WBCPS Annual Conference: Dreaming the Session: Civitarese in Vancouver March 7-10, 2018

Dr.Giuseppe Civitarese is an internationally renowned writer and speaker on the forefront of contemporary psychoanalysis. His clinical and theoretical ideas are simultaneously profound, serious, alive and playful. He has presented and written many articles and books on the analyst’s internal setting, somatic reverie, the embodied field, the oneiric paradigm amongst other thought-provoking ideas including dreaming the session, and most recently, ‘the sublime’, his original and emerging thinking on sublimation. Civitarese advocates his aesthetic dream perspective, resonant with Keats’ idea of negative capability, as a form of radical anti-realism in which material reality is set aside as a method of becoming deeply immersed in the emotional life of the session.

We invite our colleagues, analysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists, from near and far to join us for our annual conference for 2018, Dreaming the Session: Civitarese in Vancouver, an event designed to be interactive and to maximize the opportunity to have an intimate exchange with a creative, profound and kind psychoanalytic thinker of and for our time.

Our Friday night/Saturday conference includes in depth, cutting edge presentations by our speaker, Giuseppe Civitarese, on current developments of his psychoanalytic theory and the clinical technique that evolves from it. The conference is designed to be interactive, providing many opportunities for exchange between colleagues as well as ample space for audience discussion in each segment. In addition, we will have time to socialize together during our Opening Cocktail Party, breakfast, coffee breaks and gourmet lunch all included with the registration fee and provided by the Arbutus Club, our lovely conference venue.

Pre-conference Events

Master Classes:

In these clinical case seminars Guiseppe Civitarese will illustrate the technical application of his theory through commentary on a current case presented by an analyst in our community, providing us with an opportunity to learn together as we share our thoughts.

Each Master Class is limited to 25 participants. Early registration is advised. Click the REGISTRATION button below to save your seat.

  • Master Class I Wednesday, March 7, 2018 (6 pm – 8 pm) Add $50
  • Master Class II Thursday, March 8, 2018 (6 pm – 8 pm) Add $50

Individual Supervision Thursday, March 8

These private sessions provide a rare opportunity for individual supervision with our guest speaker, Giuseppe Civitarese. To reserve your spot please contact: info@wcpsi.digitalswan.com, payment will be DUE at time of booking.

  • Session 1 Thursday, March 8, 1-1:50 $300
  • Session II Thursday, March 8, 2-2:50 $300
  • Session III Thursday, March 8, 3-3:50 $300
  • Session IV Thursday, March 8, 4-4:50 $300

WBCPS Annual Conference
Dreaming the Session:  Civitarese in Vancouver
March 7-10, 2018

Friday Evening, March 9th

6:00-6:45

Registration/ Opening Cocktail Party

6:45-8:45

Keynote Address – Giuseppe Civitarese
Staying in Wait: On the Bionian Concept of Negative Capability
Discussant – Elie Debbane

Saturday, March 10th

9:00-9:30

Coffee and Breakfast

9:30-4:45

The Theory of Dreaming and the Clinical Tools Derived from It
Part I: From Deformation to Transformation. On Bion’s Theory of Dreaming
 Giuseppe Civitarese

Coffee break

Part II: Hallucinosis, Dreaming and play: The Analytic Field and Its Transformations
Giuseppe Civitarese

Lunch (included)

On Giuseppe Civitarese’s Contributions to Psychoanalysis
Talking Circle with Giuseppe Civitarese, Elie Debbane, Judy Eekhoff, Elizabeth Wallace and Catherine Young

Coffee break

What is Psychoanalysis?
Talking Circle with Giuseppe Civitarese and clinicians from Vancouver and Victoria

Concluding Remarks – Endre Koritar

Conference Learning Objectives

    1. Participants will be able to think about and discuss the radical nature of the shift in psychoanalytic thought inherent in the Bionian Aesthetic Paradigm.
    2. Participants will be able to consider ways of integrating the concept of ‘waking dream thought’ into their practice.
    3. Participants will have increased appreciation for particular challenges inherent in working with patients with extreme deficits in symbolization and have increased understanding of the use of a state of hallucinosis as a therapeutic tool for facilitation of the development of thought.
    4. Participants will be able to identify and increase awareness of internal impediments to achieving a state of reverie in clinical work.

“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. »

Accommodations
We are pleased to offer a special rate of $199 to our registrants, WHICH EXPIRES ON FEBRUARY 5th 2018, at the Sheraton Wall Centre Hotel in downtown Vancouver on Burrard. Please use this link >> to reserve your room.  This rate is valid from 3 days before until 3 days after the conference dates. We will also be arranging carpooling from the hotel to the conference site for those interested. Please contact us at info@wcpsi.digitalswan.com for further information.

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

Registration Fees
(includes cocktail party, breakfast, lunch and refreshments)

Professional Registrants $275

Students, Candidates, Pre-conference Course Participants $225

WBCPS Members and Guests $175

Please Register at link below and then choose the matching payment from the dropdown menu on payment button.

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE

• Chair: Coleen Gold, M.A., BC-ATR, FIPA
• James Fabian, MD, FRCPC, FIPA
• Elie Debbane, MD, FRCPC, FIPA
• Karin Holland Biggs, Ph.D., RCC, FIPA
• Catherine Young, Ph.D., R. Psych.,FIPA
• Judy Setton-Markus, M.Ed., R. Psych., FIPA

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.