Ethics as the Duty to Care: Protective Care for our Psychic Spaces Presenter: Maxine Anderson, M.D. FIPAChair: Elizabeth Wallace, MD, FRCPC FIPA Art Credits: Richard Markus | Maesltrom Moments | June 2023 | Digital Multiple exposures image Ethics as the Duty to Care for psychic integration: considering sources of trauma which arise from within (hatred […]
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Extension Program Courses, Featured, Footer
Writing Words That Touch: Tuning Our Psychoanalytic Voice | January 2025
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Writing Words That Touch: Tuning Our Psychoanalytic Voice | January 2025 I don’t know what I think until I write it down. I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means, What I want and what I fear.– Joan Didion Touch me, astonish me, […]
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My Experience of “Bion’s Emotional Links: Love, Hate and Knowledge with Judy Eekhoff” By Richa Sharan I was not expecting to be so immersed in experience! I was very fortunate to attend the seminar by Judy Eekhoff on Saturday (September 28, 2024). Dr. Eekhoff distributed her paper on Bion’s ideas around love, hate and curiosity […]
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Writing Words That Touch: Tuning Our Psychoanalytic Voice | Fall 2024 I don’t know what I think until I write it down. I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means, What I want and what I fear.– Joan Didion Touch me, astonish me, […]
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Abstract: This seminar explores the linking functions of love, hate and curiosity. As humans, we are interdependent with others all of our lives. This interdependency keeps us physically vital, emotionally thriving and intellectually active. When early trauma occurs, dependency becomes dangerous and interdependency is avoided. Development then becomes spotty, with excellence in some areas and […]
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On Analytic Character and its Ever-Emerging Shapes | Last Thursday of the Month October 31
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On Analytic Character and its Ever-Emerging Shapes: Dwelling in the psychoanalytic depths of knowing/unknowing in search of the living evolution of analytic character. … a person’s character is an aesthetic of being, as we have internalized the structure of our existence, the phenomenological reality … Christopher Bollas The word (aesthetics) roots itself in a […]
Scientific Meeting Events
The Psychomythic Dimension: Psychosexual Development and Cultural Evolution | November 9, 2024
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WCPSI Applied Psychoanalysis Community Event – All Are Welcome The Psychomythic Dimension: Psychosexual Development and Cultural Evolution with Daniel S. Benveniste, PhD This WCPSI Applied Psychoanalysis Community Event is open to everyone who is interested in learning more about psychoanalysis. You are welcome to join us whether or not you have a clinical background. The […]
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Study Group – From Black Holes to Hope and Dread Photo credits: Title Schwarzwald (Black Forest) | December 5 2023 | Media: In-camera digital multiple exposure @ Van Dusen Botanical Gardens – Festival of lights | Photographer: Richard Markus In preparation for the Scientific Meeting with Judy Eekhoff on September 28, 2024, the WCPSI is […]
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For tender translation: An Encounter Between Plato and Ferenczi Presenter: John Tavares | Discussant: Darren Thompson Art Credits: Artist: Raphael | Title: The School of Athens | 1511 | Fresco “He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.”Plato, The Symposium Relying on concepts from Ferenczi’s 1932 paper on the Confusion of Tongues, John’s paper explores how […]
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The Rules of Treatment and The Rules of Play: Ethical, Moral, and Technical Considerations in Psychoanalytic Practice – June 22, 2024
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The Rules of Treatment and The Rules of Play: Ethical, Moral, and Technical Considerations in Psychoanalytic Practice Presenter: Jennifer Kunst, Ph.D. Chair: Judith Setton-Markus, M.Ed., R. Psych. Art Credits: Artist: Richard Markus | Perspectives | August 1 2023 | Multiple exposures image Dr. Kunst will explore the importance of the psychoanalytic frame with an emphasis […]