Timetable
TAUGHT PROGRAMME
Core Courses
Special Research Courses
Division of Psychology and Language Sciences Courses -Statistics, Computer Programming and Qualitative Data Analysis Courses.
UCL Graduate School Courses
University-wide Psychoanalysis Unit Programme
The majority of the seminars run by the Unit will take place on Thursday afternoons, fortnightly (dates below). Some of the Special Research Courses will run on alternative days and times, details will be added below when available.
AUTUMN TERM 2012
October 4th, 18th |
November |
December |
College Reading Week: Week beginning Monday 7 November 2011
Christmas: Friday 16th December – Monday 9th January
SPRING TERM 2013
January |
February |
March |
College Reading Week: Week beginning Monday 13 February 2012
Easter: Friday 23rd March – Monday 23rd April.
SUMMER TERM 2013
April |
May |
June |
CORE COURSES: THE DISCUSSION GROUP AND WORK-IN-PROGRESS WORKSHOPS Fortnightly on Thursdays, throughout the academic year (see dates above). |
| Discussion Group: Prof. Juliet Mitchell / Dr Lionel Bailly (15 seminars + Overview seminar - 20 credits) First year students are expected to attend this course. After the first year, they are also very welcome to attend. The seminar works on a 3-year spiral so that key themes will be echoed at a new level but the same text will not be read twice. The aim is to ensure a grounding in the major concepts of psychoanalysis. With this is mind, short classical texts will be selected. Each second year student (in consultation with Prof. Mitchell) will devise and lead a seminar. It is hoped that this will give students confidence both in their own psychoanalytic knowledge and in preparation for public presentations and teaching. Reading: Term 1 Term 2 Term 3 |
Work-in-Progress Workshop: Dr Patrick Luyten and Professor Sonu Shamdasani (15 seminars - 20 credits) First year students are expected to attend this course. The work-in-process workshop is student led with Dr Luyten and Prof. Shamdasani in attendance. Other members of the academic staff will attend whenever a topic falls within their particular expertise. The aim of the workshop for first-year MPhil students is to present their proposed theses In subsequent years, PhD students who would like to attend should aim to share difficulties and questions that arise rather than to present completed work. |
| SPECIAL RESEARCH COURSES All students are encouraged to follow one or more of the Special Research Courses. For first year students the courses are accredited in order to gain the 80 credits required for upgrading. |
AUTUMN TERM Relating Psychoanalysis to other Disciplines As a theory of the working of the mind psychoanalysis has always been related to many other disciplines. In recent decades particularly strong connections have developed with the empirical disciplines of neuroscience and attachment theory, as well as with other research in developmental psychology; and these disciplines are becoming increasingly interrelated with the use of brain scanning as a developmental tool. Also psychoanalysis has been related to the theory of evolution via the notions of parent-offspring conflict and group selection. In these seminars we will study some of this work and how it relates to that of Freud and other psychoanalysts. Since we are approaching whole fields via a few samples from the vast literatures connected with them we will take only a single reading from each as a target, and consider it only after introductory discussion of the background. |
SPRING TERM Jacques Lacan is well known for having advocated a ”Return to Freud”. But what does this statement really mean? These seminars will provide over two years a Lacanian re-reading of classical Freudian clinical cases. In year 1 we focused on the cases of "Little Hans" (Analysis of a Phobia in a Five-year-old Boy, 1909), the dream of Irma's injection and the clever patient’s dream in The Interpretation of Dreams (1900), Mr E. and the black beetle (Letter to Fliess 29 December 1897) and Dora (Fragment of analysis of a case of hysteria, 1905); this year (year 2) we will revisit the case of President Schreber (Psycho-Analytic Notes on an Autobiographical Account of a Case of Paranoia,1911 ), The Rat Man (Notes Upon a Case of Obsessional Neurosis, 1909) and the Wolf-Man (From the History of an Infantile Neurosis, 1918). Reading |
SPRING AND SUMMER TERMS |
SUMMER TERM The ‘Different Self’: Idealisation, Narcissism and the Ideal Ego In investigating the issue of narcissism, Freud forges a powerful account of the relationship between the ego, its ideals and the body. Building on Freud’s account, and those of later analysts, the seminars will focus on the interpretation of ideals of perfection, plenitude and purity. Our reading on the economic problem of narcissism will be oriented, in particular, by Juliet Mitchell’s chapter ‘The Different Self, the Phallus and the Father’ in Psychoanalysis and Feminism, and her work on the lateral axis. In the course of our exploration, we will also consider contemporary debates in American psychiatry over whether or not to remove ‘Narcissistic Personality Disorder’ as a diagnostic category from DSM-5. |
| COURSES RUN BY THE DIVISION OF PSYCHOLOGY & LANGUAGE SCIENCES (PALS) ADVANCED GRADUATE TRAINING PROGRAMME Students engaging in empirical work may take courses in the Division of Psychology & Language Sciences which runs an Advanced Graduate Training Programme which offers courses in Statistics, Qualitative Methods and Programming. Click here for the timetable for Statistics, Computer Programming and Qualitative Data Analysis courses. Psychoanalytic Studies MPhil/PhD students interested in taking these course should contact Sophie to register as there are a limited number of places available. |
| Statistics (20 credits) (Module Code PSYCGR10) Convener: Maarten Speekenbrink Timetable: Four hours a week during the First Term. Involving two 1.5-hour seminars, and a one-hour SPSS workshop each week. This course provides a review of descriptive and non-parametric statistics. Followed by a detailed study of: analysis of variance, including planned and post-hoc comparisons, factorial designs and repeated measures; analysis of covariance; multiple regression; canonical correlation; multivariate analysis of variance; and, factor analysis and clustering techniques. The statistics package used is SPSS. This course is assessed by open-book examination. |
| Computer Programming (20 credits) (Module Code PSYCGR15) Convener: Keith Langley. Timetable: One two-hour session, each week during the First Term. This is an introductory computing course which assumes no prior computing experience, and is intended to provide students with programming skills using Matlab. The objective is for students to acquire the formal structure of a high-level programming language, and emphasis is placed on the manipulation of data in the context of psychological experimentation. The course is assessed by the production of a computer programme. |
| Qualitative Data Analysis (20 credits) (Module Code PSYCGR16) Convener: Helene Joffe Timetable: One one-and-a-half hour session each week during the Second Term. This course introduces the main data-sources and analysis methods used in qualitative research. In addition to covering the key conceptual issues, a computer package for qualitative analysis is taught, as are further methods for data analysis. Students emerge with the skill of using a textual data analysis package. The strengths and limitations of various techniques are evaluated, with an eye to issues such as reliability and validity. The specific criteria used for evaluation of qualitative work are examined, as is its scientific status. The course combines lectures and practical work, and is assessed by a qualitative analysis. |
COURSES RUN BY THE UCL GRADUATE SCHOOL/ "ROBERT'S POINTS" All first year MPhil/PhD students should have completed 20 points to enable them to upgrade from MPhil to PhD status. |
| UNIVERSITY-WIDE PSYCHOANALYSIS UNIT PROGRAMME [Not credit bearing] Psychoanalytic Interdisciplinary Seminars Dr Lesley Caldwell Thursdays, 5.00- 7.30pm. These termly seminars represent a key aspect of the PhD programme. They are interdisciplinary in concept and aim to encourage links between our PhD students and other UCL students and to make a clinical perspective more available. The initiative is a continuing inter-faculty collaboration by the Psychoanalysis Unit with staff in other disciplines to think about topics that are central to them and to psychoanalysis. Three speakers, one of whom is a psychoanalyst, discuss their own research or the topic's relevance to the consulting room. There is time for debate from the floor and informal discussion after. Topics covered in the first two years, dreams, siblings, new forms of parenting, space, sexuality, the body. Further information |
| Graduate Forum on Psychoanalysis, History and Political Life. Dr Jacqueline Rose and Dr Daniel Pick Senate House A focused research group of committed doctoral students and younger staff members meeting at Senate House about six times a year. Doctoral students working on any aspect of psychoanalytical history or theory, who might be interested in participating should contact j.rose@qmul.ac.uk or d.pick@history.bbk.ac.uk |
| Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Discussion Group Tuesdays fortnightly 6.45-8pm, Room 544, tbc Discussion group organised by students of the MPhil/PhD Psychoanalytic Studies. The group is based in the Psychoanalysis Unit and is intended to provide a forum for dialogue about self and other, subjectivity, and the unconscious. Submissions are welcome from any individual interested in chairing a session. |
UCL Centre for the History of Psychological Disciplines Discussion Group |
