September has arrived, and SPS has been working to put together workshops, speaking engagements and film events! Here is a brief round-up of events planned for this fall. We hope you can join us as we meet to socialize and discuss topics relevant to the practice of psychoanalysis. Outsider.
When: Saturday, September 12th, 6:00-8:30 Where: 422 Alhambra Blvd., Sacramento You're invited as we inaugurate a new year of programs sponsored by the Sacramento Psychoanalytic Society! We'll gather for small bites, beverages and conversation before screening Outsider.Freud, a Gradiva Award-Winning documentary
When: Saturdays, April 11th and 18th, 6:00-8:30 p.m. Where: 422 Alhambra Blvd., Sacramento Register Here Join us for a screening of Century of the Self (2002), a four-part documentary series by Adam Curtis that explores the profound influence of Sigmund Freud's ideas on
When: Saturday, May 9th, 4:00-6:00 p.m. Where: 422 Alhambra Blvd, Sacramento and Online via Zoom* Register Here As AI technology proliferates at speeds faster than our mind can comprehend, anxiety about its unforeseen global and social impact has risen to existential and apocalyptic levels. Our current
When: Friday, April 24th, 4:00-6:00 Where: SacYard, 1725 33rd St., Sacramento Join us for another round of drinks with shrinks! This time, we'll meet at SacYard. The weather should be nice, and the conversation dynamic. Come, enjoy a round of drinks with friends and colleagues.
Join us next Saturday, March 28th at the Dreamland Cinema for a showing of Aftersun. This film tells the story of a seaside vacation 11-year-old Sophie spends with her father, Calum. Director Charlotte Wells has said she made the film as a way of working through memories and
Networking + connection at a hands-on crafting class Depth-oriented clinicians looking to connect with like-minded colleagues: This event is for you. Scroll down for registration information. Event limited to 8 people. To register, do both of the following: 1) Pay Rumpelstiltskin directly at this link: https://rumpelyarn.square.
Register Here In psychoanalysis, dreams play an essential role in the work of accessing the unconscious. Rather than simply teach the theory and techniques used to work with dreams in a session, this workshop led by Nicole Shieh, LMFT, is both experimental and experiential, an attempt to learn through doing.
Saturday, March 28, 4:00 p.m. The Dreamland Cinema, 1901 P St., Sacramento Register Here Aftersun (2022) is a coming-of-age story told through the eyes of an 11-year-old girl named Sophie. The film centers on a seaside vacation Sophie spends together with her young father,
Starting the new year right with a happy hour, plus now soliciting proposals for talks.
Saturdays, February 21st and 28th, 10:00-11:30 a.m. Online via Zoom Register Here Late in his career, Jacques Lacan worked to articulate how writing may represent that which is experienced beyond sense, and so indicate a frontier between the Symbolic Order (that of language) and what he
Saturday, February 7th, 1:00-3:30 p.m. 422 Alhambra Blvd., Sacramento Register Here Please join us for a conversation with Dr. Bret Fimiani on the ethics of psychoanalytic treatment with patients who are hearing voices and/or experiencing extreme states. While the focus of this conversation is on