Planning Committee

Chair: Christine Dunbar, MBChB, psychoanalyst

Sarah Freke, MD, psychoanalyst in private practice; faculty member, Toronto Institute of Psychoanalysis, and the Advanced Training Program in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, TPS
Judith Hamilton, MD, psychoanalyst in private practice; faculty member, Toronto Institute of Psychoanalysis; director, Advanced Training Program in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, TPS
Christopher Olive, MD, psychoanalyst in private practice; faculty member, Toronto Institute of Psychoanalysis, and Advanced Training Program in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy; lecturer, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto
Sandra Palef, PhD, psychoanalyst in private practice; faculty member, Toronto Institute of Psychoanalysis, Institute for the Advancement of Self Psychology, and Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis
S. Sadavoy, MSW, psychoanalyst and psychotherapist in private practice
Julio Szmuilowicz, MD, psychoanalyst in private practice; faculty member, Toronto Institute of Psychoanalysis


Faculty

Doron Almagor, MD, psychoanalyst in private practice, psychotherapy supervisor at the University Health Network, faculty, Advanced Training Program in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Paul Antze, PhD,* associate professor, Social Science and Graduate Programs, Social and Political Thought and Social Anthropology, York University
Donald Carveth, PhD, professor of sociology and social and political thought, York University; training and supervising analyst in the Canadian Institute of Psychoanalysis
Arthur Caspary, PhD, psychoanalyst in private practice; head, Psychology Department and director of Internal Academic Training, Hincks Dellcrest Centre; faculty, Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis
Rex Collins, PhD, private practice child and adolescent therapy; graduate of the Toronto Child Psychotherapy Program
Judith Deutsch, MSW, RSW, psychoanalyst in private practice, treating children, adolescents, and adults
Jacinta O'Hanlon, LRCP, SI, psychoanalyst in private practice; faculty, Toronto Institute of Psychoanalysis and the Advanced Training Program in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Clive Thomson, PhD, psychoanalyst in private practice; graduate, TICP; professor, Department of French Studies, Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western Ontario; TPS guest
Elizabeth Tuters, RSW, child/adult psychoanalyst, faculty/supervisor TCPP, ATPPP, IASP, team leader, Infant-Parent Program, Hincks Dellcrest Centre
Ruhi Tuzlak, MBA,* executive member of the Society for the Advancement of Clinical Social Work of Toronto; adult education specialist, occupational health and safety professional, Toronto District School Board
Barrie A. Wilson, PhD,* professsor, humanities and religious studies, York University
Robert Winer, MD,* teaching analyst and chair of the Faculty Committee, Washington Psychoanalytic Institute; chair, New Directions and of the Modern Perspectives on Psychotherapy Program, Washington Psychoanalytic Society; psychoanalyst in private practice, Bethesda, MD
Susan Yabsley, PhD, graduate of Anna Freud Centre and Head, Infant Program, Hincks-Dellcrest Institute, TPS guest

* By invitation




Course Director: Julio Szmuilowicz

Psychic determinism is the basis of psychoanalysis. There is a reason for everything we choose, and everything we do happens by choice, whether conscious or unconscious. Thus, what we are, where we go, and how we end up there—our "destiny"-—is the sum of the choices we have made and not created by circumstances, even if they are sometimes forced on us.

Through the work of Erik Erikson, among others, we are familiar with the concept of developmental nodal points—crossroads confronting us with life-changing pressures—forcing us to choose paths with far-reaching implications. In more vernacular terms, throughout the course of our lives we face vital turning points in which we elect to either veer left or right, up or down, change or sameness. Whatever we choose commits us to a road different from others and deprives us of the possible benefits (or avoids the dangers) of the path(s) not taken (Sartre called this an "existential crisis").

To explore the theme of turning points, seven films will be screened. After a short break, the film's discussant will present a formal paper that will lead the group into a general discussion.

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Course Director: Donald Carveth

Psychoanalysis has often been applied in the understanding of literature, but this can be a two-way street. As Freud himself certainly understood in mining the works of the likes of Sophocles and Shakespeare for psychological insight, literature can inform psychoanalysis as well as being interpreted by it. For each of the four Thursday evenings we will read, discuss, and analyze a piece of contemporary short fiction that illuminates a form of human experience of psychoanalytic interest: Jonathan Carroll, Home on the Rain (schizoid personality); Isaac Bashevis Singer, Enemies: A Love Story (masochism); Alice Munro, Postcard (delusional obsessiveness); and Frank Conroy, Midair (unconscious repetition of trauma).

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Coordinator: Judith Deutsch

This course will explore the opposite pole of subjectivity: the role psychoanalysis has played, and can play, in the real external socio-political world. Discussion will focus on (1) psychoanalysis until 1938—Freud's contributions to the interface between individuals intrapsychic and group processes, W. Reich on fascism, the Free Clinics and left-wing analysts who at times ran afoul of the authorities of the day; (2) psychoanalysis in the twenty-first century—focusing on Leo Rangell and his broad psychoanalytic approach, examining the "compromise of integrity" (Rangell's term for superego pathology) and how the public colludes with deeply flawed leaders; (3) psychoanalytic contributions to understanding prejudice and racism; (4) the contribution of psychoanalysts of the child to understanding the rights of the child and what makes it so hard for societies to protect children as in child-custody decisions, child poverty, child soldiers, AIDS, etc.; (5) psychoanalytic activism—understanding acting out vs. acting, the realistic difficulties and the resistances to acting as individuals, as clinicians, taking stands at the organizational level.

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Coordinator: Judith Hamilton

In this sixth introductory session of the theory and techniques articulated by the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan we will continue to explore basic concepts. Using Seminar XX, Encore, as a reference text, we will present Lacan's proposals concerning sexual difference, love, and jouissance, in one of the best-known, more accessible, and shortest of his seminars. For Lacan, masculinity and femininity are not biological essences but symbolic positions, and the assumption of one of these two positions is fundamental to the construction of subjectivity. Man and woman are signifiers. There follows a fascinating theory on the asymmetry between the two positions and its implications. For example, Lacan claimed that "woman would only enter in the sexual relation as a mother." Hence there is no real "sexual relation" and love as well as speech make up for this absence." However, woman reaches a "supplementary jouissance," which puts her in a certain relation with "the act of saying." "For man she is on the side of 'the truth' and man does not know what to do with it" (Marcelle Marini, 1992). Aspects of these topics will be covered in five evenings of seminar-style presentations with ample discussion. We welcome previous participants for these further developments in Lacan's theory, and will also attempt to make the material accessible to those attending for the first time. A previous reading of Seminar XX would enhance any participant's enjoyment.

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Coordinator: Elizabeth Tuters

This course will focus on clinical applications of John Bowlby's Attachment Theory. This theory stresses survival and adaptation in the context of relationships with protective others as critical components in human development and psychopathology. Individuals have internal working models of attachment relations that guide their relations with important others through life. In this course we will review ways of assessing internal working models from looking at behaviour to language, as well as other theories of early infancy, and their clinical implications to work with adults.

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