Study Group Bulletin Board
San Francisco: New Study Groups Forming and Openings in Existing Study Groups
Facilitator/Contact Person:
Dr. Brady at 776-3174 (mbrady66@earthlink.net), or Dr. Tyminski at 552-1747 (Robert.Tyminski@ucsf.edu).
Title: THE TREATMENT OF ADOLESCENTS AND YOUNG ADULTS -- A WEEKLY CONSULTATION GROUP
Description: The treatment of adolescent and young adult patients is especially challenging, given the developmental upheavals of the period, which can often result in bodily based psychopathologies (e.g. eating disorders, cutting, substance abuse). Nevertheless, this period of emotional unrest can create opportunities for significant psychological growth, especially when an adolescent or young adult is in treatment.
In this group we plan to study the key psychological events of adolescence through a variety of lenses. We will read a number of classic and contemporary thinkers such as Anne Alvarez, Antonino Ferro, Henri Rey, and D.W. Winnicott. We will spend time on several cornerstone psychoanalytic papers about adolescence, and we will then explore questions about therapeutic action, group interventions, clinical supervision, and interacting with parents. Throughout the year, we will alternate between theory and case presentations. Our clinical discussions will have a process orientation, as the group develops its own ways of thinking together.
We will also read Peter Cameron’s recent novel about adolescent alienation, Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You. We will use this work as a bridge to discussion about adolescent loneliness, isolation, and detachment. We will integrate this literary work with clinical examples related to its themes.
Address: 3159 Sacramento St. (between Baker and Lyon).
Phone: Dr. Brady at 776-3174 or Dr. Tyminski at 552-1747
Email: (mbrady66@earthlink.net), (Robert.Tyminski@ucsf.edu).
Status: New group forming
Day & Time: Mondays from 12:00 to 1:15
Start Date: September 8, 2008 and ending June 8, 2009
Length (if time limited; otherwise state “ongoing”):
Fee: $45/session
Requirements: Completion of graduate or medical degree.
CE offered?: Yes
Group Size (or number of openings):
Bio (if there is a facilitator): Mary Brady, Ph.D. is a child and adult analyst, and is a faculty member at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. She has taught a variety of courses on adolescent development and treatment at SFCP, Access Institute, CPMC, McAuley Institute and Mills College Counseling Center. She is particularly interested in contemporary Kleinian and Bionian approaches to adolescent treatment.
Robert Tyminski, D.M.H. is an analyst through the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. He was the former director of Oakes Children’s Center, and has extensive experience with autistic spectrum disorders. He is on the faculty in the Department of Psychiatry at UCSF and has taught in both the adult and child programs.
Bio: Stephen Seligman is Co-editor in chief of Psychoanalytic Dialogues: International Journal of Relational Perspectives and an established contributor to and articulator of relational psychoanalysis. He is also Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, UCSF, Personal and Supervising Analyst at PINC, Training and Supervising Analyst at SFCP, and on the faculty of the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy as well as those local institutes.
Facilitator/Contact Person: Michael Levin, Psy.D. and Karim Dajani, Psy.D., M.F.T.
Title: Transference and Countertransference Made Accessible: A Clinical Seminar
Description: Psychoanalytic concepts of transference and countertransference are extraordinarily useful in facilitating successful clinical work. Many beginning clinicians, however, find them daunting or confusing. This course will aim to make them clear. Meetings will be divided between close readings of seminal papers--by Freud, Winnicott, Bion, Joseph, Ogden, Ferro and others--and ongoing case presentations. Our readings will trace the history of psychoanalytic clinical thinking as it has evolved from a framework of one person understanding another to a dynamic field rooted in the unconscious minds of both participants. We will also model a method of critical reading designed to demystify psychoanalytic texts and maximize learning. Through participants' ongoing case presentations we will study transferential and countertransferential phenomena and consider them in light of the various perspectives offered in our readings.
Address: SFCP, 2340 Jackson Street, 4th Floor, San Francisco (entrance on Webster Street)
Phone: Please call Dr. Levin, at 415-441-2377, or Dr. Dajani at 415-440-2540
Email: mlev67@gmail.com
Status: New group forming
Day & Time: Wednesdays, 10:15-12:00
Start Date: April 9th, 2008
Length: 12 sessions
Fee: $500
CE offered: Pending
Group Size: 8-12
Bio: Karim G. Dajani, Psy.D., M.F.T. has been practicing, teaching and supervising psychoanalytic psychotherapy for the past twelve years. He is a graduate of the Wright Institute, a candidate at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, and is currently teaching clinical theory at Argosy University and overseeing a training program at an outpatient community mental health clinic in San Francisco.
Michael Levin, Psy.D. is a clinical psychologist who has been practicing psychoanalytic psychotherapy for the past eight years. He is a graduate of he Wright Institute and a candidate at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis.
Facilitator/Contact Person: Beth Steinberg, Ph.D.
Title: Case Consultation Group For Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists
Description: Case consultation group facilitated by Beth Steinberg, Ph.D., focused on working psychoanalytically -- discerning transference and countertransference -- and the unique issues that arise in working in one to three times weekly psychotherapy.
Address: 3321 Sacramento Street, San Francisco, CA 94118
Phone: (415) 441-5302
Email: besteinberg@comcast.net
Status: New Group
Day & Time: Monday 12:50 - 2:15 p.m.
Start Date: April 1, 2008
Length: ongoing
Fee: $40 - $70
CE offered?: No
Group Size (or number of openings): 3-6
Bio (if there is a facilitator): Beth Steinberg, Ph.D. is a psychoanalytic candidate at SFCP. She is a Past President of NCSPP, and was the Chief psychologist at Boyer House foundation for the last over 10 years, supervising staff and trainees working psychoanalytically with disturbed patients. She has supervised and taught widely, and is currently teaching a course through NCSPP on working with transference and countertransference in psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
Facilitator/Contact Person: Brooke Pomerantz, LCSW
Title:
The Friends Early Career Peer Consultation Group
Description: Friend’s Membership strongly encouraged. Early Career Psychotherapist (up to 5 years post licensure). Peer led and organized. Discussion of case material and relevant information regarding starting, developing, and maintaining private practice.
Address: SFCP
Phone: (415) 637-2895
Email: ComelliV@aol.com
Status: New Group
Day & Time: Tuesday 5 to 630PM or 530 to 7 PM
Start Date: March 2008
Length: ongoing
Fee: Free
CE offered?: No
Group Size (or number of openings): 5-10
Bio (if there is a facilitator): No Facilitator
Please contact the clearinghouse coordinator Dr. Vittorio Comelli (ComelliV@aol.com, 415-637-2895) with any questions.
Facilitator: Holly Gordon, D.M.H.
Title: Listening for Transference
Description: This will be a readings and case conference seminar for clinicians with experience conducting psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy, who want to improve their ability to perceive and work with transference.
Our patient’s manner of relating to us reflects his/her inner world. When we can listen to the pressures and tensions in our relationship with the patient, we can see our patient’s anxieties and defenses acted out with us. Through weekly readings and case conference material, we will conceptualize the influence of transference in the patient’s presentation, what to interpret, and how to listen to our interpretation’s impact.
I'm glad to meet with anyone who thinks they might be interested.
Address: 3321 Sacramento St, SF 94118
Phone: 415-346-4494
Email: hollygordon4@hotmail.com
Status: New group forming
Start Dates:
Ongoing, call about openings
Day & Time:
Thursdays 1:00-2:30 Group I or Fridays, 1:00-2:30, Group II (2 groups)
Length: 13 meetings.
Fee:
$45 per session.
CE: Yes
Group size:
Bio:
Holly Gordon, DMH is an analyst in private practice in San Francisco. She is on the faculty of SFCP, teaching in the clinical track. She has taught in SFCP Extension Division, CPMC and UCSF-LPPI. She received the American Psychoanalytic Association Edith Sabshin award for excellence in teaching.
Facilitator: Mary Paige Psy.D.
Title: Morning Seminar
Description: The group reads one very challenging paper at a time and discuss it word by word.
No one except Dr. Paige needs to prepare ahead as we only read while we are actually in the group.
In the past we have worked on a number of classic papers: Theory of Thinking and Attacks on Linking by Wilfred Bion, The Dead Mother, by Andre Green, Rosenfeld's Clinical Approach to Life and Death Instincts and D'Anzieu's Skin Ego.
We spend as long as we need on a paper until we all feel that we have thoroughly understood what the writer is conveying.
As we read, we apply the ideas to our own clinical experience.
We will be reading Wilfred Bion's fascinating paper Attention and Interpretation from Clinical Lectures on Klein and Bion.
One of the great pleasures of the group is that people feel free to acknowledge that we may not understand a term or idea.
We take a word such as internal object and really grapple with it.
There is safety to admit that we don't know it all.
We enjoy and laugh a lot.
It has been a great source of referrals as we come to know each other's work and respect each other's strengths.
Address: 2964 Fillmore St., SF (corner Union and Fillmore)
Phone: 415-771-8767
Email: drpaige@pacbell.net
Status: ongoing group, call about openings
Day & Time: Wednesdays from 9:30am to 10:30 am
Length: We meet January and February, April and May, and September and October
Fee: $35.00 per session payable at the first of the month
CE?: Yes (included)
Group Size: 2 openings in the fall; 6 plus leader;
Each participant makes a commitment to be in the group for a two month stint at a time.
Bio: Mary Paige Psy.D. has been leading this group since January of 1992.
She has been practicing psychoanalytic psychotherapy since 1987 in San Francisco and Marin.
Former Board Member of Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.
Currently faculty of California Institute for Integral Studies and The Professional School of Psychology.
Contact Person: Elizabeth Simpson, L.C.S.W.
Title: Peer Consultation Group
Description: Clinical presentation of case material and discussion/consultation with peers.
Address: SFCP, 2420 Sutter St.
Phone: 415-474-7481
Email: Redsw95@aol.com
Status: **FIRST MEETING TO FORM A GROUP & DETERMINE FREQUENCY, TIME AND DAY
Day & Time: Tuesday, June 19, 6:45-7:20 followed by the Friends' Clinical Forum
Start Date: TBD
Length: Planning meeting
Fee: no cost
CE: TBD
Group size: 8
Bio: No facilitator
