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.