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EGO PSYCHOLOGY

 Course Syllabus

Sonya M. Freiband, Ph.D.

Michigan Psychoanalytic Council

Winter 2011-2012

 

Week 1
1) Freud, S. (1923) The ego and the id. Standard Edition 19:3-68
2) Freud, S. (1926) Inhibitions, symptoms and anxiety. Standard Edition

20:77-178 (Read pp. 87-100)

Week 2
1) Freud, S. (1926) Inhibitions, symptoms and anxiety. Standard Edition
20:77-178 (Read pp.101-178)
2)(Commentary on Inhibitions, symptoms and anxiety): Schafer, R. (1983)
Danger situations. In The Analytic Attitude, pp.96-112. New York: Basic

Books

Week 3
1) Sterba, R. (1934) The fate of the ego in psychoanalytic therapy. International
Journal of Psychoanalysis 15:117-12 

2) Strachey, J. (1934) The Nature of the Therapeutic Action of Psycho-Analysis. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 15:127-159

Week 4

1) Freud, A. (1936) The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense. Parts I and II, pp.3-105. New York: International Universities Press

Week 5
1) Fenichel, O. (1941) Problems of Psychoanalytic Technique. New York:

Psychoanalytic Quarterly. pp. 23-97

Week 6
1) Hartmann, H. (1951) Technical implications of ego psychology. In Essays
on Ego Psychology, pp.142-154.
2) Kris, E. (1956) On Some Vicissitudes of Insight in Psycho-Analysis.
International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 37:445-455
3) Loewenstein, R.M. (1950) Ego development and psychoanalytic technique. In Practice and Precept in Psychoanalytic Technique: Selected Papers of R.M. Loewenstein, pp. 30-39. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1982.

4) Loewenstein, R.M. (1953) Some remarks on defenses, autonomous ego, and psychoanalytic technique. In   Practice and Precept in Psychoanalytic Technique: Selected Papers of R.M. Loewenstein, pp.40-51

Week 7
1) Jacobson, E. (1954) The Self and the Object World – Vicissitudes of their Infantile Cathexes and their Influence on Ideational and Affective Development. The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 9:75-127

2) Rapaport, D. (1957) The theory of ego autonomy: a generalization. In The Collected Papers of David Rapaport, pp. 722-744

Week 8
1) Arlow, J. (1963) Conflict, Regression and Symptom Formation, International Journal of Psychoanalysis: 44:12-22

2) Brenner, C. (1982)   Compromise Formation. In The Mind In Conflict, pp. 109-117 and 213-253

Week 9
1) Gray, P. (1982). “Developmental lag” in the evolution of technique. In The Ego and Analysis of Defense, pp. 29-61. Northvale, NJ: Aronson, 1994
2) Gray, P. (1986) On helping analysands observe intrapsychic activity. In The The Ego and Analysis of Defense, pp.65-85

3) Busch, F. (1999) A diminished role for the ego. In Rethinking Clinical   Technique, pp.19-50. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson

Week 10
1) Blum, H. (1979) Curative and Creative Aspects of Insight, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 27:41-70
2) Poland, W. (1988) Insight and the Analytic Dyad. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 57:341-369
3) Jacobs, T. (2002) Once More with Feeling: On Working Through in the Analyst and Its Role in the Analytic Process. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 22:599-616