I will be facilitating a thirteen week reading seminar for grad students, social workers, psychiatrists, and therapists at any stage of their career who are interested in learning more about psychodynamics and psychoanalysis. This class is designed for folks who are interested in psychoanalysis, but didn't receive much training at the graduate or post-graduate level. I bring a contemporary, social justice informed approach to psychoanalytic thinking. It's a good class for anyone who's intimidated by psychoanalysis and wants to learn more in a low-stakes environment.

The first half hour of class will be devoted to discussing a variety of readings. The second portion of the class will be a case conference, where one participant at a time will present a case in depth. Participants will present two weeks in a row. The case presentations are not supervision, but an opportunity for us to think together psychoanalytically.

The class will be an hour and fifteen minutes long, and costs $85 per week. A deposit of $170 is due to reserve your spot, and covers the first two weeks. In order to allow time for everyone to present a case, class will be limited to six clinicians.

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Potential syllabus (but subject to change)

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Who's Afraid of Psychoanalysis?

Claire Greenwood, LMFT

Week One: Introducing Psychoanalysis

The Psychoanalytic Sensibility– from Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, by Nancy McWilliams 

“What I would not part with”– Thomas Ogden

Week Two: A Brief History of Psychoanalysis

"Psychoanalytic Diagnosis," by Nancy McWilliams

Week Three: Transference and Countertransference

“Transference” and "Countertransference" in Essential Psychodynamic Therapy, by Teri Quatman 

Week Four: Object Relations

"The Theory of Parent-Infant Relationship " Winnicott

Week Five: Race and Racism

“Surviving Hating and Being Hated”– Kathleen White

“The Police, Black and Hispanic Boys: A Dangerous Inability to Mentalize,” Vaughans, K. C., & Harris, L. (2016)

Week Six: Queer eroticism and creativity 

"Blocked Creativity and Inhibited Erotic Transference," by Dianne Elise

Week Seven: The analytic third

“Beyond Doer and Done to” Jessica Benjamin

Week Eight: Enactments

"Who's bad object are we anyway?" By Jodie Davis

Week Nine: Social media and psychotherapy 

Kaluzeviciute, G. (2020) Social Media and its Impact on Therapeutic Relationships. British Journal of Psychotherapy 36:303-320

Week Ten: Money and fees

“Show Me the Money: (the “Problem” of) the Therapist's Desire, Subjectivity, and Relationship to the Fee,” by Kachina Myers

Week Eleven: Transness and gender identity 

Gender Without Identity, excerpts 

Week Twelve: Endings

“Termination Never Ends”- Bonovitz