Palo Alto Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program (PAPPTP)

QUESTIONS AND CONTACT INFORMATION

For questions regarding the application process, please contact Neil Brast, the Admissions Coordinator. For other questions about the program, you may contact him or the other two PAPPTP program co-chairs.

Program Co-chairs:
Neil Brast, MD
nbrast@pacbell.net – 650-493-4900
Catherine Phillips, LCSW
Tina St. Lorant, LMFT
tstlorant@gmail.com – 408-236-2070

Upcoming Events

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)
Saturday, May 10, 2025
Psychoanalytic Education Division
Graduation Ceremony and Reception 2025
Charles Fisher, MD (graduation speaker)
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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