The Canadian Psychoanalytic Society is a member of the International Psychoanalytical Association.
It consists of seven member branches and five training institutes across Canada.
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CPS Life
EVENT
44th Annual Congress of the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society
Emotional Turbulence: Working Clinically with Unformed Experience
Vancouver, BC / May 31 – June 2, 2019
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Scientific Meeting
Psychoanalytic therapy with patient’s facing death, managing “Death Anxiety” and counter transference avoidance.
QEB – Montreal, QC / October 18, 2018
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Scientific Meeting
Two papers from Avner Bergstein will be presented. (Keynote Speaker at Vancouver Congress, June 2019)
SWOPS – London, ON / October 25, 2018
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Scientific Meeting
Working Through: The Role of Patient Mental Processes In Psychoanalytic Change
TPS – Toronto, ON / November 14, 2018
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Scientific Meeting
Paradoxe identitaire chez de jeunes pères de la rue. Proposition d’une méthodologie de recherche particulière
SPM – Montreal, QC / November 14, 2018
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2018 Annual Symposium
Three Unconscious Pathways to Representing the Analyst’s Experience: Reverie, Countertransference Dreams and Joke Work
QEB – Montreal, QC / November 17, 2018
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Scientific Meeting
On Psychical Structures and Psychopathology
WBCPS – Vancouver, BC / November 24, 2018
JOURNAL
Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis
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Call for Papers
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BOOK
Attacks on Linking Revisited, A New Look at Bion’s Classic Work
Catalina Bronstein
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BOOK
Psychoanalytic Thinking – A Dialectical Critique of Contemporary Theory and Practice
Donald L. Carveth
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Articles
Memory of the Process I: The role of day’s residues in the field of the session
Author: Cecilia Taiana (OPS), Miguel Prados Prize Winner
Videos
The IJP Centenary Conference: New York
The Psychoanalytic Core: Encountering & Speaking to the Unconscious
October 19-20, 2018
New York
The Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis
Psychic Survival in the Face of Misogyny: The Dialectic Between the Internal & External Glass Ceiling
November 9-10, 2018
Los Angeles
Pre APsaA IPA Clinical Observation Workgroup
IPA Clinical Observation Workgroup: The three level model for observing transformations in the Psychoanalysis
February 4-5, 2019
New York City
Annual Congress
The 44th Annual Congress of the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society will be held in Vancouver from May 31 to June 2, 2019.
Awards and Prizes
Please Join Us in Celebrating:
- Andrew Brook who was awarded the 2018 CPS Citation of Merit
- Cristian Melchiorre who was the 2018 award winner of the Douglas Levin Prize for his paper: The Vessel of Secrets: Freud’s Geheimsprache and Intimacy in Psychoanalysis
In Memoriam
Dr. Claude Fortier
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Dr. Claude Fortier. A memorial commemorating our friend and colleague was held Saturday, April 28th.
Dr. Noël Montgrain
It is with great sadness that we are informing you of the passing of Noël Montgrain on Saturday, March 31st at Maison Michel Sarrazin. We have lost a man who has left an imprint on us all, as a psychoanalyst and as a human being.