San Francisco/East Bay Education Committee

For Fall 2011 and Spring 2012, the education committee remains dedicated to providing high quality, creative education grounded in psychoanalytic psychology through workshops and courses. We are pleased to offer a unique course by Mary Brady and Rob Tyminsky, who will teach Bion's key concepts and apply his thinking to child and adolescent work. Kristen Carey will present case material using the concepts discussed. Michael Zimmerman is back by popular demand and will lead another course, this time in Russian classics. Participants will read and examine the psychological themes in Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, Death of Ivan Ilych, and Gooseberries, to name a few. In order to meet the needs of the community, we will offer two courses that satisfy the supervision requirements for psychologists, MFTs, and LCSWs. In the fall, Sue Saperstein will teach “Supervision: Potential Space to Work and Play” in San Francisco and in the Spring, Tessamarie Capitolo offers “Relational Supervision” in San Rafael. Annie Sweetnam will present the emotional importance of experiencing creativity and beauty in life and in clinical work, and the problems that arise when those experiences are compromised. Celeste Schneider will focus on the affective, symbolic, and structural aspects of play in the latency-age child and will present case material on children using play and the therapeutic relationship to reach their developmental potentials fully. In “Presence, Absence, and Dread: Exploring the Multitudes of Loss in the Clinical Hour,” Reyna Cowan will discuss seminal ideas about mourning and loss (such as the dead mother) and examine the subject at its clinical impact with both child and adult patients. NCSPP's past president Era Loewenstein will address topics in trauma such as infantile traumatic experience, après-coup, memory, dissociation, and the trans-generational transmission of trauma in “The Empty Circle: Contemporary Perspectives on Trauma.” Finally, Dawn Farber wi