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International Psychoanalytical Association @ipaonline.bsky.social · 1d

🎧 New Podcast: Psychotherapeutic Aphorisms: Reflections from a Lifetime of Listening.
Dr. David Joseph, MD reflects on 50+ years of listening, lying (honestly), and never retiring his psychoanalytic mind. Symbolic symptoms, unlikable patients, and the art of dynamic therapy.
➡️ www.ipa.world

Episode 191: Psychotherapeutic Aphorisms: Reflections from a Lifetime of Listening with David Joseph, MD (Washington DC)

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International Psychoanalytical Association @ipaonline.bsky.social · 4d

“At that time he had been in a melancholia which made him unable to enjoy anything and obliged him to reject the most attractive offers.”
Sigmund Freud, A Seventeenth-Century Demonological Neurosis

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International Psychoanalytical Association @ipaonline.bsky.social · 5d

📘 New in the IPA Book Series
For the first time in English: Pierre Fédida’s radical essays on the body, aesthetics & psychoanalytic practice.
💸 IPA members get 30% discount.
🔗https://www.ipa.world
#IPABookSeries #Psychoanalysis #Fédida

Psychopathologies of the Living: Selected Essays of Pierre Fédida

Psychopathologies of the Living makes the work of the French psychoanalyst Pierre Fédida (1934–2002) available in English for the first time. Patrick ffrench and Nigel Saint present key essays…

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International Psychoanalytical Association @ipaonline.bsky.social · 5d

📘 New in the IPA Book Series
For the first time in English: Pierre Fédida’s radical essays on the body, aesthetics & psychoanalytic practice.
💸 IPA members get 30% discount.
🔗https://www.routledge.com/Psychopathologies-of-the-Living-Selected-Essays-of-Pierre-Fedida/ffrench-Saint/p/book/9781032637587

Psychopathologies of the Living: Selected Essays of Pierre Fédida

Psychopathologies of the Living makes the work of the French psychoanalyst Pierre Fédida (1934–2002) available in English for the first time. Patrick ffrench and Nigel Saint present key essays…

www.routledge.com

International Psychoanalytical Association @ipaonline.bsky.social · 8d

Talks on Psychoanalysis: The Mystery, Again with Mariano Horenstein
How do we hear the language of sexuality today? From hysteria to the trans clinic, this episode explores shifts in psychoanalysis.
🎙️ Listen here → talksonpsychoanalysis.podbean.com/e/the-myster...
#Psychoanalysis #Sexuality

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International Psychoanalytical Association @ipaonline.bsky.social · 10d

“The neurotic symptom represents a sort of solution of an insoluble problem…”
A A Brill, from his presentation at the American Psychoanalytic Association, 1928

Brill was born this day, 12 October 1874

Early translator of the works of Sigmund Freud
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International Psychoanalytical Association @ipaonline.bsky.social · 13d

Celebrating World Mental Health Day 2025
With members of the IPA Humanitarian Committee
#WMHDay

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International Psychoanalytical Association @ipaonline.bsky.social · 15d

"Through it I wanted to bring myself closer to the higher sources of life. I should have prepared myself for this over a long period by invoking in my omission a higher, impersonal self, since "nectar" is not for mortal lips"

Ronald David Laing was born October 7, in Glasgow.

International Psychoanalytical Association @ipaonline.bsky.social · 16d

An Analyst’s Reflections on Her Treatments and Her Life with Beverly Kolsky, MSW (Tupper Lake, New York)
A new podcast episode - 190- from Harvey Schwartz produced for the IPA buff.ly/icfDI3s

International Psychoanalytical Association @ipaonline.bsky.social · 22d

"systematizing the theory of affects is not merely a theoretical nicety, but has eminent practical importance"

David Rapaport, born this day, 30 September, 1911

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International Psychoanalytical Association @ipaonline.bsky.social · 23d

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

International Psychoanalytical Association @ipaonline.bsky.social · 23d

New podcast episode: Episode 189: When We Feel Provoked by the Politics of Our Patients

with Heribert Blass, Dr. Med. (MD) (Dusseldorf, Germany)

ipaoffthecouch.org/2025/09/21/e...

Produced for IPA by Harvey Schwartz
#psychology #Monday #therapy #psychoanalysis #politics

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International Psychoanalytical Association @ipaonline.bsky.social · 25d

“(The poet) “seeks in himself every kind of love of suffering, of madness”
G. Partridge, Psychoanalytic Review, 1930
Cartoon by Robert Mankoff

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International Psychoanalytical Association @ipaonline.bsky.social · 26d

"the absent object is opposite to the character of the object when there"
Edna O'Shaughnessy
Born this day, 26 September, 1924

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International Psychoanalytical Association @ipaonline.bsky.social · Sep 13

“Both psychoanalysis and anthropology study that which is distinctively human in mankind”

George Devereux, ethnologist and psychoanalyst, author of Reality and Dream: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian

Born this day, 13 September 1908

#culture #anthropology #psychotherapy

International Psychoanalytical Association @ipaonline.bsky.social · Sep 10

We must not, however, underrate the role which identification processes, even normally, continue to play in the further development of personality.
Edith Jacobson 1961

We celebrate today the birthday of Dr Jacobson, 10 Sept 1897

International Psychoanalytical Association @ipaonline.bsky.social · Sep 9

Otto Kernberg, appointed as Honorary President of the IPA, at the recent IPA Congress in Lisbon

An honor reserved for individuals whose work has achieved truly exceptional international recognition.

We celebrate also Dr Kernberg’s birthday, today, 10 September 1928

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International Psychoanalytical Association @ipaonline.bsky.social · Sep 9

New podcast episode: Analysts’ Reflections on Their Parenting with Andy Cohen (Johannesburg)

New episode of the podcast Psychoanalysis On and Off the Couch
ipaoffthecouch.org/2025/09/07/e...

Produced for IPA by Harvey Schwartz
#psychology #Monday #therapy #psychoanalysis #parenting

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International Psychoanalytical Association @ipaonline.bsky.social · Sep 8

“The sacrifice of memory and desire is conducive to the growth of dream-like ‘memory’ which is a part of the experience of psycho-analytical reality”

Wilfred Bion, born this day 8 Sept, 1897

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International Psychoanalytical Association @ipaonline.bsky.social · Sep 1

Race, African Americans, and psychoanalysis
Upcoming Journal Club w/ Dionne Powell, MD

Including access to an article and open discussion with the author.

Moderators: Jack Drescher & Christopher Walling

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#Race #racial #silence #silencing #therapy

International Psychoanalytical Association @ipaonline.bsky.social · Aug 30

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

International Psychoanalytical Association @ipaonline.bsky.social · Aug 28

“Psychoanalysis... can thus demonstrate new connecting threads in the “weaver's masterpiece” spread between the instinctual endowments, the experiences and the works of an artist.”

From Freud’s address on the honor of the Goethe Prize, he was awarded this day, 28 August, 1930.

International Psychoanalytical Association @ipaonline.bsky.social · Aug 27

“August 26, 1910, Freud delved into Mahler's childhood until he found some clues that explained both his inner conflicts and his musical inspiration.”
The day of Mahler’s therapy session with Freud

More info here:
www.elmundo.es/cultura/musi...

Art: ULISES CULEBRO

#Mahler #therapy

International Psychoanalytical Association @ipaonline.bsky.social · Aug 20

Upcoming Webinar:
Staying alive in the academic world - The importance of the Joseph Sandler Psychoanalytic Research Conference
With:
Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, Clara Schejtman and Rogério Lerner

More information here:
www.ipa.world/IPA/Dev/Even...

#psychotherapy #psychoanalysis

International Psychoanalytical Association @ipaonline.bsky.social · Aug 20

“I would like to present some material… to illustrate some connections between early psychotic anxieties and defences and a common neurotic symptom.”

Hanna Segal, born this day, 20 August 1918

#psychology #psychoanalysis #psychotherapy