SAN FRANCISCO CENTER FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS Your guide to a modern lifestyle in a fast-paced city JANUARY 2021 ISSUE WHAT'S IN THIS ISSUE SFCP Board Meeting Highlights - 1 Annual Giving Campaign - 3 SFCP Legacy Gifts - 4 Nominating and Governance Committee Update - 6 Enrico Jones Fund for Equality and Excellence - 7 PAPPTP Open House - 8 Dialogues - 9 Haskell Norman Prize - 10 SF Psychotherapy Forum - 11 EB Psychotherapy Forum - 12 Peer Consultation Group - 13 Community Member Mentorship Program - 14 Other Orgs Programs and Events - 15 SFCP BOARD MEETING HIGHLIGHTS DECEMBER 21, 2020 Paul Sorbo, LCSW SFCP Board Chair For newsletter submissions email: [email protected]Our December meeting started with reminding the Board of my fundraising expectation of 100% Board of Trustee participation in our Annual Giving Campaign. I hope to announce this accomplishment in our Annual Giving Campaign Report later this year. In regard to this year’s Campaign, the BOT will be reaching out via phone contact to our members in the months of February and May to encourage contributions to our Annual Campaign. In her Management Team Report, Deb Weisinger updated the Board on the review of the SFCP organizational structure the Management Team is currently undertaking with a focus on Division and Committee Chair’s succession planning, filling vacancies and supporting leadership development.
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SAN FRANCISCOCENTER FOR
PSYCHOANALYSIS
Your guide to a modern lifestyle in a fast-paced city
J A N U A R Y 2 0 2 1 I S S U E
W H A T ' S I N T H I S I S S U E
SFCP Board Meeting Highlights - 1Annual Giving Campaign - 3SFCP Legacy Gifts - 4Nominating and Governance CommitteeUpdate - 6Enrico Jones Fund for Equality andExcellence - 7PAPPTP Open House - 8Dialogues - 9Haskell Norman Prize - 10SF Psychotherapy Forum - 11EB Psychotherapy Forum - 12Peer Consultation Group - 13Community Member MentorshipProgram - 14Other Orgs Programs and Events - 15
Our December meeting started with reminding the Board of myfundraising expectation of 100% Board of Trustee participation in ourAnnual Giving Campaign. I hope to announce this accomplishment inour Annual Giving Campaign Report later this year. In regard to thisyear’s Campaign, the BOT will be reaching out via phone contact toour members in the months of February and May to encouragecontributions to our Annual Campaign.
In her Management Team Report, Deb Weisinger updated the Boardon the review of the SFCP organizational structure the ManagementTeam is currently undertaking with a focus on Division and CommitteeChair’s succession planning, filling vacancies and supportingleadership development.
SFCP Board Meeting HighlightsDecember 21, 2020
P A U L S O R B O , L C S WB O A R D C H A I R
Steve Goldberg made an exciting announcement regarding the vacant position of SFCP President in hisNominations & Governance Committee Report. Look for Steve’s article elsewhere in this newsletter. As we discussed in our last BOT Meeting, SFCP needs to update our exemption status as a CaliforniaNonprofit Public Benefit Corporation. Our attorney has made the necessary changes to amend and restateour Articles of Incorporation. These revisions have been reviewed by the Board for the past month andquestions were taken in this meeting. Upon completion of the Q & A session, the BOT voted unanimously toapprove the revised Articles. The next step will be to distribute these changes to our membership for review.A discussion and question/answer period will be scheduled for a virtual Town Hall on Sunday January 31,2021, at 11am. This Town Hall will be followed by a two-week voting period. Brett Penfil led a thoughtful discussion in our meeting asking the important question of why should weindividually and collectively pursue diversity, equity and inclusion? This question arose out of the DEIAdvisory Committee to the Board Workgroup regarding the purpose of an advisory committee. The ensuingconversation was more focused on individual and group reflection than changing policies. Doug Slakey announced that the Board Composition Workgroup was in the process of developing a survey forour members to provide further input on how to achieve and support diversity on our BOT. This survey istargeted to be released in the first week of January 2021. Cheryl Goodrich stated that the Voting Rights Workgroup was in the midst of analyzing the responses fromtheir member survey. 105 survey responses were returned which increased significantly the member input onthis topic. 72 survey respondents completed the survey but had not attended the Town Hall. Happy New Year! Please contact me at [email protected] if you have any questions or wish to provide me with any feedback.
Annual Giving Campaign Update
D O U G S L A K E Y , P H DA N N U A L G I V I N G C A M P A I G N C H A I R
Dear SFCP Community,
We are pleased to inform you that we have raised $40,842.84 so far as of the end of December.
We are happy to announce that we have received anonymous offers of matching gifts from two of ourfellow members. Our colleagues have offered to match donations in the amount of $1000 and above fromanalyst members, $500 and above from candidates and community members, and any amount ofdonations from community members who are graduate students, interns and agency employees. Thetotal amount of the matching gifts is $30,000. This amount is not included in the amount raised to date,listed above.
We are grateful for all contributions, regardless of amount. We would like to encourage all membersconsider contributing to our campaign. If you were able to contribute last year, please consider doing thesame this year, and increase the amount of your gift if possible. If you were unable to contribute last year,please consider a contribution this year.
By contributing to the Campaign, you can support SFCP’s mission, sustain our analytic community, andmake a meaningful contribution to our efforts to increase diversity in our membership and accessibilityto our programs. Your contribution is an essential part of SFCP’s annual income.
You can make your donation by mailing by check, by phone, or on the SFCP website athttps://www.sfcp.org/s/donation
SFCP Mailing Address:444 Natoma StreetSan Francisco, CA 94103 Phone:415-563-5815 We thank you for your support for our campaign.Doug SlakeyChair, Annual Giving Campaign Committee The Annual Giving Campaign Committee Members:Amy Wallerstein Friedman, Steve Goldberg, Suzanne Klein, Henry Massie, Paul Sorbo
Since 1947, SFCP has been a source of lively psychoanalytic training, continuing education, and affiliationfor hundreds of mental health professionals. We want to ensure that this strong and evolving institutioncontinues to be a resource for generations to come. As you think about the people and organizationswho have sustained you and which you would like to carry on for future generations, please considerincluding SFCP in your estate planning. “Legacy Donors” are forward-thinking people on whoseshoulders 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 cancontribute to the sustainability of SFCP for the long-term. Many of these options are a win-win for thedonor and the organization. We encourage you to consult with your financial advisor to discuss the taximplications 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 besignificant. • Life Insurance Policy and Retirement Assets Often overlooked by donors, naming SFCP as a partial beneficiary of these assets can provide support forthe organization. • Life Income Gifts Life income gifts allow you to leave a gift in the care of SFCP, while earning income for yourself duringyour lifetime. The two most popular life income gifts are charitable remainder trusts and charitable giftannuities. • Complex Gifts If you are a business owner, own real property or have any other type of complex asset, giving optionsexist 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 Reportand 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, [email protected] to discuss becoming a Legacy Donor.
Great news, we are now registered with Amazon Smile!
Every time you make a purchase from Amazon, SFCP will
reap the rewards, as a percentage of your purchase will
come to us. This is a small step towards big donations.
Announcement from theNominating and Governance Committee
S T E V E N G O L D B E R G , M DC H A I R , N O M I N A T I N G A N D G O V E R N A N C E C O M M I T T E E
It is with great pleasure and anticipation that we announce to the SFCP community that Cheryl Goodrichhas agreed to stand for election for the role of SFCP President. Cheryl was at the top of our list ofpotential candidates for this position from the outset of our search. Since our initial conversation aboutthis role, Cheryl has joined the SFCP Board of Trustees, where she chairs the workgroup on voting rightsand serves on the finance committee. In recent years, Cheryl has had a number of roles in ourcommunity, including being part of the team which developed the psychotherapy training program inPalo Alto, PAPPTP, where she led the initial outreach, taught, and served as Chair of Curriculum and onthe Guidance Committee for many years. She had also worked and taught in the Child Psychotherapyand Psychoanalytic programs.
Cheryl has recently established a scholarship fund for any of the tuition based programs at SFCP, inmemory of her late husband, psychoanalyst Enrico Jones. She also teaches Psychiatry Residents andChild and Adolescent Fellows in the Department of Psychiatry at Stanford, as well as in several otherpsychoanalytic continuing education programs. She is a Personal Analyst at PINC and practicespsychoanalysis, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, and mentalization based therapy in Los Altos. Long interested in psychoanalytic research, her current involvement is with the MODE study sponsoredby the IPA and APsaA comparing high frequency and low frequency psychoanalytic treatments measuredby change in fMRI. She is one of the co-authors of the MODE treatment workbook and manual,“Psychoanalyses and Psychoanalytic Long-term Therapies of Chronic Patients” with Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber. Cheryl brings all of these experiences and positions, along with her demonstrated leadershipin diversifying and making SFCP a more welcoming place, to her candidacy for as SFCP president. There will soon be an election, as is required in our bylaws, to confirm Cheryl’s appointment as President,and the date at which she will formally begin her responsibilities will soon be established. Please join all ofus on the Nominating Committee and the Board in welcoming Cheryl to the role of president.
The Enrico E. Jones Fund for Equality andExcellence
C H E R Y L Y U N D G O O D R I C H , P H D
In memory of my late husband, Enrico Edison Jones, PhD, a beloved member of SFCP who passed away at55 years old, I’ve made a founding donation to provide tuition credit for therapists of color who wouldlike to study at SFCP. Enrico did his psychoanalytic training at SFPI&S and was a Faculty member atSFPI&S. The current cultural resurgence of protest against abuse of African Americans reminds me ofEnrico’s life as an African American, but also as a psychoanalyst, psychoanalytic process researcher andprofessor. 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 emotionalhome to him. Considering he was born in Munich Germany right after the war of a German/Jewish earlychildhood educator mother and African American United States Army career military father, it was nosmall thing for him to find such a home. His parents struggled financially but their children excelledacademically, and he was helped along the way by scholarships at Harvard University and the Universityof California at Berkeley. He became a highly productive and beloved Professor of Clinical Psychology atUC Berkeley, and a leader in psychoanalytic research. Peter Fonagy, his friend and colleague, describedhim 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 analyticallyinformed 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 weeklypsychoanalytic psychotherapies. In the book he illustrates how his Psychotherapy Process Q-Sort is usedto describe clinical phenomenon in terms which can be translated into quantifiable data so the mutualinfluence 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 psychoanalytictreatment. This book was an answer to the research funding situation in the United States where theNational 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 describepsychoanalytic psychotherapies naturalistically and was able to study both excellent and poor outcomesand 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 andespecially polarized times, I hope we emulate what his friend and psychoanalyst colleague DorothyHolmes, PhD said of him, “he embraced polarities and difficult-to-abide differences, found them ofcompelling interest, and explored them thoroughly.”
If you are interested in making a donation to this fund, please contact Megan Kelly [email protected]. Scholarship applications can be found here. Committee: Cheryl Yund Goodrich, PhD, Forrest Hamer, PhD, Amy Wallerstein Friedman, LCSW
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 FORPSYCHOANALYSIS PRESENTS
January 23, 2021
10.30am - 12.00pm
SFCP Community Members Mentoring Program
Information, resources and literature to help a mentee explore particular areas of interest. For example: work withparticular populations such as trauma survivors; current thinking about LGBTQ issues; the impact of race, class andculture on psychological life; child work; mindfulness; research about psychoanalytic process; and psychoanalyticinterfaces with other fields such as poetry, literature, neurosciencesHow to choose among current activities, programs, courses, and services offered by SFCP that are relevant to thementee’s interests and stage of trainingQuestions about developing as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and about psychoanalytic trainingConnecting the mentee with colleagues who the mentor thinks might be a valuable resource based on the mentee’sinterest in a particular subject
Would you like to meet with an analyst to discuss your questions about psychoanalytic thinking and clinical work? We’dlove to meet with you! The Mentoring Program at SFCP matches participants with analyst mentors to discuss the mentee’sinterest in psychoanalytic work.
The Mentoring Program is open to mental health clinicians at all levels of training and experience, who are SFCPCommunity Members, an easy and fun community to join! Mentors meet once a month with mentees for the academic year.
Examples of Topics to Discuss:
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 ofpsychotherapy. During our initial meetings I was able to get several very practical and pressing questions answered and feelmore confident about seeing clients in my new private practice setting. We discussed psychoanalytic approaches to workingwith parents and children, which helped me to move forward with my cases and also to consider aspects that I had notpreviously considered. I have a particular interest in mindfulness and my mentor put me in touch with a therapist whoincorporates mindfulness into a psychodynamic therapy practice. In addition, I work with children and my mentor referred meto the Child Colloquium, where I met other clinicians and heard a very helpful presentation. I feel very fortunate to meet withmy mentor as needs arise.” Matt Higgins LCSW, Community Members Mentoring Program
Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapy GroupAccepting Applications for Fall 2021 Program beginning January 15, 2021
PCPG’s Intensive Study Program in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy offers a unique, theoreticallygrounded immersion in psychoanalytic thinking about couple relationships and couplepsychotherapy in a warm, collaborative community. PCPG’s program is designed to help cliniciansbuild ballast by increasing their understanding of the pressures and dynamics that affect couplerelationships through the study of contemporary psychoanalytic theory. PCPG’s program explores foundational ideas that have been developed over the last 50 years atTavistock Relationships in London. These foundational ideas extend the thinking of Bion, Klein,Britton, Winnicott, Bollas and other British Object Relations theorists toward understanding theways unconscious dynamics impact couple relationships. We also include additional contemporarypsychoanalytic thinking, such as relational psychoanalysis, self-psychology, attachment theory, linktheory, and field theory as they illuminate our understanding of couple life. Our theoreticallybased program offers a strong grounding for work with couples grappling with a variety of issues atany point in their lives. Through paired didactic and case discussion meetings, we offer an exploration of a wide range oftopics, including the implications of Oedipal development on couple functioning, unconsciousobject choice and shared unconscious anxieties, the role of projection in structuring couplerelationships, sexualities, technical application of theory, transference and countertransference inwork with couples, as well as special topics such as divorce and separation, affairs, high-conflictcouples, narcissism, parenthood, aging and other topics. Woven into our courses are attention torace, gender, sexuality, privilege, and culture. Please visit our website, www.pcpgbayarea.com, for more detailed information about our programand about application procedures, and watch for news about our Informational Event in January! PCPG is a non-profit (501c3) organization. PCPG embraces and amplifies the principles of Diversity,Equity and Inclusion (DEI) in teaching, mentoring, community building and engagement. Moreover,PCPG has a culture that strives for actively focusing on incorporating equity into policies, processes,and procedures, and into the organizational structure as a whole. PCPG is committed to increasingaccess to its study programs and has scholarship funds available to support its mission of equityand inclusivity. Applicants to the Intensive Study Program are encouraged to apply. Details on ourwebsite.
Mentalization-Based Treatment Basic Training
Standard fee for MBT Online training: £1,000 Reduced Fee Available for limited number of trainees. Please contact
Register Early: Space is limited! https://www.annafreud.org/training/training-and-conferences-overview/online-training-live-and-self-directed-courses/mentalization-based-treatment-basic-training-west-coast-usa-pacific-standard-time-pst/
The Mentalizing Initiative Along with the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families and the New Center for Psychoanalysis Presents:
Course Director: Robin L. Kissell, MD Faculty: Anthony Bateman, MA, FRCP
Peter Fonagy, PhD Faculty of the Mentalizing Initiative
Mentalization based therapy (MBT) was originally developed and shown to be effective in the treatment of those with borderline
personality disorder; since its inception it has been adapted to and successfully implemented in the treatment of other personality
disorders, eating disorders, and adolescents at risk.
Anthony Bateman, MA, FRCP consults to the Anna Freud Centre about MBT training. He developed mentalization based treatment with Peter Fonagy for borderline personality disorder and wrote the manual for mental health
professionals on Structured Clinical Management of Personality Disorder.
Peter Fonagy, PhD is Professor of Psychoanalysis and Developmental Science and Head of the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences at University College London; Chief Executive of the Anna Freud Centre, London; and holds visiting professorships at Yale and Harvard Medical Schools.
