{"id":3975,"date":"2015-12-21T19:27:48","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T19:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/?post_type=article&p=3975"},"modified":"2015-12-23T02:19:01","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T02:19:01","slug":"call-for-candidate-conference-panel-proposals","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/article\/call-for-candidate-conference-panel-proposals\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Candidate Conference Panel Proposals"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Hilary Offman <\/strong>(Canada) and Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Mezzera<\/strong> (Chile)
\nCo-chairs of the Candidates\u2019 Committee<\/p>\n

INVITATION TO SUBMIT PROPOSALS: <\/strong>We are pleased to announce a panel sponsored by IARPP\u2019s Candidates’ Committee for the 13th International Conference in Rome, Italy, entitled \u201c\u2018Ritual and Spontaneity\u2019 in the Use of the Frame.\u201d Candidates and early-career analysts are invited to submit proposals for this panel discussion, developed by the Candidates Committee, to be held as part of IARPP\u2019s upcoming conference in Rome,\u00a0 June 9-12, 2016.<\/p>\n

In an effort to encourage broader participation in the conference by those who have more recently joined our profession, our panel will feature several presenters who are either currently in psychoanalytic training or are within five years of completing their training. The panelists\u2019 presentations will be followed by discussion by a respondent, a senior analyst yet to be named.<\/p>\n

Relational psychoanalysis offers some inherent challenges for candidates in training. Among them is the theory and use of the treatment frame. While it remains a key element of clinical work, for the candidate and early-career analyst, it can be difficult to manage and know how to implement. Whereas classical psychoanalysis offered a more or less fixed set of rules for conducting treatment, from a relational perspective, inherited standards for things like session frequency, use of the couch, fees and payment, between-session communications, and many other technical aspects of the work have become more like guidelines than rules.<\/p>\n

As Irwin Z. Hoffman writes in Ritual and Spontaneity in the Psychoanalytic Process<\/em><\/strong>, \u201cThe rituals that constitute the frame are undoubtedly essential to the process….What I\u2019m questioning is the neatness of the dichotomy: adherence to the frame creates safety, deviation from the frame creates danger\u201d (p. 224). Such challenges to the traditional conceptualization of the frame introduce further complexity and greater responsibility for the relational analyst, who is tasked with the negotiation of these additional variables in their clinical work.<\/p>\n

For this panel, we invite papers on the subject of the frame from a relational perspective. What does the use of the frame mean for our theory and practice? How do you think about and use the frame in your own work? And how do candidates and early-career analysts learn to manage the complexities of relational practice? All submissions must be explicated within clinical work and examples.<\/p>\n

Information and guidelines for submission:<\/strong><\/p>\n