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:

  • Canadian Psychoanalytic Society (CPS)
  • Ottawa Psychoanalytic Society (OPS)
  • Quebec English Branch (QEB)
  • Société psychanalytique de Quebec (SPQ)
  • Société psychanalytique de Montreal (SPM)
  • Southwestern Ontario Psychoanalytic Society (SWOPS)
  • Toronto Psychoanalytic Society (TPS)
  • Western Branch Canadian Psychoanalytic Society (WBCPS)

September 2023

September 9 – WBCPS, Technological Confusion: Demands Placed on the Ego By the Transition Between Reality and Virtual Reality

September 14 – SPM, L’abandon de soi

September 20 – TPS, All Ears: Psychoanalysis and the Rhetoric of Listening

September 21 – QEB, TRAUMA, GUILT, AND CONSPIRACY: THE ZERO PROCESS AND THE SUPEREGO


October 2023

October 12 – SPM, Titre à venir

October 19 – QEB, THE CONTRIBUTION OF NEUROCOGNITIVE RESEARCH TO PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE UNCONSCIOUS MIND

October 25 – TPS, Women as Therapists, Patients and Protestors: A Bionian Perspective


November 2023

November 4 – TPS, 55th ATPPP Scientific Session: Radical Psychoanalysis – Laplanche in America

November 11 – QEB, Annual Symposium – APPROACHING THE UNCONSCIOUS THROUGH THE PSYCHE SOMA

November 15 – TPS, The Untelling: Enactment, Transformation & the Construction of the Past

November 16 – SPM, Titre à venir

November 23 – QEB, THE OBJECT, THE DRIVES AND THE SUPEREGO

November 25 – WBCPS, A Kristevan Birth in Analysis: Case Material Expounds the Deliverance of Psychic Freedom Through Maternal Eroticism


December 2023

December 6 – TPS, Stand-Still During Psychoanalytic Supervision

December 7 – SPM, Dans le sillage de la pensée de W Bion

December 7 – QEB/SPM Joint Meeting, HOW TO READ BION AND WHY; SOME CLOSE ENCOUNTERS WITH HIS TEXTS AND POSTHUMOUS PUBLICATION / DANS LE SILLAGE DE BION – IN THE WAKE OF BION


January 2024

January 18 – QEB, PARALLEL PROCESSES, PLURI-SUBJECTIVE CONFIGURATIONS AND THE CIRCULATION OF DESIRE

January 27 – SPM, Colloque interne de la SPM


February 2024

February 15 – SPM, Sur une cure-type avec une adolescente

February 21 – TPS, From Social Condition to Human Event: A Plea for Unknowability

February 22 – QEB, THE FROG PRINCE DISENCHANTED: MOVING FROM AVOIDANCE TO INTIMACY IN RELATIONSHIPS

February 24 – TPS, Seven Types of Truth and Their Clinical Significance


March 2024

March 9 – OPS, On Mourning, Melancholia and War

March 14 – SPM, Des théories sexuelles infantiles et du cinéma (titre provisoire)

March 20 – TPS, Trauma, Guilt, And Conspiracy: The Zero Process And The Superego

March 21 – QEB, THE UNPAST CORE OF DEPRESSION


April 2024

April 11 – SPM, « Des nouvelles de l’IPM » (théme et titre à venir)

April 17 – TPS, Mothering Alone: A Plea for Opportunity

April 18 – QEB, TRANSFERENCE AND COUNTERTRANSFERENCE IN PSYCHOANALYTIC COUPLES THERAPY


May 2024

May 18 – TPS, The Person Who Sees the Ship: Language, Imagination, and the Interpersonal Field in the Theory of Unformulated Experience

May 23 – QEB, OVERCOMING GUILT EVASION IN PSYCHOANALYSIS

May 25 – TPS, 56th ATPPP Scientific Session: The Rope of Sexuality Or How children’s ‘researches’ prime the place of sexuality – A Laplanchian view


June 2024

June 13 – SPM, Titre à venir

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