Scientific Program 2024 – 2025
The Toronto Psychoanalytic Society Scientific Program includes many monthly meetings, often open to all, throughout the academic year and open scientific sessions from the ATPPP program, plus an Annual Day in Psychoanalysis.
2024
SCIENTIFIC MEETING – Mothering Alone: A Plea for Opportunity
Wednesday, October 16, 2024: 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm (no break)
Presenter: Mary Kay O’Neil, PhD, CPsych
Abstract: See meeting page.
TPS Scientific Meeting: Open to All (*Fee may apply.)
* CME credits available. See below.
** HYBRID MEETING: Offered via Zoom or in person. In person registration is limited to 50 participants.
57th ATPPP Scientific Session: The Disabling Object
Saturday, November 9, 2024: 10:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Presenter: Jay Crosby, PhD
Fee: $100
Abstract: See session page.
Open to all by registration.
* CME credits available. See below.
** HYBRID EVENT: Offered via Zoom or in person. In person registration is limited to 50 participants.
SCIENTIFIC MEETING – How We Interpret: Clinical Moments and The Modern Kleinian Model
Wednesday, November 20, 2024: 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm (no break)
Presenter: Robert Waska, LPCC, MFT, PhD
Abstract: See meeting page.
TPS Scientific Meeting: Open to All (*Fee may apply.)
* CME credits available. See below.
** DISTANCE PARTICIPATION ONLY: Offered via Zoom.
SCIENTIFIC MEETING – POLIPHONIES OF SEXUALITY AND GENDER. Confrontation with binary logic: the challenge of heterogeneity
Saturday, November 23, 2024: 10:00 am – 12:00 pm (no break)
Presenter: Letitia Glocier Fiorini, MD
Abstract: See meeting page.
TPS Scientific Meeting: Open to All (*Fee may apply.)
* CME credits available. See below.
** DISTANCE PARTICIPATION ONLY: Offered via Zoom.
SCIENTIFIC MEETING – Understanding and interpreting the patient’s dreams during psychoanalytic supervision
Wednesday, December 11, 2024: 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm (no break)
Presenter: Josh Levy, PhD, CPsych
Abstract: See meeting page.
TPS Scientific Meeting: Open to IPA Members; TPS Affiliates/Guests; TIP Candidates; ATPPP Trainees; and FPP Students. (*Fee may apply.)
* CME credits available. See below.
** DISTANCE PARTICIPATION ONLY: Offered via Zoom.
2025
SCIENTIFIC MEETING – Collective Wounds and the Symbolising Crowd: Reconsidering the Social Bond
Wednesday, February 19, 2025: 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm (no break)
Presenter: Raluca Soreanu, PhD
Abstract: See meeting page.
TPS Scientific Meeting: Open to All (*Fee may apply.)
* CME credits available. See below.
** DISTANCE PARTICIPATION ONLY: Offered via Zoom.
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
Saturday, March 22, 2025: 10:00 am – 3:00 pm (1 hr break)
Presenter: Amita Seghal, PhD
Fee: $150
Abstract: See meeting page.
TPS Scientific Meeting: Open to all by registration.
* CME credits available. See below.
** HYBRID MEETING: Offered via Zoom or in person. In person registration is limited to 50 participants.
58th ATPPP Scientific Session: Wild Psychoanalysis
Saturday, April 12, 2025: 10:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Presenter: Elizabeth Rottenberg, PhD
Fee: $100
Abstract: See session page.
Open to all by registration.
* CME credits available. See below.
** DISTANCE PARTICIPATION ONLY – This event will be conducted online.
SAVE THE DATE – 30th Annual Day in Psychoanalysis
Saturday, April 26,2025: 8:00 am – 4:00 pm EDT
Details TBA
SCIENTIFIC MEETING – After a 45 year long journey through psychoanalysis: Where am I now?
Wednesday, May 21, 2025: 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm (no break)
Presenter: Don Carveth, PhD, RP, FIPA
Abstract: See meeting page.
TPS Scientific Meeting: Open to Members, Affiliates/Guests, TIP Candidates, and ATPPP Trainees Only (*Fee may apply.)
* CME credits available. See below.
** HYBRID MEETING: Offered via Zoom or in person. In person registration is limited to 50 participants.
The Overall Learning Objectives of the Scientific Program
At the end of these presentations participants will be able:
- To have an educational experience, that is psychoanalytically oriented and is useful to psychodynamic practice, predominantly through the discussion of clinical experience.
- To have discussion on theoretical aspects of their work as well as of applied psychoanalytic concepts and that they will be able to apply these to their work.
- To participate in discussions that can occur in an optimal collegial environment that typically involve up to 50% of the meetings.
Meetings are two hours in duration unless otherwise specified.
The Scientific Meetings and Workshops are eligible for Section 1 CME credits (0.5 credits/hour)
RSVP/preregistration is required. Deadlines are specified for each meeting/event.
Refunds must be requested in writing two weeks prior to the beginning of the presentations, after which fees cannot be returned. A handling fee of $30 will be retained.
2024-2025 Scientific Program Committee
Scientific Program Committee Chair
Klaus Wiedermann, PhD, CPsych
Scientific Committee Members
Michael Blugerman, MSW, RSW; Oren Gozlan, PsyD, CPsych, ABPP; Jack Kohl, MD; Judith Levene, PhD; Nahaleh Moshtag, PhD, RP; Shawn Thomson, RP, FIPA; and TIP Candidate Jasmina Pilasanovic, MSW, RSW
For more information about and for registration in the tps&i Extension Programs, Scientific Meetings, Training Programs, Study and Supervision groups and Special Presentations, please visit our website: torontopsychoanalysis.com or email info@torontopsychoanalysis.com.