Freud Café Canada presents “The Leader’s Hypnotic Influence and the Creation of Alternate Reality” Saturday, January 20, 2024 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. (ET) / 10:00 to 12:00am (PT)A free online event via Zoom, in collaboration with WCPSI outreach. **Pre-registration is required. To register please email: admin@torontopsychoanalysis.comRegistration closes one week prior to the event. Psychoanalysis has […]
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A Kristevan Birth in Analysis: Case Material Expounds the Deliverance of Psychic Freedom Through Maternal Eroticism
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A Kristevan Birth in Analysis: Case Material Expounds the Deliverance of Psychic Freedom Through Maternal Eroticism Scientific Meeting #4Presenter: Summer TelioDiscussant: Vaia TsolasChair: Darren Thompson Photo Art credits: Leonardo da Vinci | Madonna and Child Maternal eroticism is explored as an etiological agent in the birth of psychic freedom. Pre-Oedipal functioning is revealed in an […]
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From Arrogance to Humility: A Psychoanalytic Venture into the Realm of Negative Capability We spend and too often waste a lifetime walking in the shadow of our ultimate unclaimed self.• James Grotstein Like one that on a lonesome roadDoth walk in fear and dreadAnd having once turned round moves on,And turns no more his head;Because […]
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Analyst Vulnerability and Analytic Vitality Chair: Carolyn Steinberg Presenters: Carolyn Steinberg, Paul Steinberg, Darren Thompson, Elizabeth Wallace Art Credits: Carolyn Steinberg | Appears | 2023 | oil and cold wax Vulnerability is one of the most familiar and critical aspects of our clinical work. Analysts know that for a genuine sense of vitality to develop, […]
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The Experience of Voice in Analytic Listening With Guest Speaker: Dana Amir Art credits: | Amanda Blake Soule | Silence 2020 | Photography Discussing the experience of voice in analytic listening, this paper describes the central role of the voice in psychic development as well as in the therapeutic process, focusing on two psychopathologies: the […]
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Technological Confusion: Demands Placed on the Ego By the Transition Between Reality and Virtual Reality | September 9, 2023
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Technological Confusion: Demands Placed on the Ego By the Transition Between Reality and Virtual Reality Presenter: Bradley Murray Art Credits: Joaquín Sorolla | Reflections in a Pond | 1918, Spain | Oil on canvas Rapidly advancing virtual reality technology makes this a confusing time for many. Patients may present as “addicted” to online games and […]
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Writing Words That Touch: Tuning Our Psychoanalytic Voice 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, tear me to […]
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Writing Words That Touch: Tuning Our Psychoanalytic Voice | 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, tear […]
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Ethics II: Ethical Issues In Clinical Supervision with Janine Wanlass, Ph.D. Photo Art credits: Artist: Richard M. Markus | Reach 2022 | Digital Image Lens, 16 mm 1/25 sec at f/7.1 ISO 100 Psychoanalytic supervision is a complex process, particularly when it takes place in an analytic training program within an analytic institution. Ethical dilemmas […]
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Intuition and The Ineffable: Listening in Body All journeys have secret dimensions of which the traveler is unaware.– Martin Buber Listen to me as one listens to the rain,Not attentive, not distracted,Light footsteps, thin drizzle, Water that is air, air that is time… Listen to me as one listens to the rain,Without listening, hear what […]