Dialogues in Contemporary Psychoanalysis

2024 - 2025 Dialogues in Contemporary Psychoanalysis

Program Title:Enactment: Its Provocation by the Analyst
Date:Saturday, November 9, 2024
Time:09:30am – 12:30pm Pacific Time
Presenter:Robert Grossmark, PhD, ABPP
Moderator:Julie Ruskin, PhD
Location:San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis
444 Natoma Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
(remote option is available)
Program Fee:

$ 55 — General Admission
$ 30 — SFCP Members
Free — SFCP and non-SFCP Candidates, SFCP PPTP Trainees, and University Level Students

If you are a Candidate, Trainee, or Student of the SFCP, including those in the SF-PPTP, PAPPTP, CAPPTP programs or the Extension Yearlong Program:
Please email office@sfcp.org to register for the program free of charge

If you are a Candidate, or Student of another institution:
Please email office@sfcp.org to register for the program free of charge, with proof of educational eligibility.

ROBERT GROSSMARK, PH.D, ABPP is a psychoanalyst in New York City. He works with individuals, groups and couples and conducts psychoanalytic consultation and study groups.

He is on the teaching and supervising faculty at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, The National Institute for the Psychotherapies Program in Adult Psychoanalysis, The National Training Program in Psychoanalysis, National Faculty Member, the Florida Psychoanalytic Center and lectures at other psychoanalytic institutes and clinical psychology training programs nationally and internationally. He is an Associate Editor for Psychoanalytic Dialogues.

He is the author of The Unobtrusive Relational Analyst: Explorations in Psychoanalytic Companioning and co-edited The One and the Many: Relational Approaches to Group Psychotherapy and Heterosexual Masculinities: Contemporary Perspectives from Psychoanalytic Gender Theory, all published by Routledge.

Program Co-Chairs:
Henry Markman, MD & Julie Ruskin, PhD

Adam Blum, PsyD
Elizabeth Bradshaw, PhD
John DiMartini, PhD

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2024 Psychoanalytic Training Informational Evening
Please join SFCP Faculty and Candidates for Dinner, Drinks, and a Discussion of Psychoanalytic Training at SFCP.
Saturday, November 2, 2024
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Graeme Daniels, MFT (presenter); Susan Hamlin, LCSW (prefatory remarks)
Saturday, November 9, 2024
Dialogues in Contemporary Psychoanalysis
Enactment: Its Provocation by the Analyst
Robert Grossmarkm, PhD, ABPP (presenter); Julie Ruskin, PhD (moderator)

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Registration Instructions for Candidates, PPTP Trainees, and university-level Students

If you are an SFCP Candidate or SFCP PPTP Trainee at SFCP:
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