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"A new experience is in fantasy projected back into the past so that the new persons become aligned with the old ones, who become their prototypes."
Sigmund Freud, letter to Wilhelm Fliess, 1898
#Freud #psychology #projection #psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud, letter to Wilhelm Fliess, 1898
#Freud #psychology #projection #psychoanalysis
The fifth IPA Asia-Pacific Conference will take place in Seoul, Korea, 29 April-1 May 2026, in collaboration with the Korean Psychoanalytical Society, Registration opens 19 January
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December 20, 2025 at 12:03 PM
The fifth IPA Asia-Pacific Conference will take place in Seoul, Korea, 29 April-1 May 2026, in collaboration with the Korean Psychoanalytical Society, Registration opens 19 January
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COWAP Conference: Assisted Reproduction – Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspectives, June 12–14, 2026 – Save the Date! For a conference at the Heidelberg Institute for Psychoanalysis . The conference will be conducted in English and can be attended both in person and online.
December 19, 2025 at 12:03 PM
COWAP Conference: Assisted Reproduction – Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspectives, June 12–14, 2026 – Save the Date! For a conference at the Heidelberg Institute for Psychoanalysis . The conference will be conducted in English and can be attended both in person and online.
26th International Conference on Group Relations: Authority and Freedom: Understanding and Transforming the Institutions in Which We Live, February 19–22, 2026
The ALI (Authority, Leadership, Innovation) 2026 residential seminar will offer participants share.google/muV9IXss8Qd8...
The ALI (Authority, Leadership, Innovation) 2026 residential seminar will offer participants share.google/muV9IXss8Qd8...
ALI 2026 - Il Nodo Group
Dal 19 al 22 febbraio 2026 presso l'Istituto Emiliani a Brisighella (frazione di Fognano), Ravenna.
www.ilnodogroup.it
December 17, 2025 at 12:03 PM
26th International Conference on Group Relations: Authority and Freedom: Understanding and Transforming the Institutions in Which We Live, February 19–22, 2026
The ALI (Authority, Leadership, Innovation) 2026 residential seminar will offer participants share.google/muV9IXss8Qd8...
The ALI (Authority, Leadership, Innovation) 2026 residential seminar will offer participants share.google/muV9IXss8Qd8...
Narcissism: Clinical Analysts and Researchers in Dialogue
This collection of essays, edited by Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, Stephan Hau, Rogério Lerner, Erik Stänicke, and Siri Erika Gullestad, presents current research and practice in psychoanalytic work .
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This collection of essays, edited by Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, Stephan Hau, Rogério Lerner, Erik Stänicke, and Siri Erika Gullestad, presents current research and practice in psychoanalytic work .
share.google/74QhDOy7vD08....
December 15, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Narcissism: Clinical Analysts and Researchers in Dialogue
This collection of essays, edited by Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, Stephan Hau, Rogério Lerner, Erik Stänicke, and Siri Erika Gullestad, presents current research and practice in psychoanalytic work .
share.google/74QhDOy7vD08....
This collection of essays, edited by Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, Stephan Hau, Rogério Lerner, Erik Stänicke, and Siri Erika Gullestad, presents current research and practice in psychoanalytic work .
share.google/74QhDOy7vD08....
Please save the date !
We are excited to announce :
Who are we now?
Large Group Identity and Societal Conflict
Presenter: M. Gerard Fromm
Discussant: Maria Pia Conte
January 10, 2026
11:30am-1:30pm EST (via Zoom) www.ipa.world/dev/events/e...
We are excited to announce :
Who are we now?
Large Group Identity and Societal Conflict
Presenter: M. Gerard Fromm
Discussant: Maria Pia Conte
January 10, 2026
11:30am-1:30pm EST (via Zoom) www.ipa.world/dev/events/e...
December 11, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Please save the date !
We are excited to announce :
Who are we now?
Large Group Identity and Societal Conflict
Presenter: M. Gerard Fromm
Discussant: Maria Pia Conte
January 10, 2026
11:30am-1:30pm EST (via Zoom) www.ipa.world/dev/events/e...
We are excited to announce :
Who are we now?
Large Group Identity and Societal Conflict
Presenter: M. Gerard Fromm
Discussant: Maria Pia Conte
January 10, 2026
11:30am-1:30pm EST (via Zoom) www.ipa.world/dev/events/e...
A day like today.. In 1938, the BBC made a recording with Freud, only a few months after arriving in London. “I discovered some important new realities about the unconscious of psychic life… […] but the battle is not over yet. My name is Sigmund Freud. ”https://share.google/65ArztIKULM3wXCrP
December 8, 2025 at 4:57 PM
A day like today.. In 1938, the BBC made a recording with Freud, only a few months after arriving in London. “I discovered some important new realities about the unconscious of psychic life… […] but the battle is not over yet. My name is Sigmund Freud. ”https://share.google/65ArztIKULM3wXCrP
Teaching About the Dynamic Mind: Then and Now with Jonathan Shedler, PhD (San Francisco) A new podcast episode : 194 produced by Harvey Schwartz for the IPA- ipaoffthecouch.org #Psychoanalysis #teaching #mind
December 5, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Teaching About the Dynamic Mind: Then and Now with Jonathan Shedler, PhD (San Francisco) A new podcast episode : 194 produced by Harvey Schwartz for the IPA- ipaoffthecouch.org #Psychoanalysis #teaching #mind
Today, December 4, we celebrate the birthday of Thomas H. Ogden (born in the United States, 1946), who turns 79 this year. #Psychoanalysis #Ogden #Thursday #birthday
December 4, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Today, December 4, we celebrate the birthday of Thomas H. Ogden (born in the United States, 1946), who turns 79 this year. #Psychoanalysis #Ogden #Thursday #birthday
Celebrating today, December 3rd, the birthday of Anna Freud (born in Vienna, 1895), who reminded us that “[...] the analyst shall understand aright the part played by the outward situation in which the child is placed, just as we require that he shall grasp the child's inner situation.” p.38
December 3, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Celebrating today, December 3rd, the birthday of Anna Freud (born in Vienna, 1895), who reminded us that “[...] the analyst shall understand aright the part played by the outward situation in which the child is placed, just as we require that he shall grasp the child's inner situation.” p.38
On this December 2nd, we celebrate the birthday of Otto Fenichel (Wien, 1897), whose penetrating insights into early psychic life continue to illuminate psychoanalytic thought.
#Psychoanalysis #tuesday
#Psychoanalysis #tuesday
December 2, 2025 at 12:04 PM
On this December 2nd, we celebrate the birthday of Otto Fenichel (Wien, 1897), whose penetrating insights into early psychic life continue to illuminate psychoanalytic thought.
#Psychoanalysis #tuesday
#Psychoanalysis #tuesday
Multiple IPA-endorsed conferences are happening around the world.
See a list, with links, on the IPA website:
ipa.world/dev/events/I...
#Events #Conference #Psychoanalysis
#Psychoanalyse #Psicoanalisis #Psychanalyse #Freud #psychology #therapy
See a list, with links, on the IPA website:
ipa.world/dev/events/I...
#Events #Conference #Psychoanalysis
#Psychoanalyse #Psicoanalisis #Psychanalyse #Freud #psychology #therapy
December 1, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Multiple IPA-endorsed conferences are happening around the world.
See a list, with links, on the IPA website:
ipa.world/dev/events/I...
#Events #Conference #Psychoanalysis
#Psychoanalyse #Psicoanalisis #Psychanalyse #Freud #psychology #therapy
See a list, with links, on the IPA website:
ipa.world/dev/events/I...
#Events #Conference #Psychoanalysis
#Psychoanalyse #Psicoanalisis #Psychanalyse #Freud #psychology #therapy
*Today, 29th November, is the birthday of Jean-Martin Charcot.*
Born in *1825, this year marks the 200th anniversary* of his birth.
"Charcot's concern with hypnotic phenomena in hysterical patients led to very great advances in this important field of hitherto neglected and despised facts"
Born in *1825, this year marks the 200th anniversary* of his birth.
"Charcot's concern with hypnotic phenomena in hysterical patients led to very great advances in this important field of hitherto neglected and despised facts"
November 29, 2025 at 12:03 PM
*Today, 29th November, is the birthday of Jean-Martin Charcot.*
Born in *1825, this year marks the 200th anniversary* of his birth.
"Charcot's concern with hypnotic phenomena in hysterical patients led to very great advances in this important field of hitherto neglected and despised facts"
Born in *1825, this year marks the 200th anniversary* of his birth.
"Charcot's concern with hypnotic phenomena in hysterical patients led to very great advances in this important field of hitherto neglected and despised facts"
Task Force on Representation and Rotation. met in Madrid last weekend
Claudio Eizirik Chair
Virginia Ungar and Altamirando Andrade, Harriet Wolfe and Maureen Murphy, Stefano Bolognini, Teresa Pai and In Su Lee
Claudio Eizirik Chair
Virginia Ungar and Altamirando Andrade, Harriet Wolfe and Maureen Murphy, Stefano Bolognini, Teresa Pai and In Su Lee
November 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Task Force on Representation and Rotation. met in Madrid last weekend
Claudio Eizirik Chair
Virginia Ungar and Altamirando Andrade, Harriet Wolfe and Maureen Murphy, Stefano Bolognini, Teresa Pai and In Su Lee
Claudio Eizirik Chair
Virginia Ungar and Altamirando Andrade, Harriet Wolfe and Maureen Murphy, Stefano Bolognini, Teresa Pai and In Su Lee
Nina Coltart, born on 21 November 1927, is remembered today for her profound contribution to British psychoanalysis. In Attention (1990), she writes:
“The practice of attention is rooted in pure listening, a listening that becomes deepened by trust. […] #attention #trust
“The practice of attention is rooted in pure listening, a listening that becomes deepened by trust. […] #attention #trust
November 21, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Nina Coltart, born on 21 November 1927, is remembered today for her profound contribution to British psychoanalysis. In Attention (1990), she writes:
“The practice of attention is rooted in pure listening, a listening that becomes deepened by trust. […] #attention #trust
“The practice of attention is rooted in pure listening, a listening that becomes deepened by trust. […] #attention #trust
Piera Aulagnier was an Italian-born French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, born on November 19, 1923
"To return now to the concept of violence, I would say that I called primary violence, the psychical action by which one imposes on another’s psyche a choice, thought or action"
"To return now to the concept of violence, I would say that I called primary violence, the psychical action by which one imposes on another’s psyche a choice, thought or action"
November 19, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Piera Aulagnier was an Italian-born French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, born on November 19, 1923
"To return now to the concept of violence, I would say that I called primary violence, the psychical action by which one imposes on another’s psyche a choice, thought or action"
"To return now to the concept of violence, I would say that I called primary violence, the psychical action by which one imposes on another’s psyche a choice, thought or action"
Psychoanalysis On and Off the Couch
A New Podcast Episode "On Transience and the Cycle of Time: Freud and Ecclesiastes "with Paul Marcus, PhD (Great Neck, New York)
193 - produced by Harvey Schwartz for the IPA
listen-
IPAOfftheCouch.org
buff.ly/ddYBsPc #psychoanalysis #podcast
A New Podcast Episode "On Transience and the Cycle of Time: Freud and Ecclesiastes "with Paul Marcus, PhD (Great Neck, New York)
193 - produced by Harvey Schwartz for the IPA
listen-
IPAOfftheCouch.org
buff.ly/ddYBsPc #psychoanalysis #podcast
November 17, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Psychoanalysis On and Off the Couch
A New Podcast Episode "On Transience and the Cycle of Time: Freud and Ecclesiastes "with Paul Marcus, PhD (Great Neck, New York)
193 - produced by Harvey Schwartz for the IPA
listen-
IPAOfftheCouch.org
buff.ly/ddYBsPc #psychoanalysis #podcast
A New Podcast Episode "On Transience and the Cycle of Time: Freud and Ecclesiastes "with Paul Marcus, PhD (Great Neck, New York)
193 - produced by Harvey Schwartz for the IPA
listen-
IPAOfftheCouch.org
buff.ly/ddYBsPc #psychoanalysis #podcast
"Just as all fear is ultimately fear of oneself, so too is all doubt ultimately doubt about oneself.”
Hermann Rorschach (1913)
Rorschach, H. (1913) Stekel Der Zweifel. Zeitschr. f. Psychotherapie u. med. Psychologie
Hermann Rorschach - Born , Zúrich, 8 de November 1884 -
Hermann Rorschach (1913)
Rorschach, H. (1913) Stekel Der Zweifel. Zeitschr. f. Psychotherapie u. med. Psychologie
Hermann Rorschach - Born , Zúrich, 8 de November 1884 -
November 8, 2025 at 2:03 PM
"Just as all fear is ultimately fear of oneself, so too is all doubt ultimately doubt about oneself.”
Hermann Rorschach (1913)
Rorschach, H. (1913) Stekel Der Zweifel. Zeitschr. f. Psychotherapie u. med. Psychologie
Hermann Rorschach - Born , Zúrich, 8 de November 1884 -
Hermann Rorschach (1913)
Rorschach, H. (1913) Stekel Der Zweifel. Zeitschr. f. Psychotherapie u. med. Psychologie
Hermann Rorschach - Born , Zúrich, 8 de November 1884 -
Registration open!
Join the IPA webinar “Countertransference on Sexual and Gender Diversity” with Dr. Analia Wald & Dr. Oren Gozlan, moderated by Dr. Silvia Acosta.
🌍 In English
🔗 Register here: www.ipa.world/IPA/Dev/Even...
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#Psychoanalysis #GenderDiversity
Join the IPA webinar “Countertransference on Sexual and Gender Diversity” with Dr. Analia Wald & Dr. Oren Gozlan, moderated by Dr. Silvia Acosta.
🌍 In English
🔗 Register here: www.ipa.world/IPA/Dev/Even...
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#Psychoanalysis #GenderDiversity
November 7, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Registration open!
Join the IPA webinar “Countertransference on Sexual and Gender Diversity” with Dr. Analia Wald & Dr. Oren Gozlan, moderated by Dr. Silvia Acosta.
🌍 In English
🔗 Register here: www.ipa.world/IPA/Dev/Even...
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#Psychoanalysis #GenderDiversity
Join the IPA webinar “Countertransference on Sexual and Gender Diversity” with Dr. Analia Wald & Dr. Oren Gozlan, moderated by Dr. Silvia Acosta.
🌍 In English
🔗 Register here: www.ipa.world/IPA/Dev/Even...
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#Psychoanalysis #GenderDiversity
“I am deeply convinced that one cannot treat a child without speaking the truth of what we feel and think while being with them. Speaking the truth means ” (Dolto in “The Mirror Child”, 1987).From the Freud Museum
Françoise Dolto , November 6, 1908, was a French psychoanalyst
Françoise Dolto , November 6, 1908, was a French psychoanalyst
November 6, 2025 at 2:04 PM
“I am deeply convinced that one cannot treat a child without speaking the truth of what we feel and think while being with them. Speaking the truth means ” (Dolto in “The Mirror Child”, 1987).From the Freud Museum
Françoise Dolto , November 6, 1908, was a French psychoanalyst
Françoise Dolto , November 6, 1908, was a French psychoanalyst
On the anniversary of *Heinz Hartmann’s* birth, we share one of his most timely reflections — a reminder that the human ego is constantly balancing inner drives, moral ideals, and the realities of the external world.
His words remain strikingly relevant today.
His words remain strikingly relevant today.
November 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
On the anniversary of *Heinz Hartmann’s* birth, we share one of his most timely reflections — a reminder that the human ego is constantly balancing inner drives, moral ideals, and the realities of the external world.
His words remain strikingly relevant today.
His words remain strikingly relevant today.
New on Off the Couch!
Episode 192: “A Memoir of Transformation: A Patient Examines Two Analyses at Two Stages of Life”with Joan K. Peters, PhD.
What happens when we revisit our inner world, twice, across a lifetime?
🎙️ Listen here: buff.ly/nXeOxQM
Episode 192: “A Memoir of Transformation: A Patient Examines Two Analyses at Two Stages of Life”with Joan K. Peters, PhD.
What happens when we revisit our inner world, twice, across a lifetime?
🎙️ Listen here: buff.ly/nXeOxQM
Episode 192: A Memoir of Transformation: a patient examines two analyses at two stages of life with Joan Peters, PhD (Ojai, California)
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November 4, 2025 at 12:55 PM
New on Off the Couch!
Episode 192: “A Memoir of Transformation: A Patient Examines Two Analyses at Two Stages of Life”with Joan K. Peters, PhD.
What happens when we revisit our inner world, twice, across a lifetime?
🎙️ Listen here: buff.ly/nXeOxQM
Episode 192: “A Memoir of Transformation: A Patient Examines Two Analyses at Two Stages of Life”with Joan K. Peters, PhD.
What happens when we revisit our inner world, twice, across a lifetime?
🎙️ Listen here: buff.ly/nXeOxQM
“Women like Ida Bauer/Dora and Bertha Pappenheim/Anna O. provided foundational narratives through which Freud constructed his theory and practice.”
From: Friedman, K. (2025) Tell Me About Your Mother: Ashkenazi Jewish Women’s Embodiment, the Pursuit of Whiteness, and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
From: Friedman, K. (2025) Tell Me About Your Mother: Ashkenazi Jewish Women’s Embodiment, the Pursuit of Whiteness, and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
November 1, 2025 at 3:03 PM
“Women like Ida Bauer/Dora and Bertha Pappenheim/Anna O. provided foundational narratives through which Freud constructed his theory and practice.”
From: Friedman, K. (2025) Tell Me About Your Mother: Ashkenazi Jewish Women’s Embodiment, the Pursuit of Whiteness, and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
From: Friedman, K. (2025) Tell Me About Your Mother: Ashkenazi Jewish Women’s Embodiment, the Pursuit of Whiteness, and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
“I am bringing nothing but some candy for the children and some tiny trifles for the rest of you.”
In a letter from Sigmund Freud to Martha Bernays, December 18, 1885.
#candy #trick #treat #children #halloween #psychoanalysis
In a letter from Sigmund Freud to Martha Bernays, December 18, 1885.
#candy #trick #treat #children #halloween #psychoanalysis
October 31, 2025 at 2:07 PM
“I am bringing nothing but some candy for the children and some tiny trifles for the rest of you.”
In a letter from Sigmund Freud to Martha Bernays, December 18, 1885.
#candy #trick #treat #children #halloween #psychoanalysis
In a letter from Sigmund Freud to Martha Bernays, December 18, 1885.
#candy #trick #treat #children #halloween #psychoanalysis
🗓️ Dec 19, 2025 | 16:00 London / 11:00 ET
Join Ann D’Ercole, PhD for the next IPA Journal Club!
Topic: “The Lost Story of Clara Thompson. Love, “the kiss” and repair.”
🎓 Free registration: www.ipa.world/IPA/Dev/Even...
#IPAJournalClub #Psychoanalysis
Join Ann D’Ercole, PhD for the next IPA Journal Club!
Topic: “The Lost Story of Clara Thompson. Love, “the kiss” and repair.”
🎓 Free registration: www.ipa.world/IPA/Dev/Even...
#IPAJournalClub #Psychoanalysis
October 29, 2025 at 10:33 AM
🗓️ Dec 19, 2025 | 16:00 London / 11:00 ET
Join Ann D’Ercole, PhD for the next IPA Journal Club!
Topic: “The Lost Story of Clara Thompson. Love, “the kiss” and repair.”
🎓 Free registration: www.ipa.world/IPA/Dev/Even...
#IPAJournalClub #Psychoanalysis
Join Ann D’Ercole, PhD for the next IPA Journal Club!
Topic: “The Lost Story of Clara Thompson. Love, “the kiss” and repair.”
🎓 Free registration: www.ipa.world/IPA/Dev/Even...
#IPAJournalClub #Psychoanalysis
On the 27th October 1924, Sigmund Freud appeared on the cover of Time magazine for the first time. #Freud #Time #Psychoanalysis
October 28, 2025 at 10:45 PM
On the 27th October 1924, Sigmund Freud appeared on the cover of Time magazine for the first time. #Freud #Time #Psychoanalysis