The Psychoanalytic Center of California

Infant Observation Conference with Dr. Persila Conversano
2023-02-11 09:00 - 12:00 UTC | Zoom online

CE Conference with Dr. Annie Reiner
2022-10-08 09:00 - 12:00 UTC | Zoom online
More details to follow.

CE Conference with Fakhry Davids
2022-09-17 09:00 - 12:00 UTC | Zoom online

Transforming Ghosts into Ancestors: Un-silencing the Psychological Case for Reparations to Descendants of American Slavery with Dr. Bryan Nichols and Dr. Medria Connolly
2022-06-11 09:00 - 12:00 UTC | Zoom online
Drs. Nichols and Connolly have been deeply involved with offering presentations about reparations from a psychological perspective for the past several years. Recently they have been tracking, and have presented in, California’s historic first ever state effort to offer reparations to African American residents for the state’s complicity and involvement in slavery, arguing in favor of the intensely contested idea of the legacies of slavery. “Eligibility” for reparations is a key theme in these discussions, as it has been since slavery ended in the United States. The core target is the moral injury which involves a call to action by institutions that should be able to use their theoretical expertise, including psychoanalysis, to understand and perhaps advocate for reparations, a suggestion for healing multigenerational harm. Learn more.

On the Nature of Transference Interpretation and Why only it Can Bring about Analytic Change: A Kleinian Perspective Grounded in Freud with Professor Rachel Blass and Dr. Jennifer Kunst
2022-05-14 09:00 - 12:00 UTC | Zoom online
Professor Rachel Blass has published seminal papers on Kleinian theory and practice. Aware of the concerns as well as interest around certain Kleinian ideas, she outlines and develops the meaning of such analytic inquiries as the meaning of the dream, the desire for knowledge, doubt and conviction, the role of repetition, psychoanalytic ethics and morality. She develops her ideas grounded in theory and with arguments for and against her thoughts presented clearly and poignantly. She has an active analytic practice as well as a long teaching career in universities and analytic societies.

During the first half of our program, Dr. Blass will read a paper titled “On the nature of transference interpretation and why only it can bring about analytic change: A Kleinian perspective grounded in Freud” During the second half of the program, PCC member Jennifer Kunst will interview Dr. Blass about an article she wrote titled “The teaching of Klein: some guidelines for opening students to the heart of Kleinian thinking and practice. Learn more.

Getting to Know Splitting as an Organizing Phantasy, Then and Today with Claudia Frank, MD and Deborah Bilder, Ph.D., Psy.D.
2022-04-30 09:00 - 12:00 UTC | Zoom online
During the first half of the program, Dr. Frank will present a clinical paper including a detailed analysis of some drawings of one of Klein’s little patients, Erna. From the beginning, Melanie Klein was interested in the unconscious phantasies underlying the child’s different activities. As her career developed, she began to grasp more basic structural unconscious phantasies governing the psychic functioning of her small patients. In her paper, Dr. Frank shows us how Klein’s struggle to understand Erna’s movements in the analytic situation led her to formulate “the fragmentation of the personality into two parts” and to describe the dynamics of splitting for the first time (in a manuscript not published by Klein). In today’s analytic work we can build on that understanding of splitting as an early defensive maneuver. We experience it in the transference-countertransference situation. In interpreting and working it through with the patient, we can enable a process of getting to know one’s organizing/structuring unconscious phantasy, thus having the chance to transform (parts of) it. Dr. Frank will present a few vignettes from the analysis of an adult patient with an obsessive-compulsive disorder. During the second half of the program, PCC member Deborah Bilder will interview Dr. Frank about her commitments on the international level regarding psychoanalytic training including supervision of candidates, infant observation, and the Eitingon model. Learn more.

Dialogue Across Difference: Sociocultural And Clinical Realms with Salman Akhtar, MD
2022-02-26 09:00 - 12:15 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom online
In this program, Dr. Salman Akhtar will discuss the Dialogue Across Difference: Sociocultural and Clinical Realms. Learn more.

Psychoanalytic Diagnostics and Treatment of Early Developmental Pathologies: Part 1
2022-01-30 09:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom online
The PCC Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program is pleased to announce a 20-week on-line course, Principles of Psychoanalytic Diagnostics and Treatment of Early Developmental Pathologies, featuring Joshua Durban of Israel. Part 1 begins on January 30, 2022 and concludes April 10, 2022 (no class on March 27, 2022). See the brochure and application here.

ICAPP Clinical Series w/Dr. Shirley Gooch
2022-01-25 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom online
“Face-to-Face with Primal States: The Non-verbal Becoming Verbal”

ICAPP Clinical Series w/Dr. Persila Conversano
2021-12-07 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom online
“Infant Observation: An Exploratory Critique on the Nature of Observation as a Psychoanalytic Method to Propagate Layers of the Mind”. Observation is a profound and fundamental skill. Dr. Conversano explains and presents a summary of a year-long infant observation.

The Claustro-Agoraphobic Dilemma: Between Intimacy and Separation in Interpersonal Relationships
2021-11-06 09:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom online
In this online continuing education conference, jointly sponsored by PCC and NCP, Dr. Weiss explores the space between closeness and abandonment— the claustro-agoraphobic dilemma of the patient who cannot escape from the position of feeling either trapped in intimate relationships or abandoned by them. He examines issues of how guilt and concrete thinking affect the analyst’s countertransference. Dr. Weiss illuminates how trauma is complicated with fear, shame, and rage, creating a tortuous path toward forgiveness and difficulty in easing a cruel superego.

ICAPP Clinical Series w/Dr. Patricia O'Brien
2021-11-02 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom online
Psychoanalysis of a 3-1/2 Year Old Child, Initial Assessment, and Transference-Countertransference Experiences

PCC Open House 2021
2021-03-21 11:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Please RSVP via email to: Office@p-c-c.org

PCC Holiday Party & Graduation Ceremony (PCC Members and Candidates only)
2019-12-14 18:30 - 21:30 (America/Los_Angeles)

PCC Saturday Cinema Phantom Thread
2019-05-18 10:00 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | PCC Office Classroom, 11500 W. Olympic Blvd., Suite 445, Los Angeles, CA, 90064, United States
Come join us Saturday, May 18, 2019 from 10:00 AM to 1:30 PM for a complete viewing of Phantom Thread. Hear Dr. Sandra E. Cohen’s psychoanalytic discussion as she explores the unconscious roots and meaning of Reynolds and Alma’s dangerous feeding game. The question is this: what does it have to do with the complex dynamics between obsessive control and dependency, love and loss.
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Grotstein Memorial Lecture #3
2019-04-23 20:00 - 22:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | New Center for Psychoanalysis, 2014 Sawtelle Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90025, United States
This series of 3 presentations in Los Angeles, the James Grotstein Memorial Lectures, honors his work in comparative psychoanalytic theory and is sponsored by NCP, PCC and LAIPS. Stay tuned for more details!

Grostein Memorial Lecture #2
2019-04-18 20:00 - 22:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | New Center for Psychoanalysis, 2014 Sawtelle Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90025, United States

Spring Break (4/15-26/2019-
2019-04-15 08:00 - 2019-04-26 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)

Grotstein Memorial Lecture #1
2019-03-28 20:00 - 21:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | New Center for Psychoanalysis, 2014 Sawtelle Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90025, United States

9th Annual Wilfred Bion Member Master Class (Members & Recent PCC Graduates only)
2019-03-24 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
The 9th Annual Wilfred Bion Member Master Class is open to PCC Members and recent graduates only!

9th Annual Wilfred Bion Conference with Dr. Civitarese
2019-03-23 09:00 - 15:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | New Center for Psychoanalysis, 2014 Sawtelle Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90025, United States
Join us for the 9th Annual Wilfred Bion Conference on Saturday, March 23, 2019 from 9:00am-3:15pm. Learn more.
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9th Annual Wilfred Bion Candidate Master Class (PCC Candidates only)
2019-03-22 18:30 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | PCC Office Classroom, 11500 W. Olympic Blvd., Suite 445, Los Angeles, CA, 90064, United States
The 9th Annual Wilfred Bion Candidate Master Class is open to PCC Candidates only! Please note the date and time change.

An Evening with Giuseppe Civitarese
2019-03-21 19:30 - 21:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | New Center for Psychoanalysis, 2014 Sawtelle Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90025, United States
Join us for An Evening with Dr. Giuseppe Civitarese on Thursday, March 21, 2019 from 7:30pm-9:30pm”. Learn more.
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PCC Open House
2019-03-17 11:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles)

Pre-conference Reading Series
2019-03-13 19:30 - 21:00, 2019-03-06 19:30 - 21:00, 2019-02-27 19:30 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
The four-session pre-conference reading group will take place on Wednesday, February 20, 2019, February 27, 2019, March 6, 2019 and March 13, 2019. This pre-conference reading group is open to PCC members, candidates, PPP students, and PPP graduates. We will discuss four papers selected by Dr. Civitarese in preparation for his presentations for the 9th Annual Wilfred Bion Conference on March 23, 2019

Chamber Music Concert
2019-03-10 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | University Synagogue, 11960 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, 90049, United States
PCC’s president and professional cellist, Dr. Jennifer Langham, leads a talented group of musicians in this year’s 20th Annual Chamber Music Concert! The program begins with a Mozart Piano Quartet, followed by three rousing Tangos by Astor Piazzolla. The last selection will be a String Sextet by Brahms. The after-concert reception offers an opportunity to relax, have a drink, and socialize with audience members. Contributions to the 2019 Donation Campaign gladly accepted!

Clinical Cafe with Dr. Lee Herzog
2019-03-09 10:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | PCC Office Classroom, 11500 W. Olympic Blvd., Suite 445, Los Angeles, CA, 90064, United States
Join the Outreach Committee for a Clinical Cafe event entitled, Schizoid Phenomena, Video Games and Primitive States of Mind – How to Reach Authenticity Through Regression. The featured speaker for the event is Dr. Lee Herzog.

Faculty Senate Meeting
2019-02-25 19:30 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | PCC Office Classroom, 11500 W. Olympic Blvd., Suite 445, Los Angeles, CA, 90064, United States
