SFPS is a member-based professional organization comprising San Francisco Bay Area psychiatrists.

The mission of SFPS is to provide the highest quality education for mental health professionals available anywhere in the United States. Membership is limited to psychiatrists, although with advance registration lectures are open to health professionals from all fields and disciplines. All lectures are objective, non-industry sponsored. SFPS is grateful to its speakers for giving their time and expertise generously and freely.

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  • Attend bimonthly wine receptions and dinner-lectures
  • Enjoy objective, non-industry sponsored professional education
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    “Find A Psychiatrist”
  • Improve clinical care of patients through excellence in physician professional education


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San Francisco Psychiatric Society 

Lecture Series


Making Sense of People: Vocabularies for Describing Personality


Sam Barondes, M.D.

Director, Center for Neurobiology and Psychiatry, UCSF


Thursday, February 16, 2012

6:15 PM Dinner 7 PM Lecture


Join us for an update on the neuroscience and most recent behavioral research related to human personality. Dr. Samuel H. Barondes, director of the UCSF Center for Neurobiology and Psychiatry, will discuss the challenges of working with personality disorder in clinical practice. He will introduce us to his new book Making Sense of People, including the presentation of core personality traits of extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness. 


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