One of my tasks as the new NCSPP president was to attend a meeting with the leaders of several of the major psychoanalytic institutions in the Bay Area to discuss collaboration and competition among us. Representatives from NCSPP, the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California and the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute and its Society met over dinner. We discussed working together to more effectively provide innovative educational programs and reach out to broader communities with our offerings.

This group effort is very much in line with the NCSPP vision and is informed by our belief that the future of the analytic endeavor in Northern California will be stimulated by shared purpose, dialogue, and congenial interaction among the many psychoanalytically oriented organizations. We've reached out to include other institutes such as the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis, the San Francisco Society for Lacanian Studies, and Access Institute.

Additionally, we want to help psychoanalysis cast as wide a net as possible and to bring together the various strands of the community. We believe that psychoanalysis has much to offer the world, and that it's enriching to extend ourselves into other arenas — the arts, community mental health, politics, and students in other social sciences.

These ideas are reiterated in the aim of IMPULSE as we move into 2006. We envision it as an integrative source for local news, events, and thinking for the psychoanalytically inclined. We want your suggestions for strengthening IMPULSE as a resource and welcome your participation. Please join our efforts to strengthen the Northern California psychoanalytic community by becoming a member of NCSPP today.

Beth Steinberg, Ph.D.
President, NCSPP

The Center for Healthy Development (CHD) is a non-profit counseling agency that has provided long-term and low-fee psychotherapy in Santa Clara for more than 20 years while serving as a training facility for masters level interns who provide individual, couple, family and group therapy.

It is the mission of CHD to provide treatment to the segment of the local population who could not otherwise afford long-term treatment. CHD treats approximately 60-75 individual patients and holds 7 groups a week. CHD works closely with the Department of Family and Children's Services when children have been exposed to domestic violence and also with Family Court Services to assist children and their families when children have been impacted by highly conflicted custody disputes.

In the past several years, CHD has made a greater commitment to using the community-based model of the Tavistock Clinic. In this spirit, we wish to work more collaboratively with other psychoanalytic Bay Area organizations who work with similar populations. We invite such organizations to use our facilities to host classes, scientific meetings, or other events to promote analytic thinking in the South Bay.

Terrance McLarnan, MFT
Executive Director
The Center for Healthy Development

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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IMPULSE seeks a current candidate in psychoanalytic training to write a monthly series of short "blog" pieces tracking and reflecting on the process of training to be an analyst. We envision something very brief and informal that would provide a window for IMPULSE readers into the experience of an analytic candidate. The column could feature your byline or be anonymous, depending on your preference.

Email Cleopatra Victoria, MFT at psychoanalysis@medscape.com for further information.

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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.

8 Week Psychoanalytic Reading Group: "Bi-Personal Field" by A. Ferro
Wed, Jan 4 (begins) / 9:30 - 10:30 AM / 2964 Fillmore / San Francisco
Mary Paige, Psy.D. / $30

Case Conference: Application of Analytic Concepts to Clinical Material
Fri, Jan 6 (begins) / 12:30 - 2 PM / 401 Quarry Road / Stanford
SFPI&S / Neil Brast, M.D. and Shela Fisk, Ph.D. / $250

Classic Reading in Object Relations Theory
Sat, Jan 7 (begins) / 12:30 - 2 PM / Conference Room, 881 Fremont Ave. / Los Altos
SFPI&S / Gail Bates, Ph.D. / $300

Beyond Freud: A Close Look at Klein, Joseph and Others
Sat, Jan 7 / 8:45 AM - 12:30 PM / Veterans' Memorial Center Theater / Davis
NCSPP / Katherine MacVicar, M.D. / $35-$50

Scientific Meeting: Maternal Attachment and Adult Psychopathology
Mon, Jan 9 / 7:30 - 9:30 PM / SFPI&S Library, 2420 Sutter St. / San Francisco
SFPI&S / Nathan Szajnberg, M.D., presenter; Alicia Lieberman, Ph.D., discussant / free

Extramarital Involvement and Other Knotty Couples' Issues
Fri, Jan 13 (begins) / 10 AM - 12 PM / 1330 Lincoln Ave., #201 / San Rafael
Community Institute for Psychotherapy / Pat Shelton, MFT / $150-$200

Theater on the Couch: "Sexual Perversity in Chicago" by David Mamet
Fri, Jan 13 / 8:00 PM / A.C.T.'s Geary Theater, 405 Geary / San Francisco
SFPI&S / Diane Borden, Ph.D. will discuss the play / $21-$65

A Day with Nancy McWilliams: Going Beyond the Book
Sat, Jan 14 / 9 AM - 4 PM / Guzman Hall, Dominican Univ., 50 Acacia Ave. / San Rafael
Community Institute for Psychotherapy / Nancy McWilliams, Ph.D. / $140-$160

A Conversation with Christopher Bollas
Sat, Jan 14 / 9 AM - 12 PM / Berkeley Rep, 2025 Addison St. / Berkeley
The Psychotherapy Institute / Christopher Bollas, Ph.D. / $45-$75

Connectivity & Personhood: Development, Psychotherapy & Buddhism
Sat, Jan 14 / 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM / Sequoia Hospital / Redwood City
Deep Streams Institute & SMCPA / Joseph Bobrow, Ph.D. / $45-$55

Case Conference: Potentiating Space to Work and Play
Fri, Jan 20 (begins) / 10:30 AM - 12 PM / PINC, 2252 Fillmore St. / San Francisco
NCSPP / Sue Saperstein, MFT / $190-$390

Sausalito Salon Series: Death and the Fear of Finiteness in Hamlet
Fri, Jan 27 / 6:30 - 8:45 PM / Sausalito
NCSPP / Jerome Oremland, M.D. / $15-$20

Crossing the Synapse: Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience Join Forces
Sat, Jan 28 / 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM / 3333 California St. / San Francisco
PINC / Mark Solms, Ph.D.; James S. Grotstein, M.D.; Lee Rather, Ph.D. / $50-$150

Intensive Workshop in Neuropsychoanalysis
Sun, Jan 29 / 10 AM - 3 PM / PINC Library, 2252 Fillmore St. / San Francisco
PINC / Mark Solms, Ph.D. / $40-$100

Consultation Group: The Interplay of Psychotherapy & Buddhism
Wed, Feb 1 (begins) / 10 AM - 12 PM / 121 Clement St. / San Francisco
Deep Streams Institute / Joseph Bobrow, Ph.D. / $60 per meeting

Building a Child Analytically-Oriented Practice: Case Consultation and Reading
Thu (ongoing) / 11:15 AM - 12:10 PM / 550 Hamilton Ave. #240 / Palo Alto
Mary Jane Otte, Ph.D. / (650) 326-6663 / $60 per meeting
 
Psychoanalytic Impasses: Case Consultation and Reading
Tue (ongoing) / 1:10 - 2:15 PM / 550 Hamilton Ave. #240 / Palo Alto
Mary Jane Otte, PhD. / (650) 326-6663 / $60 per meeting

Current Views on Psychoanalytic Core Concepts: Transference
Wed (ongoing) / 11:20 AM - 12:50 PM / 550 Hamilton Ave. #240 / Palo Alto
Lynn Alexander, Psy.D. / (650) 328-8505 / $45 per meeting

Collaborative Group Consultation — Independent Psychoanalytic Perspective
Wed (ongoing) / 11:40 AM - 1:05 PM / 301 B Saratoga Road / Los Gatos
Hugh Grubb, M.A. / $45

To submit an event, please see our submission guidelines.

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Group now forming for women who have wanted children but, due to life circumstances, have been unable to have a child. The group will provide a place to weather this challenging and often unrecognized grief. Contact Karen Wride, LCSW for more info: (408) 626-8779 #2.

Messages From The Minoans: Gender and Power In An Ancient Culture. With Dianne Elise. Discussion by John Beebe and Joseph Bobrow. Sunday, February 19, 1-4 PM. PINC library, 2252 Fillmore St., San Francisco. 3 CE's. Deep Streams Institute. Learn more.

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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Beth Steinberg, Ph.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 1,230 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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IMPULSE is published electronically once a month by the Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology. Comments are welcome and should be sent via our online form.

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