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NCSPP and the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC) co-sponsor an opportunity to study indepth an important area over a 32-week period. This year's offering on trauma entitled, A Confusion of Tongues: The Many Faces of Trauma, has drawn an enormous response from the community. The focus of this topic is not to forge a unified view of the contemporary understanding of trauma but to study each view on its own terms and develop an appreciation for many disparate contributions. Study groups are meeting in the East Bay and in San Francisco. Our outstanding local faculty for the year in the East Bay are: Peter Goldberg, Enid Young, Jeanne Wolff Bernstein, and Jed Sekoff. And in San Francisco our faculty are: Patricia Rosbrow, Thomas Rosbrow, Annie Sweetnam, and Deborah Melman.
The ISG Committee continued its long-standing tradition of beginning the year with an Introductory Event, a day-long conference with eminent national and international speakers. This year, from Israel and New York, Ruth Stein presented the first paper entitled “Systematically Induced Trauma: The Case for Mind Control, Perversion and Malevolent Uses of Emotions.” And Jean-Max Gaudilliere from France presented the second paper, “Psychoanalysis as a Transferential Exploration of Erased Spaces and Times.”
For the past three years, the committee has used a film as a clinical text, and this year's offering, Tarnation, was discussed by Francoise Davoine from France. Her paper, “What in Tarnation?,” generated a lively discussion with all the presenters and the members of the audience.
The Intensive Study Group Committee for 2004-2005 worked tirelessly and enthusiastically to create both the year-long study groups and the Introductory Event. The members are Amy Bandera, Susanne Chassay, Rachel Cooke, Nancy Drooker, Jane Kenner, Bronwen Lemmon, and Karen Peoples.