Robin Roger MA, Dip ATPPP, Member CAPT

Professional Development Record

Conferences as Participant 2006-2012

2012 - attended University of Toronto Psychiatry Neuroscience Day: "The Emotional Brain" by Dr Joseph LeDoux

2011 - "Brain, Mind & Body: Trauma, Neurobiology and The Healing Relationship", with Pat Ogden, PhD, Allan N Schore, PhD, Bessel van der Kolk, MD, et al, organized by the University of Western Ontario Department of Psychiatry, October 20-22 in London, Ontario

2011 - "'Mentalization' Based Treatment for Borderlines", with Dr. Anthony W. Bateman MA, FRCPsych, Mt. Sinai Hospital, September 16

2011 - attended University of Toronto Psychiatry Neuroscience Day 2011

2010 - attended University of Toronto Psychiatry Rounds November 2010: Adverse Childhood Events and their Long term Psychological Consequences

2010 - "The Brain that Changes Itself: The Neuroplasticity Revolution for the Helping Professions" all-day seminar with Dr. Norman Doidge, November 19 in Toronto

2010 - Participant, Identity Method Workshop with Fred Gallo, Ph.D

2009 - Participant, American Psychology Association Annual Convention

2008 - Participant, American Psychoanalytic Association Meeting, New York, New York

2008 - Participant, Association for Psychoanalytic and Dynamic Psychiatry, Washington D.C.

2007 - Participant, Legal Workshop for Psychotherapists: Negligence, Record Keeping, Confidentiality, Reporting Obligations and Ontario's Health Information Privacy Act

Conferences as Presenter 2006-2010

2010 - Presenter at the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society Congress

2007 - Presenter at the American Psychoanalytic Association Meeting

2007 - Presentation to the Society for the Advancement of Clinical Social Work

2006 - Presenter at The American Psychoanalytic Association Meeting, New York New York

2006 - Presentation to the Society for the Advancement of Clinical Social Work

Workshops

Workshop on Complex Psychological Trauma at Mount Sinai Psychotherapy Institute, 12 hours July 2011

Peer Supervision

Monthly meeting of psychotherapy colleagues to discuss cases, 2006 to present

Relevant Publications

Shock Therapy, The Globe and Mail 2008 Book Review

Analyzing Freud, The Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis 2005 Book Review

Psyche Self and Soul, The Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis 2007 Book Review

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