Presentations

Presentations and Workshops

• "Empathy: Multiplicity and Empathic Understanding." International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis &Psychotherapy. Toronto, Canada, June, 2015.
• "The Big Hit: How Adult Illness Can Recapitulate Childhood Trauma and Fears of Failure Failure: Psychoanalytic Explorations. Edinburgh, Scotland, August, 2010.
• "Affect regulation: A developmental synthesis in the treatment of a young woman suffering from panic attacks and major depression. The Division of Psychoanalysis of the American Psychological Association. Santa Fe, New Mexico, April, 2001.
• "Delayed grief reaction in a young woman: The importance of the dyadic relationship in the development of affect regulation." 5th International Congress of the International Society for Adolescent Psychiatry, Aix-en-Provence, France, July, 1999.
• "The Role of Enactments in the Treatment of Self-Regulatory Disorders. With P. Thomson. 20th Annual conference of the Psychology of the Self. Toronto, October, 1999.
• "Enactment of self and mutual regulation: Non-verbal interactions in the psychoanalysis of a woman with environmental illness." with P. Thomson. Multiple Perspectives on Subjectivity, A European and American Dialogue, Rome, March, 1999.
• "Dyadic Structures: Progress in narcissistic development." with T. Babiak. 18th Annual Conference of the Psychology of the Self. San Francisco, October, 1995.
• "Conflict in a Psychoanalytic Class: The Impact of Discrete vs. Comparative Learning Models." The Toronto Psychoanalytic Society. Toronto, June, 1995.
• "The Influence of Expressed Emotion and Family Interaction on the Prediction of Relapse in Schizophrenia." Department of Psychiatry Research Day, University of Toronto, June 17, 1994.
• "The Tragedy of Marital Breakdown: A Search for the Self in Context." Third International Psychoanalytic Symposium, Delphi, Greece, August, 1992.
• "Expressed Emotion, Family Functioning, and Family Burden as Predictors of Relapse in Schizophrenia". Department of Psychiatry Research Day, University of Toronto, June, 1990.
• "Expressed Emotion in Canada: Toward An Interactional Model". Symposium, Canadian Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, September, 1989.
• "Expressed Emotion and Family Functioning in Families of Schizophrenics". Child Psychiatry Day, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, February, 1989.
• "The Focal Family Therapy Outcome Study" with J. Newman (presenting author) and J. Jeffries. IX International Conference on the Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia, Turin, Italy, September 1988.
• "Focal Family Therapy Outcome Study II: One Year Follow-up" with F. Newman, J. Jeffries. Canadian Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, Sheraton Hotel, Montreal, June 1988.
• "Focal Family Therapy Outcome Study". The American Family Therapy Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, June 1987.
• "Focal Family Therapy with Families of Schizophrenic Poor Responders: The findings of An Outcome Study" with F. Newman and J. Jeffries. Canadian Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, Vancouver, September 1986.
• "Patients and Families: A Psychosocial Perspective" with B. Abosh, and A. Morrissey. The Clarke Institute Conference: Past, Present, and Future, May, 1986.
• "Focal Family Therapy with Families of Schizophrenic Poor Responders: An Outcome Study". The Clarke Institute Conference: Past Present and Future, May, 1986.
• "Focal Family Therapy: Theory and Practice" with F. Newman and J. Jeffries. Yale University Symposium on the Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia, October, 1984.
• "Design Problems in Schizophrenia Research" with W. Lancee, M. Seeman. Dept. of Psychiatry Research Day, University of Toronto, September, 1984.
• "Models of Family Therapy with Schizophrenics". Ontario Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, January, 1984.
• "Focal Family Therapy". World Psychiatric Congress, Vienna, Austria, July, 1983.
• "Focal Family Therapy with Schizophrenic Non-Responders". Canadian Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, Quebec, September, 1982.
• "A Psychosomatic Approach to Family Therapy with Schizophrenics". Sixth World Congress of the College of Psychosomatic Medicine, Montreal, Quebec, September, 1981.
• "A Psychosomatic Approach to Therapeutic Intervention with Families of Schizophrenics". Grand Rounds, Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, Toronto, September, 198O.

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