EAST BAY EXTENSION DIVISION
Jack Giuliani, Ph.D., Louis Roussel, Ph.D., Ken Roberson, Ph.D., Sunny Kuegle, Psy.D., Co-Chairs
YEAR LONG PROGRAM (Sept 2008 - May 2009)
* CONVERGENCE AND DIVERGENCE: INTERNATIONAL PSYCHOANALYTIC PERSPECTIVES ON PRIMITIVE STATES
* CONTINUOUS CASE CONFERENCES
SATURDAY PROGRAMS
* CLINICAL PANEL ON THINKING ABOUT ‘PRIMITIVE’ STATES IN THE CLINICAL ENCOUNTER
YEAR LONG PROGRAMS
CONVERGENCE AND DIVERGENCE: INTERNATIONAL PSYCHOANALYTIC PERSPECTIVES ON PRIMITIVE STATES
From Latin America to Europe to the U.S. and beyond, we bring global psychoanalytic theories to the East Bay Mental Health Community. Local analysts will present the lively work of David Rosenfeld, D.W. Winnicott, Michael Feldman, Antonino Ferro, Melanie Klein, Jean LaPlanche, and Betty Joseph, among others. We will examine transference and counter-transference phenomena, the severe and primitive reactions often stirred up in intensive treatment, explore dynamics involved in impasses, negative therapeutic reactions and stalemates in psychoanalytic treatment. Join us as we consider the diverse approaches from a worldwide perspective to engaging challenging primitive states in treatment.
ANTONINO FERRO – AN ANALYST AT WORK
We will trace the clinical development and ideas of Italian psychoanalyst, Antonino Ferro, beginning with Ferro’s critique of his own early work, and moving to his unique elaborations of Bion’s seminal ideas of waking dream thoughts , listening vertices, and oscillatory capacities. Ferro’s set of listening tools enable him to register the emotional state of the analytic field, as a guide for interpretation and psychological assessment. We will divide our time between readings and presentations of clinical hours by participants and the instructor.
Rachel Peltz, Ph.D., Member, Faculty, Supervising & Personal Analyst, PINC.
Fridays, September 5, 12, 19, 26, October 3, 2008.
THE UTILITY OF DREAMS
How do various models of the mind inform our understanding of dreams and their clinical utility with harder to reach patients? Differing uses of the understanding of dreams will be explored with an eye to the special ways in which dream material lends itself to understanding various aspects of the clinical process and points to innovative interventions. Puzzles to be considered include the origin of dreams, the language of dreaming, the relationship of dreams to the unconscious, the function of dreaming in psychological structure. Theoretical ideas will be examined in the context of dreams presented by participants and the instructor.
Barbara McSwain, M.S.W., Member, Faculty, Supervising & Training Analyst, SFCP.
Fridays, October 10, 17, 24, 31, November 7, 2008.
JEAN LAPLANCHE: SUBJECTIVITY AND THE RADICAL OTHERNESS OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
We will follow the development of LaPlanche’s ideas about the primacy of the other in the formation of subjectivity and the unconscious. Beginning with LaPlanche’s continuation and critique of Freud’s “Unfinished Copernican Revolution,” we will explore how our formulations and clinical responses to the unconscious, sexuality, seduction, trauma, and transference can be broadened or restricted by theory.
Jeanne C. Harasemovitch, L.C.S.W., Member, Faculty, SFCP.
Fridays, November 14, 21, December 5, 12, 19, 2008.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROVISIONS, CONTAINMENT, TRANSFORMATIONS: WINNICOTT AND BION ON PRIMITIVE STATES
Influential conceptions of psychotic and omnipotent modes of thought, and of false self illness, will be traced from their inception in the work of Bion and Winnicott, to the current views on splitting, adhesion, and dissociation.
Peter Goldberg, Ph.D., Member, Faculty, SFCP.
Fridays, January 9, 16, 30, February 6, 13, 2009.
THE CLINICAL CONTRIBUTION OF MICHAEL FELDMAN: ENGAGING THE ‘PRIMITIVE’ PARTS OF OUR PATIENTS (AND OURSELVES)
Michael Feldman provides a useful clinical synthesis of Klein, Bion, and Joseph, which bears on engaging the patient where he or she is. His work directs the therapist's attention toward his own internal states, and how to make use of these experiences to conceptualize the field and make emotionally attuned interventions.
Henry Markman, M.D., Member, Faculty, Training & Supervising Analyst, SFCP.
Fridays, February 20, 27, March 6, 13, 20, 2009.
REACHING THE DIFFICULT PATIENTS: THE LATIN AMERICAN TRADITION
The bi-personal fantasy, primitive body image, dread of change, fear of attack by, and loss of, the object, the dynamic field, and bastion are concepts associated with a Latin American view of understanding and treating the challenging, often inaccessible, patient. We will study the works of David Rosenfeld, Etchegoyen, the Barangers, and Pinchon-Riviere to see how these Latin American analysts have woven their own creative views together with psychoanalytic thinking from around the world to produce a uniquely vibrant, and useful, perspective on difficult treatments.
Ken Roberson, Ph.D., Member, SFCP.
Fridays, March 27, April 3, 10, 17, 24, 2009.
NOTES FROM THE PRISON WALLS OF PAROCHIALISM: CONTEMPORARY NORTH AMERICAN VIEWS ON THEORETICAL DIVERSITY
In this course, we will explore recent writings that speak to the problems of insularity and splitting within and between psychoanalytic schools of thought. We will consider current writings from Dale Boesky, Lawrence Friedman, Arnold Goldberg, Henry Smith, among others.
Louis Roussel, Ph.D., Affiliate Member, SFCP.
Fridays, May 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, 2009.
Class meetings: Fridays from 12:00 noon – 1:30 p.m.; All class meetings will be held at 2215 Prince Street, Garden Room, Berkeley; 35 sessions 52.5 CME credits; $1,300; readers cost not included in tuition; for refund policies see registration. Enrollment: min 8, max.16. If both Year Long Course and Continuous Case Conferences are taken together: 93 CME credits; $ 1,800.
This Year Long Program is designed at an intermediate level and it is recommended that participants be post-graduate clinicians. If you have any questions about your level of preparation, please contact one of the East Bay co-chairs.
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CONTINUOUS CASE CONFERENCES
In this continuous case conference, we will pay close attention to the transference and counter-transference, as we strive to apply the contributions from contemporary object-relations theory to our understanding of clinical technique with severely regressed and primitive patients.
Abby Wolfson, Ph.D., Member, Faculty, Training & Supervising Analyst, SFCP.
Fridays, Sept. 5,12,19,26, Oct. 3, 10, 17, 24, 31, Nov. 7, 14, 21, Dec. 5, 12, 19, 2008.
Sue von Baeyer, Ph.D., Member, Faculty, SFCP.
Fridays, Jan. 9, 16, 30, Feb. 6, 13, 20, 27, 2009.
Georgine Marrott, Ph.D., Member, Faculty, Training & Supervising Analyst SFCP.
Fridays, Mar. 6, 13, 20, 27, Apr. 3, 10, 17, 24, May 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, 2009.
Class meetings: Fridays from 1:45 p. - 3:00 p.m.; All class meetings will be held at 2215 Prince Street, Garden Room, Berkeley; 35 sessions; 43.5 CME credits; $900; for refund policies see registration. Enrollment: min 8, max.16. If both Year Long Course and Continuous Case Conferences are taken together: 96 CME credits; $ 1,800.
This Year Long Program is designed at an intermediate level and it is recommended that participants be post-graduate clinicians. If you have any questions about your level of preparation, please contact one of the East Bay co-chairs.
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SATURDAY PROGRAMS
CLINICAL PANEL ON THINKING ABOUT ‘PRIMITIVE’ STATES IN THE CLINICAL ENCOUNTER
Presenter: TBA
Discussants: Peter Goldberg, Ph.D. ,Member, Faculty, SFCP
Moderator: Jack Giuliani, Ph.D. ,Member, Faculty, SFCP.
Saturday, January 10, 2009 ; location: TBA.
9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. ; 3 CME; credits; $75
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