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Apr222023 Creating Your Professional WillWhen:Saturday, April 22, 2023 - 10:00am to 12:00pm((9:30 am - Registration/coffee & pastries))Where:SDPCThe current health crisis is a shocking reminder that life isn’t always under our control. We know all too well how a person’s life can change in an instant, oftentimes when it is least expected. As private practice clinicians, we are vulnerable to disability, illness, emergencies, and death. Yet, Psychologists are rarely prepared for situations like these. In this course, Rochelle Perper, Ph.D...
Mar112023 Owing and Being Owed: Shame and Responsibility Toward The OtherWhen:Saturday, March 11, 2023 - 9:00am to 11:00amWhere:SDPC  PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT WILL TAKE PLACE ONLINE ONLY (via ZOOM) In the aftermath of relational disruptions to giving of oneself and being received, shame inverts the passionate movement of responsibility toward and for others into an enclosed self-focused preoccupation. Through the filter of omnipotence and omniscience, shame transforms the helplessness of one’s suffering into...
Feb182023 The Abnormalizing of Normal Childhood Maturational ChallengesWhen:Saturday, February 18, 2023 - 10:00am to 12:00pm((9:30 am - Registration/coffee & pastries))Where:SDPCTHIS EVENT/PRESENTATION WILL TAKE PLACE IN-PERSON ONLY AT SDPC -  4455 Morena Blvd., Ste. 202 San Diego, CA 92117 The training of mental health clinicians may predispose them to assign diagnoses to children when the behavior in question falls within the broad scope of normal. It can be exceedingly difficult to differentiate between transitory disturbing reactions to stressful life...
Feb272022 Movie Night: The Night PorterWhen:Sunday, February 27, 2022 - 5:00pm to 7:00pmWhere:SDPC“Mixed feelings are the only ones possible about the rerelease of Liliana Cavani’s 1974 shocker The Night Porter, a ripe piece of upper-middlebrow arthouse scandal in its day. The shock that greeted the affair between Dirk Bogarde’s SS officer and Charlotte Rampling’s Holocaust survivor looks dated 46 years on, but the film is an intriguing period piece.” The Guardian, 2020 Liliana Cavani (...
Aug22020 Movie Night - ContagionWhen:Sunday, August 2, 2020 - 6:00pm to 8:00pmWhere:SDPC  Join us for a psychoanalytic discussion of Contagion led by Dr. Alain Cohen, Psychoanalyst and  Professor of Comparative Literature and Film Studies at UCSD   Sunday August 2, 2020 6 pm (Pacific Time)   Dr Cohen will show clips of the movie and lead the discussion        Cost: $20 Please Register Here: https://...
May12020 Helping Trauma Patients Develop ResilienceWhen:Friday, May 1, 2020 - 7:30pm to 8:30pmWhere:ZoomDr. Eger will address how mental health professionals can competently guide their patients who have experienced trauma through a process which involves development of their inner resources to help them move beyond the pain of past trauma. She will emphasize ways to develop resiliency with the goal of helping these patients heal from trauma.   Pre-Registration is Required. Follow...
Mar62020 Law, Ethics, & Risk Management in Clinical PracticeWhen:Friday, March 6, 2020 - 7:30pm to 9:30pm(7:30 pm - Registration/Wine & Cheese)Where:SDPCDr. Russell Gold has been a Psychologist in private practice in San Diego for the past forty years. He is past-secretary, past-president, and current Fellow of the San Diego Psychological Association. He currently serves as Co-Chair of the California Psychological Association’s Ethic Committee. In this presentation, he will discuss how therapists can reduce risk in cases where couples divorce,...
Jan182020 DBT and Psychoanalysis: Can DBT Enrich a Psychoanalytically Informed Practice?When:Saturday, January 18, 2020 - 10:00am to 12:00pm(9:30 am - Registration & Coffee)Where:SDPC
Nov222019 Suicide Prevention & Treatment WorkshopWhen:Friday, November 22, 2019 - 9:00am to 3:00pm(8:30 am - Registration & Light Breakfast)Where:SDPCBeginning January 2020, all psychologists renewing their license will be required to complete a 6-hour training on suicide risk assessment and intervention.  We are offering a day of education which includes:  Evidence Based Suicide Prevention (Including Epidemiology, Risk, Prevention, Safety Planning and Therapeutic Interventions);  Suicide Bereavement – Supportive Interventions...
Nov22019 2019 Western Regional Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Conference When:Saturday, November 2, 2019 - 9:30am to Sunday, November 3, 2019 - 11:00am(8:30 am - 9:30 am on 11/2/19 - Breakfast & Registration )Where:SDPCPROGRAM SCHEDULE Saturday, November 2, 2019 8:30am until 9:30am Registration and Continental Breakfast 9:30am until 10:00am:  Introduction and Welcome 10am until Noon   Idealization and its Danger in a Restrictor Anorexic Girl Dr. Campbell will present six and one half year analysis of a 14 ½ year old restrictor anorexic girl.  This case demonstrates the use...
Nov12019 Living, Loving, and Hating Well: Ralph R. Greenson in His Time and OursWhen:Friday, November 1, 2019 - 7:30pm to 9:30pm(7:00 pm - Registration/Wine & Cheese)Where:SDPCIn this panel discussion, Harry Polkinhorn, Ph.D., MFT, Psychoanalyst and Past President of the SDPC Board of Directors (who has edited and published a series of books on the work of Ralph Greenson), Joseph Aguayo, Ph.D. Training and Supervising Analyst at the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Center and Associate Member of the New Center for Psychoanalysis, and Alain Cohen, Ph.D., Psychoanalyst at SDPC...
Mar292019 Update of Laws Affecting the Practice of PsychologyWhen:Friday, March 29, 2019 - 7:30pm to 9:30pmWhere:SDPCThis presentation will cover recent cases and cautionary tales from the preceding year, risk management trends, and an update on changes and developments in state and federal law, including the laws of privacy.  
Jan252019 The Clinical Work of Wilfred Bion: the ‘Here and Now’ and the Present UnconsciousWhen:Friday, January 25, 2019 - 7:30pm to 9:30pm(7:00 p.m. Registration/Wine & Cheese)Where:SDPCIn a short, iconic and occasionally baffling paper, Wilfred Bion (1967) in ‘Notes on Memory and Desire’ epitomized what contemporary London Kleinian work began to become most well-known for, namely working with the ‘here and now’ states of mind evinced by analytic patients. While Melanie Klein’s work with young children had long been conducted with a focus on the present moment, Bion accelerated...
Jan192019 First International Conference on Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Aging co-sponsored with the International Psychoanalytical Association’s Committee...When:Saturday, January 19, 2019 - 9:00am to 5:00pm((8:00 am – registration/coffee & rolls) - 7 pm: optional dinner, TBA)Where:SDPC9:00 a.m. Introduction 9:05 a.m. Lee Jaffe, Ph.D. Dr. Lee Jaffe is a training and supervising psychoanalyst at the San Diego Psychoanalytic Center. He is currently the president of the American Psychoanalytic Association and is past-president of the SDPC and of IPSO, of the International Psychoanalytic Studies Organization, and of NAPsaC or the North American Psychoanalytic Confederation. He...
Nov302018 Freud's Last Session - Staged Reading - Directed by Haig Koshkarian, M.D.When:Friday, November 30, 2018 - 7:00pm to 9:00pmWhere:SDPCSDPC will be presenting a staged reading of  Freud’s Last Session by Mark St. Germain. This award winning play depicts a fictional meeting between Sigmund Freud and the writer and Oxford Don C.S. Lewis in which they clash and debate with both humor and passion the meaning of life, suffering, death,  love, and the existence of God from their very different  world views....

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