Selected Professional Presentations and Courses Taught
| 2018 – 2023 | Psychoanalytic Traditions – course taught at Pacifica Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara, CA |
| 2018 | The Practice of Analysis – seminar taught at C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco |
| 2018 | Surrender, Suffering and the Still Point – paper given at Eighth International Conference on Jungian Psychology and Chinese Culture – Xi’an, China |
| 2018 | The Emergent Soul: Jungian and Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Assessment and Treatment of Children and Adolescents – Two-day workshop taught at Taiwan Institute for Psychotherapy, Taipei, Taiwan and Shanghai, China |
| 2018 | In the Embrace of Lady Poverty: Reflections on the Psychology of Homelessness – talk given at C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco |
| 2017 | Working with Parents and Families in Child Psychotherapy – seminar taught at Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Training Program, Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Francisco |
| 2017 | Working with Parents – Intramural program taught at C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco for analysts and candidates |
| 2016 | Developmental and Ecological Dimensions of Grief and Mourning in Children and Adolescents: A Brief Overview – seminar taught at Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Training Program, Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Francisco |
| 2016 | Politics, Culture, Soul: A National Conference on the Psychology of the 2016 Presidential Election – Conference co-organizer and panel moderator, C.G. Jung Institute, San Francisco, CA |
| 2016 | An Evening with Richard Shindell – Analytic Voices and a Response in Song – C.G. Jung Institute, San Francisco, CA |
| 2016 | Archetypes and Clinical Process: Jungian and Post-Jungian Ideas of a Mythopoetic Collective Unconscious – lecture given at Sanville Institute Fall Convocation on the Enigmas of Consciousness, Berkeley, CA |
| 2016 | Psychoanalytic Traditions – course taught at Pacifica Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara, CA |
| 2016 | “Inching Towards Wholeness: C.G. Jung and his Relationship with Judaism,” paper presented at conference entitled “Creative Minds in Dialogue: C.G. Jung and Erich Neumann” at Pacifica Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara, CA. |
| 2016 | “Submission and Surrender as Modes of Relating in Psychoanalysis and Analytical Psychology.” Four session seminar given as part of yearlong course entitled “Deepening the Work: Relational psychotherapy through a Jungian lens” at C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco |
| 2015 | “Just this Side of the Edge: Clinical Perspectives in the Face of Serious Illness and Death of the Analyst,” part of “Ethical Territory in the Analytic Encounter: Stories from the Intersection of Two Lives” at C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco |
| 2015 | Becoming a Self: Unity and Individuation of the Infant-Mother Pair – Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Training Program, Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Francisco |
| 2015 | The Initiatory Journey: Spirit of the Bear and the Soul of Man – Bar Ilan University, Tel Aviv, Israel |
| 2015 | Psychoanalytic Traditions – course taught at Pacifica Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara, CA |
| 2015 | Attachment Across the Lifespan: A View from Attachment Theory and Analytical Psychology – C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco |
| 2014 | The Nature of Initiatory Experience – Southern Arizona Friends of Jung, Tucson, AZ |
| 2014 | Working with the Unconscious in Clinical Supervision – The Psychotherapy Institute, Berkeley, CA |
| 2014 | Kabbalah, Sufism and Analytical Psychology – C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco |
| 2014 | Transference and Countertransference in Working with Children and Adolescents – Child and Adolescent Training Program, Department of Psychiatry, University of California at San Francisco |
| 2014 | Psychoanalytic Traditions – Course taught at Pacifica Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara, CA |
| 2014 | The Analytic Field: Contemporary Approaches to Transference and Countertransference in Jungian Psychology – C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco |
| 2013 | Threshold and Liminality in “A Serious Man” – C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco |
| 2013 | There But For Fortune: Personal and Archetypal Dimensions of Analytic Interaction with the Suicidal Patient – American Academy for Psychoanalysis and Psychodynamic Psychiatry |
| 2013 | Transference and Countertransference in Working with Children and Adolescents – Child and Adolescent Training Program, Department of Psychiatry, University of California at San Francisco |
| 2013 | Questioning Authority (Again): Some Comments on Clinical Supervision – The Psychotherapy Institute |
| 2010-2013 | Clinical Colloquium for the Integration of Theory and Practice in Cultural Context – The Sanville Institute for Clinical Social Work and Psychotherapy |
| 2007-2012 | Practice in Social Work, course taught in School of Social Welfare – University of California at Berkeley |
| 2012 | Fragments Shored Against the Ruins: Analytical Psychology and Psychoanalysis in a Post-Modern World – C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco |
| 2011 | C.G. Jung and the Jewish Soul: A Dynamism between Psyche and Religiosity – C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco |
| 2010 | Four Perspectives on Freud and Jung – C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco |
| 2009 | Becoming a Clinician – Sanville Institute and California Society for Clinical Social Work, Berkeley, CA |
| 2009 | Case Discussant – Sanville Institute Convocation, Berkeley, CA |
| 2008 | Working with Individuals – School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley, CA |
| 2005 | Vocational Change in Midlife – The Psychotherapy Institute, Berkeley, CA |
| 2004 | Co-Parent Counseling and the Interface between Therapists, Attorneys and the Court – Family and Childrens Bureau of Alameda County Superior Court, Hayward, CA |
| 2004 | Psychotherapy with Children in High Conflict Divorce – Family and Childrens Bureau of Alameda County Superior Court, Hayward, CA |
| 2004 | Learning Disorders and Disorders of the Self in Children and Adolescents – Athenian School, Danville, CA |
| 2001 | The Ecology of Child Custody Conflicts – Superior Court of Los Angeles, Family Court Services, Los Angeles, CA; California Institute for Clinical Social Work, Berkeley, CA; Bay Area Regional Training Institute, Judicial Council of California, San Francisco, CA |
| 2000 | The Value of Diversity in Practice Styles, Mediation Models, and Other Dispute Resolution Tools – Academy of Family Mediators, Salt Lake City, Utah |
| 1998 | The Therapeutic Relationship: Jung and Self Psychology – Family Service Agency, Napa, CA |
| 1996 | The Adolescent Visitation Conundrum: Issues in Establishing and Maintaining Visitation – Administrative Office of the Courts, Council for Judicial Education and Research, Anaheim |
| 1995 | Assessment of Children and Adolescents in the Context of Custody Litigation – Administrative Office of the Courts, San Francisco, CA (1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000) |
| 1991 | Play Therapy with Children of Divorce – California School of Professional Psychology, Berkeley, CA |
| 1988 | Working with Children of Divorce – Kaiser Hospital Psychiatry Department, San Francisco, CA |
| 1986 | The Effects of the Nuclear Threat on Childrens Mental Health – California Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers, San Francisco, CA |
| 1985 | Preschoolers in Joint Custody: Preliminary Findings from the Joint Custody Project – American Orthopsychiatric Association, New York |