Curriculum Vitae

“Sartre and Psychoanalysis: The Role of Freedom in the Clinical Encounter.” Invited Zoom Address. SAFPAC Seminars 2020 (UK). University of Roehampton, London, November 3, 2022.

“The Phenomenology of Will?” Invited Zoom Address. SAFPAC Seminars 2020 (UK). University of Roehampton, London, November 5, 2020.

“Brokenheartedness: Why Broken Hearts Are So Hard To Mend.” Featured Presentation. R. D. Laing in the Twenty-First Century Symposium and Workshop: What Is Spiritual? Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA, July 21, 2020.

“What Is The Will?” Invited Address. Gnosis Existential Salon. 30 Poppy Lane, Berkeley, CA, June 6, 2020.

“The Enigma of Happiness: And Why It Is So Elusive. Public Lecture Presentation. California Institute of Integral Studies, Namaste Hall, San Francisco, CA., April 16, 2019.

“The Road Less Traveled: R.D. Laing’s Approach to Treating Psychosis – The Role of Love in the Therapeutic Encounter.” Training Workshop, RAMS, Inc. (Richmond Area Multi-Services), 3626 Balboa Street, San Francisco, CA., April 11, 2018.

“Existential Psychoanalysis: The Role of Freedom in the Therapeutic Experience.” Public Lecture Presentation. Sponsored by the Clinical Psychology Department, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA., January 17, 2018.

“The Role of Friendship in the Healing of Psychosis.” Invited Address, RAMS, Inc. (Richmond Area Multi-Services), 3626 Balboa Street, San Francisco, CA, December 20, 2017.

“Healing Friendship: The Therapeutic Component of Residential Living.” Invited Address, Second Session, Arizona Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology, Scottsdale Marriott Suites Old Town, Scottsdale, AZ, December 9, 2017.

“The Desire to Fall in Love.” Invited Address, First Session, Arizona Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology, Scottsdale Marriott Suites Old Town, Scottsdale, AZ, December 9, 2017.

“Sartre and Psychoanalysis: The Nature of Freedom in Clinical Practice.” Keynote Address, 23rd Meeting of the North American Sartre Society, University of La Verne, La Verne, CA, November 4, 2017.

“What Is Friendship? The Power of Intimacy When Healing Extreme States.” Public Lecture Presentation. California Institute of Integral Studies, Namaste Hall, San Francisco, CA., August 31, 2017.

“On Falling in Love.” Featured Presentation. R. D. Laing in the Twenty-First Century Symposium & Workshop: What Are Altered Realities? Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, CA., July 17, 2017.

“Falling in Love as an Altered State.” Public Lecture Presentation. Sponsored by the Clinical Psychology Department, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA., March 30, 2017.

“The Role of Love, Empathy, and Sympathy in Therapy.” Invited Address, Windhorse Foundation, Boulder, CO, September 29, 2016.

“On Sympathy: The Role of Love in the Therapeutic Process.” Featured Presentation. R. D. Laing in the Twenty-First Century Symposium & Workshop: What is Therapeutic?, Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA, August 8, 2016.

“The Search for Authenticity: Conversations with Jim Bugental.” Featured Presentation. The Power of Presence Conference: Celebrating Jim Bugental and The Search for Authenticity. Namaste Hall, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA, November 14, 2015.

“Community, Friendship, Healing.” Invited Address. Windhorse Community Services, Inc., Boulder, CO, November 1, 2015.

“Sanity and Friendship.” Featured Presentation. R.D. Laing in the Twenty-First Century Symposium & Workshop: What Is Sanity? What Is Madness? Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA, July 21, 2015.

“All Divided Selves: A Film by Luke Fowler.” Panel Discussant, feature documentary presentation about the life and work of R.D. Laing. Namaste Hall, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA, February 23, 2014.

“Existential Freud: Conversting Neurotic Misery into Common Unhappiness.” Invited Address, Seventh Annual Conference of the Existential-Humanistic Institute: Beyond Anxiety: Finding Strength and Meaning in Everyday Living. San Francisco, CA, November 16, 2013.

“R.D. Laing and Anti-Psychopathology: The Myth of Mental Illness Redux.” Invited Presentation, weekend symposium, R.D. Laing in the Twenty-First Century, in commemoration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of R.D. Laing’s death, Wagner College, Staten Island, October 25-27, 2013.

“The Concept of Happiness.” Invited Address, Clinical Colloquia, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA, March 13, 2013.

“Michael Guy Thompson’s Journey to Psychoanalytic Psychology.” Invited Address, California School of Professional Psychology, Alliant International University, San Francisco, CA, October 19, 2009.

“The Demise of the Person in the Transference Situation.” Panel Presentation, 28th Spring Meeting of the Division of Psychoanalysis (39), American Psychological Association Annual Convention, The Waldorf Astoria, New York, NY, April 9-13, 2008.

“Murray Bilmes Memorial Address.” Eulogy, under the joint auspices of Alliant International University and the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, First Unitarian Universalist Church and Center, San Francisco, CA, October 27, 2007.

“My Name is Sabina Spielrein.” Invited Address and Discussion of the Film Presentation, under the auspices of the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California’s Extra Curricular Education Committee, San Francisco, CA, March 11, 2006.

“R. D. Laing’s Enigmatic Relationship With Authenticity.” Invited Address, 40th Anniversary Celebration of the Founding of the Philadelphia Association, Friends Meeting House, Heath Street, London, England, June 25, 2005.

“The Quest for Authenticity in the Psychoanalytic Encounter.” Invited Address, San Francisco Chapter of the California Association Marriage and Family Therapists, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, June 12, 2005.

“The Role of Authenticity in the Psychoanalytic Encounter.” Five-Part Lecture Series, Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology, San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute, San Francisco, CA, September 16 – October 14, 2005.

“The Way of Authenticity: The Quest for Personal Integrity.” Scientific Meeting, Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology, San Francisco, CA, December 11, 2004.

“Vicissitudes of Authenticity: The Quest for Personal Integrity.” Invited Address, Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, San Francisco, CA, June 7, 2004.

“Vicissitudes of Authenticity: Latent Elements in the Quest for Personal Integrity in the Psychoanalytic Tradition.” Invited Workshop, under the auspices of the Philadelphia Association, 4 Marty’s Yard, London, England, June 19, 2004.

“Culture and Happiness: Civilization And It’s Discontents.” Invited Seminar, San Francisco Intensive Study Group, Dead or Alive: Freud’s Death Drive in the Clinic and Contemporary Culture, sponsored by the Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology, March 19 — May 14, 2004, San Francisco, CA.

“The Question of Authenticity: Its Clinical Import and Philosophical Foundations.” Invited Panel Presentation, 24th Spring Meeting of the Division of Psychoanalysis (39), American Psychological Association Annual Convention, Fontainebleau Hilton Resort, Miami Beach, FL, March 18-21, 2004.

“The Clinical Foundations of Authenticity in the Transformational Conversation.” Panel Presentation, Fourteenth Annual Conference of the International Federation for Psychoanalytic Education, Westin Pasadena Resort, Pasadena, CA, November 5-7, 2003.

“Phenomenology of Friendship.” Invited Address, under the auspices of the Philadelphia Association, 4 Marty’s Yard, London, England, October 14, 2003.

“Nietzsche and Postmodernism: and the Question of Authenticity.” Invited Address, Regent’s College, School of Psychotherapy, October 9, 2003, Regent’s Park, London, England.

“The Concept of Happiness: A Reappraisal of the Psychoanalytic Conception of Suffering.” Invited Address, under the auspices of the Philadelphia Association, 4 Marty’s Yard, London, England, October 7, 2003.

Discussant to John Searle’s Keynote Address, “Technology and Consciousness.” OUT OF THE TOWER, OFF OF THE COUCH Annual conference, on TECHNO-ANALYSIS, sponsored by the Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology, Interdisciplinary Committee, October 3-5, 2003, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA.

“Freud and the Body.” Invited Seminar, South Bay Intensive Study Group, On the Body: Forms and Expressions of Being, sponsored by the Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology, September 10 – October 1, 2003, Palo Alto, CA.

“The Ambiguity of Cure: Discussion of the Psychoanalytic Film, NINETEEN NINETEEN.” Invited Address, Appalachian Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology (ASPP), Knoxville, TN, May 17, 2003.

“A Brief Introduction of Psychodynamic/Psychoanalytic Work.” Invited Seminar Series, Marina Counseling Center, February 25 – March 10, 2003, San Francisco, CA.

“The Enigma of Cure: A Cinematic Journey into the Mysteries of the Analytic Experience.” Invited Address, South Bay Intensive Study Group, sponsored by the Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology (NCSPP), Redwood City, CA., February 23, 2003.

“The Pursuit of Happiness: A Reappraisal of the Psychoanalytic Conception of Unhappiness.” Invited Address, Southeast Florida Association for Psychoanalytic Psychology (SEFAPP), Hollywood, Fl., November 3, 2002.

“Nietzsche and Psychoanalysis: The Space Between Postmodernism and Authenticity.” Paper Presentation, Thirteenth Annual Conference of the International Federation for Psychoanalytic Education, Lago Mar Resort and Club, Ft. Lauderdale, Fl, October 25-27, 2002.

“Dynamics of Transference.” Invited Seminar, South Bay Intensive Study Group, Revolutions and Evolutions: The Nature of the Object in the Legacy of Freud, sponsored by the Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology, September 6 — October 18, 2002, Palo Alto, CA.

“The Fidelity to Experience in R. D. Laing’s Treatment of Severe Psychopathology.” Invited Address, Second Meeting of the San Francisco Chapter of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Schizophrenia and Other Psychoses, (ISPS-SF) Boyer House, San Rafael, CA, January 25, 2002.

“Happiness and Culture: A Reappraisal of Freud’s Civilization and Its Discontents.” Presidential Address, Twelfth Annual Conference of the International Federation for Psychoanalytic Education, Lago Mar Resort and Club, Ft. Lauderdale, Fl, November 2-4, 2001.

“The Role of Candor and Honesty in the Psychoanalytic Encounter.” Invited Panel Presentation, Section One (Psychologist-Psychoanalyst Practitioners), Division of Psychoanalysis (39) Program, American Psychological Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA, August 26, 2001.

“The Ethics of Honesty in the Free Associative Experience.” Invited Panel Presentation, Section Four (Local Chapters), Division of Psychoanalysis (39) Program, American Psychological Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA, August 24, 2001.

“The Crisis of Experience in Contemporary Psychoanalysis.” Invited Address, Southeast Florida Institute for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (SEFIPP), Ft. Lauderdale, Fl., June 15, 2001.

“The Mysteries of Termination and the Psychoanalytic Treatment Experience.” Invited Address, video film presentation and discussion, Southeast Florida Association for Psychoanalytic Psychology (SEFAPP), Boca Raton, Fl., June 16, 2001.

“The Ethic of Honesty: The Moral Dimension to Psychoanalysis.” Discussion to Peter Carnochan, “The Moral Architecture of Psychoanalysis,” sponsored by the Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology, San Francisco, CA, March 3, 2001.

“Is the Unconscious Really all that Unconscious? The Role of Being and Experience in the Psychoanalytic Situation.” Presidential Address, Eleventh Annual Conference of the International Federation for Psychoanalytic Education, Palmer House Hilton Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, November 3-5, 2000.

“The Crisis of Experience in the Psychoanalytic Situation.” Invited Address, Fall Convocation of the California Institute for Clinical Social Work on the general theme of Philosophical Dimensions of Psychoanalysis, Hotel Durant, Berkeley, California, September 23-24, 2000.

“The Crisis of Experience in Contemporary Psychoanalysis.” Invited Keynote Address, the Annual Spring Conference of the Michigan Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology on the general theme of The Experience of Psychoanalysis: What Does It Have To Offer, If Not A “Cure”?, Providence Hospital Medical Building, Southfield, Michigan, March 11, 2000.

“The Sceptic Dimension to Psychoanalysis: Toward An Ethic of Experience.” Invited Keynote Address, the Annual Conference of the Instituto de Investigación en Psicología Clínica y Social (Institute of Clinical and Social Psychological Research), Mexico City, February 26, 2000.

“The Enigma of Honesty: The Fundamental Rule of Psychoanalysis.” Invited Public Lecture presentation, under the auspices of the Philadelphia Association, 4 Marty’s Yard, London, England, October 22, 1999.

“Transference and Addiction.” Invited panel presentation on “Desires and Addictions: Compelling Forces,” at the all-day conference sponsored by the William Alanson White Institute on the general theme of Hungers and Compulsions Contemporary Perspectives in the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Eating Disorders and Addictions, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York City, October 30, 1999.

“The Decline of Experience in Contemporary Psychoanalysis.” Invited Keynote Address, the Annual conference of the Institute of Clinical and Social Psychological Research (Instituto de Investigación en Psicología Clínica y Social), Mexico City, February 27, 1999.

“R. D. Laing’s Contribution to Psychoanalysis.” Paper presentation, two-day symposium, The Legacy and Future of R. D. Laing’s Contribution to Contemporary Thought, in commemoration of the tenth anniversary of R. D. Laing’s death, sponsored by Saybrook Institute and Free Association, Lone Mountain College, San Francisco, March 13-14, 1999.

“Transference and Friendship: Aristotle, Montaigne, Freud.” Invited Address presentation, Ninth Annual Conference of the International Federation for Psychoanalytic Education, Fordham University, New York, New York, November 6-8, 1998.

“The Crisis of Experience in a Post-Subjective Age.” Discussion presentation following paper by Martin Jay, Ph.D., in the Out of the Tower, Off of the Couch lecture series, sponsored by The Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology, San Francisco; George Gund Theater, University of California at Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, California, November 14, 1998.

“Skepticism and Psychoanalysis: The Rule of Neutrality.” Paper presentation, San Francisco Institute for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis lecture series, Thinking About Psychoanalytic Theories: Philosophical Assumptions, 3325 Sacramento Street, San Francisco, October 19, 1998.

Discussant to J. M. Heaton, M.A., M.B., B.Chir., D.O., “Skepticism and Psychoanalysis: Toward A Therapeutic Phenomenology.” Invited Address, Radical Edge in Psychoanalysis Lecture Series, California School of Professional Psychology, Alameda, California, November 8, 1997.

“The Death of Desire and the Problem of Intentionality.” Invited Address, Free Association Lecture Series, Berkeley, California, October 10, 1997.

“Free Association: Psychoanalytic Technique or a Model for Psychoanalytic Education?” Paper presentation, the Eighth Annual Conference of the International Federation for Psychoanalytic Education, The Campus Inn, Ann Arbor, Michigan, October 3-5, 1997.

“Working — or Wrestling? — Through Resistance to Change.” Invited Address, Free Association Lecture Series, Berkeley, California, February 21, 1997.

Discussant to Betty Cannon, Ph.D., “Sartre and Psychoanalysis.” Invited Address, Radical Edge in Psychoanalysis Lecture Series, California School of Professional Psychology, Alameda, California, December 6, 1996.

“The Fundamental Rule of Psychoanalysis.” Paper presentation, the Seventh Annual Conference of the International Federation for Psychoanalytic Education, Boca Raton Resort and Club, Boca Raton, Fl., September 27-29, 1996.

“Narcissism and Psychosis.” Invited Address, Free Association Lecture Series, Berkeley, California, September 13, 1996.

“Freud’s Rule of Neutrality.” Keynote Address presentation, the Twentieth Annual Freud Conference, Toorak Campus, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia, March 23, 1996.

“Deception, Mystification, Trauma: Laing and Freud.” Keynote Address Presentation, the Twentieth Annual Freud Conference, Toorak Campus, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia, March 24, 1996.

“Neutrality and Affect.” Invited Address, Free Association Lecture Series, Berkeley, California, January 12, 1996.

Discussant to Daniel Burston, Ph.D., “The Pathology of Normalcy in the Psychoanalytic Theories of Eric Fromm and R. D. Laing.” Invited Address, Radical Edge in Psychoanalysis Lecture Series, California School of Professional Psychology, Alameda, California, December 2, 1995.

“Demystifying ‘Classical’ Technique: The Truth About Freud’s Conception of Neutrality.” Invited Paper Presentation, Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology, UCSF Laurel Heights Conference Center, San Francisco, CA, October 19, 1995.

“The Existential Dimension to Working Through.” Paper presentation, Sixth Annual Conference of the International Federation for Psychoanalytic Education, The Toronto Hilton, Toronto, Canada. October 13-16, 1995.

“Logos, Poetry and Heidegger’s Conception of Creativity.” Invited paper presentation, Fourth Annual Meeting of the Northern California Psychiatric Society, on Creativity, Psychiatry and the Human Condition, Santa Fe, New Mexico. July 13-15, 1995.

“Freud’s Papers on Technique: Neutrality.” Invited paper presentation, The Psychoanalytic Forum, California School of Professional Psychology, Alameda, CA. November 11, 1994.

“Freud’s Conception of Neutrality.” Invited Public Lecture presentation, under the auspices of the Philadelphia Association, 4 Marty’s Yard, London, England. October 28, 1994.

“The Impact of Freud’s Conception of Neutrality on His Analysis of the Rat Man.” Invited Address, Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Kent, Canterbury, England, October 27, 1994.

“The Truth About Freud’s Technique.” Paper presentation, Fifth Annual Conference of the International Federation for Psychoanalytic Education, The Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, Il. October 8-9, 1994.

“Existentialism and Schizophrenia.” Invited paper presentation, Existential Psychotherapy Forum, California School of Professional Psychology, Alameda, CA. May 14, 1994.

“Fromm, Psychoanalysis and Existentialism.” Invited paper presentation, The Psychoanalytic Forum, California School of Professional Psychology, Alameda, CA, April 22, 1994.

“The Existential Dimension to Psychoanalysis.” Invited two-day lecture presentation, Dept. of Psychology, Graduate School, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, April 8-10, 1994.

“Deception, Mystification, Trauma: Laing and Freud.” Invited paper presentation, Twelfth Annual Symposium of the Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center, addressing The Interpersonal Phenomenology of R. D. Laing, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, March 11-12, 1994.

“The Fidelity to Experience in Existential Psychoanalysis.” Invited paper presentation, The Psychoanalytic Forum, California School of Professional Psychology, Alameda, CA, April 3, 1992.

“Guilt and the Father Function.” Invited paper presentation, two-day Conference on Fatherhood and the Modern Family, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA. April 24-26, 1987.

“The Death of Desire.” Paper presentation, Fifth International Human Sciences Research Conference, co-sponsored by Saybrook Institute, San Francisco, CA and California State University at Hayward, CA, at University of California Campus, Berkeley, CA, May 27-31, 1986.

“The Concept of Desire in Hegel and Freud.” Invited paper presentation, Melia Foundation Symposium on Psychotherapy and Philosophy, San Francisco, CA, March 14-15, 1984.

“Alternatives for In-patient Treatment of Psychosis.” Invited paper presentation, Kaiser Hospital, Dept. of Psychological Services, Oakland, CA, April 7, 1983.

“Schizophrenia as a Structure of Desire.” Invited Weekend Presentation, Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA, June 15-16, 1981.

“The Existential Approach to Psychosis.” Invited paper presentation, Mental Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA. August 20, 1979.

“The Convergence of Philosophy and Psychology in Psychoanalysis.” Invited paper presentation, Annual Meeting of the Asociacion Psicoanalytico de España (The Spanish Psychoanalytic Association), Zaragoza, Spain, May 22, 1975.

“The Anti-psychiatric Treatment of Schizophrenia.” Invited paper presentation, Hospital Psiquiatrico de Barcelona (The Psychiatric Hospital of Barcelona), Barcelona, Spain, April 27, 1975.