13th GEI Annual Conference, with Joye Weisel-Barth
The presentation will be given in English, with free simultaneous English interpretation for the audience questions in French during the question and answer period.
- Date: Saturday, September the 24th, 2016
- Time: From 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., lunch included at the hotel buffet restaurant
- Registration starts at 8:00 a.m., continental breakfast included (juice, fruits, coffee, muffins and pastries)
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Venue: Le Nouvel Hôtel , room Dorchester / Maisonneuve, 1740 René-Lévesque Blvd. West
, Montréal -
At 5 minutes from Guy-Concordia metro station, exit Saint-Mathieu / de Maisonneuve Saint-Mathieu St.
Parking in the vicinity, or hotel indoor parking at 15$ (entrance on Saint-Mathieu Street) - Registration: See the Online registration section below
- N.B. Lunch reservations will be possible only for registrations completed by Tueday September 20th
This conference is approved by the Ordre des Psychologues du Québec for 6 hours of continuing education units (CEU) in psychotherapy. No OPQ: RA01568-16.
The conference
One of the most important changes in contemporary analytic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis is its interest in and emphasis on the therapist’s subjectivity and imagination as they interact with his patient’s subjectivity. The therapist’s subjectivity includes everything that he brings to the work: his unique mental and emotional makeup as well as his history, memory, values, biases and perspectives. It also includes his particular theories, goals, and therapeutic strategies and interventions. The therapeutic imagination refers to the ways in which all of these factors interact in the therapist’s mind, creating unique images and associations that emerge in relation to the patient. This imagination functions both in session and in reflection outside of the clinical setting.
Whether quietly listening with attention and attunement, channeling the patient imaginatively, or expressing himself verbally, the therapist is a full interacting partner in the clinical setting. Although the therapeutic relationship is asymmetrical—that is, the patient’s needs are always primary—the therapist’s understandings of, imaginative vision for, and chosen interactions with the patient color the process and outcome of the work.
One consequence of Dr Weisel-Barth’s interest in therapists ubjectivity and imagination is that she presents her work through the lens of her own subjectivity and imagination. During the day, she will tell some of her own case stories—which are saturated with her subjectivity. She will try to describe how her emotional and imaginative responses to her patients inform the work and contribute to the changes that occur in both her patients and herself. She will also portray the difficulties in this kind of work: for example, how frequently we are blind to or miss aspects of our own subjectivity and, thereby, unconsciously disrupt the relationship or slip into confusing enactments.
Hopefully, much of our day with Dr Joye Weisel-Barth will involve using her clinical material to spark a lively conversation about the ways in which our subjectivity and imagination are alive and active in our therapeutic work.
The clinical workshop
The following day of Joye Weisel-Barth's conference, Sunday September 25th from 10.30 am to 1 pm, you are invited to attend a clinical workshop led by Joye with a small group of 20 participants. Maurice Carrier will present clinical material, and after an exchange between him and our invited speaker, the discussion will open to the group. To register, please go to the Clinical workshop page.
Readings
At the Vendredis intersubjectifs (evenings of text study at the GEI) of this year, three of Joye Weisel-Barth's papers have been studied in preparation for her conference. They are available here (n.b. it is not required to read the papers to fully benefit from the conference):
- GEI members: The papers are available in the Section des membres menu, under Documentation, at the Textes de Joye Weisel-Barth page (it is necessary to log into your user account to access the Section des membres).
- Non-members : The papers are available at a cost of 10$ (for copyright fees) at this page : Trois articles de Joye Weisel-Barth en préparation à sa conférence.
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this presentation, the participant will be able to:
1. Describe the nature and functions of the therapist’s subjectivity;
2. Explain the nature and functions of the therapist’s imagination and the roles of memory, associations, desires and theories in the constitution of that imagination;
3. Illustrate some of the inherent difficulties related to the emotional engagement of the therapist;
4. Identify the role of time and imagined future vision in therapeutic action.
Schedule
20 minutes morning and afternoon breaks, snacks included (cookies and beverages)
8:00 : Registration, continental breakfast included
9:00 : Introduction of speaker
9:15 : I- Sense of time, imagined future, and therapeutic process
11:00 : II- Confusions and hazards in relational therapeutic practice
12:30 : Lunch, at the hotel buffet restaurant
02:00 : III- The therapist’s feeling of envy in her work with a creative patient: 4 scenes
03:30 : Discussion with audience
04:30 : End
Free WiFi internet access
The connection informations will be displayed at the registration table.
Organizing committee
Marie Noël, psychologist, treasurer of the GEI
Jean-François Bernard, psychologist, administrator and webmaster at the GEI
Annette Richard, psychologist, president of the GEI
Online registration
With online or mailed payment
Fees
The registration fees include lunch at the hotel buffet restaurant.
Please note! : To have your lunch reserved at the hotel, it is necessary to complete your registration by Tuesday September 20th. We are sorry that participants registering after this date will have to plan for their lunch.
Early bird fees by September 10th, 2016
GEI members 1: 225$
Non-members: 250$
University students 2: 165$
Regular fees after September 10th, 2016
GEI members 1: 240$
Non-members: 265$
University students 2: 180$
1 To become a member of the GEI, please go to the Membership application page.
2 A proof of full time university student status will be required at the registration desk on the morning of the conference.
Refund policy
Registration cancellations in writing, up to Saturday one week before the conference, will be refunded less a 25$ administration charge. Please address your request to the GEI treasurer. We regret that no refunds can be allowed after that date. For more information on the general registration modalities, please refer to the Modalités d'inscription aux activités du GEI.
To apply for (or renew your) membership and register at member fee
Please first complete online your GEI membership application. Following your membership application, you will immediately receive an automated email confirming your application. As soon as your payment is completed, you will receive a second email of (Confirmation de votre paiement). From then, your member status will give you access to member's reduced fees for your next registrations to an activity of that membership year.
- If you choose to pay online, the payment confirmation email will be received immediately.
- If you choose to pay by mail, allow an additional week before the payment confirmation email.
To register at student reduced fee (GEI members or non-members)
It is necessary to have site user account with a student status in order to automatically get the student fee when registering online.
If you don't have a user account, please first create your account by clicking on the following link Create a new account or on the link located in the site's right margin. The following account creation page will allow checking a student status option. This student status account will enable registrations at student fee when logged in.
- If you already have a user account but without a student status, please email the user accounts administrator to request a student status. Your account will be updated (in approximately 24h), and your student account will then enable registrations at student fee when logged in.
Your registration requires logging into your user account
During the registration process you will be required to:
- to log into your site user account if not already logged,
- or to create a user account if you don't have one yet.
Payment modalities
Click on Add to cart below (after indicating if you intend to use simultaneous translation), and on the next page choose your payment method:
- By credit card on ayPal's secure web site (it is NOT necessary to have a PayPal account)
- Or by cheque mailed to the GEI.
Registration payment receipt
Your receipt is the GEI - Confirmation de votre paiement email (don't use the GEI - Registration notification email, which is not printer-friendly). If you don't have this email anymore, please follow these steps:
- First log into your site user account (by entering your username and password in the login box).
- Once logged in, click on the My transactions link in your User menu (in the right margin).
- On this page is the history of the transactions for your registrations, membership applications and texts purchases. Identify the transaction for which you wish to print a receipt and click on the corresponding print icon (representation of a printer). If needed, first click on the viewing icon (representation of a document under a magnifying glass) to view this transaction's details.
- On the receipt page, click on the Print invoice button, in the upper right corner.
CEU certificate
The certifcate attesting to your participation to this continuing education activity will be sent as an email attachment in the following week. For any question regarding the CEU certificates, please email the CEU certificates administrator.
Free WiFi internet access at the Nouvel hôtel
Please note: To register at member fee it is necessary to have previously completed your membership application for the current year (and to have received the automated payment confirmation email sent approximately 24h after reception of your payment).