Psychoanalysis, as a discipline, is increasingly and narrowly defined in contradistinction to other seminal modalities or genres of therapy in the psychotherapeutic field. Jungian analysis along with myriad other derivations are contained under the umbrella term “Psychodynamic Psychotherapy” and are often referred to as the “Depth Psychologies”. What though, if anything, is foundational to these therapeutic approaches? What can we learn from distilling depth psychological approaches and attitudes that might ground us in our fundamental position towards the patient in analysis? Lastly, if there are basic positions attributable to a particular stance, what is it about them that is valuable and why should they be defended?

<br><br>Required reading:

<br><br>“Analysis Interminable. Psychoanalytical Schools of Thought after Freud”: www.freudMuseum.at/En. Www.freud-Museum.at, www.freud-museum.at/en/analysis-interminable. Accessed 26 Apr. 2024.

<br><br>Colman, Warren. “Psychotherapy as a Skilled Practice.” Journal of Analytical Psychology, vol. 65, no. 4, Sept. 2020, pp. 624–644.

<br><br>Jung, C G. Two Essays on Analytical Psychology. New York. Pantheon, 1966, pp. 9–29.

<br><br>Kernberg, Otto F. “The Four Basic Components of Psychoanalytic Technique and Derived Psychoanalytic Psychotherapies.” World Psychiatry, vol. 15, no. 3, 22 Sept. 2016, pp. 287–288.

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