TICP Scientific Meetings
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Jan. 14, 2026 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Making Use of Narrative Holes to Unpack Transgenerational TraumaRegister NowWith Hilary Offman, MD FRCPC
This presentation explores how gaps, silences, and contradictions in family stories—the “narrative holes” such as unexplained family estrangements, sudden changes in behaviour, or unspoken tragedies—serve as vital entry points into understanding transgenerational trauma. Drawing on clinical material and contemporary analytic theory, Dr. Hilary Offman examines how both personal and collective histories of transgenerational trauma and existential anxiety may be obscured or disavowed yet continue to shape patients’ lives in profound ways.
By attending to the moments when narratives do not add up, clinicians can make use of their countertransferential responses to approach the dissociated, unspoken aspects of trauma. This session will delve into strategies for working with confusion and affective disorientation in the clinical setting, with special attention to how sociopolitical context and cultural identity influence the telescoping of traumatic experience across generations.
Colleagues interested in relational psychoanalysis, trauma theory, and the complexities of inherited suffering will find this session relevant to their practice and thinking.
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Feb. 28, 2026 9:00 am – 12:00 pm Working with Trauma and Neglect: Awakening Hope and VitalityGraham Music, PhD
Consultant Psychotherapist, Tavistock Clinic London
In this talk Graham Music will introduce ways of understanding and working with more shut-down states. He will first introduce some key concepts such as ‘spark’ energy, nervous system whispering, and the embodied countertransference. He will then address the profound effects of emotional neglect and the kind of lifelessness that can arise from this. Next, he will look at numbing after trauma, which can seem similar in terms of lifelessness to neglect, but have different aetiology and require different therapeutic techniques. This material will be brought together with clinical examples. New science combined with psychoanalytic understandings will suggest what can help shift people from ‘desparked’, lifeless, unenergised states to more hopeful and joyous states. The talk will include video clips, slides, and discussions.
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TICP Workshops
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Nov. 24, 2025 9:57 am – Apr. 30, 2026 10:57 pm Essentials Program Information SessionRegister NowPlease Register to be notified of the next Information Session
Jan. 1, 2026 12:00 am – Apr. 18, 2026 12:00 am 4 Year Program Information SessionRegister NowPlease Register to be notified of the next information session to be held in 2026
Apr. 11, 2026 10:00 am – 4:00 pm Invited Speaker Workshop with Nancy McWilliams and Michael GarrettRegister NowHelping Patients with Paranoia:
Clinical Implications of Psychotic and Nonpsychotic Paranoid Psychologies
The speakers invite clinicians to approach paranoia as a deeply intrapsychic process of disavowal and projection, often related to trauma and inadequate psychological separation from early caregivers. Although most visible in psychosis, nonpsychotic paranoid states of mind are common. Dr. McWilliams and Dr. Garrett offer a rare opportunity and a significant contribution to understanding paranoia with depth and complexity that impacts the possibilities for treatment.
May 2, 2026 10:00 am – 4:00 pm Save the Date – Invited Speaker Workshop Susi Federici and Gianni NebbiosiThe challenges of working psychoanalytically in the contemporary world.
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Feb. 28, 2026 9:00 am – 12:00 pm Working with Trauma and Neglect: Awakening Hope and VitalityGraham Music, PhD
Consultant Psychotherapist, Tavistock Clinic London
In this talk Graham Music will introduce ways of understanding and working with more shut-down states. He will first introduce some key concepts such as ‘spark’ energy, nervous system whispering, and the embodied countertransference. He will then address the profound effects of emotional neglect and the kind of lifelessness that can arise from this. Next, he will look at numbing after trauma, which can seem similar in terms of lifelessness to neglect, but have different aetiology and require different therapeutic techniques. This material will be brought together with clinical examples. New science combined with psychoanalytic understandings will suggest what can help shift people from ‘desparked’, lifeless, unenergised states to more hopeful and joyous states. The talk will include video clips, slides, and discussions.