IPA Newsletter January 30, 2018

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Editorial 

Almost three years ago to this day, I sat in a chic

restaurant in Boston with IPA colleagues eating

the most disgusting lobster of my life. A mix of

texture between car wheels and tasteless chewing

gum. However, all was not lost in mediocrity, out of

this non-gastronomic meal came a suggestion. A

very English gentleman whom I was very fond of,

named Mike Tilley, invited me to introduce

webinars to the IPA membership. I confess as a

man without Facebook, I didn't even know what a

webinar was.

Fast forward 3 years and we have just hosted our

highly successful 3rd webinar on 'Training Models'

which was available to 500 registered members,

and that will shortly be available online to all. Our

 

IPA NewsNew year greetings from the IPA

IPA President, Virginia Ungar, offers her New Year

Greetings to all members and candidates on behalf of

the Association. The video messages are available to

watch in English and Spanish, and with subtitles in

French, German and Portuguese.

The full playlist can be found here.

 

Further communications on the development of the Eitingon Model

A message from the President: 

I am writing to share progress made at the Board

meeting held from 13 to 15 January in Costa Rica.

Click here to read more.

 

previous webinars on 'L'après-coup' and 'New

Technologies' are also available to view in video

format.

We have many more planned for 2018 where

there will be a mix of IPA Committee hosted

webinars and webinars of a more Psychoanalytical

nature led by specialists in their field. 

I encourage all to watch this space to find out

more as the year progresses.

Romolo Petrini

Chair of the Website Editorial Board

 

Calls for papersTwelfth International Evolving British Object Relations Conference

The Organising Committee invites paper

submissions of original and unpublished material

related to the theme of the body as a

psychoanalytic object.

For example, Winnicott's concept of 'psyche /

soma' and Bion's concept of 'proto-mental' states

of mind both address the enigmatic relationship

between psychological and biological processes.

We invite you to write about your understanding of

somatic process and its relationship to psychic

Further information on planned scope and

membership of these Task Forces can be found in the

attached PowerPoint.

COWAP newsletter

The Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis' most

recent newsletter features the Committee's

programme of events for 2018 and an overview of the

fantastic work done throughout 2017.

To read the full newsletter, please click here.

 

To three or not to three: that is not the question

IPA member, David Jachim writes an insightful and

thought-provoking piece on the frequency of analytic

sessions debate in the IPA blog. He argues that there

are several factors that need to be considered to

understand the tensions between various sections of

the international psychoanalytic community on both

sides of the debate. Jachim suggests that there are

development as applied to the clinical situation.

Somatic reverie (cvitarese), psychosomatic

symptoms as a function of interrupted or

obstructed dreaming (Ogden), nameless dread

(Bion), symmetry / asymmetry (Matte-Blanco), and

adhesive identification (Meltzer) are further

examples of theories that address the territory of

the conference theme.

A paper proposal must be submitted no later than

31st January 2018, for further information and full

submission instructions, please click here.

 

APU X Biennial Congress

The APU X Biennial Congress 'Helplessness -

Psychoanalytic and Sociocultural Perspectives' is

calling for paper submissions that contribute to our

discipline and to society as a whole.

Summary - Tentative title and brief paragraph that

gives an account of the topic that will develop the

work. It should not exceed 200 words. Deadline for

submission: 26th February 2018.

Format - It must be presented in Times New

Roman, size 12, line spacing 1.5. Maximum 9,500

characters. The presentation must not exceed 15

minutes. The bibliography should be separate with

a maximum length of one page. Deadline for

other factors that may be at least as important as

session frequency for establishing a good, effective

psychoanalytic process. 

You can read his full essay here. 

 

Argentine Psychoanalytic Association celebrates 75 years

The Argentine Psychoanalytic Association (APA)

recently celebrated its 75th anniversary with an event

held at the National Library in Buenos Aires. APA

President, Claudia Borenszstejn also spoke with the

newspaper La Prensa about the origins of the

Association, changes in the format of sessions, the

issues facing today's society and the unique

relationship that Buenos Aires has with

Psychoanalaysis.

You can read the full article, as well as watch a

celebratory video, on the IPA website here.

 

Highlights from EPFF9

presentation of the final work: 4th May 2018.

For the full call for papers and further information

about the themes, please click here. 

 

Seidenberg Prize

The Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis is calling

for paper submissions to the Seidenberg Paper

Prize for the best two papers on Psychoanalytic

Perspectives on Problems of Incarceration.

The first prize is $15,000 and the second place

award is $5,000, made possible through a very

generous contribution from Dentons Law firm in

honour of Chicago Institute Board member Harold

Hirsman's pro bono work on the class-action suit

known as Rasho.

The call for papers is open to anyone with an

interest in applications of psychoanalytic principles

to mental heath issues in prisons. The deadline for

submissions is 1st March 2018 and the prizes will

be announced at the June 2018 meeting of the

American Psychoanalytic Association.

Further information about the Seidenberg Paper

Prize, as well as the full call for papers, is available

on the Chicago Institute's website here.

 

The European Psychoanalytical Film Festival took

place over the 2nd - 5th November 2017 at BAFTA on

the theme of Interiors / Exteriors. These apparently

opposed territories can at times harmoniously coexist,

while at others they clash with each other in painful,

disturbing, or possibly, transformative ways.

This idea is highly pertinent to both cinema and

psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis is at its very core

about how we experience within us what is happening

in the world outside. Conversely, it also investigates

how the roles we assume in external reality -

particularly in relationships - are shaped and affected

by our inner worlds.

Cinema, too, has always explored ideas around

relatedness and disconnection; surfaces and depths;

visible images and what lies beyond them; our deep

inner worlds and the vast, sometimes unfathomable

world beyond us.

Full highlights from the festival can be found here.  

 

Exclusive offer for IPA members from Guilford Press

As a sponsoring organisation for the new

book, Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual, Second

Edition, PDM-2, edited by Dr. Vittorio Lingiardi and Dr.

Nancy McWilliams, the IPA is pleased to announce

that IPA members are eligible for an exclusive 25%

Society of the monthPsychoanalytical Society of Mendoza

The Psychoanalytical Society of Mendoza (SPM)

is this month's Society of the Month. Mendoza,

situated on the foothills of the Andes, was the first

province in Argentina to form psychoanalysts and

establish a society. The arrival of Dr. Horacio

Echegoyen was the touchstone for the foundation

of the society and its origins are strongly marked

by his influence. 

In 1973, at the International Congress in Paris,

SPM was recognised by the IPA as a study group,

and at the International Congress in Helsinki in

1981, SPM was designated as a Provisional

Society. Two months later, at the Congress in

Madrid, SPM became a full Member Society.

Today, SPM participates in a range of national and

international activities regarding training, working

parties and training in the analysis of children and

adolescents at regional organisations. The society

also offers application courses aimed at physicians

and psychologists. 

For more information about this month's Society of

the Month, please click here. 

 

Events

discount on the book and all other titles site-wide. 

To take advantage of this offer, please visit the

Guilford Press website here.

 

IPA webinar programme 2018

Throughout 2018, the IPA Website Editorial Board will

be hosting a series of free-to-attend webinars on a

range of issues and topics that affect our members.

The webinars will provide members with the

opportunity to hear from leading psychoanalysts from

around the world and to have their questions

discussed during the live broadcasts. We will also be

building a digital library of webinars, providing

members with a valuable resource that can be

referred to over and over again. 

The project began in November 2016 with a webinar

on 'New Technologies and Psychoanalysis' and we

held a second webinar in December 2017 on the

subject of 'L'après-coup'. Our eagerly awaited third

webinar will be held on the 21st January 2018 which

will focus on the many issues surrounding the topic of

training models.

To find out more about the project, or to watch

recordings of our previous webinars, please click

here. 

 

Interview with Federico Tiezzi, Director of

Migrant Minds, Adolescent Minds / Between Eradications and Radicalisations

Organised by the Italian Psychoanalytical Society

in collaboration with Geographies of

Psychoanalysis, this conference will connect the

issue of immigration to the theme of the Dislocated

Subjects which Geographies of Psychoanalysis

has been discussing for some time. 

3rd February 2018

Educatorio del Fuligno, Florence, Italy

Click here for more information

 

3rd Italian Psychoanalytic Dialogues and International Neuropsychoanalysis Society Conference

This conference will address the conscious and

unconscious dynamics underlying the emergence

of anxiety, panic and angst, illustrating the recent

neuroscientific contributions to the understanding

of the complex interactions between neuronal

functioning and psychic processes. 

Download the event programme and supporting

document. 

10th - 11th February 2018

Hotel Quirinale, Via Nazionale 7, Rome

COWAP Conference "Women's Safety in Dogmatic Times"

The COWAP conference in Kolkata (India) - the

first of its kind in the city - is on the theme of

'Women's Safety in Dogmatic Times'. It is a two-

"Freud or the Interpretation of Dreams"

A new production, Freud or the Interpretation of

Dreams,  is coming to the Piccolo Teatro Strehler,

Milano from the 23rd January to the 11th March 2018.

Written by playwright Stefano Massini and directed by

renowned Italian Director, Federico Tiezzi, the play is

adapted from Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams.

For Tiezzi, this adaptation of Freud's most important

work is: "an adventure in thought and language:

bearing witness to the exciting and gradual discovery

of a method to interpret not only dreams, but the

whole world".

IPA member, Maria Grazia Vassallo Torrigiani,

interviewed Federico Tiezzi to learn more on how he

used his creative imagination to create this interesting

and fascinating play.

Read more in the IPA blog.

 

The 'Long Night of Psychoanalysis' in Berlin: Review and Perspectives

day conference, to be held on the 9th and 10th

March at the Gateway Hotel, Kolkata.

Download concept note

Download flyer registration announcement

9th - 10th March 2018

Gateway Hotel, Kolkata

 

EPF / IPA Joint Pilot Panel at the 31st Annual EPF Conference

A joint EPF / IPA Working Parties Committee

panel will take place at the EPF Conference in

March 2018 on the topic of 'Dare we examine the

origins of the psychoanalytic life in the session?'

The panel will be Chaired by Jorge Canestri (EPF

President) and Bernard Reith (Co-Chair of the IPA

WPC). The panellists are Jan Abram, Chair of the

EPF Ad Hoc Group on the Specificity of

Psychoanalytic Treatment through Inter-Analytic

Group Work and Oliver Bonard, Chair of the

European Comparative Clinical Methods

Association. The discussant is Prof. Giampieri

Deutsch, Viennese Psychoanalytical Society.

24th March 2018 (16:30 - 18:00)

Warsaw, Poland

For more information, please click here.

To download a calendar of future IPA Working

Parties Committee events, please click here.

 

IPA 22nd Annual Research Programme

The 2018 IPA Annual Research Training

Programme will be focused around the research of

The Berlin project of participating in the 'Lange Nacht

der Wissenschaften' (LN) started in 2013 and

meanwhile has completed its fourth run in 2017. The

idea emerged in a group of colleagues gathered from

all psychoanalytic institutes who are concerned with

the socio-political prospect of our profession.

Read a full report of their most recent edition here.

 

Fifth International Psychoanalytic Conference - Review

The Fifth International Psychoanalytical Conference

took place at Ambedkar University and at the Indian

International Centre, under the auspices of Sudhir

Kakar, psychoanalyst and writer, member of the IPA,

who has greatly contributed to the formation of many

analysts in India. 

Lorena Preta provides her thoughts on the

conference, which you can read by clicking here.

 

Analysis in the news'Anyone can change any habit': the science of keeping your 2018 resolutions

attending Fellows, which will be discussed in

consultation by an international Faculty of IPA

Visiting Professors in Psychoanalytic Research.

As in previous years, the aims of this successful

training programme will be to provide attendees

with opportunities for constructive consultation for

their ongoing research project and also to receive

training in empirical and conceptual approaches to

psychoanalytic research in a number of areas. The

deadline for applications is the 31st January

2018.

29th April - 4th May 2018

University of Southern California, USA

Click here for more information

 

Joseph Sandler Psychoanalytic Research Conference 2018

The theme of the 2018 Joseph Sandler

Psychoanalytic Research Conference is "Outcome

Research and the Future of Psychoanalysis -

Researchers and Clinicians in Dialogue".

Registration is now open, for more information,

please email: p.barkay@neuropsa.org

4th May - 6th May 2018

The Saban Research Institute, Children's

Hospital Los Angeles, USA

Click here for the full programme

Joint Symposium FEPAL / IPA WPC Lima 2018

What can each Working Party contribute to

studying and investigating the deconstructions and

transformations that occur in Psychoanalysis, in

UK newspaper, The Guardian,  takes a look at the

science behind New Year resolutions and changing

habits. In the article, IPA member, David Bell, explains

that one of the reasons we have difficulty making or

changing habits is resistance: "One thing Freud put on

the map is that we're all much more resistant to

change than we like to believe", he says. Resistance

is what happens when our unconscious holds us back

from making the changes that we consciously desire.

Resolving to behave differently won't help, says Bell;

what can help is trying to figure out why we are the

way we are.

Read the full article online here.

 

Why young people need their aggression

Writing in Psychology Today, Nick Luxmoore argues

why young people need their aggression. He argues

that whilst there are plenty of young people whose

aggression gets them into trouble, there are also

many who get themselves into different kinds of

trouble because they can't be aggressive.

clinical practice and / or in analytic training?

The various Working Parties in Latin America will

be invited to present their work originated from

their investigations, reflections and their clinical

workshops to help answer the main quest of the

Joint Symposium and to deepen the theme of the

FEPAL Congress. The objective of the IPA

Working Parties Committee is to stimulate

scientific production and create bridges of

communication between the various Working

Parties, attaining a closer relationship with

Regional Federations. 

28th September 2018

Lima, Peru

For more information, please click here.

 

International Journal of Psychoanalysis Celebration Centenary Conference 1920-2019

'The Psychoanalytic Core: Encountering and

Speaking to the Unconscious'. The International

Journal of Psychoanalysis cordially invites you to

take part in this significant moment in the history of

the journal.

The sessions will focus on the foundational

features which make up the essence of

psychoanalysis and look at our take on them in the

early part of the 21st century; they will explore

what it means to encounter the unconscious.

Some of the most renowned contemporary

analysts will join us in celebrating The International

Journal of Psychoanalysis and the unique history it

holds in New York (19-20 October 2018), Buenos

Nick concludes that we have to understand

aggression as essentially defensive; as a

communication needing to be understood. And, what

will most help or hinder our ability to understand

aggression and respond appropriately, is the

relationship we have with our own.

Read more here.

 

Misogyny on the couch: why it's time to let psychoanalysis into politics

Psychoanalyst, Susie Orbach, explains why it's time to

let psychoanalysis into politics in UK general interest

magazine, Prospect. From the decline of the NHS, to

the election of Donald Trump, Susie explains how

insights from analysis can help us to understand our

fragile political times. 

Psychoanalysis is coming out into public space once

again, she says. It has much to bring to the table; the

understanding of internalised misogynies is one

among many areas where it can shed much needed

light. What we see in the consulting room is the

intricate knot between self, other, society. We see

pain and anguishes, and we see the longings. This

gives us urgent insights to share. We can open up

politics if we can persuade it to engage with the full

complexities and the many fragilities of the human

Aires (in Spanish, 13-14 April 2019) and London

(20-21 July 2019).

The first Centenary Conference will take place at

the Doral Arrowwood Resort in Rye Brook, New

York.

19th - 20th October 2018

Arrowwood Resort, Rye Brook, New York

For more information and to register, please click

here.  

 

ObituariesJames Gammill (1925 - 2017)

Physician, Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst for children,

adolescents and adults, Associate Member of the

British Psychoanalytical Society and Full Training

Member of the Paris Psychoanalytical Society,

passed away on the 17th December 2017.

Read more in English / French.

 

Dr. Manek Bharucha (1949 - 2016)

Dr Manek Bharucha, an extremely valuable

member of the Indian Psychoanalytical Society,

Bombay Chapter, tragically passed away at the

age of 67 in 2016 after a brief and sudden illness. 

Read more in English here.

 

Psychoanalysis.TodayIssue 4: Intimacy

mind, she concludes. 

Full article available online here. 

 

Congress NewsIPA Asia-Pacific Conference - Tokyo 2018

Full speaker line-up confirmed

With just over three months until the opening of the

IPA Asia-Pacific Conference in Tokyo, the Association

is pleased to announce the full line-up of keynote

speakers. On each day of the conference, there will

be two main lectures iven by colleagues representing

the six Societies, Study Groups and IPA training of the

Asia-Pacific region.

Keynote speakers:

Liling Lin, Taiwan Allied Centre and Study Group

The Conundrum of Dependence in Analytic Settings

and the Enigmatic Nature of Filial Piety

Prof. Jianyin Qiu, MD, PhD Chief Psychiatrist, IPA

Candidate Shanghai Mental Health Centre

Modernity and the Evolution of Gender Identity for

Chinese Women

Prof. Do-Un Jeong, MD, PhD, Korean Study Group

Psychoanalytic Study on the Memoirs of an 18th

Century Korean Crown Princess: Imposed

The new edition of the e-journal,

Psychoanalysis.Today is now available. 

The issue is on the theme of 'intimacy', and in it,

eight writers explore the power and vulnerability of

intimate experiences over the life span, in the

world and in the clinical setting. Available in

English, French, German, Spanish and

Portuguese. 

Read more here.

 

Dependence and its Vicissitudes

Prof. Osamu Kitayama, Japan Psychoanalytic

Society

Dependence and Transience

Peter Smith, Australia Psychoanalytic Society

"I think I have avoided being dependent all my life" - a

psychoanalytic case study

Mrs. Minnie Dastur, India Psychoanalytic Society

Dependence and Dependability

Further information about the conference, including

fees, information about the venue and things to see in

Tokyo is available on the conference website here.

Early bird registration opens late-January, full

registration details will be sent shortly.

3rd - 5th May 2018

Keio Plaza Hotel, Tokyo

 

IPA 51st International Congress - London, 2019

Congress Theme Announced

The theme of the IPA 51st International Congress is

'The Feminine'. Psychoanalytic theory and practice

both have a part to play in addressing the question of

'the feminine'. Our goal at this Congress is to focus on

issues that affect the everyday life and experiences of

both women and men. Since the late nineteenth

century, concerns and problems related to the female

condition, which were previously normalised or

silenced, have become increasingly visible in different

cultures.

Psychoanalytic theories on the feminine have widened

and diversified. Important debates emerged early on,

such as the Freud-Jones controversy on primary and

secondary femininity, and primary and secondary

penis envy. Many female analysts developed and

presented their ideas on these issues. These debates

are ongoing and have become increasingly

sophisticated. 

The psychoanalytic approach is now broader,

including the feminine within the field of the

masculine. New family configurations and sexual and

gender diversity has challenged established standards

of sexual binarism and have invited new questions

about femininity and masculinity.

We have therefore had to revisit many concepts

whose relevance for clinical practice is

unquestionable: among them, Oedipal-castration

complex and its traditional resolution, the feminine

superego, and women's desire for children. Within this

framework, the IPA takes up the challenge of updating

and rethinking classical psychoanalytic views on the

feminine and their repercussions in psychoanalysis.

 

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