STUDENT OUTREACH SEMINARS 2007-2008
* San Francisco student outreach seminars
* East Bay student outreach seminars
* Peninsula student outreach seminars
San Francisco Student Outreach Seminars 2007-2008
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, please call Max Lee, SFCP Extension Division Coordinator, at (415) 563-5815.
If you would like more information about these seminars, please call Catherine Mallouh, M.D., Chair of Student Outreach, at (415) 750-1713.
You will be called 2 weeks prior to class to coordinate getting the readings.
There is no class scheduled yet for September.
Course Title: Principles of Psychoanalytic Technique
Dates: Wednesday evenings 7:30 – 9:00, October 3, 10, 17, 24, 2007
Description: In this course we will look at the thinking underlying psychoanalytic technique, how technique has developed over time, the relation between theory and practice, components of classical technique, and more contemporary views of psychoanalytic practice. Some of the key concepts we will study are resistance, transference, unconscious motivation, defense analysis, the analytic attitude, the principle of uncovering, enactments, and the use of counter-transference. The best way to understand how principles of technique work is to see these principles in action. Clinical material will be used to illustrate the concepts we will be studying. Discussion of cases of class participants and how they exemplify aspects of psychoanalytic technique is encouraged.
Instructor: Kenneth Roberson, Ph.D. Advanced Candidate, San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis; Private practice, San Francisco. (415) 922-1122. roberson@speakeasy.net
There are no classes scheduled yet for November or December.
Course Title: Masochistic Resistances in Treatment
Dates: Wednesday evenings, 7:30-9:00, January 9, 16, 23, 30, 2008
Description: In this class w e will offer a limited and focused survey of the literature on masochism. Masochistic character resistances can be at times obvious and at other times very difficult to diagnose. Furthermore, these resistances can greatly impede true progress in a treatment. This course will attempt to broaden the understanding of these resistances along with exploring techniques for addressing them in an intensive treatment. We will use case material of our own as well as that of participants to highlight these points.
Instructors: Michael Bronzo, M.D. Member, San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis; Private practice, San Francisco. (415) 563-3252. bronzo@pacbell.net Luke Moix, M.D. Member, San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis; Private practice, San Francisco. (415) 674-1339. lukejmoix@yahoo.com
Course Title: Thinking and Relating **Cancelled**
Dates: Wednesday evenings 7:30 – 9:00, February 6, 13, 20, 27, 2008
Description: Winnicott and Bion have made seminal contributions to our understanding of early emotional development , the experience of being related in a closed versus open system/field, and the development of thinking ; the stuff we need to realize our lives. Their ideas are extremely useful in discerning and responding to the plethora of clinical phenomena a therapist encounters in every hour. We will read a small number of seminal articles by Bion and Winnicott. Clinical material provided by the instructor and the students will be used to illustrate and work through these ideas.
Instructor: Karim Dajani, Psy.D. Candidate, San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis; Private practice, San Francisco. (415) 440-2540. kdajani@earthlink.net
Course Title: Countertransference: Mirror into the Clinical Encounter
Dates: Wednesday evenings, 7:30-9:00, March 5, 12, 19, 26, 2008
Description: How do we make sense of the varied, complex and sometimes troubling feelings that our patients invoke in us? This course will provide a framework for thinking about these responses in the therapist. We will explore the evolution of the concept of countertransference in psychoanalytic theory from different theoretical perspectives. Concepts such as role responsiveness, projective identification and enactment have furthered our understanding of countertransference. Clinical material provided by the instructor will be used to illustrate these ideas and students will be encouraged to bring in material from their own work.
Instructor: Catherine Mallouh, M.D. Advanced Candidate, San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis; Private practice, San Francisco. (415) 750-1713. cmmallouh@yahoo.com
There is no class scheduled on April 2nd.
Course Title: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Gay Men
Dates: Wednesday evenings 7:30 – 9:00, April 9, 16, 23, 30, 2008
Description: This seminar will present a contemporary psychoanalytic perspective for working with gay men in psychotherapy. The essentialist perspective on gender identity and sexual orientation inherent in traditional psychoanalytic theory will be critiqued. Recent psychoanalytic contributions addressing gay male experiences will also be reviewed, with an emphasis on highlighting important developmental milestones. The implications of psychoanalytic theory for gay patients will be examined in the literature and through clinical illustrations. Participants will be encouraged to share material from their own cases.
Instructor: Gary Grossman, Ph.D. Member and Faculty, San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis; Private practice, San Francisco. (415) 928-4662. gary.grossman@ucsf.edu
East Bay Student Outreach Seminars 2007-2008
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. Please call Max Lee, SFCP Extension Division Coordinator at (415) 563-5815 to register. If you would like more information about the East Bay Program, please call Alice Feller, M.D. (510-845-6162) or Margo Chapin, M.F.T. (510-893-6101), the East Bay Co-Chairs. If you would like information about other Student Outreach seminars or SFCP programs, check our website: www.sf-cp.org.
Classes will be held at Herrick Hospital. You will be called 2 weeks prior to class to coordinate getting the readings.
Course Title: Self-Mutilation: part 2
Date: Saturday morning, October 6th.
Time: 9:30am - 12:30pm.
This workshop is intended as a follow-up to introductory material previously presented through San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis' East Bay Student Outreach Seminars. Key psychoanalytic concepts and theories concerning causes and precipitants of self-inflicted violence will be examined in greater depth and applied to clinical case material. While it is not necessary for participants to have attended the introductory workshop, enrollees should be familiar with the demographics, associated symptoms and disorders, as well as assessment criteria for this phenomenon. The emphasis this time will be on the application of theory to clinical practice. Students interested in presenting clinical material are encouraged to contact the instructor in advance. Additional resources and suggested readings will be provided.
Instructor: Dorian Newton, Ph.D. is an Associate Dean of Student Life and Director of Counseling and Psychological Services at Mills College. She is a member of the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis and maintains a private practice in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in Oakland.
Course Title: Delusions and Dreams: Then and Now.
Dates: Wednesday eves: Oct 17, 24, 31; Nov. 14, 21.
Time: 7:30pm - 9:00pm.
This is a eight week course looking at Freud's analysis of "Gradiva" and reading Wilhelm Jenson's novel "Gradiva" in order to think about what this novel and Freud's analysis of the novel can teach us about the nature of delusional processes and the treatment of some forms of psychotic processes. We will also make use of other essays of Freud that bear on the topic. The final weeks will consist of a reconsideration of contemporary psychoanalytic views of treating psychosis in light of what we've gleaned from revisiting this forgotten classic.
Instructor: Louis Roussel, Ph.D., Advanced Candidate, SFCP. Private Practice, Oakland, CA.
Course Title: Adolescence
Dates: Tuesday eves: Nov.20, 27; Dec. 4, 11.
Time: 7:30pm - 9:00pm.
In this course, we will first consider adolescence as a stage in development. Further, we will examine adolescence as a word whose usage goes beyond age specific behaviors to refer to behaviors that partake of dependency and rebellion from that on which on is dependent. Using classical and contemporary psychoanalytic literature, we will examine the stages of child development that lead into adolescence, early adolescence, later adolescence, and adolescent behavior as a feature of people of all ages.
Instructor: Madeleine Lansky, M.D. is a Child, Adolescent and Adult Psychiatrist and candidate in psychoanalysis at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. She has a private practice in Rockridge, California, and is part of the volunteer teaching faculty at the UCSF Department of Psychiatry.
Course Title: Case Conference
Dates: Saturday mornings: February 16, 23; March 1,8.
Time: 10:00am - 12:00pm.
This class will be organized around clinical case presentations. Our primary task will be to follow the unconscious dialogue as it manifest in the analytic couple. The instructors will punctuate these discussions with brief didactic presentations informed by Ogden, Bion, British Independents and other contemporary psychoanalytic thinkers.
Instructors: Catherine McKenzie,Ph.D. & John DiMartini,Ph.D. Dr. DiMartini and Dr. McKenzie are both advanced candidates at SFCP and both have private practices in Oakland.
Course Title: On Beginning a Private Practice
Date: Saturday morning: April 26th.
Time: 9:30am - 12:30pm
One of the most challenging and interesting tasks of beginning any treatment is the construction of the analytic frame. The elements of the frame, such as meeting times, fee, how the hour is begun and ended and so on, have a unique meaning for each analytic couple. Because they lie at the intersection of reality and fantasy they constitute a rich source of data regarding the state of the transference and coutertransference at any given moment.
In this course we will address the special challenges of beginning an analytically oriented private practice, including the use of the frame and the creation of analytic space in which both members of the analytic pair may begin to think. The reading for this workshop will be Tom Ogden's 1989 paper, "The Initial Analytic Meeting".
Instructor: Alice Feller, M.D. Member & Faculty, SFCP, Private Practice Berkeley, CA & Terry Schulman, Ph.D. Affiliate Member, SFCP, Private practice in Oakland and Corte Madera.
Peninsula Student outreach Program 2007-2008
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 psychiatry residents and fellows, and to pre-doctoral and post-doctoral psychology, clinical social work, and MFT interns.
To register, please call Max Lee, SFCP Extension Division Coordinator, at (415) 563-5815.
If you would like more information about these seminars, please call Michael Loughran, Ph.D., Peninsula Chair of Student Outreach, at (650) 323-3049.
Once you register, you will be called two weeks prior to class to coordinate getting the readings.
The seminars below will take place at Stanford in the Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Building at 401 Quarry Road in Room 1206 (first floor, behind the cafe).
Course Title: Containment and Emotional Transformation in the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Adolescents
Dates: Wednesday Evenings, 7:15-8:45, January 9, 16, 23, 30
Description: Adolescent patients can place tremendous demands on the clinician’s ability to maintain a reflective stance. This seminar focuses on how the therapist’s receptivity and capacity for containment can help create a therapeutic space for these young patients to risk the deeply emotional experience of analytic therapy. Integrating theory with practice, we will focus on clinical material showing how to establish effective treatment during this crucial and compelling transitional phase of development.
Instructor: Michael Loughran, Ph.D., Member and Faculty, SFCP; Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Stanford University School of Medicine; Private Practice, Palo Alto.
Course Title : Formulating Transference Interpretations in Clinical Work
Dates: Wednesday Evenings, 7:15-8:45 PM, February 6, 13, 20, 27
Description: How does a therapist listen for the transference and use this information to make interpretations? In this seminar we will discuss the concept of transference and how it has evolved. This review will serve as a basis for understanding how to formulate and interpret the transference in the clinical hour. The focus throughout will be on the clinical process and on how to talk to the patient about what is going on in the interaction between patient and therapist.
Instructor: Jan Mill, Ph.D., Member and Faculty, SFCP. Personal Analyst, Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. Private Practice, Palo Alto.
Course Title: The Intrapsychic and Intersubjective Contexts of Envy
Dates: Wednesday Evenings: March 5, 12, 19, 26, April 2, 2007
Description: Klein’s theorizing offers a descriptive phenomenology as well as a theoretical account of destructive envy – an emotional experience so pernicious as to have been branded by the church as one of the seven deadly sins! In this short course, we will first examine Klein’s account of envy and its accompanying phantasies and then consider alternate accounts which situate envy in terms of a broader intrapsychic-intersubjective context: unrecognized desire, sense of lack, deprivation, shame, humiliation, failure of containment, failed mutual unconscious introjective or identificatory processes and/or other unconscious relational processes.
Instructor: Julie Gerhardt, Ph.D., Member and Instructor, Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California; Adjunct Associate Professor, California Institute of Integral Studies; Private Practice, Palo Alto.
Course Title: Working with Emotions in Treatment: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Affect
Dates: Wednesday Evenings, 7:15-8:45, April 9, 16, 23, 30.
Description: Problems in affective experience (e.g., anxiety, depression, emptiness) are prime instigators of people seeking treatment. We will examine psychoanalytic perspectives on the role of affect in motivation, in conflict and defense, and in psychopathology, and will discuss the importance of affect development and affect-regulation. Our goals will be to understand the basic psychoanalytic concepts of affect, and to use these understandings clinically to see how to tune in to patients’ affective states and to work with them in a way that promotes therapeutic change.
Instructor: Paul M. Ransohoff, D.M.H., Member and Faculty, SFCP; Personal and Supervising Analyst, PINC; Private practice, Menlo Park and San Francisco.
Course Title: The Theoretical and Clinical Importance of Chapter VII of Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams
Dates: Wednesday Evenings, 7:15–8:45, May 7, 14, 21.
Description: Chapter VII in Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams contains some of the most critical ideas, or the seeds of yet to come critical ideas, in psychoanalytic thinking . The course will trace how Freud’s early study of dreams informed and anticipated a wide area of his conceptualizations regarding the mind, conflict, the unconscious and its wishes, the superego, and the notions of defense, signal anxiety, and compromise formation in dreams and neurotic symptoms.
Instructor: Mark Snyder, M.D., Member, SFCP; Private practice, San Jose.
Course Title: Introduction to Psychodynamic Diagnosis
Dates: Wednesday Evenings, 7:15-8:45, May 28, June 4, 11.
Description: This seminar will present the framework for psychodynamic diagnosis introduced by the new (2006) Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (PDM). Topics are: the importance of diagnosis to treatment planning and conduct, the contrast with DSM, levels of personality organization, personality patterns, profiles of mental functioning, and a structure for case formulation. Students will be encouraged to have their own copy of the PDM.
Instructor:Neil Brast, M.D., Member, SFCP; Associate Clinical Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, Stanford University School of Medicine; Private Practice Palo Alto.
