On the Double Provenance of the Unconscious: Psychic Life at the Intersection of the Individual and the Group

Presented by this year's honoree:
Francisco J. González, MD
Personal and Supervising Analyst • Community Psychoanalysis Supervising Analyst • Faculty Member • Co-Director, Community Psychoanalysis Track • Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California

Faculty Member • NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis

Discussants:
Oluwatosin Adebiyi, MD, MPH
Resident Physician • Psychiatry Residency Training Program • Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences • UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences

About the speaker:
Francisco J. González, MD, is a personal and supervising analyst, community psychoanalysis supervising analyst, and faculty member at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC), where he also helped found and serves as co-director of the Community Psychoanalysis Track. He is also a faculty member at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis.

Dr. González's teaching and writing focus on the articulation of the social within individual and collective psychic life, including in the domains of gender, sexuality, racialized difference, immigration, film, and groups, and has been the recipient of the Symonds Prize (2009), the APSA Ralph E. Roughton Paper Award (2017), and co-recipient of the JAPA Award for the Best Published Paper (2019). He serves on the editorial boards of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and Parapraxis, and served on the Holmes Commission on Racial Equality in American Psychoanalysis. He practices privately in San Francisco and Oakland and in the public domain at Instituto Familiar de la Raza in San Francisco.

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About the lectureship series:
The Robert S. Wallerstein, MD Visiting Lecture in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy is given annually in honor and remembrance of the late Professor Robert S. Wallerstein, MD, who served as chair of the UCSF Department of Psychiatry from 1975-1985. The lecture series is focused on showcasing psychoanalytic knowledge and clinical expertise that influence psychiatry, psychotherapy, and psychoanalysis.

This program is approved for up to 3 AMA PRA Category 1™ CME/CE credits, which are managed by the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis (SFCP). To receive credits, you will need to complete a program evaluation, which will be sent a week after the program ends. Completion of the evaluation is required to request credits. CME/CE credits are free for SFCP members and cost $45 for non-members. Payment can be made when you complete the evaluation.

Learning objectives:
Upon completion of this activity, the learners will be able to:

• Describe the definition of "belonging" in group terms according to the theory of group analyst Rene Kaes
• Describe what is meant by the double provenance of the unconscious and give an example
• Explain how community psychoanalysis uses principles of conventional psychoanalysis such as unconscious process and counter/transference

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