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Upcoming Courses & Events

Oct
01
2023
Workshop

Intensive Study Group
Introductory Event

11:30 am - 1:00 pm

This introductory event to NCSPP’s year-long virtual Intensive Study Group (ISG) will feature three instructors — Maria Pilar Bratko, Carolina Bacchi, and Ben Morsa — each describing their own approach to this year’s theme, Longing to Belong.

Oct
06
2023
Workshop

Helping Clients Resolve Interpersonal Difficulties Using Combined Individual and Group Therapy: 
A Modern Analytic and Intersectional Approach

2:00 - 5:00 pm

In this three-hour workshop, we will explore how combined individual and group therapy is an effective treatment approach for clients stuck in interpersonal patterns that limit their relationship satisfaction.

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NCSPP News

Call for Entries - Annual Writing Award

The NCSPP Board invites current and recently graduated students and early-career clinicians with up to two years licensure to submit original papers to be considered for the NCSPP Annual Writing Award. This award offers graduate students and new clinicians who have not published the opportunity to publish in the NCSPP journal, fort da, and present the winning paper at an NCSPP Scientific Meeting with invited discussants. Also, NCSPP will award the winning author $250.

Seeking Board and Committee Members!

Within our organization, board and committee members play an essential role in steering NCSPP’s culture, policies and mission toward broadening inclusion, representation, diversity, equity, and access. We are intent on creating change within our organization and positively impacting the field of analytically-informed theory and practice. As such, we invite any new members to strongly consider their commitment to our shared social justice mission in addition to fulfilling the duties specific to each role. We also have fun, keep things playful, and remain invested in building out a welcoming and safe personal and professional home.

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Accepting Community Service Award Nominations

Do you know someone who deserves recognition for their exceptional community service in the field of psychoanalytic psychology? The NCSPP 2023 Community Service Award seeks to honor individuals or mental health organizations that have shown outstanding dedication to building stronger communities and promoting social well-being.

We are committed to the study of psychoanalytic psychology and to encourage its interest in Northern California's professional and general communities.

NCSPP’s varied array of learning opportunities; our journal fort da; our e-newsletter Impulse; 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.

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NCSPP Publications

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Our psychoanalytic journal that provides a forum for local professionals as well as national and international thinkers and clinicians.
Our psychoanalytic journal that provides a forum for local professionals as well as national and international thinkers and clinicians.
Impulse Online
Bringing the Bay Area’s psychoanalytic scene to your inbox the first of each month.
Bringing the Bay Area’s psychoanalytic scene to your inbox the first of each month. NCSPP’s Impulse is looking for writers for our Potential Space column. Potential Space encourages writers to explore their experiences, wonderings, and vulnerabilities as they encounter the world through a psychoanalytic lens. Email Luba Palter, ImpulseEditor-in-Chief, at lpalter@ncspp.org and she will be happy to tell you more.