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Jan
17
2025
Course

Kinship Object: A Creation Engendered from the Bewilderment of a Pillaged World
3:00PM - 4:30PM

Humankind is reaching a breaking point whereby the prevailing forces of relating are wholly characterized by greed, hate, and domination. This worldview objectifies and reduces other humans perceived as different, and animals, birds, insects, trees, and plants as lesser and expendable.

Jan
24
2025
Course

The Unconscious Goes To School: A Class About Teaching
& Fri, Feb 7, 2025 from 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

To teach is to bring our questions to others, to share as teacher and as students in this process of thinking about who we are on the Earth.
Rebecca A. Martusewicz, “Say Me to Me: Desire and Education”*

Mar
04
2025
Course

Launching Your Private Practice: Developmental and Frame Considerations
Dr. Brandt's Office, East Bay

The transition into private practice involves many subtle shifts in one’s orientation to clinical work. There are many decisions to make, and these decisions hinge on one’s personal needs, preferences, and interests in ways that are not yet familiar. The frame becomes newly personal. This is a time of considerable change, self-discovery, and development.

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Community Service Award

The NCSPP Community Service Award is an annual award presented for outstanding community service by an individual or a mental health organization in the field of psychoanalytic psychology.

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Our psychoanalytic journal that provides a forum for local professionals as well as national and international thinkers and clinicians.

Our psychoanalytic journal that provides a forum for local professionals as well as national and international thinkers and clinicians.

Impulse Online
Bringing the Bay Area’s psychoanalytic scene to your inbox the first of each month.

Bringing the Bay Area’s psychoanalytic scene to your inbox the first of each month.

NCSPP’s Impulse is looking for writers for our Potential Space column. Potential Space encourages writers to explore their experiences, wonderings, and vulnerabilities as they encounter the world through a psychoanalytic lens. Email Luba Palter, ImpulseEditor-in-Chief, at lpalter@ncspp.org and she will be happy to tell you more.

Who Is NCSPP?

This new column is a space for our members to share themselves with the community and for each of us to get to know our peers. Whether you're new to psychoanalysis or a seasoned clinician, we'd love to hear from you about your passion and interest in this work. Contact our Impulse Editor, Luba Palter, MFT, at lpalter@ncspp.org.
Theresa Tan, Psy.D.

My name is Theresa Tan, and I am an early career psychologist, working both in-person in Oakland and virtually. In my short time in private practice, I am discovering new ways of being with child and adult patients that I couldn’t quite do in training. I’m also confirming my passions that were previously ignited.
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