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Negative therapeutic reaction, a term coined by Freud (1923) to describe the patient’s abrupt and reflexive turning away from the analytic relationship immediately following recognition of the analyst’s understanding and interpretive helpfulness, has evolved in how it is understood theoretically and applied clinically over the past century. Notably, identifying the determinative role of envy and […]

Psychoanalysts often speak of the infant-mother unit as a model; in this “we” of the first group, the infant’s mind is born. The purpose of this paper is to bring this speculative imagination of pre-natal and neonatal life experiences and examine how this position of we-ness in the here and now of the session wakes us up […]

The Western Branch of the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society presents 2020 Annual Scientific Conference“Aftermath of Trauma” Howard Levine, Judy Eekhoff and Dominique Scarfone The impact of trauma, especially if experienced early in development, can mark the psyche and result in PTSD symptoms such as nightmares, flashbacks, panic, and psychosomatic symptoms triggered by environmental representations of the […]

WBCPS presents the Quarterly Scientific Meeting #4 “Rescuing Conscience from the Moralistic Superego: Notes on the New Puritanism in Psychoanalysis” | Donald L Carveth, Ph.D., RP, FIPA November 28, 2020 9:30am – 12pm PST (Pacific Standard Time) One way we defend ourselves against the persecutory superego is by identifying with it and targeting various scapegoats. […]

The Victoria chapter of the Western Branch Course Committee is pleased to offer a series of four seminars designed to investigate the topic of “Boundaries and Boundary Violations in the Therapeutic Setting”. This course will highlight the work of various psychoanalysts who have written on this subject. We are especially pleased to include papers and […]

The Victoria chapter of the Western Branch Course Committee is pleased to offer a series of eight seminars designed to investigate the topic “The Infantile” in preparation for the 52nd IPA Congress, “The Infantile: Its Multiple Dimensions” to be held in Vancouver, B.C., July 21-24, 2021. This Victoria course will focus on earliest human experience, […]

The Western Branch CPS Course Committee (Vancouver) is pleased to offer a series of four seminars designed to investigate the topic of “Boundaries and Boundary Violations in the Therapeutic Setting”. This course will highlight the work of various psychoanalysts who have written on this subject. Photo credit: Carolyn Steinberg | “Reflections on Boundaries” 2020 This […]

The Vancouver chapter of the Western Branch Course Committee is pleased to offer a series of eight seminars designed to investigate the topic of “The Infantile”, inspired by the theme of the upcoming Vancouver IPA Congress. This course will focus on earliest human experience, the ‘always and never’ quality of the infantile state of mind […]