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Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma (TTT) is an interesting dynamic theory of psychopathology on several levels. It re-introduces trauma as a primary causative factor in developing psychopathology but also suggests that unconscious introjective mechanisms underlie the generational transmission. “This event is an accredited group learning activity (section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program […]

Relational responsiveness: Inference and evidence in the treatment of trauma David Kealy, Ph.D., MSW Scientific Meeting | Saturday, January 28, 2017 | Venue: Arbutus Club 2001 Nanton Avenue, Vancouver, B.C. V6J 4A1 How can research inform our responses to patients who have suffered from relational trauma? What aspects of psychoanalytic treatment are most therapeutic? What are […]

A Clinical Contribution to the Analysis of Narcissistic Defensive Organizations in the Analytic Setting Catherine Young, Ph.D, R. Psych, FIPA In “The Ego and The Id” (1923), Freud referred to the clinical phenomenon of a negative therapeutic reaction and attributed unconscious guilt as a central operating factor in its intractability. One particular configuration explored in […]

Of (super) Human Bondage: and wrestling with ‘coming unglued’ Darren Thompson, MD, FRCPC, FIPA Scientific Meeting | Saturday, November 18, 2017 | Venue: Arbutus Club 2001 Nanton Avenue, Vancouver, B.C. In Somerset Maughan’s (1915) novel, “Of Human Bondage”, the author described an alienating developmental process in the early life of the protagonist, Philip Carey: “Because he […]

Antisocial and Acting Out Behaviour in Relation to the Development of the Adolescent Mind Scientific Meeting | Saturday, September 24, 2016 | Venue: Arbutus Club 2001 Nanton Avenue, Vancouver, B.C. V6J 4A1 The ability to sustain hope, with gratification that may occur only at some point in the future, demands a tolerance for frustration that […]

Conceptions on Conception: Dreams and imagery about conception and pregnancy Judith Setton-Markus, M.Ed. R.Psych. FIPA Scientific Meeting | Saturday, November 19, 2016 | Venue: Arbutus Club 2001 Nanton Avenue, Vancouver, B.C. V6J 4A1 The usefulness of dreams for understanding and facilitating the mastery of the developmental challenges of pregnancy and working through related unresolved conflicts […]

Frankenskin: When the functions of the ‘psychic skin’ go wrong. Karin Holland Biggs Scientific Meeting | Saturday, January 30, 2016 | Venue: Arbutus Club 2001 Nanton Avenue, Vancouver, B.C. V6J 4A1 Join us Saturday, January 30, 2016 for a screening of Almodovar’s film The Skin I Live In. Karin Holland Biggs will explore how use […]

Professor Alessandra Lemma is Professor of Psychological Therapies at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust and in the School of Health and Human Sciences at Essex University.  She is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society and Visiting Professor, Psychoanalysis Unit, University College London. She is  the  Clinical  Director  of  the  Psychological  Interventions Research Centre  at  UCL. […]

The Body as a Mode of Representation The Dr. Elmor Smit Memorial Lecture Judy Eekhoff, PhD, FIPA Scientific Meeting | Saturday, May 7, 2016 | Venue: Arbutus Club 2001 Nanton Avenue, Vancouver, B.C. V6J 4A1 Freud and Ferenczi foreshadowed latter clinical evidence that there is more than one mode of representation. Further clinical explorations ( Klein, […]