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Syllabus INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOTHERAPY FIELD - 51605
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Last update 09-09-2016
HU Credits: 2

Degree/Cycle: 1st degree (Bachelor)

Responsible Department: psychology

Semester: 1st Semester

Teaching Languages: Hebrew

Campus: Mt. Scopus

Course/Module Coordinator: Avner HaCohen

Coordinator Email: avner.psy@gmail.com

Coordinator Office Hours: by appointment

Teaching Staff:
Mr. Avner Hacohen

Course/Module description:
Chronological and essentialist review of the origins and development of psychotherapy since Freud to the present.

Course/Module aims:
This course gives an introduction to theoretical and experiential concepts in the Psychotherapeutic field.

Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
It gives the student a basic "map" and an initial orientation in the language, variation and experience of Psychotherapy.

Attendance requirements(%):
100

Teaching arrangement and method of instruction: Frontal teaching using clinical examples.

Course/Module Content:
1. Models of change in psychotherapy: "doing" and "being"; the role of relationship in therapy, process and goal.
2. Historical perspective of mental illness: Demonizing the Illness, custody of mentally ill, the Medical model and the anti-psychiatry movement.
3. Foundations of dynamic therapy, the five floors of theory: ground floor. Freud: rehabilitation-of-memory, and the conflict-model. The discovery of the unconscious. The objectification of therapy and positivism.
4. Second floor and the first revolution: ego psychology and object-relations in psychotherapy. The shift from "a person-meets-a world" psychology to "a person-meets-a person" psychology.
5. Rebellion - moving to a new building: Cognitive-Behavioral-Therapy. Same goal, different methods.
6. Third floor: Integrative approaches in dynamic therapy. Winnicott and "potential - space", the 'third' and the therapeutic space, therapy as relationship.
7. Forth floor: from objectivism to subjective and narrative truth. From "understanding" to "helping", Empathy and self psychology.
8. Fifth floor: subject meets subject. Relational psychology and inter-subjectivity. A critical appraisal of dynamic theory and the birth of a new tradition.

Required Reading:
Reading
1. Yaron, Hamutal., Laing, Szasz & Foucault - Part A
http://www.blabla4u.com/sites/blabla4u/ShowMessage-eng.asp?LangCode&eq;Heb&ID&eq;2525228
2. Foucault, M., Histoire de la Folie a L’age Classique. 1972. Ch 1+9
3. Szasz,T.S., The Myth of Mental Illness. American Psychologist. 1960, Feb;15: 113-118. http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Szasz/myth.htm
4. Freud, S. (1893). Katharina, Case Histories from Studies on Hysteria. The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Volume II (1893-1895): Studies on Hysteria, 125-134
5. James Strachey, The Nature of the Therapeutic Action of Psycho-Analysis. (1934). International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 15:127-159
6. Breuer, J. and Freud, S. (1956). On the Psychical Mechanism of Hysterical. (1893). The
International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol 37, pp. 8-13.
7. Phillips, Adam. Winnicott. Cambridge, Mass.: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1989,
8. Mitchell &Black, Freud and Beyond. BasicBooks. 1995. Ch. 2, 5, 6, 8, 9

Additional Reading Material:
none

Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 0 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 0 %
Project work 100 %
Assignments 0 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %

Additional information:
It is recommended to take his course together with field work in a Public care service.
 
Students needing academic accommodations based on a disability should contact the Center for Diagnosis and Support of Students with Learning Disabilities, or the Office for Students with Disabilities, as early as possible, to discuss and coordinate accommodations, based on relevant documentation.
For further information, please visit the site of the Dean of Students Office.
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