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New Perspectives on the Clinical Hour Hugh Grubb, Francisco Gonzalez, Angela Sowa, Julie Gerhardt 32 weeks, September 1, 2010 through May 18, 2011 Wednesdays, 10 AM to 12 PM Menlo College, 1000 El Camino Real, Atherton, 94027 $1,800 Non-Members / $1,700 NCSPP Members Limited to 15 participants on a first-come/first-served basis. Pirority for enrollment will be given to NCSPP members and associate members. Registration ends 8/6/10. Program Segments
Program Overview Who are these “patients” with whom we engage each week? Where do we go in our minds and reveries as their stories unfold before us? How do we make use of both the clinical material and the images that show up on our internal screens? This process of what takes place in the clinical setting is the focal point of our yearlong Intensive Study Group. We will explore the interweaving of experience and feeling with thought and theory. The beginning 16 weeks of the course will tie the clinical process together in a way that gives attention to the unfolding of the hour and the more specific subtleties of transference. Dr. Hugh Grubb begins by saying that suddenly freed from the grip of conjecture and uncertainty, a therapist has a flash of insight into what is really going on. Familiar sensations and interactions now yield up their meaning. How do these moments arise? How do we grasp them? What is it that keeps us from them? These questions invite consideration of how we surrender to a state of creative unknowing and yet seize the moment to act; how we must both depend upon and abandon our theories; and how we sustain empathic contact with our inner worlds while pulled by the emotions of the interpersonal field. In section two, Dr. Francisco Gonzalez introduces the concept of iteration as a new lens on clinical process. The word iteration means again and fundamentally involves repetition. This course will examine the developments of iteration in the therapeutic encounter: the iteration of structures, dynamics, and scenes in various registers—dreams, displacements, enactments, counter-transference reveries, and, of course, the “transference situation.” We will study the movement from iterative sequences into patterns and rhythms between and among these registers. We will draw from poetry, music, and film as well as theoretical readings to exemplify these concepts, but we will anchor each class in detailed examinations of clinical material. Building on the first two seminars, the final 16 weeks examine the dialectic of presence/absence of the internalized object mother. Dr. Angela Sowa states, “It's not about the mother!” Of course, it's not. The internal object mother is an amalgam of the wildest sort. Fantasy and reality are its necessary ingredients. Family, father, siblings, pets, as well as the rhythm, boundaries, and aesthetics of the environment all contribute to the matrix within which this living internal object continues to draw its strength. This seminar will focus on observations of infants at home with their families in order to sense “the family unconscious,” in which the infant begins to build his world. The observations were gathered according to the Tavistock model of infant observation: one hour weekly for a period of one to three years. The final section will conclude with Dr. Julie Gerhardt. She suggests that psychoanalysis posits powerfully evocative phantasies of the introjected, primitive mother who forms a core part of the self. This mother has been psychically cast as omnipotent, alluring, narcissistic, tantalizing, invasive, aesthetic, damaged, absent, dead, and deadening. The feel of such mothers permeates everywhere, or is absent, until “gathered into the transference-countertransference” — not the mother as whole object with her subjectivity, but fragments of her under-the-skin being, or haunting absence, inhibiting the patient’s being and relationship with the therapist. The class will include discussions on unresolved, unconsciously held trauma; considerations of the dead mother; and the emotional-sensual-aesthetic conflict mother. Course Objectives
Instant Registration & Payment Online NCSPP now offers online course registration and payment using PayPal, the Internet's most trusted payment processor. All major credit cards, as well as checking account debit payments, are accepted. To register and pay online, simply select the Register Now link:  While online registrations save valuable administrative time for NCSPP, we still offer a paper registration form on our Registration & Payment page. Faculty Julie Gerhardt, Ph.D., is a graduate of and faculty member at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. Dr. Gerhardt has taught widely and publishes in Psychoanalytic Dialogues. She maintains a private practice in Palo Alto. Francisco J. Gonzalez, M.D., is a graduate of the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California and a past-president of NCSPP. He has taught and presented widely in the Bay Area and published on primitive mental states, homosexuality, film, and socio-cultural processes. He maintains a private practice in psychoanalysis and consultation in San Francisco. Hugh Grubb, Psy.D., MFT, is a graduate of and personal and supervising analyst at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. His classes and presentations on subjects such as supervision and mentoring, theoretical independence and inclusivity, and psychoanalytic work in the Silicon Valley have focused on the personal transformative journey of becoming a therapist. Since 1991 Dr. Grubb has practiced in Los Gatos, where he also offers both individual and group consultations. Angela Sowa, Psy.D., MFT, is a personal and supervising analyst and faculty member at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California and an assistant clinical professor at University of California San Francisco. She supervises Tavistock-model infant observation groups and is a consultant to Lucille Packard Children's Hospital. Dr. Sowa maintains a private practice in Palo Alto of psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, and parent consultation related to perinatal loss, pregnancy, and early parenting. Registration Deadline & Information Deadline for Registration: Friday, August 6, 2010. General Public: $500 deposit with registration; $1,300 remainder due August 6. Members: $300 deposit with registration; $1,400 remainder due August 6. Tuition does not include the cost of reading material. Cancellation & Refund Policies Enrollees who cancel at least seven days prior to the salon date will receive a refund minus a $20 administrative charge. No refunds will be allowed after this time. CE Credit 12 CE credits will be awarded for each 8-week section of the San Francisco Intensive Study Groups. Participants must attend 80% of any given segment. Upon completion of a conference evaluation form, a certificate will be issued. This serves as documentation of attendance for all participants. LCSWs: These courses meet the requirements for CE credits for LCSWs and MFTs through the BBS (Provider #PCE 508). Psychologists: Division 39 is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Division 39 maintains responsibility for these programs and their content. Target Audience & Instructional Level All licensed mental health professionals, residents, interns, and graduate students in training, as well as members of the lay public who have an interest in psychoanalytic psychology. These are intermediate level courses. Enrollment is limited to mental health practitioners, students and interns. Priority for enrollment will be given to Members and Associate Members of NCSSP. Registration & Refund Policies Refunds: Students not admitted due to space limitation will receive full refund of their deposit. Prior to August 6, 2010: Full refund of deposit minus $100 administration charge. After August 6, 2010: No refund provided. 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 complaints, please contact Michele McGuinness. 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 Dennis Facchino, Ph.D., MFT, ISG Chair Tish Beyer, MFT Alison Cabell, MFT Marianne Carter, MFT Carol Cleland, MFT Shubha Herlekar, MFT Kali Hess, MFT Peter Klein, Ph.D. Terrance McLarnan, MFT Nancy Trueblood, MFT Kate Viret, MFT For program related questions, MJ Myatt, LCSW (650) 364-8095 For questions related to enrollment, locations, CE credit, special needs, course availability and other administrative issues contact Michele McGuinness by email or 415-457-9949. |
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