We are pleased to announce that the
WBCPS (Western Branch of the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society)
and WPSI (Western Psychoanalytic Society Institute)
have recently amalgamated and will now be known by our new joint name:
WCPSI
Western Canada Psychoanalytic Society and Institute
Official transition of our structure and name will happen throughout 2024. We continue to invite your participation in our programs and look forward to this next chapter in our growth as an analytic Society and Institute.
Upcoming Events
Ethics as the Duty to Care: Protective Care for our Psychic Spaces | April 5, 2025
November 14, 2024
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Ethics as the Duty to Care: Protective Care for our Psychic Spaces Presenter: Maxine Anderson, M.D. FIPAChair: Elizabeth Wallace, MD, FRCPC FIPA Art Credits: Richard Markus | Maesltrom Moments | June 2023 | Digital Multiple exposures image Ethics as the Duty to Care for psychic i
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Writing Words That Touch: Tuning Our Psychoanalytic Voice | January 2025
November 07, 2024
Writing Words That Touch: Tuning Our Psychoanalytic Voice | January 2025 I don’t know what I think until I write it down. I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means, What I want and what I fear.– Joan Didion Touch me, astoni
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On Analytic Character and its Ever-Emerging Shapes | Last Thursday of the Month October 31
August 09, 2024
On Analytic Character and its Ever-Emerging Shapes: Dwelling in the psychoanalytic depths of knowing/unknowing in search of the living evolution of analytic character. … a person’s character is an aesthetic of being, as we have internalized the structure of our existence, the phenomen
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What Is Psychoanalysis?
Psychoanalytic treatment helps to bring these unconscious meanings of personal experience to the surface, by linking the person’s current relationships and patterns of behaviour to their historical origins. This permits a person to see how they have changed and developed over time, thereby offering the potential to deal more constructively with their current life.Learn more>>
Psychoanalytic Training Program
The Vancouver Institute of Psychoanalysis offers a four-year course for psychoanalytic training in Vancouver and is the only psychoanalytic training program in Western Canada approved by the International Psychoanalytical Association.Learn more>>
Continuing Education
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