Psychoanalytic Student Seminars

2023 - 2024 Psychoanalytic Student Seminar

Jane Reingold, MFT, Chair

These seminars are offered as a community service intended to supplement local training with psychoanalytic clinical instruction. The courses are offered free of charge to pre- and post-doctoral psychology interns, psychiatry residents, and pre-licensed MFT and social work interns currently in clinical placements.

Program Title:Winnicott, Creativity, and the Place Where We Live
Dates:Wednesdays, October 4, 11, 18, 25, 2023
Time:07:00pm – 08:30pm
Instructor:Marty Mulkey, MFT
Location:San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis
444 Natoma Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
Program Fee:

Free

Readers Fee is not included.  See Policies tab for details.

Note:Registration is limited to 13 participants

Throughout his writing, DW Winnicott encouraged us to listen for the spontaneous gestures that emerge from within our patients’ creative, authentic core. Of course a great variety of traumas, deficiencies, and other environmental failures have all too  often created obstructions to our patient’s ability to act from a place of disencumbered self expression. In this course we will anchor our listening to student case material in Winnicott’s ideas. His writings show a deep respect for the very private, imaginative core of the individual as well as the protective function of the false self. Making use of these concepts, we will work to attune our listening to the very heart of where the patient truly lives.

Readers Fee

Charges for reading material required for the seminars are not included in tuition. They are based upon copyright laws and change based on the content of the readers. The charges will be billed to you separately. Please submit your registration two weeks in advance in order to receive reading materials before the course starting date.

Program Chair:
Jane Reingold, MFT, Chair

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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