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image 1Gordon F. Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies___

Postgraduate Programs Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy

Plan of Study

Year One
First Quarter Second Quarter
Course# Course Title Course# Course Title
PST 911

Foundations Of Psychoanalysis I: Trauma Psychopathology & Sexuality

PST 912

Foundations of Psychoanalysis II: Theories of the Mind, Unconscious Processes I

PST 921

Prin. Of Psycho-Analytic Technique I: The Opening Phase Of Treatment

PST 922

Prin. Of Psycho-Analytic Technique II: Working With The Unconscious

Third Quarter Fourth Quarter
Course# Course Title Course# Course Title
PST 962

Defenses, Resistance & Impasses

PST 919

Transference & Counter-Transference

PST 914

Foundations Of Psychoanalysis III Structural Theory & Object Relations

PST 961

Psychoanalytic Models Of Dev. Early Dev. & Attachment Theory



Year Two
First Quarter Second Quarter
Course# Course Title Course# Course Title
PST 913

British Object Relations I (Klein, Fairbairn, Guntrip)

PST 915

British Object Relations II (Winnicott, Fairbairn, Guntrip)

PST 901

Working with Severe Psychopathology (Personality Disorders, Psychoses)

PST 902

Case Conference in Object Relations

Third Quarter Fourth Quarter
Course# Course Title Course# Course Title
PST 916

Object Relations III: (Contemporary Kleinians)

PST 956

Contemporary Freudians (ego psychologists and beyond)

PST 958

Unconscious Processes II: Dreams

PST 902

Case Conference in Contemporary Freudian Psychoanalysis



Year Three
First Quarter Second Quarter
Course# Course Title Course# Course Title
PST 923

Interpersonal Psychoanalysis (Sullivan, Fromm, Horney, Levenson)

PST 928

Self Psychology

PST 924

Case Conference in Interpersonal Psychoanalysis

PST 950

Gender and Sexuality

Third Quarter Fourth Quarter
Course# Course Title Course# Course Title
PST 927

Intersubjectivity (Stolorow, Atwood, etc.)

PST 917

American Relational Psychoanalysis (Mitchell, Aron, Davies, Benjamin, etc.)

PST 904

Case Conference in Self Psychology and Intersubjectivity

PST 920

Transference-Countertransference II



Year Four
First Quarter Second Quarter
Course# Course Title Course# Course Title
PST 969

Postmodern Psychoanalysis: Lacan

PST 908

Integrating Theory and Practice

PST 950

Elective: Working with Perversions

PST 906

Case Conference in Current Relational Approaches

Third Quarter Fourth Quarter
Course# Course Title Course# Course Title
PST 950

Elective: Working with Trauma and Dissociation

PST 950

Current Controversies in Psychoanalysis

PST 950

Elective: Embodiment and Disembodiment (Addictions, Eating Disorders, Psychosoma)

PST 909

Integrative Case Conference


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