The CPS was under the sponsorship and supervision of the Topeka society, which at that time had jurisdiction over all psychoanalytic institutes in the United States west of Kansas.
From the 1930s to the 1960s, the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Society had close connections with Mount Zion Hospital, which is now affiliated with UCSF but was then and independent hospital that eventually had a national reputation as a training site for psychoanalytically oriented psychiatrists.
[2][3] When the society was finally able to acquire an independent headquarters, it was across the street from Mount Zion.
The new entity was named the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis.
[4] Persons who have been associated with the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis or its predecessor organizations include the following: