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WESTCHESTER CENTER for the STUDY of PSYCHOANALYSIS and PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY WESTCHESTER CENTER for the STUDY OF PSYCHOANALYSIS AND PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY FOUNDATIONS OF CONTEMPORARY RELATIONAL THEORY AND PRACTICE I Chaim E. Bromberg, Ph.D. 550 Mamaroneck Avenue Suite 305 Harrison, NY 10528 (914) 589-4220 ​ [email protected] Class I - Introduction ​ Mitchell, Stephen A. (2000). Preface. In Relationality: From Attachment to Intersubjectivity. ​ ​ Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press. Greenberg, Jay and Mitchell, Stephen A. (1983). Introduction. In Object Relations in ​ Psychoanalytic Theory. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ​ ​ Ghent, Emmanuel. (1992). Foreword. In Skolnick, N. J. and Warshaw S. C. (Eds.), Relational ​ Perspectives in Psychoanalysis. New York, NY: Routledge. ​ Class 2 - The Origins of Object Relations Theory ​ Freud, Sigmund. (1917). Mourning and Melancholia. In Standard Edition 14, p. 237-258. ​ ​ ​ ​ Ogden, Thomas. (2002). A New Reading of the Origins of Object Relations Theory. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 83, 767-782. ​ ​ ​ Mitchell, Stephen A., and Black, Margaret J. (1995). Chapter 1: Sigmund Freud and the Classical Psychoanalytic Tradition. In Freud and Beyond: A History of Modern ​ Psychoanalytic Thought. New York: Basic. ​ Class 3 - Ferenczi ​ Hirsch, Irwin. (2016). Reflections of Ferenczi, Analytic Subjectivity, and Analytic Hierarchy. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 52:3, 383-390. ​ Ferenczi, Sándor. (1988). Confusion of Tongues between Adults and the Child. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 24.2: 196-206. ​ Shaw, Daniel. (2003). On the Therapeutic Action of Analytic Love. Contemporary ​ Psychoanalysis, 39.2: 251-78. ​ Class 4 - Klein ​ Klein, Melanie. (1946). Notes on Some Schizoid Mechanisms. International Journal of ​​ Psychoanalysis, 27, 99-110. ​ Ogden, Thomas. (1986). Chapter 3: The Paranoid-Schizoid Position: Self as Object. In The ​ ​ Matrix of The Mind. NJ and London: Jason Aronson. ​ Mitchell, Stephen A., and Black, Margaret J. (1995). Chapter 4: Melanie Klein and Contemporary Kleinian Theory. In Freud and Beyond: A History of Modern ​ Psychoanalytic Thought. New York: Basic. ​ Class 5 - Winnicott ​ Winnicott, Donald W. (1960). Ego Distortion in terms of true and false self. In D.W. Winnicott ​ - The Maturational Processes and the Facilitating Environment. Madison, CT: ​ ​ International Universities Press. Mitchell, Stephen A., and Black, Margaret J. (1995). Chapter 5: The British Object Relations School: W. R. D. Fairbairn and D. W. Winnicott. In Freud and Beyond: A History of ​ Modern Psychoanalytic Thought. New York: Basic. (Winnicott section only) ​ Class 6 - Fairbairn ​ Mitchell, Stephen A. (2000). Chapter 5: Fairbairn’s Object-Seeking: Between Paradigms. In Relationality: From Attachment to Intersubjectivity. Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press. ​ Mitchell, Stephen A., and Black, Margaret J. (1995). Chapter 5: The British Object Relations School: W. R. D. Fairbairn and D. W. Winnicott. In Freud and Beyond: A History of ​ Modern Psychoanalytic Thought. New York: Basic. (Fairbairn section only) ​ Class 7 - Interpersonal Psychoanalysis ​ Mitchell, Stephen A., and Black, Margaret J. (1995). Chapter 3: Harry Stack Sullivan and Interpersonal Psychoanalysis. In Freud and Beyond: A History of Modern ​ Psychoanalytic Thought. New York: Basic. ​ Stern, Donnel B. (2015) Chapter 2: The interpersonal field: its place in American psychoanalysis. In Relational Freedom: Emergent Properties of the Interpersonal ​ Field. Hove, East Sussex: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. ​ Class 8 - Heinz Kohut and Self-Psychology ​ Mitchell, Stephen A., and Black, Margaret J. (1995). Chapter 6: Psychologies of Identity and Self: Erik Erikson and Heinz Kohut. In Freud and Beyond: A History of Modern ​ Psychoanalytic Thought. New York: Basic. ​ Class 9 - Attachment Theory Mitchell, Stephen A. (2000). Chapter 4: Attachment Theory and Relationality. In Relationality: From Attachment to Intersubjectivity. Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press. ​ Class 10 - Feminist Theory ​ Benjamin, Jessica. (2015). Masculinity, Complex: A Historical Take. Studies in Gender and ​​ Sexuality, 16: 271-277. ​ ​ ​ ​ Goldner, Virginia. (1991). Toward a Critical Relational Theory of Gender. Psychoanalytic ​ Dialogues, 1: 249-272. ​ Dimen, Muriel. (1997). The Engagement Between Psychoanalysis And Feminism. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 33: 527-548. ​ Harris, Adrienne. (1991). Gender as Contradiction. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 1: 197-224. ​ ​ Class 11 - Relational concepts: Multiplicity, Intersubjectivity and the Analytic Third ​ Bromberg, P. (1996). Standing in the spaces: The multiplicity of self and the psychoanalytic relationship. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 32: 509-535. ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Benjamin, J. (1990). An Outline of Intersubjectivity: The Development of Recognition. ​ Psychoanalytic Psychology, 7S: 33-46. ​ ​ Ogden, T. (1994). The analytic third: Working with intersubjective clinical facts. International ​ Journal of Psychoanalysis, 75: 3-19. ​.
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