9th Annual Conference of the GEI
Only 4 places left for the conference (this Friday, september 21th):
Please note that there is a maximum number of 120 participants for the conference. When this maximum number will be reached, we will not be able to accept further registrations, either online, by mail or at the door.
*The Intersubjective-Systems Theory:
A Radical Paradigmatic Shift in Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice
A conference by: Robert D. Stolorow, Ph.D., Ph.D., psychoanalyst
*The presentation will be given in English. Simultaneous translation will be available both from English to French and from French to English (during the question period).
Date: Saturday, September 22nd, 2012
Time: from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. (Registration starts at 10:30 a.m.)
Location: Le Nouvel Hôtel, room Dorchester / Maisonneuve
1740 West René-Lévesque Blvd, Montréal, (514) 931-8841
Metro Guy-Concordia / Indoor parking: entrance on Saint-Mathieu St.
To register, please see the informations at the bottom of page.
The conference
The intersubjective-systems theory has evolved over the last four decades from the work of Robert Stolorow, George Atwood, Bernard Brandchaft and Donna Orange. They have attempted to reformulate psychoanalysis as a pure psychology of personal experience, freed from the mechanistic and reified freudian metapsychology. As such, their theoretical framework is in continuity with the same phenomenological turn taken by the existential-humanistic theories which appeared some 20 years earlier. Their sustained inquiry in illuminating personal phenomenology have moved further their theoretical perspective towards a radical contextualization of personal worlds of experience, from the intrapsychic to the intersubjective.
This presentation will give an overview of the evolution of the basic ideas in Stolorow’s intersubjective-systems theory which he describes as a phenomenological contextualism. This framework is phenomenological in that it investigates and illuminates worlds of emotional experience; it is contextualist in that it holds that such organizations of emotional experience always and continually take form within relational or intersubjective contexts, both developmentally and in the therapeutic situation. Intersubjective-systems theory entails a move from mind to world and from drive to affectivity. Emotional trauma and its disruptive impact on our experience of time will be illuminated and illustrated from this perspective.
The speaker
Robert D. Stolorow, Ph.D., Ph.D., (<- link to Robert Stolorow's page) is a Founding Faculty Member and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles; a Founding Faculty Member at the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity, New York City; and a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine.
He is the author of World, Affectivity, Trauma: Heidegger and Post-Cartesian Psychoanalysis (2011) and Trauma and Human Existence: Autobiographical, Psychoanalytic, and Philosophical Reflections (2007), and coauthor of Worlds of Experience: Interweaving Philosophical and Clinical Dimensions in Psychoanalysis (2002), Working Intersubjectively: Contextualism in Psychoanalytic Practice (1997), Contexts of Being: The Intersubjective Foundations of Psychological Life (1992), Psychoanalytic Treatment: An Intersubjective Approach (1987), Structures of Subjectivity: Explorations in Psychoanalytic Phenomenology (1984), Psychoanalysis of Developmental Arrests: Theory and Treatment (1980), and Faces in a Cloud: Intersubjectivity in Personality Theory (1993 [1979], 2nd. ed.). He is also coeditor of The Intersubjective Perspective (1994) and has authored or coauthored more than two hundred articles.
He received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Harvard University in 1970 and his Certificate in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy from the Psychoanalytic Institute of the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health, New York City, in 1974. He also received a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of California at Riverside in 2007. He holds diplomas both in Clinical Psychology and in Psychoanalysis from the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP), and he is a Fellow in the Division of Psychoanalysis of the American Psychological Association. He received the Distinguished Scientific Award from the Division of Psychoanalysis in 1995 and the Haskell Norman Prize for Excellence in Psychoanalysis from the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis in 2011, and he will receive the Hans W. Loewald Memorial Award from the International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education in 2012.
Learning Objectives
- Participants will learn how to engage in psychoanalytic investigation conceived as a form of
phenomenological inquiry.
- Participants will learn how to investigate the contexts in which emotional conflict and the
various forms of unconsciousness take form.
- Participants will acquire skill in investigating the context-embeddedness and existential significance
of emotional trauma.
Organizing Committee
Sylvie Chênevert, psychologist
Marie Noël, psychologist
Annette Richard, psychologist, president of the GEI
Registration fees: (meal included)
Until September 14th 2012
Members: 170$
Non-members: 185$
Students*: 110$
After September 14th 2012
Members: 185$
Non-members: 200$
Students*: 125$
*Full time university students only. You will be asked for your student ID card at the door.
Refund Policy:
If you must cancel your registration, please do it in writing and a refund less an administrative fee of $25 will be allowed up to September 14th, 2012. We regret that refunds cannot be allowed after September 14th.
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After indicating if you intend to use simultaneous translation, click on Add to cart. On the following page you will be able to complete your billing information and choose to pay your registration either way:
- By credit card on PayPal's secure web site (it is NOT necessary to have a PayPal account)
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