Study Group Bulletin Board
East Bay : New Study Groups Forming and Openings in Existing Study Groups
Facilitator: Dori Dubin, Psy.D., L.C.S.W., BCD-P
Title: Psychoanalytic Consultation Group: Effective Interpretation in the Presence of Primitive Anxieties
Description: As the field of psychoanalytic thinking has evolved from Freud’s model of using defense interpretation to treat neurotic anxieties toward a focus on treating more primitive pre-oedipal and psychosomatic disorders, the clinician faces several new challenges in addressing these anxieties effectively. This group will focus on meeting these very challenges as well as the clinician’s own responses/primitive anxieties that this work can potentially evoke.
Format:
- Seminal readings and discussion of papers from a variety of theoretical perspectives including those of Bion, Ogden, Winnicott, and the “Middle School.”
- Case presentations with an emphasis on working in the transference-countertransference matrix.
Goals include:
Applying theoretical concepts like Bion’s theory of thinking and containing anxiety to work more effectively with primitive anxieties and foster integration of the psyche-soma.
Assessing the patient’s level of mental functioning as it fluctuates between the 3 levels of unconscious experience from moment to moment in the therapy and constructing interpretations accordingly.
Making use of introjective and projective identification to formulate interpretations that deepen the therapeutic work, enhance the patient’s feeling of being understood, and promote the development of the therapeutic dyad.
Address: 5845 College Avenue, No. 4, Oakland, CA 94618
Phone: 510-547-2522
Email: ddubinpsyd@comcast.net
New Group forming fall 2008
Day & Time: Thursdays from 10:15am to 11:45 on-going from Fall to June
Fee: $45/meeting
CE: Credits will be available periodically
Group Size: The maximum size is 8.
Bio: Dori Dubin, Psy.D. is a graduate of the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, a member of the Faculty, Board of Directors, and Chair of the PsyD Program. Dr. Dori Dubin is also a member of the faculty and a clinical supervisor at The Psychotherapy Institute and the Wright Institute. She maintains a private practice in psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, couple's therapy, and consultation in the Rockridge area of Oakland.
Facilitator: Stephen Seligman, DMH (Contact Person: Rachel Fuller)
Title: Applying Early Development Research to Analytic Theories and Therapies
Description:
Target subject areas will include
- Direct observations of infant-parent interactions (through video vignettes) and their applications to therapist-patient interaction;
- Current developments in attachment theory, including "mentalization;"
- What it means to think "intersubjectively," including how direct observation of infants and parents can help us clarify this term and understand its clinical implications;
- How a focus on affects and internal representations of dyadic interactions can be applied directly in clinical work;
- Links between current attachment/intersubjectivity theories and established analytic approaches, especially Kleinian/object relations models.
Video vignettes of infant-parent interaction and clinical presentations will be regularly included. Whenever helpful, readings will be included, and a bibliography will be provided.
Address: Early Childhood Mental Health Program, 638 Third Street (corner of 3rd Street and Martin Luther King, Jr. Way) in Oakland
Phone: (510) 913-0998
Email: stephen.seligman@ucsf.edu or yorkstconsulting@yahoo.com
Status: Existing group with openings
Day & Time: Saturday, 9:30am-1:00 p.m.
Dates for 2008:
Group 1: Jan 12th, April 26, Sept. 27th and Nov. 1st
Group 2: Saturdays: Jan. 26th, May 10th, Oct. 4th and Nov. 15th.
Length : Quarterly
Fee: $150/meeting with commitment to four meetings
CE offered?: Yes. $7.00 fee
Group Size : 15, each group
Bio: Stephen Seligman has been writing and teaching at the interface of infancy research and psychoanalysis for the past 25 years. He is a practicing psychoanalyst and psychotherapist, working with adults, children, and infants. He is co-editor in chief of Psychoanalytic Dialogues; Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Infant-Parent Program, University of California, San Francisco; Personal and Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California; and a faculty member at several psychoanalytic institutes, including the SFCP and the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. He has nearly 50 publications in the psychoanalytic and infant mental health areas.
Facilitator: Abbot Bronstein, Ph.D.
Title: A clinical case conference from a contemporary Kleinian viewpoint
Description: The focus will be on clinical material. Group members will present for 3-4 times.
The group would look at the psychoanalytic process, transference and enactments, unconscious phantasy and interpretation.
Address: Oakland
Email: cladg@aol.com
Phone: 510-452-2842
Status: This is a new group forming that is open to clinicians seeing patients.
Day & Time: Wednesdays, 7:30-9:30pm, every other week
Start date: November 7, 2007
Length: Open-ended
Fee: $50
CE: Not offered
Group Size: Minimum of 4; Maximum of 9
Bio: Dr. Abbot Bronstein is a psychoanalyst. He has worked closely for over 20 years with the British Contemporary Kleinian group including Betty Joseph, Donald Meltzer, Elizabeth Spillius, Hanna Segal, Michael Feldman, John Steiner and others.
He has lead a discussion group for over 10 years at the American Psychoanalytic Association meetings on the clinical process and thinking as influenced by the Contemporary Kleinians. He is on the Faculty at SFCP, and had previously been the chair of their program committee.
He is also on the faculty of and a training and supervising analyst at PINC and SFCP.
Facilitator: Abbot Bronstein, Ph.D.
Title: A reading group on the work of Freud, Klein and Bion through the writings of Donald Meltzer's The Kleinian Development
Description: The course will do a close reading of 3 major texts by Freud on Dreams, Narcissism and Perversions, look at the development of Klein's ideas of Interpretation, the combined object, and Envy, and Bion's ideas on Thinking and Learning.
Meltzer's text in addition to the primary texts will be studied to explore the evolution of these central psychoanalytic concepts.
Address: Oakland
Email: cladg@aol.com
Phone: 510-452-2842
Status: This is a new group forming
Day & Time: Thursdays, 7:30pm-9:30pm
Start Date: October
Length: 8 weeks
Fee: $40
CE: Not offered
Group Size: Minimum of 6; Maximum of 14
Bio: Dr. Abbot Bronstein is a psychoanalyst. He has worked closely for over 20 years with the British Contemporary Kleinian group including Betty Joseph, Donald Meltzer, Elizabeth Spillius, Hanna Segal, Michael Feldman, John Steiner and others.
He has lead a discussion group for over 10 years at the American Psychoanalytic Association meetings on the clinical process and thinking as influenced by the Contemporary Kleinians. He is on the Faculty at SFCP, and had previously been the chair of their program committee.
He is also on the faculty of and a training and supervising analyst at PINC and SFCP.
Facilitator: Dawn Farber Psy.D., M.F.T.
Title: Clinical Case Conference and Study Group
Description: Detailed case presentations interspersed with study of clinical papers in the Bionian and Independent Bion-inspired traditions: the Latin lineages, mostly Italian and South American, and the British lineages, mostly Tustin, Meltzer and their students, and Ogden.
We also study of the clinical implications of developmental, affective neuroscience.
Address: 587 Walavista Avenue, Oakland, CA 94610
Phone: 415 673-7744
Email: rori4@comcast.net
Status: Well-established seasoned workgroups
Start Date: One space available in Friday group from January 12- May 2007.
Wednesday group is currently full for Jan. 2007 session. Each group periodically has space available.
Space is available in both groups for the summer session May-August. Dates will flex to accommodate individual's vacation plans, and the seminars will focus on case presentations.
Day & Time: Two different groups. One on Fridays, 11:30am-1 pm; the other on Wednesdays, 10am-11:30am
Length: Ongoing, with 12-week commitment, renewable
Fee: $50
CE: Yes
Group Size: Openings in both Wed. and Fri. groups
Bio: Dawn Farber, Psy.D., M.F.T. is a Personal and Supervising Analyst, an Instructor and committee member at PINC.
She teaches widely in the community and is especially interested in case conference and clinical consultation.
Dr. Farber has a private practice in both Oakland and San Francisco.
Facilitator: L. Eileen Keller, Ph.D.
Title: Reading Bion "Learning from experience"
Description: Study and Case Consultation with L. Eileen Keller: Bion's works on thinking and on states of mind are wonderfully useful in clinical work, though sometimes hard to grasp in isolation.
In this class we will use early theoretical work to help us understand our own and our patients' defenses against psychic pain.
Alternating clinical presentations with study of theory will help us integrate Bion's work into our clinical technique.
In addition, we will use a few of the late seminars given by Bion, at the Tavistock, showing the synthesis of many years of thought and clinical work.
I also plan to integrate some work from Winnicott to help us grasp the "real" infant and mother as we study Bion's theoretical infant.
Address: 5435 College Av, #201, Oakland
Phone: 510-654-2420
Email: kellerphd@gmail.com
Status: This is a new group forming
Day & Time: Wednesdays, 12noon-1:15pm
Start Date: Oct 10
Length: ongoing
Fee: $45 per session, payable monthly
CE: Can be arranged for an additional fee, if all of the group wants it
Group Size: 2 openings
Bio: Dr. Keller is a psychologist/psychoanalyst with extensive experience teaching British Object Relations theories.
She is member and faculty at SFCP, chair of the Child Development Program at SFCP, and program director of the Early Childhood Mental Health Program for SFCP.
Dr. Keller works with adults and children in her private practice in Oakland. More information is available on her web site: www.kellerphd.com.
Facilitator: L. Eileen Keller, Ph.D.
Title: Clinical Applications of Bion
Description: In this group, we are studying the early work of Bion with an eye to the implications for clinical technique.
We are alternating reading "Learning From Experience" by W.R. Bion, with case presentations.
Each member will have the opportunity to present a case.
Address: 5435 College Av, #201, Oakland
Phone: 510-654-2420
Email: kellerphd@gmail.com
Status: This is an existing group with one opening
Day & Time: Thursdays, 12:30pm-1:50pm
Start Date: On-going. The current plan is to meet five Thursdays beginning Jan 4 though Feb 1.
We will break for four weeks and begin again on March 8, going through April 19, for a total of twelve sessions. We will add a new member during January.
Length: Twelve weeks
Fee: $45 per session, payable monthly
CE: No
Group Size: 1 opening
in June
Bio: Dr. Keller is a psychologist/psychoanalyst with extensive experience teaching British Object Relations theories.
She is member and faculty at SFCP, chair of the Child Development Program at SFCP, and program director of the Early Childhood Mental Health Program for SFCP.
Dr. Keller works with adults and children in her private practice in Oakland. More information is available on her web site: www.kellerphd.com.
Facilitator/Contact Person: Peter H. Coster, PhD,
MDiv, MFT
Title: Integrating Spirituality with Psychoanalytic
Psychotherapy.
Description: Albert Einstein said that our theories
will determine what we are able to investigate. This
ongoing consultation and study group will focus on the question, that is a spiritually informed
psychoanalytic psychotherapy, from the perspective of
both theory and practice. There will be the
opportunity through case presentations to work in
depth with the transference/counter-transference
matrix in order to develop the capacity to assess,
diagnose and intervene from a spiritually informed
perspective. Short weekly reading will help guide our
discussion. Attention will be paid to the work of
Garguilio, Eigen, Sorenson, Louchakna.
Address: 1940 Virginia St. North Berkeley, CA.
Phone: 510-548-1713
Email: phcoster@sbcglobal.net
Status: (New group forming.)
Day & Time: Tuesday's 10:00-11:45
Start Date: October 3, 2007
Ongoing. 3 months commitment required
Fee: $50
CE: Offered
Group Size: limit to 8
Bio: Peter H. Coster, PhD is Director of the Center
for Psychotherapy, Spirituality and Creativity and
Adjunct Faculty member at JFK University, The
Graduate Theological Union and New College Berkeley.
Dr. Coster received psychoanalytic training at the
Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California and
the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco and has
studied with A.H. Almaas the originator of the Diamond
Approach for 8 years. He has conducted a private
practice in N. Berkeley and San Rafael for 20 years
and been a supervisor and clinical consultant.
Please contact one of the clearinghouse coordinators,
either Dr. Alice Feller (felleralice@yahoo.com or
(510) 845-6162) or Dr. Vittorio Comelli (plasticov@aol.com or 415- 637-2895) with any
questions.
