San Diego Psychoanalytic Center

06/10/2025

Dear Colleagues, I 'm looking for beta testers for TherapyInsights, an AI-powered app that I'm developing.

Therapists can use the app as an assistant (NOT a replacement) to understand and overcome therapy roadblocks. It's multi-lingual and analyzes the user's de-identified input in their selected theoretical framework (e.g., psychodynamic, CBT, DBT, ACT, and more). And the app offers therapeutic recommendations and word-for-word interventions formulated according to the user's selected therapeutic modality. See more details below.

In this beta stage, none of your personal information or clinical material is saved in the app. When the app is officially launched, users will have their own accounts and be able to store saved recommendations.

All beta testers will get FREE use of the app for 6 months from the date the app is officially launched.

Please contact me if you're interested. mytherapyinsight@gmail.com

Dan Gardner, MD
Ph 858-560-5609
www.dangardnermd.com
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TherapyInsights is a sophisticated, AI-driven clinical decision support tool meticulously designed for mental health therapists. Its core mission is to empower practitioners by providing informed perspectives and actionable intervention strategies to navigate therapeutic roadblocks and enhance client outcomes.
Developed by Dan Gardner, MD, a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, TherapyInsights leverages the power of Gemini 2.5 Pro, hosted on Google Cloud, to serve as an intelligent "thought partner." It helps therapists deepen their understanding of complex cases, explore diverse therapeutic angles, and refine their clinical approach with confidence.
Key Benefits for Therapists:
• Enhanced Clinical Decision-Making: Receive structured, AI-generated analyses that offer a fresh lens on client presentations and challenges, fostering more informed clinical judgments.
• Overcome Therapeutic Roadblocks: Get tailored suggestions for interventions and therapeutic responses when facing impasses or difficult dynamics in therapy.
• Modality-Specific Guidance: Select your preferred therapeutic modality, and TherapyInsight will adapt its analysis and recommendations to align with the core principles, theories, and techniques of that approach.
• Save Time & Streamline Formulation: Quickly generate comprehensive process analyses, clinical formulations, and potential intervention pathways, allowing you to focus more on direct client work.
• Continuous Learning & Exploration: Use the tool to explore how different modalities might approach a specific issue or to reinforce your understanding of various therapeutic techniques.
• Personalized Case Reflection: Save valuable insights generated by the AI for specific cases. This allows for later review, comparison, and a personalized log of therapeutic strategies considered or employed.
• Improved Accessibility & Inclusivity: With a user interface and AI-generated content available in multiple languages (English, Spanish, Chinese, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Arabic, Korean, French, Russian, German), the tool caters to a diverse user base.
• Focus on Ethical & Responsible Use: A prominent disclaimer and clear terms of service emphasize that TherapyInsight is a support tool, and the clinician retains full professional responsibility for all therapeutic decisions.

Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. Psychiatric treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury. Consultation to healthcare professionals. Medical expert witness.

04/11/2024

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The registration link is: https://buytickets.at/joinsdpc/1169272

04/05/2024

San Diego Psychoanalytic Center Presents...

Mark Solms. Ph.D.

A Neuroscientific Perspective
on Freudian Dream Theory

Saturday April 13. 2024
10:00 am 12:00 pm

Event Description:

A series of discoveries about the dreaming brain between the 1950s and 1980s suggested that Freudian theory was scientifically disproven. Less well known is the fact that a series of discoveries from the 1990s onwards have steadily rolled back the claims made against Freudian theory. The implications for the neuroscientific standing of psychoanalysis are considerable. These two sets of discoveries and their implications will be described in this lecture.

Bio:

Mark Solms is a psychoanalyst and neuropsychologist. He is Professor in Neuropsychology at the University of Cape Town (South Africa), Honorary Lecturer in Neurosurgery at the St Bartholomew’s and Royal London School of Medicine, Director of the Arnold Pfeffer Center for Neuropsychoanalysis at the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, and Chair of the Research Committee of the International Psychoanalytical Association.

He is President of the South African Psychoanalytical Association, Associate Member of the British Psychoanalytical Society, Honorary Member of the New York Psychoanalytic Society, and Member of the South African Clinical Neuropsychology Association and of the British Neuropsychological Society. He is a Member of the Academy of Science of South Africa and an Honorary Fellow of the American College of Psychoanalysts and of the American College of Psychiatrists. He has won many prestigious awards, including the Sigourney Award. He has authored a multitude of chapters, articles and books, including The Neuropsychology of Dreams (1997), and was the founding editor of the journal Neuropsychoanalysis.



Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will be able to identify the brain regions responsible for REM sleep and dreaming, and the difference between the two.
2. Participants will be able to identify the reasons why it is important to use multiple research methods in science.

CME/CEU: 2.0 credits

Date: Saturday, April 13, 2024

Time: 10 am - 12:00 pm (PST)

Registration: $80 General; $40 SDPC Members, $35 Candidates, and Students

*Please note SDPC does not provide refunds on purchased tickets; only event credit can be applied towards upcoming events.

Registration Link: REGISTER HERE!

Questions: events@sdpsychoanalytic.org

Virtual Only: This event is virtual only. A link will be sent to you two days prior to the event.

03/11/2024

02/02/2024

Hurry prices go up on February 10th!
To register go to: https://buytickets.at/sdpc/1103484

Questions: events@sdpsychoanalytic.org
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02/22/2023

The San Diego Psychoanalytic Center's Extension Division Presents...

Owing and Being Owed: Shame and Responsibility
Toward the Other

with Dr. Peter Shabad


When: Saturday, March 11, 2023
Time: 9:00 am - 11:00 am
Where: Zoom (online)
CEs: 2
Email: sdpc.michelle@gmail.com

In the aftermath of relational disruptions to giving of oneself and being received, shame inverts the passionate movement of responsibility toward and for others into an enclosed self-focused preoccupation. Through the filter of omnipotence and omniscience, shame transforms the helplessness of one’s suffering into punishment and fault.

Self-shaming becomes paradoxically intertwined with self-pity, which then eventually leads to resentment and the entitlement of feeling owed, which is contrasted with the remorseful guilt that leads to a sense of owing others. Since a patient’s curiosity about the person of the therapist reflects an attempt to emerge from shame and take responsibility for what she comes to discover and know, it is of crucial importance that the therapist responds respectfully and actively engages that curiosity on a democratic rather than hierarchical basis.

Peter Shabad, PhD is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Northwestern University Medical School. He is on the Teaching and Supervising Faculty of the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis
(CCP) and the Teaching and Supervising Faculty of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. He is also Supervising and Training Analyst at the Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis He is an Associate Editor on the Editorial Board of Psychoanalytic Dialogues. Dr. Shabad is co-editor of The Problem of Loss and Mourning: Psychoanalytic Perspectives (IUP, 1989) and is the author of Despair and the Return of Hope: Echoes of Mourning in Psychotherapy (Aronson, 2001). Dr. Shabad is currently working on a new book entitled Seizing The Vital Moment: Passion, Shame, and Mourning to be published by Routledge.



To Register: Please Click on the Link Below:
https://www.powr.io/form-builder/u/25f7e2d2_1617663576

$40 General/Clinicians
$20 for SDPC Members, Candidates and Students


For questions, please contact Michelle Spencer,
SDPC Administrator: sdpc.michelle@gmail.com