Origins & Development of the Self
Rupert Tower; Hessel Willemsen; Elizabeth Urban; Ann Shearer
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Week 1
Session 1: The Self
Session 2: Implications for technique: reality and the therapeutic alliance
Zinkin, L. (2008) Discussion of Zinkin’s paper ‘Your Self: did you find it or did you make it?’” JAP 53, 3, 407–420. (ISSN: 0021-8774) Available on PepWeb
Optional reading for your own information – The original paper being discussed (above) is in the same issue of the JAP: Zinkin, L. ‘Your Self: did you find it or did you make it?’ JAP, 53: 3, 389-406. (ISSN: 00218774) Available on PepWeb
Week 2
Session 1: Complex Theory
Session 2: Implications for technique – unconscious phantasy and the internal world
Week 3
Session 1: Individuation and the Development of the Self
Session 2: Impact on clinical technique
Schmidt. M. (2005) ‘Individuation: finding oneself in analysis – taking risks and making sacrifices’ JAP:50, 5, 595-616. (ISSN: 0021-8774) Available on PepWeb
Week 4 (Led by Elizabeth Urban)
Session 1: Fordham’s model of development in relation to children and adults
Fordham, M. (1993) ‘Notes for the Formation of a Model’. JAP: 38, 5-12 (ISSN: 0021-8774). Available on PEPweb.Also in Fordham, M. (1995) Freud, Jung, Klein: The Fenceless Field , Chapter 3, pp. 69-75, ed. R. Hobdell, London: Routledge (ISBN: 0-415-11080-7)
Urban, E. (2005) Fordham, Jung and the self: a re-examination of Fordham’s contribution to Jung’s conceptualization of the self. JAP:50, 5, 571–594. (ISSN: 0021-8774) Available on PEPweb
Session 2: Implications for clinical practice
Astor, J. (2002) Analytical psychology and its relation to psychoanalysis. A personal view. JAP:47, 4, 599–612. (ISSN: 0021-8774) Available on PEPweb
Week 5 (Led by Ann Shearer)
Session 1: Jung and the Self
‘What is the Self?’ – Unpublished document
Session Two: Implications for Clinical Practice
Week 6 (Led by Elizabeth Urban)
Session 1: Fordham’s Defences of the Self
Fordham, M. (1974) ‘Defences of the Self’ JAP, 19: 2, 192-199 628 (ISSN: 0021-8774) Available on PEPweb
Fordham, M. (1985) ‘Abandonment’. Chiron: 1-21. Wilmette, USA: Chiron Publications.
Session 2: Working with Defences of the Self
Astor, J. (2007) ‘Fordham, feeling, and countertransference: reflections on defences of the self’ JAP, 52:2, 185–205 628 (ISSN: 0021-8774) Available on PEPweb
Urban, E. (2013) ‘Reflections on learning from the patient’. JAP: 58:510-529 Available on PEPweb
Week 7
Session 1: Dissociation and Trauma
Session 2: Mentalization: A useful or an irrelevant concept?
Holmes, J (2006) Notes on Mentalizing – Old Hat, or New Wine? British Journal of Psychotherapy 22: 2, 179-198 (ISSN 0265-9883) Available on PEPweb
Bateman, A.; Fonagy, P. (2013) Mentalization-Based Treatment. Psychoanalytic Inquiry; 33: 595-613
Week 8
Session 1: The Ego-Self Axis and Dissociation
Edinger, E. (1960) The Ego-Self Paradox JAP, 5:1, 3-18. (ISSN: 0021-8774) Available on PEPweb
Session 2: Dissociation in clinical practice
Week 9
Session 1: The Self in Dreams
Boa, F. (1988) The Self. In The Way of the Dream: Conversations on Jungian Dream Interpretation with Marie-Louise Von Franz pp.209-229. Boston and London: Shambhala (ISBN: 0969325401)
Note: We need a clarification on this reading from the tutor. We’ll prepare and upload this reading as soon as the tutor confirms what they would like circulated.
Session 2: Working with dreams
Note: It would be useful to read chapters 1,3 & 4 also – the book is available from the library or Amazon.
Week 10
Session 1: The Self in Dreams
Session 2: Working with Dreams in the Context of the Self
Lindorff, D. (1995) ‘One Thousand Dreams: The spiritual awakening of Wolfgang Pauli’. JAP, 40: 4, pp 555–569 0021-8774/95/4004/555 Available on PEPweb