Human Development: from Infancy to Adulthood

Human Development: From infancy to adulthood

2014-2015 Thursdays: 1:00-2:30 Room: 1705

Course Chair: Dr. Pamela Meersand Instructors: Drs. Karen Gilmore, Wendy Turchin, Susan Scheftel, Jane Halperin, Jane Asch

Sept. 11 1.PM Introduction to development

Mayes, L. 1999. Clocks, Engines, and Quarks; Love, Dreams, and Genes: What makes development happen? PSC, 54: 169-192. [PEP]

Sept. 18 2. PM Endowment, development, and dynamics: a modern ego psychological approach

Pine, F. (1994) Some Impressions Regarding Conflict, Defect, And Deficit. Psychoanal. St. Child, 49:222-240[PEP]

Gilmore, K. 2001. Diagnosis, Dynamics, and Development: Considerations in the psychoanalytic assessment of AD/HD. Psych. Inq. ,372-390.[PEP]

Oct. 2 3. PM Parenthood and its Role in Infant Development

Slade, A.& Cohen, L. 1996 Parenting and the remembrance of things past. Infant Mental Health Journal, 17, pp.217-239..

Winnicott, D. W. (1960) The Theory of the Parent-Infant Relationship. Int. J. Psycho- Anal., 41:585-595[PEP]

Oct. 9 4. PM Theories of the early relationship: attachment and separation-individuation I

Slade, A. 2000. The development and organization of attachment: implications for psychoanalysis. JAPA, 48: 1147-1174.[PEP]

Mahler, M. (1972). On the first three subphases of the separation-individuation process. IJP, 53: 333-338.

Oct. 16 5. PM Theories of the early relationship: attachment and separation-individuation II

Harpaz-Rotem, I. & Bergman, A. 2006. On an evolving theory of attachment: rapproachment – theory of a developing mind. PSC, 61: 170-189.

Blum, H.P. 2004. Separation individuation theory and attachment theory. JAPA, 52: 535- 553.

Oct. 23 6. PM Sense of self I: separation-individuation and libidinal object constancy

Stern, D. 1985 (Handout – condensed chapters from The Interpersonal World of the Infant)

Gergely, G. 2000 Reapproaching Mahler. JAPA, 48: 1197-1228

Oct. 30 7. PM Sense of self II: gender

Gilmore, K. (1998).Cloacal Anxiety in Female Development. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 46:443-470[PEP]

Olesker, W. 1990. Sex differences during early separation-individuation process. JAPA, 38: 325-346.

Diamond, M. 2009. Clinical implications of the organizational and activational effects of hormones. Hormones and Behavior, 55: 621-632.

Nov. 6 8. PM Early Superego Development I

Yorke, C. 1990 The development and function of the sense of shame. PSC, 45, pp.377- 409.[PEP]

Furman, E. 1992. Toileting, phallic manifestations, and the investment of the body-ego. Chapter 7 in, Toddlers and their Mothers: A study in early personality development, by E. Furman, IUP, pp. 147-175,

Nov. 13 9. PM Early Superego Development II

Blum, E. and Blum, H. 1990. The Development of Autonomy and Superego Precursors. Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 71:585-595 (IJP)[PEP]

Milrod, D. 1982 The Wished-For Self Image. Psychoanal. St. Child, 37:95-120[PEP]

Nov. 20 10. PM Introduction to the Oedipal Phase

Senet, N.V. 2004. A study of preschool childrens linking of genitals and gender. PQ, 73: 291-334.

Cohen, D, Marans, S, Dahl, K, Marans, W, Lewis, M. (1987). Analytic discussions with Oedipal children. PSC, 42, 59-83.

Dec. 4 11. PM Gender, genital experience and identification

Diamond, MJ. 2004. The shaping of masculinity: revisioning boys turning away from their mothers. IJP, 85: 359-380.

Olesker, Wendy. 1998 Female genital anxieties: views from the nursery and the couch. PQ, 67: 276-294.

Dec. 11 12.PM Oedipal Fantasy : Mental capacities and oedipal configurations

Bettleheim, B. Oedipal Conflicts and Resolutions: The Knight in Shining Armor and the Damsel in Distress, in The Uses of Enchantment., pp. 111-116.

Mayes, L. and Cohen, D. 1992. The development of a capacity for imagination in early childhood. Psychoanal. St. Child, 47: 23-47.[PEP]

Dec. 18 13. The oedipal child: case presentation PM & KG

Jan. 8 14. KG The importance of siblings in oedipal development and fantasy

Sharpe, S. and Rosenblatt, A. 1994. Oedipal Sibling Triangles. JAPA, 42, pp. 491-523. [PEP]

Vivona, J. 2007, Sibling differentiation, identity development and the lateral dimension of psychic life. JAPA, 55, 1191-1215

Jan. 22 15. KG Family constellation and the oedipal child

Wallerstein, J. & Resnikoff, D (1997). Parental divorce and developmental progression: an inquiry into their relationship. Int. J. of Psychoan. 78: 135-154.

Brinich, PM (1995). Psychoanalytic perspectives on adoption and ambivalence. Psychoan. Psychology 12: 181-199.

Jan 29 16. KG The Superego and Aggression

Mayes, L and Cohen, D. 1993. The social matrix of aggression: enactments and representations of loving and hating in the first years of life. Psychoan. Study Child , 48: pp. 145-169.[PEP]

Milrod, D. 2002. The superego: its formation, structure and function, PSC, 57: 131-148

Feb. 5 17. KG Superego and gender

Westen, D. (1986). The Superego: A Revised Developmental Model. J. Amer. Acad. Psychoanal., 14:181-202.

Altman, N. (1997). The case of Ronald: Oedipal issues in the treatment of a 7-year-old boy. Psychoan. Dialogues 7: 725-739.

Feb. 12 18. KG The Oedipal Complex: What is it?

Loewald, H. 1985. Oedipus complex and development of self. Psychoan.Q.; 54: pp.435_443.[PEP]

Dowling, SA: 2004 A reconsideration of the concept of regression. Psychoanal Study Child 59:191-210

Feb. 19 19. KG The importance of the oedipus in mental life and in psychoanalytic theory

Novick, KK and Novick, J. 1994. Postoedipal transformations: Latency, Adolescence and pathogenesis. JAPA , 42: pp. 143-169.[PEP]

Loewald, H.1979. The waning of the oedipus complex. JAPA, 27: 751-775.[PEP]

Feb. 26 20. KG Play

Birch, M. 1997. In the land of counterpane: Travels in the realm of play. Psychoanal. St. Child, Vol. 52; pp.57-75.[PEP]

Gilmore K: 2011.Pretend play and development in early childhood (with implications for the oedipal phase) J Amer Psychoanal Assn 59 1157-1182

March 5 21. PM, JA Transition to Latency: neurocognitive and other maturational contributions, cognitive challenges

Shapiro, T. and Perry, R. 1976. Latency Revisited: The Age Seven plus or minus one.Psychoanal. St. Child, 31, pp 79-107.[PEP]

Jemerin, JM. 2004. Latency and the capacity to reflect on mental states. PSC, 59: 211- 239.

March 12 22. PM, JA Latency proper

Furman, E. 1980. Transference and Externalization in Latency.Psychoanal. Study Child, 35:267-284[PEP]

Sarnoff, C. 1971. Ego Structure in latency. Psa Q 40: 387-414[PEP]

March 19 23. PM, JA Latency and the social world

Friedman, R. and Downey, J. 2000. The Psychobiology of Late Childhood: Significance for psychoanalytic developmental theory and clinical practice. J. Am Ac. Of Psychoanalysis, 28 (3) 431-448. [Pep]

Knight, R. 2005. The process of attachment and autonomy in latency: a longitudinal study of 10 children. PSC, 60: 179-210.

March 26 24. PM, JA

Clinical Presentation and Discussion: Latency Child

McCullers, C. 1946. The Member of the Wedding (any edition). **Please begin this novella and complete by next week

Apr. 2 25. PM and WT Preadolescence

Blos, P. 1979. Preadolescent Drive Organization. In, The Adolescent Passage: Developmental Issues, by P. Blos, IUP, pp. 105-116.

McCullers, C, 1946. The Member of the Wedding.

April 9 26. WT Puberty and introduction to the phases of adolescence

Fischer, R. 1991. Pubescence: A Psychoanalytic Study of One Girl's Experience of Puberty Psychoanal. Inq., 11:457-479[PEP]

Freud, A. 1936. Instinctual anxiety during puberty. In The Psychology of Adolescence: Essential Readings, ed. A. Esman, pp. 109-121.

Lemma, A. 2010. An order of pure decision: Growing up in a virtual world and the adolescent’s experience of being-in-a-body. JAPA, 58: 691-714.

Apr 16 27. WT Early Adolescence

Blos, P. 1967. The second individuation process in adolescence PSC 22: 162-186[PEP] Erickson, E. Youth, Identity and Crisis, select readings

Apr 23 28. PM, SS Acting out, action and adolescent development

Blos, P.1967. The concept of acting out in relation to the adolescent process, in The Adolescent Passage, pp. 254-277

Chused, J. 1990. Neutrality in the analysis of action-prone adolescents. JAPA 38: 679- 704.[PEP]

Apr 30 29. SS Adolescent consolidation: superego, character, sexuality and culture

Shapiro, T. 2008, Masturbation, sexuality and adaptation: normalization in adolescence. JAPA, 56, 123-146

Fonagy, P., 2008, A genuinely developmental theory of sexual enjoyment. JAPA, 56.

May 7 30. JH Analysis of the Adolescent Experience in the Adult

Blum, H. 1985. Superego formation, adolescent transformation, and the adult neurosis. JAPA, 33, pp.887-909.[PEP]

Ritvo, S. 1971. Late adolescence: developmental and clinical considerations. PSC 26: 241-263[PEP]

May 14 31. JH Late Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood

Eichler, R., 2011. The university as a (potentially) facilitating environment. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 47, 289-316.

Arnett, J.J., 2000. Emerging adulthood: A theory of development from the teens through the twenties. American Psychologist, 55, 469-480.

May 21 32. PM Do we develop in psychoanalysis?

Mayes, L. and Spence, D. 1994. Understanding Therapeutic Action in the analytic situation: a second look at the developmental metaphor. JAPA , 42; pp. 789-817.[PEP]

Abrams, S. (1990) The Psychoanalytic Process: The Developmental and the Integrative. Psychoanal. Q., 59:650-677[PEP]