Member Bio
Eric Anders, Ph.D., Psy.D.
Dr. Anders is a training and supervising psychoanalyst at ICP and an active member in ICP's bay area branch, ICP Bay Area. He has a private practice in the Market Hall building across the street from the Rockridge BART station in Oakland.
In addition to teaching at ICP, Dr. Anders has been a faculty member at the Newport Psychoanalytic Institute and Seattle's Center for Object Relations. He was also recently a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University and, before that, at the University of Washington.
Dr. Anders works with adults, college-age and up. His patients range from those suffering from debilitating anxiety, depression, and trauma to those who come in simply for relationship issues or greater self understanding. He approaches therapy collaboratively and views the work as a joint effort to support, encourage, guide, and challenge clients to make the changes they want. His goal is to create a safe, containing space, where any issue can be discussed and explored.
Dr. Anders has experience working with people—both male and female, both heterosexual and homosexual—who have difficulty maintaining lasting and fulfilling love relationships. He also has a long-term interest in the treatment of trauma. With regard to the treatment of trauma, he is a member of the clinical staff of Survivors International, a nonprofit organization established to provide therapy for political refugees who have survived torture in their home country.
Dr. Anders also works with military veterans, especially those returning from war suffering from combat trauma, or simply having difficulty adjusting to life at home. Dr. Anders is a veteran himself and currently teaches a course on treating traumatized combat veterans.
In addition to being a training and supervising analyst at ICP, Dr. Anders is also a graduate of the Supervision Study Program, a two-year intensive program in the theory and practice of supervision and consultation at The Psychotherapy Institute in Berkeley.
Dr. Anders offers clinical consultation to licensed therapists who are interested in learning more about psychoanalytic theory and clinical work. As an academic in the humanities, and as a clinician, Dr. Anders has researched a wide variety of psychoanalytic theories and approaches, and has helped several psychotherapists gain a deeper appreciation of these theories and their application to clinical work. His research has been published in academic journals, including the Journal of European Psychoanalysis, where he use to be on the editorial board.
AREAS OF SPECIALTY
- Relational Psychotherapy
- Psychoanalytic Consultation
- Trauma
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Relationships
EDUCATION
License # RP202
- 2009 - Supervision Study Program, The Psychotherapy Institute, Berkeley
- 2004 - Doctor of Psychoanalysis, Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles
- 2000 - Doctor of Philosophy, English, University of Florida, Gainesville
PUBLICATIONS - "Psychoanalysis and Difference: Alan Bass's Generalization of Fetishism," Journal of European Psychoanalysis, Number 24, 2007, pp. 165-189.
- Disturbing Psychoanalytic Origins: A Derridean Reading of Freudian Theory. Dissertation. University of Florida. 2000. www.eric.anders.net/dissertation.
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