Psychoanalytic Student Seminars: San Francisco

Psychoanalytic Student Seminars 2011 - 2012

San Francisco Program

These seminars are offered as a community service intended to supplement local training with psychoanalytic clinical instruction. The courses are offered free of charge to pre-doctoral and post-doctoral psychology interns, psychiatry residents, MFT and social work interns currently in clinical placements. To register: email Max Lee, SFCP Extension Division Coordinator, at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . If you would like more information about these seminars, please call Marc Wallis, LCSW, Chair of San Francisco Student Outreach, at (415) 820-9609.

Classes will be held at San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis at 2340 Jackson Street, 4th floor.

Course Description:
This course is intended to help students better understand, and deal more effectively with, difficult clinical encounters. Just as is true for patients, moments occur in a psychotherapy with sufficient emotional intensity as to make it temporarily difficult for the therapist to think. For example, the anxiety of early sessions (in a psychotherapy or in one's career); when a patient intensely expresses feelings such as anger, directed at the therapist; or when the patient persists in asking personal questions that make the therapist uncomfortable.

Through a process of collaborative thinking and discussion of clinical material we will work to broaden and deepen our ability to grasp what is happening in these stressful moments and how to intervene more effectively. Students are encouraged to bring in their own clinical material.

Instructor: Walt Beckman, Ph.D. Advanced Candidate, San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis; Private Practice, San Francisco. (415) 931-3384 This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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