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
EVENT
Scientific Meeting
Notre rapport à la théorie dans le cadre de la pratique de la psychanalyse: comment la valeur accordée à la théorie se construit-elle?
SPM – Montreal, QC / January 17, 2018
EVENT
Annual Scientific Meeting
Gender as a Soft Assembly: Gender Multidimensionality
WPCPS – Vancouver, BC / March 23, 2019
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Scientific Meeting
Free-association, surprise, trauma and transference.
QEB – Montreal, QC / January 24, 2019
CANADIANS IN LONDON 2019
Keynote Address – Dominique Scarfone
The feminine, the analyst and the child theorist
Thursday, July 25, 2019
Panel Presentation – Brian Robertson, Chair
The Traditional Analyst and the New Woman
Date TBD / Read Abstract
Panel Presentation – Cecilia Taiana and Nancy Winters
The Female Element in Primary Relations and the Emergence of the Sexual Self— Towards Many, Towards None.
Date TBD / Read Abstract
Panel Presentation – Cecilia Taiana, Chair
An ethical violation of one is a violation of many: The disruptive impact on individuals and the group
Date TBD / Read Abstract
JOURNAL
Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis
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BOOK
Bion and Meltzer’s Expeditions into Unmapped Mental Life
Avner Bergstein
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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
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.