Visiting Professor Weekend

Program Title:The work of Nicola Abel-Hirsch, FIPA
Date:Thursday, April 24, 2025
Time:07:30pm – 09:00pm
Location:San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis
444 Natoma Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
(remote option is available)
Presenter:Peter Goldberg, PhD
Program Fee:This event is free.

Please join us for an introduction to Visiting Professor Weekend.

Program Schedule

Thursday, April 24, 7:30pm – 9:00pm
The work of Nicola Abel-Hirsch, FIPA
Peter Goldberg, PhD (presenter)

Saturday, May 3, 10:00am – 12:00pm
A morning with Nicola Abel-Hirsch, FIPA
Bion’s Technique
Nicola Abel-Hirsch, FIPA (presenter)

Sunday, May 4, 10:00am – 11:30am
Professor’s Choice
On “Container and Contained Transformed”
Nicola Abel-Hirsch, FIPA (presenter)

Nicola Abel-Hirsch, FIPA, is a training and supervising psychoanalyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society. She has presented on Bion’s work in the UK, Taiwan (annually 2005-2012), the USA, and Europe. From 2013–2015 she was a visiting professor at the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex. Abel-Hirsch edited Hanna Segal’s last book Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (2007); is the author of Bion 365 Quotes (2019) and Bion: An Introduction (2023), and is a co-author of Bion in the Consulting Room: An Implicit Method of Clinical Inquiry (2024). Under the auspices of Understanding Primitive Mental States (Susan Finkelstein, Chair) she is currently presenting a series of seminars on Bion’s work.

Abel-Hirsch: 10 Quotes

In order to get a sense of Dr. Abel-Hirsch’s analytic attitude, here are 10 quotes from a recent event to launch her new book, Bion in the Consulting Room

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