Psychoanalysis and related disciplines exist for more than 100 years. Although the impact of psychoanalysis on Western culture can hardly be overestimated, the relationship with academic disciplines like psychology, psychiatry and philosophy has always been controversial.
In the past 25 years psychoanalysis has gone through a process of structural and conceptual changes, which have created new opportunities for fruitful interchange and linking with other academic disciplines like cognitive psychology, neuroscience and attachment theory.
Coordinator
Dr. W. Heuves
Room 2B42
Tel.: +31 (0)71 527 3741
E-mailaddress: heuves@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
Aim(s)
In this course students will be informed about the development of psychoanalytic concepts in the past decades and about the new therapeutic challenges and opportunities created by these developments.
Literature
Mitchell, S.A. & Black, M.J. (1995). Freud and beyond. A history of modern psychoanalytic thought. New York: Basic Books.
Green V. (ed.) (2003). Emotional development in Psychoanalysis, attachment theory and neuroscience. Creating connections. London: Brunner-Routledge
Examination
Examination, Participation (75%)
essay questions
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Requirement(s) for application or advice
Masterstudents MSc in Psychology
Education method(s)
7 lectures by Dr. W. Heuves and guests
History of psychoanalytic thinking
Post-Freud development
Object-relation theory
TFP
Attachment and psychoanalysis
Neuroscience and psychoanalysis
MBT and psychoanalysis
Enrolment
Introduction and enrolment for courses of the first semester will take place August 27th 2009. Introduction and enrolment for courses of the second semester will take place in January 2010. More information will be available at the website of the Institute of Psychology.
NB: Exam and re-exam registration will take place via U-Twist, and will be open between a month and a week before the (re)exam. Students who haven’t registered, cannot participate in the (re)exam.
Blackboard
Information available on www.blackboard.leidenuniv.nl