SYLLABUS AND READING LIST
PART 1: Finding the core
WEEK 1: Bach, S. (1985) Other Worlds. In S. Bach, Narcissistic States and the Therapeutic Process. Jason Aronson
WEEK 2: Symington, N. (2012) The Essence of psychoanalysis as opposed to what is secondary. Psychoanalytic Dialogues. 22, 4, 395-409
PART 2: Regression
WEEK 3. Balint, M. (1968) Therapeutic regression, primary love, and the basic fault. Chapter 24 & 25 in M. Balint The Basic Fault. Bruner Mazel
WEEK 4. Aron, L. and Bushra, A. (1998). Mutual Regression: Altered States in the Psychoanalytic Situation. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 46:389-412
PART 3. The Unobtrusive Relational Analyst
WEEK 5. Grossmark, R. (2012) The Unobtrusive Relational Analyst, Psychoanalytic Dialogues
PART 4. Sadomasochistic Object Relations
WEEK 6. Bach, S. (2002) Sadomasochism in clinical practice and everyday life. J. Clin. Psychoanal., 11; 225-235
WEEK 7. Ghent, E. (1990). Masochism, submission, surrender: Masochism as a perversion of surrender. Relational Psychoanlaysis, Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press, p. 211-242.
PART 5. Holding and Containing
WEEK 8. Bion, W.R. (1967) A Theory of Thinking. In Second Thoughts: Selected Thoughts on Psychoanalysis. Northvale, NJ; Jason Aronson
WEEK 9. Ogden, T. (2005) On Holding Containing, Being and Dreaming, in T. Ogden, This Art of Psychoanalysis: Dreaming Undreamt Dreams and Interrupted Cries, Routledge, p. 93-108
PART 6. Narrations, Characters and the Field of Psychoanalysis
WEEK 10. Ferro. A. (2002) Criteria of analysability and termination. In A. Ferro, In The Analyst’s Consulting Room,Routledge
WEEK 11. Ferro, A. (1999) Narrations and Interpretations. In A. Ferro, Psychoanalysis as Therapy and Storytelling. Routledge
PART 7. From Free Association to the Flow of Enactment
WEEK 12. Bollas, C. (2009) Free Association. In C. Bollas, The Evocative Object World, Routledge. pp. 5-46
WEEK 13. Grossmark, R. (2012) The Flow of Enactive Engagement. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 48,3, 287-300
PART 8. Witnessing and Enactment
WEEK 14. Reis, B. (2010). Performative and enactive features of psychoanalytic witnessing: The transference as the scene of address. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 90:. 1359-1372.
WEEK 15. Stern, D.B. (2010) “Partners in Thought: A clinical process theory of narrative”. Chapter 5 in D.B. Stern, Partners in thought: Working with unformulated experience, dissociation and enactment. New York: Routledge.
WEEK 16. Davies, J.M. (2004). Whose bad objects are we anyway? Repetition and our elusive love affair with evil. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 14, 711-732.
PART 9. Psychoanalytic Companioning
WEEK 17. Winnicott, D.W. (1945) Primitive Emotional Development
WEEK 18. Grossmark, R. (2016) Psychoanalytic Companioning, Psychoanalytic Dialogues
PART 10. Keeping things in mind and being kept in mind
WEEK 19. Bach, S. (2001) On Being forgotten and forgetting one’s self. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 70: 739-756
WEEK 20. Britton, R. (1992) Keeping things in mind. In R. Anderson (ed) Clinical Lectures on Klein and Bion. Routledge.
PART 11. Live Company & Reclamation
WEEK 21. Alvarez, A. (1992) Live Company. Bruner Routledge. Chapters 4 & 5.
WEEK 22. Director, L. (2009) The Enlivening Object. Contemporary Psychoanalysis. 45, 1, 120-141