Continuing Education
Western New England Psychoanalytic Society
2009-2010

List of Courses

Courses

Early Object Relations Theorists

Instructor: Debra Boltas, PhD
Educational Objectives: To learn about the origins of Object Relations Theory; to identify the key concepts in early Object Relations Theory; and, to explore the writings of the Hungarian school of the early British Object Theorists. Audience: Mental health professionals and trainees with a psychodynamic perspective who are interested in learning more about the early British Object Relations theorists.
Course Description: This course will begin a four-unit series of courses in which we will read the seminal work of the early British Object Relations theorists. In this first unit we will start with several important papers by Freud, in which we will see aspects of an objects relations theory emerging. We will then move to key object relations papers written by members of the Hungarian School: Ferenczi, Hermann, A. Balint, and M. Balint. These papers will pave the way for reading Klein in the next course.

6 sessions

Tuesdays, 6 to 7:15 pm
October 13, 20, 27
November 3, 10, and 17, 2009

255 Bradley Street, New Haven

Fee: $225

Psychoanalysis: What Goes on Behind Closed Doors?

Instructor: Debra Nudel, PhD
Educational Objectives: To understand psychoanalysis as a fluid process of growth; to understand and observe differences in the psychoanalytic process during the beginning, middle and termination phases of treatment; to note some differences between psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.
Audience: Mental health professionals and trainees
Course Description: This class will study psychoanalysis as a fluid process of growth and change. We will come to know a man in analysis, his conflicts and desires. The class will read sessions from the beginning, middle and at termination phases of treatment. We will pay close attention to what is being communicated at verbal and non-verbal levels. Participants will have the opportunity to bring in their own process notes so that we can examine differences and similarities between psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. Readings to be determined based on class interest.

6 sessions

Tuesdays, 5:30 to 7 pm
December 1, 8, 15, 2009;
January 5, 12, 19, 2010

255 Bradley Street, New Haven

Fee: $270

Sex Therapy & Psychoanalysis— Strange Bedfellows or Complimentary Companions?

Instructor: Carole T. Goldberg, PsyD
Educational Objectives: To study basic principles of Sex Therapy and how they may enhance or diverge from a psychoanalytic understanding of sexual symptoms, practices and dysfunctions.
Audience: Mental health professionals and trainees
Course Description: To provide an overview of the basic principles of Sex Therapy as developed by Masters and Johnson (late 1950’s to early 60’s) as well as current approaches outline by AASECT (American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors & Therapists) and interim and contemporary researchers (Basson, Barbach, Whipple, Zilbergeld et al.). Information about diagnosis and behavioral treatment of the most common sexual dysfunctions will also be used a basis to explore possible underlying, psychoanalytic issues that may contribute to sexual dysfunctions or how psychological symptoms may surface in a sexual complaint. Issues relating to “when to treat and when to refer” will also be explored. Readings will include articles from the sex therapy literature as well as psychoanalytic understanding of sexual functioning and sexual dysfunctions.

3 sessions

Thursdays, 6 to 8 pm
December 3, 10 & 17, 2009

255 Bradley Street, New Haven

Fee: $180

An Introduction to Marion Milner

Instructor: Nancy Olson, MD
Education Objectives: To acquaint ourselves with the work of this British psychoanalyst and essayist.
Audience: Mental health professionals and trainees, and others interested in creativity, self-analysis, psychoanalysis in Britain, and prominent women in psychoanalysis.
Course Description: Marion Milner (1900-1998), aka Joanna Field, was a British educator, psychoanalyst, and author. Her books are little known in America today and mostly out of print. We will read a sampler of her work, starting with A Life of One’s Own (1936), which W.H. Auden called “remarkable and… important.” To enhance our under-standing of her process, we may journal a little ourselves in the Milner fashion. Milner’s interests in development, bodily experience, and the creative process, and her affinities with analysts such as Winnicott, Loewald, and Gardiner, will be explored through readings culled from On Not Being Able to Paint (1950), and her collected papers, The Suppressed Madness of Sane Men (1987).

6 sessions

Mondays, 6:30 to 7:45 pm
April 5, 12, 19,
May 3, 10, 17, 2010

255 Bradley Street, New Haven

Fee: $225

Shame and Guilt

Instructor: Joel Allison PhD
Educational objectives: To explore shame, the emotion that hides itself; to expose its huge psychic significance as well to clarify how its dynamics differ from guilt.
Audience: Mental health professionals and trainees.
Course Description: We will do an indepth study of the novel The Reader by Bernhard Schlink, which is a masterful presentation of issues of shame and guilt. In this exploration we will also use the novel as a springboard to search out analytic perspectives on the theory of shame and guilt, especially on shame the significance of which has often been less recognized. Additional readings being considered include Freud, Erikson, Greenson, Helen Block Lewis, Kohut and Mollon.

6 sessions

Tuesdays, 6:30 to 8 pm
April 6, 13, 20, 27;
May 4, 11, 2010

255 Bradley Street, New Haven

Fee: $270