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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 […]

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 […]