MINDING THE BODY: THE BODY IN PSYCHOANALYSIS AND BEYOND
WBCPS ANNUAL CONFERENCE | Saturday, April 9, 2016
Venue: Arbutus Club 2001 Nanton Avenue, Vancouver, B.C. V6J 4A1
There is a trend, in today’s world, toward using the skin and the body as the site for the expression of internal struggles. British psychoanalyst Alessandra Lemma invites us to think about what psychological functions are accomplished by modifications to the skin. In the keynote address Professor Alessandra Lemma will highlight the magnitude of Freud’s original insights about the body ego for understanding the development of the mind and challenges posed by our embodied nature. Drawing on her clinical experience with individuals who extensively modify their bodies through cosmetic surgery, tattooing, piercing and sex reassignment surgery, she will illustrate the importance of understanding the body and its vicissitudes in the analytic consulting room and in everyday life.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES | After attending this presentation and the clinical seminar, the conference participants will:
1. Review key psychoanalytic ideas regarding the body and its impact on the mind from Freud onwards
2. Apply these ideas to the field of body modification practices.
3. Develop some understanding of how the body may be used to manage psychic pain.
Organizing Committee: Judith Setton-Markus (Chair), M.Ed. R. Psych.,Karin Holland Biggs, Ph. D., RCC, Janet Oakes M.A., BC-ATP, Catherine Young, Ph.D.
Professor Alessandra Lemma is Professor of Psychological Therapies at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust and in the School of Health and Human Sciences at Essex University. She is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society and Visiting Professor, Psychoanalysis Unit, University College London. She is the Clinical Director of the Psychological Interventions Research Centre at UCL. She is Visiting Professor, Istituto Winnicott, Sapienza University of Roma and “Centro Winnicott”, Rome. She is the Editor of the New Library of Psychoanalysis book series (Routledge) and one of the regional Editors for the International Journal of Psychoanalysis.
Discussant: Elizabeth Wallace, MD, FRCPC is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Calgary. She is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Calgary, where she teaches and supervises residents in psychotherapy, and a previous faculty member of the Toronto Institute of Psychoanalysis. Dr. Wallace is also President and a founding member of the Calgary Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Education Foundation.
Program
8:30 – 9:30 am Coffee and Registration
9:30 – 9:35 | Welcoming Remarks: President WBCPS: James Fabian, MD., FRCPC
9:35 – 9:40 | Introduction of the speaker: Judith Setton-Markus, M.Ed.
9:40 – 10:40 | Keynote Speaker: Alessandra Lemma, Ph.D. “Minding the Body: the body in psychoanalysis & beyond”
10:40 – 11:10 | Discussant: Elizabeth Wallace, MD, FRCPC Moderator: Judith Setton-Markus
11:10 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:10 | Questions and Comments
12:10 – 1:40pm Lunch
1:40 – 3:00 | Clinical Case with interactive discussion with audience
Case presenter: Alessandra Lemma Moderator: David Heilbrunn, MD, FRCPC
3:00 – 3:30 Coffee Break
3:30 – 4:45 | Panel and Discussion: “Perspectives on the body in clinical work”
Catherine Young, Ph.D., R. Psych.
Janet Oakes, MA, BC-ATP
Judith Setton-Markus, M.Ed., R. Psych.
Panelists will have 15 minutes each with participation from Alessandra Lemma and the audience.
Moderator: Karin Holland Biggs, Ph.D., RCC
4:45 – 5:25 | Comments and questions
5:25 – 5:30 | Concluding Remarks: Karin Holland Biggs, Ph.D., RCC
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Registration Fees
Regular Early Bird: $ 170.00
After March 20, 2016: $ 200.00
Students/Study group participants/candidates (Student ID required): $125.00
WBCPS members & guests: $ 75.00
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c/o Nancy Briones,7755 Yukon Street,Vancouver, B.C. V5X 2Y4
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