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.
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 Tanisha Stewart, Psy.D.
We are seeking nominations for the NCSPP 2021 Community Service Award to be presented for outstanding community service by an individual or a mental health organization in the field of psychoanalytic psychology. We know that while the important work of building community serves a vital role in developing the social good, it remains under-recognized in our field. We want to honor those who spend their time and effort in this critical endeavor. Nominees should demonstrate excellence in leadership, creative commitment to social welfare, and dedication to community service.
To nominate an individual or mental health organization, please write a paragraph description of why you think the individual or organization should be honored. Nominees do not have to be members of NCSPP. We will announce the award in the January Impulse.
To view a list of past Community Service Award recipients click here. To submit a nomination, please email us.
PLEASE EMAIL YOUR NOMINATION PARAGRAPH BY OCTOBER 30, 2022.
by PINC
PSYCHOANALYTIC PRACTICE IN THE COMMUNITY CLINIC: RESISTANCE, COLLABORATION, AND RECLAIMING OUR LINEAGES
Saturday, October 8, 2022
11:00 am – 2:30 pm via Zoom
“Psychoanalysis may be deployed either to reproduce or to deconstruct” the status quo (Chow, 2021; St John, 2021). In the U.S., this is evident in the relationship between “institutional” psychoanalysis and the persistence of analytically-informed work in community settings. Our aim is to focus and expand the conversation about what is already true: community clinics have long been the location of significant analysis and meaning-making about the overlapping realities of individual, family, community, institutions, and the larger social-historical surround.
Community mental health has maintained the extra-ordinary truth(s) of psychic life in these interlocking contexts. This community analytic stance has amplified the capacity of those working within these systems and has freed us up to offer invaluable reflection and critique of mainstream, institutionalized psychoanalytic practice, and theory. While psychoanalysis can be a tool for transforming communities, this presentation seeks to highlight how community work also transforms analysis. We come together in this event to foster a collaborative and stimulating conversation between the rich variety of analytic practitioners working in the community, the institute, or independently. Join us!
by ISPS-US
2022 NATIONAL CONFERENCE
ISPS-US promotes psychological and social approaches to states of mind often called "psychosis" in treatment, education, and advocacy through collaborations between service providers, experts by experience, and family members. ISPS-US’s 2022 Conference, “Opportunity Through Experience,” is scheduled to be held in Sacramento, California, November 4th - 6th, 2022, and hybrid online using Zoom. CE credits are available.
About the conference: Experience is an essential element of being human. Softly and subtly, or harshly, even relentlessly, it envelops and often enlivens us. Our reactions to experience reflect and create our emotional fingerprints, both defining and expressing who we are. Yet too often, these reactions to experience are pathologized, diagnosed and labeled rather than respected, especially if they are transpersonal, numinous, extreme, or exceptional. Experience can be filled with pleasure, ease and excitement, or it can bring hardship and isolation. Within every experience, however, lies opportunity.
by Mariya Mykhaylova, LCSW
FOUND IN TRANSLATION
I have not read the Russian classics. They were never assigned to me as required reading, and I have not felt drawn to them when reading for pleasure. I never felt that I was particularly avoiding them. Perhaps I was.
These texts always felt complicated for me as a Ukrainian emigrant and a Russian speaker. In which language to approach them? My first language – the language in which they were written – or the dominant language of my adolescence and adulthood? The density and complexity of the Russian text felt daunting, yet I could not bring myself to read an English translation. Reading a translation of something I could, should, be able to read in the original felt like a cop out, somehow less than what it could be. And so, I didn’t.
One time in high school, I did pick up Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina—in the original, of course. I couldn’t get into it. I made it about a quarter of the way through and never found my way back to it. Last year, a friend and I started to read Bulgakov’s, The Master and Margarita, an exercise in maintaining our Russian. That feels like a lifetime ago and I don’t see myself picking it back up anytime soon.
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SPACES OPEN IN A FACILITATED WEEKLY CONSULTATION/SUPERVISION GROUP (Wednesdays 12:15 pm - 1:35 pm) for early-career clinicians. We aim to utilize the associative field of clinical, theoretical, and personal reverie in order to deepen our work with patients. Clinical orientation is contemporary psychoanalytic and relational, and we work to make foundational concepts therapeutically useful and experiential. Relevant papers are discussed in response to themes and concepts that emerge organically from our case discussions. Attention is paid to group process in order to maintain a safe and generative field for all participants. If interested email Jonathan Moss, MFT, at contact@jonathanmossmft.com.
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The Works of Anton Hart: Colloquium and Conference
Sat, Oct 1 / 9:30 am - 12:30 pm / 6333 Bristol Parkway / Culver City & Online
ICPLA / (310) 684-2501 / Anton Hart, Ph.D., FABP / $135 - $185
Introduction to the Relational Turn in Psychoanalysis
Wed, Oct 5 (begins) / 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm / Zoom
SFCP / (415) 563-3366 / I. Philipson, Ph.D., Ph.D., Psy.D. / free
Jungian View of Clinical Work
Mon, Oct 6 / 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm / Zoom / San Francisco
Jung Institute / (628) 688-0647 / Gale Lipsyte, Ph.D.; Jeffrey Swanger, Ph.D. / $150
Continuous Case Conference
Fri, Oct 7 (begins) / 1:45 pm - 3:00 pm / Zoom
SFCP / (415) 563-3366 / J. De Lon, MFT, et al. / $585 - $650
Psychoanalytic Practice in the Community Clinic
Sat, Oct 8 / 11:00 am - 2:30 pm / Zoom
PINC / (415) 288-4050 / E. Broh, LCSW, et al. / free - $50
"Let's talk about Bruno": Imagining 'Encanto
Sun, Oct 9 / 10:00 am - 11:30 am / Zoom
SFCP / (415) 563-3366 / TBA / free
PINC 2nd Fridays: “It’s The End Of The World As We Know It”
Fri, Oct 14 / 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm / Zoom
PINC / (415) 288-4050 / J. Sekoff, Ph.D.; R. Cowan, Psy.D., LCSW / free - $30
The Annual Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapy Lecture
Sat, Oct 29 / 9:00 am - 2:00 pm / 2150 Allston Way / Berkeley
PCPG / (415) 686-2465 / S. Nathans, Ph.D.; G. Grossman, Ph.D. / $35 - $240
Neuropsychoanalysis and the Concepts of Lacan
Sat, Nov 5 / 9:00 am - 12:00 pm / Zoom
PINC / (415) 288-4050 / J. Dall'aglio; M. Zellner, Ph.D., L.P. / $15 - $95