MSc in Theoretical Psychoanalytic Studies

MODERN FREUDIANS UNIT

Spring Term 2009

Aim: The aim of this unit is to introduce the work of a number of influential contemporary psychoanalytic theorists from the British Psychoanalytical Society who have developed their thinking within the broad Freudian tradition that has developed alongside the Kleinian and Independent groups over the past 60 years or so.

Seminar 1

THE WORK OF ANNA FREUD

Friday 16 th January 4.00-5.30pm

Mrs Angela Joyce & Dr Jessica Yakeley

ESSENTIAL READING:

Anna Freud (1966) Chapter 4 Assessment of Pathology in Normality and Pathology in Childhood (1980) Inst of Psychoanalysis & Karnac Books

Rose Edgcumbe Chapter 5 Frameworks in Anna Freud: Makers of Modern Psychotherapy (2000) Routledge

Seminar 2

THE WORK OF JOSEPH AND ANNE-MARIE SANDLER

Friday 27 th February 4.00-5.30pm

Professor Peter Fonagy & Dr Jessica Yakeley

ESSENTIAL READING:

Fonagy, P., & Cooper, A. (1999). Joseph Sandler’s Intellectual Contributions to Theoretical and Clinical Psychoanalysis. In Fonagy, P., Cooper, A., & Wallerstein, R. (Eds.), Psychoanalysis on the Move: The Work of Joseph Sandler (pp. 1-29). London: Routledge Folder

SUPPLEMENTARY READING:

Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Volume 25, Number 2, 15 April 2005 – Articles on Sandler.

Seminar 3
THE WORK OF ROSINE PERELBERG

Saturday 28 th March 11.15-12.45pm

Prof Rosine Perelberg

ESSENTIAL READING:

Perelberg, R J (2008) Chapter 5 of Time, Space and Phantasy , London: Routledge and The New Library of Psychoanalysis 

Perelberg, R J (2008) Chapter 6 of Time, Space and Phantasy , London: Routledge and The New Library of Psychoanalysis

Perelberg, RJ (2008) Chapter 8 of Time, Space and Phantasy , London: Routledge and The New Library of Psychoanalysis

Seminar 4

THE WORK OF PETER FONAGY AND COLLEAGUES: ATTACHMENT AND SELF-DEVELOPMENT.

Friday 13th March 4.00-5.30pm

Dr Mary Target & Dr Jessica Yakeley

We will look at how Peter Fonagy and colleagues developed the idea of 'mentalization' as a way of thinking about restrictions and distortions of psychic reality in children and in patients particularly with more severe personality disorders. The book gives an in-depth and more up-to-date overview but the papers and seminar will introduce the main ideas particularly their connection empirically with attachment theory.

ESSENTIAL READING:

Fonagy, P. (1991). Thinking about thinking: Some clinical and theoretical considerations in the treatment of a borderline patient. International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 72, 1-18. PEP

Fonagy, P., & Target, M. (1996). Playing with reality I: Theory of mind and the normal development of psychic reality. International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 77 , 217-233. PEP

Target, M., & Fonagy, P. (1996). Playing with reality II: The development of psychic reality from a theoretical perspective. International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 77 , 459-479. Translated in Setting: Quaderni dell'Associazione di Studi Psicoanalitici, 457, 429-462. PEP

SUPPLEMENTARY READING:

Fonagy, P., Gergely, G., Jurist, E., & Target, M. (2002) Affect Regulation, Mentalization and the Development of the Self. New York: The Other Press. BOOK

Seminar 5

MODERN FREUDIANS – OVERVIEW

Saturday 21 st March 11.15-12.45pm

Dr Jessica Yakeley

ESSENTIAL READING: None

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