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COURSE EIGHT

Psychoanalytic Ideas and Approaches When Dealing with Trauma

This course will look at different types of trauma and its many and varied clinical expressions. Historical and contemporary ideas from different streams of psychoanalysis will be presented, and theory and clinical work will be integrated.

Each evening a psychoanalyst will present on a specific theme and lead the discussion.

 

Seminars

May 9, Clare Pain will explore war trauma, and transcultural and refugee issues using film to illustrate theory and practice.

May 16, Jacinta O’Hanlon will examine the phenomenon of “knowing and not knowing” as it presents in the traumatized person, using theorists from Bion to Bromberg, and providing examples from Seamus Dean’s Reading in the Dark.

May 23, Christine Dunbar will discuss the treatment of individuals who have suffered pre-Oedipal trauma in addition to other traumas.

May 30 Anita Johnston will present clinical case material from different psychoanalytic perspectives.

June 6, Michael O’Mahony will discuss age-related and cumulative traumas using Shakespeare’s King Lear.  

 

 
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Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits for psychiatrists, as accredited by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and for family physicians from the College of Family Physicians, are available.
 
 
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NEWS AND EVENTS

JUNE SCIENTIFIC MEETING

Mourning the Dead, Mourning the Disappeared: The Enigma of the Absent-Presence

Presenter: Cecilia Taiana

Open Discussion

Date: Wed, June 12, 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm

Open to members, guests, TIP candidates, and ATPPP trainees.

SECTION KEYNOTE ADDRESS BY DR. JOSHUA LEVY

Comparing Among Analytic Models as a Crucial Station During Our Traveling on the Bumpy Road Toward Analytic Integration

Please join us as Dr. Levy addresses the Canadian Psychological Association Annual Conference in Quebec City via Skype teleconference.

June 14, 2013, 12:30 - 2:00 pm, The Faculty Club, University of Toronto.

Reception to follow from 2:00 - 4:00 pm.

Please RSVP for the reception to: heather.macintosh@mcgill.ca.

Click here for details.

39th CONGRESS OF THE CANADIAN PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY

States of Mind, States of Being

June 7-8, 2013, Sheraton Wall Centre Hotel, Vancouver, BC

For more information visit www.psychoanalysis.ca or view the PDF brochure.

FUNDAMENTAL PSYCHOANALYTIC PERSPECTIVES
Fall Class starts September 2013
Applications are now being accepted

 
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