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WBCPS presents Quarterly Scientific Meeting #3 Joachim Sehrbrock: “Social Justice on the Couch: Collapse and Repair of Social Thirdness” Saturday September 26, 2020 9:30am – 11:30am How have the white, middle-class, Euro-centric ideologies and practices that pervade the Western psychoanalytic canon prepared us to make meaning of and respond to the complexities of our pluralistic […]

Scientific Meeting “The Unwelcome Child”  – January 18, 2020 with Endre Koritar and Adrienne Harris Endre Koritar reviews the concept of the death instinct contrasting Freud’s metapsychological Dual Drive theory to Ferenczi’s object relational theory of the Unwelcome Child. The trans generational transmission of “unwelcomeness” to a child and its dynamic consequences will be explored through the […]

Quarterly Scientific Meeting November 30, 2019 Presents Joseph Newirth, Phd This meeting is an introduction to Joseph Newirth’s work, and will be based on his most recently published book. The class will trace the evolution of concepts of symbolization, alpha function, reverie, the container-contained, and the use of transitional experiences to integrate these concepts with […]

“Maintaining Effective Boundaries for Psychotherapeutic Intimacy.” Facilitator:  Donna Paproski, Ph.D. The maintenance of effective boundaries is a frequent source of ethical discussion in psychotherapeutic practice. Much of the risk for boundary violation occurs when a therapist experiences a counter-transference reaction. How does the therapist develop and maintain awareness of his or her vulnerability to boundary […]

This course is an introduction to Joseph Newirth’s work, and will be based on his most recently published book. The class will trace the evolution of concepts of symbolization, alpha function, reverie, the container-contained, and the use of transitional experiences to integrate these concepts with the relational paradigm emphasizing the transformation of concrete experiences and […]

Unrepresented States: On Presence and Absence VICTORIA | September 2019 – June 2020 The Victoria chapter of the Western Branch Course Committee is pleased to offer a series of nine seminars designed to investigate the topic of “Unrepresented States: On Presence and Absence”. This course will highlight the work of various authors on this topic […]

Part I is divided in four sections. The first section is an introduction to a “Tale of Mortality”. The second instalment involves a review of pertinent psychoanalytic themes: Freud’s Analysis Terminable and Interminable, Totem and Taboo; The Future of an Illusion; Steiner’s Psychic Retreats, and Winnicott’s Fear of Breakdown. The third segment is a summary […]

Aftermath of Psychic Trauma VANCOUVER | October 2019 – March 2020 The Western Branch is privileged to have Howard Levine, Dominique Scarfone, and Judy Eekhoff as invited presenters for the next annual conference March 19-20, 2020. They will be discussing their researches into the presentation and representation of the experience of primitive mental states and […]

The Western Branch of the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society invites colleagues, analysts, and psychoanalytic psychotherapists from near and far to join us for our annual conference for 2019: GENDER AS A SOFT ASSEMBLY: GENDER MULTIDIMENSIONALITY Adrienne Harris, Ph.D. Keynote speaker In this presentation Dr. Adrienne Harris will outline contemporary models of development, stressing the intersubjective and […]

The collective crimes of history cast long shadows. Our attempts to confront and understand the effects of the Nazi period and the Holocaust on the profession of psychoanalysis have emerged out of a silence and silencing of the past. Part of this process involves considering how we, as psychoanalysts and as individuals, exist in relation […]