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2025 IARPP Conference – Athens

2025 IARPP 21st Annual Conference
Athens, Greece

The Paradox of Freedom in Relational Psychoanalysis:
Democracy and Tyranny in and out of therapy

June 19-22, 2025

Conference Co Chairs:
Alkinoi Lala, MSc
Fotini Doumoura, MSc
Stavros Charalambides, CGP, MSc

Conference Local Committee:
Maria Apostolopoulou
Eirini Germpana
Sevasti Gkioka
Marilou Kountria
Marianthi Michalakopoulou
Maritina Pantoleontos

Conference International Committee:
Udi Chen
Susanna Federici
Hazel Ipp
Steven Kuchuck
Ilana Laor
Gianni Nebbiosi
Sandra Toribio Caballero

Venue: Wyndham Grand Athens 5 star Hotel

We are pleased to open the Call for Papers for the 21st annual IARPP Conference.
The conference will be held in Athens, Greece from June 19 – June 22, 2025.

Relational psychoanalysis continues to be a democratic endeavor. Since its inception, it has encouraged a dialogue about the paradox of theoretical freedom, technique, and varied areas of psychoanalytic encounter that each clinician in their subjective way brings to the consulting room. While eschewing positivism and rigid rules, Relational psychoanalysis also continues to invite an ongoing engagement with intrapsychic processes, interpersonal relations, and the outside world’s impact on conscious and unconscious dynamics. As geopolitical, social, and environmental catastrophes mount, it becomes ever more crucial that we at least attempt to track and navigate potential enactments of existential anxieties, aggression, and sequelae of tyranny in the consulting room. How we understand and implement all of this will be a large part of our conference focus. It’s not by coincidence that we plan for this dialogue to take place in historical Athens, the birthplace of democracy.

We welcome you to the 21st IARPP conference and very much hope to see you there!

Call for Papers

IARPP members are invited to submit their PROPOSALS only for individual papers and/or panels pertaining broadly to the conference theme. We encourage those who would like to submit to join IARPP.

To be considered, proposals for INDIVIDUAL papers must be BETWEEN 500 AND 600 WORDS in length.

PANELS should include two papers on a chosen topic. Proposals for panels should be NO LONGER THAN 1200 WORDS IN TOTAL, and should consist of both an overview and abstracts of individual papers. Quality of writing, originality, integration of theory and awareness of current literature, clinical implications, and contribution to the field will all be considered.

The Conference Committee may group individual papers that are accepted for presentation with other papers in any session.

Discussants for panel may be suggested, but cannot be guaranteed. Please note that while multiple proposals may be submitted, only one presentation per participant will be allowed due to the limited time slots. Proposed submissions cannot have been presented at a previous IARPP conference.

FINAL PAPERS will only be requested upon the acceptance of your proposal for the conference.

IARPP Call for Papers now Open
closing date November 4, 2024

CALL FOR PAPER APPLICATION

We look forward to seeing you in Athens, Greece – June 19-22, 2025.

Alkinoi Lala, MSc, Fotini Doumoura, MSc
Stavros Charalambides, CGP, MSc
IARPP 2025 Conference Co-Chairs