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:Promoting Depth and Analytic Process in Psychotherapy With Patients in Internship and Clinical Settings
Dates:Wednesdays, January 10, 17, 24, 31, 2024
Time:07:00pm – 08:30pm
Instructor:Beth Steinberg, PhD
Location:San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis
444 Natoma Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
(remote participation is not available)
Program Fee:Free
Note:Registration is limited to 14 participants

This course is offered to help students develop ways of thinking and working psychoanalytically to promote depth and emotional contact in their work with their patients regardless of the setting, frequency of meetings, level of disturbance, or type of population of their patients. In the context of a collaborative and supportive environment, we will work with two students’ case presentations as a way to think together about how to listen analytically, work with countertransference and transference, as well as to think practically about how to intervene to deepen the treatment.

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

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