Fall 2010 Course List

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Saturday October 2, 2010
Dreaming Up Analysis: Ogden’s Art
Dawn Farber, Psy.D., MFT

W. R. Bion’s theory of thinking, and his focus on the analyst’s reverie with memory, understanding and desire suspended, have been the most generative aspects of his thinking for our clinical work. Among our eminent colleagues and teachers who have been inspired by Bion’s approach, none is more creative or elegant than Tom Ogden. In this seminar, we will study a series of papers by Ogden, written in this decade, which demonstrate his transformation of Bion’s ideas into his profound and moving clinical work. Some familiarity with Bion is recommended. The overriding goal of this seminar is to enrich the theoretical and clinical repertoire of participants. Ogden’s profound use of his very personal reverie, as a source of unconscious and preconscious linking of his affect to something hitherto not-understood about the unconscious emotional experience of his patient and himself is inspiring. Appreciation of a master clinician’s uniquely personal use of himself, together with his gift with language, is intended to encourage each of us to find and use our own unique experience and language in our work.

Dawn Farber, Psy.D., MFT, is a psychoanalyst in private practice in Oakland and San Francisco. She is a Personal and Supervising Analyst and a faculty member at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC) and she teaches psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy widely in the community. Dr. Farber is especially interested in clinically focused study groups and in consultation.

Saturday, October 2, 2010
Time: 9:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
Location: The Psychotherapy Institute
CE: 4 Units (MFT, LCSW approved; MCEPAA #PSY005-0268-000 approved)

Note: There are required readings for this course. After registration attendees will be contacted and given the option of purchasing an electronic reader for $10 through TPI or receiving a list of the readings to locate on their own.  

Saturday, October 9, 2010
The Use of Self in Couples Therapy
Norma Campbell, LCSW

“What a therapist does at critical moments is personally expressive and cannot be understood merely as technique...” Irwin Hoffman

Saturated with “techniques,” couples therapists never-the-less respond with a myriad of conscious and unconscious expressions of themselves. Couples therapy training seldom focuses on the person of the therapist. Yet we are in relationship with the couple. What kind of relationships do we create with the couples we see? Do we reflect on the effect of our own personal, family and cultural experiences with relationships? We will explore the ways we use ourselves, knowingly or not, in our work with couples.

Norma Campbell, LCSW, has practiced individual, couples and family therapy since 1974. For many years she worked extensively with stepfamilies, and now she concentrates on work with couples. Of particular interest to her are couples in long relationships and older couples in new relationships. However she works with couples at all stages of their shared lives. She has worked with systemic, narrative, empathy-based, object relations, post-Kleinian and Jungian approaches to couple relationships. Active for 20 years at The Psychotherapy Institute in Berkeley, she has taught, supervised and consulted on work with couples.

Saturday, October 9, 2010
Time: 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Location: The Psychotherapy Institute
CE: 7 Units (MFT, LCSW approved; MCEPAA #PSY005-0269-000 approval)

Saturday, October 16, 2010
Separation and Divorce: Working with Adults and Children
Susan Pease Gadoua, LCSW; Sheryl B. Hausman, Ph.D.; Frederica Conrad, Ph.D.; Nancy Olesen, Ph.D.

Therapists work with clients through the entire spectrum of divorce, from the difficulty in reaching the best decision about whether to divorce, to finding ways for parents to deal effectively with each other during and post divorce, to helping children of divorce and their parents minimize the impact and enhance the developmental success of the children. This seminar will teach practicing therapists the nuts and bolts, as well as the complexities of how to help their clients, when and how to refer them to specialists, and how to stay out of trouble, both legal and practical.

Susan Pease Gadoua, LCSW, is the founder and Executive Director of the Transition Institute of Marin, specializing in meeting the needs of separating and divorcing men and women, and the author of Contemplating Divorce: A Step-by-step Guide to Deciding Whether to Stay or Go. Sheryl B. Hausman, Ph.D., has extensive experience developing parenting plans and helping separated and divorced parents learn to co-parent their children. Her practice includes forensic consultation and evaluation in contested child custody cases. Frederica Conrad, Ph.D, has specialized in the treatment of children and parents for over 30 years, including forensic evaluations for family and juvenile courts, and forensic consultation in complex adoption matters. Nancy Olesen, Ph.D., teaches, researchers, and works in private practice, with an emphasis on child abuse and neglect, custody and access disputes, and the interface between clinical and forensic psychology.

Saturday, October 16, 2010
Time: 9:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
Location: The Psychotherapy Institute
CE: 6 Units (MFT, LCSW approved; submitted to MCEPAA for approval)

Saturday, October 23, 2010
Queer Issues, Queer Lives: Navigating the Cultural Complexities of Clinical Work with LGBT Clients
Janet Linder, BCD, LCSW

This course will tackle some of the wide-ranging issues important to therapists working with members of the LGBTQQ communities in depth psychotherapy. Oppression, stigma and shame provide a psycho-social context for examining how homosexuality and gender variance have historically been viewed in the mental health field. Contemporary and post-modern views of sexual orientation and gender will be explored, including the theoretical concepts of fluidity, gender melancholia, and gender as compromise formation. The course will also examine the impact of internalized homophobia on psychological functioning and will examine developmental models of queer identity, gender variance, and the coming out process. All of these critical issues impact the clinical dyad and will be discussed as they related to transference and counter-transference dynamics. Clinical material will be presented, and participants are encouraged to bring in case examples.

Janet Linder, BCD, LCSW, is a clinical social worker in private practice in San Francisco and Albany, and on the faculties of The Psychotherapy Institute and the Women’s Therapy Center. She has taught at UC Berkeley Extension and the California Institute of Integral Studies. She is currently a doctoral candidate at The Sanville Institute, studying lesbian non-biological mothers/parents during the transition to parenthood. Her interests include development, relationships, family life, sex, gender, all stigmatized identities, power and privilege, the clinical relationship, and unconscious process.

Saturday, October 23, 2010
Time: 9:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m. Location: The Psychotherapy Institute
CE: 5 Units (MFT, LCSW approved; MCEP approved: PSY005-0270-000)

Saturday, November 6, 2010
Fall Symposium
Psychic Birth: A Narrative of Transformative Analytic Work Presenter: Helen Marlo, Ph.D. Discussants: Randolph Charlton, M.D.; Dawn Farber, Psy.D., MFT

As psychotherapists and analysts, we have been birthed into the field of psychoanalysis, through our own life stories, as well as through our own analysis or therapy, and our professional training. We develop ways of working analytically, influenced by our most cherished therapeutic relationships, experiences, and theories, as well as from our professional culture. We each hold and utilize concepts that are particularly meaningful, which shape how we work.

Yet, these psychoanalytic concepts can be inadequate. The language does not fully capture the complexity and fullness of the human encounter in depth-oriented work nor depict the reality, feeling, or meaning of the mutual lived experience in analytic treatment. What really happens in transformative, long-term treatment between two individuals who are deeply engaged with the unconscious, and each other? What transpires in a treatment that facilitates and inspires deep transformation in the patient? How do therapist and patient transform, over time, because of, and despite, each other?

In this presentation, Dr. Marlo will explore these questions through the lens of “birth,” which provides a powerful narrative for understanding the vicissitudes of intensive analytic work. The topic of birth is truly pregnant with meaning in analytic work. A source of “hope and dread,” birth can stimulate paradoxical and contradictory reactions. It may be a harbinger of creation and destruction; love and hatred; life and death; materiality and transcendence. This common, yet extraordinary, life event inspires powerful fantasies, in both analyst-therapist and patient. Dr. Marlo will present over a decade of her analytic work with one patient, who suffered significant preverbal trauma, and began the work in a deeply regressed state. Her treatment chronicles a process of birth, development, and transformation, and will serve as a backdrop for investigating these themes. The labor of the analytic work will be revealed through detailed presentation of case material, and Dr. Marlo’s inner experience, demonstrating the processes of development and transformation in the patient and therapist in the experience of analytic work.

Helen Marlo, PhD., is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Burlingame, CA., where she works with adults and children. A wife and mother of two children, she is an advanced candidate at the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco; Associate Professor and Director of the Master’s of Science in Clinical Psychology Program at Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, CA; and Associate Editor for Jung Journal: Culture and Psyche. She has practiced psychotherapy and taught at various institutions for two decades.

Randolph Charlton, M.D., has practiced psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in Palo Alto for over 30 years. He graduated from Cornell Medical School, did an internship in medicine at UCSF and his psychiatric residency at Stanford. He is an adjunct clinical professor at Stanford and a teaching and training analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute of Northern California. Dr. Charlton edited and contributed to “Treating Sexual Disorders,” and has written more than twenty papers on evaluation, treatment and the theoretical basis of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. He is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha Honorary Medical Society, the International Association of Analytical Psychology, the Academy of Dynamic Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and has received acknowledgment as the Outstanding Teacher in the Stanford Psychiatry Department on several occasions.

Dawn Farber, Psy.D., MFT, is a psychoanalyst in private practice in Oakland and San Francisco. She is a Personal and Supervising Analyst and a faculty member at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC) and she teaches psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy widely in the community. Dr. Farber is especially interested in clinically focused study groups and in consultation.

Saturday, November 6, 2010
Time: 9:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m.
Location: Krutch Theater, Clark Kerr Campus
2601 Warring Street, UC Berkeley
CE: 5 Units (MFT, LCSW approved; submitted to MCEPAA for approval)

Saturday, November 13, 2010
Soma and Psyche: Use of the Body in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Rob Fisher, MFT

Psychological processes, defenses and characterological organization are readily available in a patient’s somatic organization. While people can use words to dissemble, the body does not lie. It is a very rich and reliable source of information about the psyche as well a possible medium for intervention. If communication is only 20 – 30% verbal, then learning how to utilize non verbal sources of communication provides the clinician with exponentially more information, opportunities to join with, understand and accurately intervene in psychotherapy. In this workshop clinicians will learn advanced skills of listening to the language of the soma, and using present experience to provide gentle, contained and immediate routes to unconscious material.

Rob Fisher, MFT, is a psychotherapist, consultant and CAMFT certified supervisor in private practice in Mill Valley. He is an adjunct professor at JFK University, CIIS and Dominican University. He is a Hakomi Trainer who teaches Hakomi Mindfulness Based Experiential Psychotherapy internationally. He also teaches couples therapy at the post graduate level at a variety of agencies in San Francisco and Marin county. He is a certified Hakomi Therapist and Trainer. He is the publisher of the Couples Psychotherapy Newsletter and the author of a book about experientially oriented couples therapy entitled Experiential Psychotherapy with Couples, A Guide for the Creative Pragmatist, published by Zeig/Tucker in addition to numerous articles published in the US and abroad. He has been a Master and Peer Presenter at the annual CAMFT Conference and at other national conferences such as the USABP Conference and Psychotherapy Networker Conference. He is also a California State Licensed Continuing Education Provider.

Saturday, November 13, 2010
Time: 9:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
Location: The Psychotherapy Institute
CE: 4 Units (MFT, LCSW approved; MCEP approved: PSY005-0271-000)

Saturday, November 20, 2010
Fostering Mourning through Psychotherapy
Howard Lunche, LCSW

The instructor will guide attendees in an examination of the nature of grief and the variety of symptoms associated with grieving the death of a primary person to the bereaved. Following this examination, case examples will be used to create discussion about, and scrutinize, psychotherapy as a means for normalizing grief, fostering mourning, and assessing for and treating complications to grieving, prolonged and delayed grieving, and pre-existing conditions.

Howard Lunche, LCSW, has worked with people with life-threatening illness and bereaved adults since 1984 as an oncology and hospice social worker, bereavement program coordinator, support group facilitator, and private psychotherapist. He is currently in private practice in Berkeley, CA, and facilitates the Support Group for Husbands of Women with Cancer at the Alta Bates Summit Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Saturday, November 20, 2010
Time: 9:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
Location: The Psychotherapy Institute
CE: 4 Units (MFT, LCSW approved; MCEP approved: PSY005-0272-000)

Saturday, December 4, 2010
An Introduction to Carol Gilligan’s “Listening Guide Method”
Anne Dilenschneider, Ph.D.

The Listening Guide Method is a “responsive” method that takes into account the relational, societal and cultural realities of gender, race, and class. It is a “resisting” method that challenges notions of objectivity and convention and insists on the inclusion of other voices, experiences and thoughts. Because it is relational, it includes the experiences of both the speaker and the listener. It is also voice-centered, and recognizes how the multiplicity of voices in each person expresses the complex nature of the psyche. To hear these, the researcher engages in four listenings – this is the heart of the method.

Anne Dilenschneider, Ph.D., is a graduate of Pacifica Graduate Institute. She worked with Carol Gilligan and Robert Romanyshyn to research her dissertation, Refusing to be Put Aside: Women and the Meaning of Betrayal. This research was presented at the 3rd Global Conference on Forgiveness at Oxford. Dr. Dilenschneider has taught “Women and World Religion” for Chico State and USF, and “Feminist Ethics” for the Graduate Theological Union. She helped develop a gender-specific, restorative justice program for adolescent girls in the juvenile probation system. She also directed a psychosocial program for homeless persons diagnosed with severe mental illness and chemical dependency.

Saturday, December 4, 2010
Time: 9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Location: The Psychotherapy Institute
CE: 3 Units (MFT, LCSW approved; MCEP approved: PSY005-0273-000)