Welcome to Dresden (Germany)

38th EPF Annual Conference
Dresden (Germany)

2nd until 3rd April 2025 | Pre-Conference

4th until 6th April 2025 | Main Conference

Freedom

Freiheit

Liberté

A Warm invitation and welcome from the Dresden (Germany) local committee

‘Early bird‘ discount registrations before 31st January 2025

Submissions should be received not later than November 30th 2024.

You will receive the outcome of your submission at the beginning of January 2025.

Venue

ICD – Internationales Congress Center Dresden
Devrientstrasse 10-12 / Ostra-Ufer 2
01067 Dresden
Germany

Hotels / room blocks

Arrival

  • by Plane
    Dresden Airport (DRS)
  • by Car
    A4 motorway (Dresden-Neustadt exit) or via the B171 federal road (Dresden-Südvorstadt exit)
  • by Deutsche Bahn AG
    Dresden is an important hub in the long-distance transport network of Deutsche Bahn AG. There are connections to many major German cities several times a day, usually every 2 hours.

    The ICE, EC and IC trains stop at both Dresden Central Station and Dresden-Neustadt station. International destinations such as Wroclaw, Prague, Liberec, Bratislava, Budapest and Vienna can be reached directly. You can also reach cities such as Basel, Zurich, Copenhagen and Amsterdam via night train connections with the City Night Line without changing trains
    Deutsche Bahn journey planner
  • Tram line 11
    Stop „Dresden-Kongresszentrum/Haus der Presse“

Parking

Underground parking for 390 vehicles
(Height: Hotel 1.90 m, Congress Center 2.1 m)
Parking prices

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About Dresden

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At a glance
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Programme final

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Wednesday, 20/03/2024

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Thursday, 21/03/2024

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Main-Conference

Friday, 22/03/2024

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Saturday, 23/03/2024

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Pre-Conference

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09:00–16:00

International New Groups (ING) Committee Meeting

This is an exclusive meeting.

Organisers‘ Office n° 15

Floor 1

09:00–16:00

EPF Council Meeting

This is an exclusive meeting.

External **

14:00–17:00

IPSO Workshop on „Haydée Faimberg’s ‚Listening to Listening‘ Discussion Method“ *

Chair: Dieter K. Bürgin (Swiss Society of Psychoanalysis)

For IPSO members only.

Presented in English.

News Room 2

Floor 3

15:00–15:30

Forum „The Specificity of Psychoanalytic Treatment Today“ – Opening *

Chair: Fabienne Fillion (Belgian Psychoanalytical Society / Paris Psychoanalytical Society)

Press Room

Floor 3

15:00–18:00

Forum on Psychoanalysis of Children – Internal Meeting

Chair: Jean-Louis Fouassier (French Psychoanalytical Association)

This is an exclusive meeting.

Organisers‘ Office n° 12

Floor 1

15:00–19:00

IPSO Workshop on „The Specificity of Psychoanalytic Treatment Today“ – Group 1 *

Moderators: Marie-France Dispaux-Ducloux (Belgian Psychoanalytical Society);
Martine Sandor-Buthaud (Paris Psychoanalytical Society)
Chair: Fabienne Fillion (Belgian Psychoanalyticaly Society / Paris Psychoanalytical Society)

For IPSO members only.

Presented in English.

Auditorium F

Floor 3

15:00–19:00

IPSO Workshop on „The Specificity of Psychoanalytic Treatment Today“ – Group 2 *

Moderators: to be announced
Chair: Fabienne Fillion (Belgian Psychoanalytical Society / Paris Psychoanalytical Society)

For IPSO members only.

Presented in English.

Auditorium G

Floor 3

15:30–19:00

Forum „The Specificity of Psychoanalytic Treatment Today“ – Group 1 (English – Members/Candidates) *

Moderator: Leopoldo Bleger (French Psychoanalytical Association)
Moderator/Chair: Fabienne Fillion (Belgian Psychoanalytical Society / Paris Psychoanalytical Society)

Press Room

Floor 3

15:30–19:00

Forum „The Specificity of Psychoanalytic Treatment Today“ – Group 2 (French – Members/Candidates) *

Moderators: Erika Kittler (German Psychoanalytical Association); to be announced
Chair: Fabienne Fillion (Belgian Psychoanalytical Society / Paris Psychoanalytical Society)

News Room 1

Floor 3

16:00–18:00

Forum on Exploring Training Process and Practice (ETPP) *

Chair: Françoise Labbé (Belgian Psychoanalytical Society)

Organisers‘ Office n° 14 + 16

Floor 1

16:00–20:00

Clinical Observation 3-LM Group (English) *

Reporter: Anna Maria Nicolò Corigliano (Italian Psychoanalytical Society)
Moderators/Chairs: Rui Aragão Oliveira (Portuguese Psychoanalytical Society);
Margret-Ann Fitzpatrick-Hanly (Canadian Psychoanalytic Society)

Organisers‘ Office n° 20

Floor 1

16:00–20:00

Clinical Observation 3-LM Group (French) *

Reporter: Luisa Pérez-Suquilvide (Uruguayan Psychoanalytical Association)
Moderators/Chairs: Bruno Salésio da Silva Francisco (Canadian Psychoanalytic Society);
Margret-Ann Fitzpatrick-Hanly (Canadian Psychoanalytic Society)

Organisers‘ Office n° 13

Floor 1

16:30–17:30

Central Coffee Break

The EPF will offer a selection of hot and cold beverages as well as snacks.

Press Lobby

Floor 3

17:15–20:15

Forum „Working with Haydée Faimberg‘s ‚Listening to Listening‘ Method“ – Group 1 (French) *

Chair: Dieter K. Bürgin (Swiss Society of Psychoanalysis)

News Room 2

Floor 3

08:00–12:00

Clinical Observation 3-LM Group (English) *

Reporter: Anna Maria Nicolò Corigliano (Italian Psychoanalytical Society)
Moderators/Chairs: Rui Aragão Oliveira (Portuguese Psychoanalytical Society); Bruno Salésio da Silva Francisco (Canadian Psychoanalytic Society); Margret-Ann Fitzpatrick-Hanly (Canadian Psychoanalytic Society)

Presented in English.

Auditorium C

Floor 1

08:00–12:00

Clinical Observation 3-LM Group (French) *

Reporter: Luisa Pérez-Suquilvide (Uruguayan Psychoanalytical Association)
Moderators/Chairs: Bruno Salésio da Silva Francisco (Canadian Psychoanalytic Society);
Margret-Ann Fitzpatrick-Hanly (Canadian Psychoanalytic Society)

Presented in French.

Auditorium C

Floor 3

09:00–12:00

Forum on Psychoanalysis, Migration and Cultural Identities – Workshop „Illusions of Justice, Deception“ *

Presenter: Sevil Kural (Istanbul Psychoanalytic Association for Training Research & Development)
Discussant: Mayssá El Husseini (Paris Psychoanalytical Society)
Chair: Virginia De Micco (Italian Psychoanalytical Society)

Presented in English.

Auditorium E

Floor 3

09:00–12:00

Forum „Working with Haydée Faimberg‘s ‚Listening to Listening‘ Method“ – Group 1 (French) *

Chair: Dieter K. Bürgin (Swiss Society of Psychoanalysis)

Presented in French.

News Room 2

Floor 3

09:00–12:00

Forum on Institutional Matters (IMF) – Internal Meeting

Chair: Maggiorino Genta (Swiss Society of Psychoanalysis)

This is an exclusive meeting.

Organisers‘ Office n° 12

Floor 1

09:00–12:30

Forum on Exploring Training Process and Practice (ETPP) *

Chair: Françoise Labbé (Belgian Psychoanalytical Society)

Presented in English.

Organisers‘ Office n° 14 + 16

Floor 1

09:00–17:00

Forum for the Psychoanalysis of Children – Clinical Workshop „The Weaving Thoughts Method“ – Group 1 (English) *

Chair: Sandra Maestro (Italian Psychoanalytical Society)

Presented in English.

Organisers‘ Office n° 45

Floor 4

09:00–17:00

Forum for the Psychoanalysis of Children – Clinical Workshop „The Weaving Thoughts Method“ – Group 2 (English) *

Chair: Susan Cockett (British Psychoanalytical Society)

Presented in English.

Organisers‘ Office n° 46

Floor 4

09:00–17:00

Forum for the Psychoanalysis of Children – Clinical Workshop „The Weaving Thoughts Method“ – Group 3 (English) *

Chair: Jean-Louis Fouassier (French Psychoanalytical Association)

Presented in English.

Organisers‘ Office n° 55

Floor 5

09:00–17:00

Forum for the Psychoanalysis of Children – Clinical Workshop „The Weaving Thoughts Method“ – Group 4 (French) *

Chair: Jean-Louis Fouassier (French Psychoanalytical Association)

Presented in French.

Organisers‘ Office n° 56

Floor 5

09:00–17:00

Psychoanalytic Education Committee (PEC): Meeting of Societies on Education

Chair: Angelika Staehle (German Psychoanalytical Association)

This is an exclusive meeting.

Organisers‘ Office n° 15

Floor 1

09:00–17:00

International New Groups (ING) Committee Meeting

This is an exclusive meeting.

Organisers‘ Office n° 17

Floor 1

09:00–18:00

IPSO Workshop on „The Specificity of Psychoanalytic Treatment Today“ – Group 1 *

Moderators: Marie-France Dispaux-Ducloux (Belgian Psychoanalytical Society);
Martine Sandor-Buthaud (Paris Psychoanalytical Society)
Chair: Fabienne Fillion (Belgian Psychoanalyticaly Society / Paris Psychoanalytical Society)

For IPSO members only.

Presented in English.

Auditorium F

Floor 3

09:00–18:00

IPSO Workshop on „The Specificity of Psychoanalytic Treatment Today“ – Group 2 *

Moderators: to be announced
Chair: Fabienne Fillion (Belgian Psychoanalytical Society / Paris Psychoanalytical Society)

For IPSO members only.

Presented in English.

Auditorium G

Floor 3

09:00–18:00

Forum „The Specificity of Psychoanalytic Treatment Today“ – Group 1 (English) *

Moderator: Leopoldo Bleger (French Psychoanalytical Association)
Moderator/Chair: Fabienne Fillion (Belgian Psychoanalytical Society / Paris Psychoanalytical Society)

Presented in English.

Press Room

Floor 3

09:00–18:00

Forum „The Specificity of Psychoanalytic Treatment Today“ – Group 2 (French) *

Moderators: Erika Kittler (German Psychoanalytical Association); to be announced
Chair: Fabienne Fillion (Belgian Psychoanalytical Society / Paris Psychoanalytical Society)

Presented in French.

News Room 1

Floor 3

09:00–18:00

Steering Committee, IPA in the Community and the World

Chair: Mira Erlich-Ginor (Israel Psychoanalytic Society)

This is an exclusive meeting.

Organisers‘ Office n° 18

Floor 1

10:00–11:00

Central Coffee Break

The EPF will offer a selection of hot and cold beverages as well as snacks.

Press Lobby

Floor 3

10:00–12:00

EPF Executives / IPA Officers Meeting

This is an exclusive meeting.

External **

10:00–16:00

Forum on Ageing – Workshop – „Illusions on Ageing?“ *

Chair: Christiane Schrader (German Psychoanalytical Association)

Presented in English.

Auditorium B

Floor 3

10:30–13:00

Forum for the Psychoanalysis of Adolescents – Workshop *

Presenter: Gisela Mercedes Zapata Casanave (Madrid Psychoanalytical Association)
Chair: Marcela Montes De Oca (Paris Psychoanalytical Society)

Presented in English.

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Auditorium D

Floor 3

13:00–14:30

Ad hoc Group Psychoanalysis in Literature: Literature in Psychoanalysis – Internal Meeting

Chair: Rotraut Helene De Clerck (German Psychoanalytical Association)

This is an exclusive meeting.

Organisers‘ Office n° 16

Floor 1

13:00–17:00

Forum Free Clinical Groups – Group 1 (English) *

Presenter: Tillman-David Schneider (German Psychoanalytical Association)
Chair: Christoph Eissing (German Psychoanalytical Association)

Presented in English.

Organisers‘ Office n° 41

Floor 4

13:00–17:00

Forum Free Clinical Groups – Group 2 (English) *

Presenter: Anne Patterson (British Psychoanalytical Society)
Chairs: Maria Wille-Buurman (Dutch Psychoanalytical Society); Claudia Thussbas (German Psychoanalytical Association)

Presented in English.

Organisers‘ Office n° 42

Floor 4

13:00–17:00

Forum Free Clinical Groups – Group 3 (English) *

Presenter: Pedro Manuel Silva Araújo (Portuguese Nucleus of Psychoanalysis)
Chairs: Maria Teresa Flores (Portuguese Nucleus of Psychoanalysis); Henrik Eckell (Finnish Psychoanalytical Society)

Presented in English.

Organisers‘ Office n° 43

Floor 4

13:00–17:00

Forum Free Clinical Groups – Group 4 (French) *

Presenter: Michael Friedel (Norwegian Psychoanalytic Society)
Chairs: Patrick Miller (Psychoanalytic Society for Research and Training); Dorothee Célestine von Tippelskirch-Eissing (German Psychoanalytical Association)

Presented in French.

Organisers‘ Office n° 44

Floor 4

14:00–15:00

Local Committee Florence Meeting

This is an exclusive meeting.

External **

14:00–17:00

Forum „Working with Haydée Faimberg‘s ‚Listening to Listening‘ Method“ – Group 2 (English) *

Chair: Dieter K. Bürgin (Swiss Society of Psychoanalysis)

Presented in English.

News Room 2

Floor 3

14:00–17:00

Forum on Collective Traumas – Workshop „Collective Traumata and their Traces in the Cure.“ *

Presenters: Iris Sarajlic Vukovic (Croatian Psychoanalytic Society);
Katarina Alpatova (Ukrainian Psychoanalytic Society)
Chairs: Sabina N. Jahovic (Belgrade Psychoanalytic); Igor Okorn (Croatian Psychoanalytic Society)
Honorary Chairs: Eva Weil (Paris Psychoanalytical Society); Anna Ferruta (Italian Psychoanalytical Society)

Presented in English.

Auditorium E

Floor 3

14:00–17:30

Forum on Exploring Training Process and Practice (ETPP) *

Chair: Françoise Labbé (Belgian Psychoanalytical Society)

Presented in English.

Organisers‘ Office n° 12 + 14

Floor 1

14:30–17:00

Forum for the Psychoanalysis of Adolescents – Workshop „Psychoanalysts and Adolescents in a Changing World.“ *

Presenters: Patricia Grieve (Madrid Psychoanalytical Association / British Psychoanalytical Society);
Luis Rodríguez de la Sierra (British Psychoanalytical Society)
Chair: Sara Flanders (British Psychoanalytical Society)

Presented in English.

Auditorium D

Floor 3

14:30–18:00

Forum on Institutional Matters (IMF) – Workshop „What Place is there for Illusion and Disillusionment in our Psychoanalytic Groups?“ *

Presenters: Bernard Chervet (Paris Psychoanalytical Society);
Gábor Szönyi (Hungarian Psychoanalytical Society)
Moderator: Franziska Ylander (Swedish Psychoanalytical Association)
Chair: Maggiorino Genta (Swiss Society of Psychoanalysis)

Presented in English.

Auditorium H

Floor 3

15:00–16:00

Central Coffee Break

The EPF will offer a selection of hot and cold beverages as well as snacks.

Press Lobby

Floor 3

15:00–18:00

Psychoanalysis and the Web – Workshop *

The Vertigo of Illusion. The Dysfunctional Use of Digital Media and its Relation to Psychological Dependence and Emotional Dysregulation.
Presenter: Elisabetta Marchiori (Italian Psychoanalytical Society)

Body Illusion and Augmented Reality.
Presenter: Rosa Spagnolo (Italian Psychoanalytical Society)

Dependence on IT Means, Social Withdrawal of Young People, Recognize and Prevent. From Social Isolation to Hikokomori. Illusion of a Love Affair: Limerence.
Presenter: Renata Rizzitelli (Italian Psychoanalytical Society)

The Area of Illusion Through the Web in Pandemic Times. Therapy and Interactions.
Presenter: Paola Silvia Ferri (Italian Psychoanalytical Society)

Chair: Roberto Musella (Italian Psychoanalytical Society)

Presented in English.

Auditorium C

Floor 3

16:00–18:00

Platform for Summerschool Organisers *

Chairs: Martin Teising (German Psychoanalytical Association / Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies); Marija Vezmar (Psychoanalytical Society of Serbia)

Presented in English.

California Atrium

Floor 5

16:30–18:00

Programme Committee Meeting

This is an exclusive meeting.

External **

17:00–19:00

Forum on Psychoanalysis, Migration and Cultural Identities – Workshop „Deuils, identités et illusions.“ *

Presenter: Florence Askenazy (Paris Psychoanalytical Society)
Discussant: Geneviève Welsh-Jouve (Paris Psychoanalytical Society)
Chair: Marie-Thérèse Khair-Badawi (Paris Psychoanalytical Society / Lebanese Association for the Development of Psychoanalysis)

Presented in French.

Auditorium E

Floor 3

17:00–20:00

Forum „Working with Haydée Faimberg‘s ‚Listening to Listening‘ Method“ – Group 2 (English) *

Chair: Dieter K. Bürgin (Swiss Society of Psychoanalysis)

Presented in English.

News Room 2

Floor 3

18:00–18:45

IPSO Workshop on „The Specificity of Psychoanalytic Treatment Today“ – Closing *

Chairs: Monica Bomba (IPSO Vice President for Europe); Johanna Velt (IPSO Vice President Elect for Europe)

For IPSO members only.

Presented in English.

News Room 1

Floor 3

18:00–18:45

Forum „The Specificity of Psychoanalytic Treatment Today“ – Closing *

Chair: Fabienne Fillion (Belgian Psychoanalytical Society / Paris Psychoanalytical Society)

Presented in English.

Press Room

Floor 3

18:00–19:00

Forum Free Clinical Groups – Moderator Meeting

Chair: Claudia Thussbas (German Psychoanalytical Association)

This is an exclusive meeting.

Organisers‘ Office n° 42

Floor 4

19:00–21:00

Welcome Reception with Snacks and Drinks *

The EPF will offer a selection of cold beverages and snacks.

Grand Auditorium Lobby & Atrium

Floor 1+3

* Pre-registration is essential for participation in these groups

** Hôtel Barrière Le Gray d‘Albion Cannes, 38 rue des Serbes, 06400 Cannes

Main Conference

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09:00 – 09:30

Opening the Conference

Jan Abram (EPF President)
Udo Hock (EPF Vice President)
Eckehard Pioch (DPG President)
Thomas Beier (DPV)

Presentations will be simultaneously translated/interpreted.

Grand Auditorium

Floor 1

09:30 – 11:00

FIRST PLENARY ON THE MAIN THEME: „Les égarements de la liberté“

Presenter: Laurence Kahn (APF)
Discussant: Michael Parson (BPaS/APF)
Chair: Eckehard Pioch (DPG)

Presentations will be simultaneously translated/interpreted.

Grand Auditorium

Floor 1

11:00 – 13:30

Meet the Societies

Thomas Beier (DPV)
Eckehard Pioch (DPG)

Seminar 5

Floor 2

11:00 – 11:30

Central Coffee Break

The EPF will offer a selection of hot and cold beverages as well as snacks.

Terasse

Floor 3

11:30 – 13:00

IPSO Opening & European Paper Award

Erika Lepiavka (IPSO President), Jan Abram (EPF President), Udo Hock (EPF Vice President), Nergis Güleç  (EPF General Secretary), Harriet Wolfe (IPA President), Heribert Blass (IPA President Elect), Johanna Velt (IPSO Vice-President for Europe), Paola Solano (IPSO Vice-President Elect Europe)

Presented in English.

Saal 4

Floor 1

11:30 – 13:00

Post Plenary Discussion Group

Laurence Kahn (APF)
Michael Parsons (BPS/APF)
Moderator: Stefano Bolognini (SPI)
Moderator: Daniela Luca (SRDP)

Presented in English.

Konfernez 5

Floor 4

11:30 – 13:00

PARALLEL PANEL ON THE MAIN THEME: „Psychoanalytic Archives and Freedom“

Christine Diercks (VPS)
Ewan O’Neill (RMARA)
Christine English (BPS)
Chair: Jasminka Suljagic (PSS)

Presented in English.

Seminar 1

Floor 2

11:30 – 13:00

PARALLEL PANEL ON THE MAIN THEME: „Freedom and its Discontents“

August Ruhs (VPS)
Discussant: Bent Rosenbaum (DPS)

Presentations will be simultaneously translated/interpreted.

Grand Auditorium

Floor 1

11:30 – 13:00

PARALLEL PANEL ON THE MAIN THEME:  „TheBLAUE: Portrait of a journal The editors from three German-speaking countries present the
Journal for Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice (ZpTP)“

Elisabeth Aebi Schneider (SGPsa)
Martina Feurer (DPV)
Erika Kittler (DPV)
Sabine Schlüter (VPA)
Andreas Mittermayr (VPA)
Harro de Groot (SGPsa)

Presented in English.

Konferenz 1

Floor 4

11:30 – 13:00

PARALLEL PANEL ON THE MAIN THEME:  „Adolescence and transition: creative freedom or defensive organization?“

Presenters: Christos Zervis (Hellenic Psychoanalytical Society / Paris PsychoanalyticalSociety);
Sarantis Thanopulos (Italian Psychoanalytical Society)
Chair: Nergis Güleç (Istanbul Psychoanalytical Association)

Presented in English.

Konferenz 2

Floor 4

11:30 – 13:00

PARALLEL PANEL ON THE MAIN THEME: „Freedom and Boundaries in Psychoanalytical Institutions“

Milagros Cid Sanz (APM)
Discussant: Bernard Chervet (SPP)
Chair: Yesim Korkut (PSIKE)

Presented in English.

Konferenz 3

Floor 4

11:30 – 13:00

PARALLEL PANEL ON THE MAIN THEME: „German entanglements and their reactivation in old age“

Martin Teising (DPV)
Discussant: Thomas Beier (DPV)
Chair: Dennis Flynn (BPS)

Presented in English.

Konferenz 4

Floor 4

11:30 – 13:00

PARALLEL PANEL ON THE MAIN THEME: „Freedom and the development of Psychoanalysis in Eastern Europe“

Dimo Stantchev (BPS)
Discussant: Igor Kadyrov (MPS)
Chair: Paolo Fonda (SPI)

Presented in English.

Konferenz 6

Floor 4

11:30 – 13:00

PARALLEL PANEL ON THE MAIN THEME: „Stuck in the beats of repetition: A Journey through Günter Grass´s ´The Tin Drum“

Nadja Troeger (SPP)
Chair: Johannes Döser (DPV)

Presented in English.

Konferenz 7

Floor 4

15:00 – 16:30

PARALLEL PANEL ON THE MAIN THEME: „Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.”(Kris Kristofferson)

Geneviève Welsh (SPP)
Aydan Özdaglar (DPV)
Virginia de Micco (SPI)

Presented in English.

Konferenz 1

Floor 4

15:00 – 16:30

PARALLEL PANEL ON THE MAIN THEME: “Is psychoanalysis still “emancipating” in wartime and/or severe traumatic circumstances?”

Igor Romanov (UPS)
Discussant: Eike Hinze (DPV)

Presentations will be simultaneously translated/interpreted.

Grand Auditorium

Floor 1

15:00 – 16:30

PARALLEL PANEL ON THE MAIN THEME: „Libertà va cercando, ch’è sì cara…“

Alberto Luchetti (SPI)
Discussant: Brigitte Eoch-Duval (APF)

Presented in English.

Konferenz 2

Floor 4

15:00 – 16:30

PARALLEL PANEL ON THE MAIN THEME: „Parent-Infant-Psychotherapy: A liberating method for postpartum depression of the mother with her baby“

Angela Köhler-Weisker (DPV)
Thomas Jung (VPA)

Presented in English.

Konferenz 3

Floor 4

15:00 – 16:30

PARALLEL PANEL ON THE MAIN THEME:  „Freedom and Authority in Psychoanalytic Education in our Times“

Angelika Staehle (DPV)
Benedetta Guerrini (SPI)
Valentino Ferro (SPI)
Bettina Berdal (NPS)
Kristin Fjelnseth Wold (NPA)
Torsten Siol (DPV)

Presented in English.

Konferenz 4

Floor 4

15:00 – 16:30

PARALLEL PANEL ON THE MAIN THEME: „WINGS of FREEDOM The transformational process from an encapsulated biological soma to a libidinal body − a psychosomatic approach“

Denny Panitz (HPS)
Jonathan Sklar (BPS)
Diana Tabacof (SPP)

Wolfgang Lassmann (WPV)
 

Presented in English.

Konferenz 5

Floor 4

15:00 – 16:30

PARALLEL PANEL ON THE MAIN THEME: „How to get free from the threatening ghosts of the past? From the Analysis of a Five-Year-Old Foster Child“

Alfred Walter (DPG)
Majlis Winberg Salomonsson (SPA)

Presentations in English.

Konferenz 6

Floor 4

15:00 – 16:30

PARALLEL PANEL ON THE MAIN THEME: „Psychoanalysis, a road to freedom. The analysis of a case of intergenerational transmission of trauma from a Japanese internment camp in Indonesia during World War II, 1942-1945“

Alexander Maria Janssen (DPS)
Discussant: Dorothee von Tippelskirch-Eissing (DPV)

Presentations in English.

Konferenz 7

Floor 4

17:00 – 18:30

Individual Paper Presentation

Room allocations will follow

16:30 – 17:00

Central Coffee Break

The EPF will offer a selection of hot and cold beverages as well as snacks.

Terasse

Floor 3

17:00 – 20:00

Between Liberty and Coercion: Large Group

Constraints on Individual Freedom

Moderators: 

Shmuel Erlich (German Psychoanalytical Association / Israel Psychoanalytic Society);
Mira Erlich-Ginor (Israel Psychoanalytic Society)

Presented in English.

Konferenz 6

Floor 4

17:00 – 20:00

Film Presentation

Presented in English.

Grand Auditorium

Floor 1

09:00 – 10:30

SECOND PLENARY ON THE MAIN THEME: „Versuch einer psychoanalytischen Bestimmung  von Freiheit“

Bernd Nissen (DPV)
Discussant: Jasminka Suljagic (PSS)
Chair: Thomas Beier (DPV)

Presentations will be simultaneously translated/interpreted.

Grand Auditorium

Floor 1

11:30 – 13:00

Post Plenary Discussion Group

Bernd Nissen (DPV)
Jasminka Suljacic (PSS)
Moderator: Stefano Bolognini (SPI)
Moderator: Daniela Luca (SRDP)

Presented in English.

Konferenz 5

Floor 4

11:00 – 11:30

Central Coffee Break

The EPF will offer a selection of hot and cold beverages as well as snacks.

Terasse

Floor 3

11:30 – 13:00

PARALLEL PANEL ON THE MAIN THEME: „Free association and freedom in the specificity method“

Presenter: Leopold Bleger (APF)
Presenter: Serge Frisch (BPSI)
Presenter: Levy Ruggero (SPPA)
Chair: Valérie Bouville (DPV)

Presented in English.

Konferenz 4

Floor 4

11:30 – 13:00

PARALLEL PANEL ON THE MAIN THEME: „Degrés de liberté et identification: quelque illustrations“

Emmanuelle Chervet (SPP)
Pilar Puertas (APM)

Presentations will be simultaneously translated/interpreted.

Grand Auditorium
 

Floor 1

11:30 – 13:00

PARALLEL PANEL ON THE MAIN THEME: „COWAP: Sexuality, Gender and Freedom“

Patricia Alkolombre (APA)
Leticia Glocer Fiorini (APA)
Sérgio Lewkowicz (SPPA)

Presented in English.

Konferenz 1

Floor 4

11:30 – 13:00

PARALLEL PANEL ON THE MAIN THEME: „The Truth Will Set You Free Explorations into psychoanalytic truth and freedom“

Jean Arundale (BPS)
Discussant: Marc Hebbrecht (BPA)
Chair: Alberto Carrion (MPA)

Presented in English.

Konferenz 2

Floor 4

11:30 – 13:00

PARALLEL PANEL ON THE MAIN THEME: „‘I decide what is true!’ On the struggle for freedom of thought in the face of internal (and external) propaganda”

Claudia Frank (DPV)
Discussant: Tatiana Alavidze (MPS)
Chair: Ewa Glód (PTPa)

Presented in English.

Konferenz 3

Floor 4

11:30 – 13:00

PARALLEL PANEL ON THE MAIN THEME: „Political Caesura and the Analysts’ Freedom of Thought“

Eran J. Rolnik (IPS)
Discussant: Klaus Grabska (DPV)

Presented in English.

Konferenz 6

Floor 4

11:30 – 13:00

PARALLEL PANEL ON THE MAIN THEME: “What kind of presence in the absence when working online? Between freedom and discontents.”

Dimo Georguiev Stantchev (BPS)
Discussant: Martina Burdet Dombald (MPA)

Chair: Maria Teresa Flores (PPS)

Presented in English.

Konferenz 7

Floor 4

11:30 – 13:00

PARALLEL PANEL ON THE MAIN THEME: “Escape from Freedom Revisited: Anxiety and Freedom within Groups.”

Susan Kolod (APsA)
Petra Hymanns (DPV)
Maria Pia Conte (BPaS)

Chair: Heribert Blass (DPV)

Presented in English.

Konferenz 8

Floor 4

14:00 – 16:00

Round Table Discussion

The IPU: a German example of the surviving of psychoanalysis in the University

Christa Rohde-Dachser (DPG)
Jan-Hendrik Olbertz (President IPU)
Martin Teising (DPV)
Chair: Jan Abram (EPF President BPaS)

Presentation will be simultaneously translated/interpreted.

Grand Auditorium

Floor 1

14:00 – 16:30

Workshop on Writing a Psychoanalytic Paper for the International Journal of Psychoanalysis (IJP) *

Presenter: Bernard Reith (SGPsa)
Chair: Francis Grier (BPaS)

Presented in English.

Seminar 1

Floor 2

16:30 – 18:00

Joint EPF/IPA Working Parties

Serge Frisch (BPS)
Katharina Zeuthen (DPS)
Moderator: Marinella Linardos (XX)
Chair: Udo Hock (EPF Vice President)

Presented in English.

Grand Auditorium

Floor 1

15:00 – 16:30

PARALLEL PANEL ON THE MAIN THEME: „The Interplay of Freedom and Dependency: Exploring Gendered Realities“

Nasim Ghaffari (SGPsa)     
Carine Minne (BPaS)
Chair: Emanuela Quagliata (IPS)

Presented in English.

Konferenz 6

Floor 4

15:00 – 16:30

PARALLEL PANEL ON THE MAIN THEME: „Thinking frees itself – a reading of Freud’s “Negation”“

Johannes Picht (DPV)
Chair and Discussant: Stefanie Sedlacek (DPG)

Presented in English.

Seminar 3

Floor 2

15:00 – 16:30

PARALLEL PANEL ON THE MAIN THEME: “Psychoanalytic Freedom under Lock and Key: “Oh, you’re here to stop me being violent?” “No, I’m here so you can choose”.”

Carine Minne (BPaS)
Maria Pia Conte (BPaS)

Presented in English.

Konferenz 1

Floor 4

15:00 – 16:30

PARALLEL PANEL ON THE MAIN THEME: “On Freedom for thinking: finding a place of one’s own. Interference by a Premature Superego in infants, and its Après-Coup interpretation in adolescents and adults.”

Christine Franckx (BSP)
Fernando Martín Gomez (APA)
Maria Teresa Flores (PPS)
Antònia Grimalt (SEP)
Christine Anzieu-Premmereur (SPP)

Presented in English.

Konferenz 2

Floor 4

15:00 – 16:30

PARALLEL PANEL ON THE MAIN THEME: “FREEDOM IN FREE ASSOCIATION IRED (IPA Dictionary)”

Eva Papiasvili (APsA)
Jerome Scott Blackman (APsA)
Felipe Muller (APA)
Antonio Pérez Sánchez (SPS)

Presented in English.

Konferenz 3

Floor 4

15:00 – 16:30

PARALLEL PANEL ON THE MAIN THEME: “Migration as an act of freedom and mourning”

Asli Erkan (PSIKE)
Gordana Maksimović (BPS)
Discussant: Nasim Ghaffari (SGPsa)
Sabina Jahović (BPS)

Presented in English.

Konferenz 4

Floor 4

15:00 – 16:30

PARALLEL PANEL ON THE MAIN THEME: “Free Thinking in Psychoanalytic Institutions – an Illusion?”

Elisabeth Imhorst (DPV)
Anat Schumann (IPS)
K Argyropoulos (HPS)
A Alexandridis (HPS)
Frances Thomson-Salo (APS)

Presented in English.

Konferenz 5

Floor 4

15:00 – 16:30

PARALLEL PANEL ON THE MAIN THEME: “PACE / IPA”

Sylvia Schulze (DPG)
Discussant: Victor Blüml (VPS)

Presented in English.

Konferenz 8

Floor 4

16:00 – 17:00

Central Coffee Break

The EPF will offer a selection of hot and cold beverages as well as snacks.

Terasse

Floor 3

17:00 – 20:00

Between Liberty and Coercion: Large Group

Constraints on Individual Freedom

Moderators: 

Shmuel Erlich (German Psychoanalytical Association / Israel Psychoanalytic Society);

Mira Erlich-Ginor (Israel Psychoanalytic Society)

Presented in English.

Konferenz 6

Floor 4

17:00 – 18:00

INDIVIDUAL PAPER PRESENTATIONS

Room allocations will follow

19:30 – 00:00

Dining & Dancing in the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès *

Including reception and dinner costs.

Please note that this entry slightly differs from the print version of the programme shown above. The information contained here is current and correct.

Ambassadors‘ Lounge

Floor 4

09:30 – 11:30

THIRD PLENARY ON THE MAIN THEME

Adolescents in the nowhere land: enchanted by the place they long to escape.
Presenter: Monica Bomba (SPI)

La transitionnalité primaire ou la nostalgie d’une liberté impensable
Presenter: Berdj Papazian (SSPsa/SGPsa)

Chair: Heribert Blass (DPV)

Presentations will be simultaneously translated/interpreted.

Grand Auditorium

Floor 1

11:30 – 12:00

Closing Ceremony

Presentations will be simultaneously translated/interpreted.

Grand Auditorium

Floor 1

12:00 – 13:00

Farewell Cocktail

The EPF will offer a selection of cold beverages.

Grand Auditorium Lobby

Floor 1

* Pre-registration is essential for participation in these groups

* Pre-registration is essential for participation in these groups

Equipment Rooms Parallel Panels and Individual Paper

  • The room for your Parallel Panel Presentation and Individual Paper Presentation will be equipped with the standard Setup:
    TV Monitor or Screen, with Projector and depending on room size, microphones

  • If you would like to share your paper or .pptx., please bring your own Laptop
    If you need special connectors, please do not forget to bring them!

Your access to the published publications on the EPF website

  • Please register on the EPF website well before the conference and generate your loginhttps://www.epf-fep.eu/de/log-in

  • Please note that it is not possible to create a personal login and thus gain access to the publications/contributions during the conference days!

Individual Paper Presentations

Please click on the desired title to view further information.

Adolescence, trauma and the construction of gender identity

Presenter: Jorge Camara (Portuguese Psychoanalytical Society)
Chair: –

Presented and discussed in English

Building: Limonaia

Floor 0

The self-sodomised virgin: figurability of trauma in the feminine and processes of identification.

Presenter: Elisabetta Marchiori (Italian Psychoanalytical Society)
Chair: Valeria Riccheri (Argentine Psychoanalytic Association)

Presented and discussed in English

Building: Palazzo degli Affari

Room: Hall 1A

Floor 1

Identification with the Myth as the Timeless and Universal Language of Drives.

Presenter: Nikolaos Takis 
Chair: Denny Panitz (Hellenic Psychoanalytical Society)

Presented and discussed in English

Building: Palazzo degli Affari

Room: Modulo 2-2.1

Floor 2

”I am not like my mother, I am not like my father, I am not…”.

Presenter: Daniela Luca (Romanian Society of Psychoanalysis)
Chair: Conceição Tavares Almeida (Portuguese Psychoanalytical Society)

Presented and discussed in English

Building: Palazzo degli Affari

Room: Modulo 2-2.2

Floor 2

Adhesive identification – the glue between body and psyche History, Transfer(ence), Presence, and Interpretation.

Presenter: Shiri Ben-Bassat (Israel Psychoanalytic Society)
Chair: Alina Schellekes (Israel Psychoanalytic Society)

Presented and discussed in English

Building: Palazzo degli Affari

Room: Hall 2A

Floor 2

Artificial Intelligence and Alternative Identifications.

Presenters: Gaetano Pellegrini (Italian Psychoanalytical Society)
Rosa Spagnolo (Italian Psychoanalytical Society)
Chair: Ana María Martín Solar

Presented and discussed in English

Building: Palazzo degli Affari

Room: Modulo 3-3.1

Floor 3

Au contact d’une œuvre, émergences de l’identification.

Presenter: Armelle Hours (Paris Psychoanalytical Society)
Chair: Sylvie Kockelmeyer (Belgian Psychoanalytical Society)

Presented and discussed in French

Building: Palazzo degli Affari

Room: Hall 3A

Floor 3

Becoming a Man: Melancholia and Castration.

Presenter: Charles Baekeland (Madrid Psychoanalytical Association)
Chair: Victor Blüml (Vienna Psychoanalytic Society)

Presented and discussed in English

Building: Palazzo degli Affari

Room: Modulo 4-4.1

Floor 4

Bisexual identification in gay fathers having recourse to Surrogacy.

Presenter: Despina Naziri (Belgian Psychoanalytical Society)
Chair: Katy Bogliatto (Belgian Psychoanalytical Society)

Presented and discussed in English

Building: Palazzo degli Affari

Room: Modulo 4-4.2

Floor 4

Positive projective identification in a 26-month mother-infant study.

Presenter: Tuba Tokgoz (Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research)
Chair: Bruce Reis (Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research)

Presented and discussed in English

Building: Palazzo degli Affari

Room: Hall 1A

Floor 1

Ecocide as inner and outer object – how do we deal with it clinically?

Presenter: Delaram Habibi-Kohlen (German Psychoanalytical Association)
Chair: –

Presented and discussed in English

Building: Palazzo degli Affari

Room: Modulo 2 – 2.1

Floor 2

Disruption of the dialectic between male and female Elements.

Presenter: Nesrin Altinel 
Chair: Ferhat Yarar (Istanbul Psychoanalytical Association)

Presented and discussed in English

Building: Palazzo degli Affari

Room: Modulo 2 – 2.2

Floor 2

From the Mental State of Primary identification to the Phantasy of the Censure de l‘ Amante.

Presenter/Chair: Nikolaos Lamnidis (Hellenic Psychoanalytical Society)

Presented and discussed in English

Building: Palazzo degli Affari

Room: Hall 2A

Floor 2

Gender Identity on the Autistic Spectrum: Neurodivergent Processes of Identification.

Presenter: Susan Donner (American Psychoanalytic Association)
Chair: –

Presented and discussed in English

Building: Palazzo degli Affari

Room: Modulo 3 – 3.1

Floor 3

Crime as manic reparation in the face of guilt following death of a parent.

Presenter: David Simpson (British Psychoanalytic Association)
Chair: Alexander Uskov (Moscow Psychoanalytic Society)

Presented and discussed in English

Comment of the author: In this paper I am discussing a 2023 film “Scrapper “ directed by Charlotte Regan”. It would be good and helpful if you might wish to view this film in advance. It is available online from a number of sources (some of which are free).
These include BFI Player, BFI Player Amazon Channel, BFI Player Apple TV Channel, as well as Prime video and Virgin Media.

Building: Palazzo degli Affari

Room: Modulo 3 – 3.2

Floor 3

Greed and miserliness: Identification with emotionally miserly parental figures.

Presenter: Anett Felházi Burdet (Hungarian Psychoanalytical Society)
Chair: Anna Mária Hansjürgens (Hungarian Psychoanalytical Society)

Presented and discussed in English

Building: Palazzo degli Affari

Room: Hall 3A

Floor 3

Homeostasis and Self-Regulation – Some Aspects of Identifications.

Presenter: Joachim von Weissenberg (Finnish Psychoanalytical Society)
Chair: Levas Kovarskis (Finnish Psychoanalytical Society)

Presented and discussed in English

Building: Palazzo degli Affari

Room: Modulo 4 – 4.1

Floor 4

Les jeux d’identifications croisées dans les cures d’enfants.

Presenter: Julia-Flore Alibert (Paris Psychoanalytical Society)
Chair: Valérie Burnet (Swiss Society of Psychoanalysis)

Presented and discussed in French

Building: Palazzo degli Affari

Room: Modulo 4 – 4.2

Floor 4

Attendance fees - Registration starts on 2nd September 2024

435,00 €*

545,00 €

Member of an EPF-Society / IPA member

110,00 €

PSIKE Istanbul, IPD (Istanbul Psychoanalytical Association), ALDeP (Lebanese Association for the Development of Psychoanalysis)
525,00 €*

635,00 €

No participation in the clinical workshops and sponsored by the president or officer of an EPF member society
205,00 €*

310,00 €

Registered in IPA component societies and endorsed by the president or officer of an EPF member society

60,00 €

European Psychoanalytic Institute

60,00 €

Student

*Early bird‘ discount, registrations before 31st January 2025

Participation fees subject to change.

Contact and further information

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351040 Etterbeek
Belgium

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Support of the Organiser, Attendee management and Contact
CSi Hamburg GmbH

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20249 Hamburg
Germany