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CLICK HERE for full description of pre-conference titles and objectives

7:45 am Registration for Optional Pre-Conference Programs

8:30 am
A. Half-Day: The Dialectics of Authority and Vulnerability in Clinical Prose: A Clinical
Writing Workshop for Uncertain Times
Presenter: Suzi Naiburg, PhD, LICSW, USA

B. Half-Day: Three Dimensional Field Theory: Dramatization and Improvisation in a Psychoanalytic
Theory of Change Workshop
Presenter: Philip Ringstrom, PhD, PsyD, USA

C. Half-Day: When One and One Equal One: Hope and Dread in the Discovery of Truth
in the Movie Incendies
Presenter: Gila Ofer, PhD, Israel

D. Half-Day: Relational Principles in the Community for Underserved Populations
Interlocutor: Steven H. Knoblauch, PhD, USA
Presenters: Cynthia Chalker, MSS, LMSW, USA; Stella Hayes, MS, Australia; Anne Marie
Maxwell Martinez, PhD, Mexico; Almas Merchant, PhD, USA; Romy Reading, PhD,
USA; Andrea Rihm, PhD, Chile; and Carlos Saavreda Velez, MD, USA

E. Extended Pre-Conference Session*: Hope and Dread —Adolescents as Agents of
Change in Families and Communities: Relational Clinic Path
Chair: Amy Joelson, LCSW, USA
Introduction: Susi Federici, PhD, Italy
Presenters: Beatrice Beebe, PhD, USA; Fabia Banella, PsyD, Italy; Aleksandra Misiolek,
Spain; Paola Davanzo, Chile; and Ann Marie Sacramone, MSEd, USA
Discussants: Macarena Lopez Magnasco, Chile; Marco Bernabei, PhD, Italy; Frances
LaBarre, USA; and Gerard Webster, PhD, PsyD, Australia

11:00 am Adjournment of Pre-Conference Half-Day Sessions.
*Extended Pre-Conference Session ends at 1:00 pm

CLICK HERE for a full description of June 14 Paper Sessions 1
CLICK HERE for a full description of June 14 Paper Sessions 2
CLICK HERE for a full description of plenaries

11:15 am PAPER/PANEL SESSION 1:
(10 Concurrent Sessions)

1. Sociopolitical Retraumatization in the Trump Era
Speakers: Judi Kobrick, PhD, Canada; Sophia Richman, PhD, ABPP, USA; and Fabio Monguzzi, PhD, Italy
Discussant: Sue Shapiro, PhD, USA
Moderator: Kate Whyte, LCSW, USA

2. Migration and Trauma
Speakers: Barbara Eisold, PhD, USA; Lourdes Ma#ei, PhD, USA; and Karla Rodriguez, MA, Mexico
Discussant: Julia Beltsiou, PsyD, USA
Moderator: Alioscia Boschiroli, PhD, Italy

3. Not Black Not White: The Grey Shades of Uncertainty
Speakers: Faidra Grammenou, MSc, Greece; Konstantinos Mathioudis, PhD, Greece; and Matina Kaidantzi, PhD, Greece
Discussant: Barbra Locker, PhD, USA
Moderator: Kathy Bacon-Greenberg, PhD, USA

4. Losing Our White Minds
Speakers: Diane Swirsky, PhD, USA; Lani Chow, PhD, USA; and Regina Shields, PhD, USA
Discussant: Velleda Ceccoli, PhD, USA
Moderator: Sarah Calvert, PhD, New Zealand

5. Unforeseen Processes that Carry the Day in Troubled Times
Speakers: Adriano Bugliani, PhD, Italy and Shmuel Hazanovitz, PhD, Israel
Discussant: Karen Rosica, PsyD, USA
Moderator: John Paddock, PhD, ABPP, LLC, USA

6. Challenging the Touch Taboo in Psychoanalysis: Embodiment in the Age of Uncertainty
Speakers: Doris Brothers, PhD, USA; Edward Novak, MA, USA; and Jon Sletvold, PsyD, Norway
Discussant: Karen Starr, PsyD, USA
Moderator: Marina Amore, PhD, Italy

7. Working with Marginalized Communities: Dread and Trauma
Speakers: Veronica Csillag, LCSW, USA; Catherine Keyzer, Bach. Ed, MA, Australia; Julia Sideris, MA, Australia; and Sean Meggeson, MA, Canada
Discussant: Emily Kuriloff, PsyD, USA
Moderator: Marianne Kennedy, MA, Australia

8. Impact of Uncertain Outer World on Patient and Therapist’s Inner Worlds
Speakers: Sara Biondi, PhD, Italy and Ronnie Carmeli, PhD, Israel
Discussant: Lisa Lyons, PhD, USA
Moderator: Caitlin Desjardin, MSW, USA

9. Impact of Sociopolitical Upheaval and Cultural Discontent
Speakers: Joy Dryer, PhD, USA; Luis Raimundo Guerra Cid, PhD, Spain; and Don Greif, PhD, USA
Discussant: Ingrid Pedroni, PhD, Italy
Moderator: Alexis Mordoh, PsyD, Greece

10. Working through Dread of the Other
Speakers: Soh Agatsuma, MD, PhD, Japan; Janine de Peyer, LCSW-R, USA; and Sharyn Leff, LCSW, USA
Discussant: Nobuko Meaders, LCSW, USA
Moderator: Stephanie Bot, PsyD, Canada

12:45 pm Adjournment of Paper/Panel Session 1 and Lunch (on your own)

2:00 pm PAPER/PANEL SESSION 2:
(11 Concurrent Sessions)

1. Invited Panel: Psychoanalytic Otherness: Theoretical Collisions and Overlaps Among Us
Speakers: Lewis Aron, PhD, FABP, ABPP, USA; Joyce Slochower, PhD, ABPP, USA; and Sue Grand, PhD, USA
Discussant: Sam Gerson, PhD, USA

2. Meet-the-Author: Keeping Hope Alive: Psychoanalytic Reflections
Author: Sandra Buechler, PhD, USA

3. Internal/External Focus in Clinical Work
Speakers: Ida Roldan, PhD, LCSW, USA; Janna Sandmeyer, PhD, USA; Reyna Hernandez-Tubert, MD, PhD, Mexico; Juan Tubert-Oklander, MD, PhD, Mexico
Discussant: Estelle Shane, PhD, USA
Moderator: Cynthia Medalie, LCSW, USA

4. To Have and Have Not: Reproduction and Its Relationship to Gendered Power
Speakers: Rebecca Harrington, LCSW, USA and Adam Kaplan, PhD, USA
Discussant: Barbara Pizer, EdD, USA
Moderator: Zina Steinberg, EdD, USA

5. Surviving the Political Other
Speakers: Shifa Haq, PhD, India; Christina Emanuel, PsyD, MFT, USA; and Irwin Hirsch, PhD, USA
Discussant: Neil Altman, PhD, USA
Moderator: Tessa Philips, PhD, Australia

6. Occupying the Session/Standing between Fixed and Fluid Political Identities
Speakers: Stephen Hartman, PhD, USA; Avgi Saketopoulou, PhD, USA; and Orna Guralnik, PsyD, USA
Discussant: George Hagman, MSW, USA
Moderator: Deborah Dowd, MSW, USA

7. The Experience of Therapists Sharing Silence, Presence, and Hope
Speakers: Gianni Canepa Lowey, MD, Chile and Pilar Mardones Dominguez, PS, MA, Chile
Discussant: Rosario Castano Catala, BA Psych, Spain
Moderator: Danielle Novack, PhD, USA

8. Severe Trauma and Modes of Healing
Speakers: Boaz Shalgi, PhD, Israel; David Levit, PhD, USA; and Evelyn Rappoport, PsyD, USA
Discussant: Joseph Newirth, PhD, ABPP, USA
Moderator: Elizabeth Harvey, PhD, Canada

9. Politics in Analysis
Speakers: Maya Mukamel, PhD, UK; Noga Ariel-Galor, MA, Israel; and Uri Hadar, PhD, Israel
Discussant: Juan Francisco Jordan, MD, Chile
Moderator: Amira Simha-Alpern, PhD, USA

10. Relational Dimensions of Illusion and Consolation as Facilitative, or Not, in the Integration of Existential Anxiety and Grief
Speakers: Peter Maduro, PsyD, JD, USA and Stacey Novack, PsyD, USA
Discussant: William Coburn, PhD, USA
Moderator: Mary Sussillo, LCSW, CGP, USA

11. Illusions of Hope, Encounters with Dread: The Perils of Timelessness in Urgent Times
Speakers: Lauren Levine, PhD, USA and Sarah Schoen, PhD, USA
Discussant: Mark Gerald, PhD, USA
Moderator: Erik Yazdani, MSW, MBA, USA

3:30 pm Adjournment of Paper/Panel Session 2

3:30 pm IARPP Candidates’ Reception

5:00 pm Conference Welcome: Margaret Black Mitchell, LCSW, USA – Conference Co-chair

5:15 pm PLENARY I: “We Contain the Other, Hopelessly and Forever” — James Baldwin:A Screening and Discussion of I Am Not Your Negro
Interlocutor/Presenter: Ken Corbett, PhD, USA
Presenter: Maurice Apprey, PhD, USA

8:00 pm Adjournment of Opening Event Plenary I

8:15 pm Opening Conference Reception

CLICK HERE for a full description of June 15 Paper Sessions 3
CLICK HERE for a full description of Plenaries

7:00 am Registration and Coffee

7:30 am Early Group – ALL ARE WELCOME
Facilitators: Robert Grossmark, PhD, USA; Fred Stern, PhD, USA; and Gila Ofer, PhD, Israel

9:00 am President’s Welcome
Steven Kuchuck, DSW, USA – IARPP President

9:15 am PLENARY II: When the Political Becomes Personal
Interlocutor: Virginia Goldner, PhD, USA
Presenters: Victor Doñas, MD, Chile; Rina Lazar, PhD, LSW, Israel; Sally Swartz, PhD, South Africa

11:15 am Adjournment of Plenary II & Coffee Break

11:45 am Post-Plenary Discussion Group 1*

Post-Plenary Discussion Leaders:

Group 1: Mal Slavin, PhD, USA and Sharon Ziv-Beiman, PhD, Israel

Group 2: Anthony Bass, PhD, USA and Jeanne Wolff Bernstein, PhD, Austria

Group 3: Paolo Stramba-Badiale, PhD, Italy and Cristina Bonucci, PhD, Italy

Group 4: Philip Ringstrom, PhD, PsyD, USA and Catherine Hicks, PhD, Australia

Group 5: Ilana Laor, MA, Israel and Alejandro Avila Espada, MS, PhD, Clin. Psych, Spain

Group 6: Velleda Ceccoli, PhD, USA and Juan Francisco Jordan, MD, Chile

Group 7: Eyal Rozmarin, PhD, USA and Valeria Pulcini, PhD, Italy

Group 8: Cleonie White, PhD, USA and Steven Kuchuck, DSW, USA

Group 9: William Coburn, PhD, USA and Jill Salberg, PhD, USA

Group 10: Donnel Stern, PhD, USA and Virginia Goldner, PhD, USA

*Discussion groups will be randomly assigned.

12:45 pm Lunch (on your own)

2:15 pm PAPER/PANEL SESSION 3:
(12 Concurrent Sessions)

1. Invited Panel: From the Creative Unconscious: Performances by One Poet, Two Storytellers, One Filmmaker, and a Musician
Panel Chair: Bonnie Zindel, LCSW, USA
Speakers: Mark Singer, MD, USA; Ofra Bloch, LCSW, USA; and Jim Klein, PhD, USA
Moderator: Philip Gardner, LCSW-R, USA

2. Meet-the-Author: Relationships in Development: Infancy, Intersubjectivity, and A!achment
Author: Stephen Seligman, DMH, USA
Interlocutor: Beatrice Beebe, PhD, USA

3. Invited Panel: Acknowledgement, Repair, and the Moral Third in Psychosocial Context: Psychoanalytic Responses to the Breakdown of the Third
Speakers: Martha Bragin, MSW, PhD, USA; Alan Norrie, PhD, UK; and Yitzhak Mendelsohn, PhD, Israel
Discussant: Jessica Benjamin, PhD, USA
Moderator: Jade McGleughlin, MSW, LICSW, USA

4. Uncertainty in the Analytic Space
Speakers: Avi Berman, PhD, Israel; Blue Chevigny, LCSW, USA; and Mariela Andrea Cuello, BA, Argentina
Discussant: Ruth Gruenthal, LCSW, USA
Moderator: Roni Baht, PhD, Israel

5. Subjectivity and Collective Fictions: Identity, Conformity, and Resistance
Speakers: Eyal Rozmarin, PhD, USA and Francisco Gonzalez, MD, USA
Discussant: Rachael Peltz, PhD, USA
Moderator: Frederick Stern, PhD, USA

6. We Are All Mad Here: Politics Disrupt the Consulting Room
Speakers: Hillary Grill, LCSW, USA; Janet Kelly, LCSW; and Susan Greenberg, LCSW, USA
Discussant: Maria Lechich, PhD, USA
Moderator: Udi Chen, PsyD, Israel

7. Generational Legacies of Trauma: Paths of Desperation and of Inspiration
Speakers: Jill Salberg, PhD, USA and Samuel Gerson, PhD, USA
Discussant: Jeanne Wolff Bernstein, PhD, Austria
Moderator: Jacqueline Go#hold, PsyD, USA

8. Miming and Clinical Psychoanalysis: Enhancing Our Intersubjective Sensibility
Speakers: Gianni Nebbiosi, PhD, Italy and Susi Federici, PhD, Italy
Discussant/Interlocutor: Hazel Ipp, PhD, Canada
Moderator: Laura Osinoff, LCSW, USA

9. The Intersection of the Personal and Political
Speakers: Gregory Desierto, PsyD, USA; Ma# Aibel, LCSW-R, USA; and Darlene Bregman Ehrenberg, PhD, ABPP, USA
Discussant: David Brand, PhD, USA
Moderator: Maria Saba, MA, Peru

10. The Lasting Impact of Historical and Political Traumas
Speakers: Yoav Antman, MA, Israel; Gonzalo Acuna, MD, Chile; and Julie Cake, MA, USA
Discussant: Billie Pivnick, PhD, USA
Moderator: Sally Donaldson, PhD, USA

11. The Role of “Truth”
Speakers: Roberto D’Angelo, PsyD, Australia; Gad Ben Sheffer, PhD, Israel; and Anthony Korner, PhD, Australia
Discussant: Ilene Philipson, PhD, USA
Moderator: Paolo Stramba Badiale, PhD, Italy

12. Immigration Trauma and the Analytic Relationship
Speakers: Filipa Canelo Neves, MA Clin Psych, Portugal; Frances Dillon, MSW, USA; and Erik Fagerberg, MA, LCSW, Sweden
Discussant: Glenys Lobban, PhD, USA
Moderator: Helit Atar-Greenfield, PhD, USA

3:45 pm Adjournment of Paper/Panel Session 3

4:00 pm PLENARY III: Does Truth Ma!er?
Interlocutor: Malcolm Slavin, PhD, USA
Presenters: Donnel Stern, PhD, USA; Shlomit Yadlin- Gadot, PhD, Israel; Jody Davies, PhD, USA

6:00 pm Adjournment of Plenary III & Coffee Break

6:15 pm IARPP Membership Meeting

7:00 pm Adjournment for the day

CLICK HERE for a full description of June 16 Paper Sessions 4
CLICK HERE for a full description of June 16 Paper Sessions 5
CLICK HERE for a full description of Plenaries

7:00 am Registration & Coffee Break

7:30 am Early Group – ALL ARE WELCOME
Facilitators: Robert Grossmark, PhD, USA; Fred Stern, PhD, USA; and Gila Ofer, PhD, Israel

9:00 am PLENARY IV: The Uprooted and the Dispossessed: Working with Immigrants
Inside and Outside the Consulting Room
Interlocutor: Adrienne Harris, PhD, USA
Presenters: Francesco Andreucci, PhD, Italy; Spyros Orfanos, PhD, USA; Joseba Achotegui, PhD, Spain

11:00 am Adjournment of Plenary IV

11:30 am Post-Plenary Discussion Group 2*

Post-Plenary Discussion Leaders:

Group 1: Mal Slavin, PhD, USA and Sharon Ziv-Beiman, PhD, Israel

Group 2: Anthony Bass, PhD, USA and Jeanne Wolff Bernstein, PhD, Austria

Group 3: Paolo Stramba-Badiale, PhD, Italy and Cristina Bonucci, PhD, Italy

Group 4: Philip Ringstrom, PhD, PsyD, USA and Catherine Hicks, PhD, Australia

Group 5: Ilana Laor, MA, Israel and Alejandro Avila Espada, MS, PhD, Clin. Psych, Spain

Group 6: Velleda Ceccoli, PhD, USA and Juan Francisco Jordan, MD, Chile

Group 7: Eyal Rozmarin, PhD, USA and Valeria Pulcini, PhD, Italy

Group 8: Cleonie White, PhD, USA and Steven Kuchuck, DSW, LCSW, USA

Group 9: William Coburn, PhD, USA and Jill Salberg, PhD, USA

Group 10: Donnel Stern, PhD, USA and Virginia Goldner, PhD, USA

*Discussion groups will be randomly assigned.

12:30 pm Lunch (on your own)

1:45 pm PAPER/ PANEL SESSION 4:
(12 Concurrent Sessions)

1. Meet-the-Author: Heart Melts Forward: The Work of Emmanuel Ghent
Speakers: Adrienne Harris, PhD, USA and Victoria Demos, PhD, USA

3. Interweaving Moral Omnipotence and Transgenerational Trauma: Political Collapses, in the Clinic, in the US, and in Ourselves
Speakers: Deborah Sherman, MD, USA; Malin Fors, MSc, Norway; and Sandra Silverman, LCSW, USA
Discussant: Katie Gentile, PhD, USA
Moderator: Sergio Silva, MA, Portugal

4. Hurricane Harvey: Barriers to Remembering, Repercussions of Forge!ing
Speakers: Jean Goodwin, MD, USA and JoAnn Ponder, PhD, USA
Discussant: Ghislaine Boulanger, PhD, USA
Moderator: David D’Alessio, MA, CPsya, LP, USA

5. The Ethical A!itude of the Analyst in a Traumatized World: Clinical and Theoretical Perspectives
Speakers: Shiri Raz, MA, PhD, Israel and Zohar Kaufman, MA, PhD, Israel
Discussant: Susan Klebanoff, PhD, USA
Moderator: Paola Elena Cesari, PsyD, Italy

6. The Continuum of Hoping and Dreading: The Social Bond as What Sustains Human Reality
Speakers: Orit Dudai, PhD, Israel; Maria Jose Mezzera, PsyD, Chile; and Paula Vera, PsyD, Chile
Discussant: Alejandro Avila Espada, PhD, Spain
Moderator: Ana de Sousa Baptista, PhD, Portugal

7. LGBT: The Long Struggle to Become Liberated from Misunderstandings and Prejudice–Cultural, Religious, Racial, and Psychoanalytic
Speakers: Efrat Lavie, MA, Clin Psych, Israel and Charles Finlon, LCSW, USA
Discussant: Mark Blechner, PhD, USA
Moderator: Alyson Nelson, PhD, USA

8. Visiting History from Oedipus to Sisyphus: The Unformulated Experience of Greek Migrants
Speakers: Maria Triantafyllopoulou, MBA, Greece; Stella Chatzichristou, MSc, Greece; and Dimitrios Tsiakos, MSc,
Greece
Discussant: Cleonie White, PhD, USA
Moderator: Andrea Recarte, PhD, USA

9. Working Through to Create a Safe Space in Supervisory and Analytic Relationships
Speakers: Orin Segal, PhD, Israel; Li-at Perry Lerer, MA, Israel; Michael Shoshani, PsyD, Israel; and Batya Shoshani, PhD, Israel
Discussant: James Fosshage, PhD, ABPP, USA
Moderator: Allison Katz, CSW, USA

10. Hope is Das Ding with Feathers, Plunging through Generations: “Bhi Suil Agam”: Dreading Hopeful Visions in Ireland
Speakers: Michael Feldman, MD, USA and Ray O’Neil, PhD, Ireland
Discussant: Holly Levenkron, MSW, USA
Moderator: Mary Sochet, PhD, USA

11. Confronting Race and Racism
Speakers: Maria Luisa Saldana, MA, Mexico; Flora Lazar, PhD, LCSW, USA; and Duncan Cartwright, PhD, S. Africa
Discussant: Charles Strozier, PhD, USA
Moderator: John Sloane, MD, Canada

12. Personal Narratives on the Impact of Historical and Political Events
Speakers: Virginia Rachmani, MA, LCSW, NCPsyD, USA; Mildred Antonelli, PhD, USA; and Concepcio Garriga I Seto, MA, Spain
Discussant: Donna Bassin, PhD, USA
Moderator: Denise Goldfajn, PsyD, Brazil

3:15 pm Adjournment of Paper/Panel Session 4

3:45 pm PAPER / PANEL SESSION 5:
(12 Concurrent Sessions)

1. Meet-the-Author: In Dramatic Dialogue: Contemporary Clinical Practice
Speakers: Galit Atlas Koch, PhD, USA and Lewis Aron, PhD, FABP, ABPP, USA
Interviewer: Spyros Orfanos, PhD, USA

2. Invited Candidates Panel: Hope and Dread: Becoming a Therapist in an Uncertain World
Speakers: Fabio Bianchi, MA, Italy; Lissa Schaupp, LCSW, USA; Gilly Katz ben Sheffer, MA, Israel; and Andrea Iturriaga Medrano, MA, Spain
Discussant: Francesca Colzani, PhD, Chile
Moderator: Hilary Offman, MD, Canada, Committee Co-chair

3. Invited Panel: From Capitol to Consulting Room: On the Clinical Impact of Politically-induced Trauma
Interlocutor/Presenter: Steven Kuchuck, DSW, USA
Presenters: Margaret Crastnopol, PhD, USA and Eva Alejandra Plaza Espinosa, PhD, Mexico

4. Trump and His Supporters as Repudiated Other
Speakers: Steven Botticelli, PhD, USA and Jill Gentile, PhD, USA
Discussant/Interlocutor: Matthew Steinfeld, PhD, USA and Steven Tublin, PhD, USA
Moderator: Robert Benedetti, PhD, USA

5. Three Subjectivities with a Common Goal: The Intersectionality of Treatment, Culture, Gender, and Sexual Orientation
Speakers: David Elliot Koch, PhD, USA and Takeshi Yamasaki, MD, Japan; and Andrew Balu Ntsowe, MD, MSc, Australia
Discussant: Heather Ferguson, LCSW, USA
Moderator: TBD6.

6, The Enigma of Analytic Time: Uncertain Horizons of the Treatment Relationship
Speakers: Elizabeth Corpt, MSW, LICSW, USA; Peter Shabad, PhD, USA; and Steven Stern, PsyD, USA
Discussant: Stuart Pizer, PhD, ABPP, USA
Moderator: Cynthia Manson, MSW, USA

7. Uncertain Voices in an Uncertain World: Three “Othered” Psychoanalytic Voices Address Immigrant Xenophobia, Historical Racial Trauma, and “White Fragility”
Speakers: Daniel Gaztambide, PsyD, USA; George Bermudez, PhD, PsyD, USA; and Ruth Lijtmaer, PhD, USA
Discussant: Cathy Hicks, PhD, Australia
Moderator: Amalia Rivera, MA, Mexico

8. The Therapeutic Relationship as an Anchor in Uncertain Times
Speakers: Jeremy Safran, PhD, USA and Sigal Zilcha- Mano, PhD, Israel
Interlocutor: Sharon Ziv-Beiman, PhD, Israel
Moderator: Graca Galamba, MA, Portugal

9. Building Relational Intimacy in the Face of “Negative Emotions”
Speakers: Alessandro Riva, PhD, Italy; Diane Barth, LCSW, USA; and Terence Teh, MMedSc, BMedSc, Australia
Discussant: Rose Gupta, PsyD, USA
Moderator: Maria Tammone, PsyD, Italy

10. Gender and the Body
Speakers: Sandra Hershberg, MD, USA and Robin Young, PhD, USA
Discussant: Marsha Hewi#, PhD, Canada
Moderator: Mimi Spiro, JD, LCSW, USA

11. Looking at Our “Whiteness” in the Current Sociopolitical Context
Speakers: Karen Weisbard, PsyD, USA; Julie Leavi#, MD, USA; and Joyce Block, PhD, USA
Discussant: Warren Spielberg, PhD, USA
Moderator: Joyce Klein, MSW, USA

12. Communication on the Telephone, Computer, and in Real Life: The Impact on Relationships and Treatment
Speakers: Julia Davies, PhD, USA; Dan Friedlander, MA, Israel; and Juliet Heeg, LCSW, USA
Discussant: Sarah Mendelsohn, LCSW, USA
Moderator: Tanya Leach, JD, USA

5:15 pm Adjournment for the day

6:30 pm Conference Reception – Hudson Terrace
Event is an additional charge. For more information, please see registration form.

CLICK HERE for a full description of June 17 Paper Sessions 6
CLICK HERE for a full description of Plenaries

8:30 am Registration & Coffee

9:00 am PAPER/PANEL SESSION 6:
(10 Concurrent Sessions)

1. Invited Panel: Affective Participation and Racial Identity in Psychic and Political Space: 2017 Muriel Dimen Fellowship Lectures
Chairs: Francesca Colzani, PhD, Chile and Roberto D’Angelo, MD, UK
Presenters: Be#ina von Lieres, PhD, Canada and Zeynep Turan, PhD, UK
Discussants: Stephen Hartman, PhD, USA and Griffin Hansbury, MA, LCSW-R, USA
Moderator: Avgi Saketopoulou, PsyD, USA

2. Invited Panel: Being the Change: Theoretical Multiplicity, Clinical Uncertainty, and Relational Renovations
Speakers: Rachel Sopher, LCSW, USA and Kim Bernstein, PhD, LP, USA
Discussant: Anthony Bass, PhD, USA
Moderator: Stefanie Glennon, PhD, USA

3. Clinical Problems in the Treatment of Trauma Patients
Speakers: Susan McConnaughy, PhD, LCSW, USA; Ron Nasim, MA, Israel; and Alexandra Trencseni, MA, Germany
Discussant: Sheldon Itzkowitz, PhD, ABPP, USA
Moderator: Laura Molet, PsyD, Spain

4. Therapists and Patients in a Dying Ecosystem: Hope and the Other Dread
Speakers: Elizabeth Allured, PsyD, USA and Susan Spieler, PsyD, USA
Discussant: Susan Bodnar, PhD, USA
Moderator: John Skrovan, PhD, USA

5. The Process of “Othering” In and Out of the Consulting Room
Speakers: Mehr-Afarin Kohan, MD, FRCPC, Canada; Loray Daws, PhD, Reg Psych, South Africa; and Maria Marchetti-Mercer, MA Clinic Psych, DLitt, South Africa
Discussant: Nina Thomas, PhD, USA
Moderator: Alan Kintzer, PhD, USA

6. Bridging a Sea of Fire: What’s Possible? “Where Are We Going After Sachsenhausen?”
Speakers: Judy Roth, PhD, USA; Carol Gilligan, PhD, USA; Manal Abu Haq, MSW, Israel; Naama Hochstein, MA, Israel; and Elana Lakh, PhD, Israel
Facilitator/Interlocutor: Judy Roth, PhD, USA

7. Relational Approaches and Group Analysis in an  Uncertain World: A Plea for Mutual Recognition
Speakers: Haim Weinberg, PhD, USA and Ravit Raufman, PhD, Israel
Discussant: Stavros Charalambides, MA, Greece
Moderator: Davide Belluardo, PhD, Italy

8. Contemporary Perspectives when the Body Has a Central Role in Treatment
Speakers: Hilary Offman, MD, FRCPC, Canada; Giuseppe Magistrale, PsyD, Italy; and Judith Brisman, PhD, USA
Discussant: Judith Rustin, LCSW, USA
Moderator: Caryn Sherman-Meyer, LCSW, USA

9. Contemporary Ethical Challenges for Psychoanalysis
Speakers: Charles Levin, PhD, Canada; Robin Brown, PhD, USA; and Simone Drichel, PhD, New Zealand
Discussant: Micha Weiss, PhD, Israel
Moderator: Valeria Pulcini, PhD, Italy

10. Working with Trauma in Current Political Climate of Uncertainty and Traumatic Politics
Speakers: Joan Sarnat, PhD, ABPP, USA; Daniel Shaw, LCSW, USA; Peter Kaufmann, PhD, USA; and Jenny Kaufmann, PhD, USA
Discussant: Amy Cooney, PhD, USA
Moderator: Alexandra Eitel, MA, USA

11. Losing and Finding Our Mind During Times of War, Sociocultural Trauma, and Social Unrest
Speakers: Marie Hoffman, PhD, USA and Theresa Clement Tisdale, PhD, PsyD, USA
Discussant: Margy Sperry, PsyD, USA
Moderator: Tanya Anagnostopoulou, PhD, Greece

10:30 am Adjournment of Paper/Panel Session 6 & Coffee Break

11:00 am PLENARY V: The Dialectics of Hope: A Roundtable Discussion
“The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.” —James Baldwin
Presenters: Margaret Black Mitchell, LCSW, USA; Hazel Ipp, PhD, Canada; Gianni Nebbiosi, PhD, Italy; Chana Ullman, PhD, Israel; Andrew Samuels, PhD, UK

1:00 pm Conference Closing Remarks
Hazel Ipp, PhD, Canada, Conference Co-chair
Lina Orfanos, vocals
Spiros Exaras, guitar
Hope (Esperenza) Jason Robert Brown
Gracias A La Vidas (Thanks for Life) Viole!a Parra

1:30 pm FINAL ADJOURNMENT

SOLD OUT!!

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Join us for our IARPP Reception at the beautiful Hudson Terrace!
Saturday June 16, 2018 – RECEPTION IS NOW SOLD OUT!!

Be part of the nightlife in the city that never sleeps at a stylish club with gorgeous views of the Hudson River.

Ticket includes dinner, desserts, one hour open bar (beer & wine) and cash bar all night, dancing beneath the stars under an opened roof, fantastic music, and time to connect with friends old and new. A true New York City experience.

BUS SERVICE to/from Hudson Terrace from the Roosevelt Hotel is available.

Please see Conference Registration form for additional information & to buy your ticket!

RECEPTION IS NOW SOLD OUT!

This conference is intended for psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, psychiatric nurses, marriage and family counselors, and clinical professional counselors. The conference is organized to facilitate maximum opportunity for questions, comments and dialogue between the audience and the presenters, allowing clinicians to engage in an extensive variety of topics relevant to the field.

EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES
At the conclusion of the conference, participants will be able to consider:
• The role of Relational Psychoanalysis in terms of application inside and outside the consulting room.
• The array of socio-political factors that shape our lives and impact us as clinicians and patients.
• The specific permutations of identity as these play out in the consultation room between patient and therapist.
• How Relational analysts work with permutations of immigration and dislocation in the consulting room.
• The efficacy of the dialogue approach of Relational Psychoanalysis in dealing with ma#ers of truth and certainty in our current sociopolitical climate.

This program is sponsored by the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP). IARPP is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. IARPP maintains responsibility for the program and its content.

For social workers: This program is Approved by the National Association of Social Workers (Approval # 886702092-1952) for 22 continuing education contact hours. Approved provider statement, as follows: International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP) is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0202. This program is valid for 22.0 CE Credits (including Full Day Optional Pre Conference Session).

If you have any questions about CE credits, please contact Lucia Lezama at LLezama@iarpp.net.

Continuing Education Hours will be awarded as follows:
Thursday Optional Half Day Session = 2.5 Hours/
Extended Session Pre-Conference Session = 2 Hours
Main Conference Program (Thursday – Sunday) = 22.0 Hours

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? What is the relationship between the political consequences of a national maelstrom and the analytic dyad that attempts to make sense of and process what is going on around them? How do our respective individual histories interact with large-scale historical events that are unfolding in real time?

The themes of this 16th IARPP conference emerged from our shared concerns about the massive political changes that are occurring in the United States. We are currently a nation rife with divisions; inundated with hate, competing claims on truth, paranoia, and a distrust of the Other. For some, a primary concern is the debasement of moral practices that all democratic collectivities depend on: critical thought, empathic identification, collective determination, and community building. For others, there is a chronic feeling of inequality, disempowerment, and a lack of change over time that has fueled the bitterness and animosity that pervades the current political climate.

Our hope is that this conference may provide a forum to join together in examining political and social crises similar to the one currently going on in the United States, and in doing so examine what we can learn from living through troubled times, both about the self and the world. We will consider the place of truth and objective fact alongside that of postmodern constructivism, multiplicity, and holding the complexity of experience and its inherent ambiguity. We will examine as well the persistent assault on ‘otherness’ and difference, and think about negotiating the transference and countertransference terrain within an impinging political context. We will address immediate matters of concern that have a long history such as immigration, racism, and national/international trauma. Apart from the plenary sessions the program includes a number of Invited panels along with many submitted papers and panels demonstrating the creativity and scholarship of the membership of our organization.

As clinicians and theorists confronting an “uncertain world’, we are committed to considering how these massive social forces affect and infect the working of minds in the consulting room and in our everyday lives. How, as clinicians, can we encourage positive change in our world?

We look forward to seeing you in New York.

Margaret Black Mitchell and Hazel Ipp
Conference Co-Chairs, 2018

CALL FOR PAPERS (closed)
IARPP 2018

We welcome all IARPP members to submit PROPOSALS ONLY for individual papers and/or panels pertaining broadly to the conference theme.
(If you are not a member and would like to submit a paper you may join online here:
https://iarpp.memberclicks.net/index.php?option=com_mc&view=mc&mcid=form_242234)

To be considered, proposals for individual papers MUST BE BETWEEN 500 AND 600 WORDS IN LENGTH. Panels should include no more than three 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.

FINAL PAPERS will only be requested upon the acceptance of your proposal for the conference. Final papers should not exceed 3000 words and will be due by and no later than MAY 1, 2018. 

All papers are to be submitted in English.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: September 25, 2017

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