Member Bio
Elaine Bridge, Psy.D., M.S.W.
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2730 Wilshire Bl. #544
Santa Monica, Ca. 90403
16500 Ventura Blvd. #500
Encino, Ca. 91436
Elane Bridge, Psy.D , L.C.S.W. is a training and supervising analyst a the Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Dr. Bridge attended the first PPT program at ICP and became a member in 1998. Dr. Bridge has developed an interest in Relational psychology after attending a five year relational study group and teaches Philip Bromberg in the Relational Psychology course. She has developed a Infant/Caregiver bonding program called Baby Cues with Dr. Susan Thau. She continues to study attachment and neuroscience and is a member of a study/consultation group. She was also a long term member of a Ferenczi study group and has taught Ferenczi seminars in the PPT.
Prior to analytic training, she was trained at Cedars Sinai infant/toddler program at Thalians and had specialized training in adoptions.
AREAS OF SPECIALTY - Relational Psychology
- Neuroscience and Attachment
EDUCATIONLicense # LCS 16214
- L.C.S.W.
- Psy.D., Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles, 1998
- Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis - Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program, Los Angeles, 1992
- Masters in Social Work, USC School of Social Work, Los Angeles, 1989
- B.S. Sociology, U.C.L.A., Los Angeles, 1966
PUBLICATIONS - Bridge, E., “The Perfect Storm”’, Other/Wise
- The Interactive and Complimentary Effects of Group Psychotherapy and Individual Psychoanalysis: A treatment configuration which lends further understanding and current application of Sandor Ferenczi’s “The Unwelcome Child and his Death Instinct.”Presented at:Israel Psychotherapy Conference, May, 1999, Social Work Treatment Services, September, 1999; American Academy of Psychoanalysis, New York, January, 2000; Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, UCLA, February, 2000
- “Living on Borrowed Time.” A childhood survival response marked by inhibition of desire and struggle the two “take in” as a result of childhood trauma: Presented at the International Lost Childhood Conference, Budapest, Hungary, February 2001
- “Pictures That I Paint in my Head”, International Federation of Psychoanalytic Education Conference, Toronto, Canada 2007
- “The Perfect Storm”, International Federation of Psychoanalytic Education Conference, Seattle, Washington 2009
- Bridge, Elaine (2010) “The Perfect Storm”. Other/Wise Vol. 2, Fall 2010. Online Journal of the International Forum for Psychoanalytic /Education
BABY CUES: Infant/Caregiver communication program-Preparing infants to communicate play
- “Baby Cues.” San Fernando Valley Child Guidance Clinic, 1999
- “Baby Cues – Zero to Three,” Santa Monica High School, 1999
- “Baby Cues,” Neurons to Neighborhood Conference, March, 2002
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