PSYC 652: Clinical Theory and Interventions: Psychodynamic Approaches

This course focuses on the process of therapy based on psychoanalytic developmental theory. Students will be introduced to brief and long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy, with an emphasis on the potential contribution of empirical research to theory validation and to the identification of efficacious treatment elements. Topics covered include: Freud, Erikson; roles of insight and enactments; definitions of transference and counter-transference; relational and intersubjective psychoanalytic models will be extensively discussed; the body/soma split will be introduced; and the process of therapeutic action will be emphasized.