SFCP Newsletter, February 2024 issue

  • Message from the SFCP Newsletter Editor, by Richard Almond, MD
  • SFCP Board Chair Report, by Brett Penfil, MFT, MPH
  • SFCP President’s Report, by Maria Longuemare, MD, PhD
  • SFCP: Candidate Training Grants for Equity & Diversity Program
  • Important – Vision and Mission of SFCP – Your Voice is Crucial
  • Report from the Chair of the Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program (CAPPTP), by Benjamin Fife, PsyD
  • Report from the Chair of the Palo Alto Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program (PAPPTP), by Neil Brast, MD, Catherine Phillips, LCSW, and Tina St. Lorant, LMFT
  • SFCP Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Steering Committee Communication
  • Message from the Committee on Groups: SFCP Annual Group Relations Weekend, March 23 & 24, 2024, by Fei Hu, MFT
  • Conversations with Clinicians: Darian Leader In Conversation with Patricia Marra, MFT

Upcoming Events

Saturday, November 8, 2025
Child Colloquium Series
The Play of Eros: The Story of an Adolescent Boy, his Body and his Analyst’s Body
Bruce Reis, PhD, FIPA, BCPsa (presenter); Terrence Owens, PhD (discussant)
Thursday, November 13, 2025
Psychoanalytic Education Division
Psychoanalytic Training Informational Evening
Please join SFCP Faculty and Candidates for Dinner, Drinks, and a Discussion of Psychoanalytic Training at SFCP.
Saturday, November 15, 2025
Transformation, Creativity, and the Aesthetic Experience
Transformation, Creativity, and the Aesthetic Experience: Comparative Psychoanalytic Perspectives within the Jungian and Contemporary Object Relations Traditions
John Beebe, PhD, ABPP; Diane Elise, PhD; Henry Markman, MD; and Paul Watsky, PhD, ABPP (presenters and panelists)
Wednesday, December 3, 2025
Coalition for Clinical Social Work
Coalition for Clinical Social Work Clinical Evening Series: Psychoanalysis Under Attack: Practicing Psychoanalytically-Informed Work in Beleaguered Communities Abroad
Silvia Rivera, PhD (presenter); Dania Dandashli, MA, LPC-S (discussant)
Saturday, December 6, 2025
Dialogues in Contemporary Psychoanalysis
Malignant Nostalgia: the impulse to eradicate "the bitter experience of life.”
Donald Moss, MD (presenter) in Conversation with Mitchell Wilson, MD
Wednesdays, January 7 to 28, 2026
Psychoanalytic Student Seminars
Becoming a Couple: An Introduction to Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapy
Dana Iscoff, MFT (instructor)
Thursdays, January 8 to February 12, 2026
Coalition for Clinical Social Work
CCSW mini-Module: THERAPEUTIC RELATEDNESS
Sandra Gaspar, LMFT (instructor)
Saturday, January 10, 2026
Scientific Meetings
PSYCHEDELIC PSYCHOANALYSIS: TRANSFORMATION OF THE SELF
Megan Rundel, PhD (presenter); Ilene Philipson, PhD, PhD (moderator)
Thursdays, January 15 to May 21, 2026
Coalition for Clinical Social Work
Foundations of Psychodynamic Clinical Work in Community Mental Health Settings - Year 1
 Julia St. George, LCSW; Sebastian Melo, LCSW; Corey Datz-Greenberg, LCSW; and Beth Kita, LCSW, PhD (instructors)
Saturday, January 31, 2026
Child Colloquium Series
Supporting the Health of Trans, Nonbinary, and Gender-Exploring Youth by Supporting Their Parents
Melissa Holub, PhD (presenter)
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