CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE of INTEGRAL STUDIES Course Description and Syllabus

CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL STUDIES Course Description and Syllabus

Instructor: Alan Kubler, PhD., MFT. Semester: Spring 2011 Fourteen classes scheduled on Monday from 6:15 PM - 9:15 PM. There is one Wednesday class on Mar. 16th, From 6:15 PM -9:15 PM Units: 3 Phone: 510.526.4450 e-mail: [email protected] Course Title: Human Development & the Family Course Number: MCP 5201-01

Description of Course Content: Theory and research on life transitions, stages of development and rites of passage, from prenatal conditions through adult experience to dying; considering physiological, cognitive, social and psychological development. While looking at different developmental theories, the class will look at separation and attachment and how the sense of isolation and connection weave through developmental ideas.

Summary of Educational Purpose: The class will cover diverse developmental views of the individual, including both the ‘researched’ and the ‘theorized’ child/adult, with a critical examination of each contribution. To become aware of the unconscious and multiple lenses through which we view each other and to consider the intrapsychic struggles and interpersonal demands of being in the world. Finally to consider the relevance of developmental theory for clinical practice.

Learning Objectives: 1. Discern and evaluate different contributions to developmental theory. 2. Understand the connection between developmental theory and clinical practice. 3. Appreciate the evolution of developmental theory from a historical perspective, and stay abreast of currently evolving views and theory.

Learning Activities: 1. Lecture/discussion 55% 2. Experiential 25% 3. Practical/Applied 20%

Criteria for Evaluation: 1. Final paper (due second to last class) 55% of grade 2. Research project (due week 8) 30% of grade 3. Class participation 15% of grade

Level of Instruction: M.A. Grading: Student’s option Size: 25

Required Texts: Reader – purchased from Copy Central

Course Schedule and Reading List:

1. Overview and introduction: Theories and methodologies applied to human development. Cole, M & Cole, S. (1993). The developing organism in the prenatal environment. In The Development of Children. New York: Freeman. Ballaban, N. (1983). Observing and recording the behavior of infants and toddlers. In Cohen, D. et al . Observing and Recording the Behavior of Young Children. New York: Teachers College, Columbia University. Cohen, M. (1995). Premature twins on a neonatal intensive care unit. Journal of Child Psychotherapy, 21, 258-280.

2. The Oedipal Child: Freud and Childhood Mythology Tyson, P. & Tyson, R. (1990). Psychosexuality: A theoretical overview. In Psychoanalytic Theories of Development. New Haven: Yale University Press.

3. The World of Inner Objects: Life before the Oedipal Complex: Klein Mitchell, S. & Black, M. (1995). Melanie Klein and contemporary Kleinian theory. In Freud and Beyond. New York: Basic Books. Ogden, T. (1986). Instinct, phantasy and psychological deep structure. In The Matrix of the Mind. New York: Aronson.

4. The Importance of the Mother/Father/Environment: Winnicott Grolnick, S. (1990). Developmental lines involving the self and its functions. In The Work and Play of Winnicott. New York: Aronson Wright, K. (1991). The space between mother and child. In Vision and Separation: Between Mother and Baby. New York: Aronson.

5. Attachment Theory: Bowlby and Ainsworth Bowlby, J. (1982). Attachment and loss: Retrospect and prospect. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 52, (4), 664-678. Ainsworth, M. et al. ((1974). Infant-mother attachment and social development: ‘socialization’ as a product of reciprocal responsiveness to signals. In Richards, M. (Ed.) (1974) The Integration of a Child into a Social World, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Holmes, J. (1995). “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall”. In S. Goldberg et al (Eds.). Attachment: Theory, Research and Clinical. New York: Analytic Press.

6. Separation-Individuation Theory: Mahler. Tyson, P. & Tyson, R. (1990). Object relations development. In Psychoanalytic Theories of Development. New Haven: Yale University Press. Mahler, M. (1972). On the first three subphases of the separation-individuation process. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 53, 333-338. Lyons-Ruth, K. (1991). Rapprochement or approchement: Mahler’s theory reconsidered from the vantage point of recent research on early attachment relationships. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 1-23.

7. Developmental Psychology through Relationship: Stern Stern, D. (1985). The interpersonal world of the infant. (Ch. 1 and 2) New York: Basic Books. Zeanah, C. et al (1990). Implications of research on infant development for psychodynamic theory and practice. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 28, (5), 657-668.

8. Thinking about cases – the application of theory to a clinical case in the series In Treatment.

9. Adolescence: The role of initiation, rites of passage and risk taking. Arnett, J. (1992). Reckless behavior in adolescence: A developmental perspective. Developmental Review, 12, 339-373. Sullwold, E. (1987). The ritual maker within at adolescence. In L. Mahdi et al. (Eds.) Betwixt and Between. Illinois: Open Court.

10. Adolescence and the Developing Self: Psychosocial development and the Peer Group. Harter, S. (1993). Self and identity development. In Feldman & Elliot (Eds.) At the Threshold. Boston: Harvard University Press. Steinberg, L. (1993). Autonomy, conflict, and harmony in the family relationship. In Feldman & Elliot (Eds.) At the Threshold. Boston: Harvard University Press. Martin, K. (1996). ‘My hair is my accomplishment’. Gender differences at puberty. In Puberty, Sexuality and the Self. New York: Routledge.

11. Adolescence: Sexuality, parents and the adolescent: Revisiting the Oedipal Complex. Benjamin, J. (1995). Sameness and difference: Toward an “overinclusive” model of gender development. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 15, (1), 125-142. Van Heeswyk, P. (1994). Parental intercourse – the official secret act: Trying not to think about sex in adolescence. Journal of Child Psychotherapy, 20, (2), 231-241. Kernberg, P. & Richards, A. (1994). The psychology of love in preadolescents as seen through children’s letters. In The Spectrum of Psychoanalysis: Essays in Honor of Martin S. Bergmann. Madison, CT: International University Press.

12. Adult Development: An overview Colarusso, C. & Nemiroff, R. (1981). Contemporary adult developmentalists. In Adult Development. New York: Plenum Press.

13.Intersubjectivity and the ‘other’: Bejnamin Benjamin, J. (1990). An outline of intersubjectivity: The development of recognition. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 7, 33-46. Surrey, J. (1991). The self-in-relation: A theory of women’s development. In J. Jordan et al. Women’s Growth in Connection. New York: Guildford.

14.Individuation & Midlife: Jung Stein, J. & Stein, M. (1987). Psychotherapy, initiation and midlife transition. In L. Mahdi et al (Eds.) .) Betwixt and Between. Illinois: Open Court. Oldham, J. (1989). The third individuation: Middle- aged children and their parents. In J. Oldham & R. Liebert (Eds.) The Middle Years. New Haven: Yale University Press.

15. Later life, old age and death Wheelwright, J. (1987). Old age and death. In L. Mahdi et al (Eds.) .) Betwixt and Between. Illinois: Open Court. Danbury, H. (1995). Narcissism and bereavement. In J. Cooper & N. Maxwell (Eds.) Narcissistic Wounds. New York: Aronson.

Additional Reading:

Nelson, C. (2007). A neurobiological perspective on early human deprivation. Child Development Perspectives, 1, 13-18. O’Connor, T. (2003). Early experiences and psychological development: Conceptual questions, empirical illustrations, and implications for intervention. Development and Psychopathology, 15, 671-690. Sowa, A. (1999). Observing the unobservable: The Tavistock infant observation model and its relevance to clinical training. fort da, 5, 12-27 Jones, B. (1995). Using the principles of infant-parent psychotherapy to change the context for children at risk. Zero to Three, 15, 11-17. Massie, H. & Szajnberg, N. (2002). The relationship between mothering in infancy, childhood experience and adult mental health: Results of the Brody Prospective Longitudinal Study from birth to age 30. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 83, 35-55. Cauce, A. et al. (2002). Cultural and contextual influences in mental health help seeking: A focus on ethnic minority youth. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 70, 44-55. Mikulincer, M., Shaver, P. & Pereg, D. (2003). Attachment theory and affect regulation: The dynamics, development, and cognitive consequences of attachment- related strategies. Motivation and Cognition, 27, 77- 102. Ijzendoorn, M. & Sagi, A. (1999). Cross-cultural patterns of attachment. In J. Cassidy & P. Shaver (Eds.). Handbook of attachment: Theory, research and clinical implications. (pp. 713-734). New York: Guildford Press. O’Connor, T., et al. (2003). Child-parent attachment following early institutional deprivation. Development and Psychopathology, 15, 19-38. Baron-Cohen, S. (2001). Theory of mind in normal development and autism. Prisme, 34, 174-183. Grossman, A. & D’Augelli, A. (2006). Transgender youth: Invisible and vulnerable. http://www.haworthpress.com/web/JH Allen, J., Porter, M. & McFarland, C. (2006). Leaders and followers in adolescent close friendships: Susceptibility to peer influence as a predictor of risky behavior, friendship instability, and depression. Development and Psychopatholgy, 18, 155- 172. Woodward, L., Fergusson, D. & Horwwod, J. (2006). Gender differences in the transition to early parenthood. Development and Psychopatholgy, 18, 275-294. Allen, J. & Manning, N. (2007). From safety to affect regulation: attachment from the vantage point of adolescence. In New Directions in Child and Adolescent Development. New York: Wiley. Billow, R. (2004). The adolescent play: Averting the tragedy of Hamlet. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 40, 253-277. Buckner, J., Mezzacappa, E. & Beardslee, W. (2003). Characteristics of resilient youths living in poverty: The role of self-regulatory processes. Development and Psychopathology, 15, 139-162. Wold, J. & Fromm, G. (1989). Delinquency and hope: A clinical illustration. In G. Fromm & B. Smith (Eds.)(1989). The Facilitating Environment. Madison: IUP. Anderson, C. (2003). The diversity, strengths and challenges of single-parent households. In F. Walsh (Ed.), Normal Family Processes (3rd edition. pp424- 459). New York: Guildford. Carroll, J., Olson, C. & Buckmiller, N. (2007). Family boundary ambiguity: A 30-year review of theory, research and measurement. Family Relations, 56, 210- 230. Walsh, F. (2003). Changing families in a changing world. . In F. Walsh (Ed.), Normal Family Processes (3rd edition. pp424-459). New York: Guildford. Yip, T. et al. (2008). Racial discrimination and psychological distress: The impact of ethnic identity and age among immigrant and United States-born Asian adults. Developmental Psychology, 44, 787-800. Keyes, C. & Ryff, C. (1999). Psychological well-being in midlife. In Willis & J. Reid. (Eds.). Life in the Middle: Psychological and Social Development in Middle Age. (pp. 161-180)). San Diego, CA.: Academic Press. Strenger, C. (2009). Paring down life to the essentials: An Epicurean psychodynamics of midlife change. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 26, 246-258. Wong, Y. & Tsang, A. (2004). When Asian immigrant women speak: From mental health to strategies of being. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 74, 456-466. Mather, M. & Carstensen, L. (2005). Aging and motivated cognition: The positivity effect in attention and memory. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9, 496-502. Shiota, M. & Levenson, R. (2007). Birds of a feather don’t always fly farthest: Similarity in Big Five personality predicts more negative marital satisfaction trajectories in long-term marriages. Psychology and Aging, 22, 666-675. Cicirelli, V. (1999). Personality and demographic factors in older adults’ fear of death. Gerontologist, 39, 569-579.

Recommended Texts: Bowlby, J. (1988). A secure base. New York: Basic Books. Calarusso, C. & Nemiroff, R. (1981). Adult development. New York: Plenum Press. Comstock, D. (2005). Diversity and development. Belmont, USA: Brooks/Cole. Fonagy, P., et al. (Eds.) (2002). Affect regulation, mentalization, and the development of the self. New York: Other Press. Guest, A. (Ed.) (2007). Taking sides: clashing views in lifespan development. Iowa: McGraw-Hill. Harter, S. (1999). The construction of self: A developmental perspective. New York: Guildford. Mahler. M., et al. (1975). The psychological birth of the human infant. New York: Basic Books. Nemiroff, R. & Colarusso, C. (Eds.)(1990). New dimensions in adult development. New York: Basic Books. Sameroff, A. & Emde, R. (Eds.) (1989). Relationship disturbances in early childhood. New York: Basic Books. Schore, A. (2003). Affect regulation and the repair of the self. New York: Norton. Stern, D. (1980). The interpersonal world of the infant. New York: Basic Books.

Supplementary Texts: Baron-Cohen, S. (2001). Mindblindness: An essay on autism and theory of mind. Cambridge: MIT Press. Benjamin, J. (1988). The bonds of love. New York: Pantheon. Bloom, A. (2002). Normal: transsexual CEO’s, crossdressing cops, and hermaphrodites with attitude. London: Bloomsbury. Bowlby, J. (1969). Attachment and loss. Vol. 1: Attachment. New York: Basic Books. Bowlby, J. (1969). Attachment and loss. Vol. 2: Separation, anxiety and anger. New York: Basic Books. Bowlby, J. (1969). Attachment and loss. Vol. 3: Loss, sadness and depression. New York: Basic Books. Cozolino, l. (2006). The neuroscience of human relationships. New York: Norton. Dockar-Drsdale, B. (1991). The provision of primary experience: Winnicottian work with children and adolescence. New Jersey: Aronson. Feldman, S. & Elliot, G. (Eds.) (1990). At the threshold: The developing adolescent. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Haddon, M. (2004). The curious incident of the dog in the night-time. New York: Vintage Hobson, P. (2002). The cradle of thought. London: Pan. Hoey, B. (1997). Who calls the tune? A psychodramatic approach to child therapy. London: Routledge. Judd, D. (1989). Give sorrow words: Working with a dying child. London: Free Association Books. Oldham, J. & Liebert, R. (Eds.) (1989). The middle years. New Haven: Yale University Press. Oxenhandler, N. (2001). The eros of parenthood. New york: St. Martin’s Press. Rhode, M. & Klauber, T. (Eds.) (2004). The many faces of asperger’s syndrome. London: Karnac Stern, D. (1990). Diary of a baby. New York: Basic Books. Stern, D., et al. (1998). The birth of a mother: How the motherhood experience changes you forever. New York: Basic Books. Woodhead, M., et al. (Eds.) (1991). Becoming a person. London: Routledge. Wright, K. (1991). Vision and separation. New Jersey: Aronson.

Instructor Biography: Dr. Kubler has been teaching Lifespan Development for over 20 years, in addition to other courses at CIIS and other schools. He has a private practice in San Francisco and Albany. He is presently the editor of fort da, the journal of the Northern California Society of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.