PENINSULA EXTENSION DIVISION
Sharon Levin , L.C.S.W and Mark Snyder, M.D.
Peninsula Co-Chairs
Friday Yearlong Program on the Peninsula—2007-2008
* Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Theory and Technique
SATURDAY SEMINARS: ANALYTIC PERSPECTIVES ON TRAUMA
* Who is a Trauma Patient? An Overview of Trauma and its Victims
* Object Loss and the Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma
* “Wrecked by Success”: The Trauma of Success
* Trauma and Affect Deregulation
* Traumatic Aspects of Normal Development
* History Repeating: A Dialogue on Trauma
* Early Childhood Experiences with Bodily Trauma
Friday Yearlong Program on the Peninsula—2007-2008
"Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Theory and Technique"
Infantile Traumatic Object Relations: Reconstruction, Interpretation, and Impasse
Accurate understanding of the traumatic infantile situation in the treatment of adults, adolescents, and children is essential for creating a facilitating therapeutic atmosphere for the patient. Considering the history of the patient’s infantile object relationships is also important for handling the ebb and flow of the transference-countertransference, for containing the patient’s primitive anxieties, and for distinguishing between the healthy and ill parts of the personality the patient brings the therapist or the analyst. Understanding the history of the patient’s early object relations can also help avoid collusions with the patient, and eventually a therapeutic impasse.
We will explore these issues through readings D.W. Winnicott, Andre Green, Thomas Ogden, David Rosenfeld, and Herbert Rosenfeld as well as following clinical material presented by the instructor. We will discuss how we can reconstruct the infantile trauma from the patient’s reported history, from memories, and from the lived experience of the transference-countertransference, and use it to inform our interventions.
Era A. Loewenstein, Ph.D., Member and Faculty, Training and Supervising Analyst, Adult and Child Psychoanalyst, SFCP
Fridays: 12:00pm -1:30pm, September 28, October 5, 12, 19, 2007
How Change Works in Psychotherapy
This course addresses the question of change in treatment in contemporary terms. We will compare explanations of change based on theory alone (a priori models), with views that look rigorously at the structure of the situation and how that structure contributes to alteration in the patient. This view includes the work of clinical observers working with a systems view, and the instructor’s published work on the roles of patient and therapist. The readings include material from the developmental literature that is currently being applied to the therapeutic relationship, and from research on psychotherapeutic process.
Richard Almond M.D., Member and Faculty, Training and Supervising Analyst, SFCP
Fridays: 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm, October 26, November 2, 9, 16, 30, 2007
Dreams: Theoretical and Technical Update
Dreams will be discussed as a form of thinking that is on a continuum with waking mental functioning. Freud's dream book will be reviewed and updated in light of the structural theory. Several pertinent theories of dreams will be discussed and integrated into the theory of dreams. We will then discuss the use of dreams in therapy, both as a guide to the therapist and as a source of profound insight to the patient. Dream material from therapy sessions will be presented to illustrate the theory and technique. Participants are encouraged to bring in patient dreams for discussion.
Eugene Woods M.D., Member, SFCP
Fridays: 12:00pm – 1:30pm, January 4, 11, 18, 2008
Relational Views of Transference and Countertransference
We will examine transference from the intersubjective and relational perspectives. As these models don’t represent a unitary theory, readings will be used to help illuminate the theorectical variations found amongst the diverse perspectives within the interpersonal framework. The theorectical perspectives will be grounded in clinical examples with special emphasis on clinical applications of transference and countertransference.
Beth Taylor M. D. Member and Faculty SFCP
Fridays: 12:00pm – 1:30pm, January 25, February 1, 8, 29, March 7, 14 2008
How Do We Use Words and Language in the Talking Cure; Theoretical Perspectives and Clinical Examples
The “Talking Cure” is a relational process in which verbalizations play a significant role as facilitators of self expression and internal change. We will examine the complex interplay between the verbal, emotional and physical aspects of language as well as the important relational context of language acquisition and its vicissitudes in the treatment situation with the analyst. The course will include a review of the theoretical concepts on language use as well as relevant clinical material. Participants will be encouraged to provide applicable case material from their own practice.
Judith Katz, Ph.D. ,Member, PINC
Fridays: 12:00pm – 1:30pm, March 21, 28, April 4, 2008
On the Need for a Father in Development and Psychotherapy. Patient's retelling of their relationship to their father often suggests intense, conflicted longing. Lasting difficulties with intimacy and individuation are the sequelae. Opposing feelings are understandable since the father-child relationship rests on a bedrock of shared yet contradictory fantasies of might, protection and control versus yielding to gentle emotions and the potentiation of autonomy. This theoretical, empirical and clinically focused class will illustrate the psychological importance of fathers and of father's relation to mother. A central thesis will then be that regardless of gender, therapists are turned to for paternal and maternal functions and emotional healing is facilitated by the artful embodiment of both in the therapist.
Alan Kessler Ph.D., Member and Faculty, SFCP
Fridays: 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm, April 18, 25, May 2, 2008
Tuition $900; 24 sessions; 13.5 CME available (22.5 CME pending)
Location: Stanford University Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Building, 401 Quarry Road, Room 1211, Stanford, CA
Readers’ cost not included in the tuition. For refund policies, see registration.
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SATURDAY SEMINARS
Who is a Trauma Patient? An Overview of Trauma and its Victims
This course will begin with a definition of trauma, and include a brief historical review, starting with Freud and his thinking about hysteria. We will then consider the effects of trauma on the mind and brain, including what we may encounter with any patient who seeks our help.
Shela Fisk, Ph.D., Member, Faculty, SFCP.
Saturday, October 6, 2007
Christ Episcopal Church, Fireside Room, 1040 Border Road, Los Altos, CA
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon; 3 CME credits; $75
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Object Loss and the Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma
In our clinical work, we often help people work through traumatic losses of important relationships, be they real, perceived, threatened, or fantasized. The loss may have occurred in a prior generation, but be exerting traumatic effect currently. A practical approach to traumatic object loss from a relational perspective will be discussed and illustrated with case examples.
Beth Taylor, M.D., Member, Faculty, SFCP.
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Christ Episcopal Church, Fireside Room, 1040 Border Road, Los Altos, CA
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon; 3 CME credits; $75
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“Wrecked by Success”: The Trauma of Success
Far from being pleasurable, success can be a psychic trauma characterized by anxiety, depression, numbness, and undoing. We will deepen our understanding of this psychic state through readings beginning with Freud. Clinical examples will enliven our discussion.
Sharon Levin, L.C.S.W., Member, SFCP.
Saturday, November 3, 2007
Christ Episcopal Church, Fireside Room, 1040 Border Road, Los Altos, CA
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon; 3 CME credits; $75
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Trauma and Affect Deregulation
Powerful feelings of pain and helplessness often accompany traumatic events, which then lead to poorly regulated affects - for example, numbing, flooding and shame. We will discuss how trauma disrupts affective experience and how therapy can be restorative.
Paul Ransohoff, D.M.H., Member, Faculty, SFCP.
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Christ Episcopal Church, Fireside Room, 1040 Border Road, Los Altos, CA
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon; 3 CME credits; $75
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Traumatic Aspects of Normal Development
A child’s mastery of each developmental level may be distorted or intruded upon by events such as the birth of a sibling, maternal depression, over-stimulation, permissiveness, divorce, or the awareness of sexual differences. We will look at how these distortions can carry forward into adult life with unfortunate consequences.
Nancy Peters, M.S.W., Member, Faculty, Child Analyst, SFCP.
Saturday, February 2, 2008
Christ Episcopal Church, Fireside Room, 1040 Border Road, Los Altos, CA
9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.; 4 CME credits; $100
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History Repeating: A Dialogue on Trauma
As clinicians, we are familiar with the damaging effects of psychological trauma, especially in childhood. We will discuss clinical material that gives immediacy to Freud's original observations on trauma, and the phenomenon of the repetition compulsion. There will be two readings, one from Freud's work, and one from a current theoretical perspective.
Maureen Smith, M.D., Member, SFCP.
Saturday, March 8, 2008
Christ Episcopal Church, Fireside Room, 1040 Border Road, Los Altos, CA
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon; 3 CME credits; $75
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Early Childhood Experiences with Bodily Trauma
We will review how congenital malformations, chronic illness, and traumatic accidents, leading to major bodily changes such as burns, impact body ego development and self identity. Readings and case vignettes will illustrate our discussion.
Mali Mann M. D., Member, Faculty, Child Analyst, SFCP.
Saturday April 26, 2008
Christ Episcopal Church, Fireside Room, 1040 Border Road, Los Altos, CA
9:00 a.m. – 1:00 pm; 4 CME credits; $100
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Readers’ cost not included in the tuition. For refund policies, see registration.
