Past Events

SFCP Eating Disorder Conference: Nothing Inside, Action Outside:
The Role of Mentalization in the Treatment of Eating Disorder [Link]

Presenters: Piera Piagentini, R.N., M.F.T. & Marsha Silverstein, Ph.D.
Discussant: L. Eileen Keller, Ph.D.
Moderator: Robin A. Deutsch, Ph.D.

Saturday, December 4, 2010
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
SFCP; 2340 Jackson Street, 4th Floor, San Francisco

Treating Children Who Have Parents: a Free course for graduate students

Psychotherapy of children is rarely an uncomplicated individual psychotherapy. Identification with our primary patient, the child, can lead to negative transferences to the child’s parents. This course focuses on the complexity of working with a child, who lives in a family with parents and siblings, necessitating a large view of both the child’s psychology and the capacities of the parents. I will introduce the concept of collaborative work with parents, ranging from parent guidance to parent psychotherapy, focusing on the complexity of negotiating the space between parents and their child in treatment. Then two experienced psychoanalytic psychotherapists and a psychoanalyst will present a case the following three sessions, giving students the opportunity to hear two senior clinicians thinking together about working with children and their parents.

Brief readings on working with parents will be assigned and provided.

Instructor: L. Eileen Keller, Ph.D.
Dates: Thursdays: October 14, 28 and November 4,11
Time: 7:30-9pm
Location: Lake Merritt area of Oakland

Register by calling Max Lee at SFCP: 415-563-5815

The San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis
The Child Development Program &
The Members of the Pre-school Consultation Project

Cordially invite you to our 4th Annual Event and Fundraiser

Wednesday, 12/2/2009 7:00pm - 9:30pm

Loss and Mourning in Early Childhood: Holding the Child, the Family, and the Preschool Community

Panelists:

Jan Baeuerlen, M.D.:
Member, and Faculty, Co-chair, Child Analytic Program,
San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis.

Eileen Keller, Ph.D.:
Member and Faculty, Chair, Child Development Program,
San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis.

Tina Lapides, L.C.S.W.:
Member and Faculty, Co-chair, Child Analytic Program,
San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis.

Ilene Pollack:
Director, Rosenberg Early Childhood Center, JCC, San Francisco

San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis
Child Colloquium Series

The Child Analytic Program of the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis welcomes you to a series of presentations representing the remarkable scope of child psychoanalysis today. These discussions will offer us an increasingly sophisticated understanding of the mind and of human development seen through the lens of clinical experience with children and adolescents.

Beyond Trauma: [Almost] Everything You Need to Know About Theory and Intervention

Robert Friend, M.D.
Eileen Keller, Ph.D.
Gilbert Kliman, M.D.

Saturday, 11/7/2009 10:00am - 12:30pm

We have gathered together three well known psychoanalysts, each with expertise in responding to trauma. They will tackle hard questions: What do we need to know to respond to a traumatic event, be it individual, institutional or environmental? When and how do we react to the death of a preschool child, the murder of a parent or to a frightening/catastrophic event with community repercussions? What are the psychodynamic strengths therapists need to stabilize themselves? What do we offer to counter psychic disorientation which is timely, developmentally appropriate and psychotherapeutic?

The Clinical Application of Winnicott's Theories of Playing and Reality

Presenter: Eileen Keller, PhD
When: April 3, 2009 (Friday) Time: 12:30 - 2 p.m.
Where: Ann Martin Center

Winnicott's contributions to psychoanalysis are paradoxically both embedded in ordinary clinical lore and elusive. In this presentation, I used clinical vignettes, descriptions from infant observation and poetry to provide a base for discussion of the "ordinary devoted mother," the "transitional object," "true and false self development," "the spontaneous gesture," and Winnicott's theory of mind.

L. Eileen Keller is a psychologist/psychoanalyst, Member and Faculty at San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis (formerly SFPI), Consultant for Children's Psychotherapy Project, Program Director for the Early Childhood Mental Health Program at SFCP, clinical supervisor for the Ann Martin Center, and in private practice in Oakland.

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

L. Eileen Keller presented her paper: Repairing Links: Building Attachments in the Preschool Classroom. Mary Margaret McClure discussed 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.

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 discussed 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

Please e-mail Dr. Keller for more information.