Opening Issue 4 in the Psychoanalytic Theory and Technique section, Jill Salberg’s "Crises and Enactments while Ending Treatment" addresses the complexities of termination when early trauma shapes the analytic encounter.

✨ We’re delighted to announce that Issue 4 of Volume 106 of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis is now available online!

🎂 Happy 140th Birthday to Karen Horney, born on this day in 1885!

We are living in violent times, and this conference brings together psychoanalytic reflections on trauma, ethics, childhood, myth, and poetic form to explore how external and internal violence enters the world and the consulting room

The IJP Annual Online Conference 2026 will feature four leading psychoanalysts presenting on diverse aspects of violence. Join John Steiner, Giuseppe Civitarese, Cecilia Taiana, and Joshua Durban as they explore violence in its many forms, chaired by Editor-in-Chief Francis Grier on 10 January 2026

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🎂 Happy 128th Birthday to Wilfred Bion, born on this day in 1897!

✨ How do sensory experiences open pathways for connection in analytic work with autistic children? At our Autumn Study Meeting, Luca Quagelli explores this question in dialogue with Maria Rhode and Joshua Durban. #психоанализ #psykoanalyysi #פסיכואנליזה #psykoanalys #ψυχανάλυση #theijp #pepweb

📝 Register now to join us online for the Summer IJP Study Meeting with Luca Quagelli 📅 Saturday 11th October ⏰ 2–4pm BST 🎟 Register via Eventbrite or via PaDS at www.psychoanalystdatabase.com More info: www.theijp.org/study-meetings

🎂 Happy 128th Birthday to Wilfred Bion, born on this day in 1897!

🗓️ Join us on 11 October 2025 for our Autumn Study Meeting. Luca Quagelli will present Sensory Interweavings and Relational Openings in Clinical Work with Autistic Children, with discussions by Maria Rhode and Joshua Durban.

We are concluding our Issue 3 posts with some impressions from the IJP Panel at the 54th IPA Congress: Francis Grier (EIC) chaired the discussion with Heinz Weiss (Education Section Editor), Elizabeth Allison (Psychoanalytic Controversies Editor), and Abbot Bronstein (Analyst at Work Editor)

Lastly in our keynote highlights from the 54th IPA Congress: 'Tradition and Change in Psychoanalytic Theory: Querying the Infantile' by Stephen Seligman. Seligman reflected on how theory shapes not only clinical choices but also institutional culture and belonging.

Next up in our keynote highlights from the 54th IPA Congress: Tales of the Triangle. Thoughts on Essentials of Psychoanalysis Across Cultures by Tomas Plaenkers. He examined the Oedipus complex through a cross-cultural lens, asking whether Freud’s “universal triangularity” holds across contexts.

Continuing our keynote highlights from the 54th IPA Congress with Extensions of Narcissism: Psychoanalysis, War, Climate by E. César Merea. This paper proposed an “extensive psychoanalysis” to address pressing global and psychic challenges — from war to the climate crisis.

Starting off our keynote highlights from the 54th IPA Congress with 'Transformative Encounters: Bridging Cyber- and Analytic Space' by Sun Ju Chung.

About a month ago, the 54th IPA Congress took place in Lisbon, bringing together psychoanalysts and colleagues from across the world. This year’s theme, “Psychoanalysis: An Anchor in Chaotic Times,” set the tone for four days of dialogue, reflection, and exchange.

Concluding our series on IPA Asia Pacific Congress Papers (2024), In-Soo Lee delves beneath Korea’s harmonious surface to uncover the deep-rooted cultural and psychic strains shaped by Confucianism, exploring narcissistic vulnerability, family dynamics, and idealized social roles.

Continuing our review of IPA Asia Pacific Congress Papers (2024), Louise Gyler examines the dynamics of recognition and non-recognition, exploring how identity, trauma, and creative expression intersect in clinical work and the art of Waanyi artist Judy Watson.

Starting off our revisit of the IPA Asia Pacific Congress Papers (2024), Hsueh-Mei Fan explores the “couch of paranoia” and the impact of ancestral expectations on the psychic life in Taiwanese culture. Read now at pep-web!

Concluding, Nickolas Pappas reviews Patrick Fuery’s Intimacy and the Anxieties of Cinematic Flesh: Between Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis (Bloomsbury Academic, 2023, 248 pp., US $84.00, ISBN: 9781501376351), tracing the interplay of corporeality, cinema, and psychoanalytic reflection.

Next up, Dale S. Gody examines Psychoanalytic Explorations of What Women Want Today. Femininity, Desire and Agency, edited by Margarita Cereijido, Paula L. Ellman, and Nancy R. Goodman (Routledge, 2022, 201 pp., US $42.95 [pbk], ISBN: 9781032017815)

Continuing our Book Review section, Julie Jaffee Nagel delves into Adam Blum, Peter Goldberg, and Michael Levin’s Here I’m Alive. The Spirit of Music in Psychoanalysis (Columbia University Press, 2023, 304 pp., ISBN: 9780231209441 [hc], 9780231209458 [tpb], 97800231557948 [e-book])

Staring off our Book Reviews in Issue 3, James W. Barron reflects on Gabrielle Junkers’ Living and Containing Psychoanalysis in Institutions: Psychoanalysts Working Together (Routledge/Taylor & Francis, 2023, 186 pp., US $31.96, ISBN: 9781032295138)

📚 Snippets from the latest Book Reviews in IJP Vol. 106, Issue 3 will be shared here over the next few days ✨ Covering collaborative work in psychoanalytic institutions, femininity and desire today, the role of music in psychoanalysis, and film and embodiment. Read now at pep-web!

🎂 Happy 107th Birthday to Hanna Segal, born on this day in 1918! Hanna Segal (1918-2011) was a Polish-born British psychoanalyst and one of the most important figures in the development of Kleinian and post-Kleinian psychoanalysis.

📽️ In Issue 3, Poul Rohleder examines how homophobia, internalised homophobia, and heteronormativity shape the psychic lives of gay men, as brought to the surface in the film "All of Us Strangers".

🛋️ In "A Session with Lucia" Stefano Bolognini presents a session with a patient returning to analysis six years after an earlier treatment, where both analyst and analysand encounter each other anew.

🎻 Francis Grier traces how masterpieces born of WW II, Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols and Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time, transform devastation into aesthetic repair. Reading these works through Bion, Winnicott, and Segal, he shows how music becomes a container for ambivalence and mourning.

🎂 Happy 136th Birthday to Ronald Fairbairn, born on this day in 1889!

Lastly in our Psychoanalytic Theory and Technique section Richard Tuch looks at therapeutic action look like through a Lacanian lens. Tuch outlines key clinical methods such as punctuation, oracular interventions, and the moment the analyst ceases to be "the one who is supposed to know"

Next up in our Psychoanalytic Theory and Technique section Björn Salomonsson explores the countertransference challenges posed by climate anxieties, and how both apathy and hope may serve as defences in the face of solastalgia and loss. Read now at pep-web!

What does it mean to become a psychoanalyst? And what defines psychoanalysis as such? In this deeply personal reflection, Thomas H. Ogden argues that psychoanalysis must be invented anew with each patient — shaped not by fixed method but by the singularity of the analytic encounter.

In her Letter from Lisbon, written in anticipation of the 54th IPA Congress, Conceição de Almeida reflects on how the theme “Psychoanalysis: an anchor in chaotic times” resonates with Portugal’s own historical tides, drawing on how the concept of saudade is linked to the country's colonial legacies.

✨ We’re delighted to announce that Issue 3 of Volume 106 of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis is now available online! Explore the full issue at pep-web.org and learn more about the Journal and subscription options at theijp.org.

📰 On Carl Gustav Jung’s 150th birthday, we turn to Volume 80 revisiting a text by Zvi Lothane on the complex relationship between Jung and Sabina Spielrein. Read the full text in the IJP archive at www.pep-web.org/browse/IJP/volumes

📰 'From the Archive' continues with a contribution from Volume 72: Barbara Mautner's psychoanalytic interpretation of Freud's dream of Irma's injection. 130 years ago, on the morning of 24 July 1895, Freud recorded what would become the founding dream of psychoanalysis.

📰 Introducing our new 'From the Archive' series: a curated selection of seminal pieces from the IJP's rich history. Each post revisits the people, ideas, and clinical moments that continue to resonate. We begin with an obituary from Volume 75: Philip S. Holzman’s tribute to Karl A. Menninger.

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🎂 Happy 144th Birthday to Marie Bonaparte, born on this day in 1882! Marie Bonaparte (1882-1962) was a French psychoanalyst, author, and patron whose intellectual contributions and political influence played a pivotal role in the international spread of psychoanalysis.

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🎂 Happy 142nd Birthday to Joan Riviere, born on this day in 1883!

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🗿From statues to griefbots, every memorialization effort carries a question: does it honor the other, or preserve our version of them? In her paper, Alessandra Lemma asks whether griefbots represent a form of grieving that denies the other's difference. Join us this Saturday to reflect together!

🪞Lemma suggests that griefbots risk creating a timeless, narcissistic space where mourning is stalled, and the dead are rendered extensions of the self. Join us this weekend June 21 to discuss!