The Chicago Circle Association and
The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis

Invite you to an evening presentation and discussion by the teaching analysts of GIFRIC:

Willy Apollon, Ph.D
Danielle Bergeron, M.D.
Lucie Cantin, M.Ps.

"The problematic position of psychoanalysis in our post-modern culture"

The speakers will address the position of psychoanalysis in contemporary culture. They will explore the interface between neuroscience and psychoanalysis and will draw a contrast between psychoanalytic and psychiatric treatment of psychosis &mdash as informed by their 27 years experience at "Le 388" &mdash the psychoanalytic treatment program for psychotic young adults they developed.

Thursday, November 12
7:00 to 9:30 pm

The Chicago School for Professional Psychology
325 N. Wells St., 4th Floor, Chicago

Fee: $50

The speakers are analysts at the school of GIFRIC - the Freudian School of Québec

GIFRIC (Freudian Interdisciplinary Group for Research and Clinical and Cultural Interventions) received the Hans W. Loewald Memorial Award in recognition of its contribution to psychoanalytic theory, history, and application, most notably concerning the development of the psychoanalytic treatment of psychosis. Normally, this prize honors a single person but the IFPE (International Federation for Psychoanalytic Education) committee decided to recognize GIFRIC as an organization. The prize was awarded at the annual IFPE congress held November 2004 in Chicago.

Willy Apollon, Danielle Bergeron and Lucie Cantin are co-authors of Traiter la psychose (1990) (published by GIFRIC in French and translated in Spanish), and of La Cure analytique du psychotique: enjeux et stratégies (2008), published by GIFRIC, and of After Lacan: Clinical Practice and the Subject of the Unconscious (2002), at Suny Press Universities.

Willy Apollon, PhD Psychoanalyst and Philosopher (Paris, Sorbonne). He is Supervising Analyst, and Analyst Consultant at The 388, the Psychoanalytic Treatment Center for Young Adult Psychotics. Past President and founder of GIFRIC, he is responsible for research at the Center for Research and Training of GIFRIC, and Director of the Psychoanalytic Center for the Family. He is author of La Différence sexuelle au risque de la parenté, Psychoses: l'offre de l'analyste, L'Universel, perspectives psychanalytiques, published by Gifric. He has contributed to over thirty works and published more than one hundred articles in Québec and in international journals on the topics of psychosis, the formation of analysts, the psychoanalytic clinic, perversion, æsthetics, family, and the analysis of cultural, social and political practices.

Danielle Bergeron, MD Psychoanalyst and psychiatrist. She is supervising analyst and responsible for teaching at GIFRIC Center for Research and Training; Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Laval University; Director of The 388, the Psychoanalytic Treatment Center for Young Adult Psychotics; responsible for the Short Term Analytic Therapy Program at Robert-Giffard Hospital, Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. She has several publications on femininity, art and aesthetics, the psychoanalytic treatment of psychosis, the stakes of the psychoanalytic treatment of neuroses, on psychosis/psychiatry/ psychoanalysis and society, and on becoming an analyst.

Lucie Cantin, MPs Psychoanalyst and psychologist. She is Supervising Analyst and Co-director of training at GIFRIC; Clinical Professor of Psychology at Laval University. Since its foundation in 1982, she is Assistant Director of The 388, Psychoanalytic Treatment Center for Young Adult Psychotics. She is responsible for publication and training at the Center for Research and Training of GIFRIC, Editor of the review Savoir, journal of psychoanalysis and cultural analysis, and Vice-President of GIFRIC. She has several publications on the psychoanalytic treatment of psychosis, the clinic of neurosis, on mysticism, femininity, masculinity, and perversion.

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