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# Toronto Psychoanalytic Society & Institute

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- [](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/) - Toronto Psychoanalytic Society (TPS) is a not-for-profit association of professional psychoanalysts engaged in the development and advancement of clinical psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic thought in Toronto. The Toronto Institute of Psychoanalysis offers an intensive and comprehensive program in theoretical and clinical psychoanalysis.
- [COURSE TWO - Lacan from the Beginnings](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/course-two-lacan-from-the-beginnings/) - A course for those who know little about French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, who would like an introduction that begins with the earliest concepts he developed.
- [COURSE TEN - Techniques (Not Theories) of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/course-ten-techniques-not-theories-of-psychodynamic-psychotherapy/) - This course will provide a chance to discuss the practical approaches/techniques and the challenging hurdles when practising psychodynamic psychotherapy.
- [SCIENTIFIC MEETING - The Person Who Sees the Ship: Language, Imagination, and the Interpersonal Field in the Theory of Unformulated Experience](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/scientific-meeting-the-person-who-sees-the-ship/) - To patients, the most memorable moments in psychoanalytic treatment are seldom the content of the analyst’s interpretations, but the patient’s feeling of being understood.
- [Special Extension Program Registration](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/special-extension-program/special-extension-program-registration/) - Register for current Special Extension Program Groups, Courses and Presentations of the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society & Institute.
- [Special Extension Program Events](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/special-extension-program/) - A full listing of the current Special Extension Program Groups, Courses and Presentations of the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society’s popular educational program.
- [COURSE TWELVE - Grief, Bereavement and Mourning](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/course-twelve-grief-bereavement-and-mourning/) - In these seminars the course leader will present experiences of working clinically with bereaved people, of all ages, bereaved in many different contexts.
- [COURSE ELEVEN - Reading Lacan: Philosophical Aspects of Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Part III](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/course-eleven-reading-lacan-philosophical-aspects-of-lacanian-psychoanalysis-part-iii/) - In current Lacanian studies, Seminar XXIV is being studied in detail in an attempt to understand and include in practice the implications of Lacan’s last teaching.
- [COURSE EIGHT - Psychoanalytic Approaches to Addictions](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/course-eight-psychoanalytic-approaches-to-addictions/) - Presenting information on psychoanalytic conceptions and examples of the very contemporary topic of addictions. Both behavioural and substance addictions will be addressed.
- [COURSE SEVEN - Infant and Child Development](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/course-seven-infant-and-child-development/) - Presenting aspects of the experiences and development of the infant and young child and how this knowledge may be useful in doing psychodynamic psychotherapy with adults.
- [COURSE SIX - Clinical Lacan: Addictions, Perversion, Psychosis](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/course-six-clinical-lacan-addictions-perversion-psychosis/) - These clinical conditions, their understanding and treatments – addictions, perversion and psychosis – have all received particular attention in Lacanian theory.
- [COURSE FIVE - The Inside Story: How Writers Write](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/course-five-the-inside-story-how-writers-write/) - This course draws back the curtain on the psychoanalytic writing process, presenting one writer and a recently published paper, essay, poem, or book each evening.
- [COURSE FOUR - Psychoanalysis in Conversation with Christianity](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/course-four-psychoanalysis-in-conversation-with-christianity/) - The course will appeal to those interested in interfaces between psychoanalysis and religion, specifically the Christian religion.
- [COURSE THREE - Discussing Netflix from a Psychoanalytic Perspective](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/course-three-discussing-netflix-from-a-psychoanalytic-perspective/) - In this series of six meetings, participants will meet on zoom to discuss various Netflix series from a psychoanalytic perspective.
- [Extension Program 2026 - 2027](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/) - Current Extension Program Courses, Special Extension Program Groups, Courses and Presentations of the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society’s popular educational program.
- [COURSE SIXTEEN - Bion in the Clinic](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/course-sixteen-bion-in-the-clinic/) - Looking at Bion’s theory of thinking and how he conceptualized psychic growth, and introducing the major themes of his theory and approach and their implications in the clinic.
- [The ATPPP Program](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/advanced-training-program-in-psychoanalytic-psychotherapy/the-atppp-program/) - Advanced Training Program in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (ATPPP) program information including admission criteria, what trainees can expect from the program and Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits.
- [Advanced Psychotherapy Training](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/advanced-training-program-in-psychoanalytic-psychotherapy/) - The Advanced Training Program in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (ATPPP) is a program of the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society (TPS) designed to help front-line mental health professionals apply the knowledge and clinical techniques from psychoanalysis to their work with patients and clients.
- [SCIENTIFIC MEETING - Hospitable Enclave](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/scientific-meeting-hospitable-enclave/) - This paper considers situations of destruction and hopelessness in which thought loses its capacity to move and the world divides into the stark positions of destroy or be destroyed.
- [Scientific Program 2026 - 2027](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/) - A full listing of current ATPPP Scientific Sessions, Annual Day in Psychoanalysis, and Scientific Program Meetings of the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society & Institute.
- [Calendar](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/calendar/) - A full Calendar of events, Extension Program courses, Scientific Program meetings and special presentations of the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society & Institute.
- [SCIENTIFIC WORKSHOP - Crisis and Negation: Psychoanalysis and Denialism (of Climate Change and Not Only)](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/scientific-workshop-crisis-and-negation-psychoanalysis-and-denialism-of-climate-change-and-not-only/) - Arguing that a vital contribution of psychoanalysis to the possibilities of meaningful individual and collective transformation in times of crisis hinges, in large part, on clinical experience and the theoretical treatment of negation and affirmation.
- [Scientific Program Registration](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/scientific-program-registration/) - Register for current ATPPP Scientific Sessions, Annual Day in Psychoanalysis, and Scientific Program Meetings/Workshops of the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society & Institute.
- [SCIENTIFIC MEETING - Medical Assistance in Dying: Anthropological, Psychodynamic, and Psychotherapeutic Aspects](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/scientific-meeting-medical-assistance-in-dying-anthropological-psychodynamic-and-psychotherapeutic-aspects/) - Examining the relationship between people who wish to end their lives and their potential helpers, drawing conclusions for psychotherapeutic practice.
- [SCIENTIFIC MEETING - A Couple State of Mind](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/scientific-meeting-a-couple-state-of-mind/) - Developing the concept of a “couple state of mind,” rooted in Tavistock psychoanalytic theory, which views a couple’s relationship as a shared psychic entity distinct from the two individuals.
- [SCIENTIFIC MEETING - Protracted Success Neurosis: “Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds”](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/scientific-meeting-protracted-success-neurosis-conversations-on-the-plurality-of-worlds/) - In this paper, Freud, Klein, Fairbairn and Ogden’s theories will be used within the framework of Pine’s four “psychologies” to understand the “worlds” that lead to a protracted success neurosis.
- [SCIENTIFIC MEETING - Towards a Theory of Transformations in Negative Hallucinosis in the Work of Bion, Meltzer, and Green](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/scientific-meeting-towards-a-theory-of-transformations-in-negative-hallucinosis-in-the-work-of-bion-meltzer-and-green/) - Exploring how transformations in negative hallucinosis emerge within the analytic field, how they affect patient and analyst, and challenges involved in restoration.
- [SCIENTIFIC MEETING - Essay on Vengeance: The Weaponization of Nostalgia](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/scientific-meeting-essay-on-vengeance-the-weaponization-of-nostalgia/) - Vengeance is ubiquitous in human society and infiltrating psychoanalytic theory and practice. This paper explores vengeance in history and in the consulting room.
- [SCIENTIFIC MEETING - The Dark Side of the Moon: Metapsychological Reflections on Drives, Structures and the Unconscious](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/scientific-meeting-the-dark-side-of-the-moon-metapsychological-reflections-on-drives-structures-and-the-unconscious/) - Based on the notions of drive and structure, Schmidt-Hellerau expands our idea of the unconscious to be recognized as a necessary underbelly of every representation.
- [COURSE FIVE - Psychoanalysis and the Human-Animal Bond](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/course-five-psychoanalysis-and-the-human-animal-bond/) - Focusing on the role of animals in our psychic lives and exploring the human–animal bond through classical and contemporary psychoanalytic perspectives.
- [Become an Affiliate/Guest](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/become-an-affiliate-guest/) - To become an Affiliate/Guest in the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society you must apply for Affiliate/Guest status, meeting the following requirements: Be sponsored in writing by a member of the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society who will be present at the Annual General Meeting and be prepared to speak on your behalf; Submit a letter requesting consideration for Affiliate/Guest
- [THE IPA 26TH JOSEPH SANDLER PSYCHOANALYTIC RESEARCH CONFERENCE](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/ipa-26th-sandler-conference/) - Theaters of the Mind: Dreams, Transference, Dissociation, and Trauma - information and registration for the IPA 26th Joseph Sandler Psychoanalytic Research Conference.
- [Special Extension Course Series: International Voices](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/special-extension-course-series-international-voices/) - Cutting-edge international thinkers engaging in conversations that unsettle, challenge, and illuminate the darker corners of the psyche—and psychoanalysis itself.
- [International Voices Course One - Exploring the Depths of Madness: A Journey with Christian Wouter Kusters, PhD](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/special-extension-course-series-international-voices/course-one-exploring-the-depths-of-madness/) - In this course philosopher and author Wouter Kusters invites participants to explore madness as a profound human experience that may challenge and enrich our understanding of existence.
- [COURSE SEVEN - Truth in Lacanian Psychoanalysis: From Articulation to the Half-Said](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/course-seven-truth-in-lacanian-psychoanalysis-from-articulation-to-the-half-said/) - This course examines the status of truth in psychoanalysis through the work of Jacques Lacan and explore key Lacanian concepts while engaging clinical material and theoretical texts.
- [309 Gender and Sexuality - 7 seminars](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/toronto-institute-of-psychoanalysis/curriculum/3-309/) - Seminar Leaders: Kristine Klement and Lindsay Barton Course Description The seminars will focus on the multiple facets of historical and modern psychoanalytic theory with an eye toward clinical practice. Matters such as gender embodiment, gender variation, gender regulation and perversion will be addressed. Gendered experience and identity will be viewed through a complex and nonlinear
- [TIP Curriculum](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/toronto-institute-of-psychoanalysis/curriculum/) - Curriculum of the four year Toronto Institute of Psychoanalysis (TIP) program.
- [208 CRPO Professional Practice Standards and Jurisprudence Overview and Review](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/toronto-institute-of-psychoanalysis/curriculum/2-208/) - Seminar Leaders: Susan Moore and Kristine Klement Course Description This 3-hour seminar will provide an overview and familiarize trainees with the CRPO Professional Practice Standards and Jurisprudence for Registered Psychotherapists. Trainees will be introduced to the role of the college and will review the CRPO code of Ethics and professional standards, including professional misconduct, incompetence
- [106 Introduction to Psychoanalytic Technique Part I – 5 seminars](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/toronto-institute-of-psychoanalysis/curriculum/1-106/) - Seminar Leaders: J. Fernando and C. Melchiorre Course Description Through a study of Freud’s classic papers on technique, and some later papers, we will understand the origins of the psychoanalytic theory of psychotherapeutic technique, a basic technique which was the first talking cure, and the basis, at least in some of its elements, for all
- [301 Narcissism - 8 seminars](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/toronto-institute-of-psychoanalysis/curriculum/3-301/) - Seminar Leaders: Ron Ruskin, Don Carveth, Charles Hanly, Jack Kohl, Gary Taerk Course Description This three-part course focuses on clinical theories of narcissism derived from Freud, Klein, post-Kleinians, Kernberg, Kohut and contemporary self-psychologists/inter-subjectivists. Part One of this series of seminars traces the history of narcissism in psychoanalysis from the seminal writings of Freud. In Part
- [113 Relational Psychoanalysis: From Freud to Relational Analysis – 3 seminars](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/toronto-institute-of-psychoanalysis/curriculum/1-113/) - Seminar Leaders: Drs. J. Kohl, R. Ruskin, and Prof. D. Carveth Course Description This three-seminar series offers a review of the basic concepts of relational psychoanalysis and its application to the psychoanalytic process. These seminars focus on the role of the analyst, encompassing awareness of the patient’s dynamic conflicts and the complex relational aspects of
- [413 The Difficult Patient - 4 seminars](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/toronto-institute-of-psychoanalysis/curriculum/4-413/) - Course Leaders: D. Carveth, PhD and S. Thomson, PhD Course Description The seminar will study difficult cases in analysis by means of presentation and discussion. Patients with severe psychopathology can be impulsive, act out, suffer extreme mood shifts and have more difficulty in reality testing than is typical of hysterical and obsessional neurosis. The seminar
- [412 Masochistic Character and Sadomasochism - 4 seminars](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/toronto-institute-of-psychoanalysis/curriculum/4-412/) - Seminar Leaders: M. A. Fitzpatrick Hanly, PhD and K. Klement, PhD Course Description This course will teach candidates to define and describe the many-faceted concept of masochism, so that they can identify, recognize, assess, and formulate masochistic character, and can identify sadomasochistic transferences and dynamics so as to effect change. Clinical material will be presented
- [410 Psychoanalytic Process: Initiating, Deepening the Analytic Process and Termination – 7 seminars](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/toronto-institute-of-psychoanalysis/curriculum/4-410/) - Initiating an analysis is complex and multi-layered. The patient population has changed. The seminar will focus on recommending psychoanalysis and establishing a working alliance with the Unrepresented States of Mind.
- [402 Childhood Sexuality - 4 seminars](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/toronto-institute-of-psychoanalysis/curriculum/4-402/) - Seminar Leaders: S. Leibow, MD and L. Barton, MA Course Description This course will examine more recent ideas about the role of childhood sexuality in adolescents and adults from a variety of theoretical points of view. Some of the remaining debates about where to situate sexuality in relation to pre Oedipal and Oedipal development will
- [215 Report Writing – 1 seminar](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/toronto-institute-of-psychoanalysis/curriculum/2-215/) - Seminar Leaders: D. Weir, MD and S. Meyerovitz, MSW Course Description Candidates will learn how to prepare written case reports demonstrating understanding of the psychoanalytic process. This writing seminar, in workshop format, will show candidates how to use session material as evidence for coherent formulations, interpretations, and observations of change and absence of change in
- [204 Theories of Development II: Oedipal - 4 seminars](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/toronto-institute-of-psychoanalysis/curriculum/2-204/) - Seminar Leaders: S. Moore, PhD and L. Barton, MA Course Description This course introduces candidates to oedipal stage development. It also covers some of the necessary preceding developmental processes. The Course teaches what is meant by object constancy and how understand the way in which it is related to oedipal stage development. The Course teaches
- [201 Technique: Dream Interpretation - 5 seminars](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/toronto-institute-of-psychoanalysis/curriculum/2-201/) - Seminar Leaders: D. Traub-Werner, MD and C. Melchiorre, PhD Course Description After “The Interpretation of Dreams” This 5 seminar course addresses the evolution of psychoanalytic dream theory and practice after Freud’s “The Interpretation of Dreams”. Seminar 1 reinforces the central technique of free association in working with dreams (and generally) in psychoanalytic treatment. Seminar 2
- [115 Core Concepts: Masochism, Sadomasochism, The Negative Therapeutic Reaction – 3 Seminars](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/toronto-institute-of-psychoanalysis/curriculum/1-115/) - Seminar Leaders: K. Dougherty and M. Mitchell Course Description This course will teach candidates to define and describe the many-faceted concept of masochism, so that they can identify, recognize, assess, and formulate masochistic character, and can identify sadomasochistic transferences and dynamics so as to effect change. Clinical material will be presented to facilitate the application
- [105 Core Structural and Dynamic Concepts – 17 Seminars](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/toronto-institute-of-psychoanalysis/curriculum/1-105/) - Seminar Leaders: L. Barton, J. Fernando, L. Fleischer, O. Gozlan, K. Klement, C. Melchiorre, S. Moore, and K. Schneider Course Description These seminars build on the topographical model of the Interpretation of Dreams and the dream work that causes dreams and constructs symptoms. The seminars will be an opportunity to study the basic ideas and
- [407 Psychoanalysis and Culture: Its Role and Impact on Psychoanalytic Work - 4 seminars](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/toronto-institute-of-psychoanalysis/curriculum/4-407/) - Course Leaders: K. Klement, PhD and R. Varghese, PhD Course Description This course examines the role of culture in the way we practice and think psychoanalysis. We will examine how internalized cultural/social biases can obstruct the appropriate use of self to effectively contribute to the development of a solid therapeutic alliance when working psychoanalytically with
- [406 French Freudians: Integrating Kleinian Thought - 5 seminars](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/toronto-institute-of-psychoanalysis/curriculum/4-406/) - Seminar Leaders: M.A. Fitzpatrick Hanly, PhD and S. Mann, MSW Course Description This Course will help candidates to formulate an interventional strategy, especially with patients suffering from object loss and separation anxiety. The Course will focus on psychoanalytic theories, which demonstrate how to apply the concepts of “primal scene”, “narcissistic economy and primitive sexuality”, “melancholia”,
- [403 Unconscious Fantasy/Phantasy and Clinical Implications - 5 seminars](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/toronto-institute-of-psychoanalysis/curriculum/4-403/) - Course Leaders: D. Carveth and S. Thomson, PhD Course Description The Course teaches the major position papers on Unconscious Fantasy/Phantasy, which clarify core theories and clinical implications from American, British, French, and Kleinian perspectives. The Course explores the tracking of unconscious fantasies in the session as observed and understood from various points of view. The
- [312 Process and Outcome Research in Psychoanalysis - 2 seminars](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/toronto-institute-of-psychoanalysis/curriculum/3-312/) - Seminar Leaders: M.J. Esplen and S. Thomson Course Description This class addresses the significance of empirical research for psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy—how crucial is it to its future, and what are its limits- at a time when there is growing public interest in the scientific evidence for psychotherapy. Contrary to a common misconception that there
- [202 Psychoanalytic Technique - 5 seminars](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/toronto-institute-of-psychoanalysis/curriculum/2-202/) - Seminar Leaders: S. Freke, MD and A. Drassinower, PhD Course Description This course will include the discussion of major contributions to psychoanalytic technique reviewing and extending concepts from first year. Concepts and clinical approaches to learn include initiating psychoanalysis, listening, transference, free association, interpretation, and the therapeutic alliance. Course Objectives Candidates will learn: Understand and
- [Extension Program Registration](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/extension-program-registration/) - Register for current Extension Program Courses from the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society & Institute.
- [COURSE TEN - Poetry Workshop, Versiprose: Poetic Sensibility in the Psychoanalytic Session](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/course-ten-poetry-workshop-versiprose-poetic-sensibility-in-the-psychoanalytic-session/) - This workshop asks “What does poetry offer psychoanalysis?” and “What kind of poets and artists can we [psychoanalysts] be?”. Participants will learn about the medieval practice of versiprose.
- [International Voices Course Two - Sergio Benvenuto: For Psychoanalysis, Does Psychopathology Exist?](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/special-extension-course-series-international-voices/course-two-for-psychoanalysis-does-psychopathology-exist/) - In this course, Sergio Benvenuto takes on the psychotic, the perverse, bipolarity to query the notion of psychopathology in psychoanalytic theory and practice.
- [International Voices Course Three - Sally Weintrobe, BScHons, Chartered Clin. Psychol., FIPA: With Climate in Mind](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/special-extension-course-series-international-voices/course-three-with-climate-in-mind/) - The description of this course will be announced when available.
- [COURSE SEVENTEEN - The Social and Political Life of Dreams](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/course-seventeen-the-social-and-political-life-of-dreams/) - This course examines the social and political life of dreams and explores how dreaming—and especially the dream’s “work”—might help us better grasp the dreamer’s sociogenic conditions.
- [COURSE FIFTEEN - Techniques (Not Theories) of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/course-fifteen-techniques-not-theories-of-psychodynamic-psychotherapy/) - Exploring and discussing the practical approaches/techniques and the challenging hurdles when practising psychodynamic psychotherapy.
- [COURSE FOURTEEN - Winnicott in the Clinic](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/course-fourteen-winnicott-in-the-clinic/) - Through vivid clinical examples and careful attention to technique, participants will explore how Winnicott’s insights illuminate contemporary challenges.
- [COURSE THIRTEEN - Guilt: A Contemporary Introduction – Don Carveth PhD, RP, FIPA](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/course-thirteen-guilt-a-contemporary-introduction-don-carveth-phd-rp-fipa/) - Original insights on the topic, looking at Freud's failure to distinguish persecutory guilt from reparative guilt, and the superego from the conscience.
- [COURSE TWELVE - Freud vs. Jung: Therapy’s Original Grudge Match](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/course-twelve-freud-vs-jung-therapys-original-grudge-match/) - Step into the analytical ring for a no-holds-barred intellectual throw-down between Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung—two giants of depth psychology.
- [COURSE ELEVEN - Personality Development: Our Beginnings in Infancy](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/course-eleven-personality-development-our-beginnings-in-infancy/) - Thinking about and reflecting upon the experience of the infant / young child in relationship with a primary caregiver, how a secure attachment is achieved, and what can disrupt security.
- [COURSE NINE - Family Mediation from a Psychoanalytic Perspective](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/course-nine-family-mediation-from-a-psychoanalytic-perspective/) - This course offers an opportunity to dive deeper into the keystones of the mediation process from a psychodynamic and psychoanalytic perspective.
- [COURSE EIGHT - Questions about Couples?](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/course-eight-questions-about-couples/) - This special in-person only workshop takes place over the course of one day and explores clinical material relating to work with couples.
- [COURSE SIX - Psychoanalysis and Attachment Theory](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/course-six-psychoanalysis-and-attachment-theory/) - This course offers a condensed view on a contemporary and historical account of attachment theory across the lifespan with psychoanalytic implications for clinical work.
- [Apply to the Toronto Institute of Psychoanalysis](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/toronto-institute-of-psychoanalysis/apply-to-the-toronto-institute-of-psychoanalysis/) - Information on how to apply to the Toronto Institute of Psychoanalysis.
- [COURSE FOUR - A Psychoanalytic Approach to Couples Therapy](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/course-four-a-psychoanalytic-approach-to-couples-therapy/) - A six-part course setting out the fundamentals and technical issues of psychoanalytic couples therapy.
- [COURSE THREE - Book Club: Analytic Memoir](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/course-three-book-club-analytic-memoir/) - This six-part course explores psychoanalysis through memoirs written by analysands. Part book club, part study group, it is accessible to those new to psychoanalytic ideas.
- [COURSE TWO - Discussing Netflix and Kanopy Films from a Psychoanalytic Perspective](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/course-two-discussing-netflix-and-kanopy-films-from-a-psychoanalytic-perspective/) - In this series of six meetings, participants will meet on zoom to discuss various Netflix series or Kanopy films from a psychoanalytic perspective.
- [COURSE ONE - Lacan from the Beginnings](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/course-one-lacan-from-the-beginnings/) - This course is offered for those who know little about the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, who would like an introduction that begins with the earliest concepts he developed.
- [Fundamental Psychoanalytic Perspectives](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/fundamental-psychoanalytic-perspectives/) - Fundamental Psychoanalytic Perspectives is an introductory study program designed for psychotherapists or those professionals who simply have an interest in psychotherapy.
- [ATPPP Curriculum](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/advanced-training-program-in-psychoanalytic-psychotherapy/atppp-curriculum/) - The Advanced Training Program in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (ATPPP) curriculum is designed to help Trainees develop a sophisticated understanding of the clinical techniques and theoretical complexities of psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
- [Fundamental Psychoanalytic Perspectives (FPP) Curriculum](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/fundamental-psychoanalytic-perspectives/fpp-curriculum/) - The curriculum of the Fundamental Psychoanalytic Perspectives (FPP) study program of the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society & Institute.
- [Between Hours/Interdisciplinary Dialogues, Applied Psychoanalysis Programme](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/between-hours/) - Between Hours provides a public forum for the TPS with a view to furthering the advancement of psychoanalytic thought through reaching into the community to facilitate extensive and ongoing interdisciplinary dialogue.
- [Special Events Registration](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/special-events-registration/) - Online registration for Special Events of the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society & Institute.
- [25th Annual Day in Applied Psychoanalysis](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/between-hours/25th-annual-day-in-applied-psychoanalysis/) - This symposium will explore the experience of symbolic transformation set in motion through the process of coming into contact with different aspects of the self.
- [62nd ATPPP Scientific Session](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/62nd-atppp-scientific-session/) - Psychoanalytic Therapy Amidst Sociopolitical Turmoil, Oppression, and Isolation - Exploring therapeutic processes particularly for racial minority patients in psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
- [61st ATPPP Scientific Session](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/61st-atppp-scientific-session/) - Dream Work in the Lacanian Clinic of Neurosis - Dr. Rogers explicates Freud’s original invention of dream analysis, and Lacan’s elaboration of the multiple valences from signifiers coming from dreams.
- [Toronto Institute of Psychoanalysis](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/toronto-institute-of-psychoanalysis/) - The Toronto Institute of Psychoanalysis offers an intensive and comprehensive program in theoretical and clinical psychoanalysis, with an emphasis upon learning how to work with the unconscious.
- [Member's Area](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/members-area/) - Member's Area of the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society & Institute
- [COURSE THIRTEEN - Adventures in French Structuralism](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/course-thirteen-adventures-in-french-structuralism/) - Focusing on the period of French Structuralism, when prominent thinkers in such fields as psychoanalysis, linguistics, mathematics, and anthropology emerged.
- [31st Annual Day in Psychoanalysis](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/31st-annual-day-in-psychoanalysis/) - Fathers, Sons and Intergenerational Transmission of Masculinity explored by Donald Moss, MD and Louis Rothschild, PhD, both of whom have written incisively on the role of the father.
- [Governance](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/about-us/governance/) - A listing of the Board of the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society, the Executive of the Toronto Institute of Psychoanalysis, the Executive Committee of Fundamental Psychoanalytic Perspectives and the Executive of Advanced Training in Psychotherapy.#
- [SCIENTIFIC MEETING - The Embodied Analyst: Presence, Soma, Prosthesis](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/scientific-meeting-the-embodied-analyst-presence-soma-prosthesis/) - Addressing the body of the psychoanalyst and its role in post COVID-19 treatment. The function of the analyst’s real body is illustrated through short clinical vignettes.
- [Freud Café Canada](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/between-hours/the-freud-cafe/) - The Freud Café is a free outreach initiative open to the university community and the general public from the Between Hours/Interdisciplinary Dialogues, Applied Psychoanalysis Programme of the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society.
- [What is Psychoanalysis?](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/about-us/what-is-psychoanalysis/) - A discussion of what psychoanalysis is, who can benefit from psychoanalysis and who is a psychoanalyst from the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society & Institute.
- [Psychoanalytic Training](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/toronto-institute-of-psychoanalysis/psychoanalytic-training/) - Program details for the Toronto Institute of Psychoanalysis (TIP) including what candidates can expect, admission criteria, fees and Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits.
- [SCIENTIFIC MEETING - Reviewing Grandparents: Ageing and Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Later Life](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/scientific-meeting-reviewing-grandparents-ageing-and-psychoanalytic-perspectives-on-later-life/) - Reviewing the role of grandparents with reference to graphic/narrative representations of ageing in art, children’s [fairy] tales, and societal family life.
- [SCIENTIFIC MEETING - Film: Outsider. Freud, Screening of Yair Qedar’s new film on Freud](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/scientific-meeting-film-outsider-freud-screening-of-yair-qedars-new-film-on-freud/) - Screening "OUTSIDER. FREUD", a creative 2025 documentary exploring the life and legacy of Sigmund Freud through the lens of marginality.
- [Membership Required](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/membership-required/) - Our Member's Area is reserved for Members, Guests, Affiliates, TIP Candidates and Training Analysts of the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society & Institute. Please contact us for more information on becoming a Guest/Affiliate of the tps&i.
- [SCIENTIFIC MEETING - Trans identities: Epistemological Problems, Binary Logic, and the Analyst’s Dysphoria](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/scientific-meeting-trans-identities-epistemological-problems-binary-logic-and-the-analysts-dysphoria/) - In this presentation, the speaker Nicolas Evzonas delves into the challenges faced by the analyst when confronted with atypically gendered analysands.
- [COURSE THREE - Family Mediation from a Psychoanalytic Perspective](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/course-three-family-mediation-from-a-psychoanalytic-perspective/) - This Extension Course will offer psychological perspectives on the difficult issues of family mediation encountered by professionals of various backgrounds.
- [Special Extension Poetry Workshop - "The Ear Does It"](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/poetry-workshop-the-ear-does-it/) - A workshop in two parts: a paper asking “What does poetry offer psychoanalysis?” and a workshop responding to the question “What kind of poets and artists can we [psychoanalysts] be?”
- [60th ATPPP Scientific Session](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/60th-atppp-scientific-session/) - This presentation addresses the unique challenges male victims face in processing the trauma of sexual abuse, harassment, and assault.
- [311 Trauma - 5 seminars](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/toronto-institute-of-psychoanalysis/curriculum/3-311/) - Seminar Leaders: L. Barton, J. Ellis and J. Fernando Course Description The purpose of these five seminars is to understand the historical underpinnings of the psychoanalytic approach to trauma and to integrate this knowledge of trauma on psychological functioning. Candidates will appreciate the neurobiological contribution towards a psychoanalytic model of treatment; understand Trauma and the
- [308 Group Supervision/Technique # 5 - 8 seminars](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/toronto-institute-of-psychoanalysis/curriculum/3-308/) - Seminar Leaders: C. Lunney and D. Traub-Werner Course Description The purpose of this course is to provide candidates, from the outset of their analytic training, exposure to clinical thinking and process, as well as ongoing participation in discussion about their own and their colleagues' developing practices and skill acquisition. This is an important foundation and
- [304 Bion - 5 seminars](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/toronto-institute-of-psychoanalysis/curriculum/3-304/) - Seminar Leaders: N. Moshtagh and C. Saruk Course Description These five seminars expand on the theoretical and clinical concepts of Wilfred Bion introduced in year Two. These seminars provide an outline of some of Bion’s main theoretical and clinical concepts both as extensions and modifications of Freud’s and Klein’s ideas. This course will address the
- [302 Group Supervision/Technique # 4 - 8 seminars](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/toronto-institute-of-psychoanalysis/curriculum/3-302/) - Seminar Leaders: S. Mann and A. Tarnopolsky Course Description The purpose of this course is to provide candidates, from the outset of their analytic training, exposure to clinical thinking and process, as well as ongoing participation in discussion about their own and their colleagues' developing practices and skill acquisition. This is an important foundation and
- [109 Core Concepts: Conflict and Compromise Formation – 4 seminars](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/toronto-institute-of-psychoanalysis/curriculum/1-109/) - Seminar Leader: S. Thomson Course Description This course, in 4 seminars, focuses on conflict theory as it has evolved from Freud’s original formulations involving his structural/dynamic theories at a neurotic level of functioning to the present usage/understanding involving all levels of intrapsychic formation both conscious and unconscious. Although initially conceptualized for neurotic/structural/Oedipal conflict, the current
- [104 Ethics – 2 seminars](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/toronto-institute-of-psychoanalysis/curriculum/1-104/) - Seminar Leaders: K. Klement, J. Kohl and S. Thomson Course Description These two Seminars comprise the first section of an Ethics Course, which is taught over the four years of the Curriculum. The first seminar explores the importance of establishing the treatment frame, appropriate boundaries, and analytic neutrality, for the therapeutic relationship. Boundary configurations with
- [103 Classics of Formulation – 10 seminars](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/toronto-institute-of-psychoanalysis/curriculum/1-103/) - Seminar Leaders: L. Barton, E. Hubbard, K. Klement, S. Leibow, C. Melchiorre, S. Moore, M.K. O’Neil and A. Taheri Course Description This course, in ten seminars, explores Freud’s discovery of the psychic unconscious and psychoanalysis as a theory of human nature as it reveals itself in the case studies which serve as the foundation for
- [102 Origins of Psychoanalysis: Core Concepts (1896-1901) - 10 seminars](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/toronto-institute-of-psychoanalysis/curriculum/1-102/) - Seminar Leaders: A. Drassinower, S. Freke, E. Hubbard and M.K. O’Neil Course Description Origins of Psychoanalysis: from meaningless suffering to meaning and healing. This course, in ten seminars, explores Freud’s discovery of the psychic unconscious and psychoanalysis as a theory of human nature and a clinical method for the treatment of psychopathology including: A new
- [SCIENTIFIC MEETING - Going Beneath the Surface: What People Want from Therapy](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/scientific-meeting-going-beneath-the-surface-what-people-want-from-therapy/) - Sharing the findings from the Psychotherapy Action Network's (PsiAN) research studies and offering a blueprint for engaging and communicating with the public.
- [116 Core Concepts: Depression – 2 Seminars](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/toronto-institute-of-psychoanalysis/curriculum/1-116/) - Seminar Leaders: M. Fitzpatrick Hanly and S. Mann Course Description These two seminars examine Freud’s concepts of object loss, mourning and melancholia and psychoanalytic thinking on depression after Freud. Clinical depression has some of the same characteristics as mourning, but Freud suggested some of the significant differences between normal mourning and depression. Freud puts it
- [SCIENTIFIC WORKSHOP - TPS/IPA/3LM Clinical Observation Group](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/scientific-workshop-tps-ipa-3lm-clinical-observation-group/) - A 3LM group of psychoanalysts will explore a Clinical Material with a brief history and detailed sessions from the beginning, middle and end phases of a long-term psychoanalysis.
- [COURSE ELEVEN - Documentaries Viewed Through a Psychoanalytic Lens](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/course-eleven-documentaries-viewed-through-a-psychoanalytic-lens/) - A course for those who are interested in a psychoanalytically informed approach to documentary filmmaking through the lens of iconic point-of-view films.
- [SCIENTIFIC MEETING - Putting the Psychoanalytic Frame to Work: Why It Matters](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/scientific-meeting-putting-the-psychoanalytic-frame-to-work-why-it-matters/) - Dr. Furlong will present her book, Putting the Psychoanalytic Frame to Work: Why it Matters, discussing aspects of the framework in psychoanalytically oriented work.
- [2024-2025 Scientific Abstracts/Papers](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/members-area/2024-2025-scientific-abstracts-papers/) - Member's Area of the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society & Institute
- [SCIENTIFIC MEETING - On the Failure to Use Countertransference Productively](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/scientific-meeting-on-the-failure-to-use-countertransference-productively/) - Discussing the failure of analysts to use uncomfortable countertransference experience to address key unspoken themes, in the transference-countertransference matrix.
- [SCIENTIFIC MEETING - The End Phase of a Psychoanalytic Supervision](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/scientific-meeting-the-end-phase-of-a-psychoanalytic-supervision/) - After briefly reviewing the previous phases, the focus of this presentation will be on the end phase of psychoanalytic supervision.
- [COURSE EIGHT – Guilt: A Contemporary Introduction – Don Carveth PhD, RP, FIPA](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/course-eight-guilt-a-contemporary-introduction/) - Original insights on the topic, looking at Freud's failure to distinguish persecutory guilt from reparative guilt, and the superego from the conscience.
- [COURSE FOUR - Discussing Netflix and Kanopy Films from a Psychoanalytic Perspective](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/course-four-discussing-netflix-and-kanopy-films-from-a-psychoanalytic-perspective/) - In this series of six meetings, participants will meet on Zoom to discuss various Netflix series or Kanopy films from a psychoanalytic perspective.
- [COURSE SEVEN – Personality Development: Our Beginnings in Infancy](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/course-seven-personality-development-our-beginnings-in-infancy/) - Thinking reflectively about the development of the infant/young child, their relationships, how secure attachment is achieved, and what can disrupt security.
- [COURSE ONE - The Inside Story: How Writers Write](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/course-one-the-inside-story-how-writers-write/) - Exploring the psychoanalytic writing process in four evenings featuring a different writer—and a different kind of writing—and one of their published pieces.
- [COURSE TWELVE - Psychoanalysis and Attachment Theory](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/course-twelve-psychoanalysis-and-attachment-theory/) - A condensed view of contemporary and historical account of attachment theory across the lifespan, highlighting the psychoanalytic implications for clinical work.
- [COURSE TEN - Bion in the Clinic](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/course-ten-bion-in-the-clinic/) - Bion's contributions are among the most cited in psychoanalytic literature. Using clinical example, this course focuses on the implications for Bion’s theory on technique.
- [COURSE NINE - Techniques (Not Theories) of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/course-nine-techniques-not-theories-of-psychodynamic-psychotherapy/) - This course will provide a chance to discuss the practical approaches/techniques and the challenging hurdles when practising psychodynamic psychotherapy.
- [COURSE SIX - The Mind: A Neuropsychoanalytic Exploration](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/course-six-the-mind-a-neuropsychoanalytic-exploration/) - This series, taught by neuropsychologist and psychoanalyst Mark Solms, explores the convergence of neuroscience and psychoanalysis in the clinical setting.
- [COURSE FIVE - Clinical Lacan: Painful Loves](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/course-five-clinical-lacan-painful-loves/) - Studying what Lacan tells us about love, which itself can be painful but some forms of which may lead to peace and the positive development of human beings.
- [Special Extension Workshop - A Psychodynamic Exploration of Pet Bereavement](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/workshop-a-psychodynamic-exploration-of-pet-bereavement/) - Addressing the special meaning of pets in the lives of patients using clinical examples from diverse areas of therapy practice and demonstrating how pet bereavement is common in the clinic.
- [59th ATPPP Scientific Session](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/59th-atppp-scientific-session/) - A talk by Dodi Goldman, PhD using a series of evocative visual images to explore the primary role of imaginative elaboration in psychic life.
- [30th Annual Day in Psychoanalysis](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/30th-annual-day-in-psychoanalysis/) - Our 30th Annual Day in Psychoanalysis will host two presentations and a conversation on the ethics and responsibility involved in working with our countertransference.
- [SCIENTIFIC MEETING - The Contribution of Creative Responses to the Experience of Shame in Couple Psychotherapy and Exploring the Role of Blame in Couple Relationships within the Triangular Setting of Couple Psychotherapy](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/scientific-meeting-experience-of-shame-role-of-blame/) - Exploring how the emotional states of shame and humiliation are interconnected and the process of couple therapy with two couples that used blame as the currency of exchange in their relationship.
- [SCIENTIFIC MEETING - Collective Wounds and the Symbolising Crowd: Reconsidering the Social Bond](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/scientific-meeting-collective-wounds-and-the-symbolising-crowd-reconsidering-the-social-bond/) - A reconsideration of the grounds of the social bond: can we imagine a social bond that is not grounded in identification, but in rhythmic attunement?
- [SCIENTIFIC MEETING - After a 45 year long journey through psychoanalysis: Where am I now?](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/scientific-meeting-after-a-45-year-long-journey-through-psychoanalysis-where-am-i-now/) - A presentation by Don Carveth reviewing his return to earlier Freudian concepts and the psychoanalytic psychology of guilt, and the superego.
- [SCIENTIFIC WORKSHOP - TPS/IPA Clinical Observation](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/scientific-workshop-tps-ipa-clinical-observation/) - A group of 10-14 psychoanalysts explore a Clinical Material with a brief history and detailed sessions from the opening, middle and end or recent phases of a long-term psychoanalysis.
- [Psychoanalyst Assistance Committee](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/about-us/psychoanalyst-assistance-committee/) - The Psychoanalyst Assistance Committee of Toronto Psychoanalytic Society and Institute aims to help members, their relatives, colleagues and patients deal with any concerns pertaining to the effects of illness or aging on a psychoanalyst’s competence in his or her professional capacity.
- [COURSE TWELVE – Adventures in French Structuralism](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/course-twelve-adventures-in-french-structuralism/) - Focusing on the period of French Structuralism, when prominent thinkers in such fields as psychoanalysis, linguistics, mathematics, and anthropology emerged.
- [SCIENTIFIC MEETING - POLIPHONIES OF SEXUALITY AND GENDER. Confrontation with binary logic: the challenge of heterogeneity](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/scientific-meeting-poliphonies-of-sexuality-and-gender/) - Approaching the polyphonies of sexuality and gender by focusing on the intersections of clinical, theoretical and meta psychological perspectives.
- [COURSE SIX – Clinical Lacan: "Everyone is mad."](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/course-six-clinical-lacan-everyone-is-mad/) - Exploring contemporary topics in Lacanian studies, in relation to the quote, “Everyone is mad,” where Lacan conveys the impossibility of teaching psychoanalysis.
- [58th ATPPP Scientific Session](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/58th-atppp-scientific-session/) - This presentation sets out to explore what it means for the father of psychoanalysis to have been an “animal person” both in theory and practice.
- [SCIENTIFIC MEETING - An Evening on Improvisation](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/scientific-meeting-an-evening-on-improvisation/) - A careful look at the characteristics of improvisation can give us an appreciation of jazz, and also of the spontaneous discourse that takes place in the psychoanalytic setting.
- [COURSE FIVE – Psychoanalysis in Conversation with Christianity](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/course-five-psychoanalysis-in-conversation-with-christianity/) - The course will appeal to those interested in interfaces between psychoanalysis and religion, specifically the Christian religion.
- [Principles of Ethics](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/about-us/principles-of-ethics/) - The Principles of Ethics of the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society. These principles will help psychoanalysts individually and collectively to maintain a high level of ethical conduct.
- [SCIENTIFIC MEETING - Mothering Alone: A Plea for Opportunity](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/scientific-meeting-mothering-alone-a-plea-for-opportunity/) - Identifying the challenges faced by women mothering alone, what can be learned and the contributors to psychological development of effective mothering.
- [COURSE TWO – Documentaries Viewed Through a Psychoanalytic Lens](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/course-two-documentaries-viewed-through-a-psychoanalytic-lens/) - A course for those who are interested in a psychoanalytically informed approach to documentary filmmaking through the lens of iconic point-of-view films.
- [57th ATPPP Scientific Session](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/57th-atppp-scientific-session/) - Presenting a theory of the internal disabling object and how psychic mechanisms and processes involving superego function and masochism are related to the internalization of ableist norms.
- [416 Integrating Psychotherapy and Medication Treatments - 1 seminar](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/toronto-institute-of-psychoanalysis/curriculum/4-416/) - Seminar Leaders: P. Stewart, MD and J. Malat, MD Course Description This is a practical, clinically oriented seminar designed for psychiatrists, psychologists, and psychotherapists in active practice who deal with the problems of integrating psychotherapy and medication treatments. Participants will examine the history of integration and some significant turning points in thinking about them. Participants
- [415 Ethics - 2 seminars](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/toronto-institute-of-psychoanalysis/curriculum/4-415/) - Seminar Leaders: C. Dunbar, MD and L. Barton, MA Course Description Boundaries In these two seminars, we explore aspects of sexual boundary violators, and whether being seen as a “lost cause”, can be a way to deny more common vulnerability to transgression. Also considered are the institutional responses to boundary violations by prominent analysts, and
- [414 Advanced Clinical Seminar on Perversion - 3 seminars](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/toronto-institute-of-psychoanalysis/curriculum/4-414/) - Course Leaders: D. Traub-Werner, MD and C. Lunney, MD Course Description The aim of this course is to update the current thinking on perversion and perverse scenarios in order to become familiar with the subject of perversion, to identify the perverse structure, the aim and function of perversion; to diagnose perverse scenarios and treat perversion.
- [411 Group Supervision/Technique #7 - 8 seminars](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/toronto-institute-of-psychoanalysis/curriculum/4-411/) - Seminar Leaders: M.K. O’Neil, PhD and E. Hubbard, PhD Course Description The purpose of this course is to provide candidates, from the outset of their analytic training, exposure to clinical thinking and process, as well as ongoing participation in discussion about their own and their colleagues' developing practices and skill acquisition. This is an important
- [409 Lacan’s Contributions to the Treatment of Perversions and Addictions - 3 seminars](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/toronto-institute-of-psychoanalysis/curriculum/4-409/) - Seminar Leaders: J. Hamilton and A. Taheri, PhD Course Description This course is designed to give candidates a clinical view of Lacanian theory as it is put into practice with people with perversions and addictions. This course will try to cover a wide ground in little time. It will offer the candidates selected readings of
- [408 Clinical Klein in Contemporary Practice - 5 seminars](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/toronto-institute-of-psychoanalysis/curriculum/4-408/) - Course Leaders: V. Pasieka, PhD and K. Wiedermann, PhD Course Description This course situates Klein’s work as an extension and an elaboration of Freud’s in the psychoanalytic progression from Freud to Bion. With its origin in Klein’s development of the psychoanalytic play technique with children and its initial close ties to Freudian theory, this course
- [405 Group Supervision/Technique #6 - 8 seminars](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/toronto-institute-of-psychoanalysis/curriculum/4-405/) - Seminar Leader: S. Leibow, MD Course Description The purpose of this course is to provide candidates, from the outset of their analytic training, exposure to clinical thinking and process, as well as ongoing participation in discussion about their own and their colleagues' developing practices and skill acquisition. This is an important foundation and stimulus for
- [404 Psychosomatics: Hearing the Body’s Discourse - 4 seminars](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/toronto-institute-of-psychoanalysis/curriculum/4-404/) - Course Leaders: G. Hercz, MD and S. Moore, PhD Course Description This course addresses the evolution of psychosomatics using a dual perspective. A conflict model initially elaborated by Freud, and subsequently others (Groddeck, Ferenczi, Klein), assumes symbolized communication becomes manifested physically. Freud also elaborated a nonconflictual deficit model of somatic expression, which was further elaborated by
- [401 Unconscious Infant-Maternal Dynamics in the Adult Transference - 5 seminars](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/toronto-institute-of-psychoanalysis/curriculum/4-401/) - Seminar Leaders: V. Pasieka, PhD, K. Wiedermann, PhD and S. Thomson, PhD Course Description This course traces the developmental origins of psychic life pertaining to internal dynamics and unconscious phantasies of the infant with the primary maternal object through Freud, Klein, Winnicott, and Bion. Clinically, it explores the transferential implications in adult work of the
- [214 Group Supervision/Technique #3 – 10 seminars](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/toronto-institute-of-psychoanalysis/curriculum/2-214/) - Seminar Leader: J. Fernando, MD Course Description The purpose of this course is to provide candidates, from the outset of their analytic training, exposure to clinical thinking and process, as well as ongoing participation in discussion about their own and their colleagues' developing practices and skill acquisition. This is an important foundation and stimulus for
- [213 Clinical Concepts and Theoretical Developments III: American Object Relations - 10 seminars](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/toronto-institute-of-psychoanalysis/curriculum/2-213/) - Seminar Leaders: C. Dunbar, MD, L. Barton, MA, G. Yanchyshyn, MD, M.K. O’Neil, PhD Course Description This course of 10 seminars will teach candidates further developments in core clinical Object Relations’ concepts and theories, first elaborated in England and then in the US. New clinical approaches were developed by Sandler and others in England, and
- [212 Group Supervision/Technique #2 - 10 seminars](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/toronto-institute-of-psychoanalysis/curriculum/2-212/) - Seminar Leader: D. Carveth, PhD Course Description The purpose of this course is to provide candidates, from the outset of their analytic training, exposure to clinical thinking and process, as well as ongoing participation in discussion about their own and their colleagues' developing practices and skill acquisition. This is an important foundation and stimulus for
- [211 Clinical Concepts and Theoretical Developments II: British Object Relations - 10 seminars](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/toronto-institute-of-psychoanalysis/curriculum/2-211/) - Seminar Leaders: K. Wiedermann, PhD, D. Carveth, PhD and H. Weir, MD Course Description This course is a ten-session introduction to some of the main British Object Relations theories, which began as two divergent schools of thought, the Independent or Middle Group and the Kleinians. Dr. Wiedermann will begin with two sessions on Fairbairn and
- [210 Clinical Concepts and Theoretical Developments I: Ego Psychology/Superego - 3 seminars](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/toronto-institute-of-psychoanalysis/curriculum/2-210/) - Seminar Leaders: J. Deutsch, MSE, J. Fernando, MD, and D. Carveth, PhD Course Description The Superego The goal of this course is to introduce clinicians to the very rich contributions psychoanalytic theory and practice have made to understanding the development and functioning of conscience in individual psychology and in society. Prior to Freud’s insights which
- [209 Ethics II - 2 seminars](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/toronto-institute-of-psychoanalysis/curriculum/2-209/) - Seminar Leaders: J. Kohl, MD and J. Esplen, PhD Course Description In this second section of a course taught sequentially through each of the four years of teaching, in two sessions, we explore boundary concepts to understand the unique boundaries of psychoanalytic work, as well as for how to work optimally from a risk management
- [207 Clinical Concepts and Theoretical Developments I: Ego Psychology  - 5 seminars](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/toronto-institute-of-psychoanalysis/curriculum/2-207/) - Seminar Leaders: J. Fernando, MD and A. Drassinower, PhD Course Description Introduction to Ego Psychology The psychoanalytic term "ego psychology" refers to the understanding of the ego’s structures and of its interaction with the drives and with reality, and to the major theorists (such as Heinz Hartmann and Anna Freud) who wrote on these subjects.
- [206 Theories of Development IV: Adolescence - 2 seminars](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/toronto-institute-of-psychoanalysis/curriculum/2-206/) - Seminar Leader: H. Weir, MD Course Description This course in 2 seminars is to understand adolescent development and its importance and relevance to adult psychoanalytic practice. The seminar explores and contrasts different psychoanalytic theoretical models to understand this development. How adolescents change over time and the factors that influence that change is also explored. Course
- [205 Theories of Development III: Latency - 2 seminars](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/toronto-institute-of-psychoanalysis/curriculum/2-205/) - Seminar Leader: R. Egan, MD Course Description The course teaches the stages in the Latency phase of development and applications of the theory to treatment. The concepts central to understanding Latency are clarified: attachment and autonomy, the play theory and metaphors of the body, specifics of the setting for psychoanalysis of a latency child, sexual
- [203 Theories of Development I: Infancy & Early Childhood - 6 seminars](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/toronto-institute-of-psychoanalysis/curriculum/2-203/) - Seminar Leaders: S. Moore, PhD and L. Barton, MA Course Description This course explores how understanding infant development and the emergence of foundational psychic structures is essential to working with adults in psychoanalysis. Ideas on infantile psychosexuality, object relations, intergenerational transmission, attachment, and intersubjectivity will be presented to facilitate a practical and theoretical understanding of
- [SCIENTIFIC MEETING - Arnold D. Richards Discusses his Memoir, Unorthodox: My Life In and Outside of Psychoanalysis](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/scientific-meeting-arnold-d-richards-discusses-his-memoir-unorthodox-my-life-in-and-outside-of-psychoanalysis/) - Unorthodox: My Life In and Outside of Psychoanalysis describes the relationship between Richards' personal life and professional life inside and outside of psychoanalysis.
- [SCIENTIFIC MEETING - Understanding and interpreting the patient’s dreams during psychoanalytic supervision](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/scientific-meeting-understanding-and-interpreting-the-patients-dreams-during-psychoanalytic-supervision/) - This presentation will focus on the learning and teaching of understanding and interpreting the patient’s dreams during a psychoanalytic supervision.
- [SCIENTIFIC MEETING - How We Interpret: Clinical Moments and The Modern Kleinian Model](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/scientific-meeting-how-we-interpret-clinical-moments-and-the-modern-kleinian-model/) - Clinical reports are presented to show one way of interpreting or translating new meaning to the patient and show their reaction to it.
- [COURSE THREE – The Inside Story: How Writers Write](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/course-three-the-inside-story-how-writers-write/) - For and by psychoanalytically informed writers, each evening features a different writer—and a different kind of writing—and one of their published pieces.
- [Training & Study](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/) - The Toronto Institute of Psychoanalysis, the Advanced Training Program in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (ATPPP) and the Fundamental Psychoanalytic Perspectives study program are training and study programs of the tps&i.
- [COURSE ELEVEN – Techniques (Not Theories) of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/course-eleven-techniques-not-theories-of-psychodynamic-psychotherapy/) - This course will provide a chance to discuss the practical approaches/techniques and the challenging hurdles when practising psychodynamic psychotherapy.
- [COURSE TEN – Siblings](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/course-ten-siblings/) - This course will address several topics associated with siblings from a psychoanalytic perspective, starting with the presence of siblings in Myths.
- [COURSE NINE - Contemporary Klein](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/course-nine-contemporary-klein/) - This course will present the basic concepts of the work of Melanie Klein as they emerge and are used in psychodynamic psychotherapy.
- [COURSE FOUR – Discussing Netflix, Criterion and Kanopy Films from a Psychoanalytic Perspective](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/course-four-discussing-netflix-criterion-and-kanopy-films-from-a-psychoanalytic-perspective/) - In this series of six meetings, participants will meet on Zoom to discuss various Netflix series or Kanopy films from a psychoanalytic perspective.
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- [SCIENTIFIC MEETING - Lacan, Kris and the Psychoanalytic Legacy: The Brain Eater](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/scientific-meeting-lacan-kris-and-the-psychoanalytic-legacy-the-brain-eater/) - Lacan, Kris and the Psychoanalytic Legacy: The Brain Eater
- [ATPPP Scientific Sessions Archive](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/atppp-scientific-sessions-archive/)
- [SCIENTIFIC MEETING - Seven Types of Truth and Their Clinical Significance](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/scientific-meeting-seven-types-of-truth-and-their-clinical-significance/) - This presentation highlights seven types of truth and attempts to demonstrate their clinical significance in the psychoanalytic enterprise.
- [55th ATPPP Scientific Session](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/55th-atppp-scientific-session/) - Ashtor demonstrates how Laplanche’s radical innovations offer an critical and provocative alternative to the dominant strands of psychoanalysis today.
- [56th ATPPP Scientific Session](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/56th-atppp-scientific-session/) - This talk is a close examination of Freud’s papers on children’s investigations and infantile theories and the elaboration of leaning-on proposed by Laplanche.
- [COURSE ONE - Documentaries Viewed Through a Psychoanalytic Lens](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/course-one-documentaries-viewed-through-a-psychoanalytic-lens/) - For those interested in a psychoanalytically informed approach to documentary filmmaking through the lens of iconic point-of-view films about family dynamics.
- [TIP Training and Ethics Procedures](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/toronto-institute-of-psychoanalysis/training-and-ethics-procedures/) - Training and Ethics Procedures of the Toronto Institute of Psychoanalysis (TIP) program.
- [310 Comparative Transference and Counter-Transference - 6 seminars](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/toronto-institute-of-psychoanalysis/curriculum/3-310/) - Seminar Leaders: D. Carveth and S. Moore Course Description This course will explore different psychoanalytic views on the nature and uses of the transference and countertransference. We will look at classical, object relations and Kleinian views on the nature of transference and countertransference, comparing and contrasting their theoretical views on the dynamics of these central
- [307 Depression and Anxiety - 7 seminars](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/toronto-institute-of-psychoanalysis/curriculum/3-307/) - Seminar Leaders: M.A. Fitzpatrick Hanly and S. Mann Course Description Patients often come to a psychoanalyst reporting that they are depressed or anxious. This course will review the many faceted psychoanalytic theorizing on depression and anxiety as affects, states, and agents in various pathologies. The course will have an emphasis on conceptual review, clinical formulation,
- [306 Character and Character Assessment - 11 seminars](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/toronto-institute-of-psychoanalysis/curriculum/3-306/) - Seminar Leaders: D. Affleck, L. Barton, A. Drassinower, C. Dunbar, E. Hubbard, K. Klement, H. Weir and K. Wiedermann Course Description Character is a concept that is integral to every part of psychoanalytic work, whether it is in the foreground, or a less obvious focus of the treatment. It is possible for character not to
- [305 Boundaries and Ethics - 2 seminars](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/toronto-institute-of-psychoanalysis/curriculum/3-305/) - Seminar Leaders: M. J. Esplen and J. Kohl Course Description In these two seminars, we explore aspects of sexual boundaries and their modes of violation in treatment situations. Typologies of boundary violators are considered, to increase awareness of both the situations therapists can fall into, and the work that they can do to prevent these
- [303 Comparative Dreams - 5 seminars](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/toronto-institute-of-psychoanalysis/curriculum/3-303/) - Seminar Leaders: S. Freke and P. Keefe Course Description This 5-seminar course will illustrate a diversity of clinical psychoanalytic practices in working with dreams through the examination of verbatim session material. Candidates will also present dreams from case material. Divergence between theory and actual practice will be explored in the hopes of fostering an attitude
- [114 Group Supervision/Technique  #1 - 5 seminars](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/toronto-institute-of-psychoanalysis/curriculum/1-114/) - Seminar Leaders: C. Lunney and D. Traub-Werner Course Description The purpose of this course is to provide candidates, from the outset of their analytic training, exposure to clinical thinking and process, as well as ongoing participation in discussion about their own and their colleagues’ developing practices and skill acquisition. This is an important foundation and
- [112 From Freud to Klein – 3 seminars](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/toronto-institute-of-psychoanalysis/curriculum/1-112/) - Seminar Leaders: D. Carveth and S. Moore Course Description This course introduces candidates to the psychoanalytic work of Melanie Klein. It traces both her continuity with and key departures from Freudian theory, such as her rejection of the concept of primary narcissism, her insistence on the existence of object relations from the beginning and the
- [111 Understanding DSM 5 and Psychiatric Medications – 2 seminars](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/toronto-institute-of-psychoanalysis/curriculum/1-111/) - Seminar Leaders: J. Malat and P. Stewart Course Description The goal of this 3-hour seminar is to help Candidates become familiar with the major classes of psychiatric conditions along with the medications to treat them. Candidates will learn about core interviewing techniques which will help them identify the main psychiatric conditions, including having an approach
- [110 Comparative Psychotherapies – 2 seminars](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/toronto-institute-of-psychoanalysis/curriculum/1-110/) - Seminar Leaders: C. Dunbar and C. Lunney Course Description This 3-hour course will cover ten major psychotherapies (including CBT, DBT, IPT, Integrative Psychotherapy, Mindfulness, Supportive vs. Expressive Psychotherapy, EMDR, Family and Marital Psychotherapy, Group Psychotherapy, Expressive Psychotherapies). The candidates will understand what these methods are, how they claim to work, and for which patients they
- [108 Assessment of Pathologies Part I and Part II - 4 seminars](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/toronto-institute-of-psychoanalysis/curriculum/1-108/) - Seminar Leaders: M.K. O’Neil and G. Fogarty Course Description These four seminars will enable candidates to diagnose and assess patients for psychoanalytic treatment as well as their suitability as control cases. Candidates will learn to differentiate psychosis, neurosis and border-line conditions with focus on the main neurotic conditions (hysteria, obsessions, perversions, character disorders, narcissistic disorders)
- [107 Psychoanalytic Technique Part II – 5 seminars](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/toronto-institute-of-psychoanalysis/curriculum/1-107/) - Seminar Leaders: C. Lunney and D. Traub-Werner Course Description The Introduction to Psychoanalytic Technique will teach basic concepts in psychoanalytic technique and their application to the psychoanalytic process: the analytic situation, the patient’s remembered history and unconscious past, the structure and objectives of the psychoanalytic interview, the initial stage (or opening phase) of a psychoanalytic
- [101 On Becoming a Psychoanalyst: IPA Ethics and Analytic Attitude - 1 seminar](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/training-study/toronto-institute-of-psychoanalysis/curriculum/1-101/) - Seminar Leaders: J. Fernando, and S. Moore Course Description In this introduction seminar, “On Becoming and Being a Psychoanalyst”, we will explore and clarify IPA Ethics Principles, Professional Self Image, and the Emotional Stress of doing psychoanalytic work. This discussion group gives the candidates an opportunity to reflect actively on their paths to psychoanalysis, and
- [TPS&I Special Events](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/tpsi-special-events/) - A listing of special events by the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society and its Members.
- [24th Annual Day in Applied Psychoanalysis](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/between-hours/24th-annual-day-in-applied-psychoanalysis/) - This year’s Annual Day will explore how the sibling trauma plays out psychically and interweaves with other developmental rites of passage.
- [SCIENTIFIC MEETING - Stand-Still During Psychoanalytic Supervision](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/scientific-meeting-stand-still-during-psychoanalytic-supervision/) - Differentiating between a stand-still that is a necessary period required to consolidate the gains, from the one that threatens to dissolve the supervision.
- [SCIENTIFIC MEETING - The Untelling: Enactment, Transformation & the Construction of the Past](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/scientific-meeting-the-untelling-enactment-transformation-the-construction-of-the-past/) - Illustrating how the unknown “unpast” of trauma and neglect is transformed via the “untelling” of mutual enactment into a lived experience.
- [SCIENTIFIC MEETING - Women as Therapists, Patients and Protestors: A Bionian Perspective](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/scientific-meeting-women-as-therapists-patients-and-protestors-a-bionian-perspective/) - Understanding the experience of women as protestors, patients, and therapists from a Bionian perspective.
- [SCIENTIFIC MEETING - From Social Condition to Human Event: A Plea for Unknowability](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/scientific-meeting-from-social-condition-to-human-event-a-plea-for-unknowability/) - Exploring the tension between the social/cultural and the clinical, and considering dilemmas associated with the contemporary notion of a “social unconscious.”
- [SCIENTIFIC MEETING - All Ears: Psychoanalysis and the Rhetoric of Listening](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/scientific-meeting-all-ears-psychoanalysis-and-the-rhetoric-of-listening/) - This discussion will explore Freud's "listening rhetoric", in order to think more about how we approach our listening practice in clinical settings.
- [SCIENTIFIC MEETING - Trauma, Guilt, And Conspiracy: The Zero Process And The Superego](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/scientific-meeting-trauma-guilt-and-conspiracy-the-zero-process-and-the-superego/) - Exploring the links between trauma, guilt, and the superego to add to our understanding of individual dynamics, group regression, and group delusions.
- [54th ATPPP Scientific Session](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/54th-atppp-scientific-session/) - This talk will look at what the psychoanalysis of breathing—in infants, asthmatic children, and adult panic attacks—can tell us about this contentious ground.
- [29th Annual Day in Psychoanalysis](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/29th-annual-day-in-psychoanalysis/) - This TPS Annual Day addresses the question of whether concepts about Oedipal or triadic conflicts are still useful in contemporary psychoanalysis.
- [SCIENTIFIC MEETING - "Buried in the Future Which Has Not Happened" - Non-linear Time, 'Non-logic' and the Ultimate Reality of the Session](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/scientific-meeting-buried-in-the-future-which-has-not-happened/) - The work of analysis is not only revealing thoughts buried in the past, but also cultivating a psychically alive mind able to create and generate new thoughts.
- [JOINT SCIENTIFIC MEETING - Theories and magic sexual myths in childhood](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/joint-scientific-meeting-theories-and-magic-sexual-myths-in-childhood/) - The paper reconsiders infantile theories about sexuality by going back beyond the typical representations that Freud describes as "infantile sexual theories".
- [SCIENTIFIC MEETING - Experiences of the Study Group on Psychoanalytic Supervision](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/scientific-meeting-experiences-of-the-study-group-on-psychoanalytic-supervision/) - The study group will be an introduction to the complexity of the supervisory process.
- [COURSE TEN - Entering Laplanche Through the Clinic: An Introductory Perspective](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/course-ten-entering-laplanche-through-the-clinic-an-introductory-perspective/) - Course Coordinator: Stephen Fowler Course Instructors: Stephen Fowler and Cecilia Taiana Thursdays, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm: March 2, 9, 23, 30, 2023. (4 sessions) Fee: $240 Deadline for registration is February 20, 2023. Preregistration is required. ** DISTANCE PARTICIPATION ONLY - This course will be conducted online. Purpose: To advance knowledge and clinical use
- [COURSE FOUR - Infant and Child Development](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/course-four-infant-and-child-development/) - Presenting aspects of the experiences and development of the infant/young child and how this may be useful in doing psychodynamic psychotherapy with adults.
- [23rd Annual Day in Applied Psychoanalysis](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/between-hours/23rd-annual-day-in-applied-psychoanalysis/) - A timely screening of King’s documentary The Dragon’s Egg (1998) followed by psychoanalytic dialogue on the interplay between the urge to fight and the trauma of violence.
- [SPECIAL EXTENSION PROGRAM – Advanced Course in Understanding Organizations and Teams through the Psychoanalytic Lens](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/special-extension-program/special-extension-program-advanced-course-in-understanding-organizations-and-teams-through-the-psychoanalytic-lens/) - The intention of this course is to offer an advanced opportunity to explore unconscious processes in organizational work.
- [SCIENTIFIC MEETING - The Surviving and Non Surviving Objects: Intrapsychic Objects and Their Evolution](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/scientific-meeting-the-surviving-and-non-surviving-objects-intrapsychic-objects-and-their-evolution/) - This presentation starts with an exploration of Winnicott’s paper ‘The Use of an Object’.
- [SCIENTIFIC MEETING - The Savoir of the Analyst](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/scientific-meeting-the-savoir-of-the-analyst/) - Scientific Meeting - discussing different notions of knowledge as they arise in the clinic, such as le sujet suppose savoir and the savoir-faire of the analyst.
- [SCIENTIFIC MEETING - Post-Truth in Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Culture](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/scientific-meeting-post-truth-in-psychoanalysis-and-contemporary-culture/) - This lecture will center on the conundrum of truth in psychoanalysis and its transformation from singular to plural form (from Truth to truths).
- [SCIENTIFIC MEETING - Complex Empathy](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/scientific-meeting-complex-empathy/) - Empathy, the capacity for attuned listening, hearing, and understanding the emotional experience of another, is an essential component of the analytic relationship for all analysts.
- [COURSE SEVEN - Techniques (Not Theories) of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/course-seven-techniques-not-theories-of-psychodynamic-psychotherapy/) - In this course you will have a chance to discuss the practical approaches/techniques and the challenging hurdles when practising psychodynamic psychotherapy.
- [COURSE FIVE - Psychoanalytic Approaches to Addictions](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/course-five-psychoanalytic-approaches-to-addictions/) - This course will present information on, psychoanalytic conceptions and examples of the very contemporary topic of addictions.
- [COURSE THREE - Clinical Lacan: The Lacanian Real](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/course-three-clinical-lacan-the-lacanian-real/) - This course will introduce and set in context the concept of the Real as Lacan used it throughout his work.
- [COURSE SIX -  Basic Klein](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/course-six-basic-klein/) - This course will present the basic concepts of the work of Melanie Klein as they emerge and are used in psychodynamic psychotherapy.
- [COURSE EIGHT - Reading Lacan: Philosophical Aspects of Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Part II](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/course-eight-reading-lacan-philosophical-aspects-of-lacanian-psychoanalysis-part-ii/) - An overview of Lacan's relation to philosophy as a source for the material and explication of his theories.
- [COURSE NINE - Grief, Bereavement and Mourning](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/course-nine-grief-bereavement-and-mourning/) - In these seminars, Dr. Pakes will present his experiences of working clinically with bereaved people, of all ages, bereaved in many different contexts.
- [53rd ATPPP Scientific Session](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/53rd-atppp-scientific-session/) - Oedipuzzy: Critical Psychoanalytic Interventions on Sexuation Storytellings - Fernanda Magallanes discusses the body and the Freudian shibboleth.
- [COURSE NINE - Philosophical Aspects of Lacanian Psychoanalysis](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/course-nine-reading-lacan-lacans-other-writings/) - In this course, we will consider Lacan’s relation to philosophy by focusing on the genealogy of his thought in phenomenology, Hegelian dialectics, structuralism, and the philosophy of science.
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- [COURSE TWO - Psychoanalysis and Organizations](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/course-two-psychoanalysis-and-organizations/) - An opportunity to explore the ‘under-the-surface’ and unconscious processes that affect leadership and team and organizational functioning.
- [SCIENTIFIC MEETING - NAMING, TRAUMATIZING AND BEING A PLAYER-WITNESS](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/scientific-meeting-naming-traumatizing-and-being-a-player-witness/) - The human world is created by one’s preoccupation with observed phenomenon in the world. Naming creates division, discrimination, and injustice in the world.
- [SCIENTIFIC MEETING - Parasitic Language](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/scientific-meeting-parasitic-language/) - The paper presents thoughts about parasitic language. This is a language which clings to the other’s linguistic patterns and in doing so produces a double manifestation of omnipotence and impotence.
- [SCIENTIFIC MEETING - THE OBJECT: An Artist and a Psychoanalyst in Conversation](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/scientific-meeting-the-object-an-artist-and-a-psychoanalyst-in-conversation/) - The concept of the object in psychoanalysis is by no means univocal. From the outset, psychoanalysis has been in search of its object.
- [SCIENTIFIC MEETING - The Empty Couch: Love and Mourning in Times of Confinement](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/scientific-meeting-the-empty-couch-love-and-mourning-in-times-of-confinement/) - This paper describes the psychoanalytic treatment of a woman patient during the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic, when the setting was profoundly disrupted and was transferred from in-person psychoanalysis to telephone sessions.
- [SCIENTIFIC MEETING - Adieu Lacan](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/scientific-meeting-adieu-lacan/) - Adieu Lacan portrays the struggles of a young woman, Seriema, who is trying to understand why her path to motherhood has reached an unbearable impasse.
- [SCIENTIFIC MEETING - On Psychoanalytic Supervision](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/scientific-meeting-on-psychoanalytic-supervision/) - Were your psychoanalytic supervisions the crux of your psychoanalytic education? Or a prison, counting the days to be realized?
- [COURSE SIX - Emotional Muscle: Strong Parents Strong Children](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/course-six-emotional-muscle-strong-parents-strong-children/) - The course explores how psychoanalytic principles can help children become kind, joyful, confident, productive, and creative members of the community.
- [COURSE EIGHT - The General Theory of Seduction of Jean Laplanche: An Introductory Course on Theory and Clinical Relevance](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/course-eight-the-general-theory-of-seduction-of-jean-laplanche-an-introductory-course-on-theory-and-clinical-relevance/) - This course will delve into the general theory of seduction of Jean Laplanche, along with its implications for understanding psychopathology and for understanding the essential nature and power of transference in psychoanalytic treatment.
- [COURSE TWO - Understanding of Work Groups Through the Psychoanalytic Lens](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/course-two-understanding-of-work-groups-through-the-psychoanalytic-lens/) - An opportunity to explore the ‘under-the-surface’ and unconscious processes that affect leadership and team and organizational functioning.
- [SCIENTIFIC MEETING - Ruthless: Winnicott, Fanon and Decolonial Struggle](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/scientific-meeting-ruthless-winnicott-fanon-and-decolonial-struggle/) - Winnicott is often characterized as an eloquent theorist of holding, play, and the quest for aliveness and creativity. Transitional space is central to both containment and creativity.
- [SCIENTIFIC MEETING - Re-reading Jean Laplanche: For a Queer Gender Metapsychology](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/scientific-meeting-re-reading-jean-laplanche-for-a-queer-gender-metapsychology/) - This presentation focuses on the gender paradigm as conceptualized by Jean Laplanche. This approach is enriched by the contributions of feminist studies, queer theory, and contemporary American psychoanalysts.
- [SPECIAL EXTENSION PROGRAM SEMINARS - Infant Observation](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/special-extension-program/infant-observation-seminars/) - Infant Observation was originated by a British psychoanalyst, Ester Bick who was prominent in developing this powerful model as a training tool that teaches about infant and family development through experience rather than strictly through theory.
- [22nd Annual Day in Applied Psychoanalysis](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/between-hours/22nd-annual-day-in-applied-psychoanalysis/) - Between Hours presents Strangers in a Virtual Land: The Impact of Disembodied Relatedness on Psychic Development and the Sense of Self on September 18, 2021.
- [SCIENTIFIC MEETING - Analytic Safety:  Navigating the Shifting Sands - A Relational Perspective](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/scientific-meeting-analytic-safety-navigating-the-shifting-sands-a-relational-perspective/) - This paper explores the complex dialectics of safety and risk for both analyst and patient in the analytic setting.
- [2020-2021 Scientific Papers](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/members-area/2020-2021-scientific-papers/) - Member's Area of the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society & Institute
- [52nd ATPPP Scientific Session](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/52nd-atppp-scientific-session/) - Teletherapy: Closeness and distance - Investigating and benefiting from the differences and the similarities between the online and classical psychoanalytic psychotherapy settings.
- [COURSE THREE - Discussing Netflix Series with Psychoanalysts](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/course-three-discussing-netflix-series-with-psychoanalysts/) - In this series of six meetings, participants will meet on zoom to discuss with psychoanalyst members of the Extension Program Committee films or series currently available on Netflix.
- [COURSE FOUR - Clinical Lacan: The Body in Lacanian Psychoanalysis](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/course-four-clinical-lacan-the-body-in-lacanian-psychoanalysis/) - The body in Lacanian psychoanalysis will be presented in various aspects in this course, which will be best appreciated by those who know something about Lacan.
- [COURSE EIGHT - Listening for the Erotic](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/course-eight-listening-for-the-erotic/) - Course Coordinator: Elizabeth Tuters Seminar Leaders: Lindsay Barton, Sam Semper Thursday, 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm**: May 13, 20, 27, June 3, 10, 2021 (5 evenings) Fees: $300 Registration Deadline: May 3, 2021 Preregistration is required. ** DISTANCE PARTICIPATION ONLY – This course will be conducted online. In this 5-week seminar, we will work to
- [SCIENTIFIC MEETING - The Unrepresented in the Treatment of an Adult-Gifted-Child](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/scientific-meeting-the-unrepresented-in-the-treatment-of-an-adult-gifted-child/) - Presenter: Dan Traub-Werner, MD, FRCP (Psych) Discussant: Chris Olive, MD, FRCP (Psych) Wednesday, April 14, 2021: 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm TPS Scientific Meeting: Open to Members, Affiliates/Guests, TIP Candidates, ATPPP Trainees, CPS Members, and Sponsored Guests only. ** DISTANCE PARTICIPATION ONLY - This Scientific Meeting is available via Zoom meeting only. Preregistration is required.
- [SCIENTIFIC MEETING - Early, Late and Contemporary Lacan in the Clinic](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/scientific-meeting-early-late-and-contemporary-lacan-in-the-clinic/) - Presenter: Judith Hamilton MD, FRCP (Psych) Wednesday, February 10, 2021: 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm TPS Scientific Meeting: Open to All. ** DISTANCE PARTICIPATION ONLY - This Scientific Meeting is available via Zoom meeting only. Preregistration is required. Please RSVP via email at . Please note that registration closes 48 hours prior to the meeting
- [SCIENTIFIC MEETING - Psychoanalysis at the Transgender Edge](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/scientific-meeting-psychoanalysis-at-the-transgender-edge/) - Presenter: Sam Semper, PhD, LP, FIPA Wednesday, May 12, 2021: 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm (No break) TPS Scientific Meeting: Open to all. ** DISTANCE PARTICIPATION ONLY - This Scientific Meeting is available via Zoom meeting only. Preregistration is required. Please RSVP via email at . Please note that registration closes 48 hours prior to
- [SCIENTIFIC MEETING - Ruthlessness and the Transitioning of the Analyst’s Mind](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/scientific-program/scientific-meeting-ruthlessness-and-the-transitioning-of-the-analysts-mind/) - Presenter: Oren Gozlan, PsyD, CPsych, ABPP Wednesday, March 10, 2021: 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm TPS Scientific Meeting: Open to All. ** DISTANCE PARTICIPATION ONLY - This Scientific Meeting is available via Zoom meeting only. Preregistration is required. Please RSVP via email at . Please note that registration closes 48 hours prior to the meeting
- [COURSE SEVEN - Reading Lacan: Lacan’s Seminar IV: Object Relations and Freudian Structures. 1956-57.](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/course-seven-reading-lacan-lacans-seminar-iv-object-relations-and-freudian-structures-1956-57/) - Course Coordinator: Judith Hamilton Seminar Leaders: Judith Hamilton, Carlos Rivas, Alireza Taheri Thursday, 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm: April 8, 15, 22, 29, May 6, 13, 2021 (6 evenings) Fees: $360 Registration Deadline: March 30, 2021 Preregistration is required. ** DISTANCE PARTICIPATION ONLY – This course will be conducted online. In this course, the leaders
- [COURSE SIX - Techniques (Not Theories) of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy](https://torontopsychoanalysis.com/extension-program/course-six-techniques-not-theories-of-psychodynamic-psychotherapy/) - Course Coordinator & Seminar Leader: Judith Hamilton Thursday, 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm: February 18, 25, March 4, 18, 25, 2021 (5 evenings) Fees: $300 Registration Deadline: February 8, 2021 Preregistration is required. ** DISTANCE PARTICIPATION ONLY – This course will be conducted online. Many training programmes focus on teaching numerous theories of psychodynamic/psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
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