NCSPP - IMPULSE Newsletter

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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.

PRESIDENT'S REMARKS: DREW TILLOTSON, PSY.D.

Fall is already upon us. Back to schooling the mind ... reconnecting with colleagues and friends. Currently, I am intrigued by the notion of therapeutic action. Given the myriad ways we seek to help patients, what actually creates change? Contemporary theories enable us to think more broadly about what we say and do in our work. Do we adhere to interpretation-based interventions, comment on history, or risk speaking to more here-and-now phenomena? We all encounter the multiple vicissitudes of transference and countertransference. But, finding a common parlance within to speak to each other can be daunting. I occasionally hear, “She works way too much in the transference ... ,” or “He privileges countertransference too heavily ...” At a dinner not long ago, I overheard a colleague question, “How do you distinguish between ‘reverie’ and your own anxiety and wish to avoid contact with a patient?” In my experience, it becomes difficult at times to locate my own thinking around these ideas. I wrestle in my consulting room with knowing (or not knowing) how to both track the course of the Unconscious and to listen to my own countertransference as a tool and guide. Like many of you, I occasionally am clobbered by dramatic squalls of transference fantasies that send shock waves through any given treatment for days and weeks. Supervision helps greatly, but I have found solace in group settings with colleagues. This month, in San Francisco and the East Bay, we begin another year of our Intensive Study Groups, focusing on transference and countertransference in all its manifestations. Are you as solid as you would like to be in this area? We welcome the privilege of knowing you and encourage you to join us in our upcoming yearlong journey.

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

FROM THE EDITOR: CLEOPATRA VICTORIA, MFT

This month, Meg Earls, our Features Editor, and I would like to encourage you to become better known to IMPULSE’s 1,800+ readers every month. You can publicize your organization in one of our regular features and reach out to our psychoanalytically-minded viewers in the Northern California community. IMPULSE readers are comprised of members from NCSPP, SFCP, PINC, the Jung Institute, the Lacanian School, and many other institutions. Here’s an overview of our features:

Piece of Mind. Tell 1,800 readers about your organization and its psychoanalytic focus. Talk about your mission and imperatives. Use this paid space to promote an upcoming event you’re hosting. Get started right now by clicking here.

Event Spotlight. Is your organization hosting a seminar, training, class or gala of interest to the psychoanalytic community? Promote it in this paid space and get more attendees to your event. Please reserve ahead of time, as this is a popular placement. Find out how to do this by clicking here.

Psychoanalysis on the Streets. Are you using psychodynamic principles in your work at a school, agency, non-profit, clinic, hospital, residential treatment facility or other non-private practice setting? Write about how you do this in this free space.

Classified. Want to sell a couch, hire a therapist or get registrants for your case consultation group? Place your paid ad here and get 3,600 eyes reading your information.

Potential Space. Have a psychoanalytic cartoon, poem or photo that’s novel, original and your own creation? Using this free space, send it on in and help enliven IMPULSE.

Please see our submission guidelines by clicking here for any of these feature items. We encourage you to contribute to IMPULSE, the electronic newsletter linking the Northern California psychoanalytic community. Whether you’re a student, intern or professional, IMPULSE is a place for your ideas. .

Cleopatra Victoria, MFT
IMPULSE Editor

PIECE OF MIND:
SHIRA GALLAGHER, LCSW, A Home Within

A Home Within is the only national organization focused exclusively on the emotional needs of foster children and youth. It seeks to heal the chronic losses experienced by foster children by providing lasting and caring therapeutic relationships to current and former foster youth.

A Home Within offers a unique approach to the mental health needs of foster children. Using the formula: "One child. One therapist. For as long as it takes". A Home Within asks its therapists to provide pro bono psychotherapy to just one foster child. This simple, yet very powerful principle attracts clinicians who want to participate in their communities in an incredibly meaningful way. Using a private practice model, children are seen in their therapist's office.

Senior clinicians provide pro bono consultation to volunteering psychotherapists. All participants have access to ongoing education and training, an expanded referral base, and a network of colleagues. In addition to offering theoretical seminars and clinical discussions, the consultation groups provide time for reflection and understanding of the inner world of traumatized youth.

For more information or to join A Home Within, contact admin@ahomewithin.org, call 1-888-898-2249, or visit www.AHomeWithin.org .

EVENT SPOTLIGHT:
SURVIVING THE MADNESS: THE PSYCHODYNAMICS OF BECOMING A PSYCHOTHERAPIST

What doesn’t make you mad makes you a psychotherapist ...

Becoming a psychotherapist is typically a turbulent process and NCSPP’s Education Committee is offering a forum for considering that rocky road most of us traverse. Identity change and growth, related strains in one’s personal and professional life, and the meaning of common internship and supervision experiences, are just several topics on the table. Four clinicians - at the beginning, middle, and end of their training as psychologists - will share experience-derived insights while seasoned psychoanalytic clinician, Melissa Holub, and psychoanalyst and graduate school professor, Sam Gerson, will respond and present their unique views about the developmental process of becoming a psychotherapist. Please come and join in this very important discussion!

Saturday, October 4, 2008 at the California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco.

1 PM to 5 PM

See www.ncspp.org for more details!

APPOINTMENT BOOK

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.

LUTECIUM Clinical Case Conference
Wed, Sep 3 (begins) / 6 PM - 8 PM / 870 Market St., Rm. 1063 / San Francisco
Lutecium Psychoanalytic Training Group / Marian Joycechild, Ph.D. / $350

SFCP Child Psychotherapy Seminars
Wed, Sep 3 (begins) / 7:30 PM - 9 PM / 2340 Jackson St., 4th Floor / San Francisco
SFCP / (415) 563-5815 / Faculty: SFCP, PINC and others / $1400

LUTECIUM Seminar: Sacrifice; The ethic of phallic and feminine jouissance
Thu, Sep 4 (begins) / 6 PM - 8 PM / 870 Market St., Rm. 838 / San Francisco
Lutecium Psychoanalytic Training Group / Rebecca Bauknight, Ph.D. / $350

SFCP Ext. Div. Yearlong: Countertransference on the Edge
Fri, Sep 5 / 12 PM - 3 PM / 2340 Jackson St., 4th Floor / San Francisco
SFCP / (415) 563-5815 / SFCP and PINC faculty / $1800

SFCP East Bay Yearlong: Convergence and Divergence
Fri, Sep 5 (begins) / 12 PM - 1:30 PM / 2215 Prince St. / Berkeley
SFCP / (415) 563-5815 / SFCP and PINC faculty / $1300

What IS Going on Here? Thinking About the Clinical Relationship
Sat, Sep 6 / 4 PM - 7 PM / St. John's Church, 2727 College Avenue / Berkeley
NCSPP / (510) 444-5458 / Drs. Gerson, Sweetnam, Franey & Peoples / $25

LUTECIUM Seminar: Freud/Lacan
Sat, Sep 6 (begins) / 11 AM - 1 PM / 870 Market St., Rm. 838 / San Francisco
Lutecium Psychoanalytic Training Group / Marian Joycechild, Ph.D., Mary Ewert, D.M.H., Jeanne Wolff Bernstein, Ph.D., John Gasperoni, Ph.D. / $350

Psychic Change: Evolution and Applications of Bion's Work
Wed, Sep 10 (begins) / 11:15 AM - 12:30 PM / St. John's Presbyterian Church / Berkeley
NCSPP / (415) 457-9949 / Charles Dithrich, Ph.D. / $110 - $265

Friends of SFCP East Bay Clinical Forum
Wed, Sep 10 / 7 PM - 9 PM / Herrick Hospital, Conf. Rm CC, 2001 Dwight Way / Berkeley
Friends of SFCP / (415) 563-5815 / Milena Edwards, M.A. (presenter); Melissa Nelken, J.D. (discussant) / free (CE $15)

2008 Training Year Kickoff Picnic
Sun, Sep 14 / 2 PM / Dolores Park / San Francisco
NCSPP / (203) 305-3344 / Prelicensed Clinicians Committee / free

SFCP Friends Conversation on Culture: The Art of Darren Waterston
Sun, Sep 14 / 4 PM - 6 PM / 1661 Tennessee St. / San Francisco
SFCP / (415) 563-5815 / Darren Waterston / $10

PINC: Toward a Philosophy and Metapsychology of Peace
Mon, Sep 15 / 7:30 PM - 9 PM / PINC Library, 2252 Fillmore St. / San Francisco
PINC / (415) 922-4050 / Charles Webel, Ph.D. / $15 - $40

From Inspiration to Interpretation: Analysts Interpret Influential Ideas
Wed, Sep 17 (begins) / 10 AM - 11:30 AM / Menlo College / Atherton
NCSPP / MJ Myatt (650) 364-8095 / Stephen Hartman, Ph.D., Annie Sweetnam, Ph.D., Angela Sowa, Psy.D., Julie Gerhardt, Ph.D. / $1700 - $1800

SFCP Extension Division Open House
Thu, Sep 18 / 7:30 PM - 9 PM / 2340 Jackson St., 4th Floor / San Francisco
SFCP / (415) 563-5815 / Patricia Marra, MFT, Milton Schaefer, Ph.D., Vittorio Comelli, Psy.D. / free

The Privilege of Knowing You - Intensive Study Group
Fri, Sep 19 (begins) / 10 AM - 12 PM / PINC Library, 2252 Fillmore St. / San Francisco
PINC & NCSPP / (510) 444-5458 / Drs. Rosbrow, Rather, Dent & Peoples / $1650 - $1800

SFCP TotC: Rock n Roll (Tom Stoppard)
Fri, Sep 19 / 8 PM / ACT, Geary St. / San Francisco
SFCP / Wendy Stern and Linda Lagemann / $17 - $62

SFCP Dialogues in Contemporary Psychoaanalysis with Glen Gabbard
Sat, Sep 20 / 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM / 2340 Jackson St., 4th Floor / San Francisco
SFCP / (415) 563-5815 / Glen Gabbard, M.D. / $35 - $45

SFCP Scientific Meeting with Glen Gabbard
Mon, Sep 22 / 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM / 2340 Jackson St., 4th Floor / San Francisco
SFCP / (415) 563-5815 / Glen Gabbard, M.D. / free

SFCP Training Program Open House
Wed, Sep 24 / 7:30 PM - 9 PM / 2340 Jackson St., 4th Floor / San Francisco
SFCP / (415) 563-5815 / Elizabeth Simpson, L.C.S.W. / free

SFCP Grand Rounds at Stanford: Unconscious Fantasy of a Latency Age Boy
Wed, Sep 24 / 6:15 PM - 7:30 PM / Psychiatry Buiding, 401 Quarry Rd. Rm 2209 / Stanford
SFCP / (415) 563-5815 / Nancy Peters, M.S.W. / free

SFCP Public Lecture Series: What Accounts for Barack Obama's Resilience?
Thu, Sep 25 / 7:30 PM - 9 PM / 2340 Jackson St., 4th Floor / San Francisco
SFCP / (415) 563-5815 / Karim Dajani, Psy.D. / free

PINC: Language and Image in Pre-Election Politics
Sat, Sep 27 / 10 AM - 1 PM / Mechanics Institute, 57 Post St. / San Francisco
PINC / (415) 922-4050 / M. Aniel, Ph.D.; J. Carstensen; S. Ducat, Ph.D.; J. Wolff Bernstein, Ph.D. / $15 - $80

SFCP Conversations on Adolescents
Sat, Sep 27 / 10 AM - 3 PM / Flamingo Conf. Resort and Spa, 2777 4th St. / Santa Rosa
SFCP / (415) 563-5815 / Michael Donner, Ph.D. / free

LUTECIUM Workshop: Gender fashion & fashioning of gender
Sun, Sep 28 / 10 AM - 2 PM / 870 Market St., Rm. TBA / San Francisco
Lutecium Psychoanalytic Training Group / Kristopher Lichtanski, Ph.D. / $20 - $60

Evolving Lacanian Perspectives for Clinical Psychoanalysis-New Book & Lunch
Sun, Sep 28 / 11 AM - 2 PM / CIIS Bldg Room 307-1453 Mission St. @ 10th & 11th / San Francisco
Lacanian School / (510) 835-6104 / Raul Moncayo, Ph.D. / free

SFCP SF Student Outreach: Principles of Psychoanalytic Technique
Wed, Oct 1(begins) / 7:30 AM - 9 PM / 2340 Jackson St., 4th Floor / San Francisco
SFCP / (415) 563-5815 / Kenneth Roberson, Ph.D. / free

SFCP Peninsula Yearlong: Through a Lens Brightly
Fri, Oct 3 / 12 PM - 1:30 PM / Univ. Psychiatry Building, 401 Quarry Rd. / Stanford
SFCP / (415) 563-5815 / SFCP and PINC faculty / $1000

New Course - Great Works: Literature and Poetry for Clinicians
Mon, Oct 6 (begins) / 10:30 AM/PM - 12 PM / PINC Library, 2252 Fillmore St. / San Francisco
NCSPP / (415) 441-2377 / Michael Zimmerman, Ph.D. / $500 - $1000

To submit an event, please see our submission guidelines.

CLASSIFIEDS

PSYCHOANALYTIC STUDY GROUP: Focus is "Addressing Primitive Anxieties" - forming Fall '08. By discussing seminal readings & case presentations, we will expand interpretation skills with our most challenging cases. On-going group meets weekly, Thursdays from 10:15-11:45 AM. Contact Dori Dubin, Psy.D., LCSW, BCD-P (510) 547-2522.

PSYCHOANALYTIC CASE CONSULTATION AND READING GROUP: Ongoing group with openings in September. Focus is on the diagnostic and creative use of the therapist’s internal states. The context is multi-theoretical, drawing on Klein, Bion, Middle School and Intersubjective. Friday afternoons. Oakland. CE credit may be available. (510) 428-2913. Anniesweetnam@sbcglobal.net.

PSYCHOANALYTIC WRITING GROUP: Starting in September. A supportive group for those already writing or for those wanting to start. Focus will be on helping each member to develop their unique style and form of analytic writing. Wednesday or Saturday mornings. Oakland. 8 session commitment. Every other week. Annie Sweetnam, Ph.D. has a practice of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic therapy in Berkeley. She has published on several psychoanalytic subjects, including most recently on the capacity to experience beauty. In several of her articles she has used experimental writing styles to convey different types of clinical experience. (510) 428-2913. Anniesweetnam@sbcglobal.net.

PSYCHOANALYTIC CASE CONSULTATION AND READING GROUP: in the South Bay. Led by Alan Kessler, Ph.D., Faculty SFCP, Fee: $60. Fridays 10:30 to 12:00. (408) 868-9405.

ANALYTIC GROUP THERAPY: Analytic group therapy is an opportunity for a group relational experience that may be adjunctive to individual analysis or act as an independent treatment modality. This is a mixed group of men and women who are young professionals involved and focused on transitions, relational anxieties, sexuality, trauma, isolation, and depression. At present the group is seeking a male member. Time: Tuesday, 7pm- 8:30pm; Location: 2252 Fillmore St. San Francisco; Fee is on a sliding scale: $60 - $100; Group Leader: Sue Saperstein, MFT, Psy.D. 415-641-4146, drsuesaperstein@sbcglobal.net.

$200 FINANCIAL DISTRICT SUBLET: Furnished & partially furnished offices available in private psychotherapy suite. Great location, MUNI lines nearby, BART a few blocks away, safe, free wireless internet. Brooke Pomerantz, LCSW (415) 832-0767 or brooke.pomerantz@gmail.com.

DEVELOPING AS A THERAPIST GROUP: For MFT Interns, ASWs and psychology graduate students. Depthful, practical and supportive approach. Thursdays 10:30am-12pm begins September 11, San Francisco. Jodi Perelman, MFT, (415) 435-7559. www.jodiperelman.com.

LOVELY SAN MATEO OFFICE SUBLET: available up to 2.5 weekdays plus evenings and weekends. Beautiful therapy building with kitchen and parking. Contact Lori Luft, Ph.D. at 650-340-8229 or LLuftPhD@earthlink.net.

EAST BAY CONSULTATION GROUP: The Art of Psychoanalytic Listening. Case presentation and study group beginning October 3, 2008, Fridays 1:45 - 3:00. Contact Jeanne Harasemovitch, LCSW, (510) 527-9106.

TREATMENT OF ADOLESCENTS AND YOUNG ADULTS: Weekly Consultation Group. Mondays beginning September 8, Fee: $45/mtg. Approved for CME. Bionian and Kleinian approaches to the key psychological events of adolescence. Readings and case presentations. Led by Mary Brady, Ph.D. ((415) 776-3174) and Robert Tyminski, D.M.H. ((415) 552-1747).

JUNGIAN AND CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOANALYTIC CASE CONSULTATION AND READING GROUP TO DISCUSS BOTH CHILDREN AND ADULTS. San Francisco. Led by Liza Ravitz, Ph.D, Jungian Psychoanalyst. Begins September, every other week, Thursdays, 12:15-1:45, $50.00. For interns, psych assistants and therapists. The expressive arts, especially SANDPLAY, will be included. Contact Liza Ravitz, Ph.D. at lizajill@comcast.net.

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ABOUT NCSPP

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.

MASTHEAD

Drew Tillotson, Psy.D., NCSPP President
Cleopatra Victoria, M.A., MFT, Editor-in-Chief
Bruce Weitzman, MFT, Managing Editor
Meg Earls, M.A., Features Editor
Terra Morais, M.A., Appointment Book Editor
Drew Hutchinson, M.A., Editor-at-Large
Michele McGuinness, Production Manager
Cate Corcoran, Psy.D., Brad Falconer, M. A., Editors Emeritus

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