1. Psychoanalytic Diagnosis

2. Classical Psychoanalytic Conceptualization
Centrality of the Unconscious:
Dreams, Parapraxes Repression
Centrality of Past Experiences
Psychic Determinism: Behavior has Meaning

3. Classical Psychoanalytic Conceptualization
Drive Theory
Ego Psychology
Object Relation theory
Self psychology

4. Different Models and Theories
Contradictory? Mutually exclusive?
Enriching?
What factors influence your choice?

5. Classical Freudian Drive Theory
Centrality of instinctual processes: Libido & Aggression
Psycho-sexual phases: oral-anal-phallic-genital
Fixation due to - excessive deprivation or - overindulging
Ex. Oral, anal character

6. Erik Erickson's reformulation of Psychosexual stages
Oral stage: basic trust
Anal stage: autonomy vs shame or doubt
Oedipal phase: Initiative vs Guilt

7. Margaret Mahler’s Separation Individuation
From Autistic Phase (6weeks) through Symbiotic Relatedness (2 years) through Object Constancy (3 years)
Hatching ((בקיעה
Practicing
Rapprochement
Object constancy

8. Ego Psychology: The Structural Model
Id: primitive drives, impulses & fantasies. Pleasure Principle. Unconscious
Ego: adaptive/ maladaptive functions Reality principle Both conscious and unconscious Ego strengths? Defense mechanisms:mature vs immature.
Superego: harsh vs lacunae

9. The Object Relations Tradition
Internalized self and object images
Ego states
Activation of introjects
Centrality of transference/countertransference; re-enactment as diagnostic tools
Relational Approach

12. Self Psychology Self structure, self images, self esteem
Self experience: subjectivity
Defects in self structures vs Conflicts
Normal need for selfobject functions: Idealization, Mirroring, Twinship

13. Psychoanalytic Treatment Principles of Technique
Free Associations
Resistance
Transference
Countertransference
Interpretations
Neutrality