TALKS ON PSYCHOANALYSIS Podcast: The Body and Compulsion in Childhood With psychoanalyst Christine Anzieu-Premmereur, SPP . Available in English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish talksonpsychoanalysis.podbean.com/e/the-body-a... Produced by Gaetano Pellegrini for the IPA.

Today we remember the birth of Horacio Etchegoyen (January 13, 1919 – July 2, 2016), one of the foremost figures of Argentine psychoanalysis.Though he passed away in 2016, his clarity of thought, clinical depth, and profound humanity remain deeply alive. We honor him !

IPA Webinar: "Neutrality" IPA invites you to participate on January 30th. 1 - 2.30 PM UK time.  With Dr. Soh Agatsuma & Dr. Rui Aragão Oliveira and our moderator will be Dr. Gizela Turkiewicz. . This webinar will be in English.  us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

A New episode of Psychoanalysis On and Off the Couch #195: The Unique Characteristics of Supportive Therapy with Rodrigo Sanchez Escandon (Leeds, England) IPAOfftheCouch.org ipaoffthecouch.org/2026/01/11/e... Produced by Harvey Schwartz for the IPA

Happy Birthday Alice Miller! (born Alicja Englard; 12 January 1923 – 14 April 2010). Her words still resonate: “One can only remember what has been consciously experienced” (p. 53). A timeless reminder of the power of awareness and truth. Miller, A. (1979)

Happy birthday to Joseph J. Sandler (10 January 1927, Cape Town – 6 October 1998, London) a brilliant mind whose work continues to shape psychoanalytic thoughts.Sandler, J. (1974) Psychological Conflict and the Structural Model: Some Clinical and Theoretical Implications. TheIJP

The International Psychoanalytic Association invites you to participate in the upcoming IPA Journal Club with Salman Akhtar, MD.   Moderated by Jack Drescher, MD and Christopher G. Walling, Psy.D. January 16th, 2026. 4 - 5:15 PM UK time. This Zoom meeting will be in English.

Happy and Healthy New Year to everyone! Please see our statement from our IPA President, Heribert Blass Now on our YouTube Channel youtu.be/akujTlaJjvA #NewYear #HappyNewYear #newyear2026

Psychopathologies of the Living: Selected Essays of Pierre Fédida - 1 Edited by Patrick Ffrench and Nigel Saint, this collection of essays by the French psychoanalyst Pierre Fédida focuses on his attention to the pathologies of the body share.google/AXoVci75K605...

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 web.cvent.com/event/800ffd....

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...

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....

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...

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

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

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

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

*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"

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

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

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"

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

"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 -

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... --- #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

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.

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

“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

“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

🗓️ 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

On the 27th October 1924,  Sigmund Freud appeared on the cover of Time magazine for the first time. #Freud #Time #Psychoanalysis

🎧 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

“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

📘 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

📘 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

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

“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 share.google/fY3ILRYEyVVt...

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

"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.

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

"systematizing the theory of affects is not merely a theoretical nicety, but has eminent practical importance" David Rapaport, born this day, 30 September, 1911

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

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

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

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

“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

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