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Dr. Sonnenberg will address the treatment of addictions, using a relational psychotherapeutic approach. Clinical material will be presented which will include transference/countertransference descriptions, and advantages of the use of a relational approach in challenging and changing the addict.

9:00 am - 12:00 pm
SDPSI
Members $35, non-members $50, students $20
3 hours

Dr. Sonnenberg will review the subject of addiction and the contributions of psychoanalytic investigators to its treatment. He will provide a broad description of the way a psychoanalytic approach facilitates addiction treatment, whether it be to single or multiple substances or behaviors.

7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
SDPSI
Members free, non-members $25, students $15
2 hours

In her cult film, The Night Porter, filmmaker Lilianna Cavanni would have us reflect upon the haunting universe of a chance meeting of Max and Lucia twelve years after the end of WW II. Max is a former Nazi camp officer (played by Dirk Bogarde) and Lucia (Charlotte Rampling) was then his sex-slave. A stylized series of mutual flashbacks...

7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
SDPSI
Members free, non-members $25, students $20
2

"The Cost Effectiveness and Efficacy of Psychotherapy." Dr. Lazar will be presenting a highly interesting overview of findings noted in the book: Psychotherapy is Worth it: A Comprehensive Review of Its Cost Effectiveness (publication date: March 2010), for which she was Editor and Co-author. In her presentation, she will emphasize...

7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
SDPSI - 4455 Morena Blvd., Ste. 202 San Diego, CA 92117
SDPSI Members: No Charge, Non-Members: $35, Students: $20
2

This workshop will focus on the various ways in which contemporary psychoanalytic psychotherapists use aspects of their own personalities to facilitate change in their patients. In contrast to traditional relational thinkers, the instructors will stress the importance of considering the mental organization of the patient in formulating...

9:00 am - 12:00 pm (8:30 - light breakfast)
SDPSI
Members $35, non-members $50, students $20
3 hours

This Conference is sponsored by the Candidates’ Association of the SDPSI Psychoanalytic Training Program. It is intended to disseminate and advance knowledge about psychoanalytically oriented research by providing an opportunity for graduate students from throughout the region to present and discuss their research related to psychodynamic...

9:00 am - 4:00 pm (light breakfast and lunch provided)
SDPSI
Members-free; Non-members (presenters and participants) - $30; Non-presenting graduate students $20
6 hours

Dr. Roth will discuss case material presented by two SDPSI members, in a format that will include general discussion as well as brief, didactic summaries. The presenters will be Lisa Auslander, Ph.D. Dr. Auslander is a graduate of the Advanced Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy program at SDPSI, a member of SDPSI, and Assistant Clinical Professor of...

9:00 am - 12:00 pm (8:30 – light breakfast)
SDPSI
Members $35, non-members $50, students $20
3 hours

Transient love and lasting love have similar and different developmental pathways. The face of any love contains elements of attachment, sensuality, understanding and morality in combination with constitution, culture and fate. This talk addresses some of these endless variations, as well as the facilitators and inhibitors in one's capacity to...

7:30 pm - 9:30 pm (7:00 – wine and cheese)
SDPSI
Members free, non-members $25, students $15
2 hours

We will have the unique opportunity to listen to a case conference, audiotaped in 1973,  at which Dr. Colarusso, then a candidate in child analysis at the Philadelphia Association for Psychoanalysis presented an adolescent analytic case to Anna Freud and an audience of other candidates. The case that Miss Freud discussed...

7:30 pm - 9:30 pm (7:00 – wine and cheese)
SDPSI
Members free, non-members $25, students $15
2 hours