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2025

September 2025

Date	Course/Event
11	EXTENSION PROGRAM Online Course COURSE ONE – The Inside Story: How Writers Write
18	COURSE ONE – The Inside Story: How Writers Write, Session 2
11	EXTENSION PROGRAM Online Course COURSE TWO – Lacan from the Beginnings
14	SPECIAL EXTENSION PROGRAM Online Workshop SPECIAL EXTENSION PROGRAM WORKSHOP – “The Ear Does It”
18	COURSE TWO – Lacan from the Beginnings, Session 2
20	SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM Online Meeting SCIENTIFIC MEETING – Putting the Psychoanalytic Frame to Work: Why It Matters
20	BETWEEN HOURS Online Event FREUD CAFÉ CANADA – Bethune’s Concern: the Fascist in Us
25	EXTENSION PROGRAM Online Course COURSE THREE – Family Mediation from a Psychoanalytic Perspective
25	COURSE TWO – Lacan from the Beginnings, Session 3
28	EXTENSION PROGRAM Online Course COURSE FOUR – Discussing Netflix and Kanopy Films from a Psychoanalytic Perspective

October 2025

Date	Course/Event
2	COURSE TWO – Lacan from the Beginnings, Session 4
4	SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM Online Meeting SCIENTIFIC MEETING – Trans identities: Epistemological Problems, Binary Logic, and the Analyst’s Dysphoria
9	COURSE TWO – Lacan from the Beginnings, Session 5
9	COURSE THREE – Family Mediation from a Psychoanalytic Perspective, Session 2
16	COURSE THREE – Family Mediation from a Psychoanalytic Perspective, Session 3
18	SPECIAL EXTENSION PROGRAM Online Workshop SPECIAL EXTENSION PROGRAM WORKSHOP – A Psychodynamic Exploration of Pet Bereavement
23	COURSE THREE – Family Mediation from a Psychoanalytic Perspective, Session 4
25	SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM Hybrid Event 59th ATPPP Scientific Session: A Shimmering Landscape: the imaginative and actual in psychic life
26	COURSE FOUR – Discussing Netflix and Kanopy Films from a Psychoanalytic Perspective, Session 2
30	COURSE ONE – The Inside Story: How Writers Write, Session 3

November 2025

Date	Course/Event
7/9	SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM Hybrid Workshop SCIENTIFIC WORKSHOP – TPS/IPA/3LM Clinical Observation Group
8	EXTENSION PROGRAM Online Course COURSE SIX – The Mind: A Neuropsychoanalytic Exploration
12	TIP PROGRAM Information Session INFORMATION SESSION – Toronto Institute of Psychoanalysis
13	EXTENSION PROGRAM Online Course COURSE FIVE – Clinical Lacan: “Painful Loves”
15	COURSE SIX – The Mind: A Neuropsychoanalytic Exploration, Session 2
19	SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM Hybrid Meeting SCIENTIFIC MEETING – Reviewing Grandparents: Ageing and Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Later Life
20	COURSE FIVE – Clinical Lacan: “Painful Loves”, Session 2
22	COURSE SIX – The Mind: A Neuropsychoanalytic Exploration, Session 3
27	COURSE FIVE – Clinical Lacan: “Painful Loves”, Session 3
29	COURSE SIX – The Mind: A Neuropsychoanalytic Exploration, Session 4
30	COURSE FOUR – Discussing Netflix and Kanopy Films from a Psychoanalytic Perspective, Session 3

December 2025

Date	Course/Event
4	COURSE ONE – The Inside Story: How Writers Write, Session 4
4	COURSE FIVE – Clinical Lacan: “Painful Loves”, Session 4
10	SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM Online Meeting SCIENTIFIC MEETING – The End Phase of a Psychoanalytic Supervision
11	COURSE FIVE – Clinical Lacan: “Painful Loves”, Session 5
18	COURSE FIVE – Clinical Lacan: “Painful Loves”, Session 6

2026

January 2026

Date	Course/Event
15	EXTENSION PROGRAM Online Course COURSE SEVEN – Personality Development: Our Beginnings in Infancy
15	EXTENSION PROGRAM Online Course COURSE EIGHT – Guilt: A Contemporary Introduction – Don Carveth PhD, RP, FIPA
17	SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM Online Meeting SCIENTIFIC MEETING – Film Outsider Freud? Screening of Yair Qedar’s new film on Freud
22	COURSE SEVEN – Personality Development: Our Beginnings in Infancy, Session 2
22	COURSE EIGHT – Guilt: A Contemporary Introduction – Don Carveth PhD, RP, FIPA, Session 2
25	COURSE FOUR – Discussing Netflix and Kanopy Films from a Psychoanalytic Perspective, Session 4
29	COURSE SEVEN – Personality Development: Our Beginnings in Infancy, Session 3
29	COURSE EIGHT – Guilt: A Contemporary Introduction – Don Carveth PhD, RP, FIPA, Session 3

February 2026

Date	Course/Event
5	COURSE SEVEN – Personality Development: Our Beginnings in Infancy, Session 4
5	COURSE EIGHT – Guilt: A Contemporary Introduction – Don Carveth PhD, RP, FIPA, Session 4
12	COURSE SEVEN – Personality Development: Our Beginnings in Infancy, Session 5
18	SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM Online Meeting SCIENTIFIC MEETING – On the Failure to Use Countertransference Productively
22	COURSE FOUR – Discussing Netflix and Kanopy Films from a Psychoanalytic Perspective, Session 5

March 2026

Date	Course/Event
5	EXTENSION PROGRAM Online Course COURSE NINE – Techniques (Not Theories) of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
7	SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM Online Session 60th ATPPP Scientific Session: Sexual Victimization of Boys and Men: Meanings and Consequences
12	COURSE NINE – Techniques (Not Theories) of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Session 2
19	COURSE NINE – Techniques (Not Theories) of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Session 3
25	EXTENSION PROGRAM Online Course COURSE TWELVE – Psychoanalysis and Attachment Theory
26	COURSE NINE – Techniques (Not Theories) of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Session 4
29	COURSE FOUR – Discussing Netflix and Kanopy Films from a Psychoanalytic Perspective, Session 6

April 2026

Date	Course/Event
1	COURSE TWELVE – Psychoanalysis and Attachment Theory, Session 2
2	COURSE NINE – Techniques (Not Theories) of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Session 5
8	COURSE TWELVE – Psychoanalysis and Attachment Theory, Session 3
9	EXTENSION PROGRAM Online Course COURSE TEN – Bion in the Clinic
15	COURSE TWELVE – Psychoanalysis and Attachment Theory, Session 4
16	EXTENSION PROGRAM Online Course COURSE THIRTEEN – Adventures in French Structuralism
16	COURSE TEN – Bion in the Clinic, Session 2
22	EXTENSION PROGRAM Online Course COURSE ELEVEN – Documentaries Viewed Through a Psychoanalytic Lens
23	COURSE TEN – Bion in the Clinic, Session 3
23	COURSE THIRTEEN – Adventures in French Structuralism, Session 2
29	COURSE ELEVEN – Documentaries Viewed Through a Psychoanalytic Lens, Session 2
30	COURSE TEN – Bion in the Clinic, Session 4
30	COURSE THIRTEEN – Adventures in French Structuralism, Session 3

May 2026

Date	Course/Event
6	COURSE ELEVEN – Documentaries Viewed Through a Psychoanalytic Lens, Session 3
7	COURSE THIRTEEN – Adventures in French Structuralism, Session 4
13	COURSE ELEVEN – Documentaries Viewed Through a Psychoanalytic Lens, Session 4
14	COURSE THIRTEEN – Adventures in French Structuralism, Session 5
20	SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM Online Meeting SCIENTIFIC MEETING – Going Beneath the Surface: What People Want from Therapy
20	COURSE ELEVEN – Documentaries Viewed Through a Psychoanalytic Lens, Session 5
21	COURSE THIRTEEN – Adventures in French Structuralism, Session 6