Advanced Seminar: Evidence-Based Psychoanalytic Practice

Catalog description

This course explores psychoanalytic social and clinical practice from the perspective of the department’s definition of evidence-based practice. The course begins with an overview of how evidence is constituted both consciously as well as unconsciously (social/political/historical/epistemological/ontol ogical/biological/personal) and most importantly, how evidence is used. The class places at its center of interest pychoanalytical practice as social, biological, personal action; while holding particular factors as both consciously as well as unconsciously foundational: genetics, drives, power, culture, history, race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, fantasy, and geographic location. The course topics include: clinical process, race and ethnicity, culture, countertransference, self and intersubjective psychology, infant research, cognitive neuroscience, love, mentalization, gender, aggression/anger/rage, sex and erotic experience, addiction, attachment, termination, endings and death.