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- IPA 47th Congress
Exploring core concepts: Sexuality, Dreams and The Unconscious
World Trade Centre, Mexico City, 3–6 August, 2011
Call for Proposals Now Open
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Deadline for submissions: 15 September 2010
- July 10, 2010
- President's Letter
Save the date! The CIPS Board will host a cocktail reception in Washington DC in honor of the CIPS Book Series and all its authors. The first published author, Steven Ellman will speak briefly about his book, When Theories Touch. The reception will be held September 24, from 6-7:30, at the Ritz-Carlton Downtown. Any CIPS member or candidate is welcome to attend, with an rsvp. Look for an email invitation soon.
The election for CIPS officers is closed. Thanks to those of you who have visited this website and used the electronic voting. Randi Wirth is re-elected as Secretary of CIPS, and I, Leigh Tobias, am re-elected President. We pledge to continue the work of the teleconferences, the CIPS Book Series, links with the IPA, privacy issues in healthcare legislation, and outreach that the officers before us have established.
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- June 4, 2010
- IPTAR Celebrates Its 50th Anniversary
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IPTAR’s celebration began with a conference, Reaching Beyond our Boundaries [Psychoanalysis in Dialogue with the Arts] on Saturday, October 24, 2009. Inaugurating the conference, Harold P. Blum, M.D., former director of the Sigmund Freud Archives and prolific author, explored how the artist Oscar Kokoschka (1886-1980) uniquely communicated his internal life through external expression. In Oskar Kokoschka and Alma Mahler: Art as Diary and as Therapy, Dr. Blum took the paintings and journal entries the artist created during the period of his tumultuous affair with Alma Mahler as a way of understanding Kokoschka’s emotional state. Kokoschka’s artistic products illuminated the intense passion, personal anguish, and questionable inner reconciliation that motivated Kokoschka’s art and marked his experience with Mahler, a remarkable, although ultimately disappointing love object.Read More
- June 4, 2010
- New And Notable Books
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When Theories Touch: A Historical and Theoretical Integration of Psychoanalytic Thought, by Steven J. Ellman.Publisher: Karnac BooksJanuary 2010
Steven Ellman was Professor in the Graduate School of City University of New York (CUNY) where he was Director of the Ph.D. program in Clinical Psychology. He is now, after 30 years as a Professor at CUNY, Professor-Emeritus. He has published more than 70 papers in psychoanalysis, sleep and dreams the neurophysiology of motivation. He has published several books including Freud’s Technique Papers: A Contemporary Perspective and The Mind in Sleep (with Antrobus). He has been President of IPTAR twice, Program Chair and he is training and supervising analyst at IPTAR. He is also Clinical Professor at New York University Post-Doctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. He was the first President of the Confederation of Independent Psychoanalytic Societies (CIPS). CIPS is the national professional organization of the independent International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA) societies of the United States. He is member of the IPA and was previously on the Executive Council of the IPA.When Theories Touch is the first book in the CIPS book series. It reviews the thought and work of the great theorists of psychoanalysis. Dr. Ellman has a remarkable ability to dwell within the psychic reality of each of the great theorists he discusses, and to make it feel as if each one were explaining his or her theory in person.Read More
- Evolving British Object Relations Annual International Conference
October 22, 23 & 24, 2010
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University of Washington, Club, Seattle, WA
Sponsored by Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society
and COR Northwest Family Development Center
- CIPS Cocktails and Book Signing
SAVE THE DATE
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Friday, September 24, 6-8pm
Ritz-Carlton, Downtown
Steve Ellman will speak about his book When Theories Touch. Join us for cocktails and discussion.