Below is a listing of Scientific Program events for the current academic year to be presented by the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society and its seven branches across Canada.
Listings for each branch are indicated by colour as follows:
- CPS – Canadian Psychoanalytic Society
- OPS – Ottawa Psychoanalytic Society
- QEB – Quebec English Branch
- SPM – Société psychanalytique de Montreal
- SWOPS – Southwestern Ontario Psychoanalytic Society
- TPS – Toronto Psychoanalytic Society
- WCPS – Western Canada Psychoanalytic Society
September 2025
September 11 – Montreal, SPM
Jean Imbeault. Titre à venir. (Possiblement dans la foulée du colloque de janvier 25 sur le thème de la présence).
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September 18 – Montreal, QEB
PUTTING THE PSYCHOANALYTIC FRAME TO WORK: WHY IT MATTERS
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September 20 – Toronto, TPS
Putting the Psychoanalytic Frame to Work: Why It Matters
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September 27 – Vancouver, WCPS
Annual Scientific Meeting: Dissociation in the Clinical Setting and in Everyday Life
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October 2025
October 4 – Toronto, TPS
Trans identities: Epistemological Problems, Binary Logic, and the Analyst’s Dysphoria
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October 16 – Montreal, SPM
Isabelle Lasvergnas. Titre à venir.
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October 23 – Montreal, QEB
SOME CRITICAL (AND MAYBE PROVOCATIVE) IDEAS ON TRAINING MODELS- HOW NARCISSISM INFILTRATE PSYCHOANALYTIC TRAINING
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October 25 – Toronto, TPS
59th ATPPP Scientific Session: A Shimmering Landscape: the imaginative and actual in psychic life
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November 2025
November 7/9 – Toronto, TPS
TPS/IPA/3LM Clinical Observation Group
Hybrid Workshop
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November 13 – Montreal, SPM
Terry Zaloum. Titre à venir
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November 19 – Toronto, TPS
Reviewing Grandparents: Ageing and Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Later Life
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November 20 – Montreal, QEB
PIRATES OF THE PRE-CONSCIOUS, SNATCHERS OF OUR ATTENTION AND SIRENS TO OUR DESIRES: A PSYCHOANALYTIC UNDERSTANDING OF RELATING TO A NON-ORGANIC-DEVICE-OTHER (NODO)
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December 2025
December 10 – Toronto, TPS
The End Phase of a Psychoanalytic Supervision
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December 11 – Montreal, QEB
Joint Meeting SPM/QE – TBD
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December 11 – Montreal, SPM
Soirée conjointe SPM-QE. Titre à venir
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January 2026
January 17 – Toronto, TPS
Film Outsider Freud? Screening of Yair Qedar’s new film on Freud
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January 17 – Montreal, SPM
Colloque interne de la SPM. Thème à venir.
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January 22 – Montreal, QEB
MIDDLE RANGE OR AGENCY – A HOSPITABLE ENCLAVE
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February 2026
February 12 – Montreal, SPM
Marcel Hudon et ses collègues du séminaire Ogden : «Thomas Ogden, un psychanalyste bien de son temps ».
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February 18 – Toronto, TPS
On the Failure to Use Countertransference Productively
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February 28 – Montreal, QEB
A PARAPRAXIS FOR OUR TIMES: A PROPOSAL DESIGNED TO ADDRESS OUR CURRENT FAILURE TO RECOGNIZE AND SPECIFY CLINICAL DIFFERENCES AND THE THREAT TO THE TRAINING AND FUTURE OF PSYCHOANALYSTS IT POSES
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March 2026
March 7 – Toronto, TPS
60th ATPPP Scientific Session: Sexual Victimization of Boys and Men: Meanings and Consequences
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March 12 – Montreal, SPM
Des nouvelles de l’IPM. Titre à venir.
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March 18 – Toronto, TPS
TBA – Save the Date
March 19 – Montreal, QEB
REFLECTIONS ON THE WORK OF HANS LOEWALD: A TROUBLESOME OUTCAST OF TWENTIETH CENTURY AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYSIS
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April 2026
April 16 – Montreal, SPM
Conférence préalable au colloque annuel de la SPM
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April 18 – Montreal, SPM
Colloque (public) de la SPM. Invité à confirmer.
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April 23 – Montreal, QEB
TBD
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April 25 – Toronto, TPS
SAVE THE DATE – 31st Annual Day in Psychoanalysis
May 2026
May 20 – Toronto, TPS
Going Beneath the Surface: What People Want from Therapy
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May 21 – Montreal, QEB
TBD
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