2024

Introduction to Psychoanalysis

Name: Introduction to Psychoanalysis
Code: PSI12067M
3 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/78 hours
Scientific Area: Psychology

Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English
Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

1. Provide scientific knowledge about the scientific foundations of psychoanalysis
2. Grow in understanding of the mental functioning and of the essential aspects of psychic development from a psychoanalytic perspective.
3. Raising awareness of the relationship between psychoanalysis and psychomotricity

Contents

1.The creation of Psychoanalysis and its evolution.
- Freud and the creation of Psychoanalysis
- Freudian metapsychology
- The evolution of the psychoanalytic movement
- Relational / intersubjective psychoanalysis
2. Mental functioning from psychoanalysis
- The unconscious
- Object relations
- Defensive processes
- Psychopathology from a psychoanalytic point of view
3. The birth of psychic life. Contributions to the understanding of the construction and development of the psychic world.
4. Psychoanalysis as a therapeutic process. Some fundamental concepts
- Therapeutic relationship, transference and countertransference
- Listening to the other and the analytical function
- Change and resistance to change

Teaching Methods

The teacher will expose the subjects to help contextualize them. More active methodology will also be used namely reading and discussion of texts as well as presentation of practical cases. The students’ assessment will be done through 2 small works (each 50% of the final grade) in which each student is to demonstrate personal reflection in his or her integration of the matters studied

Teaching Staff

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