Newsletter 2025-05 – San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis

SFCP Newsletter, May 2025 issue

A letter from our Newsletter Editor
An Invitation to Members from the Newsletter Committee: Do you have a passion or hobby you love? A story or life experience that shaped who you are? We want to hear from you!
A Therapist Reflects, by Luba Palter
Board Chair Report, by Brett Penfil
Volunteer of the Month – Catherine Phillips, by Mary McMillan
Membership Division News, by Meryl Botkin
Welcome Letter, by the Invigorating the Membership Team
Psychoanalytic Training Corner: Messages and Updates, by Beth Steinberg
Congratulations to our Graduating 2024-2025 PED Candidates
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program Corner: Messages and Updates, by Catherine Phillips and Mary-Stone Bowers

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Upcoming Events

Wednesdays, May 21 to June 25, 2025

Psychoanalytic Student Seminars

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytic Theory, and Trans Experience(s)

Loïc Pritchard, LMFT (instructor)

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

Fridays, September 5, 2025 to May 29, 2026

Extension Education Programs

2025-2026 East Bay Yearlong Program: Tuning into the Unspoken: Navigating the Landmarks of Unconscious Experience

Eric Miller, PhD; Elizabeth Stuart, MD; Graeme Daniels, LMFT; Marty Mulkey, LMFT; Chandra Rai, LMFT; and Luciane De Mello, LCSW

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)

Saturday, October 4, 2025

Scientific Meetings

THE RADICAL OTHERNESS OF MASUD KHAN

Ilene Philipson, PhD, PhD (presenter); Charles Fisher, MD (moderator)

Friday, November 7, 2025

Scientific Meetings

LEADERSHIP IN THE PSYCHOANALYTIC MOVEMENT

Harriet Wolfe, MD (presenter); Brett Penfil, LMFT, MPH (interviewer)

Saturday, January 10, 2026

Scientific Meetings

PSYCHEDELIC PSYCHOANALYSIS: TRANSFORMATION OF THE SELF

Megan Rundel, PhD (presenter); Ilene Philipson, PhD, PhD (moderator)

Saturday, March 7, 2026

Scientific Meetings

ENDINGS IN ANALYSIS

Stephen Purcell, MD and Alice Jones, MD (presenters); Steven Goldberg, MD (interviewer)

Saturday, April 4, 2026

Scientific Meetings

OUTCOME STUDY OF PSYCHOANALYSES OF CHRONICALLY DEPRESSED PATIENTS WITH EARLY TRAUMA, AN UPDATE OF MODE

Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, PhD (presenter); Cheryl Goodrich, PhD (interviewer)

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