TICP Scientific Meetings
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Feb. 26, 2025 7:00 pm – 9:09 pm Save the DateRegister NowGary Rodin
Mar. 19, 2025 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Finding the Promise and Avoiding the Perils of the Artificial Intelligence RevolutionThis is open to TICP Members, TICP Guest Members, TICP students and candidates.
Apr. 16, 2025 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Remembering "The Sane Society": An American LamentRegister NowIn this talk he will revisit Fromm's pivotal book from 1955, the second year of President’s Eisenhower’s administration. The book had a profound impact on the ideas and agendas of social activists during the 60s and 70s, including this author. Its central theses were that the middle-class prosperity characteristic of that era masked a “pathology of normalcy”, and that capitalism transforms active citizens into passive consumers by compelling people to fill their material needs in ways that are at variance with their existential or human needs. The result is a dramatic diminution of their critical faculties, an atrophy of conscience, and the proliferation of a “marketing character”, a kind of alienated, hedonistic lifestyle whose emptiness is palliated by the consumption of ever larger quantities of consumer goods. Fromm’s analysis still rings true in some respects, but the middle-class prosperity and bland uniformity of opinion he critiqued began to wane in the late 1970s, gradually giving way to sharp extremes of poverty and wealth. The resulting political polarization has now reached a critical point, where the future of American democracy – or what little is left of it – is now in peril. So, as we approach 2025, Fromm’s analysis of America in the mid-20th century must be updated and modified to fit the contours of contemporary social realities. In so doing, however, we discover that American society is even more alienated, more atomized and fragile than it was in Fromm’s day.
May 14, 2025 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Save the DateShelley Nathans
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Jan. 25, 2025 9:00 am – 12:00 pm Brain Mechanisms of Attachment and their Implications for PsychoanalysisAttachment Through the Lifespan Series:
The Parent - Infant Mental Health Project
In association with
Canadian Association of Psychoanalytic Child Therapists
and
Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis
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TICP Workshops
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Mar. 29, 2025 10:00 am – 4:00 pm TICP presents A Day with Nancy McWilliams, Ph,D. ABPPRegister NowTherapists struggle to help patients for whom situational stresses interact with personality patterns in complicated combinations of grief, mourning, and depressive and masochistic dynamics. Because neither “Depressive Personality Disorder” nor “Self-Defeating Personality Disorder” is found in the DSM or ICD, official taxonomies offer little clinical help in distinguishing between various painful self-states and framing therapy accordingly.
May 3, 2025 10:00 am – 4:00 pm TICP Workshop with Donna BassinInnis Town Hall
Co-Sponsored
Upcoming Events
Jan. 25, 2025 9:00 am – 12:00 pm Brain Mechanisms of Attachment and their Implications for PsychoanalysisAttachment Through the Lifespan Series:
The Parent - Infant Mental Health Project
In association with
Canadian Association of Psychoanalytic Child Therapists
and
Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis
Click Here to Register