Child Colloquium Series

2025 - 2026 Child Colloquium Series

Program Title:Learning to Surf: Analyzing Adolescents
Date:Saturday, October 25, 2025
Time:10:00am – 12:00pm:  Presentation
12:00pm:  Light lunch, drinks, and social hour
Presenter:Mary Brady, PhD
Discussant:Jill Sallberg, PhD, ABPP
Moderator:David Frankel, PhD
Location:

San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis
444 Natoma Street
San Francisco, CA 94103

This is an in-person event only; remote participation is not available.

Program Fee:Free

The author describes her career-long proclivity for the treatment of adolescents and reflects on the elements that attract her toward work with adolescents.  Over time the author came to understand her protectiveness of the adolescent process emanated from having been in some danger of missing the adolescent process herself.  Adolescents act in and act out in order to get to know themselves.  The author uses the metaphor of surfing to describe the adolescent (or herself in their wake) potentially upended, injured or even killed by waves too tumultuous to manage.  Yet, surfing also captures the sensual beauty of finding a balance, of the thrill of the ride, of a moment of being fully, sparklingly alive.

Dr. Mary Brady is an adult and child psychoanalyst in private practice in San Francisco. She is on the Faculties of the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis and the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California.  She is Editor of Braving the Erotic Field in the Treatment of Children and Adolescents, published by Routledge in 2022.  Her books, Analytic Engagements with Adolescents: Sex, Gender and Subversion and The Body in Adolescence: Psychic Isolation and Physical Symptoms were published by Routledge in 2018 and 2016 respectively. She is North American Co-Chair of the Committee on Child Analysis (COCAP) of the IPA. She co-leads a Psychoanalysis and Film group.

The Child Colloquium Series are offered free of charge through a generous support of the SFCP and the Sophia Mirviss Fund.

Program Co-Chairs:
David Frankel, PhD & Yen Quoc, PsyD

Paul Brinich, PhD
Lilly Hanson, MFT
Courtney Hartman, PsyD
Lelia Youn

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Learning to Surf: Analyzing Adolescents
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