The Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology (NCSPP) is always looking for innovative ways to further psychoanalytic thinking and practice in the region we serve. We believe that the future of our shared analytic endeavor is best fostered by collaboration, dialogue, and congenial interaction among the many psychoanalytically oriented organizations that enrich our local community. To this end, we conceived IMPULSE as an integrative source for local news, events, and thinking of interest to the psychoanalytically inclined.

We have asked a number of organizations to partner with us, including the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute and Society, the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis, the San Francisco Society for Lacanian Studies, and Access Institute. We will continue our outreach to other organizations with a focus on psychoanalytic work, and we welcome your suggestions for strengthening IMPULSE as a resource for our community.

We are fortunate to have an excellent and highly capable staff. Cleopatra Victoria has been a vibrant conceptual force behind the newsletter and chairs the committee that produces it. Brad Falconer provides the technical and design expertise that makes the newsletter possible. Cate Corcoran contributes her strong background in editorial leadership. Finally, Michele McGuinness and Norm Mayell provide additional support. I hope you will join me in congratulating them on their excellent work.

We welcome all interested subscribers to IMPULSE, regardless of organizational affiliation. (Information on subscribing or unsubscribing appears at the end of the newsletter.) And we hope you'll support our efforts to strengthen collaboration in the Northern California psychoanalytic community by becoming a member of NCSPP today.

Francisco J. Gonzalez, M.D.
President, NCSPP

A sense of despair overtook our local psychoanalytic community following the closing of the psychoanalytic training programs and community clinics at Mt. Zion and McAuley Institute. These traumatic endings amid the climate of HMO limits, "manualized" therapy, and graduate programs cutting psychoanalytic coursework had many wondering if community-based psychoanalytic treatment and training had any future. I'm proud to say that our community didn't succumb to the pull of hopelessness but instead came together to create Access Institute.

Hundreds of you from all corners of the psychoanalytic community and beyond have given time, money, and psychical support to establish a community clinic that will serve hundreds of patients and provide over 7000 hours of psychotherapy to low-income San Franciscans this year. Eighteen interns are now enrolled in the intensive two-year psychoanalytically oriented training program that integrates rigorous didactics, supervision, and clinical work with a diverse inner-city population. Unlike most community clinics, Access offers long-term treatments that may take place more than once a week.

Access Institute owes its success to many who believe passionately in psychoanalytic treatment and training. This program and others like it will flourish as long we can keep that passion and the generous spirit that springs from it alive. We look forward to deepening our connection to the community, and we hope to see you at Spectrum 3, our annual art auction/fundraiser, on Sunday, October 16.

Bart Magee, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Access Institute for Psychological Services

This space will be available in future issues of IMPULSE for psychological organizations in Northern California who want to articulate their relationship to the local psychoanalytic community. Please see our submission guidelines to express interest in contributing.

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Appointment Book offers a sampling of the psychoanalytically oriented events taking place in Northern California over the coming month. Where available, simply click an event title to view details on the sponsoring organization's web site.

Introductory Panel on the Independent Tradition
Sat, Sept 10 / 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM / 2420 Sutter Street / San Francisco
SFPI&S / John Jemerin, M.D., Stephen Seligman, D.M.H., Jed Sekoff, Ph.D. / $75

SFPI Scientific Meeting: The Psychology of Detachment
Mon, Sept 12 / 7:30 PM / 2420 Sutter Street / San Francisco
SFPI&S / Peter Goldberg, Ph.D., Jed Sekoff, Ph.D.

Clinical Lacan: An Introductory Case Conference
Mon, Sept 12 (begins) / 1:15 - 2:45 PM / 3669 Sacramento Street / San Francisco
Lacanian School / Philippe Gendrault, Ph.D., Lara Guille, Psy.D. / $20 per session

Lacanian Clinical Consultation Seminar
Wed, Sept 14 (begins) / 8 - 10 PM / 2820 Adeline / Berkeley
Lacanian School / Raul Moncayo, Ph.D. / $40 per session

The Body Unconscious: Towards a Model of Somatic Experience
Wed, Sept 14 (begins) / 10:10 AM - 1:30 PM / 1953 Hopkins Street / Berkeley
NCSPP / Barbara Cohen, Psy.D., M.F.T. / $40-170

Intensive Study Group: At Play with Winnicott
Wed, Sept 14 (begins) / 10:00 - 11:30 AM / Menlo College / Atherton
NCSPP / multiple faculty / $1700

The Role of Authenticity in the Psychoanalytic Encounter
Fri, Sept 16 (begins) / 12:00 - 1:30 PM / 2420 Sutter Street / San Francisco
NCSPP / Michael Guy Thompson, Ph.D. / $40-195

Soul's Body: Archetypal Defenses, Affect Regulation, Healing from Trauma
Fri, Sept 23 (begins) / Mason Center / San Francisco
C.G. Jung Institute / multiple faculty / $325

Real Patients, Real Analysts, Reality of Psychoanalytic Practice
Fri, Sept 23 / 6:30 - 8:45 PM / location TBA / Sausalito
NCSPP / Robert Waska, M.F.T., Ph.D. / $15-20

The Geography of Trauma
Sat, Sept 24 / 8:30 AM - 4:45 PM / 3333 California Street / San Francisco
NCSPP / Ruth Stein, Ph.D., F. Davoine, Ph.D., J. Gaudilliere, Ph.D. / $35-155

Intensive Study Group: A Confusion of Tongues: The Many Voices of Trauma
Thu, Sept 22 (begins) / 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM / 1953 Hopkins Street / Berkeley
NCSPP / P. Goldberg, Ph.D., E. Young, Ph.D., J. W. Bernstein, Ph.D., J. Sekoff, Ph.D. / $1850

Intensive Study Group: A Confusion of Tongues: The Many Voices of Trauma
Fri, Sept 30 (begins) / 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM / 2252 Fillmore Street / San Francisco
NCSPP / P. Rosbrow, Ph.D., T. Rosbrow, Ph.D., A. Sweetnam, Ph.D., D. Melman, Ph.D. / $1850

To submit an event, please see our submission guidelines.

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POST-DOC INTERNSHIP: Available at California College of the Arts' Counseling Service. Psychoanalytically oriented training. 16-24 hours/week, this academic year, Oakland or SF. Contact Dr. William Glover, interim Director. (510) 594-3670.

psyQ DISCUSSION GROUP: New email listserv for queer, psychoanalytically oriented clinicians and trainees in the Bay Area. Share intelligence re: classes, events, more. Moderated by Gary Grossman, Ph.D. and Brad Falconer, M.A. Join.

PSYCHOTHERAPY GROUPS: Long-term, psychodynamic. 1) Therapy Groups for Therapists. 2) General Adult Psychotherapy Groups. Led by Art Raisman, Ph.D., Ass't Clinical Prof., Psychiatry, UCSF; Past President, Northern California Group Psychotherapy Society. (415) 453-4271

MEN IN LOVE: Men in long-term relationships sought for study examining role of empathy in heterosexual and gay male couples. Men 21 - 40, living with partner for 2+ years. Contact Thomas Zurfluh, M.A., (415) 378-4826

CHILD PSYCHOTHERAPY: Access Institute welcomes psychotherapy referrals for children.  We work with children (ages 3-18) and their parents on a sliding-scale fee ($20-$80/hr).  For questions, call Abigail Marks at (415) 861-5449 x339

Old couches, new books, hot jobs, cool internships? Post classified ads on NCSPP's online bulletin board at no charge. We will also feature your listing in IMPULSE for a modest fee. Please see our submission guidelines for details.

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The Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology (NCSPP) is committed to the study of psychoanalytic psychology and the encouragement of its interest in the professional and general communities. We are a multi-disciplinary, non-profit membership organization open to mental health professionals and all others interested in the study of psychoanalytic psychology.

Our more than 650 members form a community that spans the greater Bay Area and Northern California. NCSPP is a local affiliate of Division 39 (psychoanalysis) of the American Psychological Association. Our vast array of lectures, intensive study groups, scientific meetings, courses, our journal fort da, and numerous special events and projects are all brought to you by scores of volunteers who work to support NCSPP's mission. Our educational programs include continuing education credit for psychologists, marriage and family therapists, and licensed clinical social workers. We welcome you into the psychoanalytic community in Northern California. Please join us.

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Francisco J. Gonzalez, M.D., NCSPP President
Cleopatra Victoria, M.A., MFT, Editor
Cate Corcoran, M.A., Features Editor
Brad Falconer, M.A., Managing Editor

Each month, IMPULSE reaches over 1,000 psychoanalytically oriented professionals and students in Northern California.

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Event listings in APPOINTMENT BOOK are available for your psychoanalytically oriented educational or professional event. To submit your event for consideration, please use our online form.

Contributions to PIECE OF MIND, our feature profiling Northern California psychoanalytic organizations, will be assigned on a monthly basis. If you'd like to suggest an organization to be featured in this space, please send an email via our online form with the subject PIECE OF MIND. Please do not send attachments or files.

You can list your psychoanalytically oriented jobs, internships, for sale items, announcements, etc. in CLASSIFIEDS. The cost is $20 per month for a 30-word ad. Please send payment to NCSPP, c/o Michele McGuinness, 12 Hampton Ave., San Anselmo, CA 94960. Email your ad copy as a text-only email via our online form with the subject CLASSIFIEDS.

DEADLINES: To be considered for publication, submissions must be received by the 15th of the month prior to publication. (For example, September 15 for the October issue.) NCSPP and IMPULSE staff reserve the right to decline any submission at our sole discretion.

IMPULSE's complete submission guidelines can be found on the NCSPP web site.

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