Given the current situation in so many parts of the world and the ways in which the lives of so many are impacted, Shlomit and I, in consultation with the Colloquium...

Reconfiguring (Pardon the Expression) the Negative Oedipus Complex and the Disowned Erotics of Disowned Sexualities.
In this paper, as the title...

This paper acknowledges and discusses the analyst’s sleepiness as a defense against affect in the patient and analyst. It explores the phenomenon as an enactment of ...

The Analyst’s Self-Revelation: Not Just Permissible but Necessary In this colloquium, we intend to have conversations about relational technique in general, with spe...

This eloquent paper takes on the difficult but therapeutically essential topic of the language of the incestuous encounter, and the ways in which what purports to co...

This eloquent paper takes on a state of grief and loss beyond mourning and melancholia, and “makes a case for acknowledging a third category of loss: psychic devasta...

Steven Stern interweaves a variety of theoretical strands into his own unique integration, extending his self-psychologically informed ideas about “needed” relations...

Working During the Coronavirus Health Crisis: An Open Forum We invite all IARPP members to join in our online project: Working During the Corona Virus Health Crisis:...

Death of a Parent: Openings at an Ending As the new co-chairs of the IARPP Colloquium Committee, we’re pleased to announce the forthcoming colloquium. We will be dis...

Psychoanalytic Companioning This paper will be a wonderful introduction to Robert Grossmark’s book, also called The Unobtrusive Relational Analyst. In that book, his...

Saketopoulou’s  work advances an alternative exegesis of perverse sexuality that permits an analyst to regard it not from within a state of alarm but with the c...

Esprey argues that race, as it presents itself within the clinical dyad as an aspect of the relationship between therapist and patient, has scarcely been written abo...

Shalgi sees the most basic endeavor therapists and their patients are struggling with as that of entering into the realm of death with open eyes. In his paper, the t...

CE Credits: 3 The program is free of cost to all IARPP members. For psychologists: IARPP is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing ...

We are excited to have Dr. Grand as our next featured author. Her work has been a very influential source of relational thinking over the last decade and we look for...

Eyal Rozmarin demonstrates how he conceptualizes the decisive impact of social and historical forces in our lives and particularly in the psychoanalytic encounter. U...