Funding for Conversations on Adolescents: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Youth at Risk has been provided by the American Psychoanalytic Foundation through The American Psychoanalytic Association.
Conversations on Adolescents:
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Youth at Risk
The San Francisco Center For Psychoanalysis takes great pleasure in presenting the Fall 2008 Series on the application of psychoanalytic ideas in working with adolescents, in particular those at risk, for Sonoma County clinicians. The series is intended to provide discussion of topics relevant to the understanding and treatment of this challenging population, with an emphasis on the contribution of psychoanalytic theory. Distinguished psychoanalysts from the Bay Area who specialize in adolescent treatment will offer presentations on ethics, psychosexual development and parenting challenges this fall, followed by discussion.
Location: Flamingo Conference Resort and Spa, Oak room, 2777 Fourth Street, Santa Rosa, CA 95405, (707) 545-8530.
Saturday, September 27 th, 2008
10:00 – 12:00 Presentation
1:30 – 3:00 Case Presentation and Discussion
An Ethical Model: Working with Children in Complex Situations
Presenter: Michael Donner, Ph. D.
Clinicians serving children in the foster care system are confronted with complicated relationship. Foster families, social workers and parents may all need to be included in the treatment, and various entities may require input and feedback about the treatment to determine placement and other treatment needs.
This course will apply an ethics model to help the therapist locate him/her self clinically, legally and ethically within these relationships. Placing the clinical relationship first allows for the therapist to identify the risks and benefits to disclosures of treatment information and relationships with other professional or interested parties.
Case Presentation
Case Presenter: Jennifer Holland, Psy.D
Case Discussant: Michael Donner, Ph. D.
This case will illustrate the ethical and clinical issues which arise in the treatment of an adolescent, with emphasis on negotiating various conflicting agendas of the guardian, the biological parent, the prison system and social services.
Jennifer Holland, Psy.D. is in private practice in Santa Rosa where she treats adolescents females and their families, individuals and couples.
Michael B. Donner, Ph.D., Chair, California Psychological Association Ethics Committee, Chair, Ethics and Professional Affairs, Alameda County Psychological Association, San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis Ethics and Impairment committee, Editorial board, the California Psychologist Magazine. Dr. Donner is a Candidate at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, and in private practice in Berkeley, Ca.
Saturday, October 11, 2008
10:00 – 12:00
Psychosexual Development of Adolescents: Normal Development and Psychopathology
Presenter: Mali Mann, M.D.
The course will present a videotape of a female adolescent patient to demonstrate the struggle in the movement from dependence on a primary object to independence. Achievement of independence is one of the important tasks of adolescence within the context of object relationship. The second individuation process during this phase potentially brings out earlier unresolved infantile conflicts. This can influence the consolidation of sexual and self-identity formation. We will also discuss the impact of socio-cultural determinants such as ethnicity, race, and the current political movements on adolescent development.
Mali Mann, M.D. is an adult, adolescent and child psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Palo Alto and San Francisco. She is on the faculty and a Training & Supervising analyst for the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. She is also Clinical Associate professor at Stanford University Department of psychiatry and Behavioral Science.
Saturday, November 8, 2008
10:00-12:00
Sex and Sexualities: Yours, Theirs and Ours
Understanding Parental Challenges
Presenter: Maureen Katz, M.D.
This presentation and discussion will look at normative and troublesome adolescent development with special focus on sexuality and sex, looking especially at parental responses and interactions with these development challenges. If we have time we can talk about drugs and rock and roll.
Maureen Katz, M.D. is a practicing psychoanalyst in Oakland, treating adolescents and adults. She consults with school based mental health programs, is a member and on the clinical faculty of the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis and the clinical faculty at UCSF. She has lectured and published extensively on topics of adolescent development and on the intersection of psychoanalysis, contemporary politics and culture.
Introductions: Marilynne Kanter, Ph.D. is a Graduate of the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis and Co-chair of the Outreach Committee for the San Francisco Center. She is a practicing psychoanalyst in San Francisco and Sonoma.
