SFCP Newsletter, March 2024 issue

  • Message from the SFCP Newsletter Editor, by Richard Almond, MD
  • SFCP Board Chair Report, by Brett Penfil, MFT, MPH
  • Report from the Chair of the Psychoanalytic Education Division, by Beth Steinberg, PhD
  • Important – Vision and Mission of SFCP – Your Voice is Crucial, by Strategic Plan Operations Team
  • Report from the Chair of the Palo Alto Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Trainign Program (PAPPTP), by Neil Brast, MD, Catherine Phillips, LCSW, and Tina St. Lorant, LMFT
  • An update from the Energizing the Memberhsip Strategic Directions Team, by Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Steering Committee
  • Message from the Committee on Groups: SFCP Annual Group Relations Weekend – March 23 & 24, 2024, by Fei Hu, MFT
  • Conversations with Clinicians: Darian Leader In Conversation With Patricia Marra, MFT

Upcoming Events

Saturday, April 19, 2025
Special Programs
W.R. Bion’s Reading of C.G. Jung’s Memories, Dreams and Reflections
Joseph Aguayo, PhD (presenter); Peter Goldberg, PhD and Mark Winborn, PhD (discussants)
Thursday, April 24, 2025
Visiting Professor Weekend
Introduction to the work of Nicola Abel-Hirsch, FIPA
Peter Goldberg, PhD
Saturday, April 26, 2025, to Sunday, April 27, 2025
Committee on Groups
SFCP's Annual Group Relations Weekend
Alan Ruiz, MFA; and Janice K. Wagner, LCSW (facilitators)
Saturday, May 3, 2025
Visiting Professor Weekend
A morning with Nicola Abel-Hirsch, FIPA - Bion's Technique
Nicola Abel-Hirsch, FIPA (presenter); Laurie Goldsmith, PhD (moderator)
Sunday, May 4, 2025
Visiting Professor Weekend
Professor's Choice: On "Container/contained Transformed"
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
Coalition for Clinical Social Work
Unwound and Unwound-ing: A Poetic Psychoanalytic Exploration of Whiteness
Hazel White; Jyoti Rao, MFT; and Forrest Hamer, PhD (panelists)
Sunday, June 1, 2025
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Education Division
Graduation Ceremony
Gary Grossman, PhD (graduation speaker)
Saturday, June 14, 2025
Dialogues in Contemporary Psychoanalysis
Listening Into Being: An Actor’s Invitation
Robin Weigert in Conversation with Kristin Fiorella
Mondays, September 29 to October 20, 2025
Coalition for Clinical Social Work
CCSW mini-Module: Working with Parents: A Complex and Essential Component of Child Psychotherapy
Lea Brown, LCSW, and Amy Wallerstein Friedman, LCSW (instructors)
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