A. Thorough study of the development of psychoanalytic trends of research, theorizing and psychotherapy, and of the elaboration of the major concepts in freudian and post-freudian tradition.
B. Training for critical reading and discussion from pluridisciplinary references, basic texts in psychoanalytical development.
C. Investigation as well of the great classical cases in psychotherapy (from child to adult) as of the reports of interventions other than strictly therapeutic.
Main themes
A. The study of these principles, models and concepts will be led according to 1) their clinical appropriation to the problems considered; 2) their interdisciplinary dialogue with other trends of thinking and other human sciences; 3) their confrontation with other therapeutic methods.
B. Analysis of the evolution of the approach of one author and debate between various authros on particular questions.
C. Considerations about case study as a theoretico-clinical method and examination of the ability of psychoanalysis to found as well individual as group and institutional therapies, and to prompts different interventions to help, to prevent and to treat, other than the "cure-type" practice.
Variable themes whose choice will be determined each year in order to co-ordinate the special questions studied (A), the texts to read (B), and the presentations of cases (C).
Content and teaching methods
Thorough study of a special theme (different each year) in psychoanalysis such as it is rooted in the freudian tradition and is currently developed. This theme is studied from texts (see B) and from case studies (C) as well through children and adolescents as adults psychoanalysis.