Series: Connections and Conversation
Connections and Conversation is a free monthly Zoom meeting, cultivating creativity and freedom of thought and feeling. We invite you to engage with our presenters and community as they share their interests and passions in conversation on current topics in psychoanalysis.
This free event that alternates times. The meeting often begins with a 45 minute presentation followed by 45 minutes of conversation. When an event is recorded you can access the recording at the vault.
This series is open to all.
In case of questions please contact: [email protected]
A complexity clinician talks about freedom Toward an ethics of relational accountability
March 7, 2026 @ 9:00 am - 10:30 am PST
In this presentation I will be developing a view of freedom that draws heavily on traditions of the Anishinaabe/Ojibway First Nation Peoples as explicated by John Borrows one of Canada’s pre-eminent legal scholars and a global leader in the field of Indigenous legal traditions and Aboriginal rights. Freedom will be understood to be a dynamic process that is lived, a process that is thoroughly relational and contextual. The recognition of our interpenetration and interdependency with both the human and non-human world will bring forth an ethics of relational accountability that will serve as a guiding framework for elucidating a conception of freedom consistent with the dialogic complexity systems sensibility informing my clinical psychoanalytic practice. The latter view of psychoanalytic freedom will be contrasted with Freud’s conception whereby the restoration of freedom to the ego will be understood to be an individualist masquerade for the restoration of white male power and privilege. The presentation will conclude with a caveat that the full realization of freedom in our troubled world requires a willingness by (predominantly white males) to give up some of our privilege.
Presenter
Max Sucharov
Max Sucharov is a psychoanalytic clinician, author, and teacher. He is an emeritus council member of IAPSP. He is on the editorial board of Psychoanalysis Self and Context. He supervises in the psychotherapy program at UBC Department of Psychiatry. He writes on trauma, complexity theory, and political cultural themes. He has a private practice in Vancouver, Canada.
Series: Connections and Conversation
Connections and Conversation is a free monthly Zoom meeting, cultivating creativity and freedom of thought and feeling. We invite you to engage with our presenters and community as they share their interests and passions in conversation on current topics in psychoanalysis.
This free event that alternates times. The meeting often begins with a 45 minute presentation followed by 45 minutes of conversation. When an event is recorded you can access the recording at the vault.
This series is open to all.
In case of questions please contact: [email protected]
A complexity clinician talks about freedom Toward an ethics of relational accountability
March 7, 2026 @ 9:00 am - 10:30 am PST
In this presentation I will be developing a view of freedom that draws heavily on traditions of the Anishinaabe/Ojibway First Nation Peoples as explicated by John Borrows one of Canada’s pre-eminent legal scholars and a global leader in the field of Indigenous legal traditions and Aboriginal rights. Freedom will be understood to be a dynamic process that is lived, a process that is thoroughly relational and contextual. The recognition of our interpenetration and interdependency with both the human and non-human world will bring forth an ethics of relational accountability that will serve as a guiding framework for elucidating a conception of freedom consistent with the dialogic complexity systems sensibility informing my clinical psychoanalytic practice. The latter view of psychoanalytic freedom will be contrasted with Freud’s conception whereby the restoration of freedom to the ego will be understood to be an individualist masquerade for the restoration of white male power and privilege. The presentation will conclude with a caveat that the full realization of freedom in our troubled world requires a willingness by (predominantly white males) to give up some of our privilege.
Presenter
Max Sucharov
Max Sucharov is a psychoanalytic clinician, author, and teacher. He is an emeritus council member of IAPSP. He is on the editorial board of Psychoanalysis Self and Context. He supervises in the psychotherapy program at UBC Department of Psychiatry. He writes on trauma, complexity theory, and political cultural themes. He has a private practice in Vancouver, Canada.
Presentation Vault
Watch recordings and download papers and slides from past Connections and Conversations and Decentralized Learning Experiences.
