We hope that you enjoy this month's issue, and we hope you'll join NCSPP or contribute to our scholarship fund to assist us in fostering a vibrant psychoanalytic community in Northern California.

I'm still very stimulated here in the aftermath of an engaging analytic event. Dr. Lew Aron was here this weekend as our guest presenter for the NCSPP Annual Lecture. I enjoyed meeting many of you and seeing familiar faces, and I hope you were enriched by the program. Among the many things he spoke about, I started to think more today about his comments related to the current state of psychoanalysis. During his morning lecture, Dr. Aron took up the trend of graduate schools teaching evidence-based treatment models and the dearth of psychoanalytic theory in many graduate curricula. I got to thinking about this more and how this trend is impeding our ability to pass on the importance of psychoanalytic technique and theory to future clinicians. I noticed that a number of graduate students and pre-licensed clinicians attended the Annual Lecture. This month, I use this forum to highlight my current mission to reach out to this group in my presidency, something I reiterated recently with the NCSPP Board and with both our Membership and Pre-Licensed Clinicians Committee leaders.

As part of an idea I want to develop regarding the mentoring of students into the psychoanalytic community, I would like to encourage our full members who wish to mentor and provide consultation to graduate students and pre-licensed therapists to please contact me. To our Pre-licensed/Student Associate Members -- I would like to offer a pro bono consultation, during which you could speak with me about the development of your practice, consult about professional development, analytic training or ways to connect more with our Bay Area psychoanalytic community. Please contact me if you have interest. I hope other members would be willing to follow suit, so that we may begin to create a network of mentorship for the future.

Warm regards,
Drew Tillotson, Psy.D.
NCSPP President

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As T.S. Eliot penned, April is the cruelest month. For IMPULSE it means the beginning of goodbye to this newsletter's mom and pop, Cate Corcoran, Features Editor, and Brad Falconer, Managing Editor, as they transition more fully into their careers as clinicians. Brad and Cate helped create and shape the nascent IMPULSE from its birth nearly three years ago, providing holding, containment, and reverie, and establishing the law of the father. This is in addition to monthly blizzards of emails, copyediting, technical skills (both come from highly skilled online and editorial positions), and customer service -- helping you and your organization get into IMPULSE on time for deadlines and with adherence to our editorial mission. Of course, Brad and Cate never received a penny for their work. I'm endlessly grateful for their spirit and toil, without which my dream could not have come true. Please thank them if you run into them online, on the phone or in person!

I'm also asking you to join me and Meg Earls, the other member of our committee, as we go forth. We need your interest, editorial skills and email fluency on our committee. Most of our work is done via email with just a few meetings per year. Sample tasks include email contact with editorial contributors, proofreading our calendar, or helping edit a column. It's a good way to become more known in this community, as our circulation is up to 1,800 now. Interest? Questions? Please email me. And thank you for reading IMPULSE!

Cleopatra Victoria, MFT
IMPULSE Editor

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Emotions are profoundly social; they help us form attachments, negotiate social hierarchies, articulate our experience. As clinicians, we experience how emotional relationships change both the analyst and patient. But what is it about emotion that is transformative in this way? In a program sponsored by PINC's Neuropsychoanalysis Committee, Dacher Keltner, a leading expert in social intelligence at UC Berkeley and founder of the Greater Good Science Center, will show us how emotion has evolved to make this possible. Dr. Keltner will describe precisely how this happens in the body when two people are in relationship. He will also address the compelling question of the evolutionary purpose of negative emotions and the crucial task that therapy has in transforming negative emotions into positive emotions, promoting cooperative creativity rather than hostile destructiveness.

UCSF Laurel Heights
Saturday, May 3
8:30 am - 1 pm

For more information, contact PINC: (415) 922-4050.

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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.

Friends of SFCP East Bay Clinical Forum (Case Presentation and Discussion)
Wed, Apr 2 / 7 PM - 9 PM / Herrick Hospital, 2001 Dwight Way, Conf Rm CC / Berkeley
Friends of SFCP / (415) 563-5815 / Alberto Varona, M.A. (presenter);
Abby Wolfson, Ph.D. (discussant); / free

SFCP Dialogues: Jazz & the Improvisatory Dimension of the Analytic Encounter
Sat, Apr 5 / 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM / 2340 Jackson St., 4th Fl., enter on Webster / San Francisco
SFCP / (415) 563-5815 / Steven Knoblauch, Ph.D. / $35 - $45

ICP North Annual Conference: "A Therapist's Vulnerability"
Sat, Apr 5 / 9 AM - 1 PM / UCSF Laurel Heights Conference Center / San Francisco
ICP-North / bwootten@ucsc.edu / Donna Orange, Ph.D., Psy. D.; Lynne Jacobs, Ph.D., Psy.D.

SFCP Poetry and Psychoanalysis with devorah major
Sun, Apr 6 / 4 - 5:30 PM / 2340 Jackson St., 4th Fl., enter on Webster / San Francisco
SFCP / (415) 563-5815 / devorah major / free

SFCP SF Student Outreach: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Gay Men
Wed, Apr 9 (begins) / 7:30 PM - 9 PM / 2340 Jackson St., 4th Fl., enter on Webster / SF
SFCP / (415) 563-5815 / Gary Grossman, Ph.D. / free

SFCP Pen. Students Outreach: Working with Emotions in Treatment
Wed, Apr 9 (begins) / 7:15 PM - 8:45 PM / Psychiatry Bld., 401 Quarry Road, Rm 1206 / Stanford
SFCP / (415) 563-5815 / Paul Ransohoff, D.M.H. / free

Movie Night: A Screening of Almodóvar's All About My Mother
Fri, Apr 11 / 7 - 10 PM / 582 Market Street, at 2nd St. / San Francisco
NCSPP / $10 (advance) - $12

SFCP Extension Division: Bollywood Meets Psychoanalysis
Sat, Apr 12 / 9 AM - 3 PM / 2340 Jackson St., 4th Fl., enter on Webster / San Francisco
SFCP / (415) 563-5815 / Anupama Prabhala Kapse, M.Phil., Ph.D. and Jed Sekoff, Ph.D. / $45

Workshop: The Leaky Boundaries of Man-Made States:
Culture Tumbling in the Consulting Room
Sat, Apr 12 / 9 AM - 1 PM / PINC Library, 2252 Fillmore Street, 2nd Floor / San Francisco
NCSPP / (415) 457-9949 / Francisco Gonzalez, M.D. (Clinical presentation by Esther Rappoport, M.A.) / $55-$160

Psychotherapy Institute Spring Fling
Sat, Apr 12 / 5 PM - 10 PM / Building One Lobby / Treasure Island
Community Institute for Psychotherapy / All Star Jukebox / $100

SFCP Scientific Meeting with Judith Butler
Mon, Apr 14 / 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM / 2340 Jackson St., 4th Fl., enter on Webster St. / SF
SFCP / (415) 563-5815 / Judith Butler, Ph.D. / free

SFCP San Francisco Friends Clinical Forum
Tue, Apr 15 / 7 PM - 9:30 PM / 2340 Jackson St., 4th Fl., enter on Webster St. / San Francisco
Friends of SFCP/ (415) 563-5815 / Arlene Bermann, L.C.S.W.; Barbara McSwain, M.S.W. / free

SFCP South Bay Friends Clinical Forum
Tue, Apr 15 / 7 PM - 9 PM / Psychiatry Building at 401 Quarry Road / Stanford
Friends of SFCP / (415) 563-5815 / Tina St. Lorant, M.F.T. , and Cheryl Goodrich, Ph.D. / free

SFCP Seminars for Scholars: On Bion, Theory of Groups, and Lord of the Flies
Thu, Apr 17 / 7:30 PM - 9 PM / 306 Wheeler Hall (closest entrance is Sather Gate) / Berkeley
SFCP / (415) 563-5815 / Henry Markman, M.D. / free

SFCP Ext. Div. Sat. Seminar: Masochism: The Paradox of Invisible Shackles
Sat, Apr 19 / 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM / JFKU, 2956 San Pablo Avenue, 2nd Floor / Berkeley
SFCP / (415) 563-5815 / Louis Roussel, Ph.D. / $75

SFCP Conversations on Adolescents: Proliferation of Bipolar Diagnosis
Sat, Apr 19 / 9:45 AM - 1 PM / Flamingo Conf. Resort and Spa, 2777 Fourth St. / Santa Rosa
SFCP / (415) 563-5815 / Terrence Owens, Ph.D. / free

Involving Parents in the Treatment of Children
Sun, Apr 20 / 9 AM - 12 PM / Center for Healthy Development / Santa Clara
NCSPP / (408) 247-9399 / Cheryl Goodrich, Ph.D.

SFCP Public Lecture Series: Ethics and Psychoanalysis
Wed, Apr 23 / 7:30 PM - 9 PM / 2340 Jackson St., 4th Fl., enter on Webster St. / San Francisco
SFCP / (415) 563-5815 / Michael Donner, Ph.D. / free

SFCP Ext. Div. Pen. Sat. Sem: Early Childhood Experiences with Bodily Trauma
Sat, Apr 26 / 9 AM - 1 PM / Christ Episcop. Church, Fireside Rm, 1040 Border Rd / Los Altos
SFCP / (415) 563-5815 / Mali Mann, M.D. / $100

SFCP East Bay Student Outreach: On Beginning a Private Practice
Sat, Apr 26 / 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM / Herrick Hospital, 2001 Dwight Way / Berkeley
SFCP / (415) 563-5815 / Alice Feller, M.D. and Terese Schulman, Ph.D. / free

SFCP Child Development Program, Biannual Lecture on Autism
Sat, Apr 26 / 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM / UCSF Laurel Heights, 3333 California St. / San Francisco
SFCP / (415) 563-5815 / Laurent Danon-Boileau, Ph.D., Barbara Kalmanson, Ph.D.,
Janet Green Babb, P.T., et al. / $55 - $145

Ink Blots and Play Therapy
Sat, Apr 27 / 1 PM - 4 PM / /
SFIPS / (415) 679-0997 / Diane Santas, Ph.D.; Sharon Witkin, Ph.D. / $25 - $50

Open House: Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis
Sun, Apr 27 / 2:30 PM - 4 PM / 3022 Steiner Street / San Francisco
ICP-North / (415) 931-5730 / Carol Mayhew, Ph.D., Past President, ICPLA / free

SFCP Stanford Grand Rounds: Timelessness, Time and Transference
Wed, Apr 30 / 6:15 PM - 7:30 PM / Psychiatry Building at 401 Quarry Road / Stanford
SFCP / (415) 563-5815 / Jeanne Haresemovitch, L.C.S.W. / free

SFCP Theater on the Couch: Curse of the Starving Class, by Sam Shepard
Fri, May 2 / 8 PM / A.C.T. Theater, Geary Street / San Francisco
SFCP / (415) 563-5815 / Linda Lagemann, Ph.D.; Mary Margaret McClure, D.M.H. / $19 - $59

NCSPP Peninsula/South Bay Salon: Creative Couples
Fri, May 2 / 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM / contact Alan Javurek for location / Willow Glen
NCSPP / (408) 354-4068 / Shelley Nathans, Ph.D. / $25

To submit an event, please see our submission guidelines.

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INKBLOTS AND PLAY THERAPY: SFIPS presents Inkblots and Play Therapy: Windows to Ego Functioning in Children. Diane Santas, Ph.D. and Sharon Witkin, Ph.D. How to evaluate a child's ego functioning using assessment techniques including the Rorschach. For clinicians doing psychological testing or referring for questions about diagnosis/treatment planning. $50; $25 (SFIPS members, graduate students). April 27, 1-4 pm. 3 CEs pending. Contact frozy@comcast.net or (415) 679-0997.

CASE CONSULTATION GROUP for psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapists. Mondays 12:50 - 2:15 pm beginning April 1, 2008. Contact Beth Steinberg, Ph.D. at (415) 441-5302 or besteinberg@comcast.net.

CASE CONSULTATION GROUP with Michael Guy Thompson, Ph.D. For psychotherapists interested in analytic approaches to working with psychotic process. Tuesdays 7:20 - 8:20 pm. Contact Matthew Morrissey at (415) 722-6317 or mattmorr21@yahoo.com.

SPRING FLING: The Psychotherapy Institute's Spring Fling for Mental Health, Saturday, April 12, 2008, 5:00 - 10:00 pm, Building One's Lobby, Treasure Island, San Francisco. Join us for an evening of dining, grooving to the always energetic dance band: All Star Jukebox, and indulging one's impulses in support of our vital low-fee mental health services to residents of the East Bay. For ticket information please see www.tpi-berkeley.org.

PSYCHOANALYTIC GROUP THERAPY: Ongoing, for men and women, focusing on relationships, traumas, depression, anxieties, isolation. Tuesday evenings, 7:00 - 8:30pm. Sliding scale fee. Group therapist: Sue Saperstein, Psy.D., (415) 641-4146.

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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