2024 - 2025 Seasoned Clinicians Program
Joanna Wise-Bradman, LCSW and Dorian Newton, PhD, Co-Chairs
The 2024-2025 Seasoned Clinicians Program is designed for psychoanalytically oriented clinicians who have practiced individual psychotherapy for a minimum of 20 years. It features 6 case conferences (totaling 26 weeks) taught by SFCP faculty members. The program will provide participants an opportunity to deepen their understanding of their clinical work through focused discussions with instructors and other seasoned practitioners.
| Dates: | Wednesdays, October 16, 2024 – May 7, 2025 |
| Time: | 12:00pm – 01:30pm |
| Sessions: | 26 Sessions |
| Location: | Online via ZOOM |
| Program Fee: | $ 845.00 General $ 760.50 SFCP Members |
| CME/CE: | This program has been approved for a maximum of 24 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ for an additional fee. |
| Class size: | Class size is limited to 12 people. |
| Eligibility: | Participants must have practiced individual psychotherapy for a minimum of 20 years. |
Case Conference #1
The Work of the Negative
How can we make contact with a patient who feels more connected with what is missing than what is present? Unreachable states are protecting the patient from insurmountable feelings of loss and absence. They both protect and simultaneously prevent movement and growth. Attempts at contact shut the patient down or move the patient away instead of towards connection. In this course, we will examine the unconscious strategies that patients employ to manage this unbearable pain. We will explore autistic and dissociative defenses as well as feelings of deadness, and the work of the negative. We will also use case material as a springboard for thinking about strategies to enliven these patients in our clinical work.
Reyna Cowan, PsyD, LCSW
Wednesdays, October 16, 23, 30; November 6, 2024
Reyna Cowan, PsyD, LCSW, is a psychoanalyst and a child therapist. She is a Personal and Supervising Analyst at PINC, and is faculty at both PINC and at SFCP. She teaches extensively on child and adolescent issues, primitive states, and Winnicott, as well as courses on film and film criticism. She runs a free monthly salon series for PINC linking psychoanalysis to the arts and culture, called “Second Fridays.” She has a private practice in Oakland, where she works with adults, couples, adolescents, and children.
Case Conference #2
Thinking about Race, Culture, and the Social in Psychoanalytic Work
Early in our careers, we are focused on learning how to do our work very earnestly. The burden and privilege of being a “seasoned clinician,” means that the clinician is more comfortable being herself. But what does this mean – how do we fold other aspects of our identity into helping us develop into the unique clinician that each of us is, while still retaining our psychoanalytic identity? We will think about these questions, of how we are ourselves, but not quite the same selves we are in other parts of our lives. In addition, in this case conference, we will listen with an ear for material related to culture and race and think about how to respond on these registers.
Clara Kwun, LCSW
Wednesdays, November 13, 20; December 4, 11, 2024
Clara Kwun, LCSW is a social worker and a psychoanalyst in private practice in San Francisco. She has taught candidates at SFCP and in Portland, Oregon, PPTP students and CCSW students. Prior to analytic training, she worked at the Adolescent Day Treatment Center of Children’s Hospital, which provided an important foundation for her analytic studies. She is also part of the Community Psychoanalysis Consortium.
Case Conference #3
Bearing the Unbearable: The Difficult and the Useless
Psychoanalytic psychotherapy is a complex interaction, where the therapist must contain her own feelings as she sits with her patient’s difficult and complex emotions. As the therapist finds ways to bear these challenging, perplexing and confusing states of mind, she might find herself wondering, who is the difficult patient and in return, who is the analyst? In this seminar, we will use readings and clinical material to explore our countertransference with our “difficult” patients.
Robin Deutsch, PhD
Wednesdays, January 8, 15, 22, 29, 2025
Robin Deutsch is a psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Oakland, conducting psychoanalysis and psychotherapy with adults, as well as case consultations with clinicians. She has taught for a number of years at SFCP Psychoanalytic Education Division, SFCP Extension Division, Access Institute and The Psychotherapy Institute. She is a Training Analyst at SFCP and a Personal Analyst at PINC. She edited a book entitled, Traumatic Rupture: Abandonment and Betrayal in the Analytic Relationship, published by Routledge in 2014. She is a past-President of SFCP.
Case Conference #4
The Art of Listening
Listening to our patients and ourselves shapes the foundation of an analytic treatment. Psychoanalytic listening reaches below the level of speech, to an older and deeper language, the language of the unconscious. The intimacy, intensity, and poignancy of unconscious communication, more felt than known, is reached through the portals of transference, countertransference, reverie, and dreams. Using these portals, we’ll listen to openings and barriers to emotional growth and the ways that resisting dogma and certitude can propel us into a realm of meaning and creation where emotional life can live, grow, and transform. Participants will be encouraged to free associate, make links with material, and listen, think about, and relate to their own and each other’s voices.
Jeanne C. Harasemovitch, LCSW
Wednesdays, February 5, 12, 19, 26, 2025
A psychoanalyst in Berkeley, CA., Jeanne C. Harasemovitch, LCSW, is on the faculty of the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, and the Oregon Psychoanalytic Center. She is a Founding Committee Member of the Berkeley Psychoanalytic Society. She is also the author of essays, and film and book reviews centering on the exchange between psychoanalysis and the arts and humanities.
Case Conference #5
Dreaming Up the Dyad
Drawing upon the concepts of reverie and the waking dream, we will be working together as a group to explore and expand the emotional field of the presenting dyad, inviting wide associative access internally and externally, to the social surround. The experience of dreaming together in this way will provide an opportunity for group members to contribute links to potentially clinically relevant material that might otherwise be inaccessible to the presenting dyad. Readings will be selected in response to clinical concepts that emerge from our discussions.
Amy Glick, LMFT
Wednesdays, March 5, 12, 19, 26, 2025
Amy Glick, LMFT is a psychoanalyst and marriage and family therapist. She has a private practice in Berkeley, California serving adults, couples, families, and groups from diverse backgrounds. She provides individual and group supervision and consultation, and is on the faculty of the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis and The Psychotherapy Institute in Berkeley.
Case Conference #6
Managing Intense Feelings in the Transference and Countertransference
In every therapeutic relationship we are invited to embody the objects of our patient’s inner world. We become a transference object; loving and hateful, loved and hated. In our role as a “helping professional” we may feel more comfortable when we are seen and experienced as kind, benevolent, caring, loving and helpful. More challenging for many of us, however, are those times when, for our patient, we are experienced as harsh, disapproving, attacking or rejecting.
This case conference will focus on patients with a primary experience of a “negative transference” and the pressures we must bear as a “bad object”. We will draw on the contributions of Winnicott, Brenman-Pick and Carpy as we explore the complexities of hate in the transference and countertransference.
Gary Grossman, PhD
Wednesdays, April 2, 9, 16, 23, 30; May 7, 2025
Gary Grossman, Ph.D. is a Training & Supervising Analyst and Faculty Member at SFCP. He is a Clinical Professor, Volunteer, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Science, UCSF and is a Personal Analyst & Member at PINC. He is in private practice in San Francisco.
Refund Policy
- There will be a full refund if one requests to drop the program on or before September 15, 2024.
- There will be a 10% cancellation fee if one requests to drop the program on or after September 16, 2024.
- There will be no refund for classes in progress, and SFCP will provide a pro-rated refund of tuition for classes not yet begun.
CME/CE Credits Fee
The CME/CE credits fee is $10 per credit for SFCP members or $15 per credit for non-SFCP members. The cost of CME/CE credits is separate from the tuition fee and billed individually upon the request for credits at the end of the program.
CE Attendance Policy
Please see individual course listings for the number of CE credits awarded, if applicable. Courses offering CE credit meet the requirements for CE credit for Psychologists, LCSWs, LPCCs, LEPs, and MFTs.
APA requires psychologists and other mental health professionals participating in all programs, including in long-term programs (lecture series) to demonstrate 100% attendance in order to be eligible to obtain CE credit. All participants must sign in at the beginning of each class or program and sign out at the end of the class or program. If participants miss a class in a seminar that is part of a long term program, they may be eligible to do “make-up” work for the missed class. Participants can meet with the class via Zoom or another “face to face” platform, if they are unable to attend in person. Alternatively, they can arrange to meet with the instructor, in person, to make-up the instructional time or can engage with the instructor via the “face to face” technologies, i.e. Face-time, Duo, Zoom, or others. This work must be completed within two weeks of the end of a seminar. Credit for the seminar will be awarded once the instructor notifies the SFCP office the time has been made up and the participant completes a course evaluation. No variable credit will be awarded for partial attendance.
Accreditation Statement for CME/CE Sponsorship and Disclosure Statement
Educational Objectives:
Upon completion of this activity, the learners will be able to:
- describe unconscious communication in a clinical hour.
- discuss what makes a patient seem “difficult” or “unreachable”, regardless of diagnosis. Describe how better knowledge of this can mitigate negative countertransference and potentially improve treatment outcome.
- analyze the possible impact of implicit bias on transference and countertransference phenomena.
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 24 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