ICP WEEKEND PROGRAM 2ND YEAR CLASS 2013 – 2014
INTERSUBJECTIVE-SYSTEMS THEORY as PHENOMENOLOGICAL CONTEXTUALISM SYLLABUS This course principally organized and instructed by
Peter N. Maduro, J.D., Psy.D., Psy.D.
Preliminary Notes WRITTEN CASE STUDY There is a single writing requirement in this course that will be due on March 30, 2014. Your written product should be no longer than 4 - 6 double-spaced pages. Please write a confidential case study of your work with an individual patient (disguise as necessary) using applicable concepts you have learned in this course up to the time of your writing. The case study should aim to both describe the emotional, perceptual, and behavioral phenomena that characterize the transference-countertransference system, and explain this phenomena from a developmentally informed intersubjective-systems perspective. If there is room, comment on your treatment approach in light of your perception and understanding of the case.
COURSE READINGS I have divided the “READINGS” into “Required” and “Additional Related Readings.” I neither require nor expect you to read the Additional Related Readings. Instead, I include them for your future reference in the event you wish to read more deeply into the topics at hand. During our class time together, when you have questions or comments regarding the Required Readings please attempt to draw upon and refer to the pertinent portions of the text whenever possible. Staying close to the text can be valuable.
RECOMMENDED BOOK PURCHASES Please see end of Syllabus
2 CLASS #1 of 12: Intersubjective-Systems Theory as Phenomenological Contextualism: A Metatheory of Psychoanalysis. Saturday, September 28, 2013 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. 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. (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 PostCartesian Philosophy: A Distant Mirror.
3 CLASS #2 of 12: Intersubjective-Systems Theory as Phenomenological Contextualism: A Metatheory of Psychoanalysis. Sunday, September 29, 2013 11:30 am – 2:00 pm
READINGS: Required: Stolorow, R. D. (2011), World, Affectivity, Trauma: Heidegger and Post-Cartesian Psychoanalysis, Ch. 3: Post-Cartesian Psychoanalysis as Phenomenological Contextualism. Stolorow, R. D. (2013), Intersubjective-Systems Theory: A PhenomenologicalContextualist Psychoanalytic Perspective, Psychoanaytic Dialogues, 23:484-489, 2013. Stolorow, R. D. (2011), World, Affectivity, Trauma: Heidegger and Post-Cartesian Psychoanalysis, Ch. 9 (only pp. 100 – 104): A Distant Mirror: Psychobiography and PostCartesian Inquiry.
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. Stolorow, R. D. & Atwood, G. E. (1996), The Intersubjective Perspective, Psychoanalytic Review, 83(2), April 1996.
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CLASS #3 of 12: The Relational Contextuality of Emotional Life and Clinical Phenomena, Part I. Saturday, October 26, 2013 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.
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CLASS #4 of 12: The Relational Contextuality of Emotional Life and Clinical Phenomena, Part II.
Sunday, October 27, 2013 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.
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CLASS #5 of 12: The Relational Contextuality of Emotional Life and Clinical Phenomena, Part III. Saturday, December 7, 2013 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.
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CLASS #6 of 12: Psychoanalytic Knowing, Part I. Sunday, December 8, 2013 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: Theory-Choice and Fallibilism. Orange, D. M. (1995), Emotional Understanding: Studies in Psychoanalytic Epistemology, Chapter 4: Toward and Epistemology of Perspectival Realism.
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CLASS #7 of 12: The Relational Contextuality of Emotional Trauma. Saturday, January 25, 2014 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: Post-Cartesian 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.
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CLASS #8 of 12: Existential Dimensions of Emotional Trauma. Sunday, January 26, 2014 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.
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CLASS #9 of 12: Understanding and Working with Extreme States, Part I: Concretization / Dissociation Versus Personnal Annihilation. Saturday, March 29, 2014 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. Atwood, G.E. (2012), The Abyss of Madness, New York, NY: Routledge. 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
11 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, March 30, 2014 11:30 am – 2:00 pm
*****WRITTEN CASE STUDY DUE TODAY*****
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.
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CLASS #11 of 12: Psychoanalytic Knowing, Part II: Attitudes and Sensibilities in Phenomenological Contextualism. Saturday, May 3, 2014 2:30 – 5 pm
READINGS: Required: Orange, D., Atwood, G. & Stolorow, R. (1997), Working Intersubjectively: Contextualism in Psychoanalytic Practice, Ch. 5: Thinking and Working Contextually (only pp. 88 – 90: Conclusion: Contextualist Sensibilities and Attitudes). Orange, D. (2006), For Whom the Bell Tolls: Context, Complexity, and Compassion in Psychoanalysis. International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology, 1:5-21. Orange, D. (2009), Attitudes, Values and Intersubjective Vulnerability, International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology, 4:235-253. (2009 Kohut Memorial Lecture). Coburn, W. J. (in press). Psychoanalytic Complexity: Attitudes That Matter In Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Chapter 2: Attitudes. Maduro, P. (2013). Five Points of Interplay Between Intersubjective-Systems Theory and Heidegger’s Existential Philosophy, and the Clinical Attitudes they Foster, DIVISION/Review: A Quarterly Psychoanalytic Forum of the American Psychological Association, Division of Psychoanalysis (APA, Div. 39), No. 7 Spring 2013, pp. 37 – 38.
Additional Related Readings: Orange, D. (2011), The Suffering Stranger: Hermeneutics for Everyday Clinical Practice. Routledge: NY, NY. Orange, D. (1995), Emotional Understanding: Studies in Psychoanalytic Epistemology, Chapter 7: Affect and Emotional Life. Orange, D. (1995), Emotional Understanding: Studies in Psychoanalytic Epistemology, Chapter 9: Emotional Availability.
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CLASS #12 of 12: Commonalities and Differences Between and Among the CoCollaborators Atwood, Orange & Stolorow.
Sunday, May 4, 2014 11:30 am – 2:00 pm READINGS: Required: Orange, D., Atwood, G. & Stolorow, R. (1997), Working Intersubjectively: Contextualism in Psychoanalytic Practice, Epilogue (p. 91). Atwood, G. & Stolorow, R. (2013), Legacies of the Golden Age: A Memoir of a Collaboration. Peruse George Atwood’s website: http://www.georgeatwood.com/index.html Listen/watch George Atwood “Swan Song” Last Lecture (Rutgers Univ.) before retirement: See internet links: Lecture 22, Part 1 (His last lecture ever!) http://youtu.be/LLfY_sEyfUg Lecture 22, Part 2 http://youtu.be/c-8sT0Kv6tID Orange, D. (2011), The Suffering Stranger: Hermeneutics for Everyday Clinical Practice, Ch. 2, The Suffering Stranger and the Hermeneutics of Trust. Stolorow, R. (2011), World, Affectivity, Trauma: Heidegger and Post-Cartesian Psychoanalysis, Chapter 10: Conclusions: The Mutual Enrichment of Heidegger’s Existential Philosophy and Post-Cartesian Psychoanalysis.
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Recommended Book Purchases: Ideally, in order to deeply understand and integrate Intersubjective-Systems Theory into your clinical thinking you will extend the studies entailed in this course by reading, or at least having at hand for reference, the following books --each of which constitutes a central contribution to the Intersubjective-Systems literature. Therefore, we recommend you purchase these books to compliment your psychoanalytic library. Nevertheless, all the required and recommended readings will be accessible in article or book-chapter form on the ICP website by September 2013.
Atwood, G. E. & Stolorow, R. D. (1993), Faces in a Cloud: Intersubjectivity in Personality Theory, 2nd ed., Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson Inc. Atwood, G. E. & Stolorow, R. D. (1984), Structures of Subjectivity: Explorations in Psychoanalytic Phenomenology, Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press. Coburn, W. J. (in press). Psychoanalytic Complexity: Attitudes That Matter In Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, London: Routledge. (Due out in Fall 2013). Stolorow, R. D., Brandchaft, B. & Atwood, G. E. (1987), Psychoanalytic Treatment: An Intersubjective Approach, Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press. Stolorow, R. D. & Atwood, G. E. (1992), Contexts of Being: The Intersubjective Foundations of Psychological Life, Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press. Stolorow, R. D., Atwood, G. E. & Brandchaft, B. (eds.) (1994), The Intersubjective Perspective, Northvale, NJ: The Analytic Press. Orange, D. M. (1995), Emotional Understanding: Studies in Psychoanalytic Epistemology, New York, NY: Guilford Press. Orange, D. M. Atwood, G. & Stolorow, R. D. (1997), Working Intersubjectively: Contextualism in Psychoanalytic Practice, Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press. Orange, D. M. (2011), The Suffering Stranger: Hermeneutics for Everyday Clinical Practice, New York, NY: Routledge. Stolorow, R. D., Atwood, G. E. & Orange, D. M. (2002), Worlds of Experience: Interweaving Philosophical and Clinical Dimensions in Psychoanalysis, NY: Basic Books. Stolorow, R. D. (2007), Trauma and Human Existence: Autobiographical, Psychoanalytic, and Philosophical Reflections. New York: The Analytic Press.
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Stolorow, R. D. (2011), World, Affectivity, Trauma: Heidegger and Post-Cartesian Psychoanalysis, New York, NY: Routledge. Atwood, G.E. (2012), The Abyss of Madness, New York, NY: Routledge.
