Presentations

Recent Presentations

——— Ferenczi’s “Mutual Analysis” and its Relevance to Current Practice. Dialogues in Contemporary Psychoanalysis. SFCP 4/20

———Creative Engagement:  The Psychotherapy Institute 12/21 

———Analytic Creative Engagement: Faculty, Oregon Psychoanalytic Center, 5/22

———The Analyst’s Embodied Presence and Participation: William Allison White Institute, 10/14/22 

———Elements of a Creatively Engagement Approach, The Western New England Psychoanalytic Institute and Society10/18/22

———Embodiment in Analytic Experience (being and doing) part 1: Presence and Attunement, Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society and Institute 11/16/22

———Embodiment in Analytic Experience (being and doing) part 2: the analyst as improvisational accompanist. Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society and Institute 12/10/22

———Analytic authenticity, freedom, and spontaneity: Boston Psychoanalytic Institute and Society, 12/3/22 

———The Ethics of Analytic Authenticity: creative freedom and presence. New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute 3/14/23

———Conversations on Embodiment: How Are Trauma and Dissociation Embodied? The Wilhelm Reich Center for the Study of Embodiment. 2/24/24

———Symposium: Creative Engagement in Psychoanalytic Practice. Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. 3/23/24

Past Presentations

-——1990 Play in the Treatment of Adolescents. Scientific Meeting, San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis (SFCP)

———1995 Varieties of Masochistic Experience. International Psychoanalytic Association

———2008 On Bion, theory of groups, and Lord of the Flies. San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis Seminars for Scholars:

———2009 The Significance of the Present Moment in the Sessions: on analytic attention and relating. Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute.

———2010 Music and Being. Dialogues in Contemporary Psychoanalysis, SFCP

 ———2011 Habit and Attentiveness. Dialogues in Contemporary Psychoanalysis, SFCP.

 ———2011 Bion and Interpretation. Dialogues in Contemporary Psychoanalysis SFCP.

 ———2011 Discussion of M. Feldman’s  “The Characteristics of the Manic Countertransference”. The Day with Visiting Professor. SFCP

 ———2012 “A Contemporary Synthesis of Klein and Bion—a personal journey.  The Psychotherapy Institute. Berkeley CA.

———2013 Discussion of Julie Friend’s paper Creative Love in the Couple.. Dialogues in Contemporary Psychoanalysis, SFCP

———2013 The Good, Bad, and the Ugly: a hypothesis of a typology of fields. Scientific Meeting, SFCP

———2013 Discussion of Claudio Eiserik’s paper “The Dynamics of Transference Reconsidered”, Scientific Meeting, San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis.

———2013 Encounter with the Bad Object.. Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California

———2014 John Coltrane: liberation of dissonance; dissonance as liberation. Candidate Intersession on music and psychoanalysis. SFCP

———2014 Clinical Discussant, “Multiple Perspectives on Clinical Case Material”. Faculty Development. Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute.

———2015 Death Drive Dialogue. Berkeley Psychoanalytic Society

———2015 Discussion of D. Moss’s paper “The Sexual Aberrations: Do we still need the concept?” Dialogues in Contemporary Psychoanalysis, SFCP

———2015 Beauty and the aesthetic field in analytic process. Dialogues in Contemporary Psychoanalysis, SFCP

———2015 On Supervision. Colloquium for Candidates, American Psychoanalytic Association. Spring Meetings.

———2015 Bion Brings “O” to LA (my hometown). A discussion of J. Aguayo’s paper, “The LA Seminars”, Dialogues in Contemporary Psychoanalysis, SFCP.

———2016 An Approach to Leading the Case Conference” Faculty Retreat. SFCP

———2016 A Pragmatic-Aesthetic Approach to Bion. The Psychotherapy Institute. Berkeley, CA

———2016 Presence, Communication, and Improvisation: Taking Bion’s “late work” to a new pragmatic register. The Psychotherapy Institute, Berkeley, CA

———2016 Music and Clinical Experience: A sampling of sounds and ideas about time, rhythm, and non-represented states. Dialogues in Contemporary Psychoanalysis, SFCP.

———2017 Discussion of Beatriz de Leon de Bernardi’s paper: Evolution of the Thought of Madeleine and Will Beranger. Scientific Meeting, San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis

———2017 Music is the Medium, not the Metaphor: Communication in Jazz and Psychoanalysis. Scientific Meeting. SFCP

———2018 The Bipolarity duality of the Death Drive: The dynamics of self-annihilation and non-being. Berkeley Psychoanalytic Society.

———2018 A Kleinian-Bionian approach to the Death Drive, Berkeley Psychoanalytic Society