CPS Educational Programs:

California Psychoanalytic Society -- Psychotherapy Program:

The second year of our curriculum presents an overview of the main theories of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Our perspective is that each of these major schools of thought makes an important contribution to our understanding of how the therapeutic process works, how psychopathology unfolds, and how the therapist can work together with the patient to make constructive changes.

Whereas our first year provides foundational understanding of the main principles of what is "dynamic" about dynamic psychotherapy, our second year delves more deeply into the areas of how the mind works and how therapeutic technique can make a difference. Another way in which the second year builds upon the first year of the program is in the sources used in the learning. The first year relies exclusively on secondary sources. In the second year there is a blend of primary and secondary source material.

One way in which the philosophy of our program remains the same is in our effort to integrate the theoretical with the clinical. Case presentations are integrated into the didactic material to afford both teachers and students the opportunity to examine the ways in which different theoretical perspectives can shed light on actual patient sessions.


Second Year Curriculum

Module 8: Freud and the Beginnings of Psychoanalysis
Session 1 Introduction to psychoanalytic theory -- an overview.
Session 2 Freud and the discovery of the unconscious
Session 3 The Neuropsychosis of Defense
Session 4 Dreams
Session 5 Three Essays on Sexuality
Session 6 Metapsychology
Session 7 The Ego and the Id
Session 8 Transference and Interpretation -- Psychoanalytic Technique
Session 9 Case Presentation
Module 9: From Early Pioneers through Ego Psychology
Session 10 Early modifications and additions -- insights from the pioneers
Session 11 Early modifications and additions -- ego psychology
Session 12 Case Presentation
Module 10: Object Relations and the Kleinians
Session 13 Object Relations -- Balint and Fairbairn
Session 14 Object Relations -- Guntrip
Session 15 The Kleinians -- Schizoid and Depressive Positions
Session 16 The Kleinians -- Projective Identification
Session 17 The Kleinians -- Implications for technique
Session 18 Case Presentation
Module 11: Self-Psychology and its Successors
Session 19 Self Psychology -- Kohut’s early contributions
Session 20 Self Psychology -- Kohut’s later contributions
Session 21 From Self Psychology to Intersubjectivity
Session 22 From Intersubjectivity to Relational Therapy
Session 23 Current developments beyond Self Psychology and Intersubjectivity
Session 24 Case Presentation
Module 12: Attachment Theories and Developmental Perspectives
Session 25 Attachment Theory -- Bowlby
Session 26 Attachment Theory -- Followers of Bowlby
Session 27 Current developments beyond Attachment Theory
Session 28 Case Presentation
Session 29 Theories of Development -- Old and New
Session 30 Case Presentation
Module 13: Integrating Theories
Session 31 The integration and use of multiple theories
Session 32 Integration of the Second Year

First Year Curriculum -- / -- Third Year Curriculum


 


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