A MESSAGE FROM THE IPA PROGRAM COMMITTEE

The 46th IPA Congress
Chicago, Wednesday, July 29 to Saturday, August 1, 2009
IPSO day on Tuesday, July 28

Theme: Psychoanalytic Practice: Convergences and Divergences Across Psychoanalytic Cultures

What are the similarities and differences in clinical practice across different psychoanalytic cultures?

The 46th IPA Congress will be held in Chicago in 2009, a date that marks the 100th Anniversary of Freud's voyage to America and his delivery of the 1909 "Five Lectures on Psychoanalysis" at Clark University. The theme of the conference is "Convergences and divergences in psychoanalytic practice across psychoanalytic cultures."

Psychoanalytic practice has changed enormously in the last hundred years, with areas of both convergence and divergence among its many variants. To identify a common ground is elusive, but we can nevertheless engage in productive discussions about the way that particular psychoanalytic cultures define psychoanalytic practice.

Our present-day psychoanalytic clinical practice has to take account of an ever-expanding field of work, characterized by ongoing theoretical developments, new social realities, new forms of clinical presentation and new links with other disciplines.

For this reason we today, after more than a century, propose to reflect on how various theoretical models, as well as our different cultures, psychoanalytic traditions, societies and realities, give rise to different practices. All these factors contribute to the singularity of each approach and to the ways that approach is transmitted to others.

Our aim is to create a facilitating environment for active debate on our convergences and divergences.

We are confident that the exchanges between us as individuals, our psychoanalytic societies and our regions will stimulate fresh developments in our practice. We invite you to present and comment your own manner of working, to share your ideas on your daily work and to discuss your colleagues approaches. We are convinced that the result can only be mutual enrichment.

Famous for its architecture, its beautiful urban landscape, its museums and concert halls, its parks and beaches, Chicago is also an important centre in the history of the psychoanalytic movement. Franz Alexander, Thomas French, Therese Benedek, Maxwell Gitelson and Heinz Kohut are significant figures in Chicago's psychoanalytic tradition and have impressed an indelible stamp on contemporary psychoanalysis.

The members of the Society and the Institute for Psychoanalysis, founded in 1932 will be our hosts there.

We look forward to welcoming you to the Congress.

Abel Fainstein (Chair) and Liliane Abensour, Glen Gabbard, Mónica Siedmann de Armesto, Kate Schechter

The Programme Committee

Opening Clinical Panel
Cecilio Paniagua (Presenter) and Discussants Marilia Aisenstein, Arnold Goldberg and Leonardo Peskin, chaired by Cláudio Laks Eizirik.

Keynote Lectures by
Antonino Ferro, Juan Pablo Jiménez and Warren Poland.

Major Lectures by
Ron Britton, Leopold Nosek and Robert Paul.

‘Meet the Analyst’ interviews with
César Garza Guerrero, Ilse Grubrich-Simitis, Arnold Modell, Anna Ornstein, Janine Puget, Jean-Claude Rolland (to be confirmed)

Call for Papers

While proposals are invited on any psychoanalytic topic, proposals that put clinical material at their centre are particularly welcome. Congress activities will include Discussion Groups, Individual Papers, Panels, Posters, Courses, Lectures and Films.

Proposals are welcome from both Members and non-Members of the IPA, including IPA Candidates. Individual Papers will be considered by blind review — to the extent that this is possible — by two experienced IPA members. These evaluations, together with proposals for other activities, will be assessed by the Programme Committee who will make the final choices. Authors will be informed if their proposal is accepted for the Chicago Congress or not accepted for the Chicago Congress. No further feedback will be given.

The Congress takes place alongside the 20th International Psychoanalytical Studies Organization (IPSO) conference with panels, lectures, and activities organized specifically for IPA Candidates at accredited institutes worldwide. Further details about the IPSO programme will be made available in the Registration materials forthcoming in late Summer 2008.

Prizes and Awards: A number of prizes and awards are traditionally presented at the Congress, including the Hayman Prize, Elise M. Hayman Award, Sacerdoti Prize, Training Today Award, Research Awards, Ticho Lectureship Award and Tyson Prize for Candidates.

Suggested Topics

The PC welcomes proposals that centre on the following themes (the list is not exhaustive; proposals on other topics are also welcome):

• Comparative perspectives on the unconscious in clinical work
• The notion of frame
• Different approaches to transference and countertransference
• Construction, reconstruction and here-and-now
• Clinical approaches to dreams
• Beginning and ending analysis
• Ethical problems of clinical practice
• Psychosexuality and sexual behaviour
• Homosexuality and homoparentality in clinical practice
• Child and adolescent psychoanalysis: controversies
• Inhibitions, symptoms and anxiety
• Clinical approaches to neurotic and psychotic patients
• Patients with severe personality disorders
• Psychoanalysis, medication and other adjunctive therapies
• The approach to depression in analysis
• Shuttle analysis/phone and concentrated analysis

Proposals are now invited for the following 6 activities:

1. Individual Papers – of 30 minutes duration which will be followed by approximately 25 minutes of discussion. (Important: the Paper must be timed as taking no more than 30 minutes to read aloud. As a guide this means your paper must have no more than 5,000 words). Your paper must not have been previously published, accepted for publication or read at an international conference.

2. Panels – Presentations of a topic by 2 or 3 members and a Chair. (This must be structured as 90 minutes for the panellists discussion and 30 minutes for audience discussion). Proposals are strongly preferred where each presenter has read each other Presenter's presentation in advance and has prepared a commentary on it. Proposals must include recommended panellists and Chair.

   Proposals for panels which include short extracts from films or TV programmes should also be included here.

3. Small Discussion Groups – lasting for up to two hours in which the audience explores a topic of interest. These may be associated with a panel or lecture. Proposals should include Chair, and no more than 5 invited guests. Considering the participative nature of this activity, aggregate presentation time will be a maximum 20 minutes. There is no automatic acceptance for SDGs that have featured at previous Congresses.

4. Courses – of 4 hours duration - are designed to inform analysts systematically of an area of research interest.

5. Posters – Poster displays of research and conceptual work for viewing and discussion during a session devoted to such presentations.

6. Films – Up to 3 hours in duration including discussion. Films will be scheduled in the evening, after the afternoon sessions have concluded.

Other activities will be selected by the Programme Committee who will inform contributors of the time-limit for their particular activity.

Simultaneous interpretation will be available for selected lectures and panels at the discretion of the Programme Committee. Please do not request simultaneous interpretation for your proposal.

Submissions should specify which of the types of activity is being proposed, the title and an abstract of no more than 500 words included. Where speakers can be identified they should be listed and their role in the presentation described.

Even though you may submit any number of proposals, the PC will follow the longstanding policy of generally limiting each participant to one activity in the programme.

Click here to submit your proposal

Proposals may only be submitted electronically - via the IPA Website (for preference) or by e-mail.

RIGHTS

The IPA wishes to ensure the papers presented at its Congresses are as widely disseminated as possible and that all Members of the IPA are able to access them. It therefore intends to put all papers accepted for the Congress on its website in a publically-accessible area. Papers with clinical material will, if so requested, be put in an area accessible only to Members and IPA Candidates. For this reason, the IPA asks you to grant the IPA a non-exclusive licence to publish your paper on the IPA website and in other IPA publications and to enable the IPA to grant a licence to journals to publish it in any language. As the licence you grant to the IPA will be non-exclusive, you will retain the ownership of the copyright and the right to use your paper as you think fit. However, the IPA has close ties with the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and encourages you to submit your paper to it so as to maintain a peer-reviewed record of Congress proceedings. Authors will be asked to inform the IPA if a paper contains matter (such as clinical material) which should not be published. In such cases, the IPA will always consult you and seek your agreement to any necessary changes prior to publication.