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Peninsula/South Bay Intensive Study Group:
FROM INSPIRATION TO INTERPRETATION:
Translating Influential Ideas into Meaningful Work


Stephen Hartman, Ph.D.; Annie Sweetnam, Ph.D.; Angela Sowa, Psy.D.;
Dennis Facchino, Ph.D.; Julie Gerhardt, Ph.D.; Ivria Spieler, Ph.D., Psy.D.;
32 weeks, September 17, 2008 through May 20, 2009
Wednesdays, 10 AM to 11:30 AM
Menlo College, 1000 El Camino Real, Atherton
9.0 CE credits will be awarded for each 6 week section of the Peninsula/SB ISG.
Each Integrating Seminar will be awarded 1.5 CE credits.
$1,700 NCSPP Members / $1,800 Non-Members

Registration Deadline & Requirements
For non-members: a deposit of $500 with registration; the remainder of $1,300 is due September 10, 2008.
For members: a deposit of $300 with registration;the remainder of $1,350 is due September 10, 2008.

Tuition does not include the cost of reading material.

Enrollment is limited to mental health practitioners, students and interns. Class size in each study group is limited to 15 students. These are intermediate level instructional courses. The intensive study groups will be filled on a first-come/first-served basis. Confirmation of enrollment will be emailed to participants. Priority will be given to Members of NCSSP.

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NCSPP Non-Member Deposit ($500)
NCSPP Member Deposit ($300)

While online registrations save valuable administrative time for NCSPP, we still offer a paper registration form on our Registration & Payment page.

Program Overview
It is with pleasure that we again present a year of Inspiration to Interpretation. The 2007-08 participants found themselves more fully alive with both the analysts and their selected writings that fostered a new depth to their clinical work. The course description follows.

Psychoanalysts find themselves inspired by particular writings, and thus, ways of thinking. Our faculty will engage with participants in an immersion process in which papers influential to them will be explored. In a format in which a single text is .worked' by the group over two class meetings, the analysts and participants will co-create an experience of each of the writings that allows for contact with the unconscious. One can envision the emergence of thoughts on multiple levels: the ideas and words originating in the texts; the integration and use of these original ideas by each analyst; and then the impact for participants in exploring that integrative process. In this deliberate and contained ongoing study group, the opportunities for reverie and contact with the unconscious will be fostered and made familiar. As participants engage the material in their own clinical work, the impact of the original texts will reach further iterations. These collaborative and dynamic classes will enrich all clinicians, irrespective of background or level of experience.

The year begins with Dr. Stephen Hartman, whose segment Relational Subjects/Social Objects will engage the writings of Ghent, Benjamin, and Layton. In segment two, Dialectical Thinking, Internal Listening and Personal Reflection, Dr. Annie Sweetnam focuses on the papers of Ogden, Bollas, and Alvarez. In The Relation of Memory to the Known and the Unknowable, Dr. Angela Sowa explores writings by Green, Mancia, and Meltzer. Dr. Julie Gerhardt, in segment four, The Impact of the Object on the Self: 3 Classic Papers, examines the text of Freud, Winnicott, and Britton. The year completes with Dr. Ivria Spieler exploring the writings of Bion, Bianchedi, and Klein, in Psychic Change: Theoretical and Clinical Considerations. Dr. Dennis Facchino facilitates two opportunities for participants to reflect upon and integrate their experiences.

Course Objectives
to be listed

Program Segments
Relational Subjects/
Social Objects
  
Stephen Hartman, Ph.D.
  
September 17, 24
October 1, 8, 16, 22

Dialectical Thinking,
Internal Listening and
Personal Reflection
  
Annie Sweetnam, Ph.D.
  
November 5, 12, 19
December 3, 10, 17

The Relation of Memory
to the Known and the
Unknowable
  
Angela Sowa, Psy.D.
  
January 7, 14, 21, 28
February 4, 11

Integrating Seminar I
  
Dennis Facchino, Ph.D.
  
February 18

The Impact of the Object
on the Self: 3 Classic Papers
  
Julie Gerhardt, Ph.D.
  
February 25
March 4, 11, 18, 25
April 1

Psychic Change:
Theoretical and Clinical
Considerations
  
Ivria Spieler, Ph.D., Psy.D.
  
April 8, 15, 22, 29
May 6, 13

Integrating Seminar II
  
Dennis Facchino, Ph.D.
  
May 20

Faculty
Dennis Facchino, Ph.D., is a graduate of PINC. He is a graduate level supervisor of interns at the Center for Healthy Development in Santa Clara and a Tavistock model group process consultant. His practice is in Los Altos and Palo Alto.

Julie Gerhardt, Ph.D., is a graduate of U.C. Berkeley and Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California and has a private practice Palo Alto. She is published in Psychoanalytic Dialogues and Contemporary Psychoanalysis.

Stephen Hartman, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst who trained at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He is an instructor at PINC in San Francisco and faculty at the Steven Mitchell Center for Relation Psychoanalysis in New York. He is an assistant editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and a contributing editor for Studies in Gender and Psychoanalysis.

Angela Sowa, Psy.D., MFT, is Faculty and Personal and Supervising Analyst at PINC. She supervises Tavistock model infant observation groups and is a perinatal consultant. She has a private practice in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in Palo Alto.

Ivria Spieler, Ph.D., Psy.D., MFT, is a lecturer and Personal and Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC). She has been teaching and supervising individuals and groups in the San Francisco Bay region, Israel and Oklahoma including the Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (NCSPP), ISG (NCSPP Intensive Study Groups) and California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC).

Annie Sweetnam, Ph.D., is on the faculty at PINC and teaches and facilitates consultation groups in the Bay Area. She has published various psychoanalytic articles including most recently one on the capacity to experience beauty. She maintains a practice of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic therapy in Berkeley.

CE Credit
9.0 CE credits will be awarded for each 6 week section of the Peninsula/SB ISG. Each Integrating Seminar will be awarded 1.5 CE credits.

These courses meet the requirements for CE credits for LCSWs and MFTs through the BBS (Provider #PCE 508). Psychologists will have their participation registered through Division 39. Division 39 is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education credits for psychologists. Division 39 maintains responsibility for this program and its content. In order to receive CE credit for any course held over multiple weeks, 80% attendance is required during any given course segment.

Registration & Refund Policies
Refunds will be allowed according to the following policy: Students not admitted due to space limitation will receive full refunds of their deposit. Prior to September 10, 2008: Full refunds of deposit minus $100 administration charge. Unfortunately, no refund is possible after September 10, 2008.

THERE WILL BE A $25 BANK CHARGE AND AN ADDITIONAL $15 ADMINISTRATIVE CHARGE ON ALL RETURNED CHECKS.

Disabilities
Division 39 and NCSPP are committed to accessibility and non-discrimination in its continuing education activities. If participants have special needs, we will attempt to accommodate them. Please contact Michele McGuinness for any special needs.

NCSPP and Division 39 are committed to conducting all activities in strict conformity with the American Psychological Association's Ethical Principles for Psychologists. If you believe that a violation of ethics has occurred during this presentation, or if you have concerns about such issues as handicapped accessibility, distress with regard to program content or other.

The Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology is the local chapter of Division 39, American Psychological Association. NCSPP is committed to the study of psychoanalytic psychology and the encouragement of its interests in the professional and general communities. It is a multi-disciplinary, nonprofit educational membership organization open to all mental health professionals. For information call (415) 457-9949 or visit our website at www.ncspp.org.

The Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC), an International Psychoanalytic Association Provisional Society, was established in 1989 as a center for comparative psychoanalytic inquiry, research, and training. PINC provides professionals from all mental health disciplines the opportunity to study the full scope of psychoanalytic theory and practice. For information regarding training or referral for analysis, call (415) 922-4050.

Intensive Study Group Committee
MJ Myatt, LCSW, Chair
Alan Javurek, MFT
Tish Beyer, MFT
Peter Klein, Ph.D.
Alison Cabell, MFT
Steve McGraw, Ph.D.
Marianne Carter, MFT
Terrance McLarnan, MFT
Dennis Facchino, Ph.D., MFT/ ISG Chair
Nancy Trueblood, MFT
Shubha Herlekar, MFT
Kate Viret, MFT Intern
Kali Hess, MFT

For program related questions, please call Diane Swirksy, Ph.D. (510) 444-5458

For questions related to enrollment, locations, CE credit, special needs, course availability and other administrative issues contact Michele McGuiness by email or 415-457-9949.





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