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How To Write for Publication:
A Three Session Workshop

Instructors:

George Silberschatz, PsyD
Daniel Duane, PhD

July 10, 17, 24
12:00pm-1:00pm PST
Live Event on Zoom

Learn from the President of the San Francisco Psychotherapy Research Group and a New York Times writer exactly what leading psychotherapy journals want in submissions

Session 1: What Are Psychotherapy Magazines and Journals Looking For in Submissions?

Session 2: Finding Your Own Best Material

Session 3: Polishing a Pitch, Starting a Draft

Writing for magazines and journals—and also for blogs and newsletters—can help a therapist define a professional identity, contribute to the field and grow a practice. But writing can also be fun, a playful and healing creative outlet toward finding one’s own voice and telling one’s own story.

So … how to begin? Where to find the time, and how to know that one’s efforts won’t be wasted?

George Silberschatz has been publishing in psychotherapy journals for over 40 years. Daniel Duane has published novels and memoirs with Farrar, Straus & Giroux and Graywolf Press, and journalism in the New York Times Magazine, Wired, Outside and many other outlets. In this three-session workshop, Silberschatz and Duane share what they’ve both learned about making sense of magazines and journals, identifying one’s own best material, and getting started.

For Session 1, Duane reports back from his conversations with editors at psychotherapy magazines and psychoanalytic journals about what they look for in submissions. Silberschatz then offers insight into how the working clinician can generate ideas for those stories.

In Session 2: Finding Your Own Best Material, participants will share preliminary ideas for articles. Duane, Silberschatz, and participants will then workshop these article ideas, suggesting how they might be focused and sharpened.

In Session Three: Polishing a Pitch, Starting a Draft, we will workshop short, written proposals for specific articles until they feel actionable in one of two ways: sending them to editors as preliminary pitches; or starting to write a first draft.

Course Level: Introductory, Intermediate and Advanced.

CE and CME Credit: None

Cost: FREE for SFPRG Members
$100 for General Public

Registration Opens: Friday, June 16, 2023

Registration Closes: Sunday, July 9, 2023 at 6pm

Cancellation Policy: No refunds are provided for this event. If you have questions about your registration, please contact our office at cmt@sfprg.org 415-561-6771

Commercial Support: There is no known commercial support for this program. All planners and speakers report no relevant financial relationships.

Co-sponsorship: There is no co-sponsor of this event.

Meet our Instructors:

George Silberschatz

George Silberschatz, PhD is a past president of the International Society for Psychotherapy Research and is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at UCSF. He is the president of the San Francisco Psychotherapy Research Group and is in private practice (PSY 5826) in San Francisco.

Daniel Duane

Daniel Duane, PhD (American Literature) has been a freelance journalist for thirty years. His many books include the surfing memoir Caught Inside, A Surfer’s Year on the California Coast (North Point Press, 1996), and the novel A Mouth Like Yours (FSG, 2005). His work has been anthologized in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2020, Best Food Writing 2015, and Best American Erotica 2007. Duane has taught writing in universities and currently coaches individual writers in private practice. As a longtime client in psychodynamic therapy, Duane is now pursuing an MFT master’s degree in psychology.