South Bay Education Committee Report

This past year, the South Bay Education Committee experienced many changes as old members left and new ones joined. We continue to work towards an expanded analytic community in the South Bay, and we welcome suggestions for programs and events that will increase our connections with one another.

The South Bay Intensive Study Group (ISG,) focusing on the Independent Tradition in British Psychoanalysis, finished in May. It was a year of productive study, and we thank the following faculty: Barbara Blasdel, Ph.D.; Jane Burka, Ph.D.; Jeanne Wolff Bernstein, Ph.D.; Angela Sowa, MFT; and Mary Jane Otte, Ph.D. The ISG, a collaborative effort with the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC), is designed to promote an in-depth study of a topic over a year-long period that is similar in content to that of a psychoanalytic institute.

In addition to the ISG, we held our Seventh Annual South Bay Symposium. Peter Goldberg, Ph.D., Rachael Peltz, Ph.D., and Maureen Katz, M. D., responded to the events of September 11 by participating in a panel on the nature of evil, moderated by Lynn Alexander, Psy. D. Using a paper by Dr. Goldberg as a point of discussion, the presenters drew thoughtful questions and comments from the audience, making it a provocative and enriching day. Many thanks to Miriam Bar, Ph.D., who is primarily responsible for organizing this event.

The three-year Tavistock Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Couples Training program, organized by Dana Wideman, Ph.D., in collaboration with the Tavistock Marital Studies Institute in London, concludes this fall. This year the group studied with visiting Tavistock clinicians Christopher Clulow (Brief Marital Therapy) and Stanley Ruszczynski (Interpretation), and will attend a weekend workshop on Technique with Lynne Cudmore in October. This training has produced a core group of couples therapists who use analytic thinking and technique in their work, and now teach this perspective to other clinicians in the Bay Ar