Faculty & Staff
Lutecium a non-school
of
Lacanian/Freudian Psychoanalysis
San Francisco, California
Faculty:
Rebecca Bauknight, Ph.D., licensed psychologist, is a  Lacanian Psychoanalyst who underwent her pass through
Dimensions de la Psychanalyse, Paris.  Dr. Bauknight's interest in borderlands between conscious and unconscious,
between cultures, as well as writings that reach beyond  the "institutionalization of psychoanalysis" has prompted her to
address the psychoanalytic project beyond traditional frameworks through writing, performance, teaching, and her very
singular travels through a collage of texts, discourses, fiction, and film.

In her former roles as Assistant Dean and Chair of the feminist department of the Graduate Psychology Program at New
College of California, Dr. Bauknight has attempted to explore the underpinnings of contemporary clinical and social
issues through the application of interdisciplinary theories that include critical theory, feminist theory, linguistics,
semiotics, race theory, postcolonial, and Lacanian-Freudienne perspectives.  Dr. Bauknight's work has been published
in Free Associatons, London, and her writings include the stageplay “There Ain't No U in Lonely," a surrealist play about
Jacques Lacan performed at the Phoenix II Theater in San Francisco.  Dr. Bauknight is the past President of the San
Francisco Psychological Association as well as the San Francisco Society for Lacanian Studies.  She is currently the
President of Lutecium Psychoanalytic Group.

John Lino Gasperoni, Ph.D.  is a licensed psychologist who has been working in the field of mental health for over 30 years. He has worked with both
adults and adolescents in individual, family, and couples therapy in a variety of in-patient, residential, and outpatient settings. His training has included the
areas of sexuality and sexual identity; chronic illness; trauma and recovery; anxiety and stress management; grief and loss; and adolescent, adult, and
family identity formation. Prior to joining Amador Family Center, Dr. Gasperoni was employed as the Director of Training at the Tenderloin Outpatient Clinic
where he supervised a psychoanalytically informed program focused on working with severe and persistently mentally disabled adults.

In addition to his work in the field of psychoanalysis, Dr. Gasperoni has also taught existential phenomenology and phenomenological methods as
applied to psychological research, having supervised over forty doctoral dissertations. He has been a longstanding member of the San Francisco Society
for Lacanian Studies, and has functioned as the Treasurer and Events Coordinator for that organization. He has taught at several local graduate schools,
has given numerous papers and presentations, and is a published author. Dr. Gasperoni is Lead Faculty for the Lacan seminar series at Lutecium.

Robert Groome has held appointments as Assistant Professor at the Universtiy of Paris XIII and worked as a nonanalyst and analyst in Paris, France. He
moved to Los Angeles in 1998, where he is founder of the association P.L.A.C.E. (Psychoanalysis Los Angeles California Extension). Among his
publications are: Return to On Knots: A Psychoanalytic Construction (translation and introduction of "On Knots" by P.G. Tait), Towards A Topology of the
Subject, The Ghost of Freud in Classical Logic.

Marian Joycechild, Ph.D., licensed psychologist, is a psychoanalyst and psychotherapist in private practice in San Francisco and Berkeley, working with
both adults and children.  Dr. Joycechild is particularly interested in helping new therapists formulate the psychic dilemmas of their patients as well as
helping them to be aware of and make use of their countertransference.  Dr. Joycechild is interested in how the expression of the supervisee's
countertransference can often capture what is deeply troubling the patient of which the patient is not yet aware.  She has led numerous case conferences,
both in an academic setting and in private practice.  She is also interested in working with group dynamic processing when requested.  The theories she
finds most useful are Object Relations and those of Winnicott and Lacan.

Dr. Joycechild received her B.A from The University of Michigan, M.A. from J.F.K. University, and doctorate from The Professional School of Psychology.  She
graduated from the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California in 2005.  She has held faculty appointments at The Wright Institute and at New College of
California.  She has taught a class on trauma at Access Institute for Psychological Services and a class on Primitive States for the California Pacific
Medical Center (CPMC).  She is leading a Case Conference and is Lead Faculty for the Freud seminar series at Lutecium.

Kristopher Lichtanski, Ph.D., is a San Francisco-based psychotherapist steeped in psychoanalytic studies since 1989 and in critical theory and Lacan’s
work since 2000. His clinical and research interests include issues of gender and sexual orientation, effects of non-traditional family structures on the
formation of the subject, migration and acculturation, and psychotherapy with immigrants and bilingual people.  His current academic and theoretical
interests focus on the intersection of psychoanalysis and critical theory, including queer theory and critical pedagogy.

Dr. Lichtanski served as Core Faculty,  Fieldwork Director, and Assistant Dean for the Graduate Psychology Program at New College of California and was
one of the Lead Instructors for the Social Construction of Identity as well as Consciousness and Imagination seminars in the School of Humanities at New
College.  He is currently Adjunct Assistant Professor / Faculty Mentor at Northcentral University and Adjunct Faculty at University of San Francisco.  He
serves as Vice President of Lutecium Psychoanalytic Group.

David Marriott, Ph.D., poet and critic, was born and educated in England and received his Ph.D. in literature from the University of Sussex. His first book,
On Black Men (Edinburgh University Press, 2000; Columbia University Press, 2000), was an interdisciplinary study of how models of selfhood come to
acquire cultural recognition through the aberrant fictions of race. His second book, Haunted Life: Visual Culture and Black Modernity (2006, Rutgers
University Press) extends this meditation on discourses of inwardness and the paradigmatic aberrations of race into a comparative study of black atlantic
modernism. Incognegro (Salt Publications, 2006) is his most recent book of poetry - a collection of poems and prose drawn from journals and
chapbooks, plus previously unpublished pieces, centered around the black European and American literary/historical experience.

Dr. Marriott is coeditor (with Vicky Lebeau) of Psychoanalysis and Poetics (1998, Fragmente) and has written many articles on poetics.  His present project,
The Two Freedoms, is a critical study of C.L.R. James and Jules Marcel Monnerot. Dr. Marriott  is professor of History of Consciousness at University of
California, Santa Cruz; his academic interests include literary theory, psychoanalysis, black cultural theory and philosophies of race, and the literary and
visual cultures of modernism. Dr. Marriott is Lead Faculty for the Psychoanalysis and Poetics series at Lutecium.

Jacques Siboni, M.D., is a Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst, founding member of Dimensions de la Psychanalyse Psychoanalytic Association, Paris,  
Groupe de Travail Lutecium, Paris, and Lutecium Psychoanalytic Group, San Francisco.  Since 1979, Dr. Siboni has worked in hospitals and clinics,
including  psychiatric institutions for abused children; substance abusers; and deaf, autistic teenagers.  He is currently in psychoanalytic private practice in
Paris.  Dr. Siboni has also trained as a computer and electronics engineer and has been involved in several Artificial Intelligence projects, including
creation of automated systems for syntactic and semantic analyses, speech and natural language processing, and knowledge representation systems
dedicated to building intelligent complex taxonomies.

Dr. Siboni’s current research interests focus on automatic language processing systems, topology, and logic.  He has authored multiple articles on the
topological approach to the subject of the unconscious and published a book – a thesaurus of thousands of quotations of Lacan presented in a form of
paper hypertext where the quotations can be accessed through each of the concepts involved.  Dr. Siboni is former president of Centre de Recherche en
Psychanalyse et Écritures and member of American Association for Artificial Intelligence, Associacion pour la Recherche Cognitive, Lettre de Toplogie, and
Théorie et Clinique des Pathologies de la Pensée (Theory and Practice of Thought Pathologies).  He serves as Senior Training Analyst and chairs the
Progression and Pass Committee at Lutecium.
Staff:
Michelle Baker, M.A., LMFT, Coordinator of Writing Group "LETTERS."
Ms. Baker is a psychotherapist in private practice in San Francisco and Oakland, California. Her areas of speciality include: addiction, anxiety &
depression, relationship difficulties, and gender & sexuality issues. She also brings enthusiasm, expertise, and extensive experience in working with
children and adolescents struggling with an array of emotional and social difficulties. She has been profoundly impacted by her engagement in
psychoanalysis, critical theory, creative writing, and the tantric traditions of yoga. For more information on Michelle her work, please visit her website.

Carly Earnshaw, M.A., Intake Coordinator for the Lutecium Psychotherapy Referral Clinic.  
Ms. Earnshaw  works with adult clients at her private practice in the Inner Sunset in San Francisco, specializing in work with artists and in treating
depression and relational problems.  She also works with homeless children and their families at Compass Family Center.  She is particularly interested
in the psychological conflicts of people who are also struggling with societal oppression.

P  Segal, M.A.,  Director of Development.
Ms. P Segal, neé Roberta Pizzimenti, was born and raised in San Francisco, graduating with honors from Lowell High School and receiving a BA in film
studies from UCLA. She freelanced as a journalist and writer for many years, and was part of the vital North Beach literary community. In 1990, she was
one of the small group of people who organized the Burning Man Festival in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, the world’s largest open-air art gallery, and for
two weeks each year, the fourth largest city in the state; she remained on staff of the project for ten years. In 1994, she began to write and publish the
magazine Proust Said That, the quirky publication that earned her minor prominence in the international community of Proust lovers and scholars, and
which was the first magazine on the Internet. In 1999, she opened Cafè Proust in San Francisco, which was featured on the front page of The New York
Times Living Arts Section eleven months after it opened, but could not sustain the economic hardships after September 11. She has received an MA in
clinical psychology from New College/Argosy University in July 2008.

Eric Paul Essman, M.A., is President of the San Francisco Society for Lacanian Studies (SFSLS) and Chair of the
Interdisciplinary Education Committee of the Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology (NCSPP).  In the

Mary J. Ewert, D.M.H., is a graduate and faculty member of the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis (SFCP). She is the chair of the Membership
Services Division of SFCP and has taught in the SFCP Student Outreach Program.  She is also a member of the clinical faculty at the University of
California, San Francisco (UCSF), where she supervises and teaches psychiatry residents and psychology fellows.

Dr. Ewert received her Doctor of Mental Health from UCSF in 1985.  She is a licensed psychologist and has worked with adult patients in clinical practice
for over 20 years. From 1986 to 1993 she was also involved in research on conscious and unconscious mental processes at UCSF. Dr. Ewert graduated
from SFCP in 2002. Her clinical interests include trauma and the treatment of post-traumatic reactions, narcissism, mourning, termination, how the
analyst’s knowledge of their countertransference informs their clinical work, the psychology of women and the “common ground” of psychoanalysis.  She
is a psychoanalyst and psychotherapist in private practice in San Franciso and Walnut Creek, California.

Jeanne Wolff Bernstein, Ph.D., is the past President, and supervising and personal analyst at the Psychoanalytic
Institute of Northern California (PINC). She is on the faculty at PINC, NCSPP and The Wright Institute. Dr. Bernstein is a
contributing editor to Psychoanalytic Dialogues and is on the Editorial Board of Studies in Gender and Sexuality  and
Contemporary Psychoanalysis. She has written on psychoanalysis and the arts as well as on different schools of
thought in the psychoanalytic domain in Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Studies in Gender and Sexuality, Fort/Da,  Journal of
Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, Free Associations, Recherches Cliniques  and in The International Journal of
Psycho-Analysis. She is the 2008 Fulbright Scholar at the Simund Freud Private Foundation and Museum in Vienna,
Austria. She is in private practice in Berkeley, California.
latter capacity he has organized day-long conferences on evil, gender, and cinema for the NCSPP series "Out of the Tower/Off of the Couch."  For ten years
he served as Program Coordinator of the Susan B. Zuckerman, M.D. Memorial Film Program sponsored by the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute.  He
is a frequent contributor to the NCSPP journal Fort Da and has presented numerous papers on psychoanalytically-related topics at Bay Area and national
fora.  He has co-taught courses on Slavoj Zizek and the Lacanian Real for the SFSLS.  He is Lead Faculty for the Film Series at Lutecium Psychoanalytic
Group.