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A Cure through Love? with Psychoanalyst Judy Eekhoff on April 25, 2026
We are delighted to welcome Dr. Judy Eekhoff of the Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society and Institute for our next continuing education program — A Cure Through Love?, Saturday, April 25th, 2026 on Zoom. When Freud wrote to Jung that psychoanalysis is a cure through love, he could not have imagined how far the [...]
Outsider.Freud documentary and fundraiser on April 19, 2026
“Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.” ~ Sigmund Freud The PCC invites the public to join us for a screening of the new documentary film, Outsider.Freud, on Sunday, April 19th at 10 am PDT, both in person in Los Angeles and on line [...]
PCC Annual Open House on Sunday, March 22nd
On Sunday March 22, 2026, the Psychoanalytic Center of California (PCC), welcomes potential candidates to our Institute and to our Annual Open House. The PCC curriculum is based on British Object Relations Theory. We are proud to have been introduced to this psychoanalytic perspective by the honored senior mentors [...]
The AI Revolution with Psychoanalyst Todd Essig on March 14,2026
PCC is thrilled to welcome back psychoanalyst Dr. Todd Essig who is on the forefront of thinking about the AI revolution and its application to psychoanalysis. He also teaches about the dynamics of virtual and remote work in our field. In this presentation he will explore and claim that [...]
Infant Observation Conference on February 14, 2026
The PCC Infant Observation Committee brings to our practice community a special workshop focused on the work of Dr. Alessandra Cavalli. In researching potential topics for this year’s conference, Infant Observation Committee Chair, Dr. Persila Conversano, discovered Dr. Cavalli’s beautiful paper, "Continuous Becoming or the Experience of Coming [...]
New book by PCC’s Richard Tuch
PCC is pleased to announce that our member and training analyst, Dr. Richard Tuch, has just published a new book through Routledge entitled, Perversity, Pornography, and the Psychology of the Male Species: An Overdue Rethinking of Robert Stoller’s Gender Theories. Here is a description from the publisher: This [...]





