EAST BAY EXTENSION DIVISION
Louis Roussel, Ph.D. & Sunny Kuegle, Psy.D., Co-Chairs
YEAR LONG PROGRAM (Sept 2009 - May 2010)
* Ancestral Consultants: Psychoanalytic Classics and their Relevance to Contemporary Practice
* Continuous Case Conferences
SATURDAY PROGRAMS
* Perverse Mode of Relating and Thinking: Contemporary Views (Cancelled )
YEAR LONG PROGRAMS
ANCESTRAL CONSULTANTS: PSYCHOANALYTIC CLASSICS AND THEIR RELEVANCE TO CONTEMPORARY PRACTICE
This year we will re-visit classic psychoanalytic papers that have played important roles in the development of psychoanalysis, both in terms of the significance of the ideas proposed and by the controversies they stirred. Each paper will be considered in the context of contemporary clinical reflection. Local analysts will present the seminal work of Freud, Klein, Strachey, Loewald, Bion, Bick, Winnicott, Tustin, Meltzer, Herbert Rosenfeld, and De Masi, among others. Our focus will be a present-day intense engagement with these classic papers as living presences. We will also consider the diverse social, cultural and political influences and concerns that interface with current psychoanalytic practice. Ongoing case conferences facilitated by senior analysts will enable clinicians to engage these ideas in a dialectical relationship with contemporary clinical realities. * The seminar series consists of the following classes:
A STRUCTURE OF ATONEMENT AND RECONCILIATION: HANS LOEWALD AND "THE WANING OF THE OEDIPUS COMPLEX"
Loewald’s evocative essay considers the complex nature of mourning and restitution as a force and creative underpinning in the development of an autonomous self. A close, line-by-line reading, allows us to apprehend his ideas about parricide, atonement, and reconciliation, fine-tuning our ears towards our emotional experience of union and separation, loss and growth, autonomy and relatedness, and termination in our clinical work.
Jeanne C. Harasemovitch, L.C.S.W., Member and Faculty, SFCP
Fridays: September 4, 11, 18, 25, 2009
FREUD'S "THE INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS," CHAPTER VII
In this chapter of “The Interpretation of Dreams,” Freud puts forth his model of the dynamics of the mind, the function of dreams, and his ideas about clinical interventions. We will read this chapter carefully, giving thought to the genesis of his ideas, their evolution into contemporary theory, and especially their clinical utility.
Barbara McSwain, M.S.W., Training & Supervising Analyst, SFCP
Fridays: October 2, 9, 16, 23, 2009
FREUD'S "MOURNING AND MELANCHOLIA"
Freud wrote “Mourning and Melancholia” in 1915 while World War I was raging. It went on to become one of the most important papers in the psychoanalytic canon. While working to understand depression by comparing and contrasting melancholia with normal mourning, Freud also gave us a new understanding of internal object relations, especially narcissistic object relations. In this class, we will study “Mourning and Melancholia” within its historical context and for its contemporary clinical and theoretical significance.
Robert Bartner, Ph.D., Member and Faculty, PINC
Fridays: October 30, November 6, 13, 20, 2009
JAMES STRACHEY: "THE NATURE OF THERAPEUTIC ACTION OF PSYCHO-ANALYSIS"
We will look at what Strachey refers to as the “mutative interpretation,” extending our discussion of his classic paper into demystifying interpretation. We will consider the processes that analysts use to infer latent meaning from the raw material of patients’ associations, through exploring more contemporary writings of Arlow, Friedman, Ahumada, and Boesky. We will use verbatim clinical process notes to inter-animate classic psychoanalytic ideas.
Louis Roussel, Ph.D., Member and Faculty, SFCP
Fridays: December 4, 11; Sunday, December 13; Friday, December 18, 2009
ON FREUD'S "CREATIVE WRITERS AND DAY-DREAMING"
In “Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming” (1908), Freud made a valuable contribution to our understanding of the creative process, an understanding later deepened by the Kleinians and the Independent School. Using “The Contemporary Freud” series on this paper, we will consider Freud’s ideas as well as expansions on and challenges to his work by others. This class will focus special attention to the implications of these ideas for contemporary clinical work.
Susan Kolodny, D.M.H., Member and Faculty, SFCP; Personal Analyst, PINC
Fridays: January 8, 15, 22, 29, 2010
MELANIE KLEIN'S "EARLY STAGES OF THE OEDIPUS CONFLICT"
In this 1928 paper, Klein gathers the strands of her revolutionary thinking on the Oedipus Complex. While acknowledging agreement with Freud’s formulations, Klein asserts herself as an independent observer and thinker of oedipal development. Klein brings us into the phantasy-rich, pre-conceptual world of the very young infant, revealing the most primitive levels of aggression, love, jealousy, envy, fear, and repair that define this period of development. In this class, we will consider the relevance of Klein’s ideas for our current clinical work.
Margo Chapin, M.F.T., Member and Faculty, SFCP
Fridays: February 5, 12, 19, 26, 2010
A CLASSIC REVISITED: MELANIE'S "SOME NOTES ON SCHIZOID MECHANISMS"
We will read and discuss Klein’s pivotal paper — how it opened a door to the analytic treatment of psychosis by proposing a theory of early normal and pathological development based on an active ego in relation to an object through two main positions: paranoid-schizoid and the depressive. We will explore the implications of Klein’s hypotheses to better understand her concept of psychic mechanisms, as well as her ideas about psychotic versus normal defenses and anxieties.
Georgine Marrott, Ph.D., Training & Supervising Analyst, SFCP
Fridays: March 5, 12, 19, 26, 2010
BABIES AND BODIES: "THE EXPERIENCE OF THE SKIN IN EARLY OBJECT RELATIONS"
When Esther Bick published her four-page paper “The Experience of the Skin in Early Object Relations” in 1967, she introduced new ideas about the earliest layers of psychical development, ideas that derived much from direct observation of infants. It was a shift in psychoanalytic thinking that influenced much subsequent work in the areas of infant observation, psychosomatics, and autistic phenomena. This section will take Esther Bick’s paper as its basis, and it will include work by Winnicott, Tustin, and Meltzer, among others.
Deborah Melman, Ph.D., Member, NCSPP; Faculty, PINC
Fridays: April 2, 9, 16, 23, 2010
THE EMERGENCE OF SYMBOLIZATION IN THE ANALYTIC RELATIONSHIP
Classic papers by Klein and Bion laid the groundwork for our understanding of the particular problems of symbolization, thinking, and communication in the therapeutic session. As a result, therapists hear more in the sessions and are required to do more. Our role now involves actively providing containment and imagination to construct meaning in the therapeutic encounter. Bion, in particular, considers ways the therapist can enhance receptivity, which can heighten the patient’s contact with his psychic reality.
Henry Markman, M.D., Training & Supervising Analyst, SFCP
Fridays: April 30; May 7, 14, 28, 2010
* A small number of participants with academic or artistic backgrounds may apply to audit the seminar series with permission of the Co-Chairs of the SFCP Extension Division. The Chairs will consider these applications case-by-case and offer the option to audit as space allows. In addition, anyone offered this auditing option must meet with the Chairs to discuss confidentiality rules for handling clinical material and sign an agreement to uphold confidentiality.
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CONTINUOUS CASE CONFERENCES
Charles Fisher, M.D., Training& Supervising Analyst, SFCP
Fridays: September 4, 11, 18, 25, October 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, November 6, 13, 20, December 4, 11, 18, 2009
Melissa Nelken, J.D., Member and Faculty, SFCP
Fridays: January 8, 15, 22, 29; February 5, 12, 19, 26; March 5, 12, 19, 26; April 2, 9, 16, 23, 30; May 7, 14, 28, 2010
Class meetings: Fridays, Didactic Seminar: 12:00 p.m.—1:30 p.m.; Continuous Case Conference: from 1:45 p.m.—3:00 p.m., unless otherwise noted (see Dr. Louis Roussel’s class).
All class meetings will be held at 2215 Prince Street, The Garden Room, Berkeley, CA;
36 sessions. For Yearlong Seminar Series: $1000; for Continuous Case Conference: $900; for Yearlong Seminar Series and Continuous Case Conference taken together $1800. For complete fees and refund information, see Fees and Payment Policy.
Enrollment: min 8, max.16. For Yearlong Seminar Series: 54CE credits; if both Yearlong Course and Continuous Case Conferences are taken together: 97.5 CE credits; the cost of readers is not included in tuition.
This Yearlong 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 SFCP Extension Program Co-Chairs: Milton Schaefer, Ph.D., at 415/776-3400 or Patricia Marra, M.F.T., at 415/668-0767.
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SATURDAY PROGRAMS ( Cancelled )
PERVERSE MODE OF RELATING AND THINKING: CONTEMPORARY VIEWS
Although perverse patients often tenaciously seek containment from their analysts or psychotherapists, these treatments can paradoxically become painful and stuck because contact and closeness are dreaded and stripped of emotional meaning. We will discuss how the perverse mode of being in the world can foreclose both the possibility of learning from experience and developing creativity , drawing from the works of Bion, Meltzer, Herbert Rosenfeld, and De Masi.
Presenters:
Era Loewenstein, Ph.D., Training & Supervising Analyst, SFCP
Sue Von Baeyer, Ph.D., Member and Faculty, SFCP
Moderator:
Louis Roussel, Ph.D., Member and Faculty, SFCP
Saturday, March 6, 2010
2215 Prince Street, The Garden Room, Berkeley, CA
9:30 a.m. — 12:30 p.m.; 3 CE credits; $75
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