Close readings and discussions to study the major topics in Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology. We will concentrate on the work of Sigmund Freud vs. Alfred Adler, C.G. Jung, Otto Rank, Carl R. Rogers and Viktor Frankl as well. Within this term we will acknowledge recent developments in Personality Theories, Psychodynamic vs. the Person Centred Approach, in relation to DSM IV, as the anti- diagnostic movement expressed within. Personality theories will be seen as the apt work of dissidents to understand dissidents, (e.g. with a special focus to the work of scholars for Freud). Theories we discuss will be seen as the apt work of culture critics to understand our (common) culture. The course includes a visit to the Freud Museum and to the Museum of Anatomy and Pathology (1st psychiatric clinic in Vienna).
Prerequisites:
None
Learning outcomes:
1. European and American methods of approach in studying personality, character development and abnormal behaviour patterns
2. Major schools of individual and group therapy: Psychoanalysis (Freud), Analytical Psychology (Jung), Social Psychology (Adler), Will Therapy (Rank), Client-centered Therapy (Rogers) Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychology
3. Childhood influences and events in later life in relation to personality development with reference to the respective schools of psychology
4. Neurotic character development of the sociopathic personality (genetic, psychogenic, and social causes or social attribution)
5. Critical discussion of DSM IV described mental disorders and disease and everyday behaviour
6. The course includes a visit to Freud museum, video demonstrations, and a visit to Museum of
Anatomy and Pathology (former [and 1st] psychiatric clinic).
Students are expected to be able to understand DSM IV categories, in contrast to classical Psychoanalysis and psychopathology in the view of a Person Centered Approach. Each student will demonstrate his/her understanding in a commented case study.
Method of presentation:
Lectures, discussions, Video demonstrations
Required work and form of assessment:
Oral class presentation (40%); written midterm (30%); written final paper (30%). The course will be held in the way of an open reading, reflecting, discussing, learning seminar. Openness for discussion and personal involvement will be essential for the course as the active preparation for each class meeting: reading assignments, personal reflection units are important. Attendance of the class meetings and thorough preparation of the readings for each class meeting is essential for a successful participation in the seminar.
content:
Week 1
Getting to know ourselves. Introduction to the seminar
Science, Intuition, Experience, DSM IV and Psychopathology
Week 2
What are Psychoanalytical Aspects of Personality 1 (Friedman, Schustack: Chapter 3, p.61-106) What are Psychoanalytical Aspects of Personality (Normality – Abnormality) 2
Freud in Theory, Analyses and Society “Sexuality in the Ätiology of the Neuroses” (Freud 1898) p.220-248
Week 3
What are Neo-Analytical Aspects of Personality 1 (Friedman, Schustack Chapter 4 p. 107- 144) Adler What are Neo-Analytical Aspects of Personality 2 Jung, Horney
Week 4
Visit to the Freud Museum
Otto Rank: Neuroses as a failure in creativity. 1935, (p.251-259) Rank: Art and Artists, Introduction (p.3-47) Freud and the inner circle
Week 5
Behaviouristic and Learning Aspects of Personality (Friedman, Schustack Chapter 6 p.183 – 212)
Week 6
Midterm test
Week 7
Carl R. Rogers: Person Centred Theory of Personality 1
The Carl Rogers Reader Kirschenbaum, Henderson: Chapter 16 (p. 219-235) The Necessary and Sufficient Conditions of Personality Change Chapter 27 (p. 409-419) A Therapist´s View of the Good Life: The Fully Functioning Person
Week 8
Person-centered Theory of Personality 2
Kirschenbaum, Henderson: Chapter 17 (236-262) A Theory of Therapy, Personality, and Interpersonal Relationships, As Developed in the Client-Centered Framework Rogers, Russel: (p.245-260) The Quiet Revolutionary. An oral history.
Week 9
Person-centered Theory of Personality 3: Rogers in a demonstration interview
Week 10
P. Wilkins, (p.43-59) Person Centered Theory and Mental Illness´
M.S. Warner, (p.91-109) A Person-Centred View of Human Nature, Wellness, and Psychopathology
Week 11
Humanistic and Existential Aspects of Personality (Rollo May and V. Frankl) A Positive Psychology of Mental Health and the idea of Peak experiences S. Joseph, R, Worsley (p.348-358)
Friedman, Schustack; Chapter 9 (p. 287 – 316) Humanistic and Existential Aspects of Personality
Feist, Feist; Chapter 18 (p.520- 548) Existential Psychology (p. 520 – 548) A visit to the Museum of Pathology: to be coordinated
Week 12
Sommerbeck: Part two (p.29-58) Relating with the professionals of psychiatry
Sommerbeck: Part three (p.59-84) Relating with the patients of psychiatry
Week 13
Final exams
Required readings:
(assigned from)
Jess Feist; Theories of Personality. 4th ed. Mc Graw Hill 1998
Gian Vittorio Caprara, Daniel Cervone; Personality. Determinants, Dynamics, and Potentials. Cambridge University Press, 2000
Howard S. Friedman, Miriam W. Schustack (eds.); Personality. Classic Theories & Modern Research. Needham Heights, 1999
Friedman, Schustack (eds.)
Chapter 3 (p. 61 - 106) Psychoanalytical Aspects of Personality
Chapter 4 (p. 107- 144) Neo Analytical Aspects of Personality
Chapter 9 (p. 287 – 316) Humanistic and Existential Aspects of Personality
Freud, Sigmund
“Sexuality in the Ätiology of the Neuroses” (Freud 1898) p.220-248
“My views on the part played by sexuality in the aetiology of the neuroses” (Freud 1905) p.272-283
Lemma, Alessandra
Chapter 1, 2, 5, 9, Introduction to Psychopathology,
Kramer, Robert
A Psychology of Difference. The American lectures. Otto Rank. Ed. Robert Kramer. With a foreword by Rollo May. Introduction p.3-47
Psychoanalyses as general psychology, 1924 p.51-65
The trauma of birth and its importance for psychoanalytic therapy 1924, p.78-84
The problem of the aetiology of the neuroses. 1926 p. 112-115
The anxiety problem. 1926, p.116-130
The genesis of the guilt feeling 1926, p. 131-139
Love, guilt and the denial of feelings. 1927, p.153-165
Social adaptation and creativity. 1927, p.189-200
The Prometheus complex. 1927, p.201-210
Beyond psychoanalyses 1928, p.228-239
Neuroses as a failure in creativity. 1935, p.251-259
Modern psychology and social change. 1938, p.264-276
Kirschenbaum, Henderson
The Carl Rogers Reader
Chapter 16 (p. 219-235) The Necessary and Sufficient Conditions of Personality Change
Chapter 17 (p. 236-262) A Theory of Therapy, Personality, and Interpersonal Relationships, As Developed in the Client-Centered Framework
Chapter 27 (p. 409-419) A Therapist´s View of the Good Life: The Fully Functioning Person
Joseph, Worsley
P. Wilkins, (p.43-59) Person Centered Theory and Mental Illness´
M.S. Warner, (p.91-109) A Person-Centred View of Human Nature, Wellness, and Psychopathology
St. Joseph, R. Worsley, (p.348-359) A Positive Psychology of Mental Health
Sommerbeck, Lisbeth
Part two (p.29-58) Relating with the professionals of psychiatry
Part three (p.59-84) Relating with the patients of psychiatry
Recommended readings:
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. DSM IV. Washington: American Psychiatric Association
The Carl Rogers Reader. Howard Kirschenbaum and Valerie Land Henderson (eds.) Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1989
Carl Rogers: Dialogues. Conversations with Martin Buber, Paul Tillich, B.F. Skinner, Gregory Bateson, Michael Polanyi, Rollo May and Others. Howard Kirschenbaum and Valerie Land Henderson (eds.); Houghton Mifflin, Boston 1989.
Kirschenbaum, Howard; The Life and Work of Carl Rogers. PCCS Books, Ross- on-Wye. 2007
Rogers, Carl, R. and Russell David, E.; Carl Rogers. The Quiet Revolutionary. An oral history. Penmarin Books, Roseville, California. 2002
Friedman, Maurice; Dialogue and the Human Image. Beyond Humanistic Psychology. Sage Publications, London, Newbury Park, New Delhi 1992
Maslow, A.H.; The Farther Reaches of Human Nature. Penguin Book 1986
Levant, R. F., Shlien, J.M.; (eds.), Client-Centered Therapy and The Person-Centered Approach. New Directions in Theory, Research, and Practice. Praeger, New York 1984
Sommerbeck, Lisbeth, The Client Centred Therapist in psychiatric contexts. A therapist´s guide to the psychiatric landscape and its inhabitants. PCCS Books, Ross-on-Wye, 2003
Personality Theories and Psychopathology
Close readings and discussions to study the major topics in Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology. We will concentrate on the work of Sigmund Freud vs. Alfred Adler, C.G. Jung, Otto Rank, Carl R. Rogers and Viktor Frankl as well. Within this term we will acknowledge recent developments in Personality Theories, Psychodynamic vs. the Person Centred Approach, in relation to DSM IV, as the anti- diagnostic movement expressed within. Personality theories will be seen as the apt work of dissidents to understand dissidents, (e.g. with a special focus to the work of scholars for Freud). Theories we discuss will be seen as the apt work of culture critics to understand our (common) culture. The course includes a visit to the Freud Museum and to the Museum of Anatomy and Pathology (1st psychiatric clinic in Vienna).
None
1. European and American methods of approach in studying personality, character development and abnormal behaviour patterns
2. Major schools of individual and group therapy: Psychoanalysis (Freud), Analytical Psychology (Jung), Social Psychology (Adler), Will Therapy (Rank), Client-centered Therapy (Rogers) Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychology
3. Childhood influences and events in later life in relation to personality development with reference to the respective schools of psychology
4. Neurotic character development of the sociopathic personality (genetic, psychogenic, and social causes or social attribution)
5. Critical discussion of DSM IV described mental disorders and disease and everyday behaviour
6. The course includes a visit to Freud museum, video demonstrations, and a visit to Museum of
Anatomy and Pathology (former [and 1st] psychiatric clinic).
Students are expected to be able to understand DSM IV categories, in contrast to classical Psychoanalysis and psychopathology in the view of a Person Centered Approach. Each student will demonstrate his/her understanding in a commented case study.
Lectures, discussions, Video demonstrations
Oral class presentation (40%); written midterm (30%); written final paper (30%). The course will be held in the way of an open reading, reflecting, discussing, learning seminar. Openness for discussion and personal involvement will be essential for the course as the active preparation for each class meeting: reading assignments, personal reflection units are important. Attendance of the class meetings and thorough preparation of the readings for each class meeting is essential for a successful participation in the seminar.
Week 1
Getting to know ourselves. Introduction to the seminar
Science, Intuition, Experience, DSM IV and Psychopathology
Week 2
What are Psychoanalytical Aspects of Personality 1 (Friedman, Schustack: Chapter 3, p.61-106) What are Psychoanalytical Aspects of Personality (Normality – Abnormality) 2
Freud in Theory, Analyses and Society “Sexuality in the Ätiology of the Neuroses” (Freud 1898) p.220-248
Week 3
What are Neo-Analytical Aspects of Personality 1 (Friedman, Schustack Chapter 4 p. 107- 144) Adler What are Neo-Analytical Aspects of Personality 2 Jung, Horney
Week 4
Visit to the Freud Museum
Otto Rank: Neuroses as a failure in creativity. 1935, (p.251-259) Rank: Art and Artists, Introduction (p.3-47) Freud and the inner circle
Week 5
Behaviouristic and Learning Aspects of Personality (Friedman, Schustack Chapter 6 p.183 – 212)
Week 6
Midterm test
Week 7
Carl R. Rogers: Person Centred Theory of Personality 1
The Carl Rogers Reader Kirschenbaum, Henderson: Chapter 16 (p. 219-235) The Necessary and Sufficient Conditions of Personality Change Chapter 27 (p. 409-419) A Therapist´s View of the Good Life: The Fully Functioning Person
Week 8
Person-centered Theory of Personality 2
Kirschenbaum, Henderson: Chapter 17 (236-262) A Theory of Therapy, Personality, and Interpersonal Relationships, As Developed in the Client-Centered Framework Rogers, Russel: (p.245-260) The Quiet Revolutionary. An oral history.
Week 9
Person-centered Theory of Personality 3: Rogers in a demonstration interview
Week 10
P. Wilkins, (p.43-59) Person Centered Theory and Mental Illness´
M.S. Warner, (p.91-109) A Person-Centred View of Human Nature, Wellness, and Psychopathology
Week 11
Humanistic and Existential Aspects of Personality (Rollo May and V. Frankl) A Positive Psychology of Mental Health and the idea of Peak experiences S. Joseph, R, Worsley (p.348-358)
Friedman, Schustack; Chapter 9 (p. 287 – 316) Humanistic and Existential Aspects of Personality
Feist, Feist; Chapter 18 (p.520- 548) Existential Psychology (p. 520 – 548) A visit to the Museum of Pathology: to be coordinated
Week 12
Sommerbeck: Part two (p.29-58) Relating with the professionals of psychiatry
Sommerbeck: Part three (p.59-84) Relating with the patients of psychiatry
Week 13
Final exams
(assigned from)
Jess Feist; Theories of Personality. 4th ed. Mc Graw Hill 1998
Gian Vittorio Caprara, Daniel Cervone; Personality. Determinants, Dynamics, and Potentials. Cambridge University Press, 2000
Howard S. Friedman, Miriam W. Schustack (eds.); Personality. Classic Theories & Modern Research. Needham Heights, 1999
Friedman, Schustack (eds.)
Chapter 3 (p. 61 - 106) Psychoanalytical Aspects of Personality
Chapter 4 (p. 107- 144) Neo Analytical Aspects of Personality
Chapter 9 (p. 287 – 316) Humanistic and Existential Aspects of Personality
Freud, Sigmund
“Sexuality in the Ätiology of the Neuroses” (Freud 1898) p.220-248
“My views on the part played by sexuality in the aetiology of the neuroses” (Freud 1905) p.272-283
Feist, Feist
Chapter 16 (p.454 – 486) C.R. Rogers: Person Centered Theory.
Chapter 17 (p.488-519) Maslow: Holistic Dynamic Theory
Chapter 18 (p.520- 548) Existential Psychology (p. 520 – 548)
Lemma, Alessandra
Chapter 1, 2, 5, 9, Introduction to Psychopathology,
Kramer, Robert
A Psychology of Difference. The American lectures. Otto Rank. Ed. Robert Kramer. With a foreword by Rollo May. Introduction p.3-47
Psychoanalyses as general psychology, 1924 p.51-65
The trauma of birth and its importance for psychoanalytic therapy 1924, p.78-84
The problem of the aetiology of the neuroses. 1926 p. 112-115
The anxiety problem. 1926, p.116-130
The genesis of the guilt feeling 1926, p. 131-139
Love, guilt and the denial of feelings. 1927, p.153-165
Social adaptation and creativity. 1927, p.189-200
The Prometheus complex. 1927, p.201-210
Beyond psychoanalyses 1928, p.228-239
Neuroses as a failure in creativity. 1935, p.251-259
Modern psychology and social change. 1938, p.264-276
Kirschenbaum, Henderson
The Carl Rogers Reader
Chapter 16 (p. 219-235) The Necessary and Sufficient Conditions of Personality Change
Chapter 17 (p. 236-262) A Theory of Therapy, Personality, and Interpersonal Relationships, As Developed in the Client-Centered Framework
Chapter 27 (p. 409-419) A Therapist´s View of the Good Life: The Fully Functioning Person
Joseph, Worsley
P. Wilkins, (p.43-59) Person Centered Theory and Mental Illness´
M.S. Warner, (p.91-109) A Person-Centred View of Human Nature, Wellness, and Psychopathology
St. Joseph, R. Worsley, (p.348-359) A Positive Psychology of Mental Health
Sommerbeck, Lisbeth
Part two (p.29-58) Relating with the professionals of psychiatry
Part three (p.59-84) Relating with the patients of psychiatry
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. DSM IV. Washington: American Psychiatric Association
The Carl Rogers Reader. Howard Kirschenbaum and Valerie Land Henderson (eds.) Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1989
Carl Rogers: Dialogues. Conversations with Martin Buber, Paul Tillich, B.F. Skinner, Gregory Bateson, Michael Polanyi, Rollo May and Others. Howard Kirschenbaum and Valerie Land Henderson (eds.); Houghton Mifflin, Boston 1989.
Kirschenbaum, Howard; The Life and Work of Carl Rogers. PCCS Books, Ross- on-Wye. 2007
Rogers, Carl, R. and Russell David, E.; Carl Rogers. The Quiet Revolutionary. An oral history. Penmarin Books, Roseville, California. 2002
Friedman, Maurice; Dialogue and the Human Image. Beyond Humanistic Psychology. Sage Publications, London, Newbury Park, New Delhi 1992
Maslow, A.H.; The Farther Reaches of Human Nature. Penguin Book 1986
Levant, R. F., Shlien, J.M.; (eds.), Client-Centered Therapy and The Person-Centered Approach. New Directions in Theory, Research, and Practice. Praeger, New York 1984
Sommerbeck, Lisbeth, The Client Centred Therapist in psychiatric contexts. A therapist´s guide to the psychiatric landscape and its inhabitants. PCCS Books, Ross-on-Wye, 2003