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The curriculum of the Toronto Institute of Psychoanalysis attempts to respond to the ongoing needs of each candidate class, with the aim of improving and developing the educational goals and standards for each subsequent class. What follows is an outline of the current curriculum. Note that there is some fluctuation in curriculum: courses are added or dropped, especially in the fourth year, where electives vary with candidates’ interest.
Seminars run from September to June on Tuesday evenings, 7:15 to 10:30 p.m., with a 15-minute break between the two seminars. (Seminars will not be held during the two weeks of March Break, or during Passover.) |
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| First Trimester Courses (Sept to Dec) | Click on a course title to see full details |
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| This course teaches various theoretical approaches to technique and illustrates them from cases in the clinical practices of the instructors and candidates. |
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| Child Development |
5 Sessions |
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| This course is devoted to the study of the current psychoanalytic understanding of infancy: the intersubjective nature of infancy, the development of self and object representations; affects; self and object differentiation; self and object permanence; the ability to reflect and understand the mind and emotional states of the other. The understanding of these processes in infancy may help in understanding the adult analytic situation and individual dynamics. |
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| This course continues an exploration of the concept of boundaries and focuses particularly upon boundary violations in clinical practice. |
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| Oedipal Development |
5 Sessions |
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| This course develops an understanding of male and female sexual development, the role of parents in facilitating development in the preschool years; the processes that introduce Oedipal stage development; the meaning of phallic narcissistic and phallic-Oedipal stages, and the importance of object constancy. |
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| Ego Psychology |
5 Sessions |
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| This seminar presents ego psychological clinical theory from its early development to its contemporary forms in structural and conflict theory. It aims to familiarize the candidate with the basic concepts required to formulate a clinical case and prepare the required clinical case reports on training cases. |
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| This course develops an understanding of the stages of latency and how this knowledge can be applied clinically. |
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| This course focuses on psychoanalytic perspectives on disturbances in adolescent development and their contribution to adult psychopathology and the contribution of psychoanalysis to the psychotherapy of adolescents. |
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| Second Trimester Courses (Jan to Mar) | Click on a course title to see full details |
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| Ego Psychology |
12 Sessions |
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| This seminar presents ego psychological clinical theory from its early development to its contemporary forms in structural and conflict theory. It aims to familiarize the candidate with the basic concepts required to formulate a clinical case and prepare the required clinical case reports on training cases. |
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| British Object Relations |
10 Sessions |
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| This course is an introduction to the main British object relations theories, from Ferenczi, through Klein, Fairbairn, and Winnicott, to Bion and the contemporary Kleinians, with a focus on their relevance to current psychoanalytic work. |
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| Continuous Case Seminar 2 |
10 Sessions |
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| This seminar will be the introduction to a course on psychoanalytic ethics extending over the four years of didactic classes. The goal of this first seminar is to review the history of the introduction of ethical principles into clinical practice. Candidates will explore how the recognition of the influence of the transference on the behaviour of psychoanalysts led to the development of a framework for psychoanalytic practice. The continued importance of key aspects of this frame will be explored, and current concepts of boundaries in psychoanalysis will be examined. |
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| Third Trimester Courses (April to June) | Click on a course title to see full details |
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| American Object Relations |
10 Sessions |
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| This course introduces the work of authors who have developed object relations theories that attempt to accommodate classical Freudian theory and are in contrast to the British object relations theories. It focuses on the development of the internal world and its influence on psychopathology and treatment. |
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| Continuous Case Seminar 3 |
10 Sessions |
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| This course will deal with the part that defence against drives and against reality, both internal and external, plays in conflict and compromise formation. |
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| This course will deal with the part that defence against drives and against reality, both internal and external, plays in conflict and compromise formation. |
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