IMPULSE: A PSYCHOANALYTIC COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER BY NCSPP
Impulse is a community newsletter produced by the Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology (NCSPP) and distributed electronically at no cost to subscribers. We envision Impulse as an integrative source for local news, events, and thinking of interest to the psychoanalytically inclined. Our goal is to be your guide as you explore the Bay Area's rich array of analytic resources.
We invite you to become a member of NCSPP, if you are not already. And, we welcome you as a subscriber to Impulse. Join us as we highlight the exceptional diversity of psychoanalytic thought and practice in Northern California.
NCSPP INTENSIVE STUDY GROUP
This year's NCSPP ISG will explore the shifting contours of time in the context of psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Topics will include: developmental models of object relatedness; the impact of trauma upon the experience of time; the uncanny experiences of Nachträglichkeit and déjà vu; the ways poetry, film, and art can speak to experiences of time that prose cannot; and how transference and countertransference hold ways of being in and out of time. We invite you to travel with us on our exploration of time and psychotherapy.
by Suzanne Stambaugh, Psy.D., Impulse Staff Writer
ON BEING INJURED
Accidents happen. They happen suddenly and irrevocably. In an instant, the fragility of embodied existence looms like a nightmare monster from the shadows of thought. In such moments, we take measure of how we have dealt with themes of loss, mourning, and mortality in our own lives. Perhaps we have helped clients to circle around that deep well of emptiness at the center of every self, to face the dread of that darkness, to mourn the endless string of losses that compose a life and bravely face the uncertainties of the future. And yet, it is not until an accident, like a flash of lightning providing a glimpse into a stark existential mirror, that we can see our own dread, and the flimsy defenses we have erected against this knowledge of our own perpetual decay, and certain demise.
by Ripple Patel
An Unsuspecting Seeker Stumbles into Psychoanalysis. In the midst of an unrelenting struggle with depression, blogger Diane Weber Bederman experimented with psychoanalytic treatment and discovered an unexpected source of meaning and insight.
Fantasy and ... the DSM? Psychiatrist Lawrence Blum, M.D. exposes the fallacious assumptions underlying clinical psychology's predominant nosological system.
Interview with Christopher Bollas. Tracy Morgan interviews the esteemed psychoanalyst about his most recent publication, Catch Them Before They Fall: The Psychoanalysis of Breakdown.
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