CLINICAL DISCUSSION GROUPS
IPA Communications Committee
Registration is open | Groups start September 2024
Clinical Discussion Groups are gatherings for the discussion of clinical material brought by participants and moderated by accomplished psychoanalysts. The group will convene once a month for four months, with each meeting lasting one and a half hours (90 minutes). Each group will consist of 10 to 15 participants, exclusively IPA members or candidates. At the end of the activity, a document will be compiled with the group's conclusions on theory, technique, or any new thoughts that may have arisen. This document may be submitted for presentation at the next IPA congress or uploaded to the Knowledge Hub on the IPA website.
Mandatory conditions regarding the protection of sensitive data:
a) Have a signed informed consent from the patient to be presented.
b) Conduct virtual meetings on encrypted platforms, such as Zoom or Meet.
c) Recording meetings will not be permitted.
d) Uphold the confidentiality agreement accepted by group participants at registration.
Silvia Wajnbuch, Chair Communications Committee
Mónica Bomba, Coordinator Clinical Discussion Groups
Moderators
JAN ABRAM
Language: English
Participants: 15 maximum
Time: Sundays (22/9, 20/10, 17/11, 15/12) from 4:00 to 5:30 pm (UK Time)
Bio: Prof Jan Abram is a training analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society and author of several books specialising in the work of Winnicott. She is President of the European Psychoanalytic Federation.
Theme: Psychic survival-of-the-object
Methodology: A modification of the method known as the Specificity of Psychoanalytic Treatment Today (an EPF Working Group). The group will be up to 15 members. There will be a presentation for each week of two consecutive sessions read by the analyst with no history. The group will associate the clinical material while the analyst listens. For the final part of the meeting the analyst will respond to the group’s associations.
DIETER BÜRGIN
Language: German
Participants: 15 maximum
Time: Tuesdays (03/09, 24/09, 22/10, 19/11) from 5:00 to 6:30 pm (CET)
Bio: Psychoanalytic training in Basel, Zürich and Freiburg i.B. Postgraduate psychoanalytic training in Child- and Adolescent Psychoanalysis: at the Hampstead Clinic London, at the British Institute of Psychoanalysis, at the Tavistock Clinic and at the Brent Centre (M. and E. Laufer), London (1973/1974)
Training Analyst of the Swiss Psychoanalytic Society
From 1975 to 2004: Head of the Child and Adolescent Department at the University of Basel, Chairman of the University Clinic Basel for Child- and Adolescent-Psychiatry. Full Professorship at the University of Basel.
Different functions in the EPF and IPA.
From 2001-2021: President of the scientific board of the Sigmund Freud Institute, Frankfurt.
2004-2006: President of the Swiss Psychoanalytic Society
Since 2004: Private analytic practice for Children, Adolescents and Adults. Supervision and teaching in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Numerous publications. Ten books.
LUIS JORGE MARTÍN CABRÉ
Language: Spanish
Participants: 15
Time: Saturdays (28/9, 09/11, 30/11, 20/12) from 5:00 to 6:30 pm (CET)
Bio: Former President of the Madrid Psychoanalytic Association (APM).
Full Member with didactic functions of the A.P.M.
Accredited member as a child and adolescent psychoanalyst.
Full Member of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society (Centro Psicoanalitico di Bologna) Ordinary member of the Spanish Society of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy.
Founding member of the “Sándor Ferenczi” International Foundation. Member of the European Editorial Board of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and the American Journal of Psychonalysis.
BERNARD CHERVET
Language: French
Participants: 15 maximum
Time: Fridays (27/9, 18/10, 15/11, 13/12) from 6:30 to 8:00 pm (CET)
Bio: Psychiatrist. Training Psychoanalyst of the Psychoanalytical Society of Paris (SPP). Former President SPP. Representative on the IPA Board and on the IPA Executive Committee. Scientific Director of the Congress of French speaking Psychoanalysts (CPLF). Founder of SPP Editions. Author of numerous publications in French and international journals which cover a wide range of clinical and theoretical psychoanalytic topics. Winner of the Bouvet Prize in 2017 for all of his work. Key-note to the CPLF on the theme "The Après-coup". Author of “Après-coup in Psychoanalysis: The Fulfilment of Desire and Thought” (2023, Routledge). Contributor to the IPA encyclopedic dictionary.
AKIYOSHI OKADA
Language: Japanese
Participants: 15 maximum
Time: Sundays (08/09, 06/10, 24/11, 15/12) from 8:30 to 10:00 pm (Japan Time)
Bio: Akyoshi Okada, M.D., Ph.D. is a Training Analyst in the Japan Psychoanalytic Society (JPS).
He is current chairman of training comittee of the JPS. He is also a psychodynamic psychiatrist and a professor of Department of Psychopathology and Psychotherapy at Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine.
His papers include the following:
https://doi.org/10.1080/07351690.2015.1123998
https://doi.org/10.1080/02668734.2021.1952648