• Elise Geltman, LCSW

    Elise Geltman, LCSW, is a social worker and analyst in private practice in Oakland, CA. She engages in psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, clinical and organizational consultation, and teaching. Currently, the President of PINC, Elise, is also a member of the Race Working Group and the Community Psychotherapy Track (CPT) Steering Committee. Elise has 19 years of experience working within community-based mental health settings and 14 years of experience as an active member of the Bay Area analytic community, including involvement with the Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (NCSPP), the Access Institute, the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis - Coalition for Clinical Social Work (SFCP - CCSW), PINC, UC Berkeley's Health & Human Rights Clinic, and NYU's Post Doc. Elise also studies and engages in group relations work (with GREX, A.K. Rice, and CSGSS) and is committed to group work.

On Freedom

While writing the paper Who is Free to Free Associate: Psychoanalysis and Social Ethics (2025), I became interested in exploring freedom and its related ethical...