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1 Psychology 3250/HD 3700 Ph.D. Spring 2020 Uris Hall Cornell University [email protected]

Harry Segal, Room 222 email:

Introduction to Adult Psychopathology Required Texts* (to be found in the Campus Store) Freud Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis Liverwright Collected Readings (Custom Textbook) Pearson ISBN 9 78 1 32 39 26 34 5 Shakespeare Hamlet Oxford University Press Kingdon/Turkington Cognitive Therapy of Schizophrenia Guilford Canvas You’ll find the full syllabus, plus readings and staff information, on the Canvas website. Shakespeare You’re expected to slowly read Hamlet during the term, about one act every 3 weeks or so. Always bring your text of Hamlet to class. We won’t be discussing it each time, but you’ll want to have it available on the days that we do. (Shakespeare understood clinical psychology better than anyone.) This material will be covered on the prelims and final. Course Requirements and Grading: This is a very demanding course. Students are expected to read and consider at least 100 pages of material each week. Attendance at all lectures is mandatory. The readings are meant to provide a structure and background to the lectures – only some of them will be discussed in lecture. However, you are responsible for all material covered in the assigned readings as well as all lecture presentations for the course exams. Examinations: There will be two in-class prelims and a comprehensive final. Policy on Grading, Completion of Course Work, and Examinations Students must make every effort to take the exams when scheduled. Only extreme circumstances, such as a documented family emergency or medical illness will be accepted as legitimate reasons. Please don’t ask for a make-up because you have other prelims scheduled for that week. The in-class prelims are each worth 30% of your grade; the final is worth 40%. Final grades will be influenced somewhat by the observed overall distribution of total scores for the class at the end of the term. However, students are

2 encouraged strongly to work in a manner consistent with an absolute 100-point grading scale. "Absolute integrity is expected of every Cornell student in all academic undertakings. A Cornell student's submission of work for academic credit indicates that the work is the student's own. All outside assistance should be acknowledged, and the student's academic position truthfully reported at all times. In addition, Cornell students have a right to expect academic integrity from each of their peers." Faculty & TAs Office Hours Please go to the Canvas page and click on “Prof and Staff Office Hours.”

3 SCHEDULE OF LECTURES & READINGS Note: Please bring the texts of the day's reading to each lecture. FIRST SECTION: PSYCHOANALYSIS, PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT & DIAGNOSIS Starting with Freud, we approach the idea of psychological illness, the mind/body problem, and the role of childhood before moving on to the taxonomy of psychological disorders and their subjective experience. Along the way we’ll discuss the division between the "objective" and "projective" theoretical orientations of clinicians and researchers before ending with an in-class exercise in psychological assessment. Week Date Readings & Lecture Topics 1 1/21 Introduction to the course Diagnosis and the media The strange case of Dr. Z Reader: Why This Course Isn’t Entitled “Abnormal Psychology” p.ix (also available on Canvas)

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1/23

Freud’s Time, Place & Story “Hysteria” as a clinical/cultural phenomena Slips of the Tongue – Psychic Continuity Reader: Chapter 1 “From Freud to the Twentieth Century” (also available on Canvas) Freud, Part I: Parapraxes pp. 17-100

1/28

Freud Great Discovery: Dreams Freud Part II: Dreams pp. 101-209 Canvas: Is Hysteria Real? Brain Images say yes (from the

Times)

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1/30

Psychic Continuity: The Beatles & The Police More on Dreams – and interpreting some of yours Freud Part II: Dreams pp. 209-246

2/4

In-Class Assessment Psycho-Sexual Development and the Rise of Civilization Freud Part III: Sexual Lives of human beings pp. 375-420

2/6

What are neurotic symptoms? Signal Anxiety and the Conflict

Model Freud Part IV: 318-353 4

2/11

Applying Freud’s dynamic model to the present Canvas: Yalom – “Fat Lady” Salinger – “The Laughing Man”

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2/13

Clinical Assessment Self-Reports, Structured Interviews & Projective Tests Reader – “Testing in Clinical Psychology” “Interviewing and Observation in Clinical Psychology “Psychological Testing of Carl”

2/18

Class Assessment Data Canvas: Westen “The Scientific Legacy of Sigmund Freud” Canvas: Shedler – The Illusion of Mental Health Prelim Review – Psychoanalysis through Assessment

2/20

First Prelim – In Class

February Break SECOND SECTION: UNDERSTANDING SEVERE PSYCHOPATHOLOGY Now we move to the mysterious intersection of mind and brain, for many instances of major depression or schizophrenia are caused in part by organic dysfunctions which, in turn, have their psychological expression. Of course, to make matters more complicated, psychological experience can trigger the organic dysfunction … Principles of Neuroscience 7

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2/27

How Neurons Work Reader – “I Associate Therefore I Am” Canvas: “Brains, Bodies and Behavior”

3/3

The Nervous System and the Brain Luria’s notion of “functioning systems” Canvas: “Brains, Bodies and Behavior”

3/5

Brain Anatomy and Mental Experience Reader – “How Drugs Work in the Body and on the Mind”

Mood Disorders 9

3/10

Depression “spectrum” disorders Reader – “Mood Disorders and Suicide”

3/12

Treating Depression and Bi-Polar Disorders Reader – “Drugs for Treating Mood Disorders and Schizophrenia” pp. 6-11 Canvas: New York Times article on Deep Brain Stimulation Schizophrenia

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3/17

The diagnosis of Schizophrenia Reader – “Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders” Cognitive Therapy of Schizophrenia (CTS) Chapter 1

3/19

Guest Lecture Schizotypes & Phenotypes of Schizophrenia Reader – “Drugs for Treating Mood Disorders and Schizophrenia” pp. 1-11 CTS: Chapters 2-3

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3/24

The phenomenology of schizophrenia CTS: Chapter 5 Canvas: Laing Chapters 1-2 Prelim Review

3/26

Second Prelim – in class

Spring Break Anxiety & Anxiety Disorders 12

4/7

Spectrum of Anxiety Disorders Reader – Panic, Anxiety, Obsessions and their Disorders

4/9

Ways to Treat Anxiety Reader – Chapter 12: Anxiolytics & Sedative Hypnotics Canvas: case study: Defide & Hoffman: Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy for World Trade Center Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

THIRD SECTION: PSYCHOTHERAPY, TREATMENT AND RESEARCH From now until the end of the course, we’ll be talking about the nature of psychotherapy – what it is, why it works, and how it’s studied. We’ll begin with one of the land mines of clinical psychology: personality disorders. If the major mood and thought disorders lend themselves well to neuroscientific explanations (though not entirely), then personality disorders seem to derive from the history or experiences of the people who suffer them (and the people who suffer with those people). As usual, things are more complicated than they seem. 12

4/14

Introduction to Personality Disorders Reader – “The Emergence of the Self from Psychoanalytic

Theory” Canvas: Personality Disorders 4/16

Guest Lecture

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4/21

What is Psychotherapy? – a generic definition Psychoanalysis and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Dr. Segal’s infamous “Levels of Functioning” lecture

4/23

From Psychoanalysis to Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Reader – Chapter 17: Two Red Chairs Canvas: Aaron Beck - Cognitive Approach to Depression

4/28

Approaching the Clinical Formulation Reader – “What is a Clinical Formulation” “Liza – Inpatient Formulation” Cognitive Therapy with Schizophrenic Patients CTS: Chapters 6-8

4/30

Clinical Formulation Continued Reader – “Dan B Formulation”

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The Consumer Reports Study Canvas: Martin Seligman “The Consumer Reports Study” Bromfield “All By Myself” Hamlet’s end...