IMPORTANT NEWS FROM the Psychoanalytic Education Division: Important Policy Change, Curriculum Schedule Change, and PED Positions Open Please Read! by Mary Margaret McClure, D.M.H., Chair PED We have been busy as always in the Psychoanalytic Education Division. We have lots of good news, and there are also three important changes to let you know about. In a sense the good news is woven throughout the changes, as we are successfully developing a more orderly and open way of functioning as a Division in a vital working relationship with the rest of the Center. This is in the spirit of the “new” organizational structure, but it has taken us a full five years of effort to get to this point. The first of the changes is that we have a new policy for managing our educational records on each graduate of SFPI/SFCP. It is important that no member or graduate feel taken by surprise by our new policy on SFCP record-keeping since it does involve each of you who have graduated, so please read on! Second, our curriculum

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APRIL 2012

V i s i t i n g T h e A r g e n t i n e a n A s s o c i a t i o n 5 - 6

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Chair: Harriet Wolfe, M.D.

President: Robin Deutsch, Ph.D.

Secretary: Mary Susan Hansen, M.D.

Treasurer: Marc Zussman, M.D.

Newsletter Editor: Catherine Witzling, Ph.D.

Chief Operating Officer Jeffrey Miller

Layout & Design: Marcia Parham/Aaron Chow

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President’s Message by Robin Deutsch, Ph.D. This month I want to begin to address one of our current challenges: developing and mentoring our future leaders. We have no standing procedures for leadership or committee development and so we cur-rently rely on habit or history to guide us. As a result, it can sometimes feel confusing to find one’s way into our community’s organizational life. Unfortunately, history and habit are not serving us well at this junc-ture in our development. When the process and procedures for leader-ship development is unclear, group process can become disrupted. I believe that one of the tasks of President is to take action on behalf of the health of our community. In that sense, I see part of my responsibility as putting into place those things that promote community and organizational well-being.

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SCIENTIFIC MEETING The Emanuel Windholz Memorial

Lecture:

“After the End: Psychoanalysis in the Ashes of History”

April 9, 2012, 7:30 P.M.

Professor Cathy Caruth

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schedule is changing starting Fall of 2012, which is a progressive change that will complement the newness and excite-ment of having classes in our new building at 444 Natoma for the first time. We want all members to understand what is happening with the curriculum and what is planned for the future. A further significant change/improvement in the curriculum schedule will take place the following Fall, 2013. The third change, we are announcing several open leader-ship positions in Psychoanalytic Education as of July 1, and we are seeking to fill them now. This is an invitation to let us know if you are interested in taking on one of these jobs. PED Educational Records We in the Psychoanalytic Education Division have been discussing what to do with the confidential educational records of SFPI and now SFCP for many years. Increasingly it has become clear that we need a new and clear policy. Our educa-tional evaluative procedures have become much more transparent over the years, and evaluations are now shared di-rectly with candidates from instructors in seminars and from supervisors. Candidates who are interested in learning more about what is in their file may speak with the Dean who will share that information with him or her privately in an atmosphere of open discussion. In the past evaluations were never meant to be shared with the candidate/graduate. All of that confidential material has been saved in the files we have retained on each of our graduates over the years. The Policies and Procedures Committee of the PED, the entire PED, and the Management Team have all agreed on the following plan. We need to dispose of the old evaluative records on all of our members. We plan to create a “permanent record” for each graduate, past and present, containing the essential information on that graduate’s train-

ing. That record will include the details of the graduate’s application date, matriculation date, graduation date, names of supervisors and hours of supervisory work, name of analyst and dates of analysis. For our current graduates the Progressions and Graduation Committee is writing a “Final Report” which briefly summarizes the educational issues and accomplishments of the training for that graduate and which will be in the Permanent Record. In addition to the evaluative material which we will destroy, there is other information that we do not need to keep but which may be of value to each member personally. Almost all of our files contain information that was submitted by the candidate/graduate him or herself. For example, most files contain old photos,

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Board of Trustees

The Board of Trustees meetings are open to all SFCP Members.

The next meeting will be held on

Monday, April 23, 2012, 7:30pm SFCP, 2340 Jackson Street, 4th Floor

Questions, call 415-563-3366

Last year, the Management Integration Committee began a study of how committees recruit new members. The MIC report and their recommendations are in the process of being written up and will soon be submitted to the Manage-ment Team. One MIC recommendation is the suggestion that each committee chair make available committee posi-tions available to all Center members. It’s my intention to appoint a task force to consider issues of leadership development within the organization. The function of this Task Force is to generate suggestions for a uniform process for committee appointment as well as a process for mentoring leadership skills within the community. The MIC report will provide the Task Force with some background about committee life and suggested recommendations for improving communication within the Center about committees appointments. It is my hope and expectation that the Task Force’s recommendations can be used to increase our community’s well-being. Of course, this is not something I can do by myself. I need help from all of you. If you would be interested in serving on this task force, please let me know.

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autobiographical statements submitted on application, preceptorship papers, case write-ups, etc. Any of these person-ally submitted materials will be returned to the member on request. All confidentially written evaluative material (letters of recommendation, comments from the Admissions Committee, supervisors reports, Progressions reports, etc.) will be destroyed. Files of members/graduates who have died will be destroyed except for a Permanent Record and any photographs of that member. The Permanent Record on each graduate will still be regarded as confidential, but it will always be available for the member to see and use in any way that might be needed (for example, in applying for TA/SA status.) We will have the Permanent Record in hard copy but also in a digital form, so that the information can be emailed to the member. The procedure for going through our files and implementing this policy is a slow one. Here is how we are approaching it: Greg Goglin, our Education Coordinator, is working on developing the Permanent Record for each graduate’s file. When he completes his task with each file, he will notify the graduate by phone message and by mail of the contents in their file that he or she might wish to keep. It will be up to the member to get back to Greg within one month of that notification, in order to make arrangements to get those materials or to release them. After a month the contents will be destroyed if there are no further instructions. We have found in the extended process of thinking this through that we all have a lot of feeling, a lot of regret, about destroying these records. I think that is one reason that it has taken so long to implement this policy. After much thought and discussion we do believe that the protection of personal privacy in a community like ours is more im-portant than the historical value of these records. That principle is the basis of this policy. The files are currently being kept in a locked file and will not be made available for members to review other than the personal materials that were submitted by the member. If you have questions or concerns about this policy and the procedure we have decided on you can reach me by phone or email: Mary Margaret McClure, 415-388-1602, or mmm94941@comcast.net. It is not appropriate to challenge this policy with Greg Goglin or any of the office staff as it is their job to implement the policy. Changes in the Curriculum Schedule and Configuration Starting in the Fall of 2012 our candidates will have a newly configured curriculum schedule, which will be made up of two didactic seminars and one case conference in each period of training throughout the four years of seminars. For 2012 these courses will continue to be taught on Thursday and Friday morning as they have been in recent years, but that will change in the Fall 2013. As you will remember, for many years it has been our custom that the first year candi-dates have had three didactic courses and one case conference, then the second and third year candidate have had two didactic seminars and one case conference, while the fourth year candidates have had one didactic seminar and one case conference through their seminar year. In the past this seemed to suit our candidates’ educational needs, but it is now the belief of the Curriculum Committee that there are two significant disadvantages to this organization of seminar time. The first year candidates are overloaded with reading, and they will benefit from this more balanced schedule. The fourth year candidates who are for the most part the most able and the most desiring of integrative teaching as they complete their seminar work will benefit from the fuller schedule. The overall number of seminar hours remains unchanged. Lisa Buchberg, the current Chair of Curriculum, and her committee have worked hard on the placement of courses to create a coherent and thoughtful sequence and solid foundation. The curriculum is a creative extension of the one we have now. It will begin as in the past with the Theory sequence (beginning with Freud in the first year) and the Clinical sequence in the first year. The case conference for first year candidates alone focuses on be-ginning cases. In the second and third years the Theory sequence will begin to add other perspectives, the Kleinian, the British Object Relations, the French, Bion, the Relational and so on, and the Development courses will also be taught with more advanced clinical seminars, and in each of the last three years there is a case conference of mixed second, third and fourth year candidates. The seminars of the fourth year include Ethics, and the integrative seminars Return to Freud, Advanced Psychopathology (Perversion), Theory and Practice: the Relation of Theory to Psychoanalytic Work, and Termination, as well as the case conference. The newly proposed curriculum for next year has not been fully worked out and we do not want to complicate the workings of the Curriculum Committee as they work out the details.

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If you are interested in perusing the details of this year’s curriculum and the preliminary proposal for next year’s curric-ulum, you may click the link here. For further description of these courses, the Course Catalogue is available on the SFCP Website under Psychoanalytic Education. In the Fall of 2013 we will make another change that we are hoping will improve the training for all candidates. We will be teaching all seminars on one day rather than the Thursday and Friday morning schedule that we have held for so long. Because of long commute times and long commute distances, the advantage for candidates of making one trip each week in to the Center is substantial. There are many details to be worked out about the new schedule. For exam-ple, it has not been decided which day the classes will be on or which hours. The Faculty Committee will continue to assist in leading the discussion among Faculty of these changes, and the candidates will have opportunities to let us know their opinions in class meetings, Candidates’ Association meetings, and in direct communication with the Chair of the Curriculum Committee and the Faculty Representatives to the Curriculum Committee. The important details of the new arrangements will ultimately be decided by the Curriculum Committee in consultation with the entire Psychoana-lytic Education Division, with the approval of the Management Team. Positions Open in the Psychoanalytic Education Division Three positions are open and need to be filled in the Psychoanalytic Education Division: the position of the Chair; the position of the Chair of Curriculum; and the position of Outreach for Psychoanalytic Education. All three positions will be for a term of three years, renewable for another three years, and the positions are open to any graduate analyst member. I have a lot to say about each of these positions, but in an effort to be brief I will sketch out the job descrip-tions and process of selection here and invite anyone who is interested or who might want to suggest someone for a position to give me a call for further information:

1. The Chair of the Psychoanalytic Education Division represents the PED on the Management Team, leads the meetings of the PED Committee, and is ultimately responsible for all the workings of the PED (Admissions, Out-reach, Curriculum, Progressions, TA/SA, etc.) It's a big job, but a really interesting one! There is in the PED a really fine group of analysts working together on the large task of Psychoanalytic Education, and the shared work and thinking together is a great reward in this position. This job is appointed by the SFCP President (Robin). Currently, there is a Ad Hoc group led by Steve Goldberg considering a recommendation to Robin for this position, and he would be the one to contact if you are interested. If you want more information about the position itself, don’t hesitate to get in touch with me (Mary Margaret).

2. The Chair of the Curriculum Committee is also a big job and an interesting one, also with a fine working group. The Curriculum Committee Chair represents the Curriculum Committee on the PED Committee, leads the Curricu-lum Committee meetings, coordinates with the track groups, the Faculty Representatives, and the Candidate Representatives to be sure that the entire seminar aspect of training is going well, and trouble shoots the inevita-ble glitches and complexities that arise. The overall selection of courses, sequence of courses, and selection of instructors falls to the Curriculum Committee as does evaluation of the seminars, the instructors, and the candi-dates in seminars each year. This position is appointed by the Chair of the PED (Mary Margaret).

3. Chair for PED Outreach is a position that has not been filled for several years and these functions have been shared by various members of the PED on an ad hoc basis. We especially thank Lisa Buchberg and Chuck Fisher for hosting Open Houses for the PED in the last two years. The Chair of PED Outreach sits on the PED Committee and attends the meetings of that group and so participates in the governance of this Division overall. We hope this position will be taken by someone who has energy and imagination to coordinate with the other outreach elements of the Center and then specifically to generate interest in psychoanalytic training in the community and to offer guidance to those who are interested in pursuing training. This means hosting one or two open houses per year which can be very creatively done, but also more specific targeted outreach out in the educational community with a one-year/five-year/ten-year plan in mind. The Chair of the PED appoints this position, too.

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Once again, I have a lot more to say about each of these positions, so if I've left questions in your mind don't hesitate to let me know. (Mary Margaret, 415-388-1602; or mmm94941@comcast.net) Finally, some additional good news: we have an excellent group of candidates graduating (specifics soon to be announced) on May 19 with a party planned again by the great party planner, Gary Grossman, at Servino in Tiburon. We also have very good reason to believe that we will have a robust class of new candidates starting next Fall 2012 in our new setting. Our current candidates have done a wonderful job welcoming and engaging in psychoanalytic exchange with Ursula Worsch, MD, an IPSO exchange candidate from Germany who is visiting SFCP. It has been delightful and informative to have her here, and we have Suzanne Klein and Leora Benioff, our Candidates’ Association Chairs to thank for organizing her trip. She has attended seminars, had supervision, attended events such as the UCSF Wallerstein Lecture with Robert Michels, MD, and she has also attended seminars at PINC and engaged with the candi-dates at PINC who also have welcomed her. Our SFCP advanced candidate, Israel Katz, has returned from his trip to Argentina as an IPSO exchange candidate (“analyst in formation” he tells us is the internationally accepted term for candidates). Israel was honored in Mill Valley at a brunch for candidates and faculty who came to hear about his very interesting experience and his learning about psychoanalysis in Argentina and Uruguay.

Visiting The Argentinean Association by Bronwen Lemmon, M.F.T. On Sunday, February 12, 2012, the Graduate division and the Candidates’ Colloquium arranged a meeting to hear Israel Katz, MD, speak about his experiences visiting the Argentinean Psychoanalytical Association (APA) last November. About twenty members and candidates attended the home of Mary Margaret McClure for this interesting talk over brunch. An important ingredient of Israel’s trip is that it was made possible through the Visiting Candidate Program from IPSO, The International Psychoanalytical Studies Organization, IPSO was founded in 1973 and was born out of the struggles of a group of candidates who actively sought equality and representation during their formation at IPA-affiliated institutes. One of the many resources IPSO offers candidates is called “Learning From Experience: The Visiting Candidates Pro-gram.” Israel – and any candidate who qualifies for the program – receives 7-15 days of accommodation in a candi-date’s home, along with two individual supervisions and access to all the classes, seminars and community activities going on at the time, at no cost. Israel was clearly very pleased and grateful for his experience at the Argentinean Asso-ciation. He gave us a rich description of what he learned about their institute, its history, both culturally and politically, their community, curriculum and theories. One of the most immediate things to impress Israel was the extent to which psy-choanalysis is embedded within the culture. There are free papers available on the street corners, one of them called Imago Agenda, 64 pages long and published monthly and filled with psychoanalytic articles written to be readily acces-sible to the layman. The visible presence of psychoanalysis does not stop at print either. Israel saw on television and YouTube professionals such as judges, CEO’s, and artists, talk openly about how psychoanalysis has helped them in their lives. It was not so surprising to learn that there is a high proportion per capita of analysts in Argentina. Buenos Aires has a population of three million, 1300 of whom are IPA analysts. Compare that number with the U.S. population at 311 million where 2400 are APsaA members (not counting non-APsaA analysts, of course). It gives you a sense of the

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scale of things. In Buenos Aires you are quite likely to meet an assortment of people, from your taxi driver to the owner of a store, who study psychoanalysis. There are 6 IPA Societies in Argentina, three of them in Buenos Aires. The one Israel’s visited, the Argentinean Psycho-analytical Association (APA), was founded in 1942 and is the oldest one in Argentina. It has approximately 740 mem-bers and 290 analysts-in-formation. That’s right, analysts-in-formation is the title used to refer to a candidate. They dispensed with ‘candidate’ in favor of using ‘analyst’ after the word ‘training’ fell from use. Objectors to the idea of ‘training’ felt it did not fit with learning psychoanalysis because it more closely describes an animal learning a repeated task. At some point ‘training’ was re-moved from their lexicon in favor of ‘formation’. Our ‘Training Analyst’ in Argentina is called, ‘Analyst with Didactic Function,’ and such analysts do not teach, at least not when they are in the position of the analyst doing analysis! Much of the flavor of psychoanalysis today has to be contextualized in light of the social and political history of Argen-tina. Going back to the 1960’s, referred to as the so-called "Golden Age" of psychoanalysis for some people, there was a monopoly. APA was open only to those with a medical degree. It was not uncommon to have to wait six to eight years to get into analysis with a TA or analyst-with-didactic-function and, the process was very expensive. Out of those years, analysts became deeply questioning of rigidity, dogmatism and of the analyst assuming the position of the mas-ter who knows everything. This questioning mind was also born out of the significant and intense political struggles that dominated Argentina and many other Latin American countries in the 1960’s and 70’s. Turning now to Israel’s experiences sitting in on classes he spoke about their Free Curriculum, which consists of dozens of classes offered each year. Of the offered courses, 26 are required to complete the analytic education. As is here, some courses are cancelled and some overbooked. There is an exhaustive study of Freud: of 26 courses, 14 have to be on Freud with the remaining 12 being post-Freudian. Classes are 90 minutes long and meet for 4 months; class size ranges from 4 – 15. Each professor teaching can select 0-4 assistants. The analysts-in-formation take turns summarizing the minutes of the class for the professor. At the beginning of each class the instructor has the minute-taker read aloud the process of findings in the prior class. Typical classes addressed the limits and challenges in doing clinical psychoanalysis. Israel’s named a long and compre-hensive list of themes covered which included: neurosis and psychosis, what is repressed or not, defense against drives, splitting of the ego and process of defense, Oedipus and sexuality, and the drives. A lot of the classes dealt with actual neuroses, narcissism and patients at the borders, the not-yet-represented and the unrepresentable in the clinical situation, the clinic of repression and the clinic of disavowal and foreclosure, and the importance of the work of the mind of the analyst, with discussions of potential space in Winnicott, the work of the negative in Green, the desire of the analyst and the subjective implication of the analyst in Lacan, figurability in the Botellas, and the analytic field in the Barangers. Israel had a great experience overall and was impressed by the generosity and warmth of our colleagues from the Ar-gentine Psychoanalytic Association. He encouraged us to become involved in IPSO and to get in touch with him for any questions about IPSO or the Visiting Candidate Program.

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CONGRATULATIONS TO THE GRADUATES of 2012! Graduation Ceremony & Celebration • Saturday, May 19, 2012 by Gary Grossman, Ph.D. and Harriet Wolfe, M.D. We are writing to invite all of our members and candidates to join together in celebration of our 2012 graduates. The ceremony begins at 4:00pm in the ground floor auditorium on Jackson Street. This year’s speaker is SFCP faculty mem-ber Dr. Marcia Dillon. Our traditional champagne reception will follow the ceremony in the auditorium.

The Graduation Dinner Celebration begins at 6:30 at Servino Ristorante. Located on the waterfront in the beautiful town of Tiburon, Servino Ristorante offers views of the San Francisco skyline and Angel Island, and serves locally produced organic food inspired by the cuisine of Southern Italy. We will be upstairs in the Bellavista Dining Room, where we will enjoy hors d’oeuvres and fine wines on the deck overlooking the harbor on San Francisco Bay, followed by a delicious 3 course dinner, with full ta-ble service.

The cost for attending the dinner is complimentary for graduates, $95 for graduates’ first guest, $95 for candidates, $95 for candidates’ first guest, and $125 for members and all other guests. If there is a group that you would like to dine with, feel free to organize tables of 4 – 16 guests. Of course, not everyone has time to plan a table, so we also en-courage you to sign up individually or with a guest. For registration, call Aaron Chow, 415-563-5815. Space is limited, so please be sure to register early. These past 4 years, with our transition to a Center and our temporary home on Jackson Street, has been a time of many challenges and changes. As we rapidly approach our move to our new home on Natoma Street, the Graduation Ceremony and Celebration is a wonderful opportunity to come together as a community as we congratulate our gradu-ates. For questions about the Graduation Ceremony, please contact: Harriet Wolfe, 415-921-1046 or harriet.wolfe@ucsf.edu For questions about the Graduation Dinner at Servino, please contact: Gary Grossman, 415-928-4662 or gary.grossman@ucsf.edu

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An Exciting Educational Opportunity for Experienced Psychoanalytically Oriented Clinicians: The Seasoned Clinicians Program (Extension Division) by Laura Dansky, Ph.D. and Jan Messer, M.F.T. In the fall of 2009, Elizabeth Simpson, LCSW, and Meryl Botkin, PhD, had an inspiration to spearhead a group of SFCP graduates, including Marilynne Kanter, PhD, Patricia Marra, MFT, Dena Sorbo, LCSW, and Julie Stahl, MD, in an out-reach effort to enhance connections among seasoned psychoanalytic clinicians. The hope was to provide an opportuni-ty for psychotherapists with 20+ years of experience to build a community and share ideas, knowledge and interests cultivated during their many years in practice. The first event was a great success! It was attended by 20 seasoned clinicians, who shared in a moving discussion about the desire to affiliate and study with others at a similar point in their professional lives. These were clinicians com-mitted to deepening their professional and personal growth through ongoing coursework, research, trainings, clinical consultation, personal psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. There was so much expertise, knowledge and talent from which to draw. Among the attendees were leaders in educa-tion, clinical supervision and community mental health as well as founders of psychotherapy institutes, training pro-grams and school-based counseling programs. Many were also active members of institute boards and committees. Some were devoted performing musicians, published writers and visual artists. However, many lacked a sense of com-munity with others at a similar level of experience. About every 6 weeks, from February 2010 to May 2011, there were several more gatherings at Meryl’s home. These meetings included an educational component, during which pairs of clinicians presented articles, cases and other clini-cal material. Jan Messer, MFT, and Piera Piagentini, RN, MFT, presented on the infant observation process and infantile states in adults and children. Elizabeth and Meryl presented articles and cases on trauma and primitive mental states. Though several of the members of the original group continue to meet and study together informally, the idea to cre-ate a more structured educational program for seasoned clinicians at SFCP was formulated by Elizabeth and Jan. Laura Dansky, PhD, was invited to co-chair the program with Jan, as Elizabeth had moved on to other projects. The end result was the development of the Seasoned Clinicians Program, an addition to SFCP’s Extension Division offerings. Jan and Laura are excited to announce the launching of the Seasoned Clinicians Program in January 2013. The program will be a 20-week seminar that provides a unique educational opportunity for psychoanalytically oriented clinicians who have been practicing in the community for at least 20 years. Five SFCP faculty members will each offer a four-week segment that combines didactic material, case presentations and a review of pertinent psychoanalytic literature. The seminar, limited to 15 members, will provide participants a forum to deepen their understanding of a range of clinically relevant topics through discussions with faculty and fellow seasoned practitioners. Faculty response to invitations to teach in this seminar has been nothing short of enthusiastic. We are delighted to inaugurate our program with a stellar group of SFCP instructors: Steve Goldberg, MD, Audrey Kavka, MD, Susan Kolodny, DMH, MFA, Paul Ransohoff, DMH, and Holly Gordon, DMH. Dr. Goldberg’s seminar, Change and Obstacles to Change in Patient and Therapist, will focus on the contributions of both therapist and patient to im-passes in the therapeutic encounter. Dr. Kavka’s course, Making Contact with the Internal World of the Older Patient, will highlight theoretical and technical approaches to dynamic work with older populations. Dr. Kolodny’s seminar enti-tled Listening to Poems and Listening to Patients: On Deepening the Clinical Work will focus on the interface of poetry and dreams in the therapeutic situation. Dr. Ransohoff will examine classical and contemporary models of dream analy-sis in his course Working with Dreams in Psychotherapy. Finally, Dr. Gordon will focus on the interpretation of anxiety/defense in the therapeutic relationship in her seminar Listening for Transference.

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The Seasoned Clinicians Program will be offered January through May 2013 on Wednesdays (11:30am-1:00pm) at our new Natoma Street site. Check the SFCP website for more details on the individual courses as well as how to sign up. We will be registering seminar members on a first come first served basis. Feel free to contact Jan Messer, MFT at 415-821-1766 or Laura Dansky, PhD at 415-929-8239 with further questions.

Opening for New Extension Education Committee Chair by Gary Grossman, Ph.D., Chair, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Education Division Dear SFCP Analyst & Candidate Members,

Louis Roussel will be stepping down as Chair of the Extension Education Committee (EEC) at the end of this academic year. This is has been a very active and vital committee with multiple programs operating under its umbrella, including:

▪ Regional Extension Education Committees: Responsible for planning the Year Long Programs and other Seminars & Courses in SF, East Bay and the Peninsula

▪ Dialogues in Contemporary Psychoanalysis: Responsible for planning 4 Saturday morning programs per year

▪ Conference Committee: Responsible for planning the "A Day With" Visiting Professor conference and other confer-ences throughout the year

▪ Seasoned Clinicians Program: A new program launching in January 2013 The Extension Education Committee Chair provides leadership in pursuit of meeting SFCP's mission of providing psychoanalytically informed educational op-portunities to mental health professionals, is responsible for oversight of these programs, and assists & advises the sub-committee chairs with program planning, budgeting, and committee membership. The EEC chair reports to the chair of the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Education Division.

If you are interested in serving in this position for a three year term, please contact me by phone 415-928-4662 or email gary.grossman@ucsf.edu. In the past, this position has been held by solo chairs and by co-chairs, so if there is someone you are interested in working with, this is a good position for co-chairs.

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SFCP Election: Call for Nominations There will be 2 positions open at the end of this year, June 30, 2012, that are elected by the voting member-ship. The positions are:

─ President-elect (a total six year term- 2 years as President-elect, 3 years as President and 1 year as past-president)

─ Member of the Nominating and Board Development Committee (a 3 year term) (an advisory committee to the Board of Trustees)

If you are interested in volunteering for either of these positions and would like your name placed on the bal-lot or if you know someone that you would like to nominate please contact by 5/18/12:

Maury Marcus, M.D. Erik Gann, M.D. 510-526-1639 415-771-0320 mauricemarcus@comcast.net egannmd@gmail.com

Deadline for nominations is May 18, 2012

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SFCP Child Development Program & PCP present: Helping Preschoolers on the Autism Spectrum or with Serious Emotional Disturbances

Tuesday, April 3, 2012; 7:15pm - 9:00pm Reception: 6:45 pm - 7:15 pm SFCP, 2340 Jackson Street, 4th Fl., San Francisco, CA Free To register, call 415-563-5815 / aaron.chow@sf-cp.org Coalition for Clinical Social Work (CCSW) presents: WHEN TIME FREEZES: Family Ghosts, Unmourned Losses, and the Generational Impact of War

Presenter: Denni Liebowitz, L.C.S.W. Discussant: Billie Lee Violette, Psy.D., M.S.W. Moderator: Elizabeth M. Simpson, L.C.S.W.

Wednesday, April 4, 2012; 7:15pm - 9:00pm SFCP, 2340 Jackson St., 4th Floor, San Francisco $15, 2 CME/CE credits available for $20.00/$24.00

To register, call 415-563-5815 / aaron.chow@sf-cp.org For more CME/CE credit information, click here. East Bay Psychotherapy Forum Presenter: Richard Leavitt, M.D. Discussant: L. Eileen Keller, Ph.D. Moderator: William Glover, Ph.D.

Wednesday, April 4, 2012; 7:00pm - 9:00pm 2001 Dwight Way, CC Meeting Room, Berkeley Free; 1.5 CME/CE credits available for $ 15 or $ 18 For more CME/CE credit information, click here. San Francisco Psychotherapy Forum Presenter: Adam Blum, M.A. Discussant: Gary Grossman, Ph.D. Moderator: Milton Schaefer, Ph.D.

Thursday, April 5, 2012; 7:30pm - 9:00pm SFCP, 2340 Jackson Street, 4th Fl., San Francisco, CA Free

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Intersessions 2011 –2012 SFCP, 2340 Jackson Street, 4th Floor, SF 8:00am - 12:00pm

April 6th: Internationally exhibited New York artist Elyn Zimmerman will talk about her site-specific installations and creative process.

April 13th: Stanley Steinberg, SFCP Member/Faculty, Su-pervising/Training Analyst and artist, and Carrie Pilto, As-sistant Curator of The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and t he Parisian Avant Garde at SFMOMA, will bring us the world of Gertrude Stein who recognized in the work of Picasso, Matisse and others, the beginnings of modern art at a time coinciding with Freud's groundbreaking ideas about the mind.

Steve Goldberg, SFCP Member/Faculty and Supervising and Training Analyst will be introducing the presenters.

For more information, please call Greg Goglin at 415-563-5815 or email gregory.goglin@sf-cp.org SFCP Poetry and Psychoanalysis Poet: Ron Silliman Conversation with: Alice Jones, M.D.

Sunday, April 8, 2012; 3:30pm - 5:30pm SFCP, 2340 Jackson Street, 4th Fl., San Francisco Free Scientific Meeting-Emanuel Windholz Memorial Lecture: After the End: Psychoanalysis in the Ashes of History Presenter: Professor Cathy Caruth Discussant: Amy Jamgochian

Monday, April 9, 2012; 7:30pm - 9:30pm SFCP, 2340 Jackson Street, 4th Fl., San Francisco Free; 2 CME/CE credits are available For more CME/CE credit information, click here. Clinical Analysis Forum Wednesday, April 18, 2012, 7:30pm - 9:30pm SFCP, 2340 Jackson Street, 4th Floor, San Francisco Open to SFCP Analyst Members Only.

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South Bay Psychotherapy Forum Presenter: Mary Ann Brock, M.F.T. Discussant: Cia Foreman, Ph.D. Moderator: Janice Mill, Ph.D.

Tuesday, April 17, 2012; 7:15pm - 9:00pm Stanford Medical Center, 401 Quarry Rd., Stanford Free; 1.5 CME/CE credits available for $ 15 or $ 18 For more CME/CE credit information, click here. SFCP Ethics and Impairment Committee presents: Analysts Who Commit Sexual Boundary Violations A Video Case Illustration Presenter: Glen Gabbard, M.D.

Sunday, April 22, 2012; 10:00am - 12:00pm SFCP, 2340 Jackson Street, 4th Floor, San Francisco Open to Analyst Members, Faculty, Community Mem-bers, Candidates and Trainees affiliated with SFCP and PINC. To register, call 415-563-5815 / aaron.chow@sf-cp.org

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Psychoanalytic Grand Rounds When Help Hurts: Understanding Unconscious Attraction to Pain Presenter: Cheryl Goodrich, Ph.D. Maureen Smith Ruffell, M.D.

Wednesday, April 25, 2012; 6:15pm - 7:30pm Stanford Psychiatry Building, Room 2213 401 Quarry Road, Stanford Free; 1.25 CME/CE available for $12.50 or $15 For more CME/CE credit information, click here.

RECOGNITIONS Barbara Almond, M.D., published The Monster Within, University of California Press, 2010. It is now an academic best-seller; according to Academic Newswire it is #5 on the list of social science bestsellers. Alice Jones, M.D., published a new collection of poems titled Plunge. One poem from the book won the Lyric Poetry Award from the Poetry Society of America. Copies are available at the SFCP bookstore, or from spdbooks.org. Infor-mation about the book and her up-coming readings can be found at her web site, alicejones.net Mali Mann, M.D., chaired the Discussion group on Alternative Reproductive Technology on January 12, 2012 at the APsaA in New York. The focus of the workshop was on psychological effects of the individuals involved in various as-pects of the alternative family structure through use of assisted reproductive technology. Excerpts of “The Kids are Al-right”, a previewed movie depicting the long term psychological impact on the parents and children was shown. Katherine MacVicar, M.D., from SFCP, was the discussant. Celeste Schneider, Ph.D., published “The Psychotherapy Process with Adolescents: A First Pilot Study and Preliminary Comparisons Between Different Therapeutic Modalities Using the Adolescent Psychotherapy Q-Set,” with Tetyana By-chkova, Saul Hillman, and Nick Midgley in the Journal of Child Psychotherapy, 37(3), 327-348, December 2011. Mitchell Wilson, M.D., discussed two different papers at the January 2012 meetings of the American Psychoanalytic Association: Lewis Kirshner's "Neutrality and the Ethics of Desire," and Mari Ruti's "The Dignity of the Thing: Lacan's Ethics of Sublimation.”

Library / Bookstore News

by Alyson Barrett-Ryan

Library Closure

Due to SFCP’s relocation to 444 Natoma Street, the SFCP library will be closed from Tuesday, May 15, 2012 – July 2, 2012. Please return all books and other library materials by Friday, May 11, 2012. If you have ques-tions or concerns, please contact me at: alyson.barrett@sf-cp.org (415) 563-4477

New Acquisitions

Compiled by Eric Rosen

McWilliams, N. (2011). Psychoanalytic diagnosis: Understanding personality structure in the clinical process. New York: Guilford Press.

Meryl, E. (2012). Slow down: Children at play. San Francisco: SFCP Library [dvd].

Markman, H. (2012). Dialogues: The beautiful, the perverse, and the ugly. San Francisco: SFCP Library [dvd].

And, thank you to Dr. Jones for donating copies of her new book of poems to the library and bookstore: Jones, A. (2012). Plunge. Berkeley, CA: Apogee Press.

Bookstore Sale

New books are 50% off

Used books start at $5.00

Please note our April Library Hours. And don't forget, our catalog is still online!

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Graduation and Dinner Celebration 2012

Saturday, May 19, 2011

Speaker: Marcia Dillon, M.D.

Graduation Ceremony 4:00 p.m. SFCP, 2340 Jackson Street, 4th Floor

San Francisco, CA

Dinner will be at the

Servino Ristorante

9 Main Street Tiburon

Reception/Dinner: 6:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.

Graduating Candidates: Complementary Graduating Candidates 1st Guest: $ 95.00

Candidates and 1st Guest per: $ 95.00 Members and all other Guests: $ 125.00

For questions about the Graduation Ceremony, please contact: Harriet Wolfe, 415-921-1046 or harriet.wolfe@ucsf.edu

For questions about the Graduation Dinner at Servino, please contact:

Gary Grossman, 415-928-4662 or gary.grossman@ucsf.edu

Registration? Call Aaron Chow at 415-563-5815