ACAP Course Descriptions Fall 2010

 

GPSA503: Human Development: Adolescence-Young Adulthood
The development of the psychic structure during puberty will be examined, concentrating on the expression of the basic drives as the individual emerges and separates from the dependencies of childhood and eventually leaves home to start life on his or her own. Freud’s hallmark of maturity, “the ability to work and love,” will be used to study the conflicts and resistances of these crucial stages. Students examine these processes through readings, case presentations, and personal experience.

 

GPSA 510: The Psychoanalytic View of Women:  Implications for Counseling Theory and Practice.  This course examines the evolving views of women’s psychic development and roles in society from both psychoanalytic and sociological perspectives.  The work of Freud, Deutsch, Horney, Bonaparte, Klein, Jacobson, Thompson, Chodorow, Gilligan, and others will be considered.

 

GSPSA 521: Psychoanalytic Counseling: Basic Concepts
Course description: This course will introduce the student to basic concepts of psychoanalysis.  It will be an introduction to Freudian and modern theory.  Interventions will be studied, and the student will learn how to apply these concepts.

 

GPSA531: The Ego and the Mechanisms of the Family
Family members, like group members, can be trained to transcend the desire for revenge and learn to induce in each other the wish to heal and help so that they can receive those missing feelings that will allow them to mature – (Kirman, 1989, p. 92).  In this context, the psychoanalytic group is…an arena for the emergence of difference.

 

GPSA541:  Psychopathology of Primitive Mental States: Issues & Conflicts
Psychopathology:  Issues and Conflicts.   This psychopathology course will add to the study of psychopathological assessment a deeper look at some of the issues that are central in our society. One concern would be the distinctions between psychopathology as it presents in gender.  Other diagnoses to be examined will be posttraumatic stress disorder, borderline syndromes, psychosis, perversions, eating disorders, psychopathy, somatic disorders, impulse and substance abuse disorders, phobias, the autistic continuum, and attention deficit disorders.

 

GPSA542: Psychopathology: Diagnostic Assessment: Character Psychopathology
This course imparts a psychodynamic understanding of symptoms, core conflicts, and characteristic defenses in psychotic, narcissistic and personality disorders.

 

GPSA551 Introduction to Psychoanalytic and Counseling Research:
“How to Think Like an Analyst”
The psychoanalyst’s/counselor’s office is the laboratory in which clinical research is conducted.  The research begins as the analyst/counselor develops an understanding of the unique language of the unconscious.  The research tools include observation, thoughts, feelings, intuitions and theoretical concepts.  The research process continues as the analyst/counselor studies the nature of the overt and symbolic meaning of the  communications, contact function, dreams, behaviors, resistance to saying everything, repetition, transference, response to analytic interventions, progressive emotional communication and maturation.
The course is designed to foster the student’s understanding of the psychoanalytic research method and its importance in the analytic and counseling process. These objectives are applied to the writing of a research case study narrative, focusing on behavior motivated by the person’s unconscious as it is revealed in the relationship with the clinician.
Throughout the semester the student/researcher’s ongoing contact and observations of a  client, relative, friend or co-worker will serve as the focus of the case study that will be orally presented during the last two weeks of the semester.  Research methods, qualitative versus quantitative measurement, and format of the paper will be discussed throughout the semester.

 

GPSA 553: Research Methods, Statistical Measures and Thesis Advisement,
In this course, students will write a research study of a Fieldwork Experience.  Students will learn to conduct an in-depth review of relevant literature.  The thesis offers an opportunity to integrate students’ conceptual learning with their clinical observational skills.  This course provides students with an understanding of basic research methodologies in psychoanalytic counseling research, emphasizes practical experience in design, conduct, and evaluation of research, and explores the impact of statistics theory and research design factors in studying human behavior.

 

GPSA 703:  Externship Seminar:  Issues of Bias in the Treatment of Mental Illness
In this course, a segment of the Fieldwork Experience, students work with their clients, who represent a diverse population in terms of ethnic, sociological and psychopathological processes.   They learn to observe their own reactions to their clients and to use this growing understanding as a clinical and technical tool for working successfully with them.  They do this while studying internal unexamined perceptions as well as  broader societal prejudices, societal trends and subgroups, interaction  patterns, and the impact of differing lifestyles and maladaptive behaviors, including stress, abuse, and discrimination and their  subjective responses.   Students successfully completing this course will be able to study their countertransference responses with seriously disturbed narcissistic pre-oedipal clients; and, listen to and to be aware of clients’ dynamics and how each client speaks to present these dynamics through symbolic communication. They will be able to describe the various ways perceptions shape our views of various societal groups especially the mentally ill.

 

GPSA751:  Clinical Case: Transference-Preoedipal & Oedipal

Prerequisite:  Consultation Center Candidacy status.  Students take this course for the duration of their Consultation Center work.  It is designed to help students work psychoanalytically with patients, to recognize early resistances in treatment, and to understand induction and countertransference resistances in treatment.  A minimum of four semesters of this course is required.

 

GPSA758: Continuing Case Presentation
This course offers an in-depth study of the dynamics of one to three cases presented continuously by students throughout the course of the semester.  Students in the Certificate program who have taken a minimum of four semesters of Clinical case Seminar may substitute this course.  This course is open to all students as an elective.

Modern psychoanalysis accepts the view that an individual’s reaction to stress generated in the physical environment might find expression in the psyche; also that reactions to stress in the psychic environment might find expression through bodily ailments. The mind/body relationship has been the basis of Chinese medicine for centuries. However, in the West there appears still to be a resistance to the idea that body ailments, real or psychosomatic, may be attempts to resolve psychic issues.

This course will study the distribution of physical energy between internal and external stress as well as between internal and external disorders. For this purpose the class will be interested in following the course of some ongoing cases in which psychosomatic issues are prominent.

 

GPY586:  Career Counseling (masters students)

This course is designed to teach the theoretical framework of career counseling, and introduce the basic counseling tools used in the career counseling process. The course will present major theories of career development, introduce sources of occupational information, and introduce principles of assessment in career counseling.

 

Course Offering Schedule for Fall 2010

Course		Faculty	Day	Time	Room#
GPSA703B	SGS	Enista	Tue	3:10-4:40pm	2050
GPSA521 Basic Concepts		Weintraub	Tue	4:45-7:05pm	Main
GPSA551 Introduction to Research Methods		Zaretsky & T A Ashworth	Tue	7:10-9:30pm	Main
GPSA553 Research Methods, Statistical Measures & Thesis Advisement		TBA	Tue	7:10-9:30pm	Main
GPSA703C SGS		Lazar	Tue	5:00-6:30pm	2050
GPSA703D SGS		Ladden	Wed	3:00-4:30pm	Main
GPSA703E SGS		Delia	Wed	4:00-5:30pm	2050
GPSA541 Psychopathology: Severe Emotional Disorders		TBA	Wed	4:45-7:05pm	Main
GPSA542 Psychopathology: Diagnostic Assessment: Character Psychopathology		Ladden	Wed	4:45-7:05pm	Main
GPSA703F SGS		C.Pumilia	Wed	7:10-8:40pm	2050
GPSA503 Human Development: Adolescence to Adulthood		TBA	Wed	7:10-9:30pm	Main
GPSA758 Continuing Case: The Psyche & The Soma & How they Interact		Lovell & T A Hess	Thur	9:30-11:50am	Main
GPSA510: History of Psychoanalytic View of Women		M.Pumilia & TA Vaccaro	Thur	11:40- 2:00pm	Main
GPSA703G SGS		M.Pumilia	Thur	2:00-3:30pm	Main
GPSA703H SGS		Piemont	Thur	5:30-7:00pm	2050
GPSA531 Group: Ego & Mechanisms of Family (Elective & Theory)		Enista	Thur	4:50-7:10pm	Library
GPSA7031 SGS		Fishbein	Thur	5:30-7:00pm	Main
GPSA751	Clinical Case: Transference-Preoedipal & Oedipal	Bratt & T A Massaro	Thur	7:10-9:30pm	Bratt
GPSA703	Externship: Fieldwork III Cultural Diversity & Mental Illness	Piemont	Thur	7:10-9:30pm	Main
GPY586 Career Counseling (MA students - course online)		Centenary Faculty TBA	TBA	TBA	Online