On this day we remember Alix Strachey - née Alix Sargant-Florence - (June 4, 1892, Nutley, New Jersey, United States – April 28, 1973, Great Marlow, England), was a British psychoanalyst, whose quiet brilliance helped bring the depths of the human mind into clearer language. Strachey, A. (1941)

Psychoanalysis On and Off the Couch #205: AI, Subjectivity and Psychoanalysis with Amy Levy, PhD (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) Amy Levy, PhD is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst. IPAOfftheCouch.org ipaoffthecouch.org/2026/05/31/e... Podcast by Harvey Schwartz for the IPA.

Honouring the Life and Legacy of Horacio Etchegoyen (1919-2016) June 26th at 4:00 PM us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... Panelists: Cláudio Laks Eizirik Charles Hanly Stefano Bolognini Virginia Ungar Moderator:   Monica Vorchheimer Guest contributor:  Margaret Ann Fitzpatrick Hanly Isabel Silveira

Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel was born in Paris, France, in 1928.She was a prominent French psychoanalyst renowned for her extensive work exploring the relationship between perversion, creativity, and the ego ideal. Held notable academic and professional positions, and VP of the IPA

Today we celebrate the birthday of Paul-Claude Racamier (20 May 1924, Pont-de-Roide, Doubs, France – 18 August 1996, Besançon, France), whose pioneering work profoundly influenced modern psychoanalysis. Denis, P. (2014) Introduction to Paul-Claude Racamier's Paper

Psychoanalysis On and Off the Couch Analytic Endings: When Enough is Enough and When it Isn't with Joyce Slochower, PhD (New York) Joyce Slochower, Ph.D., ABPP, is Professor Emerita of Psychology at Hunter College & the Graduate Center, CUNY. ipaoffthecouch.org/2026/05/17/e...

May 17 is the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia (IDAHOBIT. On this day in1990, #WHO officially removed homosexuality from the list of mental disorders. This date means defending respect, singularity, and the right to exist without fear or shame.

Today we celebrate the birthday of Theodor Reik , May 12, 1888, Vienna, Austria-Hungary – One of the most original and insightful voices in psychoanalysis:.“Neurosis is surely reserved, is it not, for the laughable and pitiable animal that wishes to be a God but cannot?”

The IPA invites you to participate in the upcoming IPA Journal Club featuring Dr. Beatrice Beebe moderated by Jack Drescher, MD and Christopher G. Walling, Psy.D. It will be on Friday, June 12, 2026, at 4 p.m. London time, 11 a.m. US Eastern Time.  . us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

The IPA invites you to participate in the upcoming IPA Journal Club featuring Dr. Beatrice Beebe moderated by Jack Drescher, MD and Christopher G. Walling, Psy.D. It will be on Friday, June 12, 2026, at 4 p.m. London time, 11 a.m. US Eastern Time.  . us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

My Evolution as an Analyst with Virginia Ungar, MD (Buenos Aires) “I'm not suggesting that repression has lost its place as a fundamental defense mechanism. Repression remains central ipaoffthecouch.org/2026/05/03/e... #203 Virginia Ungar M.D., She is the former President of the IPA

You may certainly take my Birthday as an occasion to wish for yourself the continuation of your energetic mood and the repetition of such invigorating periods in between, and I shall unselfishly support this wish. Letter from Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fleiss, 8 May, 1901#170 www.thefreudfolder.com

Psychic Change and Enactment: Some Reflections" is the work that Ariel Liberman offers us, to examine psychic change from a relational perspective, placing Ariel Liberman holds a PhD in Psychology and is a member of the APM buff.ly/1uSDjSb #podcast#psychoanalysis #mondayvibes

On his birthday, we remember and honor Heinz Kohut (Vienna, May 3, 1913 – Chicago, October 8, 1981): “[...] it is a rhythm corresponding to an affective state that determines the associative emergence of a tune.” (p. 136) Kohut, H. (1955) The Haunting Melody

On his birthday, we remember and honor Karl Abraham (Bremen, May 3, 1877 – Berlin, December 25, 1925): “I hope I have now settled everything as you would have wished. As far as I am concerned, the harmony shall not be disturbed.” (p. 40) Abraham, K. (1908) Letter from KA to SF

On the birthday of Joyce McDougall (Dunedin, April 26, 1920 – London, August 24, 2011), we are reminded of the fragile yet creative psychic constructions through which individuals sustain identity, negotiate loss, and hold together the fragments of inner life.

On the birthday of Otto Rank (Vienna, April 22, 1884 – New York City, October 31, 1939), we reflect on the profound psychological origins of human creativity and culture, rooted in our earliest experience of separation and becoming:

2 Conference Nilofer Kaul 1 May 2026 10:30-12 hs KST KS6, Keynote - Psychoanalysis as Transformation: Re-dreaming Narcissus Chair Jun Tong, Keynote Speaker Nilofer Kaul, Indian Psychoanalytical Society Discussant Sunghee Han, Korean Psychoan. Center vimeo.com/1170074577?f...

On the birthday of Jacques Lacan (Paris, April 13, 1901 . Even if the sum total of analytic experience allows us to isolate some general forms, an analysis proceeds only from the particular to the particular.– Écrits, 386

Mothers and Their Little Girls with Ilene Lefcourt (New York) “In addition to the easy convenience of bathing two children together, or three children together, there are other motivations of bathing them together.  IPAOfftheCouch.org #201 ipaoffthecouch.org/2026/04/05/e...

Homosexuality… is nothing to be ashamed of, it is not a vice, it is not a degradation, it cannot be categorized as an illness…” Freud, in a letter to the mother of a gay man. This date, April 9, 1935. buff.ly/3PVqBhs #gay #LGBTQ #Freud #psychoanalysis

The IPA’s Psychoanalytic Assistance in Crises and Emergencies (PACE) committee have updated their committee pages on the IPA website. Read more about their work, their ongoing projects, events, and updated bibliography of resources. ipa.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT...

Happy Birthday to Donald W. Winnicott (Plymouth, April 7, 1896 – London, January 25, 1971). Today we remember a thinker who transformed the way we understand early relationships: “[…]infant behaviour cannot be accounted for except on the assumption that there are infant phantasies” (p.249)

Anxiety , Psychoanalysis and Law ! Was presented in EPF - Oslo Conference , last Saturday www.routledge.com/Anxiety-Psyc.... . Second book of the IPA :"Psychoanalysis and Law Committee"

Today we celebrate the birthday of Solomon Resnik (April 1, 1920, Buenos Aires – April 16, 2017, Paris) "Resnik combined a strong psychoanalytic and philosophic culture with an uninterrupted clinical practice". (p.1822) Correale, A. (2017) Obituary for Salomon Resnik.The IJP

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

We invite you to the webinar: "Understanding Eating Disorders Across Development.”  Saturday 18 , 5:30 PM, in English. With 2 distinguished speakers: Dr.Christine Anzieu-Premmereur , Dr. H. L. Persano, chair: Dr. Fernando M. Gómez. Register : buff.ly/ULAUBm3

On this day, we honor and celebrate Melanie Klein (March 30, 1882, Vienna, Austria-Hungary; September 1960, London,): "the step from the introjection of part-objects to whole loved objects with all its implications is of the most crucial importance in development" (p. 173).

"New Podcast episode with Jhuma Basak"  "How does the psyche navigate the interplay of impermanence and resilience? Jhuma Basak is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Indian Psychoanalytical Society. She has published on culture - gender. talksonpsychoanalysis.podbean.com/e/vicissitud....

A New IPA Webinar on Enactment will take place on Friday, April 24th, 2026, at 4:00 p.m., with the moderation of Dr. Isabel Silveira , in English. Dr. Nelson Nazaré Rocha, Brazilian Psychoanalytic Societies Dr. Gabriel Sapisochin, MD.APM Register here :  us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

On this day, we remember and celebrate Wilhelm Reich (March 24, 1897, Dobzau, Austria-Hungary; November 3, 1957, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, USA), a visionary thinker. Only you yourself can be your liberator!" is a central, recurring declaration from Wilhelm Reich’s 1948 book.

A Memoir of Analysis, Poetry and Mortality with Alice Jones, MD (Berkeley, California)   IPAOfftheCouch.org     ipaoffthecouch.org/2026/03/22/e... #200 Produced by Harvey Schwartz for the IPA..

The International Psychoanalytic Association invites you to participate in the upcoming IPA Journal Club featuring Austin Ratner, MD, moderated by Jack Drescher, MD and Christopher G. Walling, Psy.D. It will be on Friday, April 10, 2026, at 4 p.m.   us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Today is the birthday of André Green (Cairo, Egypt, 12 March 1927 – Paris, France, 22 January 2012) "[...] imagination enhances affect and affects are the strongest stimulation to imagination." (p. 210) Green, A. (1995) Summary: Affects versus Representations or Affects ...

Today is the birthday of Hilde Bruch (March 11, 1904, Dülken, Germany – December 15, 1984, Houston, Texas, USA) "The emphasis on patient-initiated behavior and thinking has been of value in helping some patients to become active participants in the therapeutic process"

A Candidate Engages Patients Who are 'Difficult to Reach' with Pamela Polizzi, LCSW (New York) IPAOfftheCouch.org  ipaoffthecouch.org/2026/03/08/e... #199 Produced by Harvey Schwartz for the IPA.. #podcast #candidate #patients #difficult #psychoanalysis #tuesdayvibes

Celebrating International Women's Day #IWD2026 #COWAP embraces diversity as both a reality and a priority. In a world still largely shaped by masculine standards and rules, Cowap gives voice to the challenges and invite you all to JOIN US in this journey.

Today is the birthday of Betty Joseph (Birmingham, United Kingdom, 7 March 1917 – London, United Kingdom, 4 April 2013) "[…] there is a relation between the mother and child - a reciprocal relationship- so intimate […]" (p. 59) Joseph, B. (1948) A Technical Problem

On March 3, 1907, Carl Jung met Sigmund Freud for the first time in Vienna, beginning a, 13-hour,, continuous, conversation that marked the start of their, intense, six-year, collaboration.The breakdown culminated around 1913, largely due to profound theoretical disagreements.

New episode of the podcast Talks on Psychoanalysis. "Transience and the prohibition of “Don’t Look” by Osamu Kitayama . Osamu Kitayama is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Japan Psychoanalytic Society. talksonpsychoanalysis.podbean.com/e/transience....

Happy Birthday to Anna O. (born 27 February 1859, Vienna – 28 May 1936), Frankfurt am Main. Known to history as the pseudonym of Bertha Pappenheim, "a young lady who, with a non-traumatic aetiology, fell ill of a severe and complicated hysteria (accompanied by paralyses, etc.)

Happy Birthday to John Bowlby , 26 February 1907, London – 2 September 1990) He was a pioneering British psychologist, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst known for founding attachment theory. .... “We are only as needy as our unmet needs.” or this one ?

An Analyst's 'Couple State of Mind' with Mary Morgan, (London) “[A couple state of mind] is the capacity to be subjectively involved with both individuals," IPAOfftheCouch.org #198 ipaoffthecouch.org/2026/02/22/e... Produced by Harvey Schwartz for the IPA.. #podcast #couple

Harry Stack Sullivan was born on February 21, 1892, in Norwich, New York, USA. "Likewise, we must wean ourselves of several theories, among which, I think, may be included that hypothesis of Edinger which denies to the palace-encephalon any sort of 'consciousness'." We remember him in his own words

Anaïs Nin was born on February 21, 1903, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. "She had the capacity to work through the wound of self-injury through the combination of poetic and analytic exploration demonstrated in her writing." (p. 87)

One Hundred Years of Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety. We celebrate Freud’s key work on anxiety as a signal of danger, the traversal of castration, and conflict, reconsidering repression and psychic conflict in theory and clinical practice. #Freud #Psychoanalysis #Anxiety #ISA

“The Committee on Psychoanalysis and the University of the International Psychoanalytical Association presents its work in the voices of some of its members.” youtube.com/shorts/2XNep... #committee #univetsity #psychoanalysis

IPA Talks On Psychoanalysis – Italian Edition The Infantile, Adolescence and the Care of the Bond Guest: Franco D'Alberton — SPI/IPA training analyst, expert in child and adolescent analysis . Host: Gaetano Pellegrini. open.spotify.com/episode/1vsP...

Registrations are now open for the IPA’s 5th Asia-Pacific Conference which takes place in Seoul from the 29th April to the 1st May 2026. Join us! In the three-day conference that will bring analysts from the East and West together to explore topics on the theme of Narcissism .

We invite you to the IPA Journal Club with Vittorio Lingiardi, MD and Nancy McWilliams, PhD., moderated by Jack Drescher, MD and Christopher G. Walling, Psy.D, on Friday, March 6th. at 4pm. , in English us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...