SACRAMENTO PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY Trainee Case Conference — Fall 2025 Kickoff 🗓 Tuesday, October 14, 2025 🕕 6:15–7:45 PM 📍 422 Alhambra Blvd. Welcome to the First Trainee Case Conference of the Academic Year! Join us as we open the 2025–26 Training Case Conference series—an interdisciplinary forum for clinicians-in-training from
Deploying an interpretation of Andrei Tarkovsky's film, Solaris as fundament, this talk speaks of the madness that ensues when a reproduction of humanity or human intelligence is presented to us as real. Dr. Castrillón characterizes our contemporary inability to ascertain veracity as an epistemic break with grave implications,
Friday, October 10 6:00-8:00 p.m. 422 Alhambra Blvd., Sacramento In this presentation, Gestalt Therapist Peter Cole, LCSW will discuss his recent article I Am Here: A Gestalt Perspective on Navigating Through Troubled Times (co-written with Charlie Bowman and scheduled to appear in Gestalt Review, Spring 2026 ). He
Coffee Meet Up 📅 Date: Saturday October 4th 🕒 Time: 9-11:00 AM 📍 Location: Old Soul at The Weatherstone, 812 21st St, Sacramento, CA 95811 Start off your morning with Sacramento Psychoanalytic Society at our first ever Coffee Meet Up! Join us on Saturday, October 4, 9am-11am, at Old Soul at The
Can psychoanalysis help us engage films differently? We think so! You are invited to join us at The Dreamland Cinema on Sunday, September 28th at 1:00 PM to watch Pedro Almodóvar's "The Room Next Door." Moving, dream-like, hopeful, "The Room Next Door" explores
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Friday May 30th hear from Nicole Pardo, MD on "Borders, Bad Objects, and Psychoanalysis."
Can psychoanalysis help us engage films differently? We think so, and we'd like to invite you to join us for a private screening at The Dreamland Cinema on Wednesday May 14th from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM to watch the movie "Godzilla minus One."
Join us on May 30 at 6 PM to hear Nicole Pardo, MD on Borders, Bad Objects, and Psychoanalysis.
What's happening at SPS during the month of May? * Trainee Case Conference * Movie Night: "Godzilla Minus One" * Wine, Cheese, & Bad Objects ✏️Don't forget the ongoing SPS Membership Survey! We want to hear from YOU about what you want to see from SPS in
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Have you ever wanted to watch a movie with people who think psychoanalytically? The Sacramento Psychoanalytic Society is proud to announce a private screening of Godzilla Minus One (2023) at The Dreamland Cinema on May 14th at 6 PM. The movie will start promptly at 6:10 PM, run for
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At this event, clinician and analyst-in-training Nathan Lupo LMFT will present two brief case-vignettes, using them as springboards for a discussion of Lacanian theory and its clinical applications.
Join us on Saturday, March 29th from 4 PM to 6 PM for a very special continuation of last year's popular event "Wine, Cheese, & the Therapist's Body." SPS board member Jen Vera will host out of town colleagues for a panel discussion titled
📣It's March! This is the SPS monthly roundup. Learn about what's happening and how you can get involved this month. See you there! Here's the TL;DR * Trainee Case Conference on Tuesday, 3/11 at 6:15 PM * "My Body is Here, Too:
Save the 388 in Québéc City, Canada, a center which has successfully treated many patients with the psychoanalytic cure.
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Join us on Friday February 28th at 6:00 PM for an evening of Wine, Cheese, & Foucault, with board member Matthew Stanley! Come learn more about Foucault's theory of biopower, and especially what psychoanalysis can learn from his critiques. Snacks and drinks are provided, and lively discussions
Join us in person for the Early Career Psychoanalytic Case Conference this spring. We extend this invitation to early career therapists of any mental health discipline who are pre-licensed or up to five years post-licensure. The focus of each 12-week course is transference/countertransference. Three group members will have the
We are happy to continue our interdisciplinary psychoanalytic case conference open to all trainees in mental health in the Sacramento area. Trainees at all years of these programs are welcome to attend. The case conference will be held monthly, on the second Tuesday of each month from 6:15 PM-7:
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Join us in person for the Early Career Psychoanalytic Case Conference this spring. We extend this invitation to early career therapists of any mental health discipline who are pre-licensed or up to five years post-licensure. The focus of each 12-week course is transference/countertransference. Three group members will have the
Join us on Friday, January 31st for an evening of wine, cheese, and deconstructing the patriarchy with Susan Boulware, PhD!
We are happy to continue our interdisciplinary psychoanalytic case conference open to all trainees in mental health in the Sacramento area.