EXPLORING "IN TREATMENT" IN ISRAEL AND THE U.S.

NCSPP INTENSIVE STUDY GROUPS

Amidst pressures to oversimplify human psychology and to treat complicated issues in ten sessions or less, psychoanalysis insists on the depth and complexity of human experience.

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PSYCHOANALYTIC ORIENTED CONSULTATION GROUP co-led by Diane Strongwater, MFT and Carol Harrus, M.D. Group meets Mondays from 1:45-3 in Palo Alto. The focus of the group is to help psychotherapists learn to use and make ongoing use of analytic concepts in their practices by focusing on beginning treatment, frame issues such as establishing fees, how to structure treatment and how to notice and work with transference and countertransference in the session. Members provide clinical material supplemented by relevant articles with personal and practical input from the group leaders. Call D. Strongwater at (408) 737-1337 or C. Harrus at (650) 328-8935.

PSYCHOANALYTIC CONSULTATION GROUP has openings for fall 2010. Using participants' case material and readings, on-going group will focus on listening for unconscious communication and using countertransference to deepen our work and enhance the client's feeling of being understood. Meets on Thursdays from 10:15-11:45 AM. Dori Dubin, Psy.D., (510) 547-2522.

OFFICE SUBLET in central Berkeley. Lovely garden setting. 14' x 14' ofc nicely furn. has good light. Private entrance, waiting room, bath. Larger group room available also. Quiet older bldg w/ 3 offices. Easy access, parking; bus, BART nearby. $150/per day or $850 full-time. (510) 845-1767.