This year's series offers a number of presentations which explore innovative applications of psychoanalytic ideas in work with children. These events are offered free of charge through the generous support of SFCP and the Sophia Mirviss Fund.
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This event will present Dr. Gann’s original and groundbreaking work with adolescents through Today’s Future Sound. The program will explore musical and cultural aspects of hip hop, including sampling and beat-making, in relation to the practice of the analytic frame, using Freud’s theory of repetition, Winnicott’s notion of “going-on-being,” and Peter Goldberg’s concept of beta-function.
Elliot Gann, PsyD is a child and adolescent clinical psychologist. He is a long-time beat maker and Executive Director of Today’s Future Sound, an organization focused on youth in Bay Area schools, community settings, and across the globe, using Hip Hop beat making and culture as a mental health, educational, social justice and cross-cultural interventions.
Adam Blum, PsyD has written about psychoanalysis and the music of Björk, Kendrick Lamar, Talking Heads, Radiohead, Sondheim, Copland, John Luther Adams, Frank Ocean, and Michael Jackson. He is in private practice in San Francisco.
describe the phenomenon of repetition in hip hop and it’s potential for establishing a framework for a creative and therapeutic sense of experiential continuity.
integrate a developmentally and culturally responsive understanding of hip hop music into the rhythmic, “beat-making” practice of the psychoanalytic frame in psychotherapy with adolescents.
PHYSICIANS: The San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis designates this educational activity for a maximum of 2 credits as listed for each individual program, AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. This credit may also be applied to the CMA Certification in Continuing Medical Education.
LCSWs/MFTs: The San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis is an entity recongized by the Board of Behavioral Sciences to provide Continuing Education Credits pursuant to Section 1887.4.3.
Faculty Disclosure: The following moderators and planning committee members have disclosed NO financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with commercial companies who have provided products or services, relating presentation(s) or commercial support for this continuing medical education activity: Sarah Stadler, MD, Jacqueline Ward, PhD, David Frankel, PhD, Courtney Hartman, PsyD, Tam-Anh Pham, LMFT, Yen Quoc, PsyD, Jesse Little Shapiro, LMFT, Elliot Gann, PsyD and Adam Blum, PsyD. All conflicts of interest have been resolved in accordance with the ACCME Updated Standards for Commercial Support.
The Child Colloquium Series are offered free of charge through a generous support of the SFCP and the Sophia Mirviss Fund.