2019-05-13 Scientific Meeting – San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis

Program Title:	Creating Meaning Within the Rules of the Game: Psychoanalysis as Playful Rite to Manage Intimacy
Date:	May 13, 2019
Presenter:	Stanley Coen, MD
Discussant:	J. Mars Wallis, LCSW
Moderator:	Michael Levin, PsyD

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