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Introduction to Psychodynamic Thinking - APS300366E
Title: Introduction to Psychodynamic Thinking
Guaranteed by: Department of Psychology (21-KPS)
Faculty: Faculty of Arts
Actual: from 2024
Semester: winter
Points: 0
E-Credits: 3
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:1/1, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (1)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Is provided by: APS300366
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: PhDr. Jiří Jakubů, Ph.D.
Class: Exchange - 14.4 Psychology and Behav. Sciences
Incompatibility : APS300366
Is incompatible with: APS300366
Annotation
The subject introduces the history, development and current state of psychodynamic thinking, basic theory and interpretative concepts of psychoanalysis. Psychoanalytic well-founded way of thinking and its development is demonstrated in the case studies of selected texts of S. Freud, D. Winnicott, S. Mitchell, G. Gabbard, O. Renik, D. Orange, J. Benjamin and others. New illustrative examples from literature or practices demonstrated (subject to availability) by invited guests - figures in the field- are included during the course.
Last update: Šírová Eva, PhDr., Ph.D. (11.08.2020)
Aim of the course

Understanding the psychoanalytic way of thinking and looking at the man, his health and disease in historical perspective and in the context of other psychotherapies.

Gained knowledge: Students understand the basic terminology and concepts of psychodynamic psychotherapy, can identify, describe and explain them.

Gained skills: The student is able to distinguish, formulate, compare and critically evaluate the options and variations of model situations of clinical practice and the contribution of psychoanalysis to contemporary arts discourse.

Last update: Šírová Eva, PhDr., Ph.D. (11.08.2020)
Literature

Key Reading:
Gabbard. G.O. (2010,2017). Long-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. A Basic Text. Am. Psychiatr. Publ.

Mitchell, S.A, & Black, M.J. (1996). Freud and Beyond: A History of Modern Psychoanalytic Thought. Basic Books.

Supplementary books:
Bruch, H. (1980). Learning Psychotherapy: Rationale and Ground Rules. Harvard Un. Press

Casement, P. (1992). On Learning from the Patient. Guilford Publ.

Culler, J.D. (2011). Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford

Fonagy, P., & Target, M. (2003). Psychoanalytic Theories. Perspectives from Developmental psychopatology. Routledge.

Foucault, M. (1988). Madness and Civilization. A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason.Vintage

Fulka, J.(2008). Psychoanalýza a francouzské myšlení. Praha: Herrmann a synové.

Giddens. A.(1993). The Transformation of Intimacy.Sexuality, Love, and Eroticism in Modern Societies. Stanford UP

Kafka, F.: Metamorphosis.

Milton, J., Fabricius, J, & Polmear, C. (2011). A Short Introduction to Psychoanalysis. (2 nd edition). London: Sage.

Mitchell, J.S. (1997). Influences and Autonomy in Psychoanalysis. The Analytic Press.

Orange, D. (2011). The Suffering Stranger: Hermeneutics for Everyday Clinical Practice. London: Routledge.

Sacks, J. (2005). O svobodě a náboženství. Praha: P3K.

Selected topics and the related texts and case studies of S. Freud, G.Gabbard, O. Renik, D. Orange and others.

Last update: Šírová Eva, PhDr., Ph.D. (11.08.2020)
Teaching methods

Lecture / Seminar

Last update: Šírová Eva, PhDr., Ph.D. (11.08.2020)
Requirements to the exam

A short final essay to check knowledge and understanding of basic concepts of psychodynamic psychotherapy and containing a short reflection of model situations.

Last update: Šírová Eva, PhDr., Ph.D. (11.08.2020)
Syllabus

A) Discoveries of S. Freud: conscious and unconscious mind, meaning of illness and suffering, functions of mental defenses, the concept of mental development, dynamics of mental and group events. Psychoanalysis in the world of psychological and psychotherapeutic disciplines.

B) From the "psychology of one a person" to "two persons" model (the personality of the analyst and patient, the nature of relationships and changes of its meaning - Klein, Bion, Winnicott, Kohut, Mitchell, Ogden, Civitarese…)

C) Hermeneutics of suspection vs. hermeneutics of trust (D. Orange) or hermeneutics of curiosity (D. Stern); A man in the world of relationships and in the relationships of his worlds.

D) The examples of art and clinical practice, their discussion and analysis as a basic starting material

Last update: Šírová Eva, PhDr., Ph.D. (11.08.2020)
 
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