The San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, formerly the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Society and Institute is a facility for
psychoanalytic research, training, and education located on 2420 Sutter St. in
San Francisco
San Francisco (; Spanish language, Spanish for "Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the List of Ca ...
, California.
The precursor of the SFCP was a society founded in 1941-1942 as the ''California Psychoanalytic Society'' (CPS) with branches in both San Francisco and Los Angeles. The CPS was under the sponsorship and supervision of the Topeka society, which at that time had jurisdiction over all psychoanalytic institutes in the United States west of Kansas. By 1946, the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Society and Institute had become independent.
From the 1930s to the 1960s, the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Society had close connections with Mount Zion Hospital, which is now affiliated with UCSF but was then and independent hospital that eventually had a national reputation as a training site for psychoanalytically oriented psychiatrists. When the society was finally able to acquire an independent headquarters, it was across the street from Mount Zion.
In 2007, the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute & Society was combined with the San Francisco Foundation for Psychoanalysis, founded in 1991. The new entity was named the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis.
Associated Figures
Persons who have been associated with the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis or its predecessor organizations include the following:
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Barbara Almond
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Eric Berne
Eric Berne (May 10, 1910 – July 15, 1970) was a Canadian-born psychiatrist who created the theory of transactional analysis as a way of explaining human behavior.
Berne's theory of transactional analysis was based on the ideas of Freud but ...
, Canadian-born psychiatrist and developer of
Transactional analysis
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Nancy Chodorow American psychoanalyst, sociologist, and feminist theorist
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Kenneth Colby, psychiatrist and pioneer in artificial intelligence
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Erik Erikson
Erik Homburger Erikson (born Erik Salomonsen; 15 June 1902 – 12 May 1994) was a German-American developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst known for his theory on psychological development of human beings. He coined the phrase identity cr ...
, German-American lay psychoanalyst
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Otto Fenichel
Otto Fenichel (2 December 1897 in Vienna – 22 January 1946 in Los Angeles) was a psychoanalyst of the so-called "second generation".
Education and psychoanalytic affiliations
Otto Fenichel started studying medicine in 1915 in Vienna. Already ...
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Ralph Greenson
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Alice Jones (poet)
Alice Jones is an American poet, physician, and psychoanalyst. Her most recent collection of poetry is ''Plunge'' (Apogee Press, 2012). Her poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including ''Antioch Review,'' ''Ploughshares,'' ''Po ...
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Thomas Ogden
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J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Robert S. Wallerstein[Robert S Wallerstein (1998) Lay analysis: Life inside the controversy. Hillsdale, NJ: Analytic Press.]
See also
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American Psychoanalytic Association
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International Psychoanalytic Association
The International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA) is an association including 12,000 psychoanalysts as members and works with 70 constituent organizations. It was founded in 1910 by Sigmund Freud, from an idea proposed by Sándor Ferenczi.
His ...
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New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute
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List of schools of psychoanalysis
This is a list of schools of psychoanalysis.
International schools and organizations
* International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies (IFPS)
* École Européenne de Psychanalyse (EEP) (Europe)
* International Psychoanalytical Association ...
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Psychoanalytic institutes and societies in the United States
References
External links
*Official website
San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis
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