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The Intensive Study Groups, co-sponsored by NCSPP and PINC, provide an opportunity for in-depth focus on a particular topic over the course of 32 weeks. We just finished a very exciting year focusing on relational psychoanalysis. East Bay instructors Jane Burka, Joan Sarnat, Andrew Harlem, and Peter Carnochan, and San Francisco instructors Stephen Hartman, Maureen Murphy, Thomas Rosbrow, and Charles Spezzano were such an inspiration to the participants that many requested ongoing study of relational theory and practice.
This year's ISG promises to be every bit as exciting, with its focus on sexuality. “Erotics and Intimacies: How Do We Think About Sex?” is intended to respond to the need for clinicians to become more familiar and comfortable in dealing with issues of sexuality and intimacy. The course will address issues such as somatics in psychotherapy and the sexual body, the place of sexuality in history of psychoanalytic theory, erotic transferences and countertransferences, working with sexuality in couples’ therapy, homosexuality, and unveiling sexuality in the clinical encounter. East Bay instructors are Jeanne Wolff Bernstein, John Conger, Samuel Gerson, and Shelley Nathans. In San Francisco, the instructors are Julie Leavitt, Suzanne Chassay, Francisco Gonzalez, and Dana Wideman. At this year's Opening Event, we explored themes of intimacy and sexuality in the film Revanche with Jeanne Wolff Bernstein and Francisco Gonzales, joining film expert Diane Borden for a discussion.
The ISG Committee continues to be a vital, active group. The committee members — Suzanne Chassay (PINC liaison), Genie Dvorak, Boukje Eerkens, Eric P. Essman, Diane Goldstein, Paula Mandel, and Ortal Kirson-Trilling — all have made significant contributions to the ongoing success of the Intensive Study Groups and deserve many thanks!