Living in your own time: from transgenerational trauma to temporality
Arthur Leonoff Ph.D., C. Psych., FIPA
My thesis is a simple one: the capacity to live in one’s own time requires ongoing transcription and re-transcription of a personal past. Identity is built then on a layering of history to generate a textured narrative that comprises the story of the self. This is the essence of the dream, transference and metaphor-work that revisits the past long enough to create new meaning. Indeed, if we were not in touch with our own past in the present then we would not fully know time for which the ultimate limit is death itself. Indeed, it is within the twin bookends of memory and death that the human subject comes to live in their own time.
Scientific Meeting | Saturday, April 29, 2017 | Venue: Arbutus Club
2001 Nanton Avenue, Vancouver, B.C. V6J 4A1
Dr. Arthur Leonoff is a psychologist and psychoanalyst practicing in Ottawa. He is a Supervising & Training Analyst of the CPS as well as a past-president and recipient of the Citation of Merit. Dr. Leonoff is also an Honorary Member of APsaA and he has a been active organizationally for many years in the IPA, holding numerous senior positions. He is a frequent teacher presenter and author, and has published regularly in the Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis.
Learning Objectives: At the end of this program/session/event participants will be able to:
1. Have an appreciation of the subtle and complex ways in which psychoanalysis has understood the relationship between human subjectivity and time;
2. Have an expanded understanding of the consequences to being-in-time that arise in cases of severe psychic trauma;
3. Have an opportunity to explore the capacity of the analytic dyad within the model of understanding/understood to foster historicization and new meaning to what is often a frozen narrative seized with traumas that might or might not be one’s own.
The Arbutus Club in the Quilchena Terrace
2001 Nanton Avenue, Vancouver, B.C. V6J 4A1
Time: 9:30 am to 12:30 pm
Cost: Members, Guests: No charge
Non-Members: $ 40.00 per event
Students, VIP: $ 25.00 per event
For further information please contact: info@wcpsi.digitalswan.com
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, 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. 2.75 CME Credits
PARKING INFORMATION: Attendees of the Program will be asked to register at the front desk when they arrive at the Arbutus Club. Free parking is available within the indoor garage, only within the spaces designated for visitors. Entry to the club is through the main door. Garage entry to the building is not available.
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. The Program is unable to offer refunds within the period of 5 business days before an event, since that is when hotel arrangements and catering costs are finalized. If an event in the Program were to be cancelled, all registrations fees would be refunded.
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM COMMITTEE 2018: Karin Holland Biggs, Ph.D., FIPA. (Chair), Celine Brouillette, R. Psych, Elizabeth Wallace, MD, FIPA. For further information please contact: Program Chair: Karin Holland Biggs – khbiggs@telus.net