San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis Scientific Meeting: March 10, 2008

L. Eileen Keller will present her paper: Repairing Links: Building Attachments in the Preschool Classroom. Mary Margaret McClure will discuss the paper.

Scientific Meeting - The Fostering of Agency:
Psychoanalytic Views on Working With Foster Children

Diane Ehrensaft, Ph.D.; April Fernando, Ph.D.; Kelley Bryan Gin, Psy.D.;
Eileen Keller, Ph.D.
Saturday, November 3, 2007
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
3 CE Credits Available
Location: California Pacific Medical Center, Pacific Campus; Enight Room, 2333 Buchanan (at Clay), San Francisco

Program Overview:
The Fostering of Agency: Psychoanalytic Views On Working With Foster Children, will feature a panel of 3 clinicians - Dr. Diane Ehrensaft, Dr. April Fernando, and Dr. Kelley Gin - who will offer their rich and creative thinking about the challenges faced by individuals and agencies in doing community-based psychoanalytic work with very traumatized children, specifically with foster children and their families. The presenters will also discuss the vicarious trauma in providing psychotherapy to foster youth, as well as the group and agency reactions to working with trauma and abuse, and the challenges of supervising the clinicians who do this work. This panel first presented their work at the 27th Annual Spring Meeting of Division 39, Psychoanalysis, in Toronto, Canada. Dr. Eileen Keller will be the discussant for this panel.

Diane Ehrensaft, Ph.D., is a developmental and clinical psychologist with a private practice in Oakland, California and a faculty member at Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. She is a senior clinician and founding member of A Home Within, a non-profit organization serving the emotional needs of children in foster care, and co-editor with Toni Heineman of Building a Home Within: Meeting the Emotional Needs of Children and Youth in Foster Care (Brookes Publishing Co., 2005). She is also a supervisor/consultant at Westcoast Children's Clinic.

April Fernando, Ph.D., is the Director of Research and Training at Westcoast Children's Clinic and a tenured faculty member at Holy Names University. Dr. Fernando has focused much of her professional career on the training and professional development of psychologists. She recently co-authored the paper titled, "The 'How To' of Half-Time Internships: Exemplars, Structure, and Quality Assurance," which appeared in Professional Psychology: Research and Practice. Dr. Fernando is the Chair of the Board of Directors of the California Psychology Internship Council. Her other professional interests include child psychoanalysis and ethnic identity development.

Kelley Bryan Gin, Psy.D., is the Director of Clinical Services at Westcoast Children's Clinic. He is also core faculty in the Department of Counseling Psychology at Holy Names University.

Eileen Keller, Ph.D., is a psychologist and psychoanalyst, Member and Faculty of San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis (formerly SFPI), Chair of the Child Development Program of SFCP, consultant to the Children's Psychotherapy Project, and in private practice of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in Oakland.

CE Credit
This course meets the requirements for 3.0 CE credits for MFT's and LCSW's (BBS Provider Number PCE508).

3.0 continuing Education Credits will be given to psychologists through Division 39 upon completion of the course. Division 39 is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education credits for psychologists and maintains responsibility for the program. As required by the APA, any course segment 15 hours or less requires 100% attendance in order to receive credit.

Disabilities
Disabilities: Every effort will be made to accommodate participants with disabilities; anyone with special needs should call Michele McGuinness as early as possible so arrangements can be made.

Questions:
Enrollment, locations, CE credit, special needs, course availability and other administrative issues email us: dr.keller@kellerphd.com.

Other questions: Anca Ivan, Psy.D. (510) 717-5330

SAN FRANCISCO CENTER for PSYCHOANALYSIS

Child Development Program
Psychoanalytic Pre-school Consultation Project
San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis
2420 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA 94115

...cordially invites early childhood educators, psychoanalysts, and all interested mental health professionals to the Second Annual Meeting --

Early Childhood Educators and Psychoanalysts:
Thinking Together on Behalf of Young Children and their Families
Wednesday, November 7, 2007, 7:30-9:30 PM

Separation Anxiety, Mastery, and Imagination
In the Picture Books of Martin Waddell

The use of children's books to help young children master separation anxiety and conflicts, and develop rich inner lives will be explored by discussing Waddell's books: Owl Babies & Sleep Tight, Little Bear

Martin Waddell, who lives in Northern Ireland, is an author of over 100 children books. Among them: The Little Bear books, Farmer Duck, and A Kitten Called Moonlight. He is the recipient of The 2004 Hans Christian Anderson Medal

Panelists:
Prof. Alicia Lieberman
An Irving B. Harris Endowed Chair of Infant Mental Health, UCSF Department of Psychiatry
Director, Child Trauma Research Project, San Francisco General Hospital
President, Zero to Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers and Families
Author, The Emotional Life of the Toddler (1993), and numerous other books and articles

Lynn E. Hazen, M.A. in Education, M.F.A. in Writing for Children
Director of "The Preschool" in San Francisco & Author of: Mermaid Mary Margaret, Buzz Bumble to the Rescue, and forthcoming titles: Cinder Rabbit, Seymour's Snail Trail, & Shifty

Era A. Loewenstein, Ph.D.
Training and Supervising Analyst, SFCP
Adult and Child psychoanalyst and Co-chair, Preschool Consultation Project, SFCP

The program is free.
To register please contact: Carla at the SFCP office: (415) 563-5815
or finance@sf-cp.org.

Conversation About the Work of Elizabeth Tabak de Bianchedi

Join Dr. Eileen Keller for an informal discussion of the work of Elizabeth
Tabak de Bianchedi, the SFPI&S Visiting Professor for 2006.
Please read for the discussion: "Lies and Falsities", Journal of Melanie
Klein and Object Relations, 1993, v. 11:2, pp. 30-45.
Copies can be requested from the SFPI&S library for a small fee.

Eileen Keller, Ph.D., Member, Faculty, SFPI&S.

Wednesday, October 25, 2006.

SFPI&S, 2420 Sutter Street , San Francisco , CA ; 7:30-9:00 p.m. ; free.

A Case Discussion Using Bion's Ideas
May 20th, 2006

The richness and flexibility of Wilfred Bion’s thinking and writing invites us to expand our ideas about the task of psychoanalytic observation and technique. Ritual, set theories, and habit give way to innovation and spontaneity. In this clinical forum three clinicians will discuss their theoretical understanding of Bion’s work and the various influences shaping that understanding, i.e. Antonino Ferro, the neo-Kleinians, attachment theory, and infant observation.

Presenter: Dena Sorbo, L.C.S.W.
Discussants: Eileen Keller, Ph.D., Henry Markman, M.D., Ray Poggi, M.D.
Saturday, May 20, 2006; Epworth United Methodist Church, 1953 Hopkins Street, Berkeley, CA; 9:30 a.m. -- 12:30 p.m.; 3 CE credits; $75

To register for “ A Case Discussion Using Bion’s Clinical Ideas ” , please call Matthew at 415-563-5815.
www.sfpis.org

Please e-mail Dr. Keller for more information.