This month's issue of IMPULSE brings a historic announcement from Dr. Bill Glover of the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute & Society, which will soon become the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. We also feature a rich array of learning opportunities for your consideration.

We hope you enjoy this month's issue, and we hope you'll join NCSPP to assist us in furthering the community that belongs to us all.

On July 1 the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute & Society and its supporting organization, the San Francisco Foundation for Psychoanalysis, will merge and become the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis.

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ANALYTIC GROUP THERAPY - BEGINNING AUGUST 2007: Analytic group therapy is an opportunity for a group relational experience that may be adjunctive to individual analysis or an independent treatment modality that offers both analytic experience and group support. This analytic group would be useful to persons working with shame, isolation, relational anxieties, trauma and depression. Each applicant will be interviewed at least once to determine appropriateness. The fee is on a sliding scale: $60 - $100 for a 90 minute session. Group Leader: Sue Saperstein, MFT, Psy.D. For further information:(415) 641-4146 or drsuesaperstein@sbcglobal.net.

CASE CONFERENCE: Listening for Transference is for clinicians developed in practicing psychoanalytic psychotherapy who want to improve their ability to perceive and work with transference. Readings will be provided. I'm glad to meet with anyone who thinks they might be interested. Instructor: Holly Gordon, DMH, Faculty SFPI, recipient of American Psychoanalytic Association Edith Sabshin award for excellence in teaching Dates: $40/session thru summer/September 7- December 7 = $520 Fridays 1:00-2:30 CE Available 3321 Sacramento St, SF 94118 Contact: (415) 346-4494

GIRLS INC. POST-DOC: SF Bay Area 12-mo. FT-PT post-degree internship w/stipend 09/07-08/08. Learn how to apply.

FEELING IMPULSIVE? NCSPP's e-newsletter is looking to expand its volunteer staff. It's a great chance to raise your profile and build your network of contacts by providing a valuable service to your colleagues. We encourage those with HTML skills, plus an interest in building the Bay Area's analytic community, to get in touch.

BEAUTIFUL PSYCHOTHERAPY OFFICE FOR SUBLET. Mondays in therapy suite on Union Street @ Gough. Large, decorated in natural tones w/artful touches of color. $230/mo. Available 4/1/07. (510) 848-3372.

GOT CONSULTATION? Find a Bay Area consultation or study group through thebulletin board maintained by the Friends and SFPI&S Extension Division.

Appointment Book: 

Lacanian and Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Supervision
Sat, Jun 2 / 10 AM - 4:30 PM / 1578 San Lorenzo / Berkeley
Lacanian School / (510) 526-9341 / Raul Moncayo, Ph.D. / $100, $135 with CEU

Flesh or Function: Design and the Unconscious
Sat, Jun 2 / 11 AM - 1 PM / Timken Auditorium, CCA, 1111 Eighth Street / San Francisco
PINC / (415) 922-4050 / Maria McVarish, Professor of Design, California College of the Arts / $35

Happy Hour (Hosted by the NCSPP Associate Members Committee)
Thu, Jun 7 / 6 - 8 PM / Voda Bar & Lounge, 56 Belden Place / San Francisco
NCSPP / (510) 273-9229 / free

SFPI&S Extension Division Seminar: Lacanian View of the Psychoanalytic Cure
Sat, Jun 9 / 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM / 2420 Sutter St. / San Francisco
SFPI&S / (415) 563-5815 / Jeanne Wolff-Bernstein, Ph.D. / $75

"Spirits of the Rocks (Zauberfelsen)" -- Screening & Discussion
Fri, Jun 15 / 7 - 9:30 PM / 2040 Gough Street / San Francisco
C. G. Jung Institute / (415) 771-8055, x208 / Dr. Peter Ammann / $25

Creative Imagination & Shamanism: Bushman Rock Art and Modern People
Sat, Jun 16 / 10 AM - 4 PM / 2040 Gough Street / San Francisco / $62.50 - $125
C. G. Jung Institute / (415) 771-8055, x208 / Swiss Analyst & Filmmaker Dr. Peter Ammann

SFPI&S Friends Clinical Forum (Case Presentation & Discussion)
Tue, Jun 19 / 7:30 - 9 PM / SFPI&S Library, 2420 Sutter Street / San Francisco
Friends of SFPI&S / (415) 563-5815 / Deborah Weisinger, Psy.D. (presenter);
Kristine Pfleiderer, DMH (discussant) / free (CE $15)

Film "1919": Freud's Wolfman and Homosexual Woman Discuss their Analysis
Sat, Jun 23 / 10 AM - 1 PM / 45 Castro, Davies CPMC Auditorium / San Francisco
Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies / (415) 679-0997 / Arlene Richards, Ed.D.;
Arnold Richards, M.D. / $10 - $50

SFPI&S What's Opera, Doc? -- Discussion of Der Rosenkavalier
Sun, Jun 24 / 4:30 PM / location TBA / San Francisco
SFPI&S / (415) 563-3366 / Linda Lagemann, Ph.D.; Alan Skolnikoff, M.D. / free