tps&i Open House and Party

Featuring a Performance of You Arrive, by Bonnie Harnden

The tps&i are pleased to announce their first Open House, welcoming the public to an evening of theatre, theory, and conviviality, featuring a performance of You Arrive, a drama about sexuality, trauma, and treatment by playwright and psychoanalyst Bonnie Harnden.

Featuring: Natasha Amendolara, Londa Daniel, Chloe Frisina, and Shea Wood

Date and time: Saturday, February 4, 2012, 6:30 to 11:00 p.m.

Place: George Ignatieff Theatre, Trinity College, 15 Devonshire Place

Refreshments: Hors d’oeuvres will be served, and a cash bar will be available.

You Arrive is a performance piece about being in therapy and facilitating therapy. It follows one woman’s experience in her therapist’s office as she simultaneously unravels the effects of early trauma and illustrates the theories and experiences that guide her therapist’s work and interventions. A clinical case emerges in a dynamic way as four actresses play different parts of the same woman: her child self, her adolescent self, her false self, and her adult self. Winnicott’s, Fonagy’s, and Shengold’s writings are used to illustrate how the parents’ role in containing the child’s emotional world affected the patient’s development. Through this process, the false self, true self, child, and adolescent self emerge to tell their stories, as the interactions between therapist and client unfold.

Bonnie Harnden is a drama therapist, psychoanalyst, and playwright. She is associate professor at Concordia University’s Creative Arts Therapies Department in Montreal, and Canadian representative to the National Association of Drama Therapy.

Cost $50 per person 

Space for this event is limited, so please mail a check, made payable to the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society, to:

Toronto Psychoanalytic Society
40 St. Clair Avenue East Suite #203
Toronto, Ontario M4T 1M9

For further information about this event, click here, or contact Maria Cadilha at info@torontopsychoanalysis.com or 416-922-7770.