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.

OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS

As an IMPULSE reader, you are likely aware that NCSPP undertook this newsletter to connect the analytic community and keep us all abreast of the varied events for interested practitioners in the Bay Area. I would like to share three opportunities appropriate for all local analytic clinicians.

Any licensed mental health provider can get access to PEP (Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing) for just $55 a year. PEP is a “fully searchable digital archive of classic psychoanalytic texts” with access to dozens of books and journals and over 59,000 articles. This is great deal for candidates, writers, researchers, and reading groups. The route to your reduced rate is via membership in Division 39 – the Division of Psychoanalysis of the American Psychological Association of which NCSPP is a local chapter. You can find out more, including how to become a member of Division 39, by going to www.division39.org.

Also, NCSPP members can take advantage of a discounted rate for a subscription to the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. The special NCSPP annual rate of $170 represents a 44% discount on the publisher’s rate of $301. An IJP subscription allows online access to current and back content from 2009 – 2006 at no extra charge. This special offer is only available to our members in the Fall.

Finally, NCSPP is dedicated to psychoanalytic practitioners at all levels of their career. In addition to offering courses designed for early-to-seasoned clinicians, NCSPP wants to support the development of mid-career psychoanalytically oriented teachers. If you have experience teaching, deep knowledge in a particular topic and have an idea for an offering through NCSPP, you can submit a proposal. Please allow 2-3 weeks before we respond. Also know that, depending on the time of year, our course calendar may already be set. We do want to hear from you, and if we cannot accommodate your course, we will be happy to give you feedback and consider your course at a future time.

I hope many of you will be sparked to take advantage of any of the above offerings. We are a community with bounty to share.

Warm regards,
Melissa Holub, Ph.D.
NCSPP President


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PERSECUTORY ERROR MESSAGES

As a clinician, my hours are filled with patients who quite often disavow emotion, especially their own aggression. As Freud says, “the inclination to aggression is an original, self-subsisting instinctual disposition in man." One of the purposes of analysis, maybe the sole purpose, is to know oneself and become more aware and comfortable with the full constellation of our affects – the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Nonetheless, we live in a society that often denies its emotions. Case in point, the exceedingly polite and emotionally bland error messages and instructional text you encounter every time you open your browser or use your mobile device. What if we could reclaim our aggression, envy and hostility and express it more directly? Perhaps you would be reading something like the following, the next time you're online:

Hold your horses while the page downloads.

How the heck do we know it's you until you login?

What's the matter with you, forgetting your password?

We'll send your data just as soon as we finish our 3rd pint of Ben and Jerry's Cherry Garcia.

Don't worry. Your rambling, amorous email to your beloved has been sent.

Click here to buy something you don't have from someone who doesn't want it.

You have 23 new messages. Aren't you the popular one.

Refresh the page? Sure, if you enjoy re-entering 37 fields of form data.

Go on. Get out of here. We're redirecting you to another web site, like it or not.

How nice you can afford to submit your order for a pair of $1,450 cashmere PJs.

Go ahead. Click more than once, buddy, and we'll be happy to charge you twice for those PJs.

Windows has had enough of your insufferable Word documents and your pointless, boring surfing and is shutting down.

Cleopatra Victoria, MFT
IMPULSE Editor


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TRAININGS IN ANALYTIC SOMATIC PSYCHOTHERAPY

NCSPP as an analytic community may be interested in an institute dedicated to integrating the analytic and somatic fields of psychology. As well as whole-day and half-day workshops, The Analytic Somatic Therapy Institute (ASTTI) offers two and four year certification trainings in Analytic Somatic Psychotherapy. This training leads to, if desired, a certification in Bioenergetic Analysis, a neo-Reichian methodology that has been refined through generations of practitioners.

Psychoanalysts have long been interested in the symbolic body observed in dreams and fantasy and the psycho-somatic fusion. But the body-person walking into our office with their complex experiences and resistances impacts us energetically. The felt experience of projective identification remains unknown to us. Being at home in our own body is as important as learning to track and read our clients' body-selves. The psyche and soma, as Winnicott said, has no inherent identity, and so learning just about psyche can not teach us much about soma.

Under the clinical guidance of Dr. John Conger, Ph.D., a psycho-analyst and International Bioenergetics Trainer, ASTTI integrates the analytic understanding of psyche and soma. The trainings provide insight into how to work somatically, with and without touch, and include lectures on Freud, Reich, Jung, Kohut, Klein, Winnicott and Bion. Please visit our website for schedules and registration information at www.astti.com or contact Drew Hutchinson at 510-868-2878 for 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 Community Members East Bay Clinical Forum
Wed, Jun 3 / 7 PM - 9 PM / Herrick Hospital 2001 Dwight Way, Rm CC / Berkeley
SFCP / (415) 563-5815 / Tara May, Ph.D. / free

Why We Care: Empathy for Souls in Crisis
Sat, Jun 6 / 10 AM - 5 PM / 2040 Gough Street / San Francisco
C. G. Jung Institute / (415) 771-8080 / Charles Garfield, PhD. / $125

SFCP Scientific Meeting with Robert Oelsner, M.D.
Mon, June 8 / 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM / SFCP 2340 Jackson St., 4th Fl. / San Francisco
SFCP / (415) 563-5815 / Robert Oelsner, M.D. / free

Day with Your Muse
Sat, Jun 13 / 10 AM - 4 PM / 2040 Gough Street / San Francisco
C. G. Jung Institute / (415) 771-8080 / Naomi Lowinsky, PhD, MFT / $125

Lutecium: Clinical Case Conference with Jacques Siboni, M.D.
Thu, Jun 18 / 6 PM - 8 PM / Flood Building, 870 Market St. / San Francisco
Lutecium Psychoanalytic Group / Jacques Siboni, M.D. / $40 - $80

SFCP Training/Extension Division Open House
Thu, Jun 18 / 6:45 PM - 9:15 PM / SFCP 2340 Jackson St., 4th Fl. / San Francisco
SFCP / (415) 563-5815 / Meryl Botkin, Ph.D. and Jed Sekoff, Ph.D. / free

Lutecium: Writing Group “Letters” Reception and Presentations
Fri, Jun 19 / 8 PM - 9:30 PM / Flood Building, 870 Market St. / San Francisco
Lutecium Psychoanalytic Group / Michelle Baker, M.A. & group members / free

SFCP Totc: Peter & Jerry by Edward Albee
Fri, Jun 19 / 8 PM / ACT, Geary St. / San Francisco
SFCP / (415) 563-5815 / Mary Margaret McClure, D.M.H. and Linda Lagemann, Ph.D. / $10 - $42

Lutecium: Talk by David Marriott, Ph.D., author of “Incognero”
Fri, Jun 19 / 6 PM - 8 PM / Flood Building, 870 Market St. / San Francisco
Lutecium Psychoanalytic Group / David Marriott, Ph.D. / $40 - $80

Lutecium: Film Event – “The Exterminating Angel” and “Sally”
Sat, Jun 20 / 12 PM - 5 PM / Hobart Building, 582 Market St. / San Francisco
Lutecium Psychoanalytic Group / Eric Essman, M.A., & Jacques Siboni, M.D. / $20 - $30

Lutecium Seminar: “Topologic” & “The logic of fantasy”
Sun, Jun 21 / 12 PM - 5 PM / Flood Building, 870 Market St. / San Francisco
Lutecium Psychoanalytic Group / Jacques Siboni, M.D., & Robert Groome / $60 - $100

SFCP Opera on the Couch: La Traviata
Sun, Jun 28 / 5 PM - HHMM AM/PM / Books Inc. Opera Plaza, Van Ness / San Francisco
SFCP / (415) 563-5815 / Linda Lagemann, Ph.D. / free

To submit an event, please see our submission guidelines.

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PSYCHOANALYTICALLY ORIENTED GROUP FOR MEN focusing on love, sexuality and relationship repair during recovery from substance abuse. Now forming in Los Gatos. Thursday eves. Contact Alan Javurek, Ph.D.,MFT 408-354-4068.

FOR SALE: San Francisco psychotherapy office space. Unique opportunity to purchase a 376 sq. ft. office space in medical condominium complex located across from Mt. Zion hospital. Remodeled in 2003 and built out specifically for a psychoanalytic practice. Has private waiting room, separate exit for patients and private office space separate from consultation room. Convenient parking lot on site for patients and therapists. Contact Bernard Katzmann for information. (415) 861-5222 X 120.

SF BAY AREA 9 - 12 month. FT-PT post-degree internship w/stipend 8/09-08/10. To apply: http://www.girlsinc-alameda.org/files/FT-PTInternship2009-2010.pdf


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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Melissa Holub, Ph.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
Michele McGuinness, Production Manager
Matthew Morrissey, Technical Editor
Cate Corcoran, Psy.D., Brad Falconer, M. A., Editors Emeritus

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

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