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Study programmes 2011-2012Last update : 14/06/2012
PSYC1197-1  Psychodynamic psychopathology I

Duration :  20h Th, 10h Pr
Number of credits :  
Master en sciences psychologiques, à finalité spécialisée en psychologie clinique, 1st yearFirst semester3
Lecturer :  Despina Naziri
Language(s) of instruction :  
French language
Course contents :  
This course develops a theoretical and clinical reflection on the therapeutical framework adapted to the analytical and psychodynamical approaches, on the importance of the framework and its symbolical aspects.
The psychological problems of the adults will be viewed in relation to the diagnosis about structures and the pathologies of narcissism: nevrotic structures, border line structures, psychotic structures, narcistic problems and perversions. The course will focus in particular on border line situations and narcistic situations, as they are more frequent nowadays.
The course will review classical psychiatry, Freudian metapsychology and post-Freudian theory by authors like Melanie Klein, Daniel Winnicott, René Roussillon, André Green, Otto Kernberg... It will use various texts, stories and vignettes.
The specificity of the transfer and counter-transfer processes will also be studied thoughout the course.
Learning outcomes of the course :  
The objectives are:
  • To strengthen the capacities of the psychotherapist to listen and observe in the context of the complexity of the psychic dynamics.
  • To make future psychotherapists more familiar with the clinical and theoretical work which underpins their practice, including the aspects of transfer and counter transfer.
  • To link theoretical and clinical aspects in all situations.
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :  
Oral courses and presentation of DVDs and video cassettes, presentations by professionals on case studies. The students also evaluate the course.
Contacts :  
Despina NAZIRI


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