Curriculum*
First Year
Semester A
1. Theoretical Seminar:
Main psychoanalytical concepts and their application in group therapy.
The aim of this course is to learn about and deepen one's knowledge of the main concepts of psychoanalysis and their manifestations in therapy in general and in group therapy specifically (therapeutic alliance, transference, counter-transference, projective identification, resistance, etc.)
2. Theoretical Seminar:
The socio-historic-cultural foundation for the development of theories of group analysis according to Foulkes.
The course will include the following topics, presented by specialists.
• Historical development of group therapy (method and group understanding), mapping of types of group therapies.
• The historic-social-cultural-political and philosophical background for the development of theories according to Foulkes.
• Psychological theories and their effect on group therapy.
• Basic concepts in Foulkes' theory.
3. Experience in a small group.
The small group provides experiential space for learning, while introducing the group analysis approach. Each group will comprise 6-8 participants.
4. Experience in a medium group.
Once a month there will be a group of all the year's students. In this constellation the students will be able to examine their professional identity, the relationships that they form, their belonging to the world of groups, to group analysis in general and to the Israeli Institute of Group Analysis specifically.
Semester B
1. Theoretical Seminar:
The place of dynamic administration in Foulkes' Theory.
Planning and establishing a group, choosing the participants, intake, therapeutic contract, setting, etc.
2. Theoretical Seminar:
The socio-historic-cultural foundation for the development of theories of group analysis according to Foulkes (continuation from Semester A).
3. Experience in a small group (continuation from Semester A)
4. Medium group (continuation from Semester A)
Second Year
Semester A
1. Theoretical Seminar:
Based on Foulkes: The development of group analysis.
In this seminar Foulkes' theories and perception will be studied.
2. Theoretical Seminar:
Group Analyst: From a group therapist to a therapist-partner in the group.
Group analyst identity and his roles. The place of the analyst in the group, the analytical standpoint, the analytical distance, holding, containment, reverie, etc.
3. Supervision Seminar:
The coaching seminar is a framework that enables personal and professional growth in all the therapist's stages of development. The aim of the coaching, at this stage, is to accompany the therapist's entry into the world of group analysis and to assist him in preparing the theoretical and practical ground for building his group. The group will supply the students with a space for sharing and observation, in which they can encounter the various aspects of their work as group analysts, deal with them and process them.
4. Medium group – continuation.
Semester B
1. Theoretical Seminar:
The group as a whole – Bion and his followers.
This course will deal with the theories of Wilfred Bion. We will learn and expand on Bion's basic concepts, such as: theory of thinking, theory of linking, container-contained, binocular vision, and we will use integrative thought to understand his ideas. In addition, we will deal with developments and expansions of Bion's group work by Gordon Lorence, and others.
2. Theoretical Seminar:
Clinical aspects of the analytical group.
In this seminar we will continue to deal with the various applications of group analysis, we will discuss the therapeutic meaning of central concepts, such as: the group matrix, the group as a whole, levels of communication in the group process, areas of communication, resonance and mirroring. We will study the interrelationship between the individual and the group and will focus on unique therapeutic interventions that relate to the mutual influences between the group members.
3. Supervision seminar: continuation.
4. Medium group: continuation.
Third Year
Semester A
1. Theoretical Seminar:
From Foulkes till to day
The seminar will deal with current developments of group analysis and will include readings of the work of group analysts based on Foulkes' concepts, followers of his ideas, who contribute their innovations and open additional and critical channels of thought. The work of Dennis Brown, Dieter Nitzgen, Morris Nitsun, Ralf Stacey, and others will be studied.
2. Theoretical Seminar:
Unique phenomena in group life and coping with them.
The seminar will deal with the combination of theoretical understanding of group analysis and the clinical process. The following phenomena will be discussed: competition and envy, scapegoats, sub-groups, dropping out, resistance, intimacy, empathy, recognition and validation, unity, constructive and destructive forces and others.
3. Supervision: continuation.
4. Medium group: continuation.
Semester B
1. Theoretical Seminar:
Bion and Foulkes in "one boat".
The seminar will compare the theories of Foulkes and Bion, and will examine the practical applications of group work.
2. Theoretical Seminar:
Emotional communication.
This seminar will deal with the theoretical infrastructure of the various contributions to psychodynamic thinking over the past decades. These contributions lean, in addition to psychoanalysis, on cognitive science, observations of the relationship between babies and their caretakers and brain research. The course will be based on articles that represent some of these disciplines and will include, among others, a discussion of the work of Daniel Stern, Beatrice Beebe, Frank Lachman, Steven Mitchell, Elizabeth Fivaz- Depeursinge and Antoinette Corboz- Warenery, Wilma Bucci, Antonio Demasio, Josef Ledoux, Philip Bromberg and others.
3. Supervision: continuation.
4. Medium group: continuation.
Fourth Year
Semester A
1. Theoretical Seminar:
The group as a "potential space".
This seminar will deal with the various aspects and significance of the therapeutic space created in the analytical group, from the perspective of Winnicott, Ogden and other group analysts who refer to the subject.
2. Theoretical Seminar:
Gender and Sexuality
This seminar will deal with various theoretical concepts regarding questions of gender and sexuality; we will examine their implications and influence on the processes in the therapeutic group and the ability to identify, to understand and to process them. The seminar will discuss questions of gender and sexuality in the various psychoanalytical theories: in passion and emotions, the personal and social, the psychic and cultural and the encounter with the therapeutic act in an analytical group.
3. Supervision: continuation.
4. Medium group: continuation.
Semester B
1. Theoretical Seminar:
Inter-subjective theories and their contribution to group analysis.
This seminar will deal with the main concepts of relational and inter-subjective theories of psychoanalysis. We will examine their connection and relevance to group analysis. The seminar will discuss articles of the major writers in this field, such as Mitchell, Benjamin, Aron and others, while comparing their ideas with theoreticians in the field of group analysis
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2. Theoretical Seminar:
Social unconsciousness and Israeli society.
This seminar will deal with understanding the large group and its various aspects, the concept of "social unconsciousness" (Earl Hooper and others) and its contribution to understanding Israeli society, as well as issues such as social trauma, "The Chosen Trauma" (Vollkan), aspects of bereavement and loss, inter-cultural gaps, victimization and aggression, etc.
3. Supervision: continuation.
4. Medium group: continuation.
In addition:
• Intensive workshops will be held by conductors from Israel and abroad.
• The students will take part in the Institute's Days (not including from Institute Days intended for seniors only) and in all the Institute lectures, free of charge. In addition, the students will receive the same discount given to the Institute's members for the Fellowship's group therapy and facilitating activities.
* Subject might be changed.
* Subject might be changed.
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