Study Group on Early Childhood Development – Sept 2021 to June 2022

Western Branch Study Group on Early Childhood Development  Sandor Ferenczi’s writings continue to provide the [...]

Releasing the Gordian Knot: Working with the Encapsulated Representation of a Parent with Susan Baxt – October 2, 2021

WBCPS 2021 Scientific Meeting #3: Psychoanalytic work with patients who make extensive use of dissociation [...]

Analytic Faith and Its Essential Rhythm: Unfolding and Enfolding in Search of a Fine Balance | October 2021 – June 2022

This series of seminars will explore the analytic concept of faith as a fundamental cornerstone [...]

Ethics Seminar 2 – Relevance of the History and Evolution of the French Model to Contemporary Psychoanalytically – Oriented Practice | Nov 27, 2021

WBCPS Ethics 2021 – Seminar 2: There are many post-Freudian ‘schools’ in psychoanalysis but few [...]

2021 Ethics Series | Seminar 1: Consenting and Assenting to Psychoanalytic Work | May 15

The moment is opportune for a renewed look at what we understand about patient consent [...]

Transformations in Negative Therapeutic Reaction | April 24

Negative therapeutic reaction, a term coined by Freud (1923) to describe the patient’s abrupt and [...]

Our Proto-Mental « We » Or Awakening to an Attitude of Implication with Cecilia Taiana, Ph.D. FIPA | January 2021

Psychoanalysts often speak of the infant-mother unit as a model; in this “we” of the [...]

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2020 Annual Scientific Conference: Aftermath of Trauma | Howard Levine, Judy Eekhoff, Dominique Scarfone | October 30-31, 2020 ONLINE

The Western Branch of the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society presents 2020 Annual Scientific Conference“Aftermath of Trauma” [...]

Rescuing Conscience from the Moralistic Superego | November 28, 2020

WBCPS presents the Quarterly Scientific Meeting #4 “Rescuing Conscience from the Moralistic Superego: Notes on [...]