San Francisco Extension Division
Meryl Botkin, Ph.D. and Patricia Marra, MFT, Co-Chairs
Israel Katz, M.D., Catherine Mallouh, M.D., Sue von Baeyer, Ph.D.,
Catherine Witzling, Ph.D., Committee Members
San Francisco Yearlong Program
September 2012 – June 2013
Minds Under Siege: Angles of Approach
This yearlong program will address the tormented, fragmented, traumatized, and sometimes impenetrable states of mind of patients dealing with chronic or acute disturbance, and the resulting anguish in the patient and therapist struggling to understand these states. How do we find a way to think about and with these patients? What are clinical approaches that help them move toward integration? The courses in this program explicate several forms of besieged psychic states and explore various ways to approach, tolerate, and, optimally, transform them.
| Date: | Fridays, September 7, 2012 - June 7, 2013 |
| Time: |
12:00pm - 01:30pm Didactic Seminar 01:45pm - 03:00pm Continuous Case Conference |
| Sessions: | 36 Sessions |
| Location: |
San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis 444 Natoma Street San Francisco, CA 94103 |
| Tuition Fees: |
$ 1,800.00 Reader and CME/CE credit fees are not included in the tuition see Registration and Fees, Refund Policy, and CME/CE Credit Information for details |
| CME/CE: | This program has been awarded a total of 97.75 CME/CE credits. |
| Class Size: | minimum enrollment of 8, maximum enrollment of 16 |
Didactic Seminars
The Mind Under Siege: Views from Literature
Writers of fiction, poetry and memoir have vividly described psychic states of being out on the edges of the known, the beyond-human (but very human) places. Closely reading, focusing on experience beyond words as represented in language, will introduce the year with immersion before theory begins.
Alice Jones, M.D., Training & Supervising Analyst, SFCP
Fridays, September 7, 14, 21, 28, 2012
This seminar has been awarded 6 CME/CE credits.
Educational objectives:
Participants will be able to:
- Through the use of literature, experientially immerse into the psychic state of minds under siege.
- Trace the dynamics of the mother-infant relationship that contributes to a psyche later under siege.
- Comprehend how the capacity to think affects a mind under siege.
- Apply models of working with minds under siege that promote transformation.
- Distinguish a traumatized mind from other disturbed states of mind and learn ways to approach such a mind.
- Work with disturbed states of mind using the concepts of projective identification, object relations, and the capacity to contain and think.
- Understand the function of delusions and learn ways to intersubjectively approach them.
Formation of a Mind Under Siege: Disruptions in Mother-Infant Reciprocity
In this class, we will use a developmental approach to understand how early environmental conditions contribute to the formation of a “mind under siege.” Mother–infant reciprocity facilitates the organization of the infant mind. Failure and disruption in mother–infant reciprocity can lead to failure and disruption in the formation of a subjective self in relation to the outside world, leading to a mind vulnerable to blurred distinctions between self and other, and between internal and external experience. Such a developmental deficit often leads to strong unregulated affects, limited capacity for symbolization, and polarization in relationships.
Margo Beattie, Ph.D., Member & Faculty, SFCP
Fridays, October 5, 12, 19, 26, 2012
This seminar has been awarded 6 CME/CE credits.
Educational objectives:
Participants will be able to:
- Through the use of literature, experientially immerse into the psychic state of minds under siege.
- Trace the dynamics of the mother-infant relationship that contributes to a psyche later under siege.
- Comprehend how the capacity to think affects a mind under siege.
- Apply models of working with minds under siege that promote transformation.
- Distinguish a traumatized mind from other disturbed states of mind and learn ways to approach such a mind.
- Work with disturbed states of mind using the concepts of projective identification, object relations, and the capacity to contain and think.
- Understand the function of delusions and learn ways to intersubjectively approach them.
Bion and Minds Under Siege
Bion in particular has provided us with concepts that help to understand a mind under siege. If an individual cannot withstand what is happening to him – from without and within – he will tend to destroy his ability to perceive, i.e., to destroy his mind. What are we confronted with when our patients cannot think, and how can we deal with these phenomena? In this course, we will investigate Bion’s epistemological model and develop an understanding of concepts such as “the ego-destructive superego,” “attacks on linking,” “denuding” and “minus K”, using clinical examples. We will also try to experience or imagine what it feels like to have our own minds under siege in order to access and comprehend the thought processes of our deeply disturbed patients.
Dr. Helen Schoenhals Hart, Member & Faculty, SFCP
Fridays, November 2, 9, 16, 30; December 7, 14, 2012
This seminar has been awarded 9 CME/CE credits.
Educational objectives:
Participants will be able to:
- Through the use of literature, experientially immerse into the psychic state of minds under siege.
- Trace the dynamics of the mother-infant relationship that contributes to a psyche later under siege.
- Comprehend how the capacity to think affects a mind under siege.
- Apply models of working with minds under siege that promote transformation.
- Distinguish a traumatized mind from other disturbed states of mind and learn ways to approach such a mind.
- Work with disturbed states of mind using the concepts of projective identification, object relations, and the capacity to contain and think.
- Understand the function of delusions and learn ways to intersubjectively approach them.
Grains of Truth: Transformation and Evolution in Primitive Mental States
Advancing Bion’s work, Ferro and others sketch out an extraordinarily useful model of the mind in which alpha-function creates narrative transformations of emotional truth through dreaming, free association, and reverie within the analytic relationship. Shifting from a traditional “archeological” sensibility to an “evolutionary” one, the clinical implications for our work are radical. Rather than simply decoding the unconscious, the analytic process is also conceived of as catalyzing the growth of the unconscious. This seminar will use readings, lecture material, and case vignettes to increase our capacity to apprehend delusional, persecutory, hallucinatory, addictive, and other besieged states of mind, aiming to offer an enriching meta-perspective to participants, one that breathes new life into old approaches to working with disturbance.
Lee Rather, Ph.D., Member and Faculty, SFCP; Personal and Supervising Analyst, PINC
Fridays, January 4, 11, 18, 25; February 1, 8, 2013
This seminar has been awarded 9 CME/CE credits.
Educational objectives:
Participants will be able to:
- Through the use of literature, experientially immerse into the psychic state of minds under siege.
- Trace the dynamics of the mother-infant relationship that contributes to a psyche later under siege.
- Comprehend how the capacity to think affects a mind under siege.
- Apply models of working with minds under siege that promote transformation.
- Distinguish a traumatized mind from other disturbed states of mind and learn ways to approach such a mind.
- Work with disturbed states of mind using the concepts of projective identification, object relations, and the capacity to contain and think.
- Understand the function of delusions and learn ways to intersubjectively approach them.
Approaching Terrifying Traumas
This course will address the enormous difficulty of staying emotionally close and experience near to the patient who has undergone severe trauma. Through the use of clinical material and close readings, the class will consider the various and sometimes subtle ways that therapists defend themselves from psychic destruction. These range from a risk of a loss of a sense of a separate self through immersion into the trauma to colluding with a subtle, false self-connection. All serve to protect the therapist from being overtaken by the terror of the patient's trauma but can limit the effectiveness of treatment.
Michael Donner, Ph.D., Member & Faculty, SFCP
February 15, 22; March 1, 8, 2013
This seminar has been awarded 6 CME/CE credits.
Educational objectives:
Participants will be able to:
- Through the use of literature, experientially immerse into the psychic state of minds under siege.
- Trace the dynamics of the mother-infant relationship that contributes to a psyche later under siege.
- Comprehend how the capacity to think affects a mind under siege.
- Apply models of working with minds under siege that promote transformation.
- Distinguish a traumatized mind from other disturbed states of mind and learn ways to approach such a mind.
- Work with disturbed states of mind using the concepts of projective identification, object relations, and the capacity to contain and think.
- Understand the function of delusions and learn ways to intersubjectively approach them.
In Consideration of Unbearable States of Mind
Using Klein and Bion’s theories as a foundational base, we will consider the complex therapeutic task of working with patients who are in severe mental pain. In this course, we will discuss the unconscious phantasies and object relations for these patients, the projective and introjective processes in the clinical hour, Bion’s model of thinking and failures of thinking (K and –K), and the “container-contained” experience.
Margo Chapin, M.F.T., Member and Faculty, SFCP
Fridays, March 15, 22, 29; April 5, 12, 19, 2013
This seminar has been awarded 9 CME/CE credits.
Educational objectives:
Participants will be able to:
- Through the use of literature, experientially immerse into the psychic state of minds under siege.
- Trace the dynamics of the mother-infant relationship that contributes to a psyche later under siege.
- Comprehend how the capacity to think affects a mind under siege.
- Apply models of working with minds under siege that promote transformation.
- Distinguish a traumatized mind from other disturbed states of mind and learn ways to approach such a mind.
- Work with disturbed states of mind using the concepts of projective identification, object relations, and the capacity to contain and think.
- Understand the function of delusions and learn ways to intersubjectively approach them.
Treating Delusional States of Mind Intersubjectively
In this class, we will discuss relational thinking about delusions, and the intersubjective treatment of severe psychic states. Intersubjective psychoanalysis focuses on the constant use of objects and the endless creation and destruction of object relationships, but with the mind of the analyst an explicit, intervening variable in this dynamic. In this view, delusions are no different than any other world view, colored by early experience of the parental container, only to the degree that they are open for discussion. We will describe delusional thinking in the context of internalized or failed introjects and functions and, using clinical examples, illustrate an analytic process that assumes the mind of the analyst is available to the patient as a new function. We will discuss readings that include Benjamin, Spezzano, Gerson, and Harris, and view the film, Lars and the Real Girl.
Neil Talkoff, Ph.D., Member and Faculty, SFCP
Fridays, April 26; May 3, 10. 17, 31; June 7
This seminar has been awarded 9 CME/CE credits.
Educational objectives:
Participants will be able to:
- Through the use of literature, experientially immerse into the psychic state of minds under siege.
- Trace the dynamics of the mother-infant relationship that contributes to a psyche later under siege.
- Comprehend how the capacity to think affects a mind under siege.
- Apply models of working with minds under siege that promote transformation.
- Distinguish a traumatized mind from other disturbed states of mind and learn ways to approach such a mind.
- Work with disturbed states of mind using the concepts of projective identification, object relations, and the capacity to contain and think.
- Understand the function of delusions and learn ways to intersubjectively approach them.
CONTINUOUS CASE CONFERENCES
Continous Case Conferences
Elizabeth Simpson, L.C.S.W., Member & Faculty, SFCP
Fridays, September 7, 14, 21, 28; October 5, 12, 19, 26, 2012
This seminar has been awarded 10 CME/CE credits.
Educational objectives:
Participants will be able to:
- Through the use of literature, experientially immerse into the psychic state of minds under siege.
- Trace the dynamics of the mother-infant relationship that contributes to a psyche later under siege.
- Comprehend how the capacity to think affects a mind under siege.
- Apply models of working with minds under siege that promote transformation.
- Distinguish a traumatized mind from other disturbed states of mind and learn ways to approach such a mind.
- Work with disturbed states of mind using the concepts of projective identification, object relations, and the capacity to contain and think.
- Understand the function of delusions and learn ways to intersubjectively approach them.
- Immerse themselves in several cases throughout the year that involve extreme states of mind.
Continous Case Conferences
Meryl Botkin, Ph.D., Member & Faculty, SFCP
Fridays, November 2, 9, 16, 30; December 7, 14, 2012
This seminar has been awarded 7.5 CME/CE credits.
Educational objectives:
Participants will be able to:
- Through the use of literature, experientially immerse into the psychic state of minds under siege.
- Trace the dynamics of the mother-infant relationship that contributes to a psyche later under siege.
- Comprehend how the capacity to think affects a mind under siege.
- Apply models of working with minds under siege that promote transformation.
- Distinguish a traumatized mind from other disturbed states of mind and learn ways to approach such a mind.
- Work with disturbed states of mind using the concepts of projective identification, object relations, and the capacity to contain and think.
- Understand the function of delusions and learn ways to intersubjectively approach them.
- Immerse themselves in several cases throughout the year that involve extreme states of mind.
Continous Case Conferences
John Di Martini, Ph.D., Member & Faculty, SFCP
Catherine McKenzie, Ph.D., Member & Faculty, SFCP
Fridays, January 4, 11, 18, 25; February 1, 8, 15, 22, 2013
This seminar has been awarded 10 CME/CE credits.
Educational objectives:
Participants will be able to:
- Through the use of literature, experientially immerse into the psychic state of minds under siege.
- Trace the dynamics of the mother-infant relationship that contributes to a psyche later under siege.
- Comprehend how the capacity to think affects a mind under siege.
- Apply models of working with minds under siege that promote transformation.
- Distinguish a traumatized mind from other disturbed states of mind and learn ways to approach such a mind.
- Work with disturbed states of mind using the concepts of projective identification, object relations, and the capacity to contain and think.
- Understand the function of delusions and learn ways to intersubjectively approach them.
- Immerse themselves in several cases throughout the year that involve extreme states of mind.
Continous Case Conferences
Eric Glassgold, M.D., Member & Faculty, SFCP
Fridays, March 1, 8, 15, 22, 29; April 5, 2013
This seminar has been awarded 7.5 CME/CE credits.
Educational objectives:
Participants will be able to:
- Through the use of literature, experientially immerse into the psychic state of minds under siege.
- Trace the dynamics of the mother-infant relationship that contributes to a psyche later under siege.
- Comprehend how the capacity to think affects a mind under siege.
- Apply models of working with minds under siege that promote transformation.
- Distinguish a traumatized mind from other disturbed states of mind and learn ways to approach such a mind.
- Work with disturbed states of mind using the concepts of projective identification, object relations, and the capacity to contain and think.
- Understand the function of delusions and learn ways to intersubjectively approach them.
- Immerse themselves in several cases throughout the year that involve extreme states of mind.
Continous Case Conferences
Mary Ewert, Ph.D., Member & Faculty, SFCP
Sue von Baeyer, Ph.D., Member & Faculty, SFCP
Fridays, April 12, 19, 26; May 3, 10, 17, 31 2013
This seminar has been awarded 8.75 CME/CE credits.
Educational objectives:
Participants will be able to:
- Through the use of literature, experientially immerse into the psychic state of minds under siege.
- Trace the dynamics of the mother-infant relationship that contributes to a psyche later under siege.
- Comprehend how the capacity to think affects a mind under siege.
- Apply models of working with minds under siege that promote transformation.
- Distinguish a traumatized mind from other disturbed states of mind and learn ways to approach such a mind.
- Work with disturbed states of mind using the concepts of projective identification, object relations, and the capacity to contain and think.
- Understand the function of delusions and learn ways to intersubjectively approach them.
- Immerse themselves in several cases throughout the year that involve extreme states of mind