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: |
| CE Credits | This program has been approved for a maximum of 2 CE Credits 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.
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.
Accreditation Statement for CE Sponsorship and Disclosure Statement
SFCP program evaluations are sent electronically. It will be your responsibility to check email for the evaluation form so please ensure messages from office@sfcp.org are allowed. The evaluation forms will be emailed within 7 days of end of the event. Participants will have 3 weeks to complete the online evaluation form, after this the evaluation period will be closed. Upon completion of a course evaluation form, a CME/CE Verification Letter will be issued. This serves as documentation of attendance.
SFCP is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. SFCP maintains responsibility for this program and its contents.
PSYCHOLOGISTS: Psychologists attending SFCP events approved for CME 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). 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.
LCSWs/MFTs: The San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis is an entity recognized by the Board of Behavioral Sciences to provide Continuing Education Credits pursuant to Section 1887.4.3.
Commercial Support: None
Faculty Disclosure: All moderators and planning committee members have disclosed NO financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with commercial companies who have provided products or services, relating presentation(s) or commercial support for this continuing medical education activity. All conflicts of interest have been resolved in accordance with the ACCME Updated Standards for Commercial Support.