Postgraduate Course: Principles of Contemporary Psychoanalytic Thinking and Practice (CNST11045)
Course Outline
| School | School of Health in Social Science |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 10 |
| Home subject area | Counselling Studies |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
http://www.health.ed.ac.uk/counsellingstudies/cpd/intropsychoanalyticprinciples.htm |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | The aim of the course is to explore contemporary psychoanalytic thinking in the context of the psychoanalytic tradition in order to understand these lines of development and radical changes. It aims to link these developmental trajectories to different ways of conceptualising the self in relationship and how this underpins understandings and practices of being with others in personal and professional relationships
The course will explore how contemporary perspectives rework traditional themes in psychoanalytic thought. Classical psychoanalytic ideas such as the unconscious, repression and other defences, infantile sexuality and the Oedipus complex will be critically discussed alongside later attempts to reconfigure them. More recent conceptualisations such as sex and desire, narcissism, self and other, narrative, subjectivity and memory will also be explored. Both traditional and contemporary psychoanalytic thought will be placed in their historical and cultural times.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | This course is also available for visiting Continuing Professional Development students who may take the course as a free-standing learning opportunity. The course may be combined with Supervised Reading in Counselling Studies (10 credits). |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course students should be able to:
?Conceptualise and analyse different strands of twentieth and twenty-first century psychoanalytic thought
?Critically explore how traditional psychoanalytic concepts including the unconscious, infantile sexuality and the Oedipus complex have been reworked
?Critically examine the contours of key contemporary psychoanalytic debates about self and other, sex and desire, subjectivity and narrative
?Formulate a psychoanalytic conceptual framework through which to reflect on their own self experience
?Critically apply psychoanalytic thought to the understanding of personal and professional relationships, both past and present
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Assessment Information
A 2,000 ? 2,500 word assignment asking students to write a critical analysis of one or more of the course themes, using personal and professional reflections to illustrate the discussion. The discussion should be placed within an appropriate historical, cultural and personal context.
If taken in conjunction with Supervised Reading in Counselling Studies (10 credits) the same assignment question is completed at double the length. The assignment should therefore be 4,000 ? 5,000 words. The combination with Supervised Reading allows students to explore the assignment topic at greater depth and complexity.
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Special Arrangements
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Additional Information
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| Transferable skills |
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| Reading list |
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| Study Abroad |
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Ms Judith Fewell
Tel: (0131 6)51 6230
Email: Judith.Fewell@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Sue Larsen
Tel: (0131 6)51 6671
Email: Sue.Larsen@ed.ac.uk |
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