IPA 50th Congress: Intimacy - Call for Proposals!

 Buenos Aires, Argentina, from 25-29 July 2017

Theme: Intimacy

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For psychoanalysts, intimacy is the currency of every session. It informs relationships with our patients, our theories and our own work. Intimacy transcends the individual/dyadic, animating the construction of the social, familial and cultural dimensions of everyday life. Intimacy permeates all facets of psychoanalysis, taking many shapes. It can be vivid or shadowy, can reveal or obscure, be transformative or perverse, playful or constricting, silent or passionate.

Psychoanalysis requires us to continually ask ourselves:

• What is the relationship between intimacy and sexuality, body and gender?
• How is intimacy sustained and, conversely, eroded in and outside the consulting room?
• What is the danger to the analyst's life as he/she lives in such intimacy with their patients?
• How do we think about the infrastructure of intimacy, including the physical environment; instinctual, individual, and clinical dynamics of coupling; families, community and society?

Intimacy has a long reach. For this Congress, we invite proposals that engage with intimacy in any of its manifestations. Proposals are welcome from IPA Members, IPA Candidates and non-Members of the IPA

More info here.

49th IPA Congress: Changing World - The Shape and Use of Psychoanalytic Tools Today

IPA Congress 2015. 22-25 July ‪‎Boston‬, USA.

We are living in a fast-changing world, which challenges the psychoanalytic ideals of reflection and time for thought. How do these changes affect the mind, our technique, and our consulting rooms?

The tools and theories we use to attend those who seek psychoanalytic treatment are one of the main focuses of this Congress. How have we developed? Have we more to offer today than 50 or 100 years ago? How have new technologies and other changes influenced our practice, and how are we answering these various challenges? What are the further developments in technique and how do we deal with the impact of technology and high mobility in our practice? The clinical and theoretical presentations at this Congress will show how each analyst works through and thinks about these changes.

There will be a new initiative at this Congress, the ‘Boston Groups’, where small, international groups of Members, Candidates and non-members will be able to meet before (online) and during the Congress to discuss the main Congress themes. This will be an opportunity for you to participate more directly and actively in the Congress proceedings and to benefit from the extraordinary diversity of participants at IPA Congresses.

For more information please visit IPA Congress website: www.ipa.org.uk/Congress