2023-2024 Continuing Education Course Readings & Information

CE Fundamentals & Beyond Fundamentals Courses 

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Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy – In-Person

Deborah Kass, LCSW 

   

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Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy - Fall

Michael Weiner, LCSW
Paula Levinrad, LCSW

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Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy - Spring

Kathy Reicker, LCSW

   

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Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy - Winter 2024

April Crofut, MD
Richard Alden, MD
Kelly Reams, LCSW

   

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Beyond Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

Cynthia Ellis Gray, MD
Sara Gardiner, MD

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CE 2023-24 Courses 

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The Musical Foundation of Being Human

Duane Dale, MD 

   

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Psychic Trauma and ‘Un-Thinking’ the Technique of Treating Trauma-related Pathology

Steve Purcell, MD

   

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Alice Huang, MD
Scott Vignola, LCSW 

   

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Working with Parents of Child Patients

Michael Weiner, LCSW  

   

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Bridging Community & Psychoanalysis - Virtual

Thomas Veeder, MD
Kayla Daniels, LCSW
   

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2023-2024 Continuing Education Courses 

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Psychic Trauma and ‘Un-Thinking’ the Technique of Treating Trauma-related Pathology

Steve Purcell, MD

Summer Reading:

McGilchrist, I. (2009) “Introduction” and “Chapter 5: The Primacy of the Right Hemisphere” in The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World. Yale University Press.

Schore, A. (2011) Forward, in The Shadow of the Tsunami by Philip Bromberg, pp.ix-xxxvii

Session 1: 

Stern, D. (1985)  Psychoanalysis and truth: Current issues (a symposium) – Introduction to some controversies regarding constructivism and psychoanalysis. Contemp. Psych., (21): 201-207
 
Stern, D. (1983)  Unformulated experience – from familiar chaos to creative disorder.  Contemp. Psychoanal., (19): 71-99
 
Levine, H. (2023) A metapsychology of the unrepresented. Psa. Q. (XCII): 11-25.
 
Optional:
Bion, W. (1958) On Arrogance. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol.39, pp.144-146
 
Winnicott, D. (1963) Dependence in infant-care, in child-care, and in the psychoanalytical setting, International Journal of Psych, XILV: 339-344
 
Ogden, T. (2001) Reading Winnicott, In Psychoanal. Quarterly, pp.299-323

Joseph, B. (1989) On understanding and not understanding: Some technical issues. In Psychic Equilibrium and Psychic Change, Int. J. Psycho-anal, 64, pp.291-298

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Bromberg, P. (2003) Something wicked this way comes:  trauma, dissociation, and conflict: the space where psychoanalysis, cognitive science, and neuroscience overlap. Psychoanal. Psychol., (20)(3), pp.558-574

Stern, D. (2022) On coming into possession of oneself: witnessing and the formulation of experience. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, XCI:4, pp.639-667

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Ferenczi, S. (1949) Confusion of the tongues between the adults and the child — (the language of tenderness and of passion), International Journal of psychoanalysis, 30:225-230

Winnicott, D. (1971) p.97 (Trauma) in Playing and Reality.

Winnicott, D. (1971) pp.27-33 (Dissociation) in Playing and Reality.

Tronick, E. - https://youtu.be/f1Jw0-LExyc

Gurevich, H. (2014) The return of dissociation as absence within absence, Am. J. Psychoanal., (74)(4): 313-321

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Roussillon, R. (2011) Introduction in Primitive Agony and Symbolization, pp.1-26

Session 4:  Goldberg, P. (2020) Body-mind dissociation, altered states, and alter worlds. JAPA, 68(5): pp.769-806
 
Gurevich, H. (2015) The language of absence and the language of tenderness:  Therapeutic transformation of early psychic trauma and dissociation as resolution of the “Identification with the aggressor.” Fort Da, 21(1): 45-65
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Diamond, M. (2020) Return of the repressed: Revisiting dissociation and the psychoanalysis of the traumatized mind. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Ass., 68 (5): pp.839-874

Purcell, S. (2020) Dissociation: dissemblance or dis-assembly? Commentary on Diamond. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Ass., 68(5): pp.889-906

Lombardi, R. (2020)  Focusing on the patient’s body-mind relationship in the treatment of severe dissociation: Commentary on Diamond. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Ass., 68(5) pp.875-887

Session 6:  McGilchrist, I. (2009) The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World, Yale University Press. pp.235-237
(Note: In the download I provided, this is pp.337-339)
 
McGilchrist, I. (2021) Intuition’s claims on truth, Chapter 17 in The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World, Perspectiva Press.
 
Schore, A. (2019) The right brain is dominant in psychotherapy, Ch 2 in Right Brain Psychotherapy, W.W. Norton & Company, New York, pp.16-43
 
Schore, A. (2019) The growth-promoting role of mutual regressions in deep psychotherapy: Part two, Ch 4 in Right Brain Psychotherapy, W.W. Norton & Company, New York, pp.94-156
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Ferenczi, S. (1931) Child-analysis in the analysis of adults.  IJP, 12: 468-482 

Grossmark, R. (2012) The unobtrusive relational analyst. Psychoanal. Dial., 22(6): 629-646 

Grossmark, R. (2016)  Psychoanalytic Companioning. Psychoanal. Dial., 26(6): 698-712 

Purcell, S. (2019) Psychic song and dance:  Dissociation and duets in the analysis of trauma. Psychoanal. Q., 88: 2, pp.315-347 

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Grier, F. (2019) Musicality in the consulting room. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 100(5): 827-851 

Session 8: 

Levy, D. and Shalgi, B. (2022) Imagination and fantasy: the dialectic nature of the encounter with trauma and dissociation, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 32: pp.54-69

Schore, A. (2011)  The right brain implicit self lies at the core of psychoanalysis. Psychoanal. Dial., (21)(1): 75-100  PEP

   

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Working with Parents of Child Patients

Michael Weiner, LCSW

 Session 1: 

Meschiany, A. (1994) Countertransference to parents in child psychotherapy. The Israel journal of psychiatry and related sciences. 31, pp.28-36

Hall, C.S. & Nordby, V.J. (1973) A Primer of Jungian Psychology. New York: Meridian. Ch 2, 38-43

Session 2:  Puff, J. & Renk, K. (2015) Mothers' Temperament and Personality: Their Relationship to Parenting Behaviors, Locus of Control, and Young Children's Functioning. Child psychiatry and human development. 
 
Ricks, M. (1985) The Social Transmission of Parental Behavior: Attachment across Generations. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 50(1/2), 211-227 
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Guasto, G. (2013) Trauma and the Loss of Basic Trust. International Forum of Psychoanalysis. 23. pp.44-49

Horney, K. (1945) Our Inner Conflicts. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. Ch 2, 34-47

Session 4: Bay-Cheng, L. (2012) Ethical parenting of sexually active youth: Ensuring safety while enabling development. Sex Education. pp.1-13
   

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Bridging Community & Psychoanalysis - Virtual

Thomas Veeder, MD

Session 1:  Slome, L. (2021) The Core Seminar Diaries: Wild Rides, Echoing Groups, and Explorations in Humanity. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 31:4, pp.428-438
Session 2:  Koh, E & Twemlow, S. (2016) Towards a Psychoanalytic Concept of Community (II): Relevant Psychoanalytic Principles. Int. J. Appl. Psychoanal. Stud., 13(2):124-141
Session 3:  Petriglieri G, & Petriglieri, J. L. (2020) The return of the oppressed: A systems psychodynamic approach to organization studies. Academy of Management Annals, 14(1), pp.411-449
 
Christian-Kliger, P. (1999) Apartheid Thinking: Inside South Africa and Psychoanalysis – Human rights (rites) and their role in development and change. American Psychological Association, Division 39, Psychoanalytic Psychology Conference. Produced and published by APA on tape. pp.1-4, 13-21
Session 4:  Dajani, K. (2022) The social unconscious: Then and now. Int J Appl Psychoanal Studies, 19, pp.179–186
Session 5:  Stoute, B. (2019) Racial Socialization and Thwarted Mentalization: Psychoanalytic Reflections from the Lived Experience of James Baldwin’s America. American Imago, Volume 76, Number 3, Fall 2019, pp.335-357