This program will focus on the relationship between developmental themes and their ramifications for psychoanalytic technique in psychotherapy with gay men. The development of a sense of self in the context of sexual orientation and sexual identity will stand in the foreground of this program’s reflections and discussions. The reformulation of oedipal dynamics, the impact of shame, and the tension between interpersonal and object-relationship dimensions will be discussed in the context of transference-countertransference dynamics as well as needs for the therapeutic holding environment. The reviewed concepts and ideas will be illustrated with case material.
Saturday, September 20, 2014
Location: The Arbutus Club, 2001 Nanton Avenue,
Vancouver, B.C. V6J 4A1 Terrace Room
Time: 9:30 am to 12:30 pm
Cost: Members & Guests: No charge
Non-Members: $ 40.00 | Students, VIP: $ 25.00
Please register by September 10, 2014.
For further information please contact:
Judith Setton-Markus at jsettonmarkus@shaw.ca or 604 264-0002
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Dr. Joachim Sehrbrock is a Vancouver psychologist in private practice, working with lesbian, gay, transgender, and heterosexual adults and couples. He is a guest of the Western Branch Canadian Psychoanalytic Society. Dr. Sehrbrock completed a psychoanalytically oriented postdoctoral residency at Pathways Counselling Center in the San Francisco Bay Area and the Bay Area Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program with the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis.
Zachariah Finley, M.A., RCC is a mental health clinician with Assessment and Treatment Services (Vancouver Coastal Health) and provides psychoanalytically informed psychotherapy in Downtown Vancouver. During his graduate training, he interned with New Leaf Services, a psychodynamically informed community mental health centre serving the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The event is an accredited group learning activity as designed by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. 3 hours CME credit.
Scientific Program Committee: Judith Setton-Markus (Chair), Karin Holland Biggs, James Fabian, Endre Koritar, Catherine Young, Orlando Frizado, Karla Maranhao, Donna Paproski, Joseph Steiman