Eighth European Psychoanalytic Film Festival - 29 October – 1 November 2015, BAFTA London

Eighth European Psychoanalytic Film Festival:

Turning Points, Individuals, Groups, Societies

29 October – 1 November 2015, BAFTA London

The Eighth Psychoanalytic Film Festival (epff8) will show ten extraordinary feature films that reflect the theme Turning Points: Individuals, Groups, Societies. The programme consists of pictures produced in countries including France, Russia and Estonia and that examine the lives of characters from tangerine farmers in Georgia to wealthy financiers in Italy. The Festival offers guests an excellent opportunity to watch some of the most exciting films in contemporary European cinema, including three nominees for the ‘Best Film in a Foreign Language’ prize at the 2015 Academy Awards.

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Donald Winnicott Conference - 20-22 November 2015 (London)

20-22 November 2015

The Winnicott Trust announces a conference to be held at the Institute of Psychoanalysis and the Brunei Gallery, London

A celebration of the collected works of D. W. Winnicott: Donald Winnicott and the history of the present

Speakers include: Stefano Bolognine, Vincenzo Bonaminio, Andrea Brady, Matt Ffytche, Juliet Hopkins, Angela Joyce, Anne Karpf, Zeljko Loparic, Lynne Murray, Kenneth Robinson, Rene Roussillon, Kenneth Wright

Conference programme is available to download here.

Early bird discount available from 13 April to 30 June ~ £225.

After 30 June - £ 260.

There will be 50 places available at a cost of £ 150 for psychotherapy/psychoanalytic trainees. Or, full time students on a post graduate course in psychoanalytic studies. Evidence of status will be required. To book a student/trainee place please contact Marjory Goodall at marjory.goodall@iopa.org.uk

To book a place on this conference, please click here.

The Greening of Psychoanalysis Conference 2015 (London)

Location: Institute of Psychoanalysis - Click for map

This conference is open to all members of the British Psychoanalytical Council; other interested parties are welcome at the discretion of the organising committee. Please contact Marjory Goodall - marjory.goodall@iopa.org.uk for advice.

Friday 18th September (evening) reception - 18:30 - 20:45pm

Saturday 19th September 2015 Conference - 08.30 - 17.15pm

Speakers:

Jan Abram (UK)

Litza Green (France)

Gregorio Kohon (UK)

Michael Parsons (UK)

Rosine Jozef Perelberg (UK)

Jed Sekoff (USA)

Fernando Urribarri (Argentina)

Conference fee: £ 140. Click here to book online.

Green’s work constitutes a paradigmatic shift in psychoanalysis. Green drew a clear distinction between neurotic and borderline patients, each type conforming to a different psychic organisation, and requiring alternative ways of analytic listening. Bion and Winnicott have been highly influential in his work, in addition to Freud, as he was deeply impressed by their clinical and theoretical innovations. Nevertheless, two different contemporary paradigms derived from his writings have been established: one assumes the existence of an object, be it good or bad, benign or malignant, present or absent, from the beginning of life. In the second paradigm, the very question of representation, a basic function of the mind, has been expanded, its understanding having become somewhat more complex. It is now possible to ponder how a memory is capable of not being represented: the original object may not have existed or it might not have been registered as a presence in the psyche of the subject. Such patients cannot symbolise the trauma nor can they contain the destructiveness present in their predicament.

Throughout this day and a half, leading international thinkers in contemporary psychoanalysis will offer their reflections on the way Andre Green has influenced their clinical work and theoretical developments.

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

Friday evening:

6:30-7:15 Reception

7:15-7:25 Introduction - Jan Abram

7:25-7:40 Opening remarks - Litza Green

7:40-8:45 Andre Green Itinerary: Keys Ideas Revisited (1960/2011) - An interview with Andre Green (film, with Fernando Urribarri)

Chair: Gregorio Kohon

Saturday - Morning:

8:30-:9:30 Registration and coffee

9:35-10:10 Rosine Jozef Perelberg: The Framing Structure and its Representation in the Analytic Setting

10:10-10:50 Jed Sekoff: Troubled Bodies: Hypochondria, Transformation, and the Work of the Negative

10:50-11: 20 Coffee break

11:20-11:55: Gregorio Kohon: Space and Time in the Aesthetics of Eduardo Chillida

11:55-13:00 Open Discussion

Chair for the morning session: Jan Abram

13:00-14:30 Lunch

Saturday - Afternoon:

2:30-3:15 Michael Parsons: Intellectual Generosity: the Greekness of Green.

15-3:45 Coffee break

3:45-4:30 Fernando Urribarri: On Clinical Thinking: from the Extension of the Psychoanalytic Field toward a New Contemporary Paradigm

16:30-17:15 Open Discussion

Chair for the afternoon session: Rosine Jozef Perelberg

Observation II: Clinical Concerns and Research on the Couch - 11 July, 2015 (London)

Saturday 11 July 2015, 9.30am-4pm

Institute of Psychoanalysis, Byron House, 112A Shirland Road, W9 2BT

Psychoanalysts Nicola Abel-Hirsch & Chris Mawson and Philosopher of Science Jim Hopkins will present aspects of Bion’s ‘tools of observation’, the presentations then being discussed by Robert Hinshelwood (Psychoanalyst & Author of Research on the Couch, 2013) and Denis Flynn (Psychoanalyst). The aim of the day is to explore what we can learn from Bion about observation, and to contribute to the timely question of psychoanalytic ‘research on the couch’. The conference will develop the work of the 2014 conference on Observation, but is also designed for people who did not attend the previous conference.

Invariants: Nicola Abel-Hirsch

Bion draws attention to the hindrance which ‘memories, desires and existing understanding’ are to observation. For what reason are we to clear our minds of them - in order to observe new phenomena? In fact, it is crucially, to be able to observe the ‘invariants embedded’ in mental phenomena. Invariants are characteristic, not of permanence - even rigidity - but of transformation; and I will discuss Bion’s enquiry into the significance of this for clinical observation.


Intuition and Imagination: Chris Mawson

Intuition is the term that Bion came to use for specifically psychoanalytic observation. This was because he wanted a name for the apprehension of what he, and Freud before him, called psychical as contrasted with material qualities. The conditions for intuition in the analytic setting will be explored using the term Bion used to subsume these features of psychoanalytic attention – Negative Capability. Further to this, the role of imagination will be considered as an indispensable part of our method – a partner to analytic intuition.


Bion through the lens of neuroscience: Jim Hopkins

Many of Bion’s claims about the observing subject can now be represented in contemporary neuroscientific accounts of the primary and secondary processes and their role in development over the first year of life. Understanding them in this way promotes both appreciation of their accuracy and relates clinical practice to a richer and more encompassing theoretical background.


Tickets

Standard £50

Trainee £45

Student £40

Tickets to the event include lunch.

Booking

To book a ticket, please click here.

For inquires and further information, please contact Becca Harrison (becca.harrison@iopa.org.uk or 020 7563 5017).

Institute of Psychoanalysis - Summer School - July 8-10, 2015 (London)

Institute of Psychoanalysis Summer School

Birkbeck, University of London

July 8-10, 2015, 10am-6pm

The Institute of Psychoanalysis is offering a three-day introduction to key concepts in psychoanalysis at Birkbeck, University of London. Our inaugural Summer School will give you the opportunity to meet practicing analysts who will lead seminars and discussions about current topics in the field.

Confirmed speakers include Stephen Grosz, Daniel Pick, David Bell, Gigliola Fornari Spoto, Jonathan Sklar, Rachel Chaplin, Kate Pugh, Luis Rodríguez de la Sierra and Mary Target.

Registration

The Summer School welcomes current undergraduate and postgraduate students from any discipline or background.

To register, click here.

Programme

The provisional programme is available to download at the bottom of the page.

Registration waivers

If you would like to attend the Summer School but cannot afford to do so, we have a limited number of registration waivers available. Please contact Becca Harrison at becca.harrison@iopa.org.uk with your details. Registration waivers will be granted on a case-by-case basis.

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