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On Countertransference: Bearing the Unbearable on September 26, 2026
In "On Countertransference: Bearing the Unbearable", Dr. Dhwani Shah will examine how feelings such as dread, arrogance, dissociation, and shame can both challenge and deepen clinical work. Through theoretical discussion and clinical material, participants will explore how developing the capacity to recognize and work with these difficult emotional states [...]
The Analyst’s Listening with psychoanalyst Bruce Reis on June 6, 2026
Traditional psychoanalytic therapy often treats listening like seeing, searching for hidden meanings in an effort to develop insight. This program challenges that visual focus by diving into an aural approach. Instead of rushing to understand or decode our patients’ communications, "listening-with" invites the psychoanalytic therapist to stay in a [...]
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 [...]
