GPSA526 Resistance and Defense (3 credits)
Wednesday, 7:10 – 9:30 pm GPSA 526 Resistance and Defense/Gerber – Online Theory for PreCandidacy or Candidacy
Psychic defenses are essential tools available to us for dealing with psychic pain. This course will study the use of defenses, from projection and splitting to repression and sublimation, in relation to emotional, psychosexual, and cognitive development. This course will consider mental illness a maladaptive psychic defense process, and psychoanalytic cure a state of mental wellbeing in which thoughts, feelings, and impulses can be tolerated comfortably without resorting to inappropriate action or self-destructive defense.
