Clinical Seminars

A series of clinical seminars offered by the Lacan Salon.

  • Clinical Seminar: A Psychoanalysis Begins

    From preliminary interviews to orientating the treatment When: 7 sessions from March 8, 2025 – June 14, 2025, Fortnightly Saturdays 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM. Where: Room 2200 SFU Harbour Centre. Hybrid format.  Who: Facilitated by Dr. Hilda Fernandez-Alvarez, PhD, RCC (See Biography below.) Dates:  Mar 8 and 22,  Apr 12 and 26,  May 17 and 31, and  Jun 14 Registration CLOSED Cost:  $350 CDN – Fully employed, non-contingent workers $250…

  • Clinical Seminar III: “The Institutional Unconscious”

    Presented by Hilda Fernandez, MA, RCC, with kind support of Lacan Salon and SFU Institute for the Humanities 10 sessions starting January 2019. Open to all and free of charge. The Institutional Unconscious · Presented by Hilda Fernandez Alvarez, MA, RCC, with the kind support of SFU Institute for the Humanities and the Lacan Salon. ·  8 sessions from January 12 to May 25th, 2019.  ·  Fortnight Saturdays 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. ·  SFU Harbour…

  • Clinical Seminar IV: “What Makes a Psychoanalyst?”

    Registration is now closed. 7 sessions from March 18, 2023 – June 17, 2023 Fortnight Saturdays 10:30 a.m to 12:30 p.m. SFU Harbour Centre. Hybrid format. In this seminar, we will read central texts by Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan that pertain to the question of what makes a psychoanalyst and what inheres a psychoanalytic practice. We also will read contemporary texts to explore, within our present circumstances, what are the…