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PSY 06 — How to Think Like a Shrink

Quarter: Winter
Instructor(s): Dona Tversky
Duration: 8 weeks
Location: On-campus
Date(s): Jan 4—Mar 8
Class Recording Available: No
Class Meeting Day: Mondays
Grade Restriction: No letter grade
Class Meeting Time: 7:00—8:50 pm (PT)
Please Note: No class on January 18 and February 15
Tuition: $495
   
Refund Deadline: Jan 6
 
Unit(s): 1
   
Enrollment Limit: 85
  
Status: Registration opens Nov 30, 8:30 am (PT)
 
Quarter: Winter
Day: Mondays
Duration: 8 weeks
Time: 7:00—8:50 pm (PT)
Date(s): Jan 4—Mar 8
Unit(s): 1
Location: On-campus
 
Tuition: $495
 
Refund Deadline: Jan 6
 
Instructor(s): Dona Tversky
 
Grade Restriction: No letter grade
 
Enrollment Limit: 85
 
Recording Available: No
 
Status: Registration opens Nov 30, 8:30 am (PT)
 
Please Note: No class on January 18 and February 15
 
 
Have you wondered how our early relationships shape our future connections? Are you curious about how to optimally use your emotions? What good might come from anger, sadness, or guilt? Why are we more likely to segregate and point fingers when we are afraid? Can we trust our thinking minds? Modeled on a popular class for Stanford undergraduates, this discussion-based course will consider foundational questions in psychotherapy and offer students insight into why psychotherapists focus on early life relationships and learning, why they privilege emotions, and why they see the seeming contradictions in our lives as places for deeper understanding. This course will have students playing the roles of psychological detectives in their own lives, and ideally, they will emerge with a greater appreciation for the complexity of their minds and a richer appreciation for the psychology of everyday life.

This course will offer a chance to map the intricacy of our feelings and thinking minds; it is neither a course on mental health nor a place to get therapy.

DONA TVERSKY
Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford

Dona Tversky is a psychiatrist on the clinical faculty at Stanford Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, where she teaches the course “How to Think Like a Shrink” for undergraduates. Her background includes psychodynamic psychotherapy, psychopharmacology, and research in public health and social sciences. Tversky works at Ravenswood Family Health Center and serves on the board of Peninsula Healthcare Connection. She received an MD from Stanford School of Medicine and an MPH from the University of the Western Cape in South Africa.