Roots & Branches
Roots & Branches Foundational Course - Class Five - Contemporary Relational Psychoanalysis
Contemporary Relational Psychoanalysis
Key Figures: Stephen Mitchell, Lew Aron, and others
Key Concepts: Two-Person / Asymmetrical Mutuality / Enactment / Dialectical Constructivism / Multiple Self States / Mutual Regulation / Mutual Influence / Negotiation of Paradox / Self Disclosure / Intersubjective Analytic Third / Use of Countertransference / Interface Between Interpersonal & Intrapsychic / Analyst’s Subjectivity / Beyond Doer-Done To / Transference / Countertransference Matrix / Bi-Personal Field
Roots & Branches Foundational Course - Class Four - Contemporary Freudian Revisionists
Contemporary Freudian Revisionists
Key Figures: Jacques Lacan & Jean Laplanche
Key Concepts: The Three Registers of Psychical Subjectivity: The Real, the Imaginary, & the Symbolic / The Libidinal Economy: Need-Demand and Castration / Post-Lacanian Thought of Jean Laplanche: The General Theory of Seduction
Roots & Branches Foundational Course - Class Three - Self Psychology
Self Psychology
Key Figure: Heinz Kohut
Key Concepts: Importance of Shame & Self Esteem / Ambitions & Ideals / Self & Self Objects / Grandiose Self / Mirroring & the Mirror Transference / Idealized Parent & Idealizing Transference / Vertical & Horizontal Splits / Primary & Secondary Ambition
Roots & Branches Foundational Course - Class Two - Interpersonal Psychoanalysis
Interpersonal Psychoanalysis
Key Figure: Harry Stack Sullivan
Key Concepts: Centrality of Anxiety as Motivator/ Emotional Contagion/ Self-System / Integrating Tendencies / Security Operations / Good-Me, Bad-Me, Not-me / Participant-Observation / Needs for Satisfaction & Security / The Detailed Inquiry / Chumship, the Malevolent Transformation, & Other Developmental Phenomena / Isomorphic Transformations / The Field
Roots & Branches Foundational Course - Class One - Ego Psychology
Ego Psychology
Key figures: Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud, René Spitz, Heinz Hartmann, Margaret Mahler, Peter Fonagy, Mary Main & contemporary iterators (updated)
Key Concepts: Drive Theory / Topographic & Structural Models / Psychic Threat & Defensive Organization / Principles of Mental Functioning & the Nature of Anxiety Development / Developmental Lines / Infantile Neurosis & the Transference Neurosis / Clinical Applications
Roots & Branches Foundational Course - Class Six - Donald Winnicott
Donald Winnicott
Key Concepts: Primary Maternal Preoccupation / Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena / True and False Self / The Use of an Object / Fear of Breakdown / Hate in the Countertransference
Roots & Branches Foundational Course - Class Four - Wilfred Bion
Wilfred Bion
Key Concepts: Bion in Context / Working in Groups and the Basic Assumptions / Studies on Psychosis / Psychotic and Non-Psychotic Parts of the Personality / Learning from Experience / Container-Contained / From Beta to Alpha / Reverie / Emotional links L, H and K / Theory of Thinking / The Grid / Beyond Bion
Roots & Branches Foundational Course - Class Five - Melanie Klein
Melanie Klein
Key Concepts: Primitive Ego and the Essentiality of the Object / Anxiety and the Instincts: Life and Death / Unconscious Phantasy / The Developing Mind: Splitting, Projection, and Introjection / States of Mind: Paranoid-Schizoid and Depressive Positions / Internal World and Internal Objects / Projective Identification and the Transference
Roots & Branches Foundational Course - Class Three - Carl Jung
Carl Gustav Jung
Key Concepts: Complexes / Transcendent Function / Mytho-poetic Psyche / ‘Prospective’ Interpretation of Dreams / Active Imagination / Independence of the Unconscious / ‘Creative Illness’ / Contemporary ideas in Analytical Psychology