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“How are we to see, observe…. these things which are not visible?” (Bion, 2005). How does felt experience become thinkable? And what of a painful something which exists in the body, but which never becomes emotionally invested thought? How do we speak about the impact of what is unverbalisable and irrepresentable? How do we as […]

“The name in vain? Clinical and ethical dilemmas in making/not making a personality diagnosis.” Facilitator:  Anita Chakrabarti MD, LLB, FRCPC This seminar will review articles that consider ethical and validity issues that arise when diagnosing patients with personality disorder features.  As well it will review the alternative model of personality disorder as proposed in the DSM-V […]

Photo credit: Anne Gaze “Seasonal Progression” Acrylic paint on board 2018 Scientific Meeting January 26th, 2019   | Symbolic Representation Revisited – Coleen Gold, MA, ATR, FIPA   The related topics of symbol formation, representation, unconscious communication, transformation and aesthetic experience are intrinsically undefinable in any absolute, coherent way. Understandably, attempts to address these concepts in the psychoanalytic literature range […]

Western Branch Canadian Psychoanalytic Society Vancouver Pre-Canadian Psychoanalytic Congress Course The Vancouver chapter Western Branch Course Committee is pleased to offer a 6 session series of seminars in preparation of the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society Congress to be held in Vancouver May 29- June 1, 2019. The Congress, entitled “Emotional Turbulence: Working Clinically with unformed experience”, […]

Gender Multidimensionality with Adrienne Harris VICTORIA | September 2018 – June 2019 The Victoria Chapter of the Western Branch Course Committee is pleased to offer a nine session series of seminars in preparation for the Annual Scientific Meeting to be held on March 23, 2019. The annual conference will be entitled “Gender as a Soft Assembly: […]

Western Branch Canadian Psychoanalytic Society Vancouver Pre-conference Course Gender as a Soft Assembly: An introduction to the work of Adrienne Harris (Vancouver) VANCOUVER |  October 5, 2018 – April 12, 2019 The Vancouver chapter Western Branch Course Committee is pleased to offer a seven session series of seminars in preparation for the Annual Scientific Meeting […]

Scientific Meeting | Saturday, November 24, 2018  | Venue: Arbutus Club 2001 Nanton Avenue, Vancouver, B.C. In his book Normal and Pathological Personality (1974), the French psychoanalyst Jean Bergeret revisits the concept of personality “Structure”. Following Freud’s and Anzieu’s ideas, among others, structure refers to a permanent organization of the psyche, from which all normal […]

Great Contemporary Psychoanalytic Authors Each meeting of this group will consist of two parts. In the first part, a pre-circulated paper by an important psychoanalytic author will be discussed. The papers will generally be predominantly clinical in orientation. Discussion will focus on the clinical usefulness of the concepts and case examples in each paper. The […]

Dr.Giuseppe Civitarese is an internationally renowned writer and speaker on the forefront of contemporary psychoanalysis. His clinical and theoretical ideas are simultaneously profound, serious, alive and playful. He has presented and written many articles and books on the analyst’s internal setting, somatic reverie, the embodied field, the oneiric paradigm amongst other thought-provoking ideas including dreaming the […]

Scientific Meeting | Saturday, January 27, 2018 | Venue: Arbutus Club 2001 Nanton Avenue, Vancouver, B.C. The literature on countertransference love and hate are reviewed, focusing on the work of Freud, Winnicott, Bion, Ogden, Gabbard, and Slavin. The psychoanalytic psychotherapy of a patient whom the analyst actively hated from the beginning of treatment is described. The analyst […]