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Israel Katz, MD

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Israel Katz, MD
Dr. Israel Katz is a member and faculty at SFCP. He has a keen interest in Freudian, Latin American and French psychoanalysis. He was editor of IPSO, the organization for psychoanalysts-in-formation at IPA affiliated institutes. Dr. Katz teaches at SFCP and Access Institute on Freud, French psychoanalysis and therapeutic mechanisms of action. He translates Spanish to English psychoanalytic literature and research. Dr. Katz is in private practice in San Francisco working as a psychoanalyst and psychiatrist with adults.
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Death Drive Dialogue #2

Henry Markman, MD

Israel Katz, MD

Berkeley City Club 2315 Durant Avenue, Berkeley, CA, United States

Drs. Markman and Katz will each elaborate on the fundamental ideas of the death drive: Dr.  Markman in the work of Freud and Klein,  and Dr. Katz clarifying the differences between Laplanche and Green - or possibly presenting on the varieties of jouissance. Both presenters will include clinical experience as well as artistic, literary, and […]

Group Discussion: The Place of the Nonrepresentational and the Nonverbal in Psychoanalysis

Margot Beattie, Ph.D.

Israel Katz, MD

Berkeley City Club 2315 Durant Avenue, Berkeley, CA, United States

Madelon Sprengnether has had to postpone her talk with BPS, originally scheduled for December 1, 2018, to Saturday, January 26, 2019. Therefore on December 1, we will hold a Group Discussion on the place of the Nonrepresentational and the Nonverbal in Psychoanalysis. Drs. Beattie and Katz will introduce the subject.

Link Theory and Practice: The Irreducible Effects of Presence

Israel Katz, MD

Virtual Event Virtual Event

A possible definition for vínculo, translated into English as link or bond, is that of an unconscious situation that links subjects, determining them based on a relationship of presence and the effects of presence, distinct from a relationship based on absence and the re-presentation of that absence, leading to irreducible effects and encounters with excess […]