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Psychoanalytic Student Seminars: South Bay

Psychoanalytic Student Seminars 2011 - 2012

Peninsula Program

SFCP offers these student seminars 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. All courses are offered Thursday evenings, 6:30 to 8:00PM. To register: email Max Lee, SFCP Extension Division Coordinator, at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . If you would like more information about these seminars, please call Michael Loughran, Ph.D., Peninsula Chair of Student Outreach, at (650) 323-3049.

The seminar below will meet at Stanford in the Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Building at 401 Quarry Road in Room 3200 (third floor).

Course Description:
What do we actually do that helps facilitate change, helps our patients navigate through their pain and improve the quality of their lives? What is research saying about the effectiveness of therapy? The evidence shows that no one "brand" of therapy is superior to another, but there are some important common variables to good outcome, many of them oriented around psychoanalytic principles. We will discuss the research, compare psychoanalytic and CBT approaches, and expand on such analytic topics as mentalizing, implicit memory, and the importance of the therapeutic relationship.

Instructor:
Celeste Birkhofer, Ph.D., M.F.T., Graduate of the Palo Alto Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program; Candidate, Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis ; Private Practice, Menlo Park.

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