This course provides an overview of the processes involved in psychological development from infancy onward. It offers an understanding of the complicated interplay between the external and internal forces that influence the developing child. In the course of this learning, an attempt will be made to update and integrate a growing body of theoretical knowledge concerning affect, memory, and temperament.
Attachment theory, separation-individuation theory, psychic structure building, and the development of the sense of self as put forth in the contributions of Freud, Melanie Klein, Bowlby, Mahler, Siegel and Stern, among others, will be examined.
- Lecturer: Candice Dumas
- Lecturer: Anne-Marie Lydall
This course is designed to introduce some of the basic theoretical and technical discoveries made by Freud in his relentless pursuit of the workings of mental life. In his theories, Freud explored the workings of the individual mind, but he as well stretched his thoughts and imaginings to explore fundamental principles governing all of human nature.
In perusing Freud’s writings on the technique of psychoanalysis we will explore issues surrounding transference, resistance and defense, dream interpretation and the development of Freud’s thinking as it progressed from an affect-trauma model through the topographic model, and finally to the structural model.
Readings will be organized loosely into mainly theory and mainly practice categories, although these categories are obviously interrelated.
- Lecturer: Sean Moorcroft