"I write to know what I think": a four-year writing curriculum.
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.
Lister
Elena
E
Weill Cornell Medical College, and Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, NY, USA. elgl29@gmail.com
Kravis
Nathan
N
Sandberg
Larry
L
Halpern
Jeffrey K
JK
Cabaniss
Deborah L
DL
Singer
Meriamne B
MB
D003479:Curriculum; D006801:Humans; D011572:Psychoanalysis / Q000193:education*; D013663:Teaching; D013850:Thinking; D014956:Writing