ipa congress 2025
CALL FOR PROPOSALS We are pleased to invite proposals for the 54th IPA Congress in Lisbon, Portugal 2025. Our aim at this conference is to expand our psychoanalytic understanding of the profound challenges that we and our patients are facing in times of chaos and turbulence.
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ipa mission
IPA in the World: an overview of our vision and what we are working towards.
telesessions
Membership discussions scheduled for May and June: In-person training and proposal for procedural code revisions to telesessions.
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Adolescence 
Friday 28 June: Music, adolescence and psychoanalysis webinar Teresa Flores, M.D
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journal club
Friday 14 June: Contemporary Psychoanalysis and the Legacy of the Third Reich with Emily Kuriloff, PsyD and Jack Drescher MD
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officers reflection
May update
The fifth IPA Asia Pacific Conference in Sydney, gathered psychoanalysts from 24 countries to explore the theme "Desire and Suffering Across Cultures," fostering deep scientific exchanges, cultural understanding, and collaboration. 
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Events

Compulsive Body/Mind
20-28 September
Early Bird prices until 1 July 2024
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The Mourning Process and its Importance in Mental Illness
A Psychoanalytic understanding of psychiatric diagnosis and classification
Saturday 15 June
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The Astonishing Adolescent Upheaval in Psychoanalysis
IPA Book Webinar
Saturday 29 June
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Announcements

Little Cultural Gift: Wade | Indian Animated Short Film
Off the Couch Podcast: The Dying Patient in Treatment with Mark Moore, PhD and Peggy Warren, MD
COCAP Blog Hey, leave those kids to dream and play by Teresa Flores, M.D
Committee of the Month: Violence Committee
Talks on Psychoanalysis Podcast: Inanimate Objects in the Frame - Jacqueline Godfrind
Send us your book proposal! Your book will become part of an outstanding list that includes books by some of the greatest contemporary minds.
Notice of Formal Ethics Actions A notice has been published in relation to the expulsion from IPA membership of a member of the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC) who was found in breach of PINC’s Ethics Guidelines. Read more.