Announcing:  IARPP’s 2013 Webinar Schedule
By Ilene Philpson

2013 is shaping up to be one of the most innovative for IARPP’s Web Seminar Program.  Beginning in January, one of our most engaging, lively presenters, Phil Ringstom, will be offering a candidates’ webinar on A Serious Look at Play:  An Improvisational Model of Psychoanalytic Therapeutic Action.  Then in February, Steven Stern is presenting Positivity in Psychoanalysis based on his most recent paper entitled Analytic Peace.

For the first time in seven years, we will be offering a seminar conducted in Spanish.  In April, Marta del Río, an MD who teaches Relational Theory in Santiago, Chile, will present a comparative analysis of Intersubjective Systems Theory and Relational Psychoanalysis.

In June we will have a unique experience.  Larry Zelnick, Jill Bellinson and Brenda Lepisto will lead a webinar on Children, Adolescents, Technology, and Psychotherapy.  What is special about this presentation is that it is being organized by a group that formed out of a previous web seminar held in 2010 on “The Role of Parent Work in Child Therapy.”  Alert to the ways in which the treatment of children and adolescents is often overlooked at conferences and online forums, participants in the 2010 webinar decided to form a working group, set-up their own listserve, and hold formal meetings at our annual conferences.  The Child and Adolescent group is currently co-chaired by Esther Bamberger and Daniel Gensler.  I think theirs is a wonderful model for how clinicians from throughout the world, sharing common interests, can come together through one of  IARPP’s programs for online learning and find ways to continue connecting in a sustained way.

In July, Juan Francisco Jordán-Moore, the co-chair for our November conference in Santiago, will present an overview of current debates in Latin American psychoanalysis.  This will provide us with an introduction to the ways in which Latin American psychoanalysis has developed differently than in the US, and will presage some of the central questions to be examined at our annual conference.

Ilene Philipson, PhD
Co-Chair, IARPP Web Seminar Committee
iphilipson@earthlink.net

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