Classes will meet on Fridays from 5:00 pm-7:00 pm at the
Washington Center for Psychoanalysis
4545 42nd St., NW, #209
Washington, DC 20016
Class sizes will be kept small to maximize student involvement. Students are encouraged to present a case example (broadly) connected with the topic in each class.
Curriculum
ORIENTATION SESSION (1 session)
- (Suggested Readings may be modified by faculty, final list TBA)
FUNCTIONAL ORGANIZATION OF THE BRAIN (8 sessions)
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Luria: The Working Brain
Freud: Project for a Scientific Psychology
Carter: Mapping the Mind
BRAIN DEVELOPMENT (8 sessions)
- Siegel: The Developing Mind, Approaching Neurobiology
- Fonagy: The Attachment Theory
BRAIN PLASTICITY (2 sessions)
- Gazzaniga: Cognitive Neuroscience
PERCEPTION (4 sessions)
- Gazzaniga: Cognitive Neuroscience
- Erdely: Cognitive Psychology of Psychoanalysis
LEARNING AND MEMORY (4 sessions)
- Learning theories
- Gazzaniga: Cognitive Neuroscience
- Erdely: Cognitive Psychology of Psychoanalysis
AFFECT (6 sessions)
- LeDoux: The Emotional Brain
CONSCIOUSNESS (5 sessions)
- Freud's models of consciousness Attentional systems and control of mentation
- Dennett: Consciousness explained
- Damasio: Descartes' Error
- LeDoux: Synaptic Self
THE EXECUTIVE BRAIN and PSYCHOTHERAPY (8 sessions)
- Goldberg: Frontal Lobes
- Goldberg: When the Leader is Wounded
- Luria: The Working Brain
PSYCHOPATHOLOGY/ NEUROPATHOLOGY/PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY (8 sessions)
- Bipolar Disorder
- Depression
- Schizophrenia
- OCD
- Panic Disorder
- ADHD
- Trauma and PTSD
- Autism
NEUROSCIENCE AND PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC TECHNIQUE (8 sessions)
- Solms: Toward a Neuroanatomy of the Mental Apparatus
- Solms Turnbull: The Brain and The Inner World
- Cozolino: Neuroscience of Psychotherapy
