Credentials
Oliver Lyttelton is a licensed psychotherapist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Montreal, Quebec (OPQ PCNA 60291-13). He is a member of various professional organisation and is committed to his ongoing professional development, attending and presenting at the annual conferences listed below. He completed his training at the Quebec English Branch of the Canadian Institute for Psychoanalysis (CIP-QE) where he now sits on the Curriculum Committee and teaches candidates. He is an active member of the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society and International Psychoanalytic Association. He has also completed the basic and advanced training courses for the treatment of dissociative disorders, run by the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation. He completed his doctoral training at McGill University where he studied patterns of individual difference in cortical morphology.
• GEI: Montreal Study Group for Intersubjectivity.
2019, Attended, GEI, Montreal: Espoir et appréhension, honte et dignité dans la relation thérapeutique.
2019, Attended, GEI, Montreal: Les approches relationnelles dans un monde en mutation : Autour de la pensée politique et morale de Martha Nussbaum (1947-).
2017, Presented, IARPP, Sydney: From the Margins to the Center : Contemporary Relational Perspectives. Paper Title, “Working with Extreme States - Thinking about Shame"
2016, Presented, IARPP, Rome: The Arts of Time. Paper Title, “Argentine Tango and Relational Psychoanalysis: The Timeless and The Unknown?"
2015, Presented, IARPP, Toronto: The Relational Pulse: Controversies, Caricatures and Clinical Wisdom. Paper Title, “Engage the vagal drive Mr Scott!”: Can neuroscience really inform psychoanalysis?"
2014, Presented, NPSA, New York: Current Neuropsychoanalytic Research. Paper Title "Dissociation: Are we narrowing the gap between phenomenal experience and brain-body processes?"
2013, Attended, IARPP Santiago: Field, Link, and Matrix in Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice.
2012, Attended, GEI, Montreal: Intersubjective Systems Theory: a Radical Paradigmatic Shift in Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice, Robert Stolorow.
2011, Attended, ISSTD, Montreal :Complex Trauma and Dissociation Across the Life Span: Core Competencies in Training and Research.