Wednesdays, March 3 – May 26
PINC invites clinicians in early and mid-career to participate in a continuous case conference focusing on a psychoanalytic approach to psychotherapy. Two PINC supervising and training analysts will teach for six weeks each offering an experience of PINC’s pluralistic approach, in which various theoretical points of view are drawn upon, contrasted and integrated. Participants will have opportunities to present their clinical work. Saturday, March 13, 2010Ethical Principles, Ethical Conundrums in Clinical PracticeUtilizing case vignettes, we will explore a variety of situations involving ethical conflicts and dilemmas. Participants will be encouraged to share how they would conceptualize the challenges presented and to elucidate the principles that guide them. The vignettes are intended to present material addressing a range of concerns including illness and death, confidentiality, boundary violations and responsibilities towards one’s colleagues, patients and the profession. There will be a focused discussion on the importance of a professional will. Participants are invited to bring in their own examples of ethical challenges they have encountered (making sure the material is appropriately disguised).
Mondays, March 15, 22, April 5, 12
This four-session course is designed to augment PINC’s March 27 event entitled “Sitting on the Couch.” We will consider the intriguing complexities, convergences and divergences in the long-standing dialogue between psychoanalysis and spirituality, examining concepts such as self, no-self, mindful attention, analytic reverie, non-dual consciousness, infantile narcissism, traumatic emptiness and transcendent emptiness. The perspectives that influence us from these traditions have important bearing on how we listen, and also on the kinds of experience to which we are open in our clinical work. Each course session will include a brief sitting practice, the reading of a relevant article and a group discussion. This course is co-sponsored by the Community Institute for Psychotherapy (CIP) in San Rafael and PINC. Saturday March 27
Since its inception, psychoanalysis has been concerned with states of consciousness and the foundations of the self. Over time it has reached deeper to more primitive states of mind and creative states of reverie. Given these expansions of the potential space of therapy, the question arises: "What happens when we open into modes of consciousness that go beyond the personal self?" In recent years Buddhism and other meditative practices have flowered in the West, offering their understanding of modes of experience that lie beyond the ego or self. For this day-long event we will delve into ways that psychoanalysis and these spiritual practices can inform and enrich each other. Two prominent leaders in their field, Buddhist teacher Tenshin Reb Anderson and psychoanalyst Jeffrey Rubin, will present their work, addressing the relevance of these practices to each other, as well as their points of convergence and divergence. Friday, April 30, 2010
Noted psychoanalyst and gender theorist Adrienne Harris, Ph.D., considers oedipal and post-oedipal life in terms of the subjective experience of time, thus extending beyond its usual emphasis on gender and sexuality. Using clinical material and personal reminiscence, Dr. Harris addresses the phenomenological experience of time and temporality which is so integral to all conscious and unconscious processes. She proposes that this line of exploration leads to a rethinking of the question of the law in psychoanalysis, viewing lawfulness less in terms of norms and absolutes, but rather in more organic and social constructivist terms. FACULTYReb Anderson (Tenshin Roshi) is a lineage-holder in the Soto Zen tradition. His teacher was Suzuki Roshi who ordained him as a priest in 1970, giving him the name Tenshin Zenki ("Naturally Real, The Whole Works"). He received dharma transmission in 1983 and served as abbot of San Francisco Zen Center's three training centers (City Center, Green Gulch Farm and Tassajara Zen Mountain Center) from 1986 to 1995. Tenshin Roshi continues to teach at Zen Center. He is author of Warm Smiles from Cold Mountains: Dharma Talks on Zen Meditation and Being Upright: Zen Meditation and the Bodhisattva Precepts. Bob Carrere, Ph.D., ABPP, is a faculty member, supervisor and personal analyst at PINC and the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis. He has presented and published on topics related to the treatment of aggression and psychotic states and the psychology of tragedy. His most recent paper, Psychoanalysis Conducted as a Talking Cure, appeared in the Journal of Contemporary Psychoanalysis in 2008, and his paper Psychoanalysis Conducted at Reduced Frequencies is slated for publication in Psychoanalytic Psychology. He is in private practice in San Francisco. Francisco J. Gonzalez, M.D., is a graduate of PINC and Past President of NCSPP. He has written and taught on a diverse range of topics, including socio-cultural process, film, and homosexuality. His paper Moving Targets, on madness and film narrative, won the 2009 Symonds Prize. He has a private practice in psychoanalysis, therapy, and consultation in San Francisco. Adrienne Harris, Ph.D., is a faculty member and supervisor at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, as well as a supervising and personal analyst and faculty member at PINC. She is on the editorial boards of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Studies on Gender and Sexuality, the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association and American Imago. Dr. Harris has published on numerous topics including gender, femininity and psychoanalysis. Her most recent book is Gender as Soft Assembly, published by the Analytic Press in 2005. Dr. Harris’ clinical practice is in New York City. Ralph Kaywin, DMH, is a personal and supervising analyst at PINC. As a member of the PINC faculty, he has taught Middle School, Case Conference and Integrative Seminar. He has also published on the works of Hans Loewald and Joyce Slochower. As a comparative analyst his teaching interest is in the integration of the various psychoanalytic perspectives within one's developing analytic identity. Dr. Kaywin practices psychoanalysis and consultation in Oakland. Karen Peoples, Ph.D., is a psychoanalyst in San Francisco and Marin, and a faculty member at PINC. She has presented numerous papers and workshops on psychoanalysis and spirituality, including meditative and psychoanalytic insights into narcissism, desire and the sacred, the relationship between traumatic experience and potential space, and myths of sacrifice. Her chapter, Why the Self Is, and Is Not, Empty, is published in Psychoanalysis at its Limits: Navigating the Postmodern Turn, edited by A. Elliott and C. Spezzano, 2000. Jeffrey Rubin, Ph.D. is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City and Bedford Hill, NY and a training analyst at the Westchester Institute for Training in Psychoanalysis. He is the author of several books integrating spiritual practices and psychotherapy, including Psychotherapy & Buddhism: Towards an Integration, A Psychoanalysis for Our Time: Exploring the Blindness of the Seeing I, and The Good Life: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Love, Ethics, Creativity and Spirituality. Jeffrey Sandler, M.D., is a personal and supervising analyst and faculty member at PINC. He has been a member and chair of PINC’s Ethics Committee. He is a faculty member of the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis where he has taught ethics and served on its Ethics Committee. He has been a member of California Pacific Medical Center’s Ethics Committee since 1986. Dr. Sandler’s clinical practice is in San Francisco.
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