Welcome Portugal!   IARPP's Newest Local Chapter

We would like to take this opportunity to welcome a new local chapter formed in Portugal. We are pleased to add  Dr. Luis Federico Pereira of Lisbon who will be chairing the new local chapter.  

Best regards to all,
Neil Altman
Chana Ullman
Co- Chairs IARPP Local Chapters

 

Editors Note:  Dr. Luis Federico Pereira was featured in our last eNews with his wonderful reflection on the March 2013 Stephen Mitchell conference.  Click here to read his report in both English and Portuguese.
http://www.iarpp.net/resources/enews/vol11no3/2012confreport_2.html#federico

CHILEAN CHAPTER

This year our Chapter has increased to 120 members.
The activities realized have been:
- Conference on January 13 by Mauricio Cortina on Attachment Theory and Psychotherapy.
- Four meetings, every two months, around the theme “Philosophy and Relational Psychoanalysis”.
- Half a day Clinical Conference on July 28 centered in the relational sensibility of Donna Orange.
- Conference on August 22 by Donna Orange “Development and Response to the Other: Engagement and Enactment as Bridging Concepts Between Self Psychology and Relational Psychoanalysis”
- Participation of many members of IARPP-Chile in Dialogue, Conference and Clinical Seminar with Donna Orange at the Chilean Psychotherapy Congress held in Reñaca August 23- August 26.

Upcoming Events:
• Conference by Allan Shore on November 16.
• Workshop with Lew Aron on December 1.

Our chapter has been working intensively in the organization of the next 2013 International IARPP Conference to be held in Santiago. We expect all IARPP members who are willing to come to enjoy our hospitality and an excellent Conference.

Welcome to the new Portuguese local chapter and congratulations.

Best wishes to all.

Juan Francisco Jordán-Moore
President IARPP- Chile

UNITED KINGDOM CHAPTER

This September, The Relational School UK inaugurated the first of a series of public events in conjunction with The Freud Museum London on the subject of Memoirs. While our previous events had been held exclusively for our membership and other interested psychological therapists (inclusive of psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and counsellors), we decided to step out to the wider public to promote relational thinking and apply it to cultural production.

Our first event, held in the room just upstairs from Freud’s consulting room (which remained open for viewing before and after the event) featured two memoirs: Eva Hoffman’s Lost in Translation: Life in a New Language and Sathnam Sanghera’s Boy with the Topknot: A Memoir of Love, Secrets and Lies in Wolverhampton in conversation with psychotherapist and IARPP-UK executive board member Sue Cowan-Jenssen. Though our authors came from two different generations and backgrounds (Hoffman writing about being a Jew and leaving post-war Krakow for Canada and Sanghera writing about growing up in the Seik community in the West Midlands in the 1980s), the experiences they shared as being ‘other’ in the local community had a great deal of resonances for them both.

Cowan-Jenssen’s approach to the discussion was to facilitate a conversation between the two authors from a relational perspective. Both authors took to the paradigm readily, speaking not only about their early relationships, but also the experience of writing a memoir and how this activity produced a complex series of experiences including; the effects on their own memories; how the writing of the memoir affected their relationships with those both dead and alive; their relationships with their image of themselves in the contexts of their histories; and perhaps most importantly, the impact of having their personal lives made public through memoir and the ways in which they felt both recognised and misrecognized in the process.

The resonances between the two authors were fascinating and played particularly well to the sell-out crowd that attended the event and participated in the discussion. The subject of the series certainly touched a nerve as was indicated by the strong interest in the event, and we are sure to have a full-house for future events in the series which will include a conversation between Jackie Kay (Red Dust Road) and Gillian Slovo (Every Secret Thing: My Family My Country) and another planned between Blake Morrison (And When did you Last See Your Father) and Lisa Appignanesi (Losing the Deal: A Family Memoir also author of Freud’s Women). Further authors are currently under consideration.

The link to the event can be found here:http://www.freud.org.uk/events/74759/memoir-/ and the entire video can be accessed for free by going to the iTunes Store, searching under “Podasts” for “freud museum memoir.”

Welcome Portugal!

All best,

Aaron
Dr. Aaron Balick
Psychotherapist and Psychological Consultant

Tel: 07795 398 627
Web:www.mindswork.co.uk

AUSTRALIA CHAPTER

Congratulations and welcome to Portugal!

Sydney Chapter of SCIARPP will hold its AGM later this month, at which time Marianne Kennedy (marianne@spia.com.au) will take over from me as Chapter President and hence as representative on the Local Chapters Committee.

So it’s farewell from me at this point – although I'll happily pop in, if I may, just  as a visitor to Local Chapters Meetings at IARPP conferences in the future, to renew warm connections and say hello to you all.

Regards and best wishes to everyone.
Cathy Hicks
Sydney, Australia

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