Annual Scientific Meeting – March 23, 2019 Gender as a Soft Assembly: Gender Multidimensionality

The Western Branch of the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society invites colleagues, analysts, and psychoanalytic psychotherapists from near and far to join us for our annual conference for 2019:

GENDER AS A SOFT ASSEMBLY: GENDER MULTIDIMENSIONALITY
Adrienne Harris, Ph.D. Keynote speaker

In this presentation Dr. Adrienne Harris will outline contemporary models of development, stressing the intersubjective and relational perspectives.  In the development of the relational turn, both the social and cultural dimensions of experience and the unconscious are essential.  The work of Laplanche, the neo Bionian work of Civitarese and Lombardi will be discussed. This essay pays attention to the non-symbolic aspects of experience of gender and of sexuality and of the integration (smooth and rough) of these phenomena with matters of race and class and culture (intersectionality). Clinical examples will be provided.

Dr. Adrienne Harris, Ph.D. is a noted Ferenczi Scholar and a major contributor to the Relational School of Psychoanalysis, and editor of The Relational Perspectives Series of Books. She has many publications elaborating on themes such as the multidimensional contributions to identity formation, gender as a soft assembly, intersectionality in gender identity and sexuality, subjectivity in analysis, and field theory. She combines a background in psychoanalytic theory and practice with a profound understanding of social science theory in her discourse.

Conference Learning Objectives – At the end of the conference participants will be able:

  1. To assess and make clinical and theoretical use of contemporary theories of gender (Butler, Kristeva, Saketopoulou and others) and sexuality (Laplanche)
  2. To examine the implications of theories of intersectionality in regard to sexuality and gender development.
  3. To understand the potentials for integration and the perspective in integrating differing field theories (relational, intersubjective, Bionian) in psychoanalytic theory and clinical work.

 

Photo Credits: Jean-Pierre Lafrance, untitled, 2005, oil on canvas

WBCPS Annual Conference | March 23, 2019

Location: The Arbutus Club
2001 Nanton Avenue, Vancouver, B.C. V6J 4A1

Registration Fees

(includes breakfast, lunch and refreshments)

Professional Registrants
$250

Students, Candidates and
WBCPS Extension Course participants
$150

WBCPS Members and Guests
$100

PARKING INFORMATION: Free parking is available within the indoor garage.

CANCELLATION POLICY: The WB Scientific Program offers refunds, minus an administration charge of 20%, only if requested 6 or more business days prior to an event.

Organizing Committee- Co-chairs: Endre Koritar, MD, FRCPC, FIPA & Judith Setton-Markus, M.Ed., R. Psych. FIPA

“This event is an accredited group learning activity (section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and approved by the Canadian Psychiatric Association (CPA). The specific opinions and content of this event are not necessarily those of the CPA, and are the responsibility of the organizer(s) alone.”

« La présente activité est une activité d’apprentissage collectif agréée (section 1), au sens que lui donne le programme du Maintien du certificat du Collège royal des médecins et chirurgiens du Canada; elle a été approuvée par l’Association des psychiatres du Canada. Les opinions et le contenu spécifiques de cette activité ne sont pas nécessairement ceux de l’APC, et sont la responsabilité exclusive de l’organisateur ou des organisateurs. »

 9:00-9:30 Coffee and Breakfast

 9:30-9:40 Opening President of the WBCPS James Fabian. MD, FRCPC FIPA
Moderator and Introduction of speaker Endre Koritar, MD, FRCPC FIPA

9:40-10:40 Keynote Address: “Gender and Sexuality: Fluid and Fixed
Contemporary Relational Models of Development” – Adrienne Harris, Ph.D.

10:40-11:00 Discussant: Catherine Young, Ph.D., R. Psych. FIPA

11:00-11:20 Coffee break

11:20-12:00 Audience participation

12:00–1:30 Lunch/Candidate Meeting with Adrienne Harris

1:30-3:00 Clinical Case Presentation with interactive audience participation
Adrienne Harris, Ph.D. Moderator: Judith Setton-Markus, M.Ed., R. Psych., FIPA

3:00-3:30 Coffee Break

3:30-5:30 Panel: Clinical Perspectives on Gender
Presenters: Jo Hoffman, MD, FRCPC, FIPA, Stephanie Killington, MA, RCAT, Joachim Sehrbrock, Ph.D, R. Psych. Discussant: Adrienne Harris Moderator: Coleen Gold, MA, ATR, FIPA

5:30-5:40  Concluding Remarks—Endre Koritar, MD, FRCPC FIPA