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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 […]

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 […]