by Brenda Bloomfield, PhD

INTRODUCTORY EVENT: AN EXPLORATION OF THE USE OF THE NEGATIVE IN THE THERAPEUTIC PROCESS

How we understand and engage with the negative may determine whether it sabotages the process of psychoanalytic psychotherapy or serves as an engine of therapeutic action. Immersion in the negative expands the therapist’s awareness of the patient’s internal world. 

The 2018-2019 Intensive Study Group will investigate theoretical approaches to the negative, and practical engagements with it in the clinical setting, considering such topics as trauma, the fusion of eros and the death drive, negative therapeutic reaction, psychic retreats, perverse modes of relating, destructive narcissism, and excessive splitting.

If you are considering registering for the upcoming ISG, please join us in beginning our exploration of the way apparent challenges to psychotherapy may vitally contribute to the process of human transformation.  

These four instructors will present their ideas on the topic: Era Loewenstein, Alexander Zinchenko, Megan Rundel, and Diane Borden.

Saturday, July 14, 2018
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
St. John’s Presbyterian Church
2727 College Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94705

Tuition:
$40 General Public | $30 NCSPP Full Members
$20 NCSPP CMH Members | $20 NCSPP Associate Members
$20 NCSPP Student Members | $20 Scholarship Rate

For more information and registration go to: https://www.ncspp.org/events/intro-event-2018.

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by Stefania Pifer, PsyD

COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SOCIAL GATHERING

We welcome CMH clinicians to join us for a night of community building! Due to the frenetic pace of agency work in community mental health, finding time for self-care and building professional connections, among other things, can feel draining and difficult.

We are beginning a series of community events at various museums in the Bay Area for CMH clinicians in order to help increase our sense of play and build relationships and camaraderie across clinics.

We will gather for snacks and then have a guided 45-minute tour of the museum. After the tour, stay for food trucks, music, and to connect with new colleagues!

Friday, June 8, 2018
6:00 pm
Oakland Museum of California
1000 Oak Street
Oakland, CA 94607

Fee:
$15 Community Mental Health Clinicians

For more information and registration go to: https://www.ncspp.org/events/cmh-social-june-2018.