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 2026
September 10 – Montreal, SPM
L’idée de guérison en psychanalyse : son sens, sa quête, sa possibilité
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September 19 – Montreal, QEB
Pierre Fédida and the Strangeness of Psychoanalysis
Hybrid Event
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September 26 – Vancouver, WCPS
The Enigma of the Other: The Work of Jean Laplanche and the Infinity of the Individual
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September 30 – Toronto, TPS
The Dark Side of the Moon: Metapsychological Reflections on Drives, Structures and the Unconscious
Online Event
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October 2026
October 3 – Toronto, TPS
61st ATPPP Scientific Session: Dream Work in the Lacanian Clinic of Neurosis
Hybrid Event
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October 15 – Montreal, SPM
Des nouvelles de Cerisy (colloque sur la psychanalyse altérée?) : première partie
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October 22 – Montreal, QEB
Psychoanalysis in Minor Language (Joint Meeting: Québec English Branch / Psychoanalytic Bridges with Latin America)
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October 24 – Montreal, QEB
Annual Symposium: Hidden Unconscious, Buried Unconscious, Implicit Unconscious
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October 28 – Toronto, TPS
Essay on Vengeance: The Weaponization of Nostalgia
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November 2026
November 12 – Montreal, SPM
Des nouvelles de Cerisy (colloque sur la psychanalyse altérée?) : deuxième partie
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November 28 – Montreal, QEB
Psychotherapy and the Problem of Witnessing
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November 28 – Toronto, TPS
Medical Assistance in Dying: Anthropological, Psychodynamic, and Psychotherapeutic Aspects
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December 2026
December 9 – Toronto, TPS
Towards a Theory of Transformations in Negative Hallucinosis in the Work of Bion, Meltzer, and Green
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December 10 – Montreal, SPM
Soirée conjointe SPM-QE – Thomas H. Ogden : la personne et sa contribution à la psychanalyse contemporaine (fenêtre ouverte sur un séminaire Ogden de deux ans)
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December 10 – Montreal, QEB
Joint Meeting: SPM/QE – Thomas H. Ogden: The Person, and his Contribution to Contemporary Psychoanalysis
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January 2027
January 12 – Toronto, TPS
Hospitable Enclave
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January 16 – Montreal, SPM
Colloque interne organisé par l’IPM. Thème à venir
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January 21 – Montreal, QEB
The Flawless Society: Light and Shadow of South Korea – A Struggle for Survival
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January 30 – Montreal, QEB
Special Event: Radical Hope
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February 2027
February 11 – Montreal, SPM
Psychanalyse et IA générative : quel avenir pour l’interprétation?
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February 13 – Toronto, TPS
Protracted Success Neurosis: “Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds”
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February 18 – Montreal, QEB
The In-Between: Reflections on Time, Space and the Psychic Apparatus
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March 2027
March 11 – Montreal, SPM
L’entre-deux : au carrefour de la perception- conscience
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March 13 – Toronto, TPS
A Couple State of Mind
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March 18 – Montreal, QEB
The Fault Line of Morality: Rethinking the Superego-Drive Paradox
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March 20 – Toronto, TPS
62nd ATPPP Scientific Session: Psychoanalytic Therapy Amidst Sociopolitical Turmoil, Oppression, and Isolation
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April 2027
April 10 – Montreal, QEB
Symposium/Book Launch: Psychoanalytic Explorations into The Primal Relationship in Japan and India
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April 15 – Montreal, SPM
Alexandre Morel (de l’APF, conférencier principal au colloque annuel de la SPM) : titre à déterminer
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April 17 – Montreal, SPM
Colloque public de la SPM. Conférencier principal: Alexandre Morel : titre à déterminer
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April 17 – Toronto, TPS
32nd Annual Day in Psychoanalysis
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April 22 – Montreal, QEB
The Work of Marilia Aisenstein – Psychosomatics and the Paris School- A North American Perspective
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May 2027
May 8 – Montreal, QEB
Special Event – Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Origins, Clinical Principles, and Goals of a Controversial Practice
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May 13 – Montreal, SPM
Relâche pour le CPLF 2027
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May 22 – Montreal, QEB
Lacan’s Augmented Freudian Clinic
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May 29 – Toronto, TPS
Crisis and Negation: Psychoanalysis and Denialism (of Climate Change and Not Only)
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