Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis

Childhood Screenings: Early Reverberations of Trauma in the Familial-Cultural Continuum

DATES: 5 Friday evenings March 9, March 23, April 13, May 4 and May 23, 2012
TIME: 7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
FEE: $180 (*discounted tuition of $150 for graduate students enrolled in clinical training programs)
LOCATION: University of Toronto, Faculty Club, 41 Willcocks St., Toronto
A FILM SERIES
Applying aesthetic, dramatic and psychoanalytic lenses, this film series explores the intricate and powerful forces of familial and cultural trauma in childhood. Embedded in cultural mores and conflicts, the family of origin's translation and transmission of subtle and blatant trauma impacts children in searing, self-altering ways. The child's indistinct and as yet undefended lens internalizes these experiences in a manner that complicates and thwarts future development. The films in this series give us glimpses into how traumas occur, how the repercussions unfold, and how they reverberate in both families and culture. This course will be of interest to mental health workers as well as individuals interested in psychoanalytis and cinema. Evenings will involve a screening of the film, a discussion, and then open-ended dialogue among all participants.   FILMS & DISCUSSANTS
Friday March 2: "Pan's Labrinth" (DIscussant: Deborah Levine, Ph.D.) Friday March 23: "The White Ribbon" (Discussant: Art Caspary, Ph.D.) Friday April 13: "The Fallen Idol" (Discussant: Dan Merkur, Ph.D.) Friday May 4: "Butterfly" (Discussant: Phil Classen, Ph.D.) Friday May 23: "Au Revoir Les Enfants" (Discussant: Keith Haartman, Ph.D.)
Registration Required by February 28, 2012 Online registration available at  

http://www.gifttool.com/registrar/ShowEventDetails?ID=1485&EID=10113

FOr more information or to register in person please contact suzanne_pearen@rogers.com or call 416.288.8060

For a copy of the program brochure, please download the pdf below.