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by Shlomit Gorin, MA
Here we are again -- another year behind us, we encounter the beginning of a new one. It is tempting to mark this time as a tabula rasa, to try to shed the scaly parts of the skin that holds us, and to make promises to ourselves and to others that we will be better. We will start, stop, cut down on, increase, finish. We know we said that last year, but this year is different; this will be the year.
by Karisa Barrow, PsyD
Thank you for welcoming me into this new role. My hope is to continue to champion the momentum of inclusion and a sense of belonging, which we aspire to promote at NCSPP, a place where budding psychoanalytic thinkers can feel welcomed and mentored by their seasoned peers. My goal as president is to continue to build bridges with our local training institutions and to revitalize a progressive psychoanalysis for the people (a là Lewis Aron and Karen Starr). We are invested in facilitating educational and social events that bring about social justice and improved mental health in our community. During these tumultuous times, especially politically so, I believe we have an opportunity to share our values and foster a way of thinking, holding, healing, and playing together that brings a sense of calm, integration, and collectiveness -- to practice "psychoanalysis as a social and humanistic enterprise," as Aron and Starr put it, for all, particularly the marginalized.
by Elise Geltman, LCSW
Over the past few years, NCSPP leadership has been discussing the value and importance of building and sustaining community; thinking together; remaining rooted, playful, and creative; and staying alive. One of the ways we can do this is by seeing each other. While isolation and a mind of one's own are par for the course and fertile necessities in our field, we also need each other. Thank you to those of you who made it to the holiday party or an NCSPP course or event last year. To those of you who did not, we missed your presence and hope to see you and think together over the coming year.
by Jane Christmas, PsyD
LEARNING FEAR: A VIDEO LECTURE WITH DANIELA SCHILLER, PHD
Daniela Schiller, MD, director of the Schiller Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, is known for her work on memory reconsolidation and how traumatic memories may be open to transformation. Following her lecture will be the short film Reconsolidation, featuring her interview with her father, a Holocaust survivor.
by Jane Christmas, PsyD
PSYCHOANALYTIC INSTITUTE OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA'S OPEN HOUSE
Thinking about psychoanalytic training? Considering a doctorate in psychoanalysis? Come to the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California's (PINC) open house and learn about becoming trained in psychoanalysis in a warm, informal atmosphere. Join PINC faculty, administrators, graduates, and candidates. Bring your questions, friends, and colleagues.
by Jane Reingold, MA
GETT: TOWARD DISSOLUTION AND RECKONING
The establishing shot unceremoniously throws us, seemingly mid-scene, into a confined, run-down Israeli rabbinic courtroom, a claustrophobic setting with men discussing an appeal for a divorce by Viviane, the protagonist. And yet she is missing from the frame, as if she is absent, irrelevant, beside the point. This subtle device sets the tone for the film and speaks to the tenor of the marriage and of the courtroom proceeding -- there is room for only one subjectivity.
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East Bay Psychotherapy Forum
Wed, Jan 6 / 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm / 2001 Dwight Way / Berkeley
SFCP / (415) 563-3366 / G. Daniels, MFT; TBA; M. Donner, PhD / free
Child Psychotherapy Training Program
Wed, Jan 6 (begins) / 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm / 444 Natoma Street / San Francisco
SFCP / (415) 563-3366 / G. Villalba, LCSW; R. Schwartz, PhD / $1,500 - $1,600
San Francisco Psychotherapy Forum
Thu, Jan 7 / 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm / 444 Natoma Street / San Francisco
SFCP / (415) 563-3366 / A. Howard, MFT, et al. / free
Running Late: Time, the Body, and the Problem of Longing
Sat, Jan 16 / 9:30 am - 12:30 pm / 25 Lake Street / San Francisco
NCSPP / (415) 373-3645 / P. Mandel, PhD / $45 - $105
South Bay Monthly Reading Group
Fri, Jan 15 (begins) / 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm / Private home / Palo Alto
PINC / (415) 288-4050 / J. Gerhardt, PhD; A. Cabell, MFT / $15 - $35
South Bay Psychotherapy Forum
Tue, Jan 19 / 7:15 pm - 9:00 pm / 401 Quarry Road / Stanford
SFCP / (415) 563-3366 / C. Goodrich, PhD; J. Mill, PhD / free
Seasoned Clinicians Program 2016
Wed, Jan 20 (begins) / 11:30 am - 1:00 pm / 444 Natoma Street / San Francisco
SFCP / (415) 563-3366 / S. von Baeyer, PhD; M. Ewert, DMH / $250
Promoting Depth and Analytic Process in Psychotherapy
Wed, Jan 20 (begins) / 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm / 444 Natoma Street / San Francisco
SFCP / (415) 563-3366 / B. Steinberg, PhD / free
When Words Fail: Primitive Anxieties and Eating Disorders
Wed, Jan 20 / 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm / 530 Bush Street / San Francisco
PINC / (415) 288-4050 / T. Woolridge, PsyD; P. Goldberg, PhD / free - $10
Psychotherapy with Four- to Six-Year-Olds
Wed, Jan 27 (begins) / 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm / 444 Natoma Street / San Francisco
SFCP / (415) 563-3366 / P. Cath, MD / $1,500 - $1,600
Disorders of Temporality & the Subjective Experience of Time
Fri, Jan 29 / 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm / 401 Quarry Road / Stanford
SFCP / (415) 563-3366 / S. Seligman, DMH / free
Manic Defenses and an Oblivious Object in a Late Adolescence
Sat, Jan 30 / 10:00 am - 12:00 pm / 444 Natoma Street / San Francisco
SFCP / (415) 563-3366 / M. Brady, PhD; S. Stadler, MD / free
Grad paper: Candidate Vulnerability, Patient Vulnerability
Sat, Jan 30 / 10:30 am - 12:00 pm / 530 Bush Street / San Francisco
PINC / (415) 288-4050 / K. Hess, MFT; C. Brandes, PhD / free
Keeping a Dynamic Mind in the World of Social Work
Wed, Feb 3 / 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm / 444 Natoma Street / San Francisco
SFCP / (415) 563-3366 / TBA / $15 or donation
East Bay Psychotherapy Forum
Wed, Feb 3 / 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm / 2001 Dwight Way / Berkeley
SFCP / (415) 563-3366 / A. Feller, MD; M. Donner, PhD / free
San Francisco Psychotherapy Forum
Thu, Feb 4 / 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm / 444 Natoma Street / San Francisco
SFCP / (415) 563-3366 / J. Moss, MFT, et al. / free