2024 - 2025 Dialogues in Contemporary Psychoanalysis
| Program Title: | Listening Into Being: An Actor’s Invitation Robin Weigert in Conversation with Kristin Fiorella |
| Date: | Saturday, June 14, 2025 |
| Time: | 10:00am – 12:00pm PT |
| Interviewee: | Robin Weigert, MFA |
| Interviewer: | Kristin Fiorella, PsyD |
| Moderator: | Adam Blum, PsyD |
| Location: | San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis 444 Natoma Street San Francisco, CA 94103 (remote option is available) |
| Program Fee: | $ 40 — General Admission If you are an SFCP Candidate, PPTP Trainee, or a participant in the Extension Yearlong Program: If you are a Candidate or Student from another institution: |
| CME/CE: | This program has been approved for a maximum of 2 AMA PRA Category 1™ for free (for SFCP members) or $30 (for non-SFCP members) |
What do psychoanalysts and actors have in common? Both are always listening for something to emerge — a character coming to life, a story taking shape, a feeling taking form. But what happens when we direct this form of listening toward one another? Following the recent publication of her essay, “Listening Into Being” (in Psychoanalytic Inquiry), Emmy-nominated film and television actress Robin Weigert (Deadwood, Big Little Lies) will join us at SFCP to discuss profound resonances between the actor’s and the analyst’s practices of listening.
Highlighting moments from some of her most compelling performances, we will form a dialogue between our kindred disciplines about the deeply responsive art of listening into being — listening to one another, and finding out who we become.
Robin Weigert is a film and television actress known for her Emmy-nominated performance as the iconic gunslinger Calamity Jane in HBO’s Deadwood, and for her role as a therapist in HBO’s Big Little Lies. She earned an MFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts after graduating from Brandeis University. “Listening Into Being” is her first psychoanalytic publication.
Kristin Fiorella, PsyD is a psychoanalyst in private practice in San Francisco where she sees children, adolescents, and adults. She is on the faculties of the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California and the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. She is the editor of the forthcoming book, “Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis in Times of Crisis: War, Pandemic, and Climate Change.” She acted professionally as an adolescent and young adult, and received her MFA from Yale School of Drama.
Adam Blum, PsyD is co-author of Here I’m Alive: The Spirit of Music in Psychoanalysis (2023). He teaches at SFCP and PINC and has written and presented on psychoanalysis and the music of Björk, Kendrick Lamar, Frank Ocean, Stephen Sondheim, Aretha Franklin, and Michael Jackson. He is in private practice in San Francisco.
Accreditation Statement for CME/CE Sponsorship and Disclosure Statement
Educational Objectives:
Upon completion of this activity, the learners will be able to:
- describe the parallels between an actor’s process of embodying a character and a psychoanalyst’s mode of listening in clinical work.
- identify how the concept of co-creation in acting can deepen psychoanalytic understandings of identity formation.
- analyze the role of receptive and immersive listening in both acting and psychoanalysis.
- apply insights from an actor’s approach to presence and engagement to enhance clinical attunement and therapeutic technique.
ACCME Accreditation Statement
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
AMA Credit Designation Statement
The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this live activity for a maximum of 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Disclosure Statement
The APsA CE Committee has reviewed the materials for accredited continuing education and has determined that this activity is not related to the product line of ineligible companies and therefore, the activity meets the exception outlined in Standard 3: ACCME’s identification, mitigation and disclosure of relevant financial relationship. This activity does not have any known commercial support.
PSYCHOLOGISTS: The San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Psychologists attending SFCP events approved for CE credits may report AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ toward their CE requirements. Psychologists self-certify the number of hours they have completed on their renewal form (whether online or paper).
LCSWs/MFTs: The San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis is a continuing education provider that has been approved by the American Psychological Association, a California Board of Behavioral Sciences recognized approval agency
Psychologists, Social Workers, and Marriage and Family Therapists will be awarded AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ on an hour for hour basis; see the program description for the maximum of credits awarded for each program.
Commercial Support: None