SPSI presents documentary film "Nana"
Intergenerational Trauma: A Layering of Many Voices. Can the Transmission of Trauma be Disrupted?
Community Events (non-Alliance)
Guys & Dolls: Intimacy in the Technological Era with Danielle Knafo, PhD
The Seattle Psychoanalytic Society and Institute presents
Guys & Dolls: Intimacy in the Technological Era
with Danielle Knafo, Ph.D.
What is it that makes a doll the ideal woman in a man’s eyes? Why would a man prefer a doll to a real woman? The Pygmalion myth, in which a man creates the woman of his dreams, indicates that the appeal of a man-made woman reaches far back in time.
NPSI Book Release Celebration
Please join us as we gather to celebrate the release of two new books authored by NPSI training and supervising psychoanalysts Maxine Anderson, MD, FIPA and Judy K Eekhoff, PhD, FIPA.
COR Movie Night: The Squid and the Whale (2005)
Who loves analytic discussion of movies? Then come gather with the COR community to watch and ponder this painfully hilarious film!
The Art of Outgrowing Your Problems with Dan Keusal, MS, LMFT
"The greatest and most important problems in life
can never be solved, only outgrown."
~C.G. Jung
44th Annual Congress of the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society
Click here for full Conference Program.
Emotional Turbulence: Working Clinically with Unformed Experience
With Avner Bergstein, Israel Psychoanalytic Society
“How are we to see, observe…. these things which are not visible?” (Bion, 2005). How does felt experience become thinkable?
The Element of Time in Psychoanalytic Therapy Peter Hopkins, MA Presenter and Terry Hanson, PhD, Discussant
Peter will explore the issue of time in relation to psychoanalytic therapy, especially related to psychological and therapeutic growth. Clinical material will be discussed to help illustrate how time is necessary for ego development, anxiety tolerance, and coming into an honest depressive position. Various other issues will be considered, including the relationship of time to grief and loss, and the relationship of time with what Freud termed the “reality principle.”
Death: Neuroscience, Buddhism and Psychology in Conversation
This will be our fourth in a series of conversations representing these three views, where we have explored and learned that natural science’s objective knowledge and the subjective understanding of inner science are not mutually exclusive.
NPSI Scientific Meeting: Identification and Unconscious Phantasy
In the December scientific meeting, Jeff Eaton, who instigated this series on unconscious phantasy, reviewed understandings from works by David Bell and Heinz Weiss, and others as well as some of his own formulations. The February presentation by Maxine Anderson considered contributions by Rachel Blass and Catalina Bronstein on unconscious phantasy. In this forthcoming discussion Judy K Eekhoff will discuss the relationship between identification and unconscious phantasy using articles by Gabriella Giustino and Marie Rhodes.