Stephen van Beek MA, RP, DCTP, Guest TPS, Member Lacan Toronto
"A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding."- Marshall McLuhan
Professional Development Record
Workshops and Seminars
"The Four Discourses of Jacques Lacan" with Dr. Levi Bryant sponsored by Lacan Toronto at the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society, March 23,2013
Seminar 8 "On Transference" with Drs. Judith Hamilton, Claire Lunney and Clive Thomson, an Extension Program at the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society, January 17-February 14, 2013
"Me, Not-Me, Mine, Not-Mine:When Adoption is a Factor" with Michael Blugerman and Dagnija Tenne Ph.D, Extension Program at the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society, November 8-December 6,2012
Seminar on "The Purloined Letter" with Drs. Judith Hamilton, Doron Almagor, Claire Lunney and Clive Thomson at the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society, April 14-May 23, 2012
P.A.C.T.(A Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy) Level One Certification June 2012with Stan Tatkin, Psy.D., Assistant Clinical Professor Department of Family Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles June 2012
P.A.C.T.(A Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy) Training Part 4 with Stan Tatkin, Psy.D., Assistant Clinical Professor Department of Family Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles June 11 and 12, 2012, two day workshop
P.A.C.T.(A Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy) Training Part 3 with Stan Tatkin, Psy.D., Assistant Clinical Professor Department of Family Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles March 18 and 19, 2012, two day workshop
'Our Mind at War' lecture by Dr. Iain McGilchrist, author of The Master and His Emissary, presented by the Literary Review of Canada March 5, 2012
Reading Lacan: "The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire" with Drs. Judith Hamilton, Doron Almagor, Claire Lunney and Clive Thomson at the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society, January 19-February 16, 2012
P.A.C.T.(A Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy) Training Part 2 with Stan Tatkin, Psy.D., Assistant Clinical Professor Department of Family Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles November 7 and 8, 2011, two day workshop
P.A.C.T.(A Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy) Training Part 1 with Stan Tatkin, Psy.D., Assistant Clinical Professor Department of Family Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles September 19 and 20, 2011, two day workshop
'Mentalization' Based Treatment for Borderlines, with Dr. Anthony W. Bateman MA, FRCPsych, Mt. Sinai Hospital, September 16, 2011, half-day workshop
Living Together with The Phantom(Phantasma/Phantasy): Accumulative Effects of the 'Dead Mother' Complex, TPS & I Scientific Meeting with Dr Susana Velasco, April 2011 Toronto Ontario
The Brain that Changes Itself: The Neuroplasticity Revolution for the Helping Professions" all-day seminar with Dr. Norman Doidge, November 19 in Toronto
Naked on the Royal Road: Dissociation and the Paradox of Privacy with Dr. Philip Bromberg, The Annual Stephen Mitchell Memorial Lecture, October 2010, Toronto Ontario
The Method Pilates, Matwork Teacher Certification Training (Parts 1 and 2), Physicalmind Institute, 2009
'Mindfulness and Psychotherapy', an on-line NICBM Course led by Ronald D. Siegel 2006-2007
Workshop leader and Course developer 2006-2008
Brief Dynamic Psychotherapy training series with Pragmos Consulting for Toronto Therapy Network members (www.therapytoronto.ca)
Expert Panelist
"Unconscious Motivators and Situational Seat Belt Use", published results of a literature and expert panel review for NTSA (National Transportation Safety Administration, an agency of the United States Federal Government) Washington DC
Recent Readings
Heidegger's Children:Hannah Arendt, Karl Lowith, Hans Jonas and Herbert Marcuse by Richard Wolin
Empire of Signs by Roland Barthes
In Spite of Everything by Elisabeth Roudinesco
On Being Normal and Other Disorders by Paul Verhaege
Key Concepts of Lacanian Psychoanalysis edited by Dany Nobus
Jacques Lacan the the Adventure of Insight by Shoshana Feldman
The View from Within: First-Person Approaches the the Study of Consciousness edited by Francisco Varela and Jonathan Shear
Mating in Captivity by Esther Perl
The Age of Catastrophe by Heinrich August Winkler
The Third Reich in History and Memory by Richard J. Evans
The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wolf
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Human Nature by Arthur Schopenhauer
What Matters Most by James Hollis
London Labour and the London Poor by Henry Mayhew
The Origins of Love and Hate by Ian D. Suttie
History Beyond Trauma by Francoise Davoine and Jean-Max Gaudilliere
The Memory of Place: A Phenomenology of the Uncanny by Dylan Trigg
Seminar 10: Anxiety by Jacques Lacan
Lacanian Therapy:Theory and Practical Applications by Michael J. Miller
Levi Bryant Ph.D "Zizek's New Universe of Discourse
Levi Bryant Ph.D The Democracy of Objects
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
Encore by Jacques Lacan, Seminar XX, French original /
Ecrits by Jacques Lacan, French original
Ecrits by Jacques Lacan translated by Bruce Fink into English
, numbers 2, 5,9,12,17,20,22,29,30,33- Jacques Lacan's Seminar 7, Chapter 17
- Jacques Lacan's Seminar 8 On Transference translated by Cormac Gallagher et al./li>
- Jacques Lacan's Seminar on "The Purloined Letter" by Edgar Allen Poe
- The Mirror Stage as Formative of the I Function as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience
- Aggressiveness in Psychoanalysis
- The Milan Discourse
- Logical Time and Anticipated Certainty
- The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis
- The Freudian Thing, or the Meaning of the Return to Freud in Psychoanalysis
- The Instance of the Letter in the Unconscious, or Reason Since Freud
- The Direction of the Treatment and the Principles of Its Power
- Kant with Sade
- The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire in the Freudian Unconscious
- Science and Truth
Lacan to the Letter by Bruce Fink
Lacan by Slavoj Zizek
The Lonely Crowd by David Riesman
Claude Levi-Strauss:The Poet in the Laboratory by Patrick Wilcken
The Information by James Gleick
Redirect:The Surprising New Science of Psychological Change by Timothy D. Wilson
Annoying:The Science of What Bugs us by Joe Palco and Flora Lichtman
Love and War in Intimate Relationships by Marion Solomon and Stan Tatkin
The Nature of Sympathy by Max Scheler
The Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram
Freud: Inventor of the Modern Mind by Peter D. Kramer
On the Marionette Theatre by Heinrich von Kleist
The Master and His Emissary by Iain McGilchrist MD
Self Comes to Mind by Antonio Damasio
On Being Certain by Robert A. Burton MD
Integral Psychology by Ken Wilber
Ill Fares the Land by Tony Judt
The Female Brain by Louann Brizendine MD
The Male Brain by Louann Brizendine MD
The Brain that Changes Itself by Norman Doidge MD
The Weariness of the Self by Alain Ehrenberg
Schizoid Phenomena, Object-Relations, and the Self by Harry Guntrip
The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt
Portrait of the Blue Lady: The Character of Melancholy by Lyn Cowan
Mindfulness and Psychotherapy edited by Christopher K. Germer, Ronald D. Siegel and Paul R. Fulton
The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt
The Divided Self by R.D. Laing MD
The Essential Loewald: Collected Papers and Monographs by Hans W. Loewald
The Divided Mind by John Sarno MD
Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self by Allan N. Schore
Soul Murder by Lawrence Shengold MD
Looking Awry: Jacques Lacan in Popular Culture by Slavoj Zizek
Brief Therapy with Individuals and Couples edited by Carlson and Sperry
Levi-Strauss Structural Analysis Project:Tristes Tropiques by Claude Levi-Strauss
The Raw and the Cooked Volume 1 of Mythologies by Claude Levi-Strauss, translated by John and Doreen Weightman
From Honey to Ashes Volume 2 of Mythologies by Claude Levi-Strauss, translated by John and Doreen Weightman
The Origin of Table Manners Volume 3 of Mythologies by Claude Levi-Strauss, translated by John and Doreen Weightman
The Naked Man Volume 4 of Mythologies by Claude Levi-Strauss, translated by John and Doreen Weightman
Supervision
Supervision for several therapists from 2006
Related Activities
The Memory Project, a bibliotherapy exploration
The Man without Qualities Volumes 1 & 2 by Robert Musil
Austerlitz, Vertigo and The Emigrants by Max Sebald
A la Recherche du Temps Perdu Volume 1-3 by Marcel Proust
A Book of Memories by Peter Nadas
Somatic Learning Project
Personal study of Alexander, Pilates, Franklin and Feldenkrais methodologies
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