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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
Note: Content of the fourth-year seminars varies somewhat from year to year in response to input from candidates. |
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| French Psychoanalysis |
5 Sessions |
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| This course covers some aspects of French psychoanalytic thought, as presented through important papers by several authors. First, Grunberger on narcissism, then Green on depression, followed by McDougall on psychosomatic conditions. Finally, we cover a paper by Laplanche on deferred action, phantasy, and seduction. |
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| This course builds on previous knowledge of Melanie Klein and her contributions. The work of Herbert Rosenfeld is studied to revise the concepts of early life, including the early Oedipus complex, narcissism, and pathological narcissism. Other papers are used to study the implications for contemporary psychoanalytic work. |
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| Comparative Metapsychology |
10 Sessions |
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| The seminar has three purposes: to review some fundamental classical and current issues in metapsychology, to re-examine some major components of Freud's theory in the final year of Institute studie, and to evaluate metapsychological theories clinically. Four papers by Prof. C. Hanly are a helpful background to work in the seminar. They deal with the epistemology of clinically testing psychoanalytic theories. |
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| Continuous Case Seminar 6 |
10 Sessions |
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| These seminars will address the history of the supervised case in psychoanalytic training and some of the related controversies. The most common difficulties encountered in control cases will be outlined, as well as approaches to their resolution. |
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| Second Trimester Courses (Jan to Mar) | Click on a course title to see full details |
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| This course is given as an introduction to the work of Jacques Lacan. The purpose of the course is to stimulate interest and not to try to be totally inclusive of a difficult topic. |
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| This course has three main themes. The first concerns over-determination (multiple causation) as a concept in psychoanalysis. The second is that of masochism, its clinical presentation, causation, and treatment. Finally, there is a presentation of different forms of defence related to masochism. To further ground the discussion, the presenter will discuss dynamics of an analytic case of his or her own. |
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| Continuous Case Seminar 7 |
7 Sessions |
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| This case seminar seeks to consider a single case from several theoretical and technical vantage points, comparing and contrasting different theoretical perspectives and exploring the ways in which they differentially affect technique. Some relevant papers will also be consulted. Two training analysts of differing theoretical orientations will participate |
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| The history of psychoanalytic thinking (and avoidance of thinking) about termination is considered. The gradual development of the concept of a termination phase of the analytic process is reviewed. Both theoretical and technical considerations regarding termination of analysis are discussed in relation to clinical material. |
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| Third Trimester Courses (April to June) | Click on a course title to see full details |
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| This course, which has considered other aspects of ethics in previous years, looks at issues of rehabilitation, institutional reactions, and the value of having a code of ethics. |
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| Dreams: Theoretical Aspects |
5 Sessions |
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| The focus of the first part of this course is on clinical issues arising during the process of understanding and interpreting dreams at the various stages of the analysis. Both a class member's case material and another clinical presentation will be utilized. In the second part of the course we will look at dreams and dreaming in psychoanalysis from varied theoretical vantage points. |
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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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| Bion (elective) |
5 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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| Evaluation & Feedback |
1 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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