The Advanced Psychoanalytic Theory and Technique seminar
This is not a course in the conventional sense, though it now has a formal course title and will appear on the students transcript. It is an entirely elective undertaking. Instead of one big course this is a collection of modest offerings which are informal, flexibly scheduled, and not wedded to the academic semester calendar. It’s a Chinese menu approach. We start out with 5 or 6 options; the student looks-over the menu and chooses two (or more) that he/she wants to take. Though the course credit is emblazoned on the students transcript as a Spring course, the learning experiences can occur anytime during the year. The big deal is that the learning experience is usually at a faculty home, very informal, and generally invigorating----intellectually and clinically. In short, it is fun to do and it gets clinical students together with our most seasoned clinicians in the community and at the University. Below are the offerings planned for this coming year and here is a pdf of the course description:Advanced Psychoanalytic Theory and Technique
Per what Nash already does one hour per week supervision of clinical
hypnosis provided to Clinic patients
ADVANCED OBJ RELATIONS THEORY
Meets informally at the supervising faculty’s home to discuss readings and cases
Meets at faculty house 3 consecutive Friday nights to watch the well-documented BBC mini-series on Freud’s life (6 episodes). We ear sandwiches, watch, and discuss. Some readings our of Peter Gay’s Freud biography are available. For more details go to: BBC Series
Three or four evenings per semester at faculty house. Watch movie, eat food, discuss
Using our digital library of 50 workshops done by psychoanalytic and non-analytic luminaries (The University of Tennessee Advanced Clinical Workshop Series), you pick one, watch it, discuss with your clinical faculty of choice, and write a one or two paragraph summary which will be affixed to the DVD cover. (e.g., Kernberg, Karon, Spiegel, Blatt, Elgan Baker, Morris Eagle, James Mann, Erika Fromm, Robert Langs, Ted Millon, Victor Frankel). For the entire list go to: ACWS list