Psychological Development Across the Life Cycle Part 1A:

Infancy to Beginning Latency (206A)

Instructor: John Tisdale, D. Min.

Description: There are developmental challenges to be mastered throughout the life cycle from infancy through old age. Each component builds upon what has gone before as new capacities are integrated into the emerging personality. This course will explore developmental tasks and challenges from a psychoanalytic perspective including both typical features and pathological adaptations. Part IA, 8 sessions in the fall, will focus on the establishment of psychic structures.  We will examine fundamental attachments in infancy to emerging experiences of separation, autonomy, and attempts at mastery into latency. Psychic structures develop within the crucible of profound caregiving experiences. We will pay close attention to the significance of these experiences in shaping or distorting the structures we are studying.  We encourage lively discussion of readings, sharing of clinical material, and personal experiences.  Students will be asked to carry one of their own patients in mind as they study the material.  Students are required to take Part 1A and 1B in succession.

Part IB will continue to build on these developmental concepts. We will explore the developmental tasks beginning at latency and continuing through preadolescence.  Alternatives to a typical developmental path and the results of distortions in various developmental lines going forward are
significant aspects of the course. We encourage lively discussion of readings, clinical material, and personal experiences.

Part 2, in the spring of 2022, will be a 16-week course that will continue the study beginning with adolescence through the stages of adulthood to the developmental concerns of the end of life. Part 2 is open to students who completed Part 1A and Part 1B. 

Format: This class will be limited to 10 participants and will combine lecture and seminar formats; student participation is encouraged. All the PCC courses are small group discussions that require participants to read and synthesize the materials presented. Classes will include discussion of clinical material of both the instructors and the participants PCC faculty ensure that gaps in knowledge are addressed.

Prerequisites: This class is open to non-matriculated students and is a required class for matriculated students in either the Adult, Adult/Child, or Child-Focused Psychoanalytic programs and in the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy program. Non-matriculated students will need a basic exposure to and
understanding of psychoanalytic theory and its application to the treatment of patients. Applicants can meet this requirement through previous coursework, training, or supervision (e.g., Thinking Psychoanalytically: the Basics; the PPSC Introductory Course; psychoanalytic coursework or supervision in graduate school/residency or post-graduation). Other students may take this class with permission of the instructor.

About the Instructor: John Tisdale, D.Min. is a licensed psychotherapist, an ordained United Methodist minister, and a faculty member of the Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas (PCC), where he graduated as a child and adolescent psychoanalyst. He is the former Associate Executive and Clinical Director at the Lucy Daniels Center in Cary NC, and now is in private practice in Cary and Durham. He completed his Master of Divinity degree at Duke University and his Doctorate of Ministry degree in pastoral counseling from the Graduate Theological Foundation in South Bend, Indiana. Prior to working with the Lucy Daniels Center, he practiced in Chapel Hill with adults and specialized in the treatment of children, adolescents, and parents. He has also worked in the Juvenile Court as a court counselor and served as pastor of a local church congregation.

WHERE:   via ZOOM

WHEN:     August 24, 2021 – October 26, 2021 (no class Labor Day/Rosh Hashanah)

TIME:        7:10 - 8:40 pm

CME CREDITS: 12/ CE CREDITS: 12/ NBCC: 12 CLOCK HOURS / ALL OTHERS: LETTER OF ATTENDANCE

A COURSE EVALUATION MUST BE COMPLETED IN ORDER TO RECEIVE CREDITS.

Course Syllabus: click here

Registration and Tuition Deadline deadline is August 17.  
$25 Registration Fee is due at the time of application.
Tuition: $315
$235 for students matriculated in the training programs 
$290 for residents and graduate students
Payment plans can be arranged with the Administrator
Matriculated students are not charged a course registration fee.  Students who register for more than one course in a semester pay only one registration fee.  In special circumstances, we may accept registrations after the registration deadline, but there will be an additional $20 late registration fee.
Course Cancellation Policy

Course Learning Objectives: Class participants will be able to

1. Define the concept of developmental tasks.
2.  Discuss some of the pathological defenses observed in infancy and how they related to self-regulation.
3. Describe the development of psychic structure and the contribution of the development of language.
4. Discuss the development and organization of attachment as it relates to object relations.
5. Describe some of the early stages of psychosexual development as seen in toddlers and how they manage the aggressive urges of this stage.
6. Describe some of the developmental tasks of preschoolers including the roles of separations, imagination, and formation of early stages of morality.
7. Describe some of possible the impediments to development seen in preschoolers.
8. Discuss the oedipal phase of development and how triangulation develops in relationships. 

 CE & CME Information: 

For additional information please contact the Administrator

Phone: 919-490-3212   Email: [email protected]

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and the Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.”

 The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 12 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters for this educational activity has relevant financial relationship(s)* to disclose with ineligible companies* whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

*Financial relationships are relevant if the educational content an individual can control is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company. -Updated July 2021-

The Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6518. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. The Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas is solely responsible for all aspects of the program.

If you have special needs or want information about our cancellation policy, please contact the Administrator.

Contact: [email protected]

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