PSYCHOANALYTIC STUDENT SEMINARS 2008-2009
* San Francisco psychoanalytic student seminars
* East Bay psychoanalytic student seminars
* Peninsula psychoanalytic student seminars
San Francisco Psychoanalytic Student Seminars 2008-2009
These seminars are offered as a community service intended to supplement local training with psychoanalytic clinical instruction.
The courses are offered free of charge to pre-doctoral and post-doctoral psychology interns, psychiatry residents, MFT and social work interns currently in clinical placements.
To register, please call Max Lee, SFCP Extension Division Coordinator, at (415) 563-5815.
If you would like more information about these seminars, please call Catherine Mallouh, M.D., Chair of Student Outreach, at (415) 750-1713.
You will be called 2 weeks prior to class to coordinate getting the readings.
Location: SFCP, 2340 Jackson St. 4th Floor, San Francisco (entrance on Webster St.)
Course Title: Principles of Psychoanalytic Technique
Dates: Wednesday evenings 7:30 – 9:00, October 1, 8, 15, 22, 2008
Description: In this course we will look at the thinking underlying psychoanalytic technique, how technique has developed over time, the relation between theory and practice, components of classical technique, and more contemporary views of psychoanalytic practice. Some of the key concepts we will study are resistance, transference, unconscious motivation, defense analysis, the analytic attitude, the principle of uncovering, enactments, and the use of counter-transference. The best way to understand how principles of technique work is to see these principles in action. Clinical material will be used to illustrate the concepts we will be studying. Discussion of cases of class participants and how they exemplify aspects of psychoanalytic technique is encouraged
Instructor: Kenneth Roberson, Ph.D. Member, San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis; Private practice, San Francisco. (415) 922-1122 / roberson@speakeasy.net
Course Title: Countertransference: Mirror into the Clinical Encounter
Dates: Wednesday evenings, 7:30-9:00, November 12,19, December 3, 10 2008
Description: How do we make sense of the varied, complex and sometimes troubling feelings that our patients invoke in us? This course will provide a psychoanalytic framework for thinking about these responses in the therapist. We will explore the evolution of the concept of countertransference in psychoanalytic theory from different theoretical perspectives. Concepts such as role responsiveness, projective identification and enactment have furthered our understanding of countertransference. Clinical material provided by the instructor will be used to illustrate these ideas and students will be encouraged to bring in material from their own work.
Instructor: Catherine Mallouh, M.D. Advanced Candidate, San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis; Private practice, San Francisco. (415) 750-1713 / cmmallouh@yahoo.com
Course Title: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Gay Men
Dates: Wednesday evenings 7:30 – 9:00, March 4, 11,18, 25, 2009
Description: This seminar will present a contemporary psychoanalytic perspective for working with gay men in psychotherapy. The essentialist perspective on gender identity and sexual orientation inherent in traditional psychoanalytic theory will be critiqued. Recent psychoanalytic contributions addressing gay male experiences will also be reviewed, with an emphasis on highlighting important developmental milestones. The implications of psychoanalytic theory for gay patients will be examined in the literature and through clinical illustrations. Participants will be encouraged to share material from their own cases.
Instructor: Gary Grossman, Ph.D. Member and Faculty, San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis; Private practice, San Francisco. (415) 928-4662 / gary.grossman@ucsf.edu
Course Title: Promoting Depth in Psychotherapy: Case Conference Focusing on Transference, Countertransference and Analytic Process
Dates: Wednesday evenings, April 1,15, 22, 29, 2009 *No meeting on April 8*
This course is offered to help students develop skills in thinking and functioning psychoanalytically to promote depth in their treatments regardless of frequency of meetings or level of disturbance or type of population of their patients. In the context of a collaborative and supportive environment, we will listen to one or two students’ case presentations with an eye to thinking together about how to listen analytically, work with countertransference, conceptualize transference, and think practically about how to intervene to deepen the treatment.
Instructor: Beth Steinberg, Ph.D. Candidate, San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis; Private practice, San Francisco. (415) 441-5302 / besteinberg@comcast.net
East Bay Psychoanalytic Student Seminars 2008-2009
These seminars are offered as a community service intended to supplement local training with psychoanalytic clinical instruction. The courses are offered free of charge to pre-doctoral and post-doctoral psychology interns, psychiatry residents, MFT and social work interns currently in clinical placements. To register call Max Lee, SFCP Extension Division Coordinator, at (415) 563-5815. If you would like more information about these seminars, please call Margo Chapin, MFT, Chair of East Bay Student Outreach, at (510) 893-6101. You will be called 2 weeks prior to class to coordinate getting the readings.
You will be called 2 weeks prior to class to coordinate getting the readings.
Course Title: Clinical Case Conference with Readings on Transference and Counter-transference.
Dates: Wednesday evenings: 7:30-9:00pm, September 24, October 1, 8, 15, 22, 2008.
Location: 455 Bellevue Ave #303, Oakland, CA 94610.
Description: This case conference will focus on the experience of transference and countertransference in the therapeutic couple. More specifically, we will focus on the way powerful transference enactments impede the therapeutic process by recreating deeply imbedded unconscious patterns which are designed to resist change. These dynamics, while frequently going unnoticed, can subtly organize the therapeutic relationship in ways which make therapeutic change difficult. We will use case material from the group to provide clinical examples, as well as read several papers to help us understand these dynamics more thoroughly.
Instructor: Robert Bartner, Ph.D., MFT, Member PINC, Faculty CIIS, Private practice in Oakland, California.
Course Title: Demystifying the Art of Interpretation.
Dates: Wednesday Evenings 6pm – 7:30pm, October 29, November 5, 12, 2008
Location: 2127 Ashby Ave, Berkeley.
Description: This class will consist of a careful review of verbatim clinical transcripts from analytic sessions in order to magnify the process of making interpretations. We will uncover and explore in detail the often implicit and unstated processes that analysts use to construe meaning in clinical encounters. The relevant readings of J. Arlow, D. Boesky, L. Friedman, J. Ahumada, and P.F. Rubovits-Seitz will be considered in terms of their contributions toward a methodology for constructing inferences about latent meanings from raw clinical material.
Instructor: Louis Roussel, Ph.D. Member and Faculty, SFCP.
Course Title: Defining and Understanding Winnicott’s concept of “holding” and Bion’s concept of “container-contained.”
Date: Saturday Morning 10:00am – 12:00pm, March 21, 2009 *Date changed*
Location: Alta Bates Herrick Hospital, 2001 Dwight way, Berkeley.
Description: The concepts of “holding” and “container-contained” focus on the mother-infant dyad and represent models of infant psychological development. They also provide a way to view and understand the therapist-patient relationship. In this class, we will define the meaning of these concepts, explore how they are mirrored in the therapeutic relationship, and see how they can offer a new perspective on one’s role as a therapist that can help the therapist become more effective with patients. This class is designed for those with little or no previous knowledge of these concepts.
Instructor: Amy Handler-Caldarola, M.F.T., Candidate, San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis; Supervisor for practicum students at the California Institute of Integral Studies; Supervisor for interns at the Marina Counseling Center; Private practice, San Francisco, California.
Course Title: Curtain Call: Psychoanalytic Views on Termination
Date: Saturday Afternoon 2:30am – 4:15pm, May 16, 23, 30, June 6, 2009
Location: 2127 Ashby Ave, Berkeley.
Description: In this four-week class, we will examine and evaluate key concepts from the analytic literature on termination and consider their applicability to the psychotherapy relationship. The following ideas will be explored: termination criteria, the technique of terminating treatment, the reappearance of symptoms, the repetition of core transference and counter-transference dynamics, and mourning processes in both patient and therapist. The end phase of treatment will be conceptualized as a condensed but powerful repetition of the total process of change which has occurred in the course of treatment.
Instructor: Louis Roussel, Ph.D. Member and Faculty, SFCP.
Peninsula Psychoanalytic Student Seminars 2008-2009
These seminars are offered as a community service intended to supplement local training with psychoanalytic clinical instruction. The courses are offered free of charge to psychiatry residents and fellows, and to pre-doctoral and post-doctoral psychology, clinical social work, and MFT interns. All courses are offered Wednesday evenings, 7:15 – 8:45 PM. To register, please call Max Lee, SFCP Extension Division Coordinator, at (415) 563-5815. If you would like more information about these seminars, please call Michael Loughran, Ph.D., Peninsula Chair of Student Outreach, at (650) 323-3049. Once you register, you will be called two weeks prior to class to coordinate getting the readings. The seminars below will take place at Stanford in the Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Building at 401 Quarry Road in Room 1206 (first floor, behind the cafe).
Course Title: Analytic Listening, Analytic Thinking, and Analytic Speech
Dates: January 7, 14, 21, 28, 2009
Description: What defines analytic listening and distinguishes it from any other kind of psychotherapy is that it attempts to listen to the unconscious. In this class we will look at a variety of examples of analytic listening, and how it differs from ordinary listening. Analytic thinking and analytic speech are also unique to the analytic process because the analyst is constantly attempting to think about, understand, and communicate that understanding through interpretation of something of what is being unconsciously, rather than consciously, communicated.
Instructor: Lynn Alexander, Psy.D., Member, Faculty and Personal and Supervising Analyst, PINC; Faculty, NCSPP and Palo Alto Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program; Private Practice, Palo Alto .
Course Title: Course Title: The Analytic Frame and What Happens Inside
Dates: February 4, 11, 18, 25, 2009
Description: Our intention to create a safe space for our patients begins with the practical decisions we make about the treatment setting. This includes the room itself, the times we are available, our fee, the “rules,” and who we are professionally and personally. This course will offer a way to increase understanding of how the exterior frame surrounds and impacts interior meaning, and how the frame and boundary setting can be a vehicle and/or an obstacle to the emotional process that is the analytic experience. We'll use clinical material to illustrate potential enactments around the frame as well as to demonstrate possibilities of new ways of interpreting safety and trust.
Instructor: Cia Foreman, Ph.D., Candidate, SFCP; Adjunct Clinical Faculty, Stanford School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry; Private Practice, Palo Alto.
Course Title: Couples Therapy – Love’s Work: The Dynamics of Intimate Relationships
Dates: March 4, 11, 18, 25, 2009
Description: In most intimate relationships, the fantasy “…and they lived happily ever after” all too soon becomes “how has love failed me, let me count the ways.” In this course we will examine the dynamics of intimate relationships, as the partners emerge from narcissism into marriage or struggle with repeating familiar patterns ad nauseam. Drawing primarily on the ideas of Klein and Bion, we will explore factors that enable the couple to do their love’s work, as well as the powerful forces engaged against it.
Instructor: Dana Wideman, Ph.D., Faculty, Personal and Supervising Analyst, PINC; Faculty, PAPPTP; Faculty, Palo Alto Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program; Adjunct Clinical Faculty, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University; Private Practice, Palo Alto.
Course Title: Working Psychoanalytically with Trauma
Dates: April 15, 22, 29, 2009
Description: This seminar explores trauma from Freud through Bion, looking at it conceptually, diagnostically, and in terms of its clinical treatment. We will focus on a wide range of psychological trauma from that inherent in development itself to trauma involved in the experience of life-threatening events.
Instructor: Shela Fisk, Ph.D., Member, SFCP; Adjunct Clinical Faculty, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University; Private Practice, Palo Alto.
Course Title: Therapeutic Action in the Clinical Moment
Dates: May 6, 13, 20, 27, 2009
Description: The nature of the analytic process that affects our patients in beneficial ways is easily described in general terms. It is less easily described in terms of the immediate contact of one mind with another in the clinical setting. In this course we will look at what broad conceptions of therapeutic action seem to mean in the immediate conscious and unconscious processes of patient and therapist. We will consider what these ideas imply for psychotherapeutic technique, and we will examine their relationship to the benefits that patients report having received from therapy.
Instructor: Michael Smith, Ph.D., Analytic Candidate, SFCP; Adjunct Clinical Faculty, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University; Private Practice, Palo Alto.
