MSc in Theoretical Psychoanalytic Studies

Modern Independents Reading List
Spring & Summer Term 2008-2009

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 work in the Middle, or Independent position between the Kleinian and Freudian traditions over the past 60 years or so.

SPRING TERM

Seminar 1

THE WORK OF MICHAEL PARSONS

Friday 6th February 4.00-5.30pm

Dr Michael Parsons

This seminar will take the form of a free-floating discussion, starting from whatever you have found interesting, been struck by, agreed with, disagreed with, in the material on the reading list.

ESSENTIAL READING :

Parsons, M (2000) The Dove that Returns, The Dove that Vanishes: Paradox and Creativity in Psychoanalysis Chapters 5 ' Psychoanalytic and personal identity: the garden of forking paths' and 11 'The dove that returns, the dove that vanishes' . London : Routledge in the New Library of Psychoanalysis FOLDER

'Raiding the inarticulate: the internal analytic setting and listening beyond countertransference' IJPA (December 2007)

The analyst's countertransference to the psychoanalytic process. Int. J. Psychoanal. , 87 (2006):1183-1198. FOLDER

SUMMER TERM

Seminar 2

The work of Roger Kennedy

Saturday 2 May 1.45-3.15

Dr Roger Kennedy

ESSENTIAL READING:

Kennedy, Roger (2007) The Many Voices of Psychoanalysis; Chapter 1 'Freedom to Relate'; Chapter 2 ' Human Aspects of the Psychoanalytic Relationship'; Chapter 9 'Becoming a Subject: Some Theoretical and Clinical Issues' London & New York: Routledge FOLDER

Seminar 3

THE WORK OF PATRICK CASEMENT
Friday 8th May 4.00 - 5.30pm
Mr Patrick Casement

ESSENTIAL READING :

Please read Chapter 7 and the Appendix of: Casement, P (2002) Learning from our Mistakes: Beyond Dogma in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy , London : Routledge FOLDER

Review of the original paper by Susan DeMattos in Psychologist-Psychoanalyst, Winter 2003 FOLDER

Seminar 4

THE WORK OF MR CHRISTOPHER BOLLAS

Friday 15th May 4.00-5.30pm

Ms Ruth McCall

ESSENTIAL READING:

Bollas, C (2002) Ideas in Psychoanalysis: Free Association. London: Icon Books - nb. This is a very short book

SUPPLEMENTARY READING:

Bollas, C (1999) The Mystery of Things. London: Routledge Book

Seminar 5
MODERN INDEPENDENTS - OVERVIEW

Friday 22nd May 4.00-5.30pm
Ms Elizabeth Wolf

ESSENTIAL READING : to be confirmed