Judith Hamilton - Therapist & Educator
Judith Hamilton - Therapist & Educator
Psychoanalyst - Freudian and Lacanian Orientation
Psychoanalyst - Freudian and Lacanian Orientation
Psychoanalysis - First Year DEPRESSION
Seminar 1 - History and Basic Concepts
Required Reading:
1. Freud, S. (1917) Mourning and melancholia. S.E. 14: 239-258.
2. Abraham, K. (1924) A short study of the development of the libido, viewed in the light of mental disorders, in Selected Papers on Psycho-Analysis. 1927. Brunner/Mazel, Inc., New York. 422-433, 453-470.
Supplementary Reading:
1. Jacobson, E. (1971) Normal and pathological moods: their nature and functions, in Depression: Comparative Studies of Normal, Neurotic and Psychotic Conditions. I.U.P., New York, 66-106.
Seminar 2: Depressive Illness
Required Reading:
1. Bibring, E. (1953) The mechanism of depression, in Affective Disorders. Edited by P. Greenacre, I.U.P., New York, 13-48.
2. Jacobson, E. (1971) On depressive states: nosological and theoretical problems, in Depression: Comparative Studies of Normal, Neurotic and Psychotic Conditions. I.U.P., New York, 167-184.
Supplementary Reading:
1. Cohen, Mabel Blake et al (1954) An intensive study of twelve cases of manic-depressive psychosis. Psychiatry 17: 103-138. From Chestnut Lodge. A section in Psychoanalytic Concepts of Depression, by Myer Mendelson. (1974) Spectrum Publications, Inc., Flushing, New York. 59-64.
2. Dorpat, T.L. (1977) Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 32: 3-27
3. Jacobson, E. (1953) Contribution to the metapsychology of cyclothymic depression, in Affective Disorders. Edited by P. Greenacre. I.U.P., New York, 49-83.
4. Joffe, W.G. and J. Sandler (1967) On disorders of narcissism, in From Safety to Superego. 1989. Karnac Books, London, 180-190.
5. Lax, Ruth F. (1989) The narcissistic investment in pathological character traits and the narcissistic depression: some implications for treatment. Int. J. Psycho-Anal. 70: 81-90.
6. Parkin, A. (1976) Melancholia: a reconsideration. J.A.P.A. 24: 123-139.
Seminar 3 - Controversies and Therapeutic Issues
Required Reading:
1. Brenner, C. (1991) A psychoanalytic perspective on depression. J.A.P.A. 39: 25-43.
2. Jacobson, E. (1971) Transference problems in the psychoanalytic treatment of severely depressive patients, in Depression: Comparative Studies of Normal, Neurotic and Psychotic Conditions. I.U.P., New York, 284-301.
3. Stone, L. (1986) Psychoanalytic observations on the pathology of depressive illness: selected spheres of ambiguity and disagreement. J.A.P.A. 34: 329-362.
Supplementary Reading:
1. Guéguen, Pierre-Gilles (2009) The Plunge of the Symptom in Hypermodernity. Lacanian Compass, Vol. 1, Issue 14, 5-12.
2. Jacobson, E. (1971) The influence of infantile conflicts on recurring depressive states, in Depression: Comparative Studies of Normal, Neurotic and Psychotic Condition. I.U.P., New York, 204-227.
3. Joffe, W.G. and J. Sandler (1965) Pain, depression and individuation, in From Safetyto Superego. 1989. Karnac Books, London, 154-179.
4. Lupi, Robert S. (1998) Classics revisited: Freud’s “Mourning and Melancholia”. APA Panel 1995. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn. 46: 867-883. Panelists: Edward Nersessian (chair), Leon Hoffman, Otto F. Kernberg, Stephen A. Mitchell; Discussant: Arnold Rothstein.