Impulse is a community newsletter produced by the Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology (NCSPP) and distributed electronically at no cost to subscribers. We envision Impulse as an integrative source for local news, events, and thinking of interest to the psychoanalytically inclined. Our goal is to be your guide as you explore the Bay Area's rich array of analytic resources.
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by Eric Essman, MA
LACAN STUDY GROUP
We invite you to join our study group on Lacan, engaging with Lacan's consideration of issues that have direct relevance to our contemporary discussions: object relations, the mother, fetishism, identification, transitional objects.
In our second year, we are examining Lacan's concept of the object in its relation to transference and treatment. We will also look at how Lacan reads Freud and consider questions of how to read any text. No previous knowledge of Lacan is necessary.
by Molly Merson, MFT
How Trump Trauma is Resurrecting the Jim Crow Era. Psychologist Theopia Jackson illustrates how African American and indigenous people and people of color are being retraumatized through the racism of the Trump administration and its supporters, and how the field of psychology and psychotherapy is navigating this terrain.
How Mid-Century Arab Thinkers Embraced the Ideas of Freud. Freud was first translated into Arabic in the 20th century, and from there, psychoanalysis found its way into Egyptian politics, the Egyptian military, social welfare, and even its courtrooms. The article concludes with a warning about the many uses of psychoanalysis: it can open one's mind to possibilities, as well as to close it in order to exert social control.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Israel. The author explores what gets evoked, for the author and others, during an exchange on a psychoanalytic listserv regarding the IARPP's decision to host its 2019 conference in Israel.
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Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program Open House
Thu, Mar 1 / 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm / 444 Natoma St / San Francisco
SFCP / (415) 563-5815 / M. Longuemare, MD, PhD / free
Trans-Alive-Dead: Sexuation's Anti-Oedipal Drive
Fri, Mar 2 / 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm / 1453 Mission St / San Francisco
Lacanian School / (281) 788-8532 / P. Gherovici, PhD / $40 - $80
Lacan, Psychoanalysis, and Comedy
Sat, Mar 3 / 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm / 1453 Mission St / San Francisco
Lacanian School / (510) 295-4711 / M. Steinkoler, PhD, et al. / $40 - $80
The Psychology of Zen Koans
Mon, Mar 5 / 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm / 1453 Mission St / San Francisco
CIIS / (510) 435-5273 / M. Rundel, PhD / free
Understanding How Trauma Is Internalized and Mastered
Tue, Mar 6 / 9:30 am - 3:00 pm / 3200 California St / San Francisco, CA
SFCP, SFPRG / (415) 561-6771 / J. Curtis, PhD, et al. / $75 - $450
Catching the Drift: Introduction to Psychoanalytic Listening
Wed, Mar 7 (begins) / 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm / 444 Natoma St / San Francisco
SFCP / (415) 563-5815 / J. De Lon, MFT / $41.50
East Bay Psychotherapy Forum
Wed, Mar 7 / 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm / 2001 Dwight Way / Berkeley
SFCP / (415) 563-5815 / J. Sekoff, PhD / free
Spring Happy Hour
Thu, Mar 8 / 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm / 135 12th St / Oakland
NCSPP / (415) 347-1553 / free
PAPPTP Open House
Thu, Mar 8 / 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm / Private Home / Palo Alto
SFCP / (415) 563-5815 / C. Phillips, LCSW / free
When Thinking Gets in the Way of Thinking
Fri, Mar 9 / 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm / 530 Bush St / San Francisco
PINC / (415) 288-4050 / I. Paperno, PhD, et al. / free - $40
Intergenerational Attachment Patterns in Child Treatment
Sat, Mar 10 / 10:00 am - 12:00 pm / 444 Natoma St / San Francisco
SFCP / (415) 563-5815 / C. Bonovitz, PsyD; E. Keller, PhD / free
Psychoanalytic Babies: Toward a Relational-Developmental Psychoanalysis
Sat, Mar 10 / 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm / 444 Natoma St / San Francisco
NCSPP / (415) 763-8532 / S. Seligman, PhD / $25 - $40
Spring Movie Matinee: The Salesman
Sun, Mar 11 / 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm / 444 Natoma St / San Francisco
NCSPP / (650) 248-4793 / M. Mann, MD / $15 - $18
What Does Psychoanalysis Teach Us About Hatred of Women
Wed, Mar 14 / 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm / 5433 College Ave / Oakland
SFCP / (415) 563-5815 / L. Buchberg, DMH / free
A Taste of the Work of Michael Parsons
Thu, Mar 15 / 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm / 530 Bush St / San Francisco
PINC / (415) 288-4050 / P. Mandel, PhD / free - $25
Sabine Spielrein and Lou Andreas-Salome
Sat, Mar 17 / 9:30 am - 12:30 pm / 444 Natoma St / San Francisco
SFCP / (415) 563-5815 / A. Harris, PhD; J. Wolff-Bernstein, PhD / $46 - $67
Introduction to Freud
Sat, Mar 17 (begins) / 10:00 am - 1:00 pm / Private Office / San Jose
SFCP / (415) 563-5815 / M. Ramon, MD, PsyD; E. Gann, MD / free
The Foreign That Resides Inside
Sat, Mar 24 / 10:00 am - 12:00 pm / 530 Bush St / San Francisco
PINC / (415) 288-4050 / J. Wolff-Bernstein, PhD / free - $30
Fate, Brokenness, and Beauty
Mon, Mar 26 / 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm / 530 Bush St / San Francisco
PINC / (415) 288-4050 / M. Tennes, PhD, et al. / free - $35
Women's Dreams and Nightmares
Wed, Mar 28 / 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm / 1453 Mission St / San Francisco
CIIS / (510) 435-5273 / T. Wilkinson, PhD / free
And Now, Love
Sat, Mar 31 / 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm / 3543 18th St #8 / San Francisco
CIIS / (510) 435-5273 / F. Castrillon, PsyD; B. Bail, MD / free
Exploring Freud's Seminal Cases
Wed, Apr 4 (begins) / 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm / 444 Natoma St / San Francisco
SFCP / (415) 563-5815 / D. Weisinger, PsyD; S. Klein, PhD / $41.50
East Bay Psychotherapy Forum
Wed, Apr 4 / 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm / 2001 Dwight Way / Berkeley
SFCP / (415) 563-5815 / J. Chess, PhD; M. Wagner, PhD / free
San Francisco Psychotherapy Forum
Thu, Apr 5 / 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm / 444 Natoma St / San Francisco
SFCP / (415) 563-5815 / J. Rousell, PsyD; M. Wagner, PhD / free