different forms of psychopathology, as well as the impact on the psychoanalytic process are among the issues explored.

  
  • PST (0505) 913 - Klein And Development of Object Relations Theory


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 914 - Foundations of Psychoanalysis III: Structural Theory


    Credits: 2.00

    Study Freud’s structural model, mature theory of intrapsychic conflict and defense, and the development of the ego ideal and superego as internalized object relations.  Discuss the implications of these models of the mind for contemporary clinical practice. 

  
  • PST (0505) 915 - Winnicott: Object Relations Theory


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 916 - Object Relations III, Contemporary Kleinian


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 917 - American Relational Psychoanalysis: Mitchell, Aron, Davies, Benjamin


    Credits: 2.00

    The American Relational school will be introduced in this course, as a movement within American psychoanalysis, which was founded as an attempt to synthesize disparate theoretical positions, such as Object Relations Theory, Self Psychology, Interpersonal Theory, Intersubjective Theory, as well as some Neo-Classical Theory.

  
  • PST (0505) 918 - Advanced Psychodynamic Therapy


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 919 - Transference And Countertransference I


    Credits: 2.00

    Traces transference and countertransference beginning with Freud’s first observations. Through a critical reading of his earliest papers, come to understand that the process through which Freud made his discoveries regarding the transference and countertransference is the same process every analyst experiences in their own work with patients.

  
  • PST (0505) 920 - Transference and Countertransference II


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 921 - Principles of Psycho-Analytic Technique I: The Opening Phase of Treatment


    Credits: 2.00

    This course considers central psychoanalytic concepts as they apply to the opening phase of treatment: the analytic frame, therapeutic alliance, transference and countertransference, and empathy. Attention will be given to the evolution of fantasy in anticipation and during the initial interview, and the inersubjective process between patient and analyst.

  
  • PST (0505) 922 - Principles of Psycho-Analytic Technique II: Working With the Unconscious


    Credits: 2.00

    The concepts of resistance, transference and countertransference, are introduced with special reference to unconscious experience in psychoanalytic treatment. The class emphasizes the use of the analyst’s subjectivity through the phases of psychoanalytic treatment. Principles of treatment are discussed in the context of the history of psychoanalytic thought.

  
  • PST (0505) 923 - Interpersonal Psychoanalysis (Sullivan, Fromm, Horney, Levenson)


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 924 - Case Conference in Inter-Personal & Relational Psychoanalysis


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 925 - Psychotherapy with Children with Learning Disability and ADD


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 926 - Working with Parents of Children and Adolescents in Psychotherapy


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 927 - Intersubjectivity


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 928 - Self Psychology


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 929 - Effective Consultation in School Community


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 930 - Contemporary Psychodynamic Principles and the Child with Special Needs


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 931 - Development: Infancy, Toddlerhood and Preschool Years


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 932 - Psycholotherapy with Preschool Children


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 933 - Basic Principles of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy I


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 934 - Development: School-age Child


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 935 - Family Therapy I: Family Systems Theory and Technique


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 936 - Family Therapy II-Using Family Systems Understanding in Work with Children & Adolescents


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 937 - PST Advan. Psy. Studies


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 938 - Basic Processes in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy II


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 939 - Case Seminar: Latency Age Treatment


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 940 - Relational Approach to Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 941 - Ego Psychology


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 942 - Advanced Study of Childhood Psychopathology


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 943 - Development Adolescence


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 944 - Psychotherapy with Adolescents Case Seminar


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 945 - Case Seminar in Advanced Childhood Psychopathology


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 946 - School-Based Counseling with Parents, Families and Staff


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 947 - Family Therapy IV


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 948 - Contributions of Melaine Klein and Modern Kleinians


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 949 - Advanced Psycho-Educational Assessments of Children


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 950 - Special Topics


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 951 - Psy. Theory in Couples I


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 952 - Psy. Theory in Couples II


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 953 - Psycholanalytic Perspectives on Couples


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 954 - Couple Therapy: An Integrative Perspective


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 955 - Case Seminar-Advanced Psycho-Educational Assessments


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 956 - Contemporary Freudian Psychoanalysis


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 957 - Advanced Seminar 1 A-1 B


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 958 - Unconscious Processes Dreams


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 959 - Dream Interpret II


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 960 - Case Seminar-Group Counseling in the Schools


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 961 - Psychoanalytic Models of Development: Early Development and Attachment Theory


    Credits: 2.00

    This course focuses on models of pre-oedipal attachment and separation. The seminal contributions of J. Bowlby will be studied. Contemporary efforts to integrate empirical research on attachment in children with psychoanalytic developmental theory will be examined.

  
  • PST (0505) 962 - Principles of Psychoanalytic Technique III: Defenses, Resistance and Impasse


    Credits: 2.00

    This course is taught in the context of personality integration, namely, the delicate balance between ego identity and ego defenses.  The analytic process is focused on in terms of how it arouses anxieties unique to each individual and how the coping mechanisms themselves can hinder ongoing treatment.  Case examples vignettes are frequently cited as a basis for developing tactics and strategy.

  
  • PST (0505) 963 - Understanding and Employing Group Counseling in the Schools


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 964 - Case Seminar-School Based Counseling of Parents, Families and Staff


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 965 - Systems Therapy


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 966 - Advanced Seminar II A-II B


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 967 - Advanced Seminar II A-II B


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 968 - Case Seminar A - B


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 969 - Postmodern Psychoanalysis: L A C A N


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 970 - Special Topics


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 971 - Special Topics


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 972 - Special Topics


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 973 - Special Topics


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 974 - Freudian Theory I: Contribution to Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 975 - Freudian Theory II: Contributions to Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 976 - Advanced Development Concepts


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 976 - Advanced Development Concepts


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 977 - Advanced Personality Assessment Techniques


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 978 - Advanced Counseling Skills


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 979 - Workshops on Special Topics


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 980 - Practicum: Basic Principles of Group Structure and Process


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 981 - Practicum I: Group Process


    Credits: 2.00

 

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