Tenacity of Desire

Supervising and training analyst at Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis Los Angeles and San Diego Psychoanalytic Center. She has been committee chairs at SDPC including Director of Education. Dr. de Pottél has taught numerous courses at SDPC and particularly enjoys teaching Writing to Know the Unknown. This course is a blend of what she calls Countertransference Meanderings where writing is combined with supervision towards deep access to clinical work. She has presented her own work at local, national, and international conferences. She has published a book on poetry: Psychoanalysis and Poetry: Accessing the Unspeakable and has recently published her article: Creative Solutions to Embedded Cultural Norms: Childlessness Shame Transformed by Relational Analysis in the Psychoanalysis, Self and Context. Dr. de Pottél has been in private practice for 35 years and continues to enjoy her clinical work conducting psychoanalysis, supervision, and helping others with writing projects.