Psychoanalytic Student Seminars 2012 - 2013

San Francisco

These seminars are offered as a community service intended to supplement local training with psychoanalytic clinical instruction.  The course are offered free of charge to pre-doctoral and post-doctoral psychology interns, psychiatry residents, and pre-licensed MFT and social work interns currently in clinical placements.  To register: call Aaron Chow, SFCP Finance Coordinator / Information Services at (415) 563-5815.  If you would like more information about these seminars, please call Marc Wallis, LCSW, Chair of San Francisco Student Outreach, at (415) 820-9609 or marcwallis@sbcglobal.net.

Classes will be held at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis at our new location:
444 Natoma Street, San Francisco.

Course Description:
This course is intended to help students better understand, and deal more effectively with, difficult clinical encounters.  Just as is true for patients, moments occur in a psychotherapy with sufficient emotional intensity as to make it temporarily difficult for the therapist to think.  For example, the anxiety of early sessions (in a psychotherapy or in one’s career); when a patient intensely expresses feelings such as anger, directed at the therapist; or when the patient persists in asking personal questions that make the therapist uncomfortable. 

Through a process of collaborative thinking and discussion of clinical material we will work to broaden and deepen our ability to grasp what is happening in these stressful moments and how to intervene more effectively.  Students are encouraged to bring in their own clinical material.

Instructor:
Walt Beckman, Ph.D., Advanced Candidate, San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis; Private Practice, San Francisco. (415) 931-3384, waltbeckman@yahoo.com