ALUMNI
http://www.LookingForaTherapist.com
The Psychotherapy Referral Service (PRS) was founded in 1995 to help people find a therapist trained at CTP. Based on a careful assessment of your needs and preferences, our skilled interviewer will refer you to one of 50 CTP graduates practicing in the Toronto area.
http://www.torontotherapycenter.com
The Toronto Couple Therapy Center (TCTC) is staffed by CTP graduate psychotherapists that have in-depth training, skill and experience to help couples repair negative interactions and develop a renewed sense of love, affection, and support for one another.
http://www.mypsychotherapist.ca offices at 330 Dupont Street
http://therapists.psychologytoday.com/rms/state/ON/Toronto.html
This is the Psychology Today therapist website for Toronto, which has CTP graduates. Look for CTP Dipl, which indicates a CTP graduate.
The Toronto Therapy Network has CTP graduates on their list of therapists. Look for CTP Dipl which indicates a CTP graduate.
** * Do an Advanced Google with “Toronto Psychotherapist” in the “all of these words line,” and in the “one or more of these words” line put “DCTP, CTP Dipl, CAPT, MTC, M.T.C.” and you will find the websites of most CTP graduates ***
Psychotherapy Referral Service — 416-920-0655 — http://www.LookingForaTherapist.com
To find a therapist, call any of the above telephone numbers.
CTP Alumni Association News and Events
Alumni and guests of the CTP are invited to take part in the monthly professional development events sponsored by the CTPAlumni Association, an independent grouping of graduates of the CTP.
This is an excellent opportunity to share professional insights and learn from colleagues in a relaxed setting. The CTPAA also sponsors social events.
Click here to download the Alumni Fall 2010 Schedule
The CTP Alumni Graduate Presentations take place at 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. on the last Friday of each month from September to May, excluding December. The location of the presentations are at The Centre, 316 Dupont Street, Toronto. They are free to all members and there is a nominal $10.00 fee for non-members. For any further information please contact Leah Lucas at 416.654.6179 or leah.lucas@sympatico.ca
Alumni Dinner Party, October 2008
The Alumni held a dinner party last October, 2008, in honor of the Centre for Training in Psychotherapy faculty. All fourteen faculty and sixty two alumni were present. The “name” tags were to designate tables so that there was at least one or two faculty at each table. The pictures were taken by Lee Kraemer and Adam Crabtree. Download the album of photographs from that delightful evening Here (Large PDF file – over 5Mb, we strongly suggest right clicking the link and selecting “Save Target As” to save the PDF file on your desktop).
Graduate Presentations
“TO SEE THE WORLD IN A GRAIN OF SAND, MOMENTS OF MEETING IN PSYCHOTHERAPY.” by Daniel Stern, conference notes by Leah Lucas
It is about pre-verbal and unconscious communication with infants and within a psychotherapy. He also speaks about the psychobiology of intersubjectivity, why lovers are neuronly in tune with one another and how time is broken down into phrases unfolding into a moment of destiny.
Download Daniel Stern’s talk Here.
KABBALAH and PSYCHOTHERAPHY by Leah Lucas
This paper is about Jewish Mysticism, The Kabbalah and Psychotherapy. Psychoanalysis and the therapeutic exploration of the unconscious as revealed in the intersubjective space between therapist and client. Meditation and intuition linked to the study of Torah viewed as the mind of God is related to the theme of Infinity, the timeless dimension of consciousness. Download Kabbalah Presentation (PDF) Here.
DAMAGED BONDS by Leah Lucas
This paper speaks to the neurobiology of love, how the emotional mind transcends the dualism separating its psychological and biological aspects. Psychotherapy alters the living brain through the creation of a somatic state of relatedness. Unconscious communication, the intimate relationship and dream work between therapist and client heal the damaged bonds and wounds of childhood. Dowload Damaged Bonds (PDF) Here.
IS INTUITION THE UNCONSCIOUS GOD? by Leah Lucas
This paper written by a practicing psychotherapist explores the themes of mystic enlightenment, Zen Buddhist contemplation and psychoanalysis. The therapeutic process of delving into one’s deepest pain as a metaphor for the transformation of human personality linking the spiritual journey to apprehension of Universal Infinity. A serious study of one’s own Being to discover the Divine Principles ordering Existence. Drawing on works of William Blake, Rainer Maria Rilke, Meister Eckhart, St. John of the Cross and Evelyn Underhill’s Mysticism to explore Intuition and the Unconscious as a gateway to God. Download the Unconscious God (PDF) Here
THE CHRISTOPHER BOLLAS CONFERENCE ON FREE ASSOCIATION by Leah Lucas
In these lecture notes Christopher Bollas makes a plea for a return to earlier Freudian thinking to appreciate how truly radical the discovery of psychoanalysis was as an understanding of object relations. Free association was the root to unconscious knowledge through a relaxed way of attention. Freud regarded dreaming as the most sophisticated form of thinking. Bollas makes a call to return to the way Freud saw unconscious communication, the value in discovering forgotten material. He speaks about everyday human life as the bearer of great significance, it is where meaning resides as the analyst surrenders himself to his own unconscious mentation while absorbing the client’s free association. Download Here
THE ARMS OF UNKNOWING: Illness as Opportunity by Ursula Carsen
This presentation is a tribute to one woman’s courageous struggle with cancer, her passage through the darkest corridors of the soul and how for her, night turned into the dawn of psychological and spiritual transformation. Download (PDF) Here
DEPRESSION by Mary Ellen Young
Depression is a vast topic and can be discussed from a wide range of perspectives. I have narrowed my focus to psychoanalytic writings, specifically those that have depression as their primary subject. Download (PDF) Here
PSYCHOTHERAPY AND BUDDHISM: AN UNFOLDING DIALOGUE by Janice Priddy and Diana Powell Download (PDF) Here
THE WALLPAPER PEOPLE: PSYCHIC FANTASY AS GUARDIAN OF TRAUMA OR AGENT OF TRANSFORMATION by Leah Lucas Download (PDF) Here
JOURNEY TO THE HIMALAYAS: MEETING MY GURU by Leah Lucas.
This paper is a movement into enlightenment-oriented psychotherapy. The intersection of psychoanalytic psychotherapy and how it has formed a ground for the author and psychotherapist to evolve her spiritual journey in the path of meditation and expanded states of consciousness. Download (PDF) Here
CTP PANEL PRESENTATION: WHAT IS PSYCHOTHERAPY?
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MADNESS by David Westbrook
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MEDITATIONS ON DREAMING by David Westbrook.
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LISTENING TO FIRE: THE POETRY AND SCIENCE OF MEDITATION by Leah Lucas
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LISTENING TO FIRE: THE POETRY AND SCIENCE OF MEDITATION – PART TWO by Leah Lucas
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