"I write to know what I think": a four-year writing curriculum. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • The four-year writing curriculum of the Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research has as its main objective to teach candidates to learn about analysis through writing. Learning to write about analyses ultimately entails learning to clarify and then express how one thinks and functions as an analyst. Since its inception ten years ago, the program has evolved into its current structure, a stepwise approach through the years of candidate training based on a didactic method called "layering." For each level of the course, candidates' typical writing difficulties are examined, and examples given of write-ups and how they were used in teaching. The essential role of the faculty experience is also described.

publication date

  • December 1, 2008

Research

keywords

  • Curriculum
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Teaching
  • Thinking
  • Writing

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 57149129959

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1177/0003065108326033

PubMed ID

  • 19037124

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 56

issue

  • 4