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Upcoming Courses & Events

Nov
08
2025
Intensive Study Group

Intensive Study Group —
PSYCHOANALYSIS: Breakdown and Breakthrough

10:00 am - 12:00 pm
St. Clement's Episcopal Church, East Bay

From November 8, 2024 - May 9, 2025

By delving into clinical aspects of cultural, social, and political upheaval, this course will create space for clinicians to process, grapple, and play with experiences of and responses to the ever-shifting reality in which we and our patients find ourselves. In a way unique to psychoanalysis, this course explores the nuances of these phenomena while also exploring potential limits to what psychoanalysis can offer and what interdisciplinary ideas can enhance the breadth and depth of our thinking.

Nov
09
2024
Salon | Social Event

Pre-Licensed Committee Social and Mixer

4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Anina SF, San Francisco

Join us for a fun and casual happy hour, bringing together NCSPP and CIIS students for an opportunity to connect with the Pre-Licensed Committee (PLC) of NCSPP!

Dec
08
2024
Workshop

READING GROUP:
The Role of Racism in Who Gets To Be a Child: Clinical and cultural reflections

10:00 am - 11:30 am

Who gets to be a child? How does race play a role in how we view who a child is? Join us in thinking about these questions and more in a review of "The role of racism in who gets to be a child: Clinical and cultural reflections" with author David Cushman, Psy.D.

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NCSPP News

Community Service Award

NCSPP is pleased to celebrate A Home Within (AHW) as our 2023 Community Service Award Recipient.

We are committed to the study of psychoanalytic psychology and to encourage its interest in Northern California's professional and general communities.

NCSPP’s varied array of learning opportunities; our journal fort da; our e-newsletter Impulse; and numerous special events and projects are all brought to you by scores of volunteers who work to support NCSPP’s mission. Our educational programs include continuing education credit for Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Licensed Clinical Social Workers.

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NCSPP Publications

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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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