Clinical Theory in Paris, France Program
Summer 2013: "Sex and Trauma in Paris:" International Perspectives on The Major DSM-5 Disorders: Conceptual and Clinical Issues
Course credits and grading: 3 credits
This year there will be a special focus on the debates over proposals for DSM-5 and the disputes within the mood and sexual disorders over the boundary between normality and pathology.
Program Summary:
Program Director/Instructor: Dr. Carol Tosone, NYU University Associate Professor of Social Work
Program Dates:
Summer 2013, June 5 - 19
Location: Paris, France; classes held at NYU-Paris campus; housing in single occupancy studio apartments in the Oberkampf neighborhood (11th Arrondissement). The single occupancy studios are in an international student residence with an RA on site. Participants are welcome to make their own housing arrangements.
Limited Class Size: Note that the size of the Paris class is limited. For-credit students may be given priority in the event the class is full.
Academic Level:
Master's***, Doctoral and Continuing Education; Advanced undergraduates in relevant majors with permission of instructor.
Participants:
Social work and other mental health and psychological disciplines; humanities disciplines with an interest in the mental health field. Because the subject matter will vary from previous years, students are permitted to take this course again if they have taken it before.
***Second year master's students may register for this course in fulfillment of their degree requirements and will be allowed to participate fully in Convocation May 2013, prior to completing the course. Graduating MSW students for whom this course completes the MSW degree requirements can attend the May ceremony, and will receive the degree subsequent to completing the course.
Program Focus:
This intensive 3 credit course will critically examine selected recent controversies over how mental disorders are defined, diagnosed, and treated, in two specific areas: depression and grief, and sexual dysfunctions and paraphilias. The backdrop for our discussions will be the recently proposed changes to diagnosis in the DSM-5, and the disputes that were triggered by those proposals. These controversies will be approached using both philosophical/theoretical and empirical literatures, with attention to French and international perspectives.
We will also explore the practical forensic and civil-liberties implications of these conceptual issues about the boundary between disorder and normal variation. The broader debates over how to define the concept of mental disorder versus normal distress, as it bears on depression and of sexual dysfunction versus normal sexuality, as they bear on clinical theory and practice, will also be considered in the context of the revisions for the DSM-5.Academics:
The courses will be held at the NYU-Paris campus. Special emphasis will be placed on texts from other than U.S. sources, especially French and English approaches, and French scholars may be invited to visit the class. The format is combined lecture/seminar, and may include conferences hosted by Parisian scholars. Reading and other assignments will be provided before the first class so that students can read ahead, due to the intensive nature of the course. Assignments include a reading log and final paper, due dates TBD.
Tuition, Housing and Meals:
Tuition and registration fees: $3656 (estimated) for 3 graduate credits. ** Continuing Education non-credit participants pay 2/3 tuition of $2064.
All lodging, travel, and personal expenses connected to the course are additional to the tuition and are the responsibility of the participant. Modestly priced housing, in the form of single occupancy studio apartments (no shares, no doubles), will be available for rental to course participants during the course session, for approximately $62 per night. For the full stay of June 5 - June 19, housing would be approximately $864.
Several extracurricular activities will be arranged for the study abroad participants (i.e., boat excursion with dinner on the Seine). The activities fee will be in the range of $200.
A non-refundable deposit of the housing and activities fee will be due upon acceptance into the program, late fall 2012, date TBD.
How to apply:
Visit: http://www.nyu.edu/socialwork/studyabroad/paris/apply/
The application deadline for priority consideration (October 7th) has passed. The program is currently filled; however, applications will be accepted for wait listing and acceptance on a rolling basis.
FAQs
Contact for more information:
For all general inquiries please email:ssw.continuinged@nyu.edu or
Eileen Wolkstein, PhD
Director, Office of Global and Lifelong Learning
eileen.wolkstein@nyu.edu
