ABSTRACT
The establishment of psychoanalysis in Canada is the result of a paradox that is as strange as it is revelatory of the unique character of the country: an anti-Franco Spanish refugee, Miguel Prados, formed an alliance with a French-Canadian priest, the Dominican Noel Mailloux. In March 1952 the Canadian Society of Psychoanalysts became an affiliate of the British Society, with Chen-trier as president and Dr Alastair MacLeod as secretary. The British Psychoanalytical Society also sponsored the training programme of the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society, which was located in a university setting, at the Allan Memorial Institute of McGill University. In 1969, for cultural and linguistic as well as geographic reasons, a federal model was used to create different branches within the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society. In Quebec City, Father Henri Samson, who trained in France and was a contemporary of Father Mailloux, founded the Institut de Psychotherapie de Quebec in the 1960s for those who wanted training in analytic psychotherapy.
