January brings a new year and renewed hopes for growth and development. In this month's issue, NCSPP's incoming president outlines his vision for expanding our professional community; IMPULSE's founding editor reflects on the way in which a personal analysis can help to revise the self; EVENT SPOTLIGHT offers a generative encounter with the unconscious; and our events calendar surveys a wealth of opportunities to evolve as a clinician and thinker.

We hope you enjoy this month's issue, and we hope you'll join NCSPP to assist us in furthering the community that belongs to us all.

So, a new year begins, new leadership steps forward, takes the reins in hand and NCSPP's momentum continues. So who am I? I'm a clinical psychologist in private practice. I graduated from CSPP (Alameda). My training involved community based psychotherapy, health psychology (AIDS and cancer patients), milieu treatment of psychotic adults, psychiatric emergency, and outpatient treatment of severely personality disordered adults.

In opening my practice, I wanted to improve my therapeutic skills. This led me to PINC and SFCP's extension programs and to NCSPP classes. Being in analysis has had a fortuitous effect on my life, and I am amazed at the power and depth of analytic process. I'm a fourth year candidate at PINC and am particularly interested in American relational psychoanalysis. I'm influenced by Freud, the Middle School, Bion and Lacan. Early in my career I sought out professional affiliation and a place to learn about my craft. I found that in NCSPP's offerings, and I am your new president.

NCSPP is in a dynamic period, having revitalized programming, stabilized our budget and implemented programming to focus on constituency desires. I plan to continue phases of development set in motion this past year, reach out to associate members seeking affiliation and community, and connect with our seasoned members. I hope to have some hand in bringing a contemporary, comparative perspective to what we offer in programming. I sit on the Executive Committee of the International Psychoanalytical Studies Organization (IPSO). There, I am learning how different cultures in North America, Latin America and Europe approach the teaching and learning of psychoanalytic ideas. I want to bring that knowledge to my work as president.

My main goal this year: growing our community. I encourage you to write me with thoughts and suggestions.

I also want to have fun. I'm continually impressed by smart and interesting colleagues in this community and want to have a playful, productive experience. I don't fear the death of psychoanalytic technique in favor of more Òevidence-based treatments.Ó I see the fruits of analytic work daily in my practice and am passionately dedicated to the promotion of psychoanalytic ideas and their application.

Please introduce yourself to me at events and let me know your thoughts.

Warm regards,

Drew Tillotson, Psy.D.
President, NCSPP

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It's a new year, so why not hop on the couch if you haven't yet experienced the paradoxical luxury and necessity of a four- or five-times-a-week psychoanalysis? Go for a rock-star analyst or choose an eager candidate, a licensed professional who is in training to become an analyst. If cost is paramount, you may be able to get a low fee from a candidate who needs analytic cases to graduate. You can find an established analyst or a promising candidate by asking for the referral service at organizations like Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, the Jungian Institute, The Lacanian School for Psychoanalysis, and others.

I recently ended my own analysis after quite a number of years. With thanks to my analysts, here are a few ways I found my treatment beneficial:

• Greater capacity to withdraw projections
  
• Expanded range of possibilities in thoughts and actions
  
• Improved emotional resiliency
  
• Better developed observing ego
  
• Decreased impulsivity
  
• Diminution of severe superego
  
• Acceptance of loss and genuine mourning
  
• Enhanced clinical skills with patients
  

Your results may vary. Past performance is not a guarantee of future performance. Offer void where prohibited by resistance. Consult an analyst for details.

Cleopatra Victoria, MFT
IMPULSE Editor

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What does the unconscious feel like? How does unarticulated experience in the consulting room take shape into words, metaphors, scenes, or stories? The Intensive Study Group invites you to consider such questions as we encounter the unconscious with internationally renowned Dr. Ruth Stein. Dr. Stein will explore how, within the clinical process, we are in the 'deep well' of our own and our patientsÕ unconscious psychic experience. Distinguished Bay Area analyst Dr. Peter Goldberg will join Dr. Stein in an exciting and lively discussion.

Saturday, February 23: 9 AM - 2:30 PM
UCSF Laurel Heights
3333 California Street, San Francisco
Fees: $25 - $160

Drs. Stein and Goldberg will offer small study groups advancing our understanding of the unconscious through case material discussion. Study Groups: With Peter Goldberg in the East Bay: Friday, February 22, 3 - 5 PM; and with Ruth Stein in San Francisco: Sunday, February 24, 11 AM - 1 PM. Visit www.ncspp.org to register and find more 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.

SFCP Foundations of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Wed, Jan 2 (begins) / 12 - 2:45 PM / 2340 Jackson Street / San Francisco
SFCP / (415) 563-5815 / J. Dunn; S. Chase; E. Simpson; C. Wallis; C. Fisher / $900

SFCP Peninsula Student Outreach: Treatment of Adolescents
Wed, Jan 9 (begins) / 7:30 - 9 PM / Psychiatry Building, 401 Quarry Road, Room 1206 / Palo Alto
SFCP / (415) 563-5815 / Michael Loughran, Ph.D. / free

Friends of SFCP East Bay Clinical Forum (Case Presentation and Discussion)
Wed, Jan 9 / 7 - 9 PM / Herrick Hospital, Conf. Room CC, 2001 Dwight Way / Berkeley
Friends of SFCP / (415) 563-5815 / Milena Edwards, M.A. (presenter),
William Glover, Ph.D. (discussant) / free (CE $15)

SFCP Extension Division East Bay Panel about "Primitive States"
Sat, Jan 12 / 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM / JFKU, 2956 San Pablo Avenue, 2nd Floor / Berkeley
SFCP / (415) 563-5815 / M. Rundel; P. Goldberg; H. Markman; J. Sekoff / $75

SFCP Scientific Meeting with Charles Fisher, M.D.
Mon, Jan 14 / 7:30 - 8:30 PM / 2340 Jackson St / San Francisco
SFCP / (415) 563-5815 / Charles Fisher, M.D. / free

SFCP Friends Clinical Forum - San Francisco (case presentation)
Tue, Jan 15 / 7:30 - 9:30 PM / SFCP Library, 2340 Jackson St. / San Francisco
Friends of SFCP / (415) 563-5815 / Jacquie Ward, Ph.D. (presenter); Clara Kwun, LCSW (discussant); Robert Friend, M.D. (moderator) / free (CE $20).

South Bay Clinical Forum
Tue, Jan 15 / 7 - 9 PM / Stanford University Medical Center, 401 Quarry Rd / Palo Alto
SFCP / (650) 248-0754 / Jana Kahn, Ph.D. (discussant);
Wendy Justus, L.C.S.W. (presenter) / free

Dynamic Group Treatment of Persons with Persistent, Severe Mental llness
Sat, Jan 19 / 1 - 4 PM / CPMC, 2333 Buchanan St. Conf. Rm. A / San Francisco
Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies / (415) 679-0997 / Walter Stone, M.D. / $10 - $30

SFCP Public Lecture Series: Pink Parenting
Wed, Jan 23 / 7:30 - 9 PM / 2340 Jackson St / San Francisco
SFCP / (415) 563-5815 / Gary Grossman, Ph.D. / free

SFCP Ext. Div. South Bay Seminar: Trauma and Affect Deregulation
Sat, Jan 26 / 9 AM - 12 PM / Christ Episcopal Church, 1040 Border Road / Los Altos
SFCP / (415) 563-5815 / Paul Ransohoff, D.M.H. / $75

Film, Food & Freud presents Stranger than Fiction
Sat, Jan 26 / 10:45 AM - 2 PM / Variety Club Preview Room, 582 Market Street / San Francisco
Friends of SFCP / (415) 563-5815 / Jeanne Wolff Bernstein, Ph.D.; Jonathan Dunn, Ph.D.
$15 - $25

SFCP Stanford Grand Rounds
Wed, Jan 30 / 6:15 - 7:30 PM / Psychiatry Building, 401 Quarry Road, Room 1206 / Palo Alto
SFCP / (415) 563-5815 / Barbara Almond, M.D. / free

SFCP Psychoanalytic Training Open House
Wed, Jan 30 / 7:30 - 9 PM / 2340 Jackson St / San Francisco
SFCP / (415) 563-5815 / Panel of Candidates and Faculty; E. Simpson, Coordinator / free

To submit an event, please see our submission guidelines.

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STUDY SEEKS PARTICIPANTS: Qualitative dissertation on clinical intuition seeking participants. Research involves keeping a written log over two weeks. $40 paid. Contact Nicole Sucre @ nicolesucre@yahoo.com if interested.

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. Join us.

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Drew Tillotson, Psy.D., NCSPP President
Cleopatra Victoria, M.A., MFT, Editor
Cate Corcoran, Psy.D., Features Editor
Meg Earls, M.A., Copy Editor
Brad Falconer, M.A., Managing Editor

Each month, IMPULSE reaches over 1,830 psychoanalytically interested professionals and students in Northern California.

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IMPULSE is a monthly newsletter published by the Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology for the purpose of connecting Northern California psychoanalytic practitioners, students, and scholars. IMPULSE aims to foster the development of psychoanalytic practice and thought in our region through collaboration and understanding.

For information on submitting event listings and other content to IMPULSE, please see our guidelines and policies page on the NCSPP web site.

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