Psychosis: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Michael Garrett MD & Joel Gold MD
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Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the Institute for
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education for physicians.
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1. CLASS # 1
Jan 30, 2016
◙ Lauveng, A. A Road Back from Schizophrenia. A Memoir. (2012) Chapter 1: Fog, dragons,
blood, and iron. pgs 3-16; Chapter 2: Loneliness in a blue-white dress. pgs 17-36.
◙Freud (various)
∙Freud, S. 5 (1900) S.E. 5 (pgs 565-566, 602)
Especially
566 perceptual identity and hallucinatory wish fulfillment
602 perceptual identity
∙Freud, S. 5 (1900) S.E. 5 The Unconscious and Consciousness (pgs 610-621 )
Especially 615-616 “But what part is there left …. they make their way to consciousness.”
∙Freud, S. (1933) S.E. 22 (pgs 16,)
Especially “The state of sleep involves a turning-away from the real external world…..
∙Freud, S. (1933) S.E. 22 (pgs 58-60)
Especially “The situation in which we find ourselves….I will describe this agency as the
superego.”
∙Freud, S. (1924) S.E. 19 Neurosis and Psychosis (pgs 149-153)
∙Freud, S. (1924) S.E. 19 The Loss of Reality in Neurosis and Psychosis (pgs 183- 187)
∙Freud, S. Freud hears a voice
∙Freud, S. lack of transference in psychosis
∙Freud S. Formulations on the Two Principles of Mental Functioning (1911). In: Strachey J, ed.
The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud. Vol.
12. London, England:Hogarth Press; 1973
SUPPLEMENTAL
∙Freud, S. (1911) Psychoanalytic notes on an autobiographical account of a case of paranoia
(Dementia parnoides). S.E. 12 (pgs 3-79)
2. CLASS # 2 Feb 6, 2016
◙Paul Federn, P. (1953). Ego Psychology and the Psychoses. Oxford: Basic Books.
„ego boundary‟
◙Carl Jung “On the Problem of Psychogenesis in Mental Disease” Proceedings of the Royal
Society of Medicine, (1919) XII 3:63-76
3. CLASS # 3Feb 20, 2016
∙Harry Stack Sullivan Chapter 10 of Schizophrenia As A Human Process, "Environmental
Factors and Course Under Treatment of Schizophrenia," and "Socio-Psychiatric Research."
∙Marcus, E. R. (2003). Psychosis and Near Psychosis. IUP. Psychotic Structure (pgs 53-91)
4. CLASS # 4
Feb 27, 2016
◙Silvano Arieti Interpretation of Schizophrenia
◙Bertram Karon, B. P. (2003). "The tragedy of schizophrenia without psychotherapy." J Am
Acad Psychoanal Dyn Psychiatry 31(1): 89-118
∙Audio tape vignette (and transcript) of a woman who hears 3 „voices‟
5. CLASS # 5
March 5, 2016
◙Garrett, M. and Turkington, D. (2011) CBT for psychosis in a psychoanalytic
frame. Psychosis, 3: 1, 2 -13
◙Segal 1957 Notes on Symbol Formation
∙Case history of the successful psychotherapy of a woman with delusions and hallucinations (will
be distributed in Class 4)