46TH CONGRESS OF THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHOANALYTICAL ASSOCIATION
– EVERYONE IS WELCOME TO CHICAGO THIS JULY
The IPA’s 46th Congress “Psychoanalytic Practice: Convergences and Divergences” is your chance to listen to psychoanalysts from all over the world discuss challenges and controversies in the discipline today. Analysts and other professionals with an interest in mental health are welcome – whether IPA Members or not – as are psychoanalytic Candidates.
Among the highlights of the 3-and-a-half-day event are:
Keynote Lecturers :
Antonino Ferro (Italy) “Transformations en rêve et personnages dans le champ psychanalytique” [“Transformations into dreaming and characters in the analytic field”],
Juan Pablo Jiménez (Chile) “Aprehender la práctica de los psicoanalistas en sus propios méritos” [“An approach to psychoanalysts’ practice based on its own merits”]
Warren Poland (USA) “Problems of collegial learning in psychoanalysis: Narcissism and curiosity”.
The three major lecturers will be Ron Britton (UK), Leopold Nosek (Brazil) and Robert Paul (USA).
The analysts invited to take part in the “Meet the Analyst” dialogues are: César Garza Guerrero, Ilse Grubrich-Simitis, Arnold Modell, Anna Ornstein, Janine Puget and Jean-Claude Rolland.
The Congress programme gives priority to intercultural and inter-regional debates on convergences and divergences in relation to a number of themes connected with psychoanalytic practice. Congress sessions include research results, cinema and further general-interest topics such as psychoanalysis and art, society and culture.
Other activities centre on hysteria, borderline states, psychosis, depression, perversion and psychosomatics, as well as contributions on subjects such as dream interpretation, transference and countertransference, the analyst’s subjective objectivity, enactment, the analytic process, working through, the setting, termination, telephone analysis, structural change, adoption, lesbian/gay parenthood, and virtual reality in analysis.
Just before the Congress, Working Parties will take place on 5 topics:
1. Comparative Clinical Methods
2. Specificity of psychoanalytic treatment
3. Initiating Psychoanalysis
4. Clinical Forum
5. Education
The Working Parties are meetings lasting several hours with an analyst who demonstrates his or her practice for discussion by a small group of colleagues from different parts of the world. A pre-established and agreed dynamic is used, permitting comparison with similar experiences in other groups.
The Congress takes place from 29 July to 1 August 2009 at the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place, Chicago, USA.
Full-Congress tickets start from $410 (for Candidates) if you book online before 16 March 2009. This is the cheapest method of booking and this price includes the $40 discount for registering online.
To register online and to book accommodation at specially-negotiated rates go to www.ipa.org.uk/congress . You will also find plenty of information about the Scientific Activities scheduled, all About Chicago and other Frequently-Asked Questions