CL 613: Case Conference III
Sherwood A. Faigen
Phone: 708-848-9321;
E-Mail: sfaigen846@yahoo.com
Fax: 708-848-9344;
137 N. Oak Park, Suite 403
Oak Park, Illinois 60301
Grades for the course will be Pass/Fail. Evaluations of students will be based on A) participation in class discussions of case material; B) participation in class discussions of required readings; C) quality (i.e., forthrightness, openness, and thoughtfulness) of case presentations; and D )quality of required papers (no more than 10 double-spaced pages)
Students should use APA formatting for formal papers. All sources (books, articles, Internet, etc.) quoted directly or indirectly must be properly cited. Failure to do so constitutes a serious ethical violation. Late papers will not be accepted unless a formal request is made at least one week before the paper is due.
Attendance at all classes is expected. If a class must be missed, the instructor must be notified in advance.
Goals for this course include:
1. Achievement of an enhanced capacity to follow and comprehend clinical process with respect both to manifest and implied meaning...
2. Achievement of an enhanced capacity to understand both conscious and unconscious communication of client and clinical social worker as they affect the clinical interaction.
3. Improvement in the ability to identify and understand issues of the middle phase of treatment
4. Achievement of an enhanced sensitivity to issues of transference and countertransference as they may be employed to understand the therapeutic interaction
5. Improvement of the ability to understand and resolve typical impasses occurring in the middle phase of treatment
6. Improvement of the ability to present clinical material orally, in a clear, open, and understandable manner.
All required readings are available online via the PEP Archive, except the readings for class #2, which are available on the ICSW website, via “For Students,” then “downloads,” then the class name.
Class # 1 Introduction
#2
Discussion of Case Transcript (SCAN)
Faigen, S. (1998). Modes of Subjectivity and Objectivity: The Therapist’s Boundary Dilemmas. Presented at the conference on THE BOUNDARY PUZZLE: Reflecting on ethical questions in clinical practice; February 28, 1998; sponsored by the Institute for Clinical Social Work and the Center For Religion & Psychotherapy Of Chicago (SCAN).
Faigen, S. (1994), Transforming therapeutic disaster into treatment opportunity: an object relations view of treatment impasses. Presented at the Indianapolis Psychotherapy Institute conference on Therapeutic Challenges: A Psychodynamic View of the Therapeutic Process. April 16,1994 (SCAN)
# 3
Student Case Presentation and Gill, M. (1984). Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy: A Revision. International Journal of Psychoanalysis. Vol. 11. (In PEP Archive)
# 4
Student Case Presentation and Modell, A. (1975). A narcissistic defence against affects and the illusion of self-sufficiency. International Journal of Psychoanalysis. Vol 56 (In PEP Archive)
# 5
Student Case Presentation and Sandler, J. (1976). Countertransference and role- responsiveness. International Review of Psychoanalysis. Vol. 3. (Pep Archive)
Ogden, T. (1992). Comments on transference and countertransference in the initial analytic meeting. Psychoanalytic Inquiry. Vol. 12. (PEP Archive)
# 6
Student Case Presentation and Jacobs, T. (1999). Countertransference past and present: a review of the concept. International Journal of Psychoanalysis. Vol. 80. (PEP)
#7
Student Case Presentation and Novice, J. (1980), Negative therapeutic motivation and negative therapeutic alliance. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child. Vol. 35. (PEP)
# 8
Student Case Presentation and Winnicott, D.W. (1949). Hate in the countertransference. International Journal of Psycho-Analysis. Vol 30. (PEP)
# 9
Student Case Presentation and Guntrip, H. (1975). My experience of analysis with Fairbairn and Winnicott. International Review of Psychoanalysis. Vol. 2. (PEP)
#10
Student Case Presentation and Hopkins, L.(1998). D.W.Winnicott’s analysis of Masud Khan. Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Vol. 34. No. 1. (PEP)
#11
Student Case Presentation and Schafer, R.(1995). Aloneness in the countertransference. Psychoanalytic Quarterly. Vol. 64. (PEP)
#12
Student Case Presentation and Hoffman, I. (1983). The Patient as interpreter of the analyst's experience. Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Vol. 19, No. 3. (PEP)
#13
Student Case Presentation
Bollas, C. (1983). Expressive uses of the countertransference. Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Vol. 19, No. 1. (PEP)
#14
Student Case Presentation
Bollas, C. (1987). Self analysis and the countertransference. In The Shadow of the Object. Free Association Books: London
#15
Student Case Presentation and Symington, N. (1990). The possibility of human freedom and its transmission (with particular reference to the thought of Bion). International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, Vol 71, part 1. (PEP)
Symington, N. (2003). Healing the mind: what is the process? What is the healer’s task? Fort da. Vol. 9 (2). Will be distributed.
#16
Final Class Session