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Academic Year 2005/2006

Psychoanalytic Theory and its Applications
PSYC 285 FA

Several systems of viewing human personality, its development and consequent mental health issues exist in psychology. Some theories focus on factors inside the person, the person¿s belief and cognition about the self and the world, some systems focus on external environmental factors. This course recognizes the usefulness of both perspectives but will focus on what an individual can make of life from within unique, developmental, experience, as contained in psychoanalytic theories and research.

The focus will be on broad and specific concepts of psychoanalytic theory as is used in practice, how one extracts one-s meaningful self-explanations from personal experience, and how these processes may manifest themselves in known Mental Health Disorders.

MAJOR READINGS

Elliot, A. (2002). PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY. Duke Univ. Press: Durham

Freud, S. COLLECTED WORKS, Standard Edition, Vol. 1-23 (selected works will be given out in class, also references to many other authors).

Students may select any other original psychoanalytic book, topic, or application with approval for presentations and papers found in your independent literature research.

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Weekly writing assignments; papers and presentations.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

This is an elective course towards the psychology major.

COURSE FORMAT: Lecture/Discussion

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: SBS PSYC    Grading Mode: Graded   

Prerequisites: PSYC101 OR PSYC105 Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-30-2006

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