Past Conferences

All Conferences were presented in association with TCPP except where noted.

2011
June 11, 2011
Understanding and Working with Extraordinarily Challenging, Aggressive, Impulsive, Defiant Children: Lessons from the Trenches

Dr. Brent Willock, Ph.D.
These complex, aggressive, conduct-disordered, ODD children present formidable challenges to anyone trying to help them. Sometimes they seem hell-bent on destroying not only things, but also our will to treat them.

In this workshop, we will enter an aggressive child's mind, exploring conscious and unconscious aspects of his inner world to shed light on the anxieties, dynamics, defenses and underlying developmental and relational issues propelling unruly, problematic behaviour. The clinical material that will be presented comes from intensive psychotherapy.

We will also attend to the therapeutic role of parents, teachers, child-care workers, and other professionals, and the destabilizing impact these children have on them.

While countertransference challenges can seem insurmountable, they are lessened significantly through understanding the origins and meaning of these problematic behaviours, and grasping what needs to occur in treatment to optimize chances for a good outcome.

2010
June 19, 2010
Trauma: The Journey Forward ~ Moments of Change with Children and Adolescents

Dr. Lenore Terr, Ph.D.
The client’s experience of trauma is a significant factor in our daily work of front line workers to individual therapists. Understanding the mechanisms of change in trauma psychotherapy is an integral part of bringing about required change. Dr. Lenore Terr is an internationally acknowledged trauma expert, clinician, writer and presenter. She will explain and illustrate what brings about change in trauma psychotherapy using her “moments of change” paradigm with the elements of: Abreaction(emotional expression), Context(creating a perspective on the events) and Correction(behavioral solutions).

Trauma-techniques for doing trauma therapy at the various stages of youth and adulthood are examined using clinical material from Dr. Terr’s most famous case of the ‘wild child’ traumatized in infancy and the case of a young woman raped during her first year away at college. Trauma in the film, “The Reader” was discussed from the young male protagonist’s point of view. Dr. Terr also read a vignette about early trauma, written by an American novelist, from the writer’s point of view. Participants were encouraged to view the movie “The Reader” prior to the conference. Specific psychotherapy techniques such as play, art, metaphor, and storytelling were discussed. The day provided the audience with ample opportunity for case discussion, questions and comments.

2008
April 5, 2008
Trauma, Uncertainty and Patterns of Attachment

Dr. Doris Brothers, Ph.D.
How does trauma affect attachment patterns between parents and children? The answer to this important question, according to Dr. Brothers, involves the need to transform experiences of unbearable uncertainty. In development unburdened by trauma, experiences of uncertainty are continually transformed by means of the regulatory processes of everyday life as well as through the creation of “systematically emergent certainties”. Trauma destroys these certainties. In the wake of their destruction, rigid and constricting attachment patterns emerge that are often reconfigured in therapeutic relationships. Dr. Brothers amply illustrates her ideas with clinical material and applies them to the vexing problem of burnout.

2006     
October 21
Making Connections: Incorporating Attachment Theory into Self Psychological and Inter-subjective Clinical Work

Shelley Doctors, PhD 
Internationally respected psychoanalyst, speaker and author, a member of the International Council for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology, on the Advisory Board of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, and Secretary of the International Society for Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology.  She is a supervising analyst and faculty member at the institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity, the National Institute for the Psychotherapies, and Institute for Child, Adolescent and Family Studies in New York and at the Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in Washington, D.C.  The most recent of her publications include “Subjective Change in Patient and Analyst: A Discussion of Eisenstein and Rebillot” and “Psychoanalytically Informed Psychotherapy for Adolescents”.
Co-sponsored by CAPCT (in association with TCPP) & IASP

April 8
Levels of Pathology and Levels of Intervention: Getting Across to the Child

Dr. Anna Alvarez, PhD, MACP
Internationally acclaimed author, teacher, and therapist, helping children affected by severe communication, relational difficulties and trauma.  Dr. Alvarez trained as a clinical psychologist in Canada and Adolescent Psychotherapist in the UK.  She is an honorary Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic in London.  Author of Live Company: Psychotherapy with Autistic, Borderline, Deprived and Abused Children.                                                                   
                                   

2004     
The World in a Grain of Sand: Moments of Meeting in Psychotherapy

Dr. Daniel Stern
Internationally acclaimed author, researcher, child psychiatrist, and developmental psychologist.  Dr. Stern is an honorary professor of psychology at the University of Geneva, Switzerland and adjunct professor of psychiatry at the Cornell Medical School.  He is the author of the seminal book The Interpersonal World of the Infant, and The Motherhood Constellation.  He has published widely in such journals as the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, the Journal of American Academy of Child Psychiatry.

2003               
Learning Disabilities and the Development of the Self: A Psychoanalytic Perspective of the Development and Treatment of Children and Adolescents

Joseph Palombo,
Founding Dean and Faculty Member of the Institute for Clinical Social Work, Faculty Member of the Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Program, Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis.  He has written extensively on self psychology and on disorders that co-occur with learning disabilities.  His recently published book is Learning Disorders and Disorders of the Self in Children and Adolescents.

2002                 
Working with Parents in Child Psychotherapy: A view from psychoanalysis & attachment theory

Dr. Arietta Slade, PhD
Clinical and developmental psychologist, with a particular interest in the intersection of psychoanalysis and attachment theory.  She is currently at the Yale Child Study Centre developing research and intervention programs in infant mental health.  She is also Professor of Clinical and Developmental psychology at the City University of New York.  She maintains a private practice in child and adult psychoanalytic psychotherapy.

2001               
Clinical Consequences of Intersubjective Theory

Donna Orange, PhD  Psy. D
Faculty member and supervising analyst at the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity in New York, a regular member of the Vienna Circle for Psychoanalysis and Self Psychology and a faculty member and supervising analyst at the Institute for Specialization in Self and Relational Psychoanalysis in Rome.  She is author of Emotional Understanding: Studies in Psychoanalytic Epistemology and co author of Working Subjectively: Contextualization in Psychoanalytic Practice, with George Atwood and Robert Stolorow.  She maintains a private practice in New York City.
Co-sponsored by CAPCT (in association with TCPP) & IASP

2000               
September 23
Romance and Psychoanalytic Reflections

Dr. Stephen Mitchell
Is founding and associate editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, a training and supervising analyst at the W.A. White Institute and is a member of the faculty of the Postdoctoral Program at New York University. He has written Object Relations in Psychoanalytic Theory (with Jay Greenberg, Harvard, 1983), Relational Concepts in Psychoanalysis (Harvard, 1988), Hope and Dread in Psychoanalysis (Basic Books, 1993), Freud and Beyond: A History of Modern Psychoanalytic Thought (with Margaret Black, Basic Books, 1995), Influence and Autonomy in Psychoanalysis (The Analytic Press, 1997),
Relationality: From Attachment to Intersubjectivity (The Analytic Press, 2000) and was co-editor (with Lewis Aron) of Relational Psychoanalysis: The Emergence of a Tradition (The Analytic Press, 1999).  The talks for this conference are from a book to be entitled The Degradation of Romance to be published by Scribner’s in 2001.
Co-sponsored by CAPCT (in association with TCPP) & TICP

April 8
Counter-transference – Problems and Issues in the Psychotherapy of Children

Dr. Peter Blos Jr. M.D.
Training and supervising analyst, child supervisor and chair of the Child Analysis Committee of the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute.  He is a lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan Medical Center and past president of the Association for Child Psychoanalysis.
                                                                                                           

The following conferences were presented by the CAPCT and the TCPP except where noted.

1998               
Children and Adults in Treatment: the Process of Self-discovery

Dr. Judith Chused
Training and supervising analyst in child, adolescent and adult psychoanalysis at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute; a child and adolescent supervising analyst at the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Institute; and a clinical professor of psychiatry and behavioural sciences and a clinical professor of pediatrics at the George Washington University School of Medicine.

1997                 
The Experience of Personal Annihilation

Dr. George Atwood, PhD
Is a founding faculty member at the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity, New York, and a Professor of Psychology at Rutgers University.  He also maintains a clinical practice in Highland Park, New Jersey.  He is co-author, with Robert Stolorow, of Faces in a Cloud: Intersubjectivity in Personality Theory; Structures of Subjectivity: Explorations in Psychoanalytic Phenomenology; Contents of Being: The Intersubjective Foundations of Psychological Life and co-author, with Stolorow and B. Brandchaft, of Psychoanalytic Treatment: An Intersubjective Approach.  He is co-editor, with Stolorow and Brandchaft, of the Intersubjective Perspective.  He is also co-author with Stolorow and Donna Orange, of the forthcoming Working Intersubjectively: Contextualism in Psychoanalytic Clinical Practice.

1996                 
Strivings of the Healthy Self: Psychotherapy with a Different Accent

Dr. Marian Tolpin
Child psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.  She has been interested in child development theory and Heinz Kohut’s theory of the development of the self and has written and lectured with him for many years on the development of the theory of the self.  She and her husband Dr. Paul Tolpin, recently edited a book entitled Heinz Kohut: The Chicago Institute Lectures, published in 1996.  Dr. Tolpin is on the faculty and is a supervisor and training analyst at the Chicago Institute of Psychoanalysis. She is on the faculty of the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Program, Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, and is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Chicago Medical School.

1995                 
Children in a Violent World: Interventions with the Traumatized Child

Dr. Joy Osofsky, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry at Louisiana State University Medical Centre, Adjunct Professor of Psychology at the University of New Orleans, and on the faculty of the New Orleans Psychoanalytic Institute.  She is President of the World Association for Infant Mental Health. 

1994               
Children and Therapists in Relationship: Transference and Counter Transference Issues in Individual and Group Treatments with Children and Adolescents

Gerald Schamess, MSS
Is a professor at the Smith College School for Social Work and a therapist in private practice in Northampton, Massachusetts. During his tenure at the school, he has served as clinical co-coordinator of the doctoral program and as director of certificate programs.  He has also chaired the practice and human behaviour sequences in the MSW and PhD programs.  Mr. Schamess has published widely on transference and countertransference, boundary issues in the treatment relationship and group treatment with children and adolescents.   

1993
Doris Brothers, USA

1992
Daniel Stern, M.D
Psychoanalyst and Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behaviour at Brown University; Professor of Psychology , University of Geneva, Switzerland, and Director of Research at Butler Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island. He is the author or the widely acclaimed book, The Interpersonal World of the Infant: A View from Psychoanalysis and Developmental Psychology, and of Diary of a Baby. Dr. Stern’s original and revolutionary studies of the interaction between infants and mothers have influenced the direction of empirical investigation in developmental psychology. He has provided us with a new view of the inner experience of the infant and his brilliant exploration of the clinical implications of these research findings are now having a profound impact on the course of contemporary psychoanalysis.

1990               
Rage, Violence and the Endangered Self: Narcissistic Rage and Violent Behaviour of the Adolescent

Dr. Robert Galatzer-Levy
Self psychologist who has published widely on the subjects of adolescent development and treatment.

1989                 
The Child in the Adult: the Application of Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Techniques and Findings to Work with Adults

Kerry Kelly Novick and Jack Novick

Kerry Kelly Novick is a graduate of the Hampstead Clinic, a former Lecturer in Psychoanalysis, University of Michigan Medical School, and is currently on the faculty of the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute.

Jack Novick, Ph.D., is a graduate of the Hampstead Clinic and the British Psychoanalytic Society. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan and Wayne State Medical Schools, and is a supervising psychoanalyst at the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute.

1988                 
Self-Object Transference and the Theory of the Development of the Feminine Self

Dr. Lachmann

1987     
Anna Freud’s Developmental Lines: An Integrating Model of Development

Dr. Phyllis Tyson
Supervisor of Child Psychoanalysis and Senior Faculty Member of the San Diego Psychoanalytic Institute, and an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego. She received her training in child psychoanalysis at the Hampstead Centre, London, England, under the direction of Anna Freud, and her training in adult psychoanalysis at the San Diego Psychoanalytic Institute. Scientific interests focus around issues of normal and pathological development in children. She has published extensively in “The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child” as well as in other major psychoanalytic journals.

1986   
May 15 
Case Presentation & Workshop

Dr. John Bowlby

May 3
Abuse of Children: Aggressive Abuse and Sexual Abuse

Dr. Robert & Mrs. Erna Furman

Mrs. Erna Furman is a non-medical child psychoanalyst, psychologist and teacher, Instructor with the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Institute and Assistant Clinical Professor of Child Therapy at Case Western Reserve University School, of Medicine.

Dr. Robert A. Furman is a psychoanalyst of children and adults, training and supervising analyst with the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Institute, Assistant Clinical Professor of Child Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and former Pediatrician.

Both are specialists in child development, working at the Cleveland Centre for Research in Child Development and the Hanna Perkins Therapeutic Nursery School and Kindergarten, of which Dr. Furman is also the Director.

1985               
September 6 - 7
Beginnings: Transference and Counter Transference in Assessment

Isca Salzberger-Wittenberg
TOP *Child Psychotherapist and Vice Chairperson, Tavistock Clinic, London, England
(*One of the four highest positions in child psychotherapy in the National Health Service).  Author of Psychoanalytic Insight and Relationships: A Kleinian Approach)

April 20
1.  Further Clinical Adventures with Young Patients – their languages, their toys and their games
2. The Life and Work of Anna Freud and August Aichhorn

Rudolf Ekstein, Ph.D.
Was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1912. He obtained a Doctorate of Philosophy from the University of Vienna in 1937 and a Master of Social Service from Boston University in 1941. His Psychoanalytic training originated at the Psychoanalytic Institute in Vienna and he obtained a Doctorate of Philosophy in Psychoanalysis from the Southern California Psychoanalytic Society and Institute in 1977. From 1947 – 1957 he worked as a training analyst at the Topeka Psychoanalytic Institute, was a staff member of the Menninger Foundation and director of Psychotherapy at the Southern School. From 1960 – 1976 he was the director of the Childhood Psychosis Project, at the Reiss Davis Child Study Centre in Los Angeles, California. From 1974 to present he has been an annual guest professor at the University of Vienna in Austria. He is in private practice in Los Angeles and is the Clinical Professor of Medical Psychology at the University of California. As well, he is a training analyst at the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, the Southern California Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, and the Los Angeles Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies. He is the author of well over 400 papers and many books – The Teaching and Learning of Psychotherapy, Children of Time and Space, of Action and Impulse, and From Learning for Love to Love of Learning, to name but a few.

           
1984
December 15
Adolescent Breakdown and Treatment    

Dr. Moses Laufer, Ph. D.
Director, Centre for Research into Adolescent Breakdown / Brent Consultation Centre
President, British Psycho-Analytic Association. Co-author with M. Egle’Laufer Adolescent and Developmental Breakdown, Yale University Press, 1984.

June 23
Understanding the Nipple – a Case Presentation of a 3-year old Child

Dr. Ann Mully
Sandy Hill Centre for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis

May 5
Clinical Case Presentation: The Psychologies of Drive, Ego, Objects Relations and Self:
Part One: Their Integration at the level of the developing individual
Part Two: Their place in clinical work
           
Fred Pine, PhD.
Is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry (Psychology) at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Visiting Professor at the New York University. Post Doctoral Training Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. PhD Harvard University. Graduate, New York Psychoanalytic Institute. Co-Author of: The Psychological Birth of the Human Infant
           

April 14
Clinical Presentation: Transference in Child Analysis – comments on some conceptual and clinical problems; an adolescent case within the framework of a discussion on transference.

Hansi Kenndy, Dip. Psych.
Co-Director of the Hampstead Child Therapy Course and Clinic, London, England.

1983               
Bereavement and Loss in Childhood and Some Difficulties in Assessing Depression and Suicide in Childhood and Adolescence

Erna Furman, B.A. Hons.
Faculty Cleveland Psychoanalytic Institute. Faculty: Cleveland Centre for Research in Child Development. Assistant Clinical Professor in Child Therapy, Case Western Reserve University – School of Medicine. Author of:  A Child’s Parent Dies – Studies in Childhood Bereavement.  Mrs. Furman worked with Anna Freud and is the force behind the child psychoanalytic movement in the Midwest U.S.A. She is a teacher, licensed psychologist and a non-medical child psychoanalyst.

           
1982   
Case Presentation: Transference and Countertransference in the Treatment of a Child with an Unusual Symptom.

Anne-Marie Sandler
Training Analyst at the British Psychoanalytic Society.

1981               
Prenatal Attachment and Bonding

Dr. Ernest Freud
BA in Psychology at the University of London in 1949. He trained in Adult Analysis from 1950 – 1955 and in Child Analysis from 1954 – 58. Since 1953 he has been in private practice. In 1954 he was appointed Training Analyst at the Hampstead Child Therapy Course in London, England. In 1967 he was appointed Training Analyst at the Institute of Psycho Analysis, The British Psycho Analysis Society in London, England.
           

CAPCT: Canadian Association for Psychoanalytic Child Therapists
TCPP: Toronto Child Psychoanalytic Program
IASP: Institute for the Advancement of Self Psychology
TICP: Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis