Spring 2020 Update 
    
    Jun 26, 2024  
Spring 2020 Update [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


 
  
  • PSI (0503) 700 - Psychotherapy Case Conference I


    Credits: 1.50

    Clinical psychotherapy case conferences at the Center of Psychological Services, are conducted in small groups of second and third-year students,affording exposure to a variety of psychotherapy supervisors on faculty. Professiional ethic and conduct will be considered.

  
  • PSI (0503) 701 - Psychotherapy Case Conference II


    Credits: 1.50

    Clinical psychotherapy case conferences at the Center for Psychological Services, conducted in small groups of second and third-year students, affording exporse to a veriety of psychotherapy supervisors on faculty. Professional ethics and conduct will be considered.

  
  • PSI (0503) 712 - Clinical Practice I: Diagnostics


    Credits: 1.50

    Intensively supervised diagnostic interviewing and psycho-diagnostic testing. Students serve as part-time psycho diagnosticians in the Program’s Center for Psychological Services.

  
  • PSI (0503) 713 - Clinical Practice II: Diagnostics


    Credits: 1.50

    Intensively supervised diagnostic interiewing and psycho-diagnostic testing. Students serve as part-time psycho-dianosticians in the Programs’s Center for Psychological Services.

  
  • PSI (0503) 714 - Clinical Practice III: Psychotherapy


    Credits: 1.50

  
  • PSI (0503) 715 - Clinical Practice IV Psychotherapy


    Credits: 1.50

  
  • PSI (0503) 722 - Theory & Practice II: Relational Tradition


    Credits: 3.00

    This course traces the development of Relational approaches to psychodynamic pyschotherapy from Freud’s early movement from a one person, positivist, historically based theory to contemporary two person perspectives in which the relationship becomes a core element in the change process.

  
  • PSI (0503) 723 - Biological Bases of Behavior


    Credits: 3.00

    This course is designed to provide doctoral students in clinical psychology with an advanced understanding of selected topics pertaining to the relationship between the nervous system and human experience and behavior. Special emphasis will be placed on biological processes that relate to psychopathology and issues relevant to the clinical psychologist.

  
  • PSI (0503) 730 - Family Therapy


    Credits: 3.00

    Students will learn critical clinical skills and strategies associated with leading theories, models, and concepts in family interventions and parenting-based interventions. Particular emphasis is placed on evidence based practice and empirically-supported interventions. Intervention strategies will be discussed based on videos of sessions led by experts and case examples.

    Learning Goals:

     

    At the conclusion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Identify, articulate, and compare theories and techniques of family therapy and parenting based interventions;

    2. Describe the role of culture, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status (SES), etc. in family based interventions;

    3. Practice scholarly inquiry and the sharing of evidence based knowledge through presentations and written work.

  
  • PSI (0503) 731 - Group Dynamics


    Credits: 3.00

    This class will stress an analysis of interactive processes and dynamics basic to group functioning and multi-person psychotherapy. Theoretical issues in group dynamics are studied, along with systemic concepts in order to clarify some of the complexities of group intervention strategy. Finally, it includes an introduction to family and couples works.

     

  
  • PSI (0503) 733 - Cognition & Affect


    Credits: 3.00

    This course gives an overview of the field of cognitive psychology and research on affect, focusing on particular areas in applied and clinical work, including different forms and functions of memory, interaction of cognitive and emotional processes, and human rationality, looked at from neural, behavioral and information-processing perspectives.

     

    Free Note: For majors only

  
  • PSI (0503) 738 - Individual & Cultural Differences & Identity


    Credits: 3.00

    The course provides students with an advanced understanding of models of diversity and difference to be used in clinical practice with diverse populations. The course engages students in examining issues of difference, identity, world views, and experiences to develop culturally competent methods for clinical practice with diverse populations.

     

  
  • PSI (0503) 742 - Psychological Research III


    Credits: 3.00

    Intensively supervised research practica. Students complete an empirical research study under the supervision of a mentor of their choice.

  
  • PSI (0503) 743 - Psychological Research IV


    Credits: 3.00

    Intensively supervised research practica. Students complete an empirical research study under the supervision of a mentor of their choice.

  
  • PSI (0503) 746 - Applied Research in Clinical Psychology


    Credits: 3.00

    Students will achieve competency in the critical evaluation of research; conducting and using research in applied settings; ethics and professional standards in research. This course will expose students to key concepts and contemporary research seminal to both the understanding and investigation of psychopathology, psychotherapy process/outcome, program evaluation and psychological assessment.

  
  • PSI (0503) 800 - Psychotherapy Case Conference III


    Credits: 1.50

    Year-long clinical psychotherapy case conferences at the Center for Psychological Services, conducted in small groups of second and third-year students, affording exposure to a variety of psychotherapy supervisors on faculty.

  
  • PSI (0503) 801 - Psychotherapy Case Conference IV


    Credits: 1.50

    Year-long clinical psychotherapy case conferences at the Center for Psychological Services, conducted in small groups of second and third-year students, affording exposure to a variety of psychotherapy supervisors on faculty.

  
  • PSI (0503) 803 - Concentration Case Conference I


    Credits: 1.50

    Open to fourth-year students, who select a clinical concentration area which expands their clinical development. Each Concentration Case Conference focuses upon a particular treatment modality, e.g., group psychotherapy, or on a different clinical ability, e.g., neuropsychology. Professional ethics and conduct will be considered.

  
  • PSI (0503) 804 - Concentration Case Conference II


    Credits: 1.50

    Open to fourth-year students, who select a clinical concentration area which expands their clinical development. Each Concentration Case Conference focuses upon a particular treatment modality, e.g., group psychotherapy, or on a different clinical ability, e.g., neuropsychology. Professional ethics and conduct will be considered.,

  
  • PSI (0503) 809 - Cognitive Behavioral Therapies: Plurality & Integration


    Credits: 3.00

    This course introduces students to cognitive-behavioral therapies, with specific attention to those with empirical support. It includes consideration of the therapist position and the therapeutic relationship in such therapies and implications for psychotherapy integration.

  
  • PSI (0503) 814 - Clinical Internship


    Credits: 0.00

    Students complete their required internship during this semester.

  
  • PSI (0503) 815 - Clinical Internship


    Credits: 0.00

    A fifth-year placement in a clinic, hospital, or theraputic school in which the student functions under close supervision as a member of the psychology staff. The student may choose an approved setting any place in the United States, and serves in a fulltime assignment for the year.

  
  • PSI (0503) 817 - Doctoral Thesis Supervision I


    Credits: 3.00

    Intensively supervised research on student’s dissertation topic.

  
  • PSI (0503) 818 - Doctoral Thesis Supervision II


    Credits: 3.00

    Intensively supervised research on student’s dissertation topic.

  
  • PSI (0503) 819 - Doctoral Thesis Supervision III


    Credits: 3.00

    Intensively supervised research on student’s dissertation topic.

  
  • PSI (0503) 820 - Special Topics


    Credits: 3.00

    This seminar will provide a basic proficiency in the case conceptualization, techniques and practice of Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy. This class will review selected readings which cover seminal theoretical, clinical and research contributions as well as use actual clinical case material to provide students with applied examples amplifying lecture topics.

  
  • 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) 848 - Ongoing Doctoral Thesis Supervision


    Credits: 0.00

    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) 853 - Ongoing Dissertation Supervision


    Credits: 0.00

    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

    Each student in this course will have an opportunity to present a case including session material which will be discussed by the group in the light of Object Relations Theory.  Readings will be assigned to frame case discussions.  Particular attention will be paid to Winnicott and the British Middle School.

  
  • 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

    Theoretical knowledge from courses will be linked with current case studies that will be presented by faculty and candidates.

  
  • PST (0505) 906 - Case Conference VI


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 908 - Case Seminar VIII


    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

    Review of some Wilfred’s Bion’s major theoretical contributions (e.g. projective identification, the container-contained relationship, and the role of Truth) to the contemporary psychoanalysis.  Students will read some of Bion’s original work as well as the writing of those North American and British writers currently working with Bion’s ideas.  

  
  • 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

    Key concepts of anxiety, defense mechanism, transference, countertransference, and intrapsychic conflict will be presented, particularly as they are related to the classroom functioning of children.

  
  • 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

    This course considers  Interpersonal and Relational views of transference and countertransference, both  in terms of their historical unfolding, and their convergence and contrasts with  Classical and Object Relational conceptualizations.  The focus is on how the analyst’s participation, expressed through theory, technique and  countertransference, elicits and transforms the patient’s experience.

  
  • 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

    Examine the work of early interpersonalists who laid the ground-work for and the expanded theoretical and clinical applications of inter-personal psychoanalysis.   Includes the work of Ferenczi, Sullivan, Fromm, Horney and Thompson.   The course attempts to study subsequent writers and clinicians who have formed a bridge to more contemporary interpersonal theory.

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


    Credits: 2.00

    Candidates present clinical material from an ongoing treatment for comment by their peers and the instructor.   Concepts introduced and explored include the therapist’s use of countertransference, colluding with the patient, enactment and the relational model, dissociation and projective identification and how they emerge in the parallel process of group supervision.

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


    Credits: 2.00

    This course examines how learning disabilities (Language Disability, Dyslexia,  Sensorimotor Integration Disorder, and Nonverbal Learning Disability) and ADD impact on development from infancy to adulthood, and how they influence the  psychotherapeutic process with  children, adolescents,  and emerging adults, as well as  ancillary work with parents and consultations with collaterals.

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


    Credits: 2.00

    Collaboration with parents is essential for effective work in child and adolescent psychotherapy. This course focuses on the parent-therapist relationship, and on four treatment modalities: Education and Guidance; Parent-Child Sessions,Treatment of the Child Via the Parents; Treatment of the Parent-Child Relationship, drawing on understanding of intergenerational dynamics.

  
  • PST (0505) 927 - Intersubjectivity


    Credits: 2.00

    This course will review central theories of intersubjectivity with reference to their utility in   psychoanalytic treatment.  We will focus on readings of theorists who have shaped the concepts of intersubjectivity as a developmental line, a communication process, and a mode of experiencing clinical phenomena in psychoanalysis.

  
  • PST (0505) 928 - Self Psychology


    Credits: 2.00

    Examine the basic principles of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology as developed by Heinz Kohut.  Talk about the meaning and use of empathy in psychoanalysis, and the self-object dimensions of transference.  Post-Kohutian ideas of Stolorow, Atwood, Brandchaft & Orange and of Lichtenberg, Lachmann & Fosshage as well as other will be examined.

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


    Credits: 2.00

    This course will present the use of psychodynamic framework to develop effective strategies for consulting with school staff members regarding crises, managements of “difficult” students, and other issues that emerge in the school community.

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


    Credits: 2.00

    Psychodynamic understanding of ego development and the influence of unconscious processes will be integrated with biological, neurodevelopmental, social and familial influences that contribute to learning and behavioral problems in children with special needs.

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


    Credits: 2.00

    This course focuses on classical and contemporary theories of normal and atypical development.  It will include consideration of psychosexual phases, regulatory processes, attachment theory, research on infant-parent interaction patterns and relationships, mentalization, and intersubjectivity.  Clinical diagnosis of early-childhood disorders will be addressed.

  
  • PST (0505) 932 - Psycholotherapy with Preschool Children


    Credits: 2.00

    Linked to Development I, this course will focus on psychotherapeutic techniques useful in work with young children.  Infant-parent dyadic psychotherapy methods, and individual therapy approaches with preschoolers will be considered through readings and case material.

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


    Credits: 2.00

    This course focuses on the consultation process and the beginning of psychotherapy: developing a therapeutic alliance with parents, children, and adolescents; evaluating the child and family; formulating a treatment plan and discussing findings and recommendations with parents; children and adolescents, making a treatment “contract,” and beginning therapy sessions.

  
  • PST (0505) 934 - Development: Latency


    Credits: 2.00

    Focuses on social, emotional, learning development of school-age children; the role of parents and therapists in creating a facilitating environment which fosters development of the capacity to be in the world and to reflect on experience. This course lays the groundwork for courses on psychotherapy with school-age children.

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


    Credits: 2.00

    This course introduces candidates to Family Systems Theory and techniques of family interviewing, with special attention to the role of identified child or adolescent patient in the family system

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


    Credits: 2.00

    This case seminar applies material discussed in Family Therapy I to case material provided by the instructor and candidates.

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


    Credits: 2.00

    This course will present a developmental view of family therapy.  After presenting a basic framework of the stages and tasks of the Family Life Cycle, it will show how these differ across different social classes and ethnic groups.  We will apply these ideas to cases presented by the candidates.

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


    Credits: 2.00

    The course considers basic processes in psychotherapy with children and adolescents: the use of play; the interpretative process; work with defenses; resistance; transference; ending therapy; emotional reactions of therapists working with children; adolescents and their parents.

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


    Credits: 2.00

    This course aims at developing skill in working psychodynamically with latency age children.  The use of play, metaphor and enactment is introduced by clinical examples.  Child cases presented by students will be used to highlight key concepts and understanding of ego development and object relation theory.

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


    Credits: 2.00

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


    Credits: 2.00

    An in depth study of psychopathological conditions occurring in school age children and adolescents.  The syndromes studied will include developmental disorders, anxiety and depressive disorders and behavioral disturbances such as conduct and oppositional disorders.

  
  • PST (0505) 943 - Development Adolescence


    Credits: 2.00

    The study of normal development in early, middle, and late adolescence, lays the groundwork for the study of problems in adolescence.

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


    Credits: 2.00

    This course focuses on developing a therapeutic alliance and doing supportive and insight-oriented psychotherapy with adolescents.

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


    Credits: 2.00

    The instructor and class members will discuss their work with children who exemplify the psychopathological conditions being studied in the course listed above.  Emphasis will be on the school psychologist’s role in diagnosing, counseling, and guiding the school’s management of these children.

  
  • PST (0505) 946 - School Consultation in Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy


    Credits: 1.00

    This course focuses on considerations and strategies in developing and maintaining a psychotherapy treatment plan that includes effective communication and collaboration between the child’s psychotherapist and school personnel. It will review goals and strategy of consultation, as well as preparing the child and the parents for the process.

  
  • PST (0505) 947 - Psychotherapy with Dysregulated Children & Adolescents


    Credits: 2.00

    This Seminar looks at the intensive psychoanalytic treatment of a child on the verge of adolescence. It will focus on the many issues and challenges that emerge in such therapies, examine self-structure, object relations, phantasies, defenses, transference, countertransference, obstacles, and processes of change. Clinical illustrations will be discussed.

  
  • 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

    This course focuses on the school psychologist’s role in conducting comprehensive evaluations of children.  Selection of test materials will be presented.  Stress is placed upon test interpretations that recognize the interactive influences of cognitive, emotional, academic and neuro-developmental issues.  These evaluations will lead to relevant school based recommendations.

  
  • PST (0505) 950 - Special Topics


    Credits: 2.00

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


    Credits: 2.00

    The historical context of family systems models is traced, beginning from the revolutionary work of Gregory Bateson and evolving through Bowen Theory, Structural Family Therapy, Strategic Therapy Models and Postmodern concepts.  A metatheoretical integration is explored in lectures, readings, case/videotape presentations.

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


    Credits: 2.00

    Marital treatment is most effective when interventions are based on clinical hypotheses derived from relationship dynamics.  This course provides a systemic and psychodynamic framework to develop therapeutic hypotheses about the complex nature of multi-generation relationship processes and dynamic treatment plans to guide the course of therapy.

  
  • PST (0505) 953 - Psycholanalytic Perspectives on Couples


    Credits: 2.00

    Provides an overview of key concepts in psychoanalytic theory through case presentations and videos that are relevant in the treatment of couples, interpersonal and object relational ideas, projective identification and concepts in family systems theory, and issues of character style and pathology in couples.  

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


    Credits: 2.00

    A critical and clinically oriented review of the literature concerned with the integration of psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, and systemic approaches to couples therapy.  Assessment and intervention within these frameworks will be discussed and demonstrated via case presentation by faculty and candidates.

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


    Credits: 2.00

    Examples of school based evaluations conducted by class members will be presented.  Discussion of the material brought to class will give students a practical opportunity to apply the concepts introduced in the Assessment course.

  
  • PST (0505) 956 - Contemporary Freudian Psychoanalysis


    Credits: 2.00

    This course will examine the emergence of a contemporary Freudian position reflecting both continuity and change in its evolution. It will consider the current status of Freudian theory of mind, technique, and development as represented by a diverse group of analysts including Arlow, Brenner, Busch, Gray, and Rothstein as well as Bach, Ellman, Jacobs, Pine, and Wallerstein.

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


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PST (0505) 958 - Unconscious Processes Dreams


    Credits: 2.00

    This course provides a survey of traditional and contemporary theories of dream interpretation. Works by Freud, Bonime, Fosshage, Bromberg, and Ogden are included. Class discussion centers on reviewing clinical material to learn how dreams allow unconscious thoughts to surface and how dreams highlight transference-countertransference issues between patient and therapist.

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


    Credits: 2.00

    Participate in group process exercises designed to help them explore their own experience in a group and thus be better prepared to empathize with students in the group that they will be leading.  Class members will discuss groups they are currently conducting.

  
  • 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

    This course will expose candidates to the basic concepts of group process as understood from various psychodynamic and systemic points of view.  Topics to be presented include: how to form, run and hold a group together; overcoming resistance in a group; and conducting topic centered groups.

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


    Credits: 2.00

    Class members will present their work in establishing and maintaining positive working alliances with parents and staff.  The ongoing case seminar format will allow the class to examine the evolution of a counseling relationship.

  
  • PST (0505) 965 - Systems Therapy


    Credits: 2.00

    Couples face different developmental challenges as their relationship passes through the stages of the Family Life Cycle.  This short course will describe the gender role, family structure and financial tasks of each stage and how they influence the changing emotional needs of the couple.

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


    Credits: 2.00

 

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