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 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.
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