ICP WEEKEND PROGRAM 2ND YEAR CLASS 2012 – 2013
INTERSUBJECTIVE-SYSTEMS THEORY as PHENOMENOLOGICAL CONTEXTUALISM SYLLABUS This course principally organized and instructed by
Peter N. Maduro, J.D., Psy.D., Psy.D. and facilitated by
Madeleine Moskowitz, L.C.S.W., Psy.D.
CLASS #1 of 12: Intersubjective-Systems Theory as Phenomenological Contextualism: A Metatheory of Psychoanalysis. Saturday, September 22, 2012 2:30 – 5 pm READINGS: Required: Atwood, G. E. & Stolorow, R. D. (1993), Faces in a Cloud: Intersubjectivity in Personality Theory, Chapter 1 (especially pp. 3 - 17; 27 - 33): Personality Theory and Subjectivity. Atwood, G. E. & Stolorow, R. D. (2012), The Demons of Phenomenological Contextualism: A Conversation, Psychoanalytic Review, 99(2), April 2012.
Additional Related Readings: Atwood, G. E. & Stolorow, R. D. (1984), Structures of Subjectivity: Explorations in Psychoanalytic Phenomenology, Chapter 1: Philosophical Context and Basic Concepts. Stolorow, R. D. (2004), Autobiographcal Reflections on the Intersubjective History of an Intersubjective Perspective in Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Inquiry 24/4, 2004. Atwood, G.E. (2012), The Abyss of Madness, Chapter 9: The Madness & Genius of Post-Cartesian Philosophy: A Distant Mirror. Atwood, G. E. & Stolorow, R. D. (1993), Faces in a Cloud: Intersubjectivity in Personality Theory, Chapter 6 (only pp. 189 – 190): The Subjectivity of Intersubjectivity Theory.
Stolorow, R. D., Atwood, G. E. & Brandchaft, B. (eds.) (1994), The Intersubjective Perspective, Ch. 12: The Pursuit of Being in the Life of Jean-Paul Sartre.
CLASS #2 of 12: Intersubjective-Systems Theory as Phenomenological Contextualism: A Metatheory of Psychoanalysis. Sunday, September 23, 2012 11:30 am – 2:00 pm
READINGS: Required: Stolorow, R. D. (2011), World, Affectivity, Trauma: Heidegger and Post-Cartesian Psychoanalysis, Ch. 3: PostCartesian Psychoanalysis as Phenomenological Contextualism. Stolorow, R. D. (2011), World, Affectivity, Trauma: Heidegger and Post-Cartesian Psychoanalysis, Ch. 9 (only pp. 100 – 104): A Distant Mirror: Psychobiography and Post-Cartesian Inquiry. Stolorow, R. D. & Atwood, G. E. (1996), The Intersubjective Perspective, Psychoanalytic Review, 83(2), April 1996.
Additional Related Readings: Atwood, G. E. & Stolorow, R. D. (1993), Faces in a Cloud: Intersubjectivity in Personality Theory, Chapter 6: From the Subjectivity of Theory to a Theory of Subjectivity.
CLASS #3 of 12: The Relational Contextuality of Emotional Life and Clinical Phenomena, Part I. Saturday, October 27, 2012 2:30 – 5 pm READINGS: Required: Stolorow, R. D. (2007), Trauma and Human Existence: Autobiographical, Psychoanalytic, and Philosophical Reflections, Chapter 1: The Contextuality of Emotional Life. Stolorow, R. D., Brandchaft, B. & Atwood, G. E. (1987), Psychoanalytic Treatment: An Intersubjective Approach, Chapter 5: Affects and Selfobjects. Stolorow, R. D., Brandchaft, B. & Atwood, G. E. (1987), Psychoanalytic Treatment: An Intersubjective Approach, Chapter 6: Developmental Failure and Psychic Conflict.
Additional Related Readings: Stolorow, R. D., Atwood, G. E. & Brandchaft, B. (eds.) (1994), The Intersubjective Perspective, Chapter 8: Aggression in the Psychoanalytic Situation. Stolorow, R. D., Atwood, G. E. & Brandchaft, B. (eds.) (1994), The Intersubjective Perspective, Chapter 7: The Difficult Patient.
CLASS #4 of 12: The Relational Contextuality of Emotional Life and Clinical Phenomena, Part II.
Sunday, October 28, 2012 11:30 am – 2:00 pm
READINGS: Required: Stolorow, R. D., Brandchaft, B. & Atwood, G. E. (1987), Psychoanalytic Treatment: An Intersubjective Approach, Chapter 3: Transference --The Organization of Experience. Stolorow, R. D. (2006), The Relevance of Freud’s Concept of Danger-Situation for an Intersubjective-Systems Perspective, Psychoanalytic Psychology, Vol. 23, No. 2, 417 – 419. Stolorow, R. D. & Atwood, G. E. (1992), Contexts of Being: The Intersubjective Foundations of Psychological Life, Chapter 5: Fantasy Formation (only “Discussion” at pp. 79 – 83). Stolorow, R. D., Atwood, G. E. & Brandchaft, B. (eds.) (1994), The Intersubjective Perspective, Chapter 4: The Nature and Therapeutic Action of Psychoanalytic Interpretation.
Additional Related Readings: Stolorow, R. D., Atwood, G. E. & Brandchaft, B. (eds.) (1994), The Intersubjective Perspective, Chapter 10: Countertransference.
CLASS #5 of 12: The Relational Contextuality of Emotional Life and Clinical Phenomena, Part III. Saturday, December 1, 2012 2:30 – 5 pm
READINGS: Required:
Stolorow, R. D. & Atwood, G. E. (1992), Contexts of Being: The Intersubjective Foundations of Psychological Life, Chapter 2: Three Realms of the Unconscious. Stolorow, R. D. & Atwood, G. E. (1992), Contexts of Being: The Intersubjective Foundations of Psychological Life, Chapter 6: Varieties of Therapeutic Alliance. Stolorow, R. D. & Atwood, G. E. (1992), Contexts of Being: The Intersubjective Foundations of Psychological Life, Chapter 7: Varieties of Therapeutic Impasse.
Additional Related Readings: Stolorow, R. D., Atwood, G. E. & Orange, D. M. (2002), Worlds of Experience: Interweaving Philosophical and Clinical Dimensions in Psychoanalysis, Chapter 3: World Horizons: An Alternative to the Freudian Unconscious. Stolorow, R. D. & Atwood, G. E. (1992), Contexts of Being: The Intersubjective Foundations of Psychological Life, Chapter 3: The Mind and the Body. Orange, D., Atwood, G. & Stolorow, R. D. (1997), Working Intersubjectively: Contextualism in Psychoanalytic Practice, Ch. 5, Thinking and Working Contextually (especially, pp. 76 – 82: Types of Context Crucial to Psychoanalytic Thinking / Thinking Contextually About Shame and Self-Loathing). Stolorow, R. D. (2002), Impasse, Affectivity, and Intersubjective Systems, In Psychoanalytic Review, 89:329 – 337.
CLASS #6 of 12: Psychoanalytic Knowing, Part I. Sunday, December 2,, 2012 11:30 am – 2:00 pm
READINGS: Required: Orange, D., Atwood, G. & Stolorow, R. D. (1997), Working Intersubjectively: Contextualism in Psychoanalytic Practice, Chapter 3: The Myth of Neutrality. Stolorow, R. D., Atwood, G. E. & Orange, D. M. (2002), Worlds of Experience: Interweaving Philosophical and Clinical Dimensions in Psychoanalysis, Chapter 2: From Cartesian Minds to Experiential Worlds. Stolorow, R. D., Atwood, G. E. & Orange, D. M. (2002), Worlds of Experience: Interweaving Philosophical and Clinical Dimensions in Psychoanalysis, Chapter 6 (pp. 109 – 122): Perspectival Realism and Intersubjective Systems.
Additional Related Readings: Kohut, H. (1959), Introspection, empathy, and psychoanalysis. In: The Search for the Self, Vol. 1, ed. P. Ornstein. Madison, CT: International Universities Press, 1978, pp. 205 – 232. Stolorow, R. D., Atwood, G. E. & Brandchaft, B. (eds.) (1994), The Intersubjective Perspective, Chapter 2: Toward a Science of Human Experience. Orange, D., Atwood, G. & Stolorow, R. D. (1997), Working Intersubjectively: Contextualism in Psychoanalytic Practice, Chapter 2: Beyond Technique: Psychoanalysis as a Form of Practice. Orange, D. M. (2009), Psychoanalysis in a Phenomenological Spirit, Int. J. Psychoanal. Self Psychol., 4:119 – 121. Orange, D. M. (1995), Emotional Understanding: Studies in Psychoanalytic Epistemology, Chapter 3: TheoryChoice and Fallibilism. Orange, D. M. (1995), Emotional Understanding: Studies in Psychoanalytic Epistemology, Chapter 4: Toward and Epistemology of Perspectival Realism.
CLASS #7 of 12: The Relational Contextuality of Emotional Trauma. Saturday, January 26, 2013 2:30 – 5 pm READINGS: Required: Stolorow, R. D. (2007), Trauma and Human Existence: Autobiographical, Psychoanalytic, and Philosophical Reflections, Chapter 2: The Contextuality of Emotional Trauma. Stolorow, R. D. & Atwood, G. E. (1992), Contexts of Being: The Intersubjective Foundations of Psychological Life, Chapter 4: Trauma and Pathogenesis. Stolorow, R. D. (2011), World, Affectivity, Trauma: Heidegger and Post-Cartesian Psychoanalysis, Ch. 3: PostCartesian Psychoanalysis as Phenomenological Contextualism (review only page 33: The Contextuality and Existentiality of Emotional Trauma).
Additional Related Readings: Maduro, P. (2008), Thou Shalt Not Know Thy Relational Context: Blindness to the Contextuality of Emotional Life. Unpublished manuscript.
CLASS #8 of 12: The Existential Dimension of Emotional Trauma. Sunday, January 27, 2013 11:30 am – 2:00 pm
READINGS: Required: Stolorow, R. D. & Atwood, G. E. (1992), Contexts of Being: The Intersubjective Foundations of Psychological Life, Chapter 1: The Myth of the Isolated Mind (for this class, emphasis on pp. 7 – 12: Alienation and the Isolated Mind). Stolorow, R. D. (2007), Trauma and Human Existence: Autobiographical, Psychoanalytic, and Philosophical Reflections, Chapter 3: The Phenomenology of Trauma and the Absolutisms of Everyday Life. Stolorow, R. D. (2007), Trauma and Human Existence: Autobiographical, Psychoanalytic, and Philosophical Reflections, Chapter 4: Trauma and Temporality. Stolorow, R. D. (2007), Trauma and Human Existence: Autobiographical, Psychoanalytic, and Philosophical Reflections, Chapter 7: Siblings in the Same Darkness.
Additional Related Readings: Stolorow, R. D. (2007), Trauma and Human Existence: Autobiographical, Psychoanalytic, and Philosophical Reflections, Chapter 5: Trauma and the ‘Ontological Unconscious.’ Stolorow, R. D. (2007), Trauma and Human Existence: Autobiographical, Psychoanalytic, and Philosophical Reflections, Chapter 6: Anxiety, Authenticity, and Trauma. Stolorow, R. D. (2011), World, Affectivity, Trauma: Heidegger and Post-Cartesian Psychoanalysis, Chapter 4: Existential Anxiety, Finitude, and Trauma. Stolorow, R. D. (2011), World, Affectivity, Trauma: Heidegger and Post-Cartesian Psychoanalysis, Chapter 5: Worlds Apart: Dissociation, Finitude, and Traumatic Temporality Stolorow, R. D. (2011), World, Affectivity, Trauma: Heidegger and Post-Cartesian Psychoanalysis, Chapter 6: Our Kinship-in-Finitude.
CLASS #9 of 12: Understanding and Working with Extreme States, Part I: Concretization / Dissociation Versus Personnal Annihilation. Saturday, April 6, 2013 2:30 – 5 pm Required: Atwood, G. E. & Stolorow, R. D. (1984), Structures of Subjectivity: Explorations in Psychoanalytic Phenomenology, Chapter 4 (pp. 85 – 105 only): Pathways of Concretization. Watch & Listen to George Atwood lectures (Rutgers Univ.) on Abnormal Psychology and, in particular, Lectures 16, Part II, and Lecture 17, Parts I & II, wherein Dr. Atwood distinguishes the appearance and function
of dissociative states from states of personal annihilation, and then Lectures 18 – 21, wherein Dr. Atwood recounts his first case and treatment of “multiple personality,” all on YouTube.com: See the following internet links: Lecture 16, Part 2 http://youtube/N6UnUEyuoZM Lecture 17,Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqtlpyWLgqw Lecture 17, Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6brJh_oN0p4 * * * * * Lecture 18, Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0FsBDIqPM4 Lecture 18, Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MePCPvAU_M Lecture 19, Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvACGtY60PA Lecture 19, Part 2 http://youtu.be/ATZ8WGTS98k Lecture 20, Part 1 http://youtu.be/sL52IESyo2w Lecture 20, Part 2 http://youtu.be/-mTiHeq_Ock Lecture 21, Part 1 http://youtu.be/xoGBFX-l2PY Lecture 21, Part 2 http://youtu.be/zLnahhh_pYA
Additional Related Readings: Atwood, G. E. & Stolorow, R. D. (1984), Structures of Subjectivity: Explorations in Psychoanalytic Phenomenology, Chapter 4 (pp. 105 – 117/end): Pathways of Concretization. Orange, D., Atwood, G. & Stolorow, R. D. (1997), Working Intersubjectively: Contextualism in Psychoanalytic Practice, Chapter 5: Thinking and Working Contextually (see especially pp. 83 – 88: Thinking Contextually About Dissociation and Multiplicity).
CLASS #10 of 12: Understanding and Working with Extreme States, Part II: Understanding and Working Clinically with States of Personal & World Annihilation. Sunday, April 7, 2013 11:30 am – 2:00 pm READINGS: Required: Orange, D., Atwood, G. & Stolorow, R. D. (1997), Working Intersubjectively: Contextualism in Psychoanalytic Practice, Chapter 4: Contexts of Nonbeing: Varieties of the Experience of Personal Annihilation. Stolorow, R. D., Atwood, G. E. & Orange, D. M. (2002), Worlds of Experience: Interweaving Philosophical and Clinical Dimensions in Psychoanalysis, Chapter 8: Shattered Worlds/Psychotic States: The Experience of Personal Annihilation. Additional Related Readings: Stolorow, R. D., Brandchaft, B. & Atwood, G. E. (1987), Psychoanalytic Treatment: An Intersubjective Approach, Chapter 9: Treatment of Psychotic States.
