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 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.

CME/CE:

This program has been approved for a maximum of 3 AMA PRA Category 1™ for free (for SFCP members) or $45 (for non-SFCP members)

This presentation will outline how the analyst can unobtrusively create the space within which the fullness of the patient’s unsymbolized internal world and trauma can be realized and companioned. Rather than bringing the patient into the analyst’s reality and understanding, healing arises from being known in the register of illusion, fragmentation and non-relatedness that are the signature of the residue of trauma and neglect.

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.

Accreditation Statement for CME/CE Sponsorship and Disclosure Statement​​

APA and ACCME Accreditation Marks

Educational Objectives:
Upon completion of this activity, the learners will be able to:

  1. describe how enactments between the analyst and traumatized patients can facilitate psychic integration and working through.
  2. describe the challenges of working with fragmented patients who are unable to symbolize or mentalize.
  3. describe the analyst’s role in companioning the patient in states of fragmentation and non-relatedness to make space for inchoate trauma to speak in its own idiom.

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 3 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

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

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

Upcoming Events

Saturday, November 23, 2024
SFCP Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Conversations
SFCP Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI) Conversations - Module 1
David Luna, MBA, JD
Saturday, December 7, 2024
Scientific Meetings
Substance Abuse in an Adolescent Boy—Waking the Object
Mary Brady, PhD (presenter)
Thursday, December 12, 2024
SFCP Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Conversations
SFCP Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI) Conversations - Module 1
David Luna, MBA, JD
Saturday, December 14, 2024
SFCP Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Conversations
SFCP Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI) Conversations - Module 1
David Luna, MBA, JD
Wednesdays, January 8, 2025 to February 5, 2025
Psychoanalytic Student Seminars
Promoting Depth and Analytic Process in Psychotherapy With Patients in Internship and Clinical Settings
Beth Steinberg, PhD (instructor)
Wednesdays, January 8, 2025 to May 21, 2025
Extension Education Programs
2024-2025 Coalition for Clinical Social Work Extension Division Program: Foundations of Psychodynamic Clinical Work in Community Mental Health Settings - Year TWO
Sandra Gaspar, LMFT; Elizabeth M. Simpson, LCSW; and Danny Yu, LCSW (instructors)
Thursdays, January 9, 2025 to May 8, 2025
Extension Education Programs
2024-2025 Coalition for Clinical Social Work Extension Division Program: Foundations of Psychodynamic Clinical Work in Community Mental Health Settings - Year ONE
Genevieve Vidal, LCSW; Sebastian Melo, LCSW, MPH; Julia St. George, LCSW; and Beth Kita, LCSW, PhD (instructors)
Saturday, January 11, 2025
Child Colloquium Series
Therapy and medications: How can child and adolescent clinicians work collaboratively with psychiatrists?
Ross Andelman, MD, MFA (presenter)
Saturday, February 1, 2025
Scientific Meetings
Leadership in a Time of Polarization
Harriet Wolfe, MD; and Brett Penfil, MFT, MPH (presentes)
Saturday, February 22, 2025
Child Colloquium Series
Film Screening and Discussion: After Sun
Reyna Cowan, PsyD, LCSW (discussant)

Program Registration Form

Are you a Candidate, PPTP Trainee, or a Student? *
Are you an SFCP member? *

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

If you are an SFCP Candidate or SFCP PPTP Trainee at SFCP:
Please email office@sfcp.org to register for the program at no cost.

If you are a Candidate, PPTP Trainee, or a university-level student of another institute:
Please email office@sfcp.org to register for the program at no cost, and provide proof of educational eligibility.

Are you interested in becoming an SFCP member to receive discounted registration fees and CME/CE credits for this event and future programs? If so, you will be redirected to our SFCP Community Membership webpage to learn more or to join our membership. *
Login to your account
Please select form to show