OPEN HOUSE for PSYCHOANALYTIC TRAINING
Hosted by Candidates
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Community Members and Interested Clinicians
PLEASE JOIN US FOR AN EVENING OF CONVERSATION
6:45 - 7:30 light supper served (RSVP!)
Informal Discussion: EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES AT SFCP
Psychoanalytic training & changes in the requirements
Psychoanalytic psychotherapy training program (two years)
Extension program - child & adult seminars
Community Members' clinical forum - SF, Palo Alto & East Bay
7:45 - 9:15 CLINICAL PRESENTATION & DISCUSSION
MERYL BOTKIN - Presentation of an Analytic Case
JED SEKOFF - DISCUSSANT
Sponsored by: SFCP Community Education & Service Division and Psychoanalytic Training Division
Location: SFCP - 2340 Jackson Street, 4th Floor (entrance on Webster)
Please RSVP for dinner & presentation: 415/563-5815 or email: training@sf-cp.org
QUESTIONS: Contact Elizabeth M. Simpson, L.C.S.W.
SFCP Outreach Coordinator, Psychoanalytic Training Division
elizabeth@simpsonlcsw.com
OPEN HOUSE for PSYCHOANALYTIC TRAINING FLYER (.pdf)
Curriculum 2008-2009
This curriculum is the product of on-going work by the
entire faculty and candidate groups as well as several working committees. We have developed a curriculum that is organized around the principle of critical thinking which begins with Freud’s foundations of psychoanalytic thinking and then builds on that foundation to contemporary
thinking about the central concepts of psychoanalysis.
The curriculum takes account of the growing theoretical and clinical diversity of our own Institute, American
psychoanalysis and the influence of our increasingly
connected international community.
The core curriculum is arranged into four tracks; Theory, Clinical, Development, and Psychoanalytic Studies.
Through a coherent focus on an integrated and clinically relevant program of seminars we have emphasized the basic concepts of psychoanalysis in the first year, with subsequent years broadening to include other branches in the development of current psychoanalytic thinking.
In addition, the second, third and fourth years allow for more choices through the addition of an elective seminar in each year.
In the elective seminar, candidates may choose their preference from several courses, thereby providing an opportunity for more in depth study of various aspects of theory, technique, and applied psychoanalysis.
These selections will change from year to year, providing for the greatest range of choice.
The seminar year includes a week in the Fall of intensive seminars with a Visiting Professor, and three weeks in the Spring of an Intersession in which a topic in applied psychoanalysis is studied with experts in that field invited to present their work.
In the fifth year, candidates will participate in a preceptorship seminar on psychoanalytic writing, and each candidate will write a psychoanalytic paper for completion of that course and for graduation.
Click here to download: The Training Catalog of Courses 2008-2009 (PDF file)
Click here for Child & Adolescent Seminars.
Theory Track
FIRST YEAR
- Orientation of Theory
- Topographical Model
- Freud's Papers on Metapsychology
- Structural Model + Freud's Later Writings
- The Emergence of Object Relations Theory
SECOND YEAR
- Contemporary Freudian Theory
- Melanie Klein's Contributions to Psychoanalytic Theory
- Object Relations Theories of the British Middle School
- Bion
- An Introduction to Reading French Psychoanalytic Texts
THIRD YEAR
- American Relational School
- Contemporary Object Relations
FOURTH YEAR
Clinical Track
FIRST YEAR
- Theory of Technique: Introduction to Theory of Therapeutic Action
- Considering Analysis and Assessment
- Some Character Types Met with in Psychoanalytic Work
- Elements of Analytic Process
- Working with Dreams
- First Year Clinical Conference
SECOND YEAR
- Clinical Formulation
- Technical Approaches in Psychoanalysis
- Continuous Case Conference: Child and Adult / Adult
THIRD YEAR
- Severe Disorders: An Object Relations Perspective
- Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Trauma
- Continuous Case Conference: Adult / Child and Adult
FOURTH YEAR
- Advanced psychopathology
- Continuous Case Conference:Adult/Adult and Child
- Psychoanalytic termination
Development Track
FIRST YEAR
- The Developing Mind: A Study in Infant Observation
- The Developing Mind: Infancy and Early Childhood
- The Developing Mind: Toddlerhood
- The Developing Mind: Oedipal
- The Developing Mind: Middle Childhood
SECOND YEAR
- The Developing Mind: Adolescence
- The Developing Mind: Adulthood
- Clinical Use of Developmental Perspectives
THIRD YEAR
- The Imagined Meanings of Gender
- Psychosexualities & Object Choice
Psychoanalytic Studies
FIRST YEAR
SECOND YEAR
THIRD YEAR
- Interdisciplinary Studies in the Theory of Mind
- Psychoanalytic Writing
- Intersession
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Electives
FOURTH YEAR
- American Relational School
- Contemporary Object Relations
FIFTH YEAR
- Preceptorship Seminar - Seminar and Paper
Electives
Electives are seminars that present subjects of special interest not otherwise
offered in the core curriculum. Candidates in the second, third, and fourth
seminar year are required to take one Elective seminar per year. In the 2007-2008 academic year, there will be three Elective classes offered during the Elective block (Jan. 4 to Feb. 29). Candidates in the fourth year, followed by those in the second and third years, will have priority in choosing which Elective class they take. Post-seminar candidates as well as faculty may also request assignment to an Elective, or give preferences regarding Electives they would like to take. Class size will be limited. Any particular Elective may or may not be given for more than one year, depending on the availability of the instructor and the interest of the candidates.
Electives
8 sessions
Friday 8:00 – 9:45 a.m.
January 9 – Febuary 27, 2009
- Counter-Transference
- On Hearing Unconscious Fantasy
- Re-Reading the Interpretation of Dreams
Preceptorship Seminar
The seminar serves as a writing group for the discussion of individual papers, and of issues relating to writing for psychoanalytic journals. Candidates will be helped to prepare and present a draft of a paper, and to read and discuss (each other's) papers from the perspective of an editorial board.
It is helpful to begin thinking about the paper early in the training. A two-session seminar in the 4th year will provide an opportunity to discuss possible topics and become acquainted with the various formats of psychoanalytic papers.
Candidates are encouraged to seek individual consultation on their papers early on from faculty members or other analytic writers. The seminar leader can help with suggestions for consultants. The seminar focuses on developing the ability to write about psychoanalytic concepts and process. The paper should not be merely a case report or a literature review. It should address a topic that is alive to the candidate and contributes to the wide range of psychoanalytic dialogue including theoretical issues, clinical phenomena, or applications of psychoanalytic ideas to other fields such as literature, film, art, or music.
The seminar leader will determine when the paper has met the standard for graduation. Candidates are often encouraged to make revisions to meet the seminar expectations.
Candidates aiming to graduate in the same year as the seminar are asked to have a draft completed by February 15, 2009 and obtain final approval of the seminar leaders by April 15, 2008. Candidates who, for some reason, are not planning to take the seminar in the 5th year should notify the office in early September 2008.
A candidate with extensive psychoanalytic writing and publication experience can apply for a waiver. The candidate will still be asked, however, to present a recent work or work in progress at the seminar and to be a discussant. Even if a candidate is a well-experienced writer, it is recommended that he or she would take this opportunity to generate new work and make a contribution to colleagues by being part of the writing group.
Child & Adolescent Trainning Program
There are two routes to becoming a child and adolescent analyst. The traditional route is for those already accepted into the adult training program. The Child Focus candidates are accepted into SFCP as child candidates only.
Child & Adolescent Seminars
Both groups of candidates take the seminars with the adult candidates for years 1 and 2 of their training. In year 2, weekly child seminars are added. In years 3 and 4, Child Focus candidates need not take all of the adult program seminars. All child candidates will take weekly child seminars in years 3 and 4. All child candidates take three years of child case conferences. The child-adult case conference contributes to this requirement. All candidates take the Preceptorship seminar and write a paper.
Monthly Child Analysis Course: 2008 2009
Historical and Clinical Introduction to Child Analysis
Each monthly session will begin with a segment from the history of child analysis. This will be followed by the opportunity for the participants to discuss their child and adolescent cases with an eye to potential analytic treatment, and the beginnings of child analysis. The faculty will also present the beginnings of their analytic cases as well.
Meetings: fourth Tuesday of every month (8 sessions, September through May or June, skipping December), 7:30 to 9:00 p.m.
Location: 6208 Harwood Avenue, Oakland (Rockridge)
This class is open to SFCP candidates and members, and IPA-trained analysts, who are considering becoming child candidates. It is also open to child therapists who are interested in becoming child analysts through SFCP's new Child Focus training program.
Faculty: Jan Baeuerlen, M.D., Tina Lapides, M.S.W., Nancy Peters, M.S.W. and Marsha Silverstein, Ph.D.
