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Conceptions on Conception: Dreams and imagery about conception and pregnancy | November 19, 2016

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 | January 30, 2016

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 […]

Annual Scientific Meeting | April 9, 2016

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 | May 7, 2016

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, […]

Monsters Incorporated: The Internalization of Very Bad Objects – Superego Pathology and Hysteria | Saturday, November 21, 2015

Monsters Incorporated: The Internalization of Very Bad Objects And Their Role in Superego Pathology and Hysteria James Fabian MD, FRCPC, FIPA Monsters frightened us as children. They fascinate us as adults. But there are no monsters, are there? No real monsters? Oh, but there are. According to Kleinian theory, as infants and young children we […]

Minding the Body | Victoria | October 2105 to June 2016

The Western Branch CPS faculty is offering a theoretical/clinical course in preparation for the 2016 WBCPS Annual Scientific Meeting with guest speaker Alessandra Lemma, noted for her many studies on the mind body connection. Her two books are not only about what she discovers about the relationship between the mind and the body, but also […]

Minding the Body | Vancouver | September 2015 to March 2016

The Western Branch CPS faculty is offering a theoretical/clinical course in preparation for the 2016 WBCPS Annual Scientific Meeting with guest speaker Alessandra Lemma, noted for her many studies on the mind body connection. Her two books are not only about what she discovers about the relationship between the mind and the body, but also […]

Psychoanalysing Authoritarism: Trauma and the Difficult Question of Freedom | Monday May 4th, 2015

PUBLIC LECTURE Speakers: Jonathan Sklar & Jay Frankel | Chair: Christopher Fortune Monday, May 4, 6:45pm–9:00pm, Room 7000, SFU Harbour Centre   Psychoanalysis, Analytic Societies and the European Unconscious In this paper, I address how one might develop states of freedom in analysis and in the analyst from the tangles of unconsciousness that exist in […]