Toronto Parent-Infant Mental Health Project

CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF PSYCHOANALYTIC CHILD THERAPISTS

&

TORONTO INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOANALYSIS

is pleased to offer a special presentation:

Attachment Across the Lifespan Series-

Working with Trauma and Neglect: Awakening Hope and Vitality

PRESENTER:

Graham Music, PhD

Consultant Psychotherapist, Tavistock Clinic London

Graham Music is a psychotherapist, trainer, author and supervisor. He is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist at the Tavistock Centre where he has worked for over 20 years, and he has been adult Psychotherapist for about 35 years. Formerly Associate Clinical Director of the Tavistock Clinic’s Child and Family Department, he has developed many innovative programs, including setting up services in over 40 schools and a range of services working with the aftermath of child maltreatment and neglect. His clinical specialty for decades been understanding and working with trauma. He supervises and teaches nationally and internationally and has a particular interest in linking cutting-edge developmental findings with therapeutic practice. His most recent publication is Womb Life: Wonders and Challenges of Pregnancy, the Foetus' Journey and Birth (2024). His publications include  Nurturing Natures: (2023, 2016, 2010), Respark: Igniting Hope and Joy after trauma and depression, (2022), Affect and Emotion (2022, 2001), Nurturing Children: From Trauma to Hope (2019), The Good Life (2014), as well as co-editing From Trauma to Harming Others (2022). 

DATES & TIME:  

February 28, 2026  9:00 am - 12:00 pm EST

The seminar is held online via Zoom videoconference

ABOUT THIS PROGRAM

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.

SEMINAR FEE:

$100  CAPCT and TICP Members

$125  Non-members

$50 -CICAPP and TICP Candidates (Currently in both Academic and Clinical training)

PROFESSIONAL  DEVELOPMENT

A certificate of attendance will be issued to participants upon completion of the presentation.

These continuing education and professional development hours can also be used towards your continuing education, professional development portfolio for your respective colleges, including the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO). 

For more information please contact by calling  416.690.5464 or by emailing  info@capct.ca.