Impulse is a community newsletter produced by the Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology (NCSPP) and distributed electronically to subscribers at no cost. 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.
We invite you to become a member of NCSPP, if you are not already. And, we welcome you as a subscriber to Impulse. Join us as we highlight the exceptional diversity of psychoanalytic thought and practice in Northern California.
by Candice Turner, Psy.D.
The Board is working hard to rebuild our programming, but we need your help. Who wants to get involved, big or small?
In the next year, we would like to bring back our Annual Lecture; we know, we have missed it, too! In case you don’t know what that is, before COVID, NCSPP would have an experienced analytic lecturer (sometimes local, sometimes not) come to the Bay Area and share their brilliant knowledge, insight, and research with our community. To refresh memories, in 2019, we had our 32nd Annual Lecture: A Day with Kirkland Vaughans, Ph.D.: Plugging the School-to-Prison Pipeline, and in 2020 we had our 33rd Annual lecture with David Eng, Ph.D. on Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans. If you missed those events, you can find the recordings (and get CEs!) in our OnDemand Library on our website at https://www.ncspp.org/on-demand-video
by Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC)
JOIN PINC FOR A DAY WITH M. FAKHRY DAVIDS
Saturday, May 18, 2024 I 9:00 am – 3:00 pm (hybrid event)
Registration link: https://db.pincsf.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=495
PINC will present International Visiting Scholar M. Fakhry Davids. In the morning, joined by psychoanalyst Francisco Gonzalez, Davids will deliver his paper Bob Dylan and the Art of Aging, highlighting the mature vision of the Nobel prize-winning poet-lyricist. Focusing on the 13-minute title track of Dylan’s album The Tempest, which memorializes the sinking of the Titanic, Davids’s talk, drawing on psychoanalytic perspectives on later stages of psychic development and Klein’s account of paranoid-schizoid and depressive ways of being, will show how the artist’s deep emotional engagement with the subject matter reflects his awareness of his own declining capacities. The afternoon portion of the program will likely center on the current status of Davids's theory of internal racism, famously proposed in his book Internal Racism (2011).
For questions, contact Eric Essman at epessman@gmail.com
by The Community Institute for Psychotherapy (CIP)
THE COMMUNITY INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOTHERAPY IS LOOKING FOR SUPERVISORS
The Community Institute for Psychotherapy in San Rafael needs supervisors for the September 2024 – August 2025 year. This is an opportunity to supervise and mentor graduate and doctoral students who are eager to learn more about in-depth psychotherapy. Our sliding-scale clinic is unusual in that it provides long-term psychotherapy which attracts students and associates who are looking to deepen their work as clinicians.
by Claire Greenwood, AMFT
(ENCOURAGING) GENDER WITHOUT IDENTITY
How should we relate to gender identity and sexuality in psychoanalysis? In Gender Without Identity (2023), Avgi Saketopoulou argues that gender is not something fixed and innate; instead, gender is a way of “self-theorizing and not some true ‘core’.” In a brilliant yet risky argument, she uses Laplanche’s theories of ego construction to suggest that all gender, including non-normative genders, are responses to parent’s “sexual unconscious.” Because gender construction is a way of self-theorizing, or translating these intrusions from the parents, the role of the analyst is to be unobtrusive and affirming. The reasoning goes that a queer- or trans-affirming analyst should let patients attend to their own “self-theorizing processes” without imposing labels or judgment.
by NCSPP Membership Committee
SPECIAL MEMBERSHIP DISCOUNT FROM MAY 1ST - MAY 15TH!
Become a new member or, if your membership has lapsed, renew your membership today and receive a 20% discount on your first year of membership! Use discount code SPRING24 when checking out.
We are a dynamic community of individuals devoted to the study and practice of psychoanalytic psychology. Membership offers many benefits and is open to licensed mental health professionals, individuals who are no longer students but not licensed in any mental health disciplines, and individuals currently enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate school in a mental health discipline. Memberships remain active for one year from the time you join.
OFFICE FOR RENT. One to three days, Los Gatos. Therapist building, spacious and quiet space, near Hwy 17. hughgrubb@att.net.
SF PSYCHOTHERAPY OFFICES FOR RENT. Two large offices for rent in a 4-office psychotherapy suite. Built-in bookcases and cabinets, air conditioning and ventilation system, in elevator building, with excellent sound proofing near Mt. Zion/UCSF. Private waiting room with a separate exit. $1500/month. Attendant parking available. Please contact Gary Grossman, Ph.D. at (415) 928-4662 or gary.grossman@ucsf.edu.
Art & Craft: Depth & Creativity In & Out of Consulting Room
Wed, May 1 / 6:45 pm - 9:00 pm / 444 Natoma St. / San Francisco
SFCP / (415) 563-5815 / T. Kim, Psy.D., MFA, et al. / free
Film Screening and Discussion: A House Made of Splinters
Sat, May 4 / 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm / 444 Natoma St. / San Francisco
SFCP / (415) 563-5815 / R. Cowan, Psy.D., LCSW / free
Freud in his Psychosocial Generation
Mon, May 6 / 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm / 444 Natoma St. / San Francisco
SFCP / (415) 563-5815 / N. Chodorow, Ph.D. / free
Living Tones: Music, Creative Collaboration & Psychoanalysis
Fri, May 10 / 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm / 2837 Claremont Blvd. / Berkeley
PINC / (415) 288-4050 / S. Cahill; D. Melman, Ph.D. / free - $40
A Day with M. Fakhry Davids
Sat, May 18 / 9:00 am - 3:00 pm / 2150 Allston Way / Berkeley
PINC / (415) 288-4050 / M.F. Davids; F. Gonzalez, M.D. / $100 - $240
The Psychotherapy Institute Training Program
Tue, May 21 / 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm / 2232 Carleton St. / Berkeley
TPI / (510) 548-2250 / Training Program Staff / free
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Theory, & Trans Experience(s)
Begins Wed, May 22 / 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm / Zoom
SFCP / (415) 563-5815 / L. Pritchard, MFT / free
Dreaming as an Expression of the Spiritual Psyche
Begins Sat, May 25 / 10:00 am - 1:00 pm / Zoom
NCSPP / (415) 687-3466 / W.P. Trimbach, Psy.D. / $90 - $210
Racial Rage, Racial Guilt
Sat, Jun 1 / 9:30 am - 12:30 pm / Zoom
ICPLA / (916) 956-3259 / D. Eng, Ph.D. & S. Han, Ph.D. / $35 - $135