Palo Alto Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program (PAPPTP)

Contact Information

For more information, contact:

Admissions Chair Dena Sorbo, LCSW, at 650-948-8335, or dena.sorbo@gmail.com
Any of the Program Co-Chairs:
- Neil Brast, MD, (650) 493-4900, nbrast@pacbell.net
- Maureen Ruffell, MD, (650) 329-8834, meruffellmd@gmail.com
- Tina St. Lorant, LMFT at (408) 236-2070, tstlorant@gmail.com

Upcoming Events

Saturday, May 4, 2024

Child Colloquium Series

Film Screening and Discussion: A House Made of Splinters (2022)

Reyna Cowan, PsyD, LCSW (discussant)

Monday, May 6, 2024

Scientific Meetings

Freud in his Psychosocial Generation: Durkheim, Simmel, Weber and Du Bois

Nancy Chodorow, PhD (presenter)

Saturday, May 11, 2024

Psychoanalytic Education Division

Graduation Ceremony and Reception 2024

Jim Dimon, MD (graduation speaker)

Wednesdays, May 22, 2024 to June 12, 2024

Psychoanalytic Student Seminars

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

Loïc Pritchard, MFT (instructor)

Saturday, June 1, 2024

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Education Division

Graduation Ceremony 2024

Neil Brast, MD (graduation speaker)

Saturday, June 8, 2024

Dialogues in Contemporary Psychoanalysis

A Psychoanalytic Playlist with Sasha Frere-Jones

Sasha Frere-Jones (interviewee); Adam Blum, PsyD (interviewer); Elizabeth Bradshaw, PsyD (moderator)

Quick Links

San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis