All past IARPP Online Colloquium events - i.e. complete discussions and related papers - are available to IARPP members in the IARPP Colloquium Archive.

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  This paper acknowledges and discusses the analyst’s sleepiness as a defense against affect in the patient and analyst. It explores the phenomenon as an enactment of parental unavailability and abandonment and a primitive communication from the patient about early states of psychological deadness and unintegration. In the context of relational literature that celebrates engaged and enlivened registers, this article considers the problems and potentials of dwelling in a distanced and deadened intersubjective field.

• Colloquium 40
  

  In this colloquium, we intend to have conversations about relational technique in general, with specific focus on Bromberg’s proposal that ‘self-revelation is not only permissible but necessary’. While perhaps a well-worn trope, we are of the opinion that it is still a relevant and sometimes confusing topic and so we hope it will find wide […]

• Colloquium 39
  

  This eloquent paper takes on the difficult but therapeutically essential topic of the language of the incestuous encounter, and the ways in which what purports to contain attachment and meaning in fact attacks precisely those qualities. We believe that the discussion of this paper will offer rich opportunity for both clinical and theoretical exploration, and will provide a much-needed opportunity for us to think together even while we cannot meet in person as yet.

• Colloquium 38
  

  This colloquium will centre on Julie Gerhardt’s (2020) paper “The Traumatic No Man’s Land of Psychic Devastation: Beyond Mourning and Melancholia.” This eloquent paper takes on a state of grief and loss beyond mourning and melancholia, and “makes a case for acknowledging a third category of loss: psychic devastation … that turns out to be […]

• Colloquium 37
  

  Our upcoming IARPP Fall colloquium will run from November 11-22, 2020, and we will discuss Steven Stern’s “Airless World: Sequelae of Identification with Parental Negation”. In this rich paper, Steve interweaves a variety of theoretical strands into his own unique integration, extending his self-psychologically informed ideas about “needed” relationships. The article is intellectually challenging and clinically […]

• Colloquium 36
  

  We invite all IARPP members to join in our online project: Working During the Corona Virus Health Crisis: An Open Forum to discuss reactions, thoughts and concerns, whether theoretical, clinical, or personal about the crisis that we are coping with around the world. We have invited an international panel to open the conversation, starting Saturday, […]

• Colloquium 35
  

  As the new co-chairs of the IARPP Colloquium Committee, we’re pleased to announce the forthcoming colloquium. We will be discussing Mary Joan Gerson’s 2018 paper from Psychoanalytic Perspectives, “Death of a Parent: Openings at an Ending”.  This beautiful article explores the way that a parent’s death can create unexpected opportunities for intrapsychic and intersubjective growth […]

• Colloquium 34
  

  This paper will be a wonderful introduction to Robert Grossmark’s book, also called The Unobtrusive Relational Analyst. In that book, his perspective on treatment and on work with trauma is very clearly developed and clinically illuminated. Here in this essay, we are asked to consider subtle but deep alternatives to the usual accounts of the […]

• Colloquium 33
  

  Saketopoulou’s  work advances an alternative exegesis of perverse sexuality that permits an analyst to regard it not from within a state of alarm but with the capacity to recognize perversity’s generative potential. Relying on Laplanche’s theory of infantile sexuality, she suggests that the sexualization of suffering is developmentally installed in sexuality’s very ontology. Although frequently […]

• Colloquium 32
  

  We are pleased to announce IARPP’s next online colloquium. It is based on Yvette Esprey’s paper entitled, “The Problem of thinking in Black and White: Race in the South African Clinical Dyad” (PD, 2017: 20-35).
  The colloquium will take place via email from Monday, May 21 through Sunday, June 3, 2018.
  The IARPP Colloquia Committee found this paper as a good introduction to IARPP’S coming conference in NY – Hope and Dread: Therapists and Patients in an Uncertain World.
  Esprey argues that race, as it presents itself within the clinical dyad as an aspect of the relationship between therapist and patient, has scarcely been written about from an experience-near perspective within the South African context. This paper focuses on the difficulty of speaking and writing about race. It contends that race as a construct and as an aspect of subjectivity has the potential to interrupt the therapist’s capacity to think, in Bionian terms, and to prevent entry into the reverie that is crucial to the creation of an analytic third.
  We are looking forward to broad international participation in this discussion among the author, the panelists, and the larger community.

• Colloquium 31
  

  Shalgi sees the most basic endeavor therapists and their patients are struggling with as that of entering into the realm of death with open eyes. In his paper, the term ‘death’ means both psychic death and actual death, both the cessation of psychic life and of actual life.

• Colloquium 30
  

  CE Credits: The program is free of cost to all IARPP members. For psychologists: IARPP is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. IARPP maintains responsibility for this program and its content. This program is valid for 3 CE Credits. For social workers:
 IARPP has received approval from the New York […]

• Colloquium 29
  

  Our next and 29th IARPP Colloquium will take place from Monday, November 7, through Sunday, November 20, 2016. The Colloquium will feature a paper by Sue Grand (USA) entitled, “God at an Impasse: Devotion, Social Justice, and the Psychoanalytic Subject” (Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Vol. 23, No. 4, p. 449-463, 2013). We are excited to have Dr. […]

• Colloquium 28
  

  We are pleased to announce the upcoming IARPP colloquium in which we will discuss Eyal Rozmarin’s paper: I Am Yourself: Subjectivity and the Collective, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 19, 5, 604-616. This colloquium will run from Monday, May 9 through Sunday, May  22, 2016. Moderators will be Alejandro Avila Espada and Steven Knoblauch. With this paper, Eyal […]

• Colloquium 27
  

  We are pleased to announce the upcoming IARPP colloquium in which we will discuss Galit Atlas’ paper, “Touch me, Know me: The enigma of erotic longing” (Psychoanalytic Psychology, 32 (1), 123-139. 2015) This colloquium will run from Monday, November 9th through Sunday, November 22, 2015. Moderators will be Steven Knoblauch and Alejandro Avila Espada. Turning […]

• Colloquium 26
  

  The Body as Experience, The Body as Experiencer: A Multi-Perspectival Conversation, May 11 – May 24, 2015.

• Colloquium 25
  

  Relational Freedom and Therapeutic Action, November 10 – November 23, 2014.

• Colloquium 24
  

  Examining the Value of Comparative Thinking: Steven Mitchell on Varieties of Interaction in Psychoanalysis, May 12 – May 25, 2014.

• Colloquium 23
  

  The Meanings and Uses of Countertransference: South American Contributions to Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Sept 23, 2013 – Oct 6, 2013.

• Colloquium 22
  

  Therapeutic Passion in the Countertransference, May 6th – May 19th, 2013.

• Colloquium 21
  

  The Black Man and the Mermaid: Desire and Disruption in the Analytic Relationship, October 1st – October 14th, 2012.

• Colloquium 20
  

  When the Third is Dead, Monday, May 7th – Sunday, May 20th, 2012.

• Colloquium 19
  

  Good Enough Endings: Contemporary Perspectives on Termination”, December 5th – 18th, 2011.

• Colloquium 18
  

  Lapsus linguae, or A Slip of the Tongue? A Sexual Violation in an Analytic Treatment and Its Personal and Theoretical Aftermath, May 9 – 22, 2011.

• Colloquium 17
  

  Psychoanalysis and the Trauma(s) of History, December 6 – 19th, 2010.

• Colloquium 16
  

  Improvisation and Play in the Analytic Space, May 10 – 23rd, 2010.

• Colloquium 15
  

  On the Attachment of Psychoanalysis to the Past, November 30 – December 13, 2009.

• Colloquium 14
  

  The Trauma of Morality, May 11-29, 2009.

• Colloquium
  

  Dear IARPP members

  As the conflict in Israel and Gaza continues to intensify, horrifying and preoccupying us all, we have decided to postpone the colloquium on Jody Davies’ paper, “From Oedipus Complex to Oedipal Complexity: Reconfiguring (Pardon the Expression) the Negative Oedipus Complex and the Disowned Erotics of Disowned Sexualities”, until November, 2024.

  We believe the rippling effects of the unfolding violence in the Middle East (and of course the ongoing war in Ukraine) make proceeding with this event untenable at this time. This decision was not taken lightly. Rather after considerable discussion with the IARPP Board and consultation with Jody Davies and our panelists, we are in agreement that postponing is the appropriate course.

  We thank our author and panelists for their understanding, the IARPP executive for their support, and our community for your solidarity. We wish you and your loved ones safety and peace during these dark days.

  Cathy and Amy
  Colloquium Co-Moderators

  In this paper, as the title implies, Jody attempts to complicate and “complexify” some of the dynamics of human sexuality. Despite its publication in 2015, in many places the world over we are still battling stereotyped binary perceptions of sexual identity and the restrictive and punitive policies employed to enforce them. Jody is also hoping to use this forthcoming colloquium to bring some new theorizing on the issue, so there is much scope for conversation and dialogue regarding different understandings of the concepts.