by Kara Swedlow, Psy.D. 

COMMUNITY PSYCHOANALYSIS AT PINC

We are excited to announce the Community Psychoanalysis Track, approved by the PINC board last May, as a new training opportunity for candidates at PINC. The CPT was the collaborative work of the Community Consortium, a working group of community mental health agencies and PINC members. The Consortium conducted a pilot project last year at Partnerships for Trauma Recovery, a Berkeley-based non-profit that provides mental health services to refugees and asylum seekers. 

After the pilot was evaluated, a prerequisite course, Intro to Community Psychoanalysis, was established and taken by candidates, two of whom will begin work at PTR this fall, inaugurating the CPT. The Community Consortium and the CPT seek to rigorously investigate the definitions and settings that allow psychoanalytic process, and to develop a model of psychoanalytic education that is responsive to social inequities and cultural plurality.   

Contact Kara Swedlow, CPT program coordinator at CPT@pincsf.org