Relational Psychoanalysis continues to be an evolving field. Forty years ago Stephen Mitchell introduced us to his groundbreaking work on relational thinking. Drawing from British object-relational theory, interpersonal psychoanalysis and feminist theory, he offered us novel ways of thinking and functioning clinically. Further nourished by significant contributions…

As our relational theories move us beyond the “talking cure” toward the unspoken and the implicit, the clinical encounter can seem both infinite in possibility and, simultaneously, unmoored. It challenges us to wonder how we navigate the verbal and nonverbal, the perceptual and experiential and what is permissible and impermissible in our clinical work. Drawing on more established as well as emerging…

Social and economic inequalities seem to have increased exponentially in recent years. This is contributing to a strong polarization in our psychic lives, creating the dichotomous sense of belonging to one particular group and repudiating the other. It is “us” against “them”.

A subtle pain. Implicit communication in the age of masks. The “Ethical Unknown” within the Self and its Revelation through a Global Crisis. Unmasked: Frame Alterations, Personal Transformations and Making the Conscious Unconscious during the time of the Plague. The Carnivalesque Politics of a Pandemic Body…

Drawing on more established as well as emerging insights from the multiple analytic perspectives within our comparative “big tent,” we will gather in Los Angeles to promote a clinically grounded, multi-generational conversation.

We will explore the differences between imagination and lies, faulty reality-testing, the messianic, prophecy, unconscious phantasy, escapism and illusions. As well, we will examine the differences between imagination, dreaming, and thinking. And we will ask ourselves if– or under what conditions might…

In the spirit of the title of this conference, derived from Stephen Mitchell’s book “Hope and Dread”, Relational Psychoanalysis continues to reinvent itself and acquire new meanings as it contends with the ongoing social and political upheaval around the world. How do our theories and our various clinical styles make room for national and international crises that profoundly alter our surroundings and fellow humans?

Progress and creativity thrive when familiar concepts and ideas are seen from new angles. Those who live, work and think at the margins, at the edges, away from the centre, necessarily have perspectives that differ from those who look from the centre, or from the mainstream. In this conference, in acknowledgement of the fact that Australia and New Zealand are geographically very far away from the centre – down-under – we would like to encourage…

The Arts of Time: Relational Psychoanalysis and Forms of Vitality in Clinical Process. In these recent years psychoanalysis has been dealing more and more with the exploration of the therapeutic process and the implicit dimension of the clinical exchange. A relational perspective on the clinical process emphasizes how it is a co-constructed result of a dyad engaged in a deep and creative exploration of the inner vicissitudes of the patient…

Since Stephen Mitchell first coined the term relational psychoanalysis, this phrase has encompassed a range of rich understandings and clinical approaches that share significant features while they may also diverge quite radically. Major differences mark the interpersonal, self psychological, object relational, and existential versions of relationality…

Inspired by the encounter between the relational paradigm and its possible Latin American equivalents, we seek to generate mutual learning and discovery, as well as opportunities for discussion and dialogue, in the hope of developing new visions and forging common ground.

As we look back at the past 10 years since IARPP’s inception we are both humbled and proud. IARPP was Stephen Mitchell’s brainchild – an idea that sprang from his perpetual curiosity and creativity and wish to expand the relational conversation beyond the few to include the many, in terms of culture, nationality, orientation and discipline.

Overview Registration Faculty Call For Papers Program Other Activities Education June 29 Itinerary June 30 Itinerary July 1 Itinerary July 2 Itinerary 2011 Conference Brochure GIF    2011 Final Program GIF     2011 Workshops GIF Registration is now CLOSED! Please visit http://www.meetandforum.net/IARPP2011/ to register. Call for Papers: Please visit http://www.meetandforum.net/IARPP2011/ for […]

February 25 – February 28, 2010 Event: IARPP Annual Conference 2010 Location: San Francisco, California Venue: The Fairmont Hotel Co-Chairs: Jeanne Wolff Bernstein, Ph.D. & Stephen Hartman, Ph.D.   2010 Conference Brochure GIF Pre Conference Description GIF Paper Workshops Descriptions GIF Panel Descriptions GIF 2010 Conference Faculty GIF Thursday, February […]

4th International Conference of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy – presents – The Shadow of Memory: “Relational Perspectives on Remembering and Forgetting” REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED. PLEASE NOTE: UPDATE 15 April 2009: The early registration fee for the Israel 2009 conference is relevant through April 15, 2009 […]

Our conference title is Relational Perspectives on Attachment Theory and Psychoanalytic Process. The Relational Perspective, derived from British Object Relational Theory, Interpersonal Theory, and theory emerging from clinical experience, provides a large umbrella for diverse conceptions about human interchanges…

Metamorphosis: Therapeutic Change in a Changing World

Now, in Boston, we move out again, toward those transformations taking place at the edges of experience. We seek to capture, from Relational perspectives, the clinician’s engagement with the concrete realities of life and loss. We want to explore the ways in which we sit with known and unknown human processes that defy our wishes…

Pre-registration will open Monday January 15, 2005. Please keep posted for further announcements and remember IARPP Members receive a discount on their registration fees. Conference Committee: Gianni Nebbiosi (Co-Chair), Emanuel Berman (Co-Chair), Susi Federici-Nebbiosi. Italian Conference Committee: Nino Dazzi, Susanna Federici-Nebbiosi, Vittorio Lingiardi, Franco Paparo, Ingrid Pedroni, Carmine Schettini…

This ‘Teach-In Event’ is an opportunity to explore with us current relational thinking in clinical practice and theory. We will be discussing the history, context, development and implications of relationality; a clinical paper by Jody Davies; personal routes to relational perspectives from diverse backgrounds including psychoanalytic, humanistic, integrative and Jungian.

This conference will explore continuities and discontinuities between Relational theory and Freudian, British Object Relations, Kleinian, Self Psychological, Interpersonal, Jungian and Lacanian Perspectives.

Psychoanalytic clinicians frequently encounter problems with therapeutic impasse. Classical psychoanalysis has a number of specific responses to the phenomena. For contemporary psychoanalysis, particularly the relational orientation, there are number of evolving perspectives.

Sexuality-Yours, Mine and Ours: Relational Forays into Underexplored Dimensions of Sexual Experience and Sexual Identity.

This clinical conference will be the inaugural meeting of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. The registration brochure is now available. For more information call 1-877-833-IARP or email info@iarpp.net The conference is sponsored by the Stephen A. Mitchell Center for Relational Psychoanalysis to celebrate the establishment of the […]