APRIL 2021 ISSUE SAN FRANCISCO CENTER FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS

Your guide to a modern lifestyle in a fast-paced city

WHAT'S IN THIS ISSUE

SFCP Board Meeting Highlights- 1 A message from the SFCP President - 4 SFCP Annual Meeting - 6 Annual Giving Campaign - 6 SFCP BOARD MEETING HIGHLIGHTS SFCP Legacy Gifts - 8 MARCH 8 & MARCH 29, 2021 Community Outreach and Service Division Update - 10 Paul Sorbo, LCSW CAPPTP Event - 12 SFCP Board Chair PED Graduation - 13 As previously reported, the February 22nd Board of Trustees meeting PPED Graduation Distinguished Service Awards - 15 was solely focused on the presentations of the Inclusion/Exclusion Enrico Jones Fund - 16 Task Force Report by Elizabeth Simpson, LCSW and the Diversity, Analyst Membership Dues - 17 Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Advisory Committee to the Board SFCP New Mailing Address - 18 Workgroup led by Brett Penfil, MFT, MPH and Cathy Witzling, PhD, Haskell Norman Prize - 19 LCSW. In this meeting the Board asked each presenter many questions SB Psychotherapy Forum - 20 followed by a facilitated discussion of the recommendations. Peer Consultation Group - 21 Child Colloquium - 22 The February meeting was followed by a specially scheduled March Community Member Mentorship Program- 24 Mali Mann Book - 25 8th Board meeting to continue our Workgroup’s report out. The Recognitions - 26 meeting started with a review of the Inclusion/Exclusion (I/E) Task Jack Drescher - 27 Force recommendations and an initial discussion on how the Board would implement these recommendations.

For newsletter submissions email: [email protected] PAUL SORBO, LCSW BOARD CHAIR SFCP Board Meeting Highlights March 8 & March 29, 2021

To review: the first recommendation is the need for a Mission Statement that reflects SFCP’s commitment to the considerations of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging. The second recommendation is building a Culture of Accountability and Ensuring DEI Objectives have Tenure. The third recommendation focuses on Faculty Support, Expectation and Accountability. The fourth recommendation is the need to integrate Succession Planning into all aspects of our volunteer organization. The fifth recommendation focuses on Organizational Dynamics and Learning about Groups. The sixth recommendation is about Learning Together and DEI Education. The seventh recommendation is about adopting Transparency as an organizational value at SFCP. The eighth recommendation is focused on improvements to our website and the ninth recommendation is focused on recruiting an analyst member and community member as co-editors of the SFCP Newsletter.

The full I/E Task Force Report will be available to all members via email next week. In addition, I will be attending the April 5th Management Team Meeting to further discuss these I/E Task Force recommendations and address their implementation.

In the March 8th and March 29th Board Meeting, the Voting Rights Workgroup, led by Cheryl Goodrich, LCSW, and the Board Composition Workgroup co-led by Doug Stakey, PhD, and Brett Penfil, MFT, MPH, presented their recommendations, heard feedback and returned to the next meeting with revisions. In the March 29th meeting, the Voting Rights Workgroup recommended expanding voting rights to Associate Members and proposed several steps toward implementation. The Board Composition Workgroup recommended mandating the Board to annually adopt specific diversity goals for our Board and to submit an annual report to our SFCP members regarding the Board’s performance against the established goals. As both of these recommendations would require revisions to our current SFCP Bylaws, the Board gave the Workgroup leaders consent to develop draft changes with our lawyer. Once drafted, the bylaw changes will be brought back to the Board for approval and next steps.

In her Facilities Committee Report, Amy Friedman, LCSW updated the Board on several bids for the HVAC equipment replacement and repairs as well as bids on replacing the fifteen front windows in the Natoma Street building. Our goal is to have these building projects completed by the end of August.

Looking ahead to next year, I proposed developing a new Strategic Plan for SFCP to guide our organization for the next five years. Briefly, the process would include building a planning design team this summer and hiring a strategic planning consultant. Over the next year, we would involve our members to develop a new mission statement, update our strategic directions, understand the roadblocks and barriers to change and create an implementation plan. This is a good time to plan for our future. Think about how you’d like to participate next year. PAUL SORBO, LCSW BOARD CHAIR SFCP Board Meeting Highlights March 8 & March 29, 2021

Lastly, the Board voted to approve a proposal to increase Marcia Hodges’s Administrative Director hours from 50% to 75% starting July 1, 2021, for the next three years. These three years of annual support for additional time for the Administrative Director were made possible through a donation from the Windholz Fund. This proposal grew out of conversations with Michael Windholz of the Windholz Fund who wished to assist SFCP with its financial stability over the next few years. The purpose of this transaction is to provide expanded time for the Administrative Director to take additional steps to improve the operations of SFCP.

Please contact me at [email protected] if you have any questions or wish to provide me with any feedback. CHERYL GOODRICH, PHD SFCP PRESIDENT A Message from the SFCP President

Dear Colleagues,

I’m working to get to know the many people who comprise the Management Team and more deeply understand the programs they run at the Center. These chairs meet monthly with the President to coordinate and problem solve all of the activities of the Center.

The Management Team is comprised of the Chairs of the 6 Divisions plus the co-Chairs of Faculty: Membership Services, Psychoanalytic Division, Psychotherapy Division, Extension, Community Outreach and Service and Academic & Applied Psychoanalysis.

As I’ve mentioned before, it continues to seem that the number one priority for our Center is improving our process of members taking turns to keep our programs running. We are currently interested in finding members to serve as leaders in the Membership, Psychotherapy and Academic & Applied divisions. If you have curiosity about these roles, please drop me a note at [email protected].

In a related vein, you’re probably aware of the recent crisis in the SF-PPTP program where it’s future was uncertain given an acute shortage of faculty volunteering to teach. This program has become a highly successful, major medium for SFCP to connect with therapists interested to learn more about psychoanalytic thought and treatment. Through heroic outreach efforts by Beth Steinberg and Maria Longemare, sufficient teaching commitments were obtained for the coming year. This crisis was an acute instance of a more chronic difficulty fielding faculty in some programs. So, I’ve been in discussion with the Faculty Co-chairs, Celeste Schneider and Peter Goldberg, and they will soon be surveying our faculty to develop a more complete picture of our faculty capacity in order to plan for several years out. We’re aware of contributing issues like covid exhaustion, Zoom fatigue, faculty being spread thin across many programs, retirements, the challenges of teaching in times of social re-visioning, and faculty feeling dispirited due to negative reviews. There may be other reasons faculty decline to teach—the survey will seek to clarify so we can plan.

As I work at the role of President, I’m hoping to map a big picture of where we are and where we want to go. In the last number of years we have grown a great deal in some ways, and in others we’ve gotten smaller. I’m keen to help right size our commitments to our collective energies. If you have an average of an hour a week, I believe there is a role for you. Let’s talk!

Warm wishes,

Cheryl

SAN FRANCISCO CENTER FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS

ANNUAL MEETING

Saturday, June 26, 2021

10:00am - 12:00pm

Via Zoom

Please click here to RSVP SFCP ANNUAL GIVING CAMPAIGN Fundraising Update

THANK YOU!

To date, we have raised $91,058.74 73% from 92 members which is 73% of our $125,000 goal.

We hope all members contribute this year

WHY DONATE TO SFCP? How to Donate

Online By contributing to the Campaign, you SFCP Website can support SFCP’s mission, sustain our vibrant analytic community, and make By Mail: a meaningful contribution to our P.O. Box 71269 efforts to increase diversity in our Oakland, CA 94612 membership and accessibility to our programs. By Phone: (415) 354-9719 Your contribution is an essential part of SFCP’s annual income. help us reach our goal Please consider donating what you can Every donation Counts!

SFCP ANNUAL GIVING CAMPAIGN

WHY WE GIVE TO SFCP

"My husband and I believe it’s important to support SFCP both financially and through volunteering our time because the SFCP community is important to my professional life, to the Bay Area psychoanalytic community, and to the City of San Francisco.

We know SFCP only survives because of the generous support of all of its members and we believe the training offered at every level to be an integral part of maintaining the health and wellness of the Bay Area."

- Suzanne Klein, PhD and Dan Rosenbaum

"SFCP is my intellectual home. Its psychoanalytic library is without peer. Even now, if I need a specific paper from a journal, I contact the librarian to research it and he gets it to me. SO worth it! That's why I support the Annual Giving"

- Henry Massie, MD Please Consider a Legacy Gift to SFCP

Since 1947, SFCP has been a source of lively psychoanalytic training, continuing education, and affiliation for hundreds of mental health professionals. We want to ensure that this strong and evolving institution continues to be a resource for generations to come. As you think about the people and organizations who have sustained you and which you would like to carry on for future generations, please consider including SFCP in your estate planning. “Legacy Donors” are forward-thinking people on whose shoulders future generations can stand. Gifts of all sizes are important.

In addition to supporting SFCP through your generous annual donations, here are other ways you can contribute to the sustainability of SFCP for the long-term. Many of these options are a win-win for the donor and the organization. We encourage you to consult with your financial advisor to discuss the tax implications of these options:

• Bequests One of the easiest ways to help involves simply naming SFCP as a beneficiary in your will and living trust. A bequest may be for a particular dollar amount or percentage of your estate. Estate tax savings may be significant.

• Life Insurance Policy and Retirement Assets Often overlooked by donors, naming SFCP as a partial beneficiary of these assets can provide support for the organization.

• Life Income Gifts Life income gifts allow you to leave a gift in the care of SFCP, while earning income for yourself during your lifetime. The two most popular life income gifts are charitable remainder trusts and charitable gift annuities.

• Complex Gifts If you are a business owner, own real property or have any other type of complex asset, giving options exist that can both help SFCP and benefit your family financially.

Legacy Donors are an honored part of the SFCP donor family, by being recognized in our Annual Report and on our website. Also, SFCP can work with you to direct your donation.

If interested in making a Legacy gift, please contact Marcia Hodges, Administrative Director, at [email protected] to discuss becoming a Legacy Donor. Great news, we are now registered with Amazon Smile!

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DEBORAH WEISINGER, PSYD COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND SERVICE DIVISION CHAIR Community Outreach and Service Division Update

How many times in 2020 into 2021 have we seen or heard that these are “unprecedented times” ? How many times have I wondered (&, perhaps, you have too) how we will bear the many swift and difficult transitions required, from working remotely to the question of when and how to return to the office, to worrying about our loved ones, to grappling with many long-standing struggles for racial justice and equality in the blinding aftermath of the murder of George Floyd and other Black Americans, and to feeling frightened by the political upheaval that threatens our civic stability? Perhaps this is a strange way to begin a column, especially since in many ways things are opening up. Additionally, we continue engaging in conversations about these on-going struggles alongside our commitment to take necessary action. Nonetheless, in my first column in many months I do want to acknowledge that the effects of this past year have long standing repercussions for us all.

I want to recognize those in this Division who have continued to provide thoughtful and committed Outreach beginning with The Coalition for Clinical Social Work and its dedication to social justice co-chaired by Elizabeth Kita, PhD, LCSW and Clara Kwun, LCSW. The committee includes: Katy Davis, PhD, LCSW, Ken Epstein, PhD, LCSW, Scott Haitsuka, LCSW, Elyse Miller, LCSW, Julia St. George, LCSW, Tim Sasaki, LCSW, MPH, Maxine Turret, LCSW , BCD, Daniel Yu, LCSW.

The committee members of the Psychotherapy Forums in San Francisco, South Bay, and the East Bay, have continued programming with the opportunity to meet virtually and discuss clinical matters thoughtfully. These are chaired by Michael Wachter, MD, moderated by Michael Smith PhD, and co-chaired by Lara Weyland, PhD and Vivek Anand, MFT respectively. Committee members include Eric Glassgold, MD, in San Francisco, and Anne Joseph-Ingham, PsyD, and Joann Shurter, MFT in the South Bay.

Both Lara Weyland and Robin Deutsch are stepping down from the East Bay Psychotherapy Forum. While Lara leaves the Forum in Vivek’s capable hands, we have an opening for a moderator with Robin’s approaching exit. Please let us know if you are interested.

In addition, I am engaged in transitional planning for the Division. I think that the time is right for new leadership with ideas to more fully engage our community. I am looking for an additional co-chair to this division as I begin transitioning out. As an initial and very large first step, I am very happy to welcome Kira Steifman, PsyD, as co- chair. I hope that you all will give her a warm welcome. Here is a briefintroduction:

Kira provides psychotherapy to children, adolescents, and adults, and co-parenting counseling to separating and divorced parents. She has a doctoral degree in clinical psychology from the Wright Institute. She completed her predoctoral internship at RAMS and finished her postdoctoral fellowship at Access Institute in July 2020. At the end of August, Kira began a private practice under Toni Heineman’s supervision. Her license should arrive in the mail any day now.

Psychology is a second career for Kira. After attending Dartmouth College and Northwestern University School of Law, she worked as a corporate attorney in New York before moving to San Francisco in 2000. She stayed at home while her children were young before returning to graduate school. DEBORAH WEISINGER, PSYD COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND SERVICE DIVISION CHAIR Community Outreach and Service Division Update

Of her extensive volunteer experience, closest to Kira’s heart are the fifteen years she served on the board of A Home Within, including two years as Board President. She now sees a patient through A Home Within, achieving a goal she set for herself when applying to the Wright.

Kira is thrilled to become involved with SFCP as a volunteer. She has attended many presentations and meetings over the years and appreciates the opportunity to give back to an organization that provides so much to the Bay Area’s psychoanalytic community. As a relatively new community member, she welcomes your recommendations and advice—both dos and don’ts—as to possible directions and priorities for the Community Outreach and Service Division.

Kira lives in San Francisco with her husband, two teenagers, and a very large yellow lab named Sam.

As Kira mentions, we are very interested in your input. Please be in touch. SAN FRANCISCO CENTER FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY TRAINING PROGRAM

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 2021 7.30PM - 9.00PM FACILITATED BY: MICHAEL PASTOR, PHD & GREG VILLALBA, LCSW

We will read and discuss the following chapter from Altman, N. (2010)

Clinical Experiences in A Public Clinic in The Analyst in the Inner City (pp 3 -32) New York, NY: Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group

The chapter will be emailed to registrants

MEET WITH FACULTY DISCUSS A CHAPTER A N D O T H E R ILLUSTRATING PROSPECTIVE CONTEMPORARY APPLICANTS CHILD/ADOLESCENT PSYCHOTHERAPY TO GET A FLAVOUR OF THE PROGRAM

REGISTER HERE SAN FRANCISCO CENTER FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS PRESENTS PSYCHOANALYTIC EDUCATION DIVISION VIRTUAL GRADUATION

Saturday, May 8, 2021 4.00pm Graduation speaker Katherine MacVicar, MD

Please click here to RSVP for this event

SFCP PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY EDUCATION DIVISION PRESENTS Graduation

Graduation Speaker: Shahla Chehrazi, MD

Saturday, June 5th 2021 4.00pm - 6.00pm via Zoom

Please click here to RSVP to this event. Distinguished Service Awards

Each year, the SFCP Management Team recognizes members who have made unique contributions to SFCP with a Distinguished Service Award. Nominations for the award need to be received by April 30th.

To submit a nomination, please complete a DSA Nomination Form, The recipients will be announced at the Annual Business meeting in June

A list of past recipients can be found here.

CHERYL YUND GOODRICH, PHD The Enrico E. Jones Fund for Equality and Excellence

In memory of my late husband, Enrico Edison Jones, PhD, a beloved member of SFCP who passed away at 55 years old, I’ve made a founding donation to provide tuition credit for therapists of color who would like to study at SFCP. Enrico did his psychoanalytic training at SFPI&S and was a Faculty member at SFPI&S. The current cultural resurgence of protest against abuse of African Americans reminds me of Enrico’s life as an African American, but also as a psychoanalyst, psychoanalytic process researcher and professor. So, I’d like to tell you a bit about him.

Rico loved his colleagues at SFCP. And the organization became a kind of intellectual and emotional home to him. Considering he was born in Munich Germany right after the war of a German/Jewish early childhood educator mother and African American United States Army career military father, it was no small thing for him to find such a home. His parents struggled financially but their children excelled academically, and he was helped along the way by scholarships at Harvard University and the University of California at Berkeley. He became a highly productive and beloved Professor of Clinical Psychology at UC Berkeley, and a leader in psychoanalytic research. Peter Fonagy, his friend and colleague, described him as “one of the strong pillars of psychoanalytic research”. Enrico’s scholarly work focused on race, class, gender and then psychotherapy processes. But what Enrico loved most was his work in analytically informed psychotherapy and analysis.

Enrico’s research culminated in his book, Therapeutic Action, A Guide to Psychoanalytic Therapy (Aronson, 2000) where he detailed his research based on videotaped two year, twice weekly psychoanalytic psychotherapies. In the book he illustrates how his Psychotherapy Process Q-Sort is used to describe clinical phenomenon in terms which can be translated into quantifiable data so the mutual influence of patient and therapist can be tracked systematically over time. He developed his idea of “interaction structures” which develop in the course of the therapeutic relationship in a psychoanalytic treatment. This book was an answer to the research funding situation in the United States where the National Institute of Mental Health would no longer fund studies using “non-manualized” treatments. So, Rico set about writing a manual, though it was more than that. He sought to observe and describe psychoanalytic psychotherapies naturalistically and was able to study both excellent and poor outcomes and characterize what ingredients in the treatments led to the different outcomes.

I would like Enrico’s memory to stay alive and inspire therapists like him. In these challenging and especially polarized times, I hope we emulate what his friend and psychoanalyst colleague Dorothy Holmes, PhD said of him, “he embraced polarities and difficult-to-abide differences, found them of compelling interest, and explored them thoroughly.”

If you are interested in making a donation to this fund, please contact Megan Kelly at [email protected]. Scholarship applications can be found here. Committee: Cheryl Yund Goodrich, PhD, Forrest Hamer, PhD, Amy Wallerstein Friedman, LCSW ANALYSTANALYSTANALYST MEMBERSHIPMEMBERSHIPMEMBERSHIP DUESDUESDUES

Membership Dues for 2021 are $1345

If you are 70 years of age or older and have reduced your practice, you are entitled to a reduced rate. This is calculated by the percentage of time you practice.

Dues received after March 31, 2021 will incur a late fee of $50.

You can pay your dues online by clicking here

Checks can be mailed to:

P.O. Box 71269 Oakland, CA 94612

Please note that SFCP has a temporary new mailing address:

P.O. Box 71269 Oakland, CA 94612 THE SAN FRANCISCO CENTER FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS PRESENTS

THE HASKELL NORMAN PRIZE FOR EXCELLENCE IN PSYCHOANALYSIS

I AM WALKING IN THE WOODS IN THE POURING RAIN: A CONSIDERATION OF INDISPENSABLE OBJECTS

Presenter: Donald B. Moss, MD Moderator: Charles P. Fisher, MD

Monday, May 10 2021 7.30pm - 9.30pm

The Haskell Norman Prize for Excellence in Psychoanalysis this year will be awarded to Donald B. Moss, M.D., of New York. His talk will be an exciting and important presentation about Climate Change denial.

Psychoanalytic interpretation has long focused on the object relation as a carrier of meaning. By way of the relation with the manifest object, the one in front of us, we try to sense the presence of covert objects and their covert relations. Via interpretation, we can seek to illuminate the impact of those covert objects and covert relations. Thought of that way, the manifest object is functionally dispensable, more a vector or container of meanings than meaningful in itself-as such, the object in front of us seems both contingent and variable. In this presentation, I mean to think about the category of indispensable objects. Surrounded as we are by current and threatened catastrophes- - by the undeniable presence of limits, shortages, and scarcities-the time may have passed when we could afford the luxury of treating the objects of our clinical and social worlds as dispensable .

Please click h e r e to register for this free event

SOUTH BAY PSYCHOTHERAPY FORUM Date: Tuesday, April 21, 2021 Time: 7:15pm.

Presenter: Sophie Yost, MA Discussant: Neil Brast, MD Moderator: Michael K. Smith, PhD

The Psychotherapy Forum is a monthly psychotherapy case presentation and discussion open to psychotherapists of all levels of experience. It provides a communal space in which to think about clinical work in a spirit of open inquiry, creativity, empathy, and respect for patient and therapist. It follows the principle that bringing together colleagues from diverse disciplines and cultures, with differing levels of experience and differing perspectives on the psyche, maximizes opportunities for the development and transmission of psychoanalytic knowledge.

This program is open to licensed and pre-licensed clinicians and graduate students in the mental health disciplines. Please feel free to join any time after 7:15pm. The program will start at 7:30pm and end at 9:00pm. This South Bay Forum will be held via a Zoom videoconference.

Please click here to register for this program

After you have registered you will be sent a confidentiality agreement which you must sign and return to receive a link for the video conference on Tuesday. The forum will be limited to the first 25 registrants.

SAN FRANCISCO CENTER FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS PRESENTS Peer Consultation Group Please email [email protected] for registration

April 24, 2021 10.30am - 12.00pm

The Peer Consultation Groups ar an opportunity to talk about practice related and clinical matters as we all continue adjusting to the realities of the world that we are facing, including the dual pandemics of Covid and racism, environmental threats and political unrest.

These Peer Consultation Groups will not have a facilitator or moderator and are only open to clinicians who are members of SFCP, since clinical work may be discussed. In addition, if you have a clinical conflict, please excuse yourself from the meeting.

Please be mindful that for those who participate, it is incumbent upon you to protect confidentiality to the greatest extent possible when discussing clinical matters. Although these meetings would not be recorded, as we all know there are limits to the protections of on-line conversations and gatherings. SAN FRANCISCO CENTER FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS PRESENTS CHILD COLLOQUIUM

HOW OUR MIND BECOMES RACIALIZED: A DEVELOPMENTAL PERSPECTIVE

Saturday, May 22, 2021 10.00am - 12.00pm Online via Zoom Free - Pre-registration is required

Presenter: Beverly J. Stoute, MD Moderator: Jyoti Rao, LMFT

Differences in the social construction of Black and white subjectivity impact the therapeutic encounter, but how do we come to understand these differences? How does our mind become racialized? A fundamental understanding of racial ethnic socialization and racial learning, with attention to racial identity formation and the vicissitudes of racial trauma across the developmental spectrum is necessary especially when treating children, adolescents or adults of color. Clinical case examples will highlight the factors that can facilitate or thwart therapeutic engagement of patients of varying ethnic backgrounds on issues of race and ethnicity across the developmental cycle. As mental health clinicians we must challenge ourselves, to learn to recognize how our own racial attitudes impact our work in the therapeutic encounter. Understanding these important factors can play a role in understanding how implicit bias impacts health care delivery on all levels

Please click here to register for this event Beverly J. Stoute, MD, FABP, FAPA Dr. Stoute, a Child, Adolescent and Adult Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst, who serves as the President of the Atlanta Psychoanalytic Society, Co-Chair of the Holmes Commission on Racial Equality in the America Psychoanalytic Association, as a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Emory University Psychoanalytic Institute; as a Child and Adolescent Supervising Analyst and graduate of The New York Psychoanalytic Institute, and as a Fellow (Training and Supervising Analyst) of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Research and Training (IPTAR). Dr. Stoute teaches on the faculties of multiple institutes, training programs and medical schools, serves on the editorial boards of the Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, and Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, on the Advisory Council of the Harlem Family Institute in NY, and is a member of Black Psychoanalysts Speak. Among her many publications is her forthcoming book, co-edited with Michael Slevin, MSW, The Trauma of Racism: Lessons from the Therapeutic Encounter is due out in late 2021. She is a nationally recognized speaker, author, educator, and consultant on issues of race, racism, diversity, the development of race awareness, with expertise in the psychoanalytic applications in the treatment of children and adolescents with a wide range of psychiatric problems, behavioral problems and learning differences, and is in full time private practice in Atlanta, GA.

Jyoti M. Rao, LMFT Jyoti M. Rao, LMFT, is Associate Faculty and Psychoanalytic Candidate at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. She was formerly Core Faculty in the Department of Integral Counseling Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies, where she taught a range of topics including a course on multicultural counseling in which she developed an experiential-psychodynamic approach to diversity education. Actively involved in clinical training, she was Intern Program Director at the Integral Counseling Center at Pierce Street for seven years, and has been clinical faculty in other training programs. She has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society and currently serves on the Program Committee of APsaA. She has presented widely, most recently at the APsaA National Meeting and the meeting on Psychoanalysis and Social Activism in Fall 2020, and has published in the areas of colonial trauma, nationalism, and race. Her article entitled, “Observations on the Use of the N-Word in Psychoanalytic Conferences” will appear in the April 2021 issue of the JAPA. SFCP Community Members Mentoring Program

Would you like to meet with an analyst to discuss your question s about psychoanalytic thinking and clinical work? We’d love to meet with you! The Mentoring Program at SFCP matches participants with analyst mentors to discuss the mentee’s interest in psychoanalytic work. The Mentoring Program is open to mental health clinicians at all levels of training and experience, who are SFCP Community Members, an easy and fun community to join! Mentors meet once a month with mentees for the academic year.

Examples of Topics to Discuss: Information, resources and literature to help a mentee explore particular areas of interest. For example: work with particular populations such as trauma survivors; current thinking about LGBTQ issues; the impact of race, class and culture on psychological life; child work; mindfulness; research about psychoanalytic process; and psychoanalytic interfaces with other fields such as poetry, literature, neurosciences How to choose among current activities, programs, courses, and services offered by SFCP that are relevant to the mentee’s interests and stage of training Questions about developing as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and about psychoanalytic training Connecting the mentee with colleagues who the mentor thinks might be a valuable resource based on the mentee’s interest in a particular subject

You must be an SFCP Community Member to apply for this program, here is the link to become a Community Member: https://www.sfcp.org/s/community-membership

And here is the link to the Mentoring Program: https://www.sfcp.org/s/mentoring-program

“I'm new to private practice and was looking to get mentoring and support from someone with a deep knowledge of psychotherapy. During our initial meetings I was able to get several very practical and pressing questions answered and feel more confident about seeing clients in my new private practice setting. We discussed psychoanalytic approaches to working with parents and children, which helped me to move forward with my cases and also to consider aspects that I had not previously considered. I have a particular interest in mindfulness and my mentor put me in touch with a therapist who incorporates mindfulness into a psychodynamic therapy practice. In addition, I work with children and my mentor referred me to the Child Colloquium, where I met other clinicians and heard a very helpful presentation. I feel very fortunate to meet with my mentor as needs arise.” Matt Higgins LCSW, Community Members Mentoring Program

Contact: Holly Gordon, DMH [email protected]

COST: FREE to SFCP Community Members. LINK TO APPLICATION: https://www.sfcp.org/s/mentoring-program QUESTIONS: If you have questions about the program, please contact: Holly Gordon, DMH [email protected]

Recognitions

Brady, M.T. (2021). “Daddy’s Head is Broken”: The Treatment of Children of Severe Alcoholics. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 74, 234-248. OREGON PSYCHOANALYTIC CENTER PRESENTS THE DIVERSITY LECTURE SERIES SPONSORED BY ARLENE SCHNITZER PSYCHOANALYSIS, SEX, AND GENDER IN THE 21ST CENTURY WITH JACK DRESCHER, MD

DATE: SATURDAY, MAY 8, 2021 TIME: 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM

PRICING: $150 - NON-MEMBERS $135 - MEMBERS $75 - STUDENTS/ RESIDENTS/ INTERNS/ COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS

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*This workshop is designed to meet requirements of the Oregon Board of Psychologists, Examiners for four hours of Cultural Competency CE

TALK #1 - ETHICAL ISSUES IN TREATING LGBT PATIENTS

The American Psychiatric Association’s Principles of Medical Ethics emphasize competence, respect and up- to-date knowledge as a basis for appropriate professional behavior toward lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) patients. This presentation first reviews historical psychiatric attitudes towards LGBT patients that could be construed, at best, as patronizing and, at worst, overtly hostile. In modern clinical practice, as opposed to trying to “cure” homosexuality or “transsexualism,” LGBT patients are helped to live their lives according to their own natures and desires. This presentation outlines some common clinical questions raised by LGBT patients—what is known and not known about the origins of homosexuality and transgender expression, sexual orientation conversion efforts (SOCE), therapist self-disclosure, how therapists should address LGBT patients, and controversies surrounding treatment of transgender children— as well as ethical issues raised in these clinical encounters

LEARNING OBJECTIVES: At the end of this presentation, attendees will 1.Be cognizant of issues specific to the treatment of LGBT patients 2.Be prepared to answer the kind of questions LGBT patients frequently ask of clinicians 3.Be cognizant of important ethical principles salient to the treatment of LGBT Patients

REFERENCES: Drescher, J. (2015). Ethical issues in treating LGBT patients.” In: Oxford Handbook of Psychiatric Ethics, Eds. J. Sadler, C.W. van Staden & K.W.M. Fulford. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 180-192. Drescher, J. & Pula, J. (2014). Ethical issues raised by the treatment of gender variant prepubescent children. The Hastings Center Report, 44(Suppl4): S17-22. TALK #2 - A BISEXUAL MAN’S SEARCH FOR IDENTITY: AN INTERPERSONAL PSYCHOANALYTIC PERSPECTIVE

This is a case presentation of a man starting treatment in his thirties, initially presenting with obsessional anxiety about his sexual identity. Questions about his sexual identity were never resolved in a previous treatment despite eight years of four-time-a-week psychoanalysis. Shortly after beginning a new, once a week treatment, that included pharmacotherapy for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, the patient experienced a significant reduction in anxiety that allowed him to address questions about sexual identity in a more productive manner.

The clinical material evoked in the analyst associations to the process by which homosexuality was removed from DSM-II in 1973. That history, which includes the replacement of “homosexuality per se” with “sexual orientation disturbance” is reviewed. These associations were shared with the patient.

As the patient began feeling more comfortable exploring his sexual desires for both men and women, he managed to put aside questions of identity until he had accumulated more intimate experiences with both sexes. The case illustrates how the therapeutic task of defining a sexual identity is often a complex, interpretative and interpersonal process.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES: At the end of this presentation, attendees will 1.Learn to tell the difference between a sexual orientation and a sexual identity. 2.Identify etiological theories of homosexuality as normalizing, pathologizing or juvenilizing. 3.Identify patients’ etiological theories of homosexuality as having underlying, moralizing value judgments about human sexuality.

TALK #3 - FROM BISEXUALITY TO INTERSEXUALITY: RETHINKING GENDER CATEGORIES

The study of human sexual identities is changing, and these changes oblige analysts to think about sexualities in ways never envisioned by their psychoanalytic forbears. These changes also require that they be aware of some of the limitations imposed upon by their own theoretical traditions. Toward that end, this presentation begins with a definition of terms related to modern conceptions of sexuality and sexual identities. This is followed by a review of historical assumptions underlying the theory of bisexuality. The next section introduces the audience to the role of categories and hierarchies in general, and to the clinical meaning of sexual hierarchies in particular. This is followed by a discussion of the meanings and uses of the “natural.” The final section concludes with a commentary on intersexuality as an example of both the social and surgical construction of gender.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES: At the end of this presentation, attendees will 1.Formulate the theoretical and cultural context in which Freud developed his theory of bisexuality 2.Delineate some of the usually unexamined cultural beliefs about gender that led to medically treating intersex infants and children with unnecessary surgery and secrecy 3.Articulate some of the unexamined and often dissociated roles of values in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy 4.Identify terms from sexology research that are not commonly used in psychoanalytic theorizing and case formulations

REFERENCES: Drescher, J. (2007). From bisexuality to intersexuality: Rethinking gender categories. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 43(2):204-228. Rubin, G. (1984). Thinking sex: Notes for a radical theory of the politics of sexuality. In: The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader, eds. H. Abelove, M.A. Barale, & D. Halperin. New York: Routledge, 1993, pp. 3-44. BIOGRAPHY

Jack Drescher, MD, is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City.

He is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons and a Faculty Member at Columbia’s Division of Gender, Sexuality, and Health. He is a Senior Psychoanalytic Consultant at Columbia’s Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and Adjunct Professor at New York University’s Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the William Alanson White Institute.

Dr. Drescher Co-Chairs the Committee on Public Information of the American Psychoanalytic Association and co-edits APsaA’s Psychoanalysis Unplugged blog on PsychologyToday.com. He is a consultant to the Sexual & Gender Diversity Studies Committee of the International Psychoanalytical Association.

Dr. Drescher is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, Past President of the Group for Advancement of Psychiatry and a Past President of APA’s New York County Psychiatric Society. He presently serves as a Consultant to APA’s Ethics Committee. He served for many years as a Consultant for APA’s Council on Communications.

Dr. Drescher is Section Editor of the Gender Dysphoria Chapter in the DSM-5 Text Revision (DSM-5-TR) process (anticipated 2020 publication). He served on APA’s DSM-5 Workgroup on Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders and served on the World Health Organization’s Working Group on the Classification of Sexual Disorders and Sexual Health that revised sex and gender diagnoses in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11). He served on the Honorary Scientific Committee revising the 2nd edition of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (PDM-2).

Dr. Drescher’s professional honors include the American Psychiatric Association’s John Fryer Award (2018), the Federation of State Medical Boards’ Award for Excellence in Editorial Writing (2017), Albert M. Biele Visiting Professor in Psychiatry, Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University (2016), Sheppard-Pratt’s Harry Stack Sullivan Award Lecturer (2013), an APA Special Presidential Commendation (2009) an APA Distinguished Psychiatrist Lecturer (2009), APA’s Irma Bland Award for Excellence in Teaching Residents (2006), and the James Paulsen Service Award from the Association of Gay and Lesbian Psychiatrists (2004).

Dr. Drescher is Author of Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Gay Man (Routledge) and Emeritus Editor of the Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health. He has edited and co-edited more than a score of books dealing with gender, sexuality and the health and mental health of LGBT communities. He has authored and co-authored numerous professional articles and book chapters as well. His publications have been translated into Italian, Portuguese, French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Finnish and German.

Dr. Drescher is an expert media spokesperson on issues related to gender, sexuality and mental health, appearing frequently on broadcast and cable television networks and often sought for comments by print and internet media outlets.

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