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The Marin Psychoanalytic Forum:
The Modern Approach for the Contemporary Practitioner

Robert Waska, MFT, PhD, FIPA
Date: Ongoing, Second Saturday of the Month
Time: 7:00pm-9:00pm
Location:CIP, 1330 Lincoln Avenue, Suite 201, Group Room, San Rafael

September 12, 2009: What is Analytic? Establishing Analytic Contact
October 10, 2009: Working with Neurotic Patients
November 14, 2009: Working with Borderline Patients
December 12, 2009: Working with Psychotic Patients
January 9, 2010: Emotional Foxholes/Beyond the Borderline
February 13, 2010: Love, Hate, and Knowledge
March 20, 2010: The Imperfect Art of Interpretation
April 10, 2010: Therapeutic Balance and Acting out
May 8, 2010: Helping the Psychotic Patient
June 12, 2010: Greed and Destructive Desire
July 10, 2010: The Death Instinct: Clinical Aspects
August 14, 2010: A Day in the Life of a Psychoanalyst

A year-round, monthly meeting in which issues pertaining to psychoanalytic theory, technique, and practice will be discussed in an open forum setting. The series provides clinicians of all levels an arena in which to learn more about practicing from a psychoanalytic perspective. Each session will open with a short paper or case presentation by the leader. The group will then pursue a free form discussion aimed toward learning about the "nuts and bolts" and the "how to" of working psychoanalytically with individuals, couples, and families.

Robert Waska MFT, PhD, FIPA, a graduate of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies, maintains a private psychoanalytic practice for individuals and couples in San Francisco and Marin County. He is, has published over eighty articles in professional journals, and recently co-authored the new Handbook of Contemporary Psychotherapy and the soon to be published Handbook of Hate. Dr. Waska is the personal author of eight textbooks on psychoanalytic theory and technique from a modern Kleinian perspective. His work focuses on contemporary Kleinian topics including projective identification, loss, borderline and psychotic states, the practical realities of psychoanalytic practice in the modern world, and the establishment of analytic contact with difficult, hard to reach patients.

CIP members and Non-members:

September, October, and November is free.
December through August is $30 per session.

2 CEUs per session approved for MFTs and LCSWs and 24 CEUs approved by the MCEPAA for Psychologists for this program. MCEP# COM040-78.


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