2018 Blogs

Is creativity dangerous?

The process of creating artwork isn’t always a smooth one. Desy Safán-Gerard – artist and psychoanalyst – discusses these difficulties, and how a therapist can help to re-establish a dialogue with creative work.

Doing Psychoanalysis in Beirut

Marie-Thérèse Khair Badawi, founding member of the Lebanese Association for the Development of Psychoanalysis, and a member of the IPA, is interviewed by Angela Mauss-Hanke about the origins and future of psychoanalysis in Lebanon.

International Women's Day 2018

Press for Progress

Revenge has no boundaries

“Revenge is an activity in which justice shall be regained!” Writing for the IPA blog, Angela Mauss-Hanke looks at why we feel a need for revenge and what makes this so dangerous.

Doing Psychoanalysis in Cape Town

Angela Mauss-Hanke interviews Vincenzo Sinisi, a psychoanalyst, group analyst and clinical psychologist in private practise in Cape Town, South Africa.

Why the importance of a committee on sexual and gender diversity studies?

As with any societal prejudice, bias against individuals based on actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity negatively affects mental health.

Psychoanalysis and Participatory Democracy

Lene Auster explores how crucial contemporary political phenomena may be fruitfully analysed through psychoanalytic theory.

Offending and non-offending paedophiles

Interview with Dr. Cosimo Schinaia

Basaglia Law

Forty years ago: the abolishment of psychiatric hospitals in Italy.

Freud, or the Interpretation of Dreams

Freud, or the Interpretation of Dreams was performed at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano, with every night being completely sold out.

The capacity to be alone

Minnie Dastur, Senior Training Analyst at the Mumbai Chapter of the Indian Psychoanalytic Society, reflects on the psychoanalytic undertones in William Wordsworth’s ‘I wandered Lonely as a Cloud”.

Beyond barriers of language

Professor Osamu Kitayama discusses language and psychoanalysis ahead of the IPA's Asia-Pacific Conference in May.

Interview with Federico Tiezzi

Maria Grazia Vassallo Torrigiani interviews Director Federico Tiezzi in advance of the play's debut.

Eitingon Model

To Three or Not to Three: That is Not the Question. Article written by: David Jachim

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Is creativity dangerous?

Doing Psychoanalysis in Beirut

International Women's Day 2018

Revenge has no boundaries

Doing Psychoanalysis in Cape Town

Why the importance of a committee on sexual and gender diversity studies?

Psychoanalysis and Participatory Democracy

Offending and non-offending paedophiles

Basaglia Law

Freud, or the Interpretation of Dreams

The capacity to be alone

Beyond barriers of language

Interview with Federico Tiezzi

Eitingon Model

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