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.
“I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.” — Maya Angelou
Join the NCSPP CMH committee at an evening for community mental health staff at Sin Título, which aims to promote an awareness of contemporary Latin American art and to build an audience and community of art lovers, collectors, academics, gallerists, and artists in the United States and abroad. A tour of the gallery’s exhibits will be included as well as light refreshments.
This event allows those who work in Community Mental Health to get out and meet others in the field while having an outlet to spend time in the outdoors. The path is paved and accessible. Family, partners, and friends are invited to join.
This course focuses on foundational concepts and theories in group therapy, including group structure and dynamics; group formation and development; group leadership and the different roles of group members; change process in groups; ethical considerations; and neuroscience and groups. We will touch on different approaches to groups including the theories of Yalom, Bion, Foulkes, Agazarian, and Ormont, as well as the various group offerings (process oriented, psychoeducational, support groups).
In this course, we will focus on self-perceptions and perceptions of the other from a fluid, open-systems perspective. That is, the intrapsychic, intersubjective, and the interpersonal are approached as one dynamic phenomena. We will inquire about a plethora of unexamined fictions regarding self and others that pass for reality. What trauma-based fictions are our patients living with that result in an estrangement from the self? What persistent, unexamined fictions occupy our own analytic inquiry? Dr.
This event allows those who work in Community Mental Health to get out and meet others in the field while having an outlet to spend time in the outdoors. We will be meeting at the center benches in the main parking lot. The path is paved and accessible. Dogs are welcome but must be on leash. Family, partners, and friends are invited to join.
This reading group creates space for clinicians in community mental health settings to think about working with clients managing issues that have risen over the past year, including but not limited to the impacts of COVID, war, political tumult, and racism, while processing these same problems for themselves. The therapeutic frame is conceptualized by parameters of space and location (i.e., the office), but what if these include changes in the sociopolitical frame? Participants will review articles and reflections on the aforementioned topics to discuss.
A therapist notices her stomach burns when a patient talks about her daughter. A patient tells you about the onset of a terrible headache every time they arrive for an appointment. Another notes being able to use the bathroom at your office but nowhere else outside her home.
The neurodiversity paradigm, the outcome of years of grassroots activism, attempts to reframe neurological and neuropsychological differences in ways that honor the experiences, strengths, and cultures of neurodivergent individuals. This reframe stands in contrast to the pathology paradigm of nosological systems like the DSM-V, and has significant implications for treating neurodivergent individuals.
