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This Module aims to:

• Explore psychoanalytic theory and practice within the field of Psychotherapy.
• Critically evaluate the place of the unconscious in the development and delivery of effective therapy.
• Develop a critical appraisal of the fundamental characteristics associated with psychoanalytic approaches.
• Introduce students to the work of significant theorists in the field of psychoanalysis.
• Support the integrative application of theory and associated techniques in psychotherapy practice.

On completion of this module and following a period of personal study and engagement in tutorials, workshops, reading groups and online collaborative discussions it is intended that the student will be able to:

• Examine the place of psychoanalytic theory and practice within the field of psychotherapy.
• Analyse and critically examine the theoretical underpinnings of psychoanalytic approaches to therapeutic encounters.
• Critically assess the process of case formulation and therapeutic change as conceptualised by psychoanalytic traditions.
• Critically evaluate the impact the discovery of the unconscious had on the development of a psychical topography.
• Critically analyse psychoanalytic frameworks of development and psychopathology.
• Critically evaluate the outcomes and process research literature relating to psychoanalytic models of psychotherapy.
• Examine and articulate how transference may either facilitate or inhibit therapeutic practice.
• Critique the contribution that psychoanalytic practice makes to pathway specific pathology.

This module is based on introducing students to the advanced theory and knowledge required to conduct counselling and psychotherapy with an integrative approach. The primary areas of the module are outlined below:

• Exploration of psychoanalytic theory and practice with particular emphasis on an introduction to Freud, Klein, Bion and Lacan.
• Consideration and comparison of psychical development from Freudian, Kleinian and Lacanian perspectives
• Exploration of the myth and reality of Oedipus.
• Consideration of how psychoanalytic theory conceptualises pathology and engages in assessment and treatment.
• Analysis of how psychodynamic models create and maintain therapeutic alliance.
• Exploration of the unconscious, repression, defense mechanisms, containment, transference, counter transference, language and desire.
• Exploration and analysis of the concept of group psychoanalytic theory.
• Consideration of integrative approach, including exploration of how models may be integrated in practice both as a method to treat and as a tool to understanding psychopathology.
• Evaluate research pertinent to the practice of psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
• Critique the contribution of psychoanalytic approaches make to pathway specific pathology.

Essential:

Ashbach, C., & Shermer, V. (1994) Object relations the self and the group London: Rutledge (in DCU Library)

DeBoard R, (1978) The Psychoanalysis of Organisations London: Rutledge Press (in DCU Library)

Freud, S. (2001) The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud Volume 2 Studies on Hysteria London Vintage (in DCU Library)

Freud, S. (2001) The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud Volume 7 A Case of Hysteria, Three Essays on Sexuality and Other Works London Vintage (in DCU Library)

Freud, S. (2001) The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud Volume 22 New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis and Other Works London Vintage (in DCU Library)

Verhaeghe, P., (2004) On Being Normal and Other Disorders New York: Other Press

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