1st Annual School of the Psychoanalytic European Institute (EPI) in Italy, Iseo, 8th – 14th November 2015.

“Analytic Field and Analytic Forest: Paths and impasses in the psychoanalytic process”

1st Annual School of the Psychoanalytic European Institute (EPI) in Italy, Iseo (near Brescia), 8th – 14th November 2015.

This almost one-week Psychoanalytic School for IPA candidates and members is organised by the Han Groen Prakken European Psychoanalytic Institute and the Italian Psychoanalytic Society (SPI) in collaboration with the Italian Psychoanalytic Association (AIPsi).

THE PROGRAM includes: plenary lectures, group discussions of plenary papers, small clinical groups, special workshops and panels, individual and small group’s consultations, a film screening and discussion.

PLENARY LECTURES will be given by Stefano Bolognini (IPA president, SPI past-president), Serge Frisch, (EPF president), Jorge Canestri (past-president of the AIPsi and president-elect of the EPF), Antonino Ferro (SPI president) and Adele Lupinacci (SPI Training Analyst).

TEACHERS are: Tatiana Alavidze (Russia), Marina Arutunyan (Russia), Daniel Barth (Switzerland), Stefano Bolognini (Italy), Jorge Canestri (Italy), Graziano De Giorgio (Italy), Serge Frisch (Luxembourg), Antonino Ferro (Italy), Paolo Fonda (Italy), Gary Goldsmith (USA), Christa Hack (Germany), Eike Hinze (Germany), Igor Kadyrov (Russia), Ekaterina Kalmykova (Russia), Lola Komarova (Russia), Aira Laine (Finland), Adelaide Lupinacci (Italy), Fulvio Mazzacane (Italy), Jane Milton (UK), Ewa Modzelewska (Poland), Eva Schmid-Gloor (Switzerland), Catherine Schmidt (Austria), David Simpson (UK), Ellen Sparer (France), Endel Talvik (Estonia), Alexander Uskov (Russia), Geni Valle (Italy), Christoph Walker (Germany)

SPECIAL WORKSHOPS will be given by Giuseppe Civitarese and Graziano De Giorgio.

For details visit http://psy-epi.eu/iseo-school/

The International Psychoanalytic Summer Institute in Tuscany Italy

The International Psychoanalytic Summer Institute, a first endeavour of its kind, will bring together an international roster of psychoanalytic thinkers to engage in teaching and in discussions regarding some of the most challenging current-day issues psychoanalysts and other psychodynamic therapists encounter in their daily work.

The Six Seminars to choose from:

Aug 3-5 – Annie Reiner & Ofra Eshel – Encounters with the Deep – The Unknowable and Unthinkable in Bion’s and Winnicott’s Late Writings

Aug 10-12 – Virginia Goldner & Offer Maurer – Reworking Gender and Sex into Psychoanalysis: Can There be Joy for The Perplexed Clinicians?

Aug 17-19 – Muriel Dimen & Asaf Rolef Ben Shahar – Speaking in Tongues: On The Clinical Decision Whether to Speak or Remain Silent

Aug 24-26 – Sue Grand & Lynne Layton – Enacting Identity: Clinical Impasses, Cultural Critique

Aug 31 – Sep 2 – Michael B. Buchholt & Elisabeth Fivaz – Communicative Dance and Insight: Charting the Role of Implicit Communication in Co-Parenting and in Therapy

Sep 7 – Sep 9 – Paul Wacthel & Sharon Ziv Beiman – Cyclical Psychodynamics: Addressing Affect, Attachment, And Action in an Integrative Therapeutic Approach

The International Psychoanalytic Summer Institute will take place in Tuscany Italy, one of the most beautiful places on earth. We will be convening in a dream-like hilltop castle from the 13th century (seminars 1-4) or in an enchanting hilltop Tuscan villa (semiars 5-6), both overlooking some of Chianti region’s most beautiful valleys. Only 30 participants or so will be invited to join us each for a week’s stay at a time (seminar itself running from Monday afternoon till Wednesday afternoon). A total of 15 academic hours (spread over 1 full day and 2 half days) will enable participants a deep immersive learning experience together with a one of a kind opportunity for recreation, rest and wellness.

The organizers: The International Summer Institute was founded by The New School for Psychotherapy, a continuing-education academic institute for mental health professional, directed by Dr. Offer Maurer, a clinical psychologist.