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by Shlomit Gorin, MA
Two weeks ago marked the fifth anniversary of the outbreak of a brutal civil war in Syria. So far, an estimated nine million women, men, and children have been forced to flee their homes to seek refuge in the Middle East, Europe, and the United States. If "home is where we start from," as a T. S. Eliot line slightly adapted for the title of a collection of Winnicott's essays asserts, one shudders imagining the overwhelming challenges in the psychic trajectory of the millions of Syrian babies and children without a home--and those who are unable to leave home.
by Jane Reingold, MFT
ILLUMINATING SAPIENCE
As Monteverdi's Vespers plays, the camera pans through a series of images: a serene, glistening lake view, St. Peter's Basilica and the sumptuous Roman skyline, close-ups of baroque architectural details, the streets of Paris, modern and grungy. This overture foreshadows an intrapsychic, interpersonal, existential exploration, a move from materialism to mysticism, a spiritual journey cracked open by the wisdom and beauty of a bygone time, and by the healing power of architectural spaces to provide a potential space for personal experience to take form.
by Ripple Patel, MA
Why Therapists Should Talk Politics. In this opinion piece, a clinician discusses the potentially iatrogenic impact of a myopic focus on individual psychology.
Saving Psychotherapy From the Medication Takeover. Allen Frances critiques the uneven playing field of drug and psychotherapy research.
Book Review: Scary Old Sex By Arlene Heyman. In this set of short stories, psychoanalyst Arlene Heyman writes unflinchingly about sexuality in senescence.
by Garrett Howard, PsyD
MORE THAN ONE CAN LIVE:
Reconceiving Harm and Reparation in the Intersubjective World
with Jessica Benjamin, PhD
Saturday, May 21, 2016
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
California Ballroom
1736 Franklin Street
Oakland, CA 94612
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Breaking Point: The Effects of Forced Isolation
Sat, Apr 2 / 10:00 am - 1:00 pm / 444 Natoma St / San Francisco
NCSPP / (510) 982-1280 / T. Kupers, MD; B. Kita, PhD / free - $25
A Jungian View of Clinical Work
Mon, Apr 4 (begins) / 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm / 2040 Gough Street / San Francisco
Jung Institute / (415) 771-8055 x208 / G. Lipsyte, PhD; J. Swanger, PhD / $90
The Body of the Analyst and the Analytic Setting
Tue, Apr 5 / 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm / 530 Bush Street / San Francisco
PINC / (415) 288-4050 / M. Murphy, PhD / free - $20
Wrecked By Success
Wed, Apr 6 / 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm / 5433 College Avenue / Oakland
SFCP / (415) 563-3366 / M. Donner, PhD, et al. / free
Introduction to Psychoanalytic Listening
Wed, Apr 6 (begins) / 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm / 444 Natoma Street / San Francisco
SFCP / (415) 563-3366 / J. De Lon, MFT / free
East Bay Psychotherapy Forum
Wed, Apr 6 / 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm / 2001 Dwight Way / Berkeley
SFCP / (415) 563-3366 / A. Lee, PsyD, et al. / free
Containment & Transformation in Psychoanalytic Treatment of Adolescents
Thu, Apr 7 / 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm / 401 Quarry Road / Stanford
SFCP / (415) 563-3366 / M. Loughran, PhD / free
San Francisco Psychotherapy Forum
Thu, Apr 7 / 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm / 444 Natoma Street / San Francisco
SFCP / (415) 563-3366 / K. Nguyen, MFT, et al. / free - $18
On Fire--Gender, Race, Prison, & Forgiveness
Fri, Apr 8 / 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm / 530 Bush Street / San Francisco
PINC / (415) 288-4050 / D. Slater; M. McClure, DMH / free - $40
The Bacchae by Euripides--Audience Participation Play Reading
Sat, Apr 9 / 9:30 am - 1:30 pm / 2040 Gough Street / San Francisco
Jung Institute / (415) 771-8055 x208 / S. Naifeh, MD; P. Woodruff, PhD / $10 - $20
Post-Graduate Clinical Forum With Judith L. Mitrani, PhD
Sun, Apr 10 / 10:00 am - 12:00 pm / 444 Natoma Street / San Francisco
SFCP / (415) 563-3366 / J. L. Mitrani, PhD, et al. / $50 - $70
On Separating One From the Other: Images of a Developing Self
Mon, Apr 11 / 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm / 444 Natoma Street / San Francisco
SFCP / (415) 563-3366 / J. L. Mitrani, PhD, et al. / free - $24
The Paradox of Sexual Freedom: Women's Sexuality and Desires
Sat, Apr 16 / 9:00 am - 12:00 pm / 3200 California Street / San Francisco
NCSPP / (313) 632-6727 / L. Bell, PhD / $45 - $105
Jungian Insights into Psychedelic Experience/-Enhanced Therapy
Sat, Apr 16 / 9:30 am - 1:30 pm / 2040 Gough Street / San Francisco
Jung Institute / (415) 771-8055 x208 / S. Hill, PhD, et al. / $60 - $120
Celebrating Ten Years of Poetry and Psychoanalysis
Sat, Apr 16 / 10:30 am - 12:30 pm / 444 Natoma Street / San Francisco
SFCP / (415) 563-3366 / C.Snow, et al. / free
Musical Form As a Parallel to the Psychological Journey
Sun, Apr 17 / 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm / 2040 Gough Street / San Francisco
Jung Institute / (415) 771-8055 x208 / B. Simon / free - $20
Surviving Terror--The Ernst Federn Story
Sun, Apr 17 / 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm / 444 Natoma Street / San Francisco
SFCP / (415) 563-3366 / H. Schoenhals Hart / free
South Bay Psychotherapy Forum
Tue, Apr 19 / 7:15 pm - 9:00 pm / 401 Quarry Road / Stanford
SFCP / (415) 563-3366 / S. Sethi, MD, et al. / free
Technology and Psychoanalysis
Wed, Apr 20 / 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm / 530 Bush Street / San Francisco
PINC / (415) 288-4050 / D. Farber, PsyD, MFT; D. Tillotson, PsyD / free - $25
Our Bodies, Our Earth: Dreaming Evolution Forward
Sat, Apr 23 / 10:00 am - 4:00 pm / 2040 Gough Street / San Francisco
Jung Institute / (415) 771-8055 x208 / F. Hatfield, PhD, LMFT, et al. / $60 - $120
Two Modes of the Psychoanalytic Process
Fri, Apr 29 / 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm / 401 Quarry Road / Stanford
SFCP / (415) 563-3366 / M. Levin, PsyD / free
UCL-CCM-SFCP Joint Conference: Interpretation Today
Sat, Apr 30 / 9:30 am - 5:00 pm / 444 Natoma Street / San Francisco
SFCP / (415) 563-3366 / A. Bronstein, PhD, et al. / $125 - $165
Graduation Paper: A Nurse, Priest, and Psychoanalyst Walk Into a Bar...
Sat, Apr 30 / 10:30 am - 12:00 pm / 530 Bush Street / San Francisco
PINC / (415) 288-4050 / C. Cleland, MFT; J. Leavitt, MD / free
Graduation Paper: Life Animated--A Story of Reclamation
Sat, Apr 30 / 10:30 am - 12:00 pm / 530 Bush Street / San Francisco
PINC / (415) 288-4050 / L. Beritzhoff, MFT; P. Goldberg, PhD / free
East Bay Psychotherapy Forum
Wed, May 4 / 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm / 2001 Dwight Way / Berkeley
SFCP / (415) 563-3366 / J. Areen, MA, JD, et al. / free
San Francisco Psychotherapy Forum
Thu, May 5 / 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm / 444 Natoma Street / San Francisco
SFCP / (415) 563-3366 / D. Yu, LCSW, et al. / free - $18
Beyond the Consulting Room: Spring Salon
Fri, May 6 / 7:00 pm - 8:45 pm / Private Home / San Francisco
NCSPP / (510) 995-6233 / K. Puhakka, PhD; J. Butler, PhD / $15