About SFCP

At SFCP, we aspire to cultivate a diverse community dedicated to the teaching, practice, and ongoing evolution of a pluralistic and socially-relevant psychoanalysis that aims to reduce suffering and promote psychological growth.

We are a non-profit, volunteer-driven organization, working together to:

• Offer increasingly accessible and inclusive psychoanalytic training, psychotherapy training, and lifelong psychoanalytic education to students and clinicians who work in a variety of settings and disciplines.
• Extend the availability of psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, and exposure to psychoanalytic thinking in the wider community.
• Generate evolving psychoanalytic theories of psychic functioning, human interaction, and lifespan development that integrate individual unconscious, social unconscious, and interpersonal lived experiences. 
• Recognize the complex unconscious influence of the ever-present past within ourselves, our society, and our institutions as we work to address the legacy of discrimination and systemic bias embedded in our generative and vital psychoanalytic history.
• Foster collaborative interdisciplinary endeavors in research, academic, and community settings to enrich the breadth, depth, and applicability of the field.
• Cultivate and sustain an open, supportive, and self-reflective community of volunteers that works to embrace contradiction, value difference, and repair harms.
• Embody the potential of psychoanalysis to transform understanding of ourselves, our effect on one another, and our interconnectedness within a complex, multicultural world.