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Scientific Meeting | Saturday, April 28, 2018 | Venue: Arbutus Club 2001 Nanton Avenue, Vancouver, B.C. Part 1: The Experience of Being Envied The experience and consequences of being envied are described, and envy is defined as an action, similar to the action of projective identification, rather than being an emotion. The need for an internal […]

Scientific Meeting | Saturday, September 29, 2018  | Venue: Arbutus Club 2001 Nanton Avenue, Vancouver, B.C. This paper investigates the role of dreams and dreaming in psychoanalytic couple therapy. Being able to think about dreams in relation to couples hinges on the concept of shared unconscious phantasy first developed by Pincus (1962). The notion of […]

“If something happens, it happens ’between’ A and B, not only in A or only in B. In the consulting room, this implies a precise conception of what may be the key factor: to make a mind, another mind is needed. If one mind is struggling to grow, the other is failing in the task […]

“If something happens, it happens ’between’ A and B, not only in A or only in B. In the consulting room, this implies a precise conception of what may be the key factor: to make a mind, another mind is needed. If one mind is struggling to grow, the other is failing in the task […]

Leader: Paul Steinberg, MD September 15, October 13, November 3 and December 1, 2017 This seminar series consisting of four three-hour seminars will focus on the importance of hearing and using feedback from our psychotherapy patients, especially when there is a difficulty or impasse in the work. Casement combines a relational approach with the theories […]

Leader: Paul Steinberg, MD January 12, March 2, March 16, May 11, 2018 ~ This course is a continuation of the course with the same name offered in the fall of 2017. Having attended Part 1 of this course is not necessary to benefit from attending Part 2.~ This seminar series consisting of four three-hour […]

Western Branch Canadian Psychoanalytic Society | Extension Program Judith Setton-Markus, R. Psych. FIPA, Coordinator The Western Branch Canadian Psychoanalytic Society Extension Committee is pleased to offer a second four part series on ethics in the clinical setting. Each workshop is three hours and will consist of a theoretical discussion, followed by the opportunity to review […]

Living in your own time:  from transgenerational trauma to temporality Arthur Leonoff Ph.D., C. Psych., FIPA My thesis is a simple one: the capacity to live in one’s own time requires ongoing transcription and re-transcription of a personal past. Identity is built then on a layering of history to generate a textured narrative that comprises […]

October 2106 to June 2017 As mental health clinicians, we at times face difficult clinical encounters that cause us to feel doubtful or even defeatist, about our capacities and efforts. We may despair of what is occurring between ourselves and our patient, including the discovery that we have interacted with a patient in an uncharacteristic […]

September – December 2016 “It Shouldn’t Be This Hard!” Using psychoanalytic thought in challenging encounters with psychotherapy patients As mental health clinicians, we at times face such difficult clinical encounters as to feel doubtful, or even defeatist, about our capacities and efforts. We may despair of what is occurring between ourself and our patient, including […]