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Session 1: About Development
Jeffery Smith, MD
12/6/2010: Session 1 of10: Synopsis--How development happens along with a clinically oriented overview of the process, mechanisms, characteristics, informational content neurophysiology and theories
Reading: Adolescent Development, Psychopathology and Treatment, H Spencer Bloch, MD. IUP, Madison, CT, 1995, paperback 2007. For next session, on the Oedipal Era, read Chapter 3, pages 42-81.
How Development Happens: Discussion and examples-- thinking about how humans achieve developmental steps--avoiding and going through feelings.
Drive and Motivation: Taking a fresh look at drive and motivation, why and how. We consider different theories from a clinical standpoint.
Developmental Archeology: How the quality of clinical material tells about it's developmental age. How feelings scale in inverse proportion to age.
Sensorimotor Patterns: A developmental hierarchy of patterns of perception and action. A developmental classification into Schemas, Strategies, Agendas and Plans.
Networks That Fire Together Wire Together: A brief journey into the world of neurons to look at a possible neurophysiology of development.
Superego Development: A critical but underemphasized aspect of affect regulation. Keeping the love you want and need.
Not Knowing: How do we not know? A broad look at possible modes of repression.
Comparative Theory: Topographical, Structural, Object Relations, Interpersonal, Healing and Growth: Different ways of looking at the same clinical phenomena.