Aftermath of Psychic Trauma
VANCOUVER | October 2019 – March 2020
The Western Branch is privileged to have Howard Levine, Dominique Scarfone, and Judy Eekhoff as invited presenters for the next annual conference March 19-20, 2020. They will be discussing their researches into the presentation and representation of the experience of primitive mental states and how they are linked with trauma. Working with traumatized and regressed patients is challenging for clinicians faced with difficult transference and countertransference situations in their practices. Patients presenting with primitive mental states often do not respond well to classical technique, and may even be further traumatized by the rigid application of standard technique. Consequently, new directions in and an expanding scope of theory and practice addressing patients with significant psychopathology is much appreciated by clinicians treating patients with borderline personality, complex PTSD, psychosomatic conditions, depression, bipolar, and even some cases of psychosis.
This study group is in anticipation of the WB annual conference and will introduce participants to ideas and ways of working with traumatized patients suffering in primitive unmetallized states.
Photo credits: Jean-Pierre Lafrance | Untitled 2015 Oil on Canvas
Dates & Times:
Tuesdays 6-8pm
Oct 1, Nov 5, Dec 3, 2019
Jan 7 & Feb 4, 2020
Mar 17, 2020 postposted to October 20th, 2020
Location:
Arbutus Club, Boardroom
Format:
Theoretical discussion of papers 55min; clinical case discussion
applying concepts from the theory 55min; 10 min break.
Cost:
$250 General Registration
CME credits:
Level 2 (For each hour of participation, gain 0.5 credits)
Registrants for the course will receive a $25 discount toward their registration fee for the Annual WBCPS 2020 Conference with keynote speakers Howard Levine, MD, Dominique Scarfone, MD and Judith Eekhoff, PhD.
Book:
Judy Eekhoff’s Trauma and Primitive Mental States. (TPMS) Routledge 2019, 122 pgs. Available through Amazon.ca $45.
Levine and Scarfone readings will be provided on inscription.
FACULTY: Endre Koritar, MD, FRCP(C); Coleen Gold, ATR, RCC; Judith Setton-Markus, M.Ed., R. Psych.; Paul Steinberg, MD, FRCP(C); Carolyn Steinberg, MD, FRCP(C).
CANCELLATION POLICY: The withdrawal policy of the Extension Program allows a refund minus a 20% administration cost, up to one week before the first class, and no refund after the first meeting.
CONFIDENTIALITY: Confidential clinical material and commentary will be presented which registrants agree to treat with confidentiality.
PARKING INFORMATION: Free parking is available within the indoor garage.
Course Outline:
SESSION 1 – Oct 1, 2019: Levine
Endre Koritar
– Freud’s Theory of Representation and Expansion of Analytic Technique.
– Clinical Implications of Unrepresented States: Effacement, Discourse, and Construction.
SESSION 2 – Nov 5, 2019: Levine
Paul Steinberg
-Psychosomatics and Unrepresented States.
-The Fundamental Epistemological Situation: Psychic Reality and the Limitations of Classical Theory.
SESSION 3 – Dec 3, 2019: Scarfone
Coleen Gold
– From Traces to Signs: Presenting and Representing
SESSION 4 – Jan 7, 2020: Scarfone
Carolyn Steinberg
– How Trauma is Inexorably Woven into Psychic Life
SESSION 5 – Feb 4, 2020: Eekhoff TPMS
Judy Setton-Markus
– Ch 2 Affective Bridges Between Body and Mind
– Ch 3: The SilentTransference: Clinical Reflections on Ferenczi, Klein, Bion
SESSION 6 – *NEW DATE: October 20th, 2020* Eekhoff TPMS
Endre Koritar
– Ch 5, Finding a Center of Gravity in Proximity to the Analyst
– Ch 7, Finding the Impulse: Healing from Infantile Trauma