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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 […]

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 […]