Psychoanalysis and Opera: Rejoining the Verbal and Non-Verbal

Steven Goldberg, MD, is a training and supervising analyst at  San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, and a personal and supervising analyst at Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. He has taught extensively at both institutes. Dr. Goldberg is a former dean of students, clinic director, and co-chair of the ethics committee at SFCP. He currently co-chairs Opera on the Couch, a collaboration between SFCP and the San Francisco Opera. At the American Psychoanalytic Association, he co-chairs the discussion group on impasses in psycho-analysis. The author of a number of psychoanalytic papers, he is on the editorial boards of the Psychoanalytic Quarterly and the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association.

Lee Rather, Ph.D. is on the faculties of the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis and the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, where he is also a personal and supervising analyst. He has published and presented on a wide range of topics including the integration of psychoanalytic theories, the existential dynamics of desire, mourning and acceptance, and the unconscious aspects of creativity in drama, literature, and music. He is in private practice in San Francisco.