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Sep42014 Expanding Clinical Understanding Through WritingWhen:Thursday, September 4, 2014 - 7:15pm to Thursday, December 11, 2014 - 8:45pm(5 meetings)Where:SDPCWe are pleased to announce that, after a successful pilot program, a new writing workshop will be held in the fall of 2014. Overview: This course utilizes a psychoanalytic perspective to expand both personal and clinical writing. Writing in this manner deepens clinical understanding and draws the writer into unconcscious realms. Particpants will learn to...
Jun212014 Two Breakthroughs for the Price of One: Promoting Your Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis Practice OnlineWhen:Saturday, June 21, 2014 - 9:00am to 12:00pm(8:30 am registration/ light breakfast)Where:SDPCFor Psychoanalysts and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists:  Two Breakthroughs for the Price of One! (An SDPC Practice Promotion Meetup for Learning and Networking) An active, senior colleague recently reported that, because he has no website, some of his colleagues thought he had retired! Do you want an opportunity to show people with mental health...
Jun142014 SDPC GraduationWhen:Saturday, June 14, 2014 - 5:30pm to 8:30pmWhere:Members Only SDPC announces the following 2014 Psychotherapy and Psychoanalytic Program graduates: Shannon Gilbride, MS - PPP Clinical Track Roseann Larson, LCSW - PPP Clinical Track In-Soo Lee, MD - Associate in Psychoanalysis  Ed Lowery, LCSW - PPP Clinical Track James Mason, MFT - Adult Psychoanalytic Program Dana Menddel, PhD - PPP Clinical Track Rebecca Moore, PhD - PPP...
May302014 A Psychoanalytic Reading of Adam Smith's TextsWhen:Friday, May 30, 2014 - 7:30pm to 9:30pm(7:00 PM - Registration/Wine & Cheese)Where:SDPCThis presentation will focus on the life and works of Adam Smith, the founder of contemporary economics. Latent content analysis is applied to The Wealth of Nations (1776/1981), showing that Smith considers dependence on others a problem. A reading of his biography illustrates his solution to one's individual independence from another is through a system of impersonalized interdependence as...
Apr262014 Introduction to Freud and Psychoanalysis (for SDPC members only)When:Saturday, April 26, 2014 - 10:00am to 12:00pmWhere:SDPCIntroduction to Freud and Psychoanalysis (for SDPC members only) Senior Faculty member Marti Peck, Ph.D. will present a draft of her paper on an introduction to Freud and psychoanalysis. SDPC members are invited to attend and provide feedback. After revision, this paper will be presented at various mental health and public educational venues. 
Apr52014 Finding the Unfound: The Convergence of Psychoanalytic Principles and Neuropsychology in the Understanding and Treatment of Asperger's SyndromeWhen:Saturday, April 5, 2014 - 9:00am to 12:00pm(8:30 a.m. – registration/light breakfast)Where:SDPCPsychoanalysts Katharine Gould (Los Angeles) and Alan Sugarman (La Jolla) will present clinical work with toddlers, children, and young adults diagnosed with Asperger’s. Neuropsychologist Alan Lincoln (San Diego) will discuss Asperger’s from the perspective of neurobiology, expanding insight into the world of those living with Asperger’s and their families. The clinical summaries presented at the...
Jan312014 Counseling with Latino Families: Building Multicultural Awareness: Challenges to Understanding the Dynamic along the Mexico/U.S.– Tijuana/San Diego...When:Friday, January 31, 2014 - 7:30pm to 9:30pm(7:00 PM - Registration/Wine & Cheese)Where:SDPCThe objective of this presentation is to understand Latino culture in greater depth within a mental health perspective specifically in this border area between Mexico/U.S.A/San Diego/Tijuana, and the ways in which these two interdependent societies function together. We will examine one of the most important myths of the Tijuanan culture in regards to the concept of migration by reviewing the...
Nov82013 Gay Male Desires and Sexualities: Psychoanalytic Considerations of 21st-Century Clinical EncountersWhen:Friday, November 8, 2013 - 7:30pm to 9:30pm(7:00 PM - Registration/Wine & Cheese)Where:SDPCThis presentation will review aspects of the development of desire and sexuality, with attention to connections and separations between intimacy and sexuality. Freud’s ideas about childhood and adolescent sexual development as it relates to separations of adult love or affection from sexual performance, or the madonna/whore syndrome, are also relevant to the childhood development of gay boys and...
Oct112013 Why Mrs. Robinson? The Seduction of Teen-age Boys by Women in Classic FilmsWhen:Friday, October 11, 2013 - 7:30pm to 9:30pm(7:00 PM - Registration/Wine & Cheese)Where:SDPCDrs. Colarusso and Cohen will select sequences from three among many classic films that explore the theme of such seduction:  The Graduate (1968), The Last Picture Show (1971), and The Reader (2008). The focus will be on the dynamics of the women seducers, comparing and contrasting their motivations. By providing psychoanalytic developmental theory on the young-adult and midlife development...
Sep202013 Legal and Ethical Issues in TelepsychologyWhen:Friday, September 20, 2013 - 7:30pm to 9:30pm(7:00 PM - Registration/Wine & Cheese)Where:SDPCDr. Maheu will present information about the most recent studies in telemental health, as well as significant legal and ethical issues related to the practice of telepsychology. The main purpose of this presentation is to provide mental health practitioners with basic knowledge about subjects like the use of video teleconferencing, telephone therapy, use of Skype in mental health care. It will...
Sep62013 Warning Behaviors and Their Psychodynamics in Targeted ViolenceWhen:Friday, September 6, 2013 - 7:30pm to 9:30pm(7:00 PM - Registration/Wine & Cheese)Where:SDPCREGISTRATION CLOSED. SEATING FULL. School shootings, mass murders, and terrorist bombings have highlighted the importance of identifying warning behaviors prior to such acts of targeted violence. Dr. Meloy will draw on his group's research in Europe and North America concerning eight warning behaviors—dynamic and accelerating patterns of risk—with a particular focus on the psychodynamics of...
May182013 Psychodynamic Case Formulation: A WorkshopWhen:Saturday, May 18, 2013 - 9:00am to 4:00pm(8:30 AM - Registration/Light Breakfast and Lunch Included)Where:SDPCThis one-day workshop on psychodynamic case formulation is offered to the mental-health community at large. Those practitioners who have a basic understanding of psychodynamic concepts and of Axis I diagnoses, who are comfortable with prescribing or referring out for medication when indicated, and who are interested in learning a more systematic approach to understanding and working...
May102013 Meet The Author: Justin Frank, M.D. - Obama on the Couch...When:Friday, May 10, 2013 - 7:30pm to 9:30pm(7:00 PM wine & cheese)Where:SDPCDr. Frank, a psychoanalyst and teacher in Washington DC, will use applied psychoanalysis to enrich our understanding of the 44h President as he has engaged the conflicts of his second term. Frank will share his insights on how Obama's childhood experiences have shaped his character, political philosophy and behavior. He will also provide insight into the psychodynamic causes of the passionate...
Apr262013 Principles of Addiction TreatmentWhen:Friday, April 26, 2013 - 7:30pm to 9:30pm(7:00 PM - Registration/Wine & Cheese)Where:SDPCThis presentation will focus on understanding personal resistance to working with addiction, establishing rapport around addiction issues, identifying and maintaining motivations to change, teaching how to cope with craving, working with community resources for recovery, and referring clients to specialty treatment when needed.
Apr52013 Standing in the Abyss: Countertransference and Therapeutic Engagement—Living Through The Feelings That We Must BearWhen:Friday, April 5, 2013 - 7:30pm to 9:30pm(7:00 PM - Wine & Cheese)Where:SDPCThis clinical presentation will focus on the phenomenon of couNtertransference, in which an aspect of the patient's personal psychology and accompanying feeling states may “hook into” something in the therapist's internal world or personal history that, if unidentified, can lead to a collapse of the analytic/therapeutic space. Clinical material will be presented that demonstrates these phenomena...

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