Contact IPA

Ask questions and make suggestions about procedure, policy and IPA administration.

If you do not know which member of staff to contact, please write to the general address: ipa@ipa.org.uk 


International Psychoanalytical Association

Broomhills Woodside Lane London N12 8UD United Kingdom

Phone: +44 20 8446 8324 Fax: +44 20 8445 4729 Email: ipa@ipa.org.uk Map Click here

The list of staff and their responsibilities should help in choosing the most appropriate person to contact:

	Paul Crake Executive Director Responsible for providing support and advice to the Board and Executive Committee on all issues to do with the governance of the IPA. He manages the staff and oversees all IPA operations in which staff are involved. Contact: Paul@ipa.org.uk
	Joanne BeavisING Manager Responsible for providing support to the ING Committee, managing IPA elections and advising Members on IPA Policy regarding these issues. Contact: Jo_B@ipa.org.uk
	Simon ShutlerFinance DirectorResponsible for all aspects of finance and the information technology systems in the Central Office. Contact: Simon@ipa.org.uk
	Robert SteinHead of Membership Services Responsible for congress management, internal publications and some grant schemes. He also works on marketing and income generation activity. Contact: Robert@ipa.org.uk
	Mike Tilley Membership and Database ManagerManages the electronic database of Members, the Congress database of proposals, Congress registration data management and technical aspects of the IPA website. Contact: Mike@ipa.org.uk
	Rhoda BawdekarWebmaster and Publications Officer Responsible for content and design management of the IPA website. She also works closely with the Publications Committee, co-ordinating the production of IPA Publications. Contact: Rhoda@ipa.org.uk
	Anikó SoltiSecretary to the BoardResponsible for organising and minuting Board, Executive Committee and Business Meetings, co-ordinating the Committees list, maintaining the Procedural Code. Contact: Aniko@ipa.org.uk
	Karina GutierrezMembership SecretaryResponsible for day-to-day operations of the membership database, and supporting membership activities and provide general office administration. Contact: Karina@ipa.org.uk
	Andrée AlldisAccounts Assistant, Supports the Finance Director. Contact: Andree@ipa.org.uk
	Francesca Battisti-Davies, Office Assistant, provides support to membership activities and regular maintenance of the database as well as general office administration. Contact: Francesca@ipa.org.uk
CONTACTING THE IPA'S OFFICERS
	Charles HanlyPresident Please contact his personal assistant Stephen Thierman: IPA.Toronto@gmail.com
	Gunther PerdigaoSecretary General Please use: IPANewOrleans@gmail.com
	Juan Carlos WeissmannTreasurer Please use: weissmannjc@gmail.com

My IPA

The IPA has launched  ‘My IPA’, an area of the IPA website that enables IPA associates' to maintain their  personal details and to see their Committee positions, Congress attendance since Rio de Janeiro (Mexico City has not yet been added to the database) and other details.

If you are an IPA associate Go to the IPA website,  www.ipa.org.uk and enter your Username and Password provided to you by the IPA or the versions you have if you have changed them.
In the blue menu bar at the top of the home page you will now see "My IPA".
Click on this option and your details will appear where they have been provided.

Women and Creativity

Conference on Women and Creativity in Genoa in September – Book Now
IPA President-Elect Stefano Bolognini will be giving the opening presentation at the ‘Women and Creativity’ Conference organised by the IPA’s Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis (COWAP).
The Conference takes place on 28/29 September in Genoa, Italy, and other presenters include Irma Brenman Pick (UK) on ‘Creativity and Authenticity’, Juan-Eduardo Tesone  (Argentina) on ‘William, did you say much ado for nothing?’ and Frances Salo (Australia) on ‘When creativity restarts: distorted and adaptive forms’. Papers are available in English and Italian.
Interactive workshops are a feature of the two-day event and there is a Gala Dinner on the Friday evening.

For more details, fees, accommodation and to register click here
http://www.socespsi.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/COWAP-brochure_Italy.pdf

or write to Laura Tognoli laura.tognoli1@virgilio.it

The 3rd Chinese Psychoanalytic Congress

will be held from 20 – 22 September 2012 at the Everbright International Convention and Exhibition Center in Shanghai, China. This Congress is jointly organized by Shanghai Mental Health Center and Psychoanalytic Committee of Chinese Mental Health Association. For more details and to register click here.

Cerco un analista - searcing for an IPA's member

IPA Roster on the website

Members and Candidates can now easily search for other colleagues using the new IPA Roster feature. To search, click here You can then search for a colleague by name, city or country.  For example putting in ‘Vienna’ (English versions of city names are used throughout) will bring up all members with addresses in that city. You do not have to log in first (in the top right of the screen) but if you do so, using the logon and password sent to you recently, you will be able to see the Member’s/Candidate’s contact details. If you have forgotten your logon or password, you can click the ‘Forgot my logon’ link on the logon page or write to ipa@ipa.org.uk

A Plea for the Survival of Psychoanalysis

J. Amati Mehler underline that there is a tendency to confuse the ability to use one’s psychoanalytic listening and our psychoanalytic tools with doing psychoanalysis. This is a crucial issue today. The two might be, and nowadays are, much confused. 
She writes that a fundamental danger to the survival of psychoanalysis comes from the tendency to neglect the impact of so many parallel training “schools”, fostered by IPA analysts themselves, that thrive all around the world. Short-cut training is offered as well as low-frequency-session training analyses. These institutions are an unrecognized significant threat to:

1. the identity of psychoanalysis as a discipline and as a specific method and setting;
2. the minimal standards of training requirements.

Such parallel institutes based on our discipline contribute to the confusion between psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. They also foster cultural deceit of the public who do not know exactly what therapy they are getting since everything close to a “talking cure” is called “analysis”!

Vedi anche il video della Dr.ssa Argentieri in merito alla formazione psicoanalitica.

From:
http://www.ipa.org.uk

The New IPA website

The new IPA website and database has just been launched and can be visited at the usual address

www.ipa.org.uk

The new site is part of the IPA’s broader commitment to communicate clearly to existing and new audiences and to become the essential online resource for psychoanalysis.

Right now you can see the announcement of the Prague Congress 2013 Call for Proposals; over the next few weeks and months we will be adding a great deal more content including Forums, Blogs, and Resource Libraries (giving the ability to add documents, audio files and so on).

Also to be added by mid-March is the IPA Roster ‘Find a Colleague’ where you will be able to find the contact details of other IPA Members and Candidates. To access this function and to make a proposal for the 2013 Congress you will first need to log in.

The IPA

It was during a meeting in Salzburg, on 27 April 1908, that the idea of an International Association was discussed and agreed upon. Apart from this momentous decision, the most notable event at Salzburg was Freud's presentation of the case of the Rat Man; this aroused so much interest that he was persuaded to extend it to more than four hours The next Congress was held at Nuremberg in March 1910, and it was at this Congress that the International Psychoanalytical Association was founded. Freud had first met Ferenczi only a very short time before the Salzburg Congress, but their friendship evidently ripened rapidly, and after Salzburg Freud asked Ferenczi to make proposals designed to bring analysts closer together in some kind of bond. This Ferenczi did at Nuremberg; he insisted that Jung should be President of the new Association, and that its official centre should be Zürich. Freud too thought both these proposals to be very important for several reasons. First of all, he had an extremely high opinion of Jung. For at least a year he had viewed Jung as his spiritual heir, to whom the future of psychoanalysis could most safely be entrusted. Freud also believed it to be of the utmost importance that psychoanalysis should no longer be identified in the public mind with Vienna, neither should it be regarded as something specifically Jewish. And so Jung, as a Swiss and Gentile, seemed admirably suited for the role of leader, and was elected the first President of the IPA, the central office being in Zürich, as the place of residence of the President.

During the next few years, the affairs of the IPA were managed by Jung, with Riklin as his Secretary. In June 1911, Adler resigned from the Vienna Society, together with some other members; he set up his own organization of Individual Psychology. This left Stekel to run the Zentralblatt. Freud found this unsatisfactory and eventually, in October 1912, Stekel too resigned from the Vienna Society.

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The First World War produced a hiatus in the activities of the IPA. The purpose for which it was founded was the formation of a bond between psychoanalysts in various countries. The means to bring this about consisted in the organization of International Congresses at which scientific exchange was encouraged; the publication of a Bulletin in one form or another in which information about the activities in the various Societies could be conveyed, and the foundation of scientific journals, which eventually crystallized into two, the Internationale Zeitschrift and Imago.

... After the war, in 1920, a Congress was held at The Hague; this was more international than the Budapest Congress of 1918, and it brought together again colleagues who had been separated perforce by the war. 62 members took part. The British and Swiss Societies were formally admitted, and Jones was elected President.

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The Congress of 1924 took place in Salzburg. It was reported that there were 263 members of the IPA, contrasting with the 22 at the first Congress. The following Congress, at Bad Homburg, was a particularly important one. Abraham presided. There was a preliminary conference to discuss training and the proposal to set up an international training organization in order to promote uniform standards. Delegates of Societies had been invited; Ferenczi was Chairman. Eitingon introduced a number of important principles. Training was not to be left to the private initiative of individuals - instead the different countries should provide training institutes, and regulations for training in these institutes should be laid down authoritatively by the IPA. The training should include "instructional analysis" and the analysis of patients under supervision. Anyone who wished to practise psychoanalysis must have completed his training before becoming a member of the IPA. It was resolved that each Branch Society must elect a Training Committee of not more than seven members, and that these committees should combine to form an International Training Board (later renamed Commission - ITC). This Board would be the central organ of the IPA for all questions concerned with psychoanalytic training. Eitingon was appointed the first President of the Training Board.

In 1951, the Sigmund Freud Archives had been incorporated in the State of New York, Kurt Eissler being Secretary. Its purpose was to collect all material relating to the biography of Freud and to his scientific interests. For many years, reports on the Archives have been made to Congress by Eissler or his deputy, often recording very important donations of letters and other material.

At the Copenhagen Congress in 1967, note was taken of the completion of the Standard Edition of Freud's Psychological Works.

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At the Paris Congress in 1973 there was an immensely long debate on the Ritvo Report regarding training in child analysis and the status in the IPA of those who had received such training without full adult training. Finally, the Report was rejected by Congress, which meant there was no change in the status quo - only those satisfactorily trained in the analysis of adults were to be eligible for membership of the IPA. Anna Freud was created Honorary President, replacing Heinz Hartmann who had died in 1970. Miss Freud remained Honorary President from 1973 until her death in 1982.

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Born in 1910, the IPA has now reached full maturity and is more essentially international than ever before. with next year seeing the first psychoanalytic conference to be held in China which will explore psychoanalytic evolution and change within an Asian context.

Main Sources
http://www.ipa.org.uk/Public/

Video del centenario dell'IPA

Clicca per vedere un breve video nel quale vengono rivisti i primi 100 anni dell'IPA, con il commento di Leo Rangell.

Brevi video di introduzione alla psicoanalisi

L'Audiovisual Group of the Institute of Psychoanalysis di Londra (British Psycho-Analytical Society) ha prodotto con i fondi di una borsda di studio dell'IPA alcuni brevi films sulla psicoanalisi. Questi film sono disponibili nella seguente pagina web:

http://www.psychoanalysis.org.uk/audiovisual.htm

Il gruppo di lavoro è attualmente all'opera per produrre prodotto di maggiore durata che includono interviste ad analisti esperti. Tutti i film sono disponibili anche in DVD e possono essere acquistati colegandosi al seguente indirizzo:

http://www.beyondthecouch.org.uk/