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Semester:	Spring 2024
Number:	0503-722-001
Instructor:	John Christopher Muran
Days:	Monday 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Note:	Traditional In-Person Class
Location:	Garden City - Hy Weinberg Center 334
Credits:	3
Notes:	For majors only Additional one time charges are $10.50
Course Materials:	View Text Books
Description:	This course traces the development of Relational approaches to psychodynamic pyschotherapy from Freud’s early movement from a one person, positivist, historically based theory to contemporary two person perspectives in which the relationship becomes a core element in the change process.
Learning Goals:	The primary learning objectives of the course are: 1. Understanding the historical, theoretical and philosophical/epistemological developments which supported the development of two person relational psychodynamic theory2. Develop an understanding of the technical use of two person approaches to relational psychoanalysis3. Develop critical and comparative appreciation for theory and clinical and clinical practice in relational approaches. *The learning goals displayed here are those for one section of this course as offered in a recent semester, and are provided for the purpose of information only. The exact learning goals for each course section in a specific semester will be stated on the syllabus distributed at the start of the semester, and may differ in wording and emphasis from those shown here.