Registration FormEXTENSION COURSES

Course One A Psychoanalytic View of Trauma September 13 - October 11, 2018

$300

Course Two Psychoanalytic Thinking: A Dialectical Critique of Contemporary Theory and Practice October 11 - November 1, 2018

$240

Course Three Cinema and Psychoanalysis - Rage, Loss, Fear and Redemption: The World of Today Through the Cinema Lens October 26, 2018 - May 31, 2019

$340

Course Four Clinical Lacan: The Apple of My “I” Part A - November 8 - 22, 2018 Part B - November 29 - December 13, 2018

$180 $180 $360

Course Five Working Analytically with Couples January 10 - 31, 2019

$240

Course Six Reading Lacan: Topics in the Late Lacan January 17 - February 14, 2019

$300

Course Seven Psychoanalytic Understanding of Work Groups, Organizational Dynamics and Leadership February 7 - March 14, 2019

$360

Course Eight Techniques (Not Theories) of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy February 28 - April 4, 2019

$300

Course Nine Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Transgender: From Freud to YouTube May 2 - June 6, 2019

$360

SPECIAL EXTENSION PROGRAM PRESENTATIONS, WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS

MODULE I: Introduction to Infant-Parent Psychotherapy (IPP). Work-Study Seminar. September 17, 2018 - June 10, 2019

$2400

Infant Observation Seminars September 25, 2018 - May 28, 2019

$720

ADVANCED Course In Psychoanalytic Understanding Of Work Groups, Organizational Dynamics and Leadership September 27 - November 1, 2018

$360

THE TORONTO PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY

2018-2019 Extension ProgramExtEnsion CoursEs

CoursE onE A Psychoanalytic View of traumaCourse Coordinator: Jacinta O’Hanlon Seminar Leaders: Michael O’Mahony, Clare Pain, Alex Tarnopolsky, Heather Weir $300 - Thursday, 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm: September 13, 20, 27, October 4, 11, 2018 (5 evenings)

** Distance participation is available.

This course will examine the many and varied clinical situations that the course leaders present, that look at both the individual and community experiences of trauma. Each evening a psychoanalyst will present on a specific theme and lead a discussion. Participants will also be encouraged to bring in some of their own casework. We will focus on those theoretical concepts in psychoanalysis that we find particularly useful in clinical work.

CoursE tWo Psychoanalytic thinking: A Dialectical Critique of Contemporary theory and PracticeCourse Coordinator and Presenter: Don Carveth Chair: Michael Blugerman $240 - Thursday, 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm: October 11, 18, 25, November 1, 2018 (4 evenings)

** Distance participation is available.

Don Carveth’s new book, published by Routledge in April 2018, will be reviewed and discussed over the span of four evenings. Since the classical Freudian and Ego Psychology paradigms lost their position of dominance in the late 1950’s, psychoanalysis became a multi-paradigm science, with those working in the different frameworks increasingly engaging only with those in the same or related schools. Beginning with Freud’s theory of human nature and civilization, Carveth proceeds to review, critically evaluate and dialectically deconstruct a range of Post-Freudian contributions to psychoanalytic thought, with a view to breaking down the “silos”, and promoting mutual dialogue and critique.

CoursE tHrEE Cinema and Psychoanalysis - rage, Loss, Fear and redemption: the World of today through the Cinema LensCourse Coordinator: Julio Szmuilowicz Course Leaders: see below $340 - Friday, 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm: October 26, November 30, 2018; January 25, February 22, April 5, April 26, May 31, 2019 (7 evenings)

registration is limited to 50 participants.

• Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - NOT absence of fear. • Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion, a child’s loss of a doll and a king’s loss of a crown are events of the same size. • The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. • Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony.

It has been said that we are living in “the time of terror”. Unexpected, unspeakable and horrifying carnage occurs much too often practically anywhere (now even in “Toronto the good”), and so much of it is tied in with “acts of terror”. A terrorism charge can be more easily understood when carried out by terrorist entities that espouse a coherent and oft repeated set of ideas against avowed and well recognized “enemies”. What then of the times when one or more individuals cause wanton, guiltless and shameless destruction of life, limb and property - perpetrated in the name of fringe movements or anti-government ideologies or simply paranoid responses to conspiracies brought to “life” by internet subcultures with varying degrees of hurts and injuries?

As analysts we are challenged to try to understand these horrific events, and what causes a person to commit crimes of such ruthlessness and magnitude.

As often happens, cinema follows life. It is not surprising that in the last few years there have been many outstanding films dealing with the subject.

To illustrate and understand the topic, seven (mostly recent) films will be screened on a Friday, commencing promptly at 7:30 at the toronto Psychoanalytic society, 40 st. Clair East, suite 203.After a short break, the film’s Discussant will present a formal paper that will lead the group into a general discussion.

Date Discussant Film and Director Date Discussant Film and Director

October 26, 2018 Betty Kershner i, tonya (2017, 120 min)Craig Gillespie (Director)

April 5, 2019 Barrie Wilson Changing Lanes (2002, 98 min)Roger Mitchell (Director)

November 30, 2018 Rex Collins the Best offer (2013, 131 min)Giuseppe Tornatore (Director)

April 26, 2019 Nancy Weiler the Florida Project (2017, 111 min)Sean Baker (Director)

January 25, 2019 Julio Szmuilowicz Fists in the Pocket (1965, 105 min)Marco Bellocchio (Director)

May 31, 2019 Robert Winer three Bollboards outside Ebbing Missouri (2017, 105 min)Martin McDonagh (Director)

February 22, 2019 Arthur Caspary Mudbound (2017, 134 min)Dee Rees (Director)

CoursE Four Clinical Lacan: the Apple of My “i”Course Coordinator: Judith Hamilton Course Leaders: Judith Hamilton, Carlos Rivas, Alireza Taheri Part A $180, Part B $180, Part A & B $360 - Thursday, 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm: November 8, 15, 22, 29, December 6 and 13, 2018 (6 evenings)

** Distance participation is available.

In this course, the leaders will present the underlying theory and related techniques of the Lacanian orientation as they use them with patients and clients in their various clinical settings. The topics will focus on the body, the ego and the sinthome as they occur in the early, late and contemporary Lacan. Changes in these concepts and their uses reflect changes in society and are no longer well described by the structure and dynamics of the Oedipus complex and neurosis. Hence the recent approaches that support work with people with “ordinary” psychotic and other modern variants of character structure including inhibitions, anxiety and addictions. There will be many examples presented and time for ample discussion.

We will divide this course into two parts - parts A and B. Part A will begin at the beginning, in the period of early Lacan, and be useful for participants with little or no understanding of Lacan’s work. Part B will be presentations oriented towards the later Lacan, useful to those who are already familiar with Lacan. One can sign up for either part separately or both parts, or add Part B to Part A during the course.

Part A – november 8, 15, 22 – the three registers, the mirror stage and its relation to the imaginary and to the ego; desire and the symbolic body; symptoms in the context of modernism and positivism – in Lacan’s “return to Freud” and neurosis.

Part B – november 29, December 6, 13 – the Names-of-the-Father as symptom and the sinthome; the real body, jouissance and drive; symptoms in the context of postmodernity and late capitalism – beyond Oedipus and psychosis.

CoursE FiVE Working Analytically with CouplesCourse Coordinator: Sarah Usher Course Leaders: Sarah Usher, Sharian Sadavoy, Klaus Wiedermann, Marilyn Ruskin $240 - Thursday, 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm: January 10, 17, 24, 31, 2019 (4 evenings)

** Distance participation is available.

This course will offer participants the opportunity to learn how psychoanalytic theories can be applied to couples therapy. Psychoanalyst couples therapists will present different points of view, including the classical and object relations approach, and the Tavistock model. The differences between individual therapy and couples therapy will be elaborated, particularly in terms of transference and counter-transference. Readings will be suggested in the first class. Discussion of participants’ cases throughout is strongly encouraged.

January 10 – Sarah Usher, Introduction and overview.January 17 – Sharian Sadavoy, Object relations theory and couples work.January 24 — Klaus Wiedermann, Tavistock Model for working with couples.January 31 — Marilyn Ruskin, Clinical work with couples. Participants’ cases.

CoursE six reading Lacan: topics in the Late LacanCourse Coordinator: Judith Hamilton Course Leaders: Judith Hamilton, Carlos Rivas, Alireza Taheri $300 - Thursday, 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm: January 17, 24, 31, February 7, 14, 2019 (5 evenings)

** Distance participation is available.

In this course, the leaders will present and discuss a range of concepts from the later and late Lacan, supplying clinical and cultural examples throughout. The concepts they will cover include: changes in the symbolic, imaginary and real; topology to describe the mind; the subject as parlêtre and its structure as the Borromean knot; jouissance, drive and the body; the Other jouissance; lalangue and the real of the unconscious; naming as the remaining function of the Name-of-the-Father; symptoms and sinthome as the fourth ring and solution to functioning; the enigmatic affects of the unconscious; the analyst as analysand; equivocation as technique; and psychoanalysis as poetry. The participants will be sent selections from Lacan’s Seminars XX – XXIV to read along with related papers. A very helpful book that presents Lacan’s trajectory, his basic thoughts and contributions, and a summary of each of his writings is by Marcelle Marini, “Jacques Lacan: the French Context”, 1992, by Rutgers University Press (with kindle form on Amazon).

CoursE sEVEn Psychoanalytic understanding of Work Groups, organizational Dynamics and LeadershipCourse Coordinator: Kas Tuters Seminar Leaders: Howard Book, Barbara Williams $360 - Thursday, 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm (sharp): February 7, 14, 21, 28, March 7, 14, 2019 (6 evenings)

optimal number of participants is 8. (Prior to the commencement of this course, the applicant will be briefly interviewed for suitability for the specific course).

This course offers participants an opportunity to explore the ‘under-the-surface’ and unconscious processes that interfere with leadership, team and organizational functioning, and to provide the participants with new ways of addressing those aspects in their own group settings that otherwise effect or limit task completion and optimal interaction.