Programs & Events Student Paper Award Prelicensed Interest Group Scholarship Fund Suggested Readings Questions + Feedback			Suggested Readings NCSPP's Prelicensed Clinicians Committee has assembled the following collection of suggested readings to help you begin connecting more deeply to psychoanalytic theory and practice. Brenner, C. (1955). An elementary textbook of psychoanalysis. New York: Doubleday Anchor Books. This book  is a must read for beginners to psychoanalytic theory.  Brenner writes in a clear and comprehensive way which makes this book a quick and easy read for even the individual who knows little about psychoanalysis.  It serves as a great introduction to Freud's theories and demonstrates how his thinking evolved over his forty year career. Frawley-O'Dea, M.G. & Sarnat, J.E. (2001).  The supervisory relationship: a contemporary psychodynamic approach. New York: Guilford. Supervision provides many of us with some of our most important relationships in the course of our professional development. These powerful relationships often shape more than our therapeutic relationships, but influence our professional identities and even the directions of our careers. This book, written from a relational perspective, sheds light on the supervisory process and is useful to both supervisors and supervisees. Horney, K. (1945). Our inner conflicts: a constructive theory of neurosis. Karen Horney describes moving toward, moving away, and moving against personality structures from a psychoanalytic perspective. In a very concrete. matter-of-fact manner, Horney discusses neurotic trends and their behavioral consequences. This is a great reflective reference when considering countertransference with personality disordered clients. Her language can be a bit dense but is worth moving through for the message within. Hughes, J. M. (1989). Reshaping the psychoanalytic domain. Berkeley: University of California Press. Judith M. Hughes offers a summary of the theories of Klein, Fairbairn, and Winnicott within the biographical context of these three pioneers of object relations. This is a well-researched scholarly book about the psychoanalytic community as a whole, the British object-relations group, and each therorist's individual development. McWilliams, N. (1999). Psychoanalytic case formulation. New York & London: The Guilford Press. McWilliams describes effective intake procedures and rationales, maintaining a careful balance between gathering needed information and deferring to the client's preliminary agenda and concerns. Straightforward, jargon-free guidelines are presented for assessing client temperament, developmental issues, defenses, affects, identifications, relational patterns, self-esteem needs, and pathogenic beliefs. Throughout, case formulation is clearly and meaningfully connected to treatment. Also addressed are issues around treating clients with diverse cultural and ethnic identities, sexual orientations, and socioeconomic backgrounds. McWilliams, N. (1994). Psychoanalytic diagnosis: understanding personality structure in the clinical process. New York: Guilford Press. The consummate teacher, Nancy McWilliams manages the rare feat of making psychoanalytic theory accessible and user-friendly without sacrificing its complexity or nuance. Drawing on a wide array of theories and thinkers, she outlines the fundamentals of character structure and pathology, emphasizing the adaptive as well as the problematic aspects of each major personality style. Mitchell, S., & Black, M. (1995). Freud and beyond. New York: Basic Books. The authors give a rich overview of the history of psychoanalytic thought, starting with its founder, Freud, and continuing through the many thinkers who have subsequently enriched the analytic tradition. Using an array of clear and impactful clinical examples, the authors succeed in bringing usefulness and life to what can be a very abstract set of theories. Their work is particularly helpful for those wishing to grasp on the different schools of thought and how they are related. Ogden, T. H. (1989). The primitive edge of experience. Northvale, NJ: Aronson. One of the Bay Area's finest writers and teachers, Thomas Ogden writes with uncommon lucidity. Of particular interest in this volume is the seventh chapter on conducting first sessions, in which he offers helpful technical suggestions borne out of his theory that the client and therapist begin creating a complex matrix of meanings from the first moment they encounter each other. Safran, J., & Muran, J. C. (2000). Negotiating the therapeutic alliance: a relational treatment guide. New York: The Guilford Press. Two noted psychologists offer a comprehensive text that reconsiders the impact of ruptures in the therapeutic alliance. The authors integrate contemporary developments in psychoanalysis with cutting-edge empirical research and provide a guide for negotiating potential strains in the therapeutic alliance and transforming them into therapeutic breakthroughs. Spillius, E. B. (Ed) (1988). Melanie Klein today: developments in theory and practice. Volume 1: mainly theory and Volume 2: mainly practice. The New Library of Psychoanalysis. London: Tavistock/Routledge. This two-volume work of modern seminal papers in psychoanalytic thinking from well-known Kleinian authors illustrates the development of Melanie Klein's concepts and formulations in the field. This collection draws these developments together and makes clear why an integral part of contemporary Kleinian theory and practice is concerned with the careful scrutiny of the therapeutic process itself. The work, which gives detailed accounts of clinical work with both adults and children, is well written and edited and helps to simplify what can often be complex concepts.  It's a comprehensive introduction to the understanding of modern Kleinian thought. Winnicott, D.W. (1958). Collected papers: through paediatrics to psycho-analysis. London: Tavistock Publications. This book traces the papers of Winnicott's career as both a pediatrician and a psychoanalyst.  The book is separated into three sections.  The first section covers his pediatric work prior to his training as a psychoanalyst.  The second part consists of his papers that were written for the field of pediatrics but includes psychoanalytic ideas and concepts.  The final section includes his most influential papers that have influenced the theory and practice of psychoanalysis.
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