For Students
Have a favorite psychoanalytic article or book? Share your favorite readings with others! Send us the information for your favorite article, book, video etc. using the "contact us" button on the left and we will post the information to our page so that others may enjoy as well!
Division 39 Scholars Program:
The Division 39 Scholars programs offers awards to graduate students and early career psychologists in hopes of familiarizing interested individuals with the various fields of psychoanalysis and their many applications. Scholars are provided with a stipend to attend the Division 39 Annual Spring Meeting, as well as a mentor for an entire year. For more information, or to apply, please view the link here:
Division 39 Scholars Program
Books:
Freud, A. (1937). The Ego and the mechanisms of defense. New York, NY: International Universities Press. ISBN 13: 978-1855750388
Freud, S. (1955). The Interpretation of Dreams: The complete and definitive text. J. Stachey (Ed. & Trans.). New York, NY: Avon Books. ISBN 13: 978-0-465-01977-9
McWilliams, N. (1999). Psychoanalytic case formulation. New York, NY: The Guilford Press. ISBN 13: 978- 1572304628
McWilliams, N. (2004). Psychoanalytic psychotherapy: A practitioner’s guide. New York, NY: The Guildford Press. ISBN 13: 978-1593850098
McWilliams, N. (2011). Psychoanalytic Diagnosis: Understanding personality structure in the clinical process (2nd ed.). New York, NY: The Guilford Press. ISBN 13: 978-1-60918-494-0
Student Work
Here you will find short stories, poetry, photography, drawings, and anything else artistic! Get creative and submit your artwork. Many consider psychoanalysis a form of art, so deep down we all have that creative drive. Please remember to indicate in your submission whether you will or will not want your name and school indicated on the post.
Words Being Born (11/25/2014)
The below poem was written by William Caperton. William is a Doctoral Candidate in Counseling Psychology at Marquette University and Psychology Intern at the University of Iowa University Counseling Service.
In August of this year, I began my predoctoral internship at the University of Iowa counseling center. I was drawn to this site, in part, due to the option of completing an emphasis in Time-Limited Dynamic Psychotherapy. Throughout my graduate training, I have tried to supplement my studies by connecting with and attending offerings at local psychoanalytic institutes, but this is the first year I’ve been able to more deeply immerse myself in the application of psychodynamic work. I was excited to help my client’s un-tangle the knots that inevitably brought them into my office, to help them attend to their words, spoken and unspoken, and develop a more richly textured narrative for themselves.
On a run after one particularly difficult day, in which nothing felt like it was clicking, in which I was questioning my own ability, acutely feeling the impossibility of doing the work I knew could be helpful in the necessarily brief setting allotted (typically 5-12 sessions), I began to think in particular of wordlessness. Of client’s for whom the very act of speech felt inadequate, impossible, untenable. This poem began to form. I think this presentation from the non-scientific, non-obsessed-with-being a competent provider of evidence based therapies part of myself is a kind of compassion, for my clients, but for myself as well. To avoid the potential of further dilution, here is the poem.
Words Being Born
you say
nothing you say
can come close
to the bone
the breath
the tongue
come close
to the wound
the word
the wounded word
you speak
a word
wound tight
through teeth
breathe
your
voice breaks
the nothing
you say
a word
a sign
you sing
this breathing
thing breaking
your will
your word
your wound
unwound
in the space
between
our breaths
our bodies
becoming
no thing
becoming breath
coming back
into the world
being born
through words
Psychoanalytically Oriented Dissertations in Progress
Working on your dissertation and looking for some additional resources or peer support? Want to provide some advice or guidance to someone currently working on their dissertation? Send us the title and a short description of your dissertation in progress along with your name, email address, and university name. We will post the information to our our dissertations in progress page so that others may reach out to you in search of support, to lend support, in search of collaboration, to share resources, or to provide words of encouragement.
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