1. Students will be able to explain primary conceptual differences among three basic psychoanalytic models (relational matrix/interpersonal, developmental arrest, and classical drive/conflict) with respect to the patient-analyst relationship and therapeutic action.
2. Students will be able to discuss different concepts of transference/countertransference among the three models, how different concepts affect therapeutic action, and how they use these concepts in their own work.
3. Students will learn about the concepts of enactment and regression, how enactments and regression are embedded in the transference/countertransference matrix, and how enactments and regression may be used to focus therapeutic action differently depending on the model.
4. Students will be able to discuss the concept of resistance from different angles depending on the psychoanalytic model they are using.
5. Students will be able to discuss differences between the conceptualizations of the “unconscious” in different models, as well as distinctions between the concepts of repression and dissociation and their applicability to contemporary work with trauma.