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“It’s true that psychoanalysis is not part of the mainstream psychology curriculum at Harvard or most other major universities,” said psychology professor Steven Pinker, who teaches the Core course Science B-62, “The Human Mind: Introduction to Mind...
The word “psychoanalysis” appears in the descriptions of 11 courses, including “The Human Mind,” taught within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. None of those courses are in the psychology department.
The American Psychoanalytic Association study found 32 Harvard courses not in the psychology department that had “identifiable psychoanalytic content,” according to one of the study’s authors, Jonathan Redmond of the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute.
Of 1,175 courses that referenced psychoanalysis in some 150 universities, more than 86 percent were offered outside psychology departments, according to the report.
The description for Psychology 1, Harvard’s introductory course on the subject, says that the class covers "topics such as perception, consciousness, development, cognition, emotion, motivation, psychopathology, decision making, and social behavior."