Last month's natural and man-made disasters were a kind of clarion call that awakened in many of us a heartfelt responsiveness to those in need. We at IMPULSE took the opportunity to remember those in our own backyards: Berkeley High School, the San Francisco Housing and Urban Health Clinics, and the Children's Psychotherapy Project. This month I want to call attention to the needs within our own community: those individuals still in training, those recently licensed and struggling to establish a practice, or those who work in community mental health settings. Many of these practitioners are unable to afford the rich diversity of courses offered by the psychoanalytic community.

A couple of years ago NCSPP established a scholarship fund to subsidize the fees for this group of practitioners. The program has been very successful — and requests totaling about $3000 have been made in the past year alone by a wide variety of applicants. The program is funded exclusively through contributions from the membership. I will pledge $100 this month to the scholarship fund. I hope you will join me by making a contribution of $25, $50, or $100 to help us make NCSPP's offerings widely available. To make a donation, contact us via our online form. We sincerely appreciate your generosity.

Finally, 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

The James Whitney Clinic of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco has been providing low-fee depth psychotherapy since the 1940s. The clinic welcomes people of all ethnic backgrounds and sexual orientations. Between 60 and 70 patients are seen at any given time. Therapy in many cases can be open ended, as analysts, candidates and interns are all involved in providing treatment. In addition, patients can be seen at frequencies greater than once weekly. Therapy is also available for couples.

Jungian therapy is unique in its focus upon complex theory and symbolic work with a view to the archetypal layer of the psyche. Contemporary Jungian work is also informed by a variety of psychoanalytic approaches. The British Jungians, through their close collaboration with Kleinians, have demonstrated the natural compatibility of a Jungian approach with a developmental perspective and Object Relations theory. Jungian therapy includes close attention to transference and countertransference. In addition, Jung, in discussing the idea that therapist and patient have a mutual impact upon each other, advanced the idea of intersubjectivity, a perspective that is very present in Jungian work.

The clinic is organized around a two-year predoctoral training program for psychology interns. Currently there are nine interns, including two international students from Poland and Hungary. Interns receive intensive supervision from three supervisors simultaneously, while providing an average of 12 clinical hours. They participate in case conferences and didactic seminars and have access to the many resources of the Jung Institute. Training involves an experience of the integration of the above diverse perspectives with the ultimate goal of the development of an individual style and the emergence of an analytic attitude. The C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco is proud to bring the richness of the Jungian approach both to our patients and to the greater psychoanalytic community.

Jeffrey Swanger, Ph.D.
Clinical Director
The James Whitney Clinic of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco

This space is available 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.

Clinical Consideration of Freud's Mourning and Melancholia
Wed, Nov 2 (begins) / 7:30 - 9 PM / 2420 Sutter, Room 2 / San Francisco
NCSPP / Mary Maragret McClure, Ph.D. / $40-130

Marin Mingle: No-Host Happy Hour Sponsored by Marin's NCSPP Chapter
Fri, Nov 4 / 5:30 - 7:30 PM / Buckeye Roadhouse, 15 Shoreline Road / Mill Valley
NCSPP / free

Sacramento Valley Small Group Case Seminar
Fri, Nov 4 / 1:30 - 4:30 PM / Sierra Health Foundation, 1321 Garden Highway / Sacramento
NCSPP / Stephen Seligman, Ph.D. / $50-60

Psychotherapy for People Living with HIV Illness
Sat, Nov 5 / 9 AM - 5 PM / 3333 California Street, Chancellors Room / San Francisco
NCSPP / Eric Glassgold, M.D.; Francisco Gonzalez, M.D.; Gary Grossman, Ph.D. / $40-$145

Sacramento Valley Intro Event: "Lessons from Infancy for Psychotherapy"
Sat, Nov 5 / 9:30 AM - 4 PM / Sierra Health Foundation, 1321 Garden Highway / Sacramento
NCSPP / Stephen Seligman, Ph.D. / $35-130

Child Colloquia with Heiman van Dam
Sat, Nov 5 / 10 AM - 12 PM / 2420 Sutter Street / San Francisco
SFPI&S / Heiman van Dam, M.D. / free

Open House: Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC)
Tue, Nov 8 / 7:30 PM / 2252 Fillmore Street / San Francisco
PINC / free

RAMS, Inc. Anniversary and Fundraiser
Wed, Nov 9 / 5:30 PM / Westin St. Francis, 335 Powell St. / San Francisco
Richmond Area Multi-Services (RAMS) / $200-5000

Maternal Desire: On Children, Love, and the Inner Life
Thu, Nov 10 / 6:30 PM / 3199 Powell Street / Emeryville
NCPS & NCROCAP / Daphne de Marneffe, Ph.D. / $38-43

Ethics: Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and the Law
Sat, Nov 12 / 9 AM - 4 PM / El Camino Hospital, 2500 Grant Road / Mountain View
SFPI&S / Susana Winkel, Ph.D. / $60

Sublimation and Das Ding in Mahler's Symphony #8
Sat, Nov 12 / 9:30 - 11 AM / 2252 Fillmore Street / San Francisco
PINC / John Muller, Ph.D. / RSVP to pincsf@sbcglobal.net

Taking Care of Business: Creating a Professional Will
Sat, Nov 12 (begins) / 9:30 AM - 12 PM / 3852 Piedmont Ave. / Oakland
Lucie Tetrault, M.F.T. / (510) 595-5595 / $125

A Day with Anne Alvarez
Sun, Nov 13 / 9 AM - 3:30 PM / 3333 California Street / San Francisco
SFPI&S / Anne Alvarez, Ph.D. / $55-$140

Scientific Meeting: Anne Alvarez on Types of Narcissism
Mon, Nov 14 / 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM / SFPI&S Library, 2420 Sutter Street / San Francisco
SFPI&S / Anne Alvarez, Ph.D.; Laurie Case, Ph.D.; Robert Friend, M.D. / free

The Devil Within: Working With The Hidden Faces of Masochism and Self Defeat
Fri, Nov 18 / 9 AM - 4 PM / Seacliff Inn, 7500 Old Dominion Way / Aptos
Family Service Agency of the Central Coast, (831) 423-9444 / Alan Kessler, Ph.D. / $80-100

Sausalito Salon Series: "Bad Woman, Good Woman"
Fri, Nov 18 / 6:30 - 9 PM / Sausalito
NCSPP / Stephen Ducat, Ph.D. / $15-20

Intuitive Psychoanalysis in Myth: Ovid's Metamorphoses
Sat, Nov 19 / 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM / 2420 Sutter Street / San Francisco
SFPI&S / Diane Middlebrook, Ph.D. / $45

Infertility & Beyond: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Understanding & Intervening
Sat, Dec 3 / 8:15 AM - 1 PM / 3200 California Street / San Francisco
SFPI&S / D. Ehrensaft, Ph.D.; J. Kite, Ph.D.; M. M. McClure, D.M.H.; E. Schriock, M.D. / $50-$80

Irresistable Objects and Immovable Forces — Something's Gotta Give
Sat, Dec 3 / 9 AM - 1 PM / El Camino Hospital, 2500 Grant Road / Mountain View
SFPI&S / Maureen Smith, M.D. / $100

Psychoanalytic Case Consultation Group in the South Bay
Fridays, Sept - June / 10:30 AM - 12 PM / 20688 Fourth Street / Saratoga
Alan Kessler, Ph.D. / $45 per meeting

To submit an event, please see our submission guidelines.

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The following poem was composed on the occasion of "The Geography of Trauma," NCSPP's San Francisco Introductory Event for 2005.

History's Rich Harvest

for Francoise Davoine and Jean-Max Gaudilliere

Every day the frozen tide yields more bodies.
The disappeared pile up, sand
embedded in their simian creases
numbers written on nameless arms with indelible ink.

Bones bleach in the sun.
Clouds the color of bruises
clutter the open view
a clatter of car horns in the street.

Or the outline is there but the body has vanished
the lens dropped from the camera
recording nothing
words fallen from the tongue
signifying nothing.

The ancestors, taken away
leave only ghosts in the time of no trust.

What was the season, do you know?
What was the color of flowers in their blooming?

If you can transform us, do it now
before drugged time freezes the tears of statues
before the only presence is absence.
It is time to rest.
Put us to rest.

- Scott Lines, Ph.D., 2005 September 24

POTENTIAL SPACE is a place within IMPULSE for play — a home for a creative, unconventional, or otherwise novel contributions. Please see our submission guidelines to express interest in contributing.

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PSYCHOTHERAPY GROUP: For adults concerned about alcohol/drug use. Focus is on implementing individualized goals for change. Wed 6:00-7:30 PM in SF. Co-leaders: Jordana A. Templin, LCS 20773, (415) 255-9413, David A. Wasserman, PSY 11897, (415) 263-0980.

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

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 1,200 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.

POTENTIAL SPACE is a place within IMPULSE for play — a home for a creative, unconventional, or otherwise novel contributions. Submissions should be emailed via our online form. Due to length restrictions and thematic constraints, we cannot guarantee that your submission will be published. However, we encourage you to express yourself and help us open the space. Please note that you must be the copyright owner of anything you submit, and your submission constitutes permission for IMPULSE to publish your submission via email and on the web in perpetuity without any compensation.

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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