Interested in expanding your network, or learning about a therapy approach that’s new to you? Our event listing includes seminars, workshops and events. Some events are suited for therapists, while others may be of interest to members of the public as well.
Please note that CAPT does not evaluate any of the events advertised below.
Summary: Individuals with unresolved trauma experience a number of symptoms and problems and often carry a range of diagnoses. Recognizing and decoding these complex communications of suffering can differentiate trauma from accompanying difficulties. This acts to refine and improve treatment so that even the most self-destructive or treatment-resistant behaviour can abate and relinquish to insight and reflection within the therapeutic relationship.
Defining trauma, understanding what delays the resolution of traumatic experience, continuing to recognize the centrality of relationships to injury and healing; and resilience and mentalizing, are several of the key principles that effectively ground assessment and treatment and form the basis of this lecture.
Time: 10:00 a.m.- 12:00 p.m. EST
Where: Online by Zoom
Cost: Attendance is free for all CAPT members
Continuing education credits: The lecture counts as two hours of professional development.
The presentation is approximately 60 minutes, followed by breakout sessions where members meet in smaller groups to discuss the lecture material and share additional thoughts or clinical experience before returning to the forum for Q+A.
The Seasonal Lecture series aims to promote knowledge transfer within the field of psychodynamic therapy, and provide free professional development to members of CAPT.
Note: Sessions are not recorded.
Bio: Dr. Clare Pain, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto is a staff psychiatrist at Mount Sinai Hospital and a member of the team that provides Mental Health Services to the six Cree Nations on James Bay. She is also a co-founder of the Toronto Addis Ababa Academic Collaboration – for which she was awarded an honorary PhD.
The focus of Dr. Pain’s clinical work is on the assessment and treatment of patients who continue to suffer from the effects of unresolved psychological trauma, including refugees with whom she works at the Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture. She has lectured on various aspects of psychological trauma including trans-cultural and global health issues. She is the recipient of the President’s Award at the International Society for the Study of Dissociation.
Email: clare.pain@sinaihealthsystem.ca
Publications
Ogden, P. and Pain, C. (2006) Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy. W.W. Norton.
Pain, C. and Vermetten, E. (2010) The Impact of Early Life Trauma on Health and Disease: The Hidden Epidemic. Cambridge University Press.
Kanagaratnam, P. et al (2017). Recommendations for Canadian Mental Health Practitioners Working with War-Exposed Immigrants and Refugees. Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health, 36(2):1-13.
Andermann, L. et al. (2021). Post-traumatic stress disorder in refugee and migrant mental health. In Oxford Textbook of Migrant Psychiatry (pp.513-522). Oxford University Press. DOI:10.1093/med/9780198833741.003.0060
Law R, Ravitz P, Pain C, & Fonagy P. (2023) Interpersonal Psychotherapy and Mentalizing Synergies in Clinical Practice. The American Journal of Psychotherapy.