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Our aims include creating new psychoanalytic groups, stimulating debate, conducting research, developing training policies and establishing links with other bodies. We organize a large biennial Congress which is open to all.  This is the IPA's only official website.

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46th IPA Congress

Chicago, USA, 29 July – 1 August 2009

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The Call for Proposals is now closed

If you wish to modify a proposal that has already been submitted please email congress@ipa.org.uk

Registration for the Congress and accommodation booking at special rates will open in late 2008.

 

 

 

IPA Strategy

Click here for the 'Review of IPA Strategy for 2005 - 2007 & IPA Strategy for 2007 - 2009' 

 

 

 

News

45th IPA Congress, Berlin July 2007

Remembering, Repeating & Working Through in Psychoanalysis & Culture Today

Maritim Hotel, Stauffenbergstrasse 26, Berlin

  • Click here for an alphabetical listing of Congress Individual Papers
  • Click here for a searchable database of Congress papers, panels etc
  • Some papers have not been uploaded for reasons of clinical privacy. If you wish your Congress paper to be uploaded, please email congress@ipa.org.uk
  • Click here for a list of Scientific Posters
  • Click here for audio recordings of Congress sessions
  • Click here to buy a DVD of ‘Psychoanalysis before and after 1933 in Germany: Here life goes on in a most peculiar way", a film from an exhibition first shown at the 1985 Hamburg IPA Congress

 

Meeting of Presidents and Directors of Training on Education

Tuesday 24th July 2007, Berlin

The IPA's Board of Representatives feels that it is enormously important that IPA educational issues are discussed as widely as possible.  The recognition of the 3 training models, the changes to the Procedural Code and the proposed oversight function of the IPA are all issues of considerable importance.

Prior to the Berlin Congress the President and Secretary General of the IPA invited all Presidents and Directors of Training from all IPA Societies, and the Affiliate Societies of the American Psychoanalytical Association, to attend a meeting to discuss Education.  Over 67 IPA institutes were represented at this meeting which took place in Berlin at the Maritim hotel on Tuesday 24th July 2007.

To find out more about the structure of the Education Meeting and its outcomes click here

 

 

 

IPA Elections 2009 

2009 ELECTIONS       

Call for proposals

DEADLINE 31ST JULY

Please click here for Call for Proposals

Please click here for election rules

Change in distributor -

Please note that IPA Publications are now officially distributed by Karnac Books, London

Click here to order

Titles on sale will continue to be available through the IPA until July 31st 2008

 

IPA Publications Book Sale

ENDS AUGUST 1st

Many titles discounted for a limited period...

Violence or Dialogue? Psychoanalytic Insights on Terror and Terrorism  £2

Pluralism and Unity? Methods of Research in Psychoanalysis  £2

Truth, Reality and the Psychoanalyst: Latin American Contributions to Psychoanalysis  £3

Wolfgang Loch: The Art of Interpretation  £5

The Conscious in Psychoanalysis  £5

...Click here for a full list of titles on offer

 

 

 

New from IPA Publications...

Children in Genocide

Children in Genocide: Extreme traumatization and affect regulation

By Suzanne Kaplan

 

 

 

In this book, Suzanne Kaplan lays bare the immense trauma suffered by child survivors of the Holocaust in Nazi-occupied Europe and draws parallels with the effects of genocide in Rwanda. She has produced a thoughtful and thorough scholarly analysis. Her book is a powerful and unique contribution to the rich body of research on the lasting impact of the trauma of genocide on children....read more

 

Envy and Gratitude Revisited

Envy and Gratitude Revisited

Edited By Priscilla Roth & Alessandra Lemma

 

 

 

 

Sixteen highly regarded analysts, representing a wide range of psychoanalytic thinking, provide new insights and highlight current developments without avoiding the controversies that surround the original publication. The clinical and literary material is engaging and illustrates the effect of theory on practice and the influence of practice on the evolution of theory...read more

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