Admission requirements
Master’s students in Psychology
Description
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.
Course objectives
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.
Timetable
The Psychodynamic Perspective (2012-2013):
Mode of instruction
7 lectures by Dr. W. Heuves and guest lecturers on:
History of psychoanalytic thinking
Post-Freud development
Object-relation theory
TFP
Attachment and psychoanalysis
Neuroscience and psychoanalysis
MBT and psychoanalysis
Assessment method
- Take home exam.
Blackboard
Information on blackboard.leidenuniv.nl
Reading list
Mitchell, S.A. & Black, M.J. (1995). Freud and beyond. A history of modern psychoanalytic thought. New York: Basic Books.
Renik, O. (2006). Practical psychoanalysis for therapists and patients. New York: Other Press.
Registration
Course enrolment
Students need to enrol for the course via uSis on the master’s introduction and course enrolment day that takes place at the start of each semester. Please, consult the master’s agenda Psychology.
Contact information
Dr. W. Heuves
Room 2B42
Tel.: +31 (0)71 527 3741
E-mail: heuves@fsw.leidenuniv.nl