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Susanna Federici-Nebbiosi

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Dear IARPP members,

I wish to begin by saying that it is truly an honor for me to serve as your new president and that I hope to be able to carry forward the valuable work done by Spyros and my predecessors with energy and enthusiasm. I take the opportunity offered by the newsletter to inform you, on behalf of the Board, about the most important initiatives we are working on.

susiarticleWe recently concluded the process of choosing a logo for IARPP, which you can see on this letter. I hope that you like it and that it can help to make our association distinguishable in our communications. We have also begun to redesign the website in order to make it more user friendly and representative of the vitality that characterizes our community.

The Local Organizing Committee and the International Program Committee are working hard on drawing up the program of the annual conference which, as you know, this year will take place in Santiago, Chile from November 7 to 10. Following the call for papers we received 150 applications, which confirms the importance of this conference in response to the growing interest towards relational models registered also in the South American psychoanalytic context.

In preparation for this “meeting of traditions,” Galit and Steve, the colloquium coordinators, have scheduled, from September 23 through Sunday October 6, a colloquium on the contribution offered by H. Racker, a leading figure in Argentinian psychoanalysis and a profound innovator on the subject of countertransference. In order to give continuity to the discussion that will get underway online, we decided to create a space within the program of the Santiago conference in which to carry on the debate.

In the first ten years of work it was not possible to organize our annual conference during a set time of the year. This was often due to the fact that we did not want it to overlap with other important conferences, but, even more so, in order to adapt ourselves to the calendar of the different geographical areas in which the past conferences were held. That is also the main reason why we will be meeting in Santiago in November. In the light of the previous years of experience, we recently made the decision to set May/June as the time of the year in which to hold the IARPP annual conference on a regular basis. Since it will not be possible to plan another conference just six or seven months after the one in Santiago, in 2014 we will rely on the vitality and wealth of online events that over the years have stimulated such a wide and active participation, thus availing ourselves of a medium that has proven to be so important in building up our community.

I am especially pleased to announce here the next IARPP conferences scheduled for the coming years.
In June 2015 we will meet in Toronto, Canada.
In May/June 2016 we will gather again in Rome, Italy.
In May/June 2017 the conference will be held in Sydney, Australia, thanks to the collaboration of the Local Chapters that have been in place for some time now in Australia and New Zealand.

Relationality, as it was formulated in the model introduced by Stephen Mitchell and carried forward by the many important authors who form part of the IARPP community, seems to respond to the spirit of the times and to the need to practice psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in ways that are closer to the people and needs of contemporary society.

I would like to conclude this brief communication with an invitation to participate in the next colloquium that will be held on May 6 to 19 and will discuss Irwin Hoffman’s, “Therapeutic Passion in the Countertransference.” It promises to be a stimulating and thought provoking experience!

Very warmly,
Susi Federici-Nebbiosi


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Cari Membri IARPP,

Innanzi tutto vorrei dirvi che è davvero un onore essere il vostro nuovo presidente e che spero di saper proseguire il prezioso lavoro di Spyros e dei miei predecessori con energia ed entusiasmo.

susiarticleColgo l’occasione della newsletter per informarvi –a nome del Board- sulle iniziative più importanti alle quali stiamo lavorando. Abbiamo recentemente concluso il processo che ha condotto alla scelta di un logo per la IARPP -lo potete vedere già in questa lettera- spero che vi piaccia e che possa favorire la riconoscibilità dell’Associazione nelle nostre comunicazioni. Inoltre abbiamo avviato la revisione del sito web per renderlo più fruibile e rappresentativo del fermento che caratterizza la nostra comunità.

Il Comitato organizzatore Locale e il Comitato Internazionale per il Programma stanno lavorando intensamente per definire il programma della conferenza annuale che come sapete quest’anno si svolgerà a Santiago in Cile dal 7 al 10 Novembre. Al call for papers sono stati inviati più di 150 lavori a conferma dell’importanza di questa conferenza come risposta all’interesse crescente che anche il mondo psicoanalitico sud-americano sta manifestando verso i modelli relazionali. Per prepararci a questo “incontro di tradizioni” Galit e Steve -coordinatori dei Colloquiums- hanno programmato dal 23 Settembre al 6 Ottobre un Colloquium sul contributo di H. Racker, figura di primo piano della psicoanalisi argentina e profondo innovatore sul tema del controtransfert. Per dare continuità alla discussione che si avvierà online abbiamo pensato di riservare uno spazio nel programma della conferenza di Santiago dedicato al proseguimento del dibattito.

Nei primi dieci anni di attività non è stato possibile mantenere un periodo stabile in cui organizzare la nostra conferenza annuale. Spesso ciò è avvenuto per non sovrapporsi ad altre importanti conferenze, ma soprattutto per adeguarsi al calendario delle diverse aree geografiche in cui si sono tenute le passate conferenze. Questo è anche il motivo principale per cui ci troveremo a Santiago in Novembre. Alla luce dell’esperienza di questi anni, abbiamo recentemente deciso di scegliere il periodo Maggio/Giugno come momento dell’anno in cui stabilmente si svolgerà la conferenza annuale IARPP. Dato che non è possibile prevedere una conferenza a distanza di soli sei/sette mesi da quella di Santiago, per il 2014 confidiamo nella vitalità e nella ricchezza degli eventi online che in questi anni hanno stimolato una partecipazione tanto numerosa e attiva, rivelandosi così un mezzo prezioso nella costruzione della nostra comunità.

Sono particolarmente contenta di poter annunciare fin da ora la programmazione delle conferenze IARPP per i prossimi anni.
Nel Giugno 2015 ci incontreremo a Toronto in Canada.
Nel Maggio/Giugno 2016 ci ritroveremo a Roma in Italia.
Nel Maggio/Giugno 2017 la conferenza si svolgerà a Sidney in Australia grazie alla collaborazione dei Local Chapters che da tempo si sono formati in Australia e in Nuova Zelanda.

La relazionalità così come è stata fomulata nel modello iniziato da Stephen Mitchell e portata avanti dai tanti importanti autori che costellano la comunità IARPP sembra rispondere allo spirito dei tempi e alla necessità di praticare la psicoanalisi e la psicoterapia secondo modalità più vicine alle persone e alle esigenze della vita nella società contemporanea.

Voglio concludere questa breve comunicazione con l’invito a partecipare al prossimo Colloquium che si terrà dal 6 al 19 Maggio e si focalizzerà sulla discussione dell’articolo di Irwin Hoffman “Therapeutic Passion in the Countertransference”, promette di essere un’esperienza davvero interessante!

A presto
Susi Federici-Nebbiosi

Individuals and Groups – Mutual Vulnerability

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A Unique International Conference
with Professor Lew Aron

July 4th and 5th 2013

TEL AVIV, ISRAEL

• The Israeli Forum for Psychoanalysis & Relational Psychotherapy

• The Israeli Institute for Group Analysis

• The New School of Psychotherapy

“In a lovely vale, twixt fields and vines, stands a building, five stories high.” These are the opening lines of the personal and political mythology handed down to us by Leah Goldberg. The words are plain and naïve, but the story is far from simple: it is a story of neighbors sharing a space of vulnerability. Such different backgrounds, such distinct experiences of being-in-the-world and such contrasting needs might ever-so-often result in conflict, and yet, there are those who meet and know, who come closer and share.

What is it that makes it possible for us as human beings to meet each other, to inhabit – even for a few moments – the same physical and mental space, in a manner which will not collapse into the familiar patterns of subjecting and subjected, excluding and excluded, dominating and dominated, victimizer and victim? What are the elements which allow us, as therapists, to dwell, together with our patients, within the space of vulnerability, to expand it even, while the demons and ghosts of their past and ours are constantly threatening to undo that which was already achieved, to repeat, with terrible precision, what we hoped was already gone for good? What are the elements which enable us and our relationships to survive these inevitable collapses into these very same patterns?

In the different and seemingly distant corners of the psychotherapeutic world, unique ideas, thoughts, theories and practices have formed in the attempt to address these questions. In one corner we find the Group Analysis approach, which conceives of the psychic structures of person as intertwined and bound up from the beginning with their social networks . This social aspect is not merely external. It goes deep into the most intimate parts of one’s psyche. Foulkes, the founder of Group Analysis, claimed that external and internal realities reflect and reformulate each other. This is expressed in the notion that individual subjectivity develops and matures within the therapy group.

In another corner, we find the Relational approach, which asserts that psychic structures are derived from inter-personal relations and that psychoanalysis and psychotherapy entail a relationship between two subjectivities who are acting together. Therefore, it claims that unless we understand the uniqueness of this encounter of two individuals, we cannot fully fathom the person in question.

In a third corner, we have the Integrative Psychotherapy approach, which represents a binding together, both in theory and in practice, of therapeutic elements from seemingly opposed or even contradictory schools, a combination which requires a continual internal action of opposition to the caricaturization of the other and an incessant effort to contain our anxiety from whoever is different from us.

How could a viable dialogue be sustained between the participants, who come from such seemingly different backgrounds, from such ostensibly distinct experiences of being-in-the-world, and with such contrasting needs which might ever so often lead to conflict? Will we be able to find a way to cohabit this tower of therapeutic ideas? Will our proximity prove cold and cramped? Will we smile at each other as we meet on the great staircase of this formidable tower? Can we allow ourselves to learn from one another?

We invited Professor Lewis Aron, senior psychoanalyst and teacher for generations of therapists, to this pioneering conference, both to share some of his novel ideas and experience in psychoanalytic work, and to contribute to our discussion of what kinds of therapeutic presence are desired within the space of mutual vulnerability.

The unique form of this conference has been adapted to suit and reflect its goals, by including considerable room for discussion between the representatives of the various approaches, between presenters and the members of the audience, and between members of the audience and themselves, through various formats: the conference will include lectures by Professor Lewis Aron regarding the motivating forces in psychoanalysis and their significance to the space of mutual vulnerability; discussions about mutual vulnerability from the perspectives of Group Analysis, the Relational School and the Integrative School; case presentations – including both group and individual cases studies – which will be discussed from the perspectives of the various schools; a live demonstration of group work; a discussion of Lew Aron’s A Meeting of Minds and its significance, celebrating the publication of its Hebrew translation by Am Oved publishing house; all members working together within the scope of a large group; etc.

Lecturers, Conductors & Panelists
(in alphabetical order):

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  • Miriam Berger
  • Avi Berman
  • Emanuel Berman
  • Osnat Cohen- Ganor
  • Gary Diamond
  • Robi Friedman
  • Nurit Goren
  • Earl Hopper
  • Irit Kleiner Paz
  • Rina Lazar
  • Lucien Laor
  • Offer Maurer
  • Irene Melnick
  • Gila Ofer
  • Pnina Rappoport
  • Eshkol Rafaeli
  • Ilan Treves
  • Chana Ullman
  • Haim Weinberg
  • Lavie Yehoshua
  • Sharon Ziv BeimanConference Schedule:
    http://pgiut.4p-tech.co.il/englishRegistration:
    http://pgiut.4p-tech.co.il/register
    Early Bird Rates till April 10!

IARPP Candidate Committee Call for Proposals

Dear IARPP students, candidates, and early-career analysts,

Our next conference is approaching: From November 7–10, 2013, the members of IARPP will be gathering in Santiago, Chile for “A Meeting of Traditions: Field, Link and Matrix in Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice.” We are all very excited about this wonderful opportunity to meet with colleagues and explore relational perspectives from around the world.

candidates-picThe IARPP Candidates Committee – whose members represent Australia, Canada, Chile, Israel, Italy, Spain, and the USA -works to provide a “home base” for analytic candidates within the association, facilitating their contact with colleagues throughout the world, and supporting their professional development. (To clarify: The committee considers a candidate to be someone who is either currently in analytic training or within five years of graduation, certification, or registration.) The Committee’s first major endeavor was to organize a panel discussion at the 2005 conference, and in recent years, it has sponsored the Stephen A. Mitchell Author’s Award, whose winners have presented their papers.

This year, in keeping with the conference’s theme of exploring international crosscurrents in relational psychoanalysis, the Candidates Committee is creating a panel entitled “Working Interculturally“:

What are the unique challenges of and possibilities for intercultural treatment? When the analyst and patient do not share a common heritage, nationality, first language, and/or cultural status, how and what do they create between them that promotes therapeutic insight and action?

Contemporary perspectives encourage a respect for the therapeutic significance of the specificity of each analytic dyad, and nowhere is that more apt than in cases where cultural difference is necessarily in the foreground of the treatment. In that spirit, we are asking panelists to present their clinical work with patients for whom such cross-cultural issues have come into play in significant ways.

If you have worked with someone whose background (culture, nationality, social class, religion, family background, etc.) was very different from yours, what kinds of challenges did that present? How did you try to address those challenges? And whether it worked out well or not, what did you learn from the experience?

The Candidates Committee is currently seeking proposal submissions. We are looking for three or four IARPP-member students, candidates, or early-career analysts whose work offers a rich exploration of intercultural themes and issues within analytic treatment. These 10-15 minute presentations will then be followed by a response from a senior analyst in the field, which should make for a very engaging discussion.

Interested? Then let us hear from you! To be considered for the panel, please submit a proposal no longer than one typed, double-spaced page (or roughly 250 words). Presentations can be written (and given at the conference) in either Spanish or in English.
THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 2013.

Once accepted by the Candidates’ Committee, the deadline for turning in completed papers is July 31, 2013, so that we have enough time to line up a discussant. Please note that if you need any help with editing your final presentation, we will be glad to provide it.

Please send all questions and proposals to the Candidates Committee co-chairs:
Alioscia Boschiroli: alioscia.boschiroli@gmail.com
Raul Naranjo: raul.naranjo.psi@gmail.com

See you in Santiago!

The IARPP Candidates Committee:

Alioscia Boschiroli (Italy), co-chair
Raul Naranjo (Spain), co-chair
Kim Bernstein (USA)
Maria Jose Mezzera (Chile)
Hilary Offman (Canada)
Gadit Orian (Israel)
Annie Vidler (Australia)
Margaret Black (IARPP Board Sponsor)