12th annual Wallerstein Lecture set for March 8

By Nicholas Roznovsky
 

Noted clinical educator and author Deborah L. Cabaniss, MD, will be featured as the speaker at the 12th annual Robert S. Wallerstein, MD Visiting Lectureship on Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy on Wednesday, March 8 from 1 – 5 p.m. in Cole Hall on the UCSF Parnassus Heights campus. Her keynote address, "Teaching Psychodynamics: Today and Tomorrow," will be followed by discussion and analysis moderated by William Wolfe, MD, and featuring Cabaniss, Adam Goldyne, MD, and Mary Margart McClure, DMH.

Cabaniss is a professor of clinical psychiatry at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and Associate Director of Residency Training in the Department of Psychiatry. She is also a training and supervising analyst at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.

She is the winner of numerous teaching awards, including the Columbia University Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching, the American Psychoanalytic Association’s Edith Sabshin Award, and the American Psychiatric Association’s Irma Bland Award. She is a graduate of Yale University and the Columbia University College of Physicians, and completed her psychoanalytic training at Columbia.

Her book, “Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: A Clinical Manual,” written with co-authors Sabrina Cherry, Carolyn Douglas, and Anna Schwartz, (and now in its second edition) was published by Wiley in January 2011 and is being used by residency training programs throughout the United States and Canada. It has been translated into Mandarin, Korean and Farsi – with a French version on the horizon. Her second book, “Psychodynamic Formulation,” written with the same group of co-authors as well as Ruth Graver, was published in 2013.

The Wallerstein Lectureship event is free, but advance registration is requested. For further information, visit psych.ucsf.edu/wallerstein or email [email protected].


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