Dr. Enid Young is a graduate of the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. She is a personal and supervising analyst and faculty at PINC. She teaches extensively in the Bay Area and has given papers both nationally and internationally. She has developed several programs on the Kleinian development as well as Neuropsychoanalysis. She is a founding member of the California Neuropsychoanalysis Research Group, whose mission is to contribute to research and treatment of traumatic brain injury by bringing psychoanalysis into TBI rehabilitation. She is a member of the International Psychoanalytic Association and the International Neuropsychoanalytic Association. She has written on such topics as a psychoanalytic approach to addiction, the oedipus complex, the role of envy in psychic growth, the analyst’s capacity to bear love, Bion’s concept of the sigma realm, the psychoanalytic treatment of a traumatic brain injury patient, and a neuropsychoanalytic approach to “memory”. She is currently working on an integration of psychoanalytic concepts with neuroscience and an intensive study of Bion’s meta-psychology. She teaches a study group on Bion and Neuropsychoanalysis. Dr. Young has a private practice in Berkeley.
Education
July 2007: Certificate of a Graduate Curriculum in Pain Management
University of California San Francisco
October 1996: Certificate in Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California
San Francisco, CA
1989-1992: San Francisco Institute of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
June 1979: Ph.D. Counseling Psychology
University of California, Berkeley
June 1979: license M7370
June 1970: Ed.M. Counseling Psychology
Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA
June 1967: B.A. Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Advanced Training
2005 to 2006: UCSF year-long training to be certified in chronic pain treatment
1994 (ongoing): Training in London and Buenos Aires in Kleinian and neo-Kleinian
psychoanalysis
1987: Professional in Residence Addiction Program: Betty Ford Center, Ten Day Program
1977: Gestalt Institute, San Francisco
1976: The Family Therapy Institute of Marin: Graduate of beginning and intermediate courses in
family therapy
1975: Berkeley Family Service Clinic: Counselor under supervision of individuals, children and
families
Clinical Work
1979 to present: Ph.D. Private Practice, San Francisco and Berkeley. Psychotherapist,
Psychoanalyst and Supervisor; Specializing in Addiction and Chronic Pain and Borderline
and Narcissistic Personality Disorders
1973 to 1976: Bonita House, Inc., Berkeley: Program Director/Counselor/Clinical Supervisor;
Developed and evaluated programs for residents and supervised staff activities. On 24-hour call
for crisis counseling. Co-leader of long-term group work.
1972: University of California, Berkeley: Project Potential: Teacher and Counselor;
Instructed undergraduates in counseling skills; counseled adolescents in the Berkeley Public
School System, particularly addressing issues of addiction.
1972: Teaching Assistant at U.C. Berkeley summer school. Mission-Neighborhood Center, San
Francisco: Program Director; Developed, evaluated and supervised summer activities program
for children aged six through ten; crisis counseling with children and their families.
1970 to 1971: Timilty Jr. High School, Roxbury, MA: Counselor/Consultant; Individual and
group therapy with students; consultant to administrative and teaching staff.
1969 to 1970: Frank V. Thompson School, Dorchester, MA: Counselor.
1968 to 1969: Newton High School, Newton, MA: Teacher and Counselor.
1968: Harvard Upward Bound, Cambridge, MA: Teacher and Counselor.
1967: Roosevelt Towers, Cambridge, MA: Counselor.
Teaching
1996-2008 Classes
Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology:
Melanie Klein
Tustin and addictive states
Developed a two year intensive study group program in the East Bay and San Francisco
entitled “The Kleinian Development” with Dr. Elizabeth Bianchedi, Dr. Horacio
Etchegoyen, Dr. David Rosenfeld, Dr. James Gooch and Dr. James Grotstein as guest
speakers
The Transformation of the Oedipus complex in Freud, Klein and Bion
Klein and Bion
Bion
The Impact of Bion on Psychoanalysis
Class on Freud’s Life and Death Instincts
Class on a Neuropsychoanalytic Approach to Trauma
Class on Neuropsychoanalysis Approach to Transference/Countertransference: How
mirror neurons change our view of the analytic couple
Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California:
Melanie Klein
Ronald Britton and the Post-Kleinians
The Oedipus Complex in Freud, Klein, and Bion
South Bay: The Oedipus Complex in Freud, Klein, and Bion; Class on Bion
South Bay Annual Lecture: Presentation of a Kleinian Approach to a Case Study
Elizabeth Bianchedi Reader
Study Group on Bion and Neuroscience
Developed a Neuropsychoanalysis Program, leading neuroscientists in dialogue with
master clinicians and neuropsychoanalysis study groups
Berkeley Psychotherapy Institute:
Class on a Psychoanalytic Approach to Addiction
Class on a Psychoanalytic Approach to Chronic Pain
The Integration of Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis
Presentations and Published Papers
Addiction
September 1996: “A Kleinian Approach to Addiction,” NCSPP addiction conference.
December 1995: “A Psychoanalytic Approach to Addiction: The Formation and Use of a
Precocious Paranoid-Schizoid-Depressive Organization,” NCSPP scientific meeting: published
in the Journal of Melanie Klein and Object Relations, 1996, 14(2), 177-195.
July 1995: “The Role of Incest Issues in Relapse and Recovery” in Psychotherapy and
Substance Abuse, editor Arnold Washton.
October, 1994: Presentation of a paper entitled, “A Psychoanalytic Approach to Addiction: The
Formation and Use of a Precocious Paranoid-Schizoid Depressive Organization,” NCSPP
Scientific meeting, San Francisco.
June, 1994: Training and supervision in Kleinian and Neo-Kleinian theory: Tavistock, England.
January, 1995: Presentation of a Kleinian and Neo-Kleinian approach to a case study: South
Bay NCSPP lecture series.
May 1991: Speaker at the 27th annual conference of the California Association of Marriage and
Family Therapists: “Incest: a Root of Addiction and a Psychoanalytic Treatment Plan.“
June 1990: “The Role of Incest Issues in Relapse” in Journal of Psychoactive Drugs.
1989: Speaker at various groups on the subject of addiction recovery.
January 1988: Developed and presented a weekend workshop entitled, “Women in Addictive
Relationships: Breaking the Cycle.”
November 1987: Professional supervision of psychotherapist focusing upon addiction issues.
September1987: “Co-Alcoholism as Disease: Implications for Psychotherapy” in Journal of
Psychoactive Drugs
Psychoanalysis
2006 April: Study group leader at Ron Britton conference, Seattle Psychoanalytic Society.
2005 March: Discussion Paper in response to Dr. Eric Brenman’s paper on the Superego; “The
Ethical Superego,” Seattle Psychoanalytic Society.
2004 April: Presentation of “On the Analyst’s Capacity to Bear Love:” Seattle Psychoanalytic
Society, discussed by Jeffrey Eaton.
2002 December: Response to paper entitled: “Concrete Transference: a Function of Time, Space,
and the Impermeability of the Object: “The Role of Reparation in Psychic Growth.”
2000 May: “Response to Dr. Ronald’s Britton’s paper: Hyper-subjectivity and Hyper-objectivity
in Narcissistic Disorders,” Northern California for Psychoanalytic Psychology annual lecture.
2000 April: “The Use of the Analyst in the Separation of the Mother-Infant Couple,” presented
at the Division of Psychoanalysis (39) American Psychological Association conference in San
Francisco.
2000 Feb.: “On the Analyst’s Capacity to Bear Love,” presented at International Conference in
Florence, Italy and to be presented in Madrid, February 2001.
1999: “The Role of Envy in Psychic Development,” published April 2000: Fort Da.
1998: “On Envy,” response to Horacio Etchegoyen’s talk on Envy: NCSPP conference.
September 1997: “The Transformation of the Oedipus Complex: from a linear to a vertical
perspective,” NCSPP introductory meeting with Dr. James Grotstein.
December 1996: “On Love,” Discussion of Love from a Bionian Perspective: Division of
Psychoanalysis (39) Newsletter.
October 1996: “On the Analyst’s Capacity to Bear Love,” UC Laurel conference center
Neuropsychoanalysis and Chronic Pain
2008 April: paper to be published by the American pain Society and the American pain Society
bulletin entitled “The 12 steps and Chronic Illness”
2007 August: book review published by the American pain Society in the American pain Society
bulletin entitled, “The Body and its Pain” by Gabriel Burloux.”
2007 April: “A Psychoanalytic Approach to Chronic Pain” presented to the University of
Washington pain clinic by invitation from by Dr. John Loeser
2007: August: presentation of paper entitled “Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience in the
consulting room; two clinical cases” American psychological Association, division 39, Moscone
Center, San Francisco
2007: May: presentation of paper at Neuropsychoanalysis conference UC Laurel Center San
Francisco, entitled “What is Intuition?: Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience Join Forces,” in
response to Dr. Oliver Turnbull
2007: January: presentation of paper at neuropsychoanalysis conference UC Laurel Center San
Francisco, entitled “The Effect of the Neuroscientific Discoveries on Memory in Clinical
Work.”
2006 January: “Crossing the Synapse: Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis Join Forces” with Dr.
Mark Solms and Dr. James Grotstein
2005 January: Abstract entitled “From Coping to Understanding: The Integration of a
Neurobiological and Psychological Approach to the Treatment of Chronic Pain” submitted to
American Pain Society Annual Meeting and to University of Rochester School of Medicine
Conference: Mechanisms and Treatment of Neuropathic Pain
2005 October: Class entitled “The Psychosomatic Matrix: The Integration of Neuroscience and
Psychoanalysis:” Berkeley Psychotherapy Institute
2004 October: Class entitled “A Psychoanalytic Approach to Chronic Pain:” Psychotherapy
Institute
Professional Affiliations
Member: International Psychoanalytic Association
Member: International Neuropsychoanalysis Association
Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California: Graduate and Faculty
Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: Intensive Study group planner
and faculty
UC Mt Zion: supervising faculty
American Psychological Association (Div. 39): Member
Training and Supervision in Kleinian and Neo-Kleinian Theory, Tavistock, England: June 1994
Journal of Melanie Klein and Object Relations: editorial board: special guest editor for an issue
on addiction
Bion Conference: Buenos Aires: July, 1999
London Psychoanalytic Case Study Group
Supervision in Kleinian Technique with Dr. James Grotstein (LA), Dr. Ronald Britton (London):
1994-present
Bion Group with Dr. James Grotstein: 2003
Member: American Pain Society and American Chronic Pain Association
Member: New York Psychoanalytic Institute Neuropsychoanalytic Society
Postgraduate Education Courses involving Addiction, Chronic Pain, Psychoanalysis and
Neuropsychoanalysis
2007 through 2008; Study Group on Neuroscience with Dr. Maggie Zellner from New York by
videoconferencing
2006 through 2007: year-long course at UCSF in pain management leading to a certificate in pain
management
2005: Harvard Medical School pain treatment conference
2005: Introduction to Neurobiology
2004: Introduction to Neurophysiology
2004: Chronic Pain class
1989-1991: All-Day Conferences: Harold Searles, Otto Kernberg, Paulina Kernberg, Joyce
McDougal, and Arnold Goldberg.
1990: Conference on Relapse Prevention: Washton and Marlatt; San Francisco.
1990: Multiple Addictions Conference, San Diego, CA: “Relapse Prevention in the Multiply
Addicted.”
1987: Professional-in-Residence: Betty Ford Center. Ten day program.
1984, 1985: National Association of Adult Children of Alcoholics Conference.
The Treatment of Shame and Guilt in Adult Children of Alcoholics; Solano Center.
The Treatment of Codependence; Anne Wilson Schaef.
A Developmental Model of the Treatment of Adult Children of Alcoholics: An Advanced
Clinical Seminar; Stephanie Brown. Two day workshop.
The Sexually Abusive Family: Diagnosis & Treatment; Miriam Ingebritson. Two-day workshop.
Breaking the Cycle: Assessment & Treatment of Child Abuse & Neglect; Eliana Gil.
Psychotherapy and Hypnosis; Jesse S. Miller, Ph.D. & Paul Minsky, Ph.D.; 1985
CAMFT 23rd Annual Conference; April 1987. Borderline Personality Disorders: Theoretical
and Practical Considerations; Karla R. Clark, Ph.D. Addictive Behaviors: Problems in
Treatment with Borderline Patients; Shelley Barlas Nagel, Ph. D.
The Diagnosis and Treatment of Character Disorders; Solano Center.
The Masterson Approach to the Treatment of Personality Disorders; Shelley Barlas Nagel.
Continued supervision.
The Interpersonal World of the Infant; Dan Stern
Self-Psychology: Theory and Applications; Douglas Detrick, Michael Basch, Robert Stolorow.
The Use of Transference in Psychotherapy; Douglas Detrick.