EuropeanPsychoanalyticalFederation

24th Annual Conference

Anxietyand Methodin Psychoanalysis

Copenhagen14th – 17th April 2011

Tivoli Congress CenterArni Magnussonsgade 2-4DK – 1577 CopenhagenDenmark

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Anxietiy and Method in Psychoanalysis

Dear Colleagues,

the 24th EPF Annual Conference on 14th-17th April 2011 in Copenhagen is devoted to a subject that seems to be highly controversial even in the prospect: ‘Anxiety and Method in Psychoanalysis’.

The topic is initially provocative because when as psychoanalysts we consider the subject of anxi-ety we think of our patients’ anxieties that have to be analysed. Second, we may think of the aspects of anxiety that cause us serious problems in the context of psychoanalytic treatments in the transfe-rence and the counter-transference. The analysis of anxieties, worries and doubts in the counter trans-ference stands and falls with the analytic capacity to distinguish well enough between the transferred anxieties and our own. This is a skill or art that is not self-evident and represents a major challenge. We will address these phenomena for the Copenhagen conference from a theoretical and clinical perspec-tive.

As we approach this subject it becomes clear that many current clinical-theoretical questions can be considered from this viewpoint. The increasing neglect of psychoanalysis (loss of influence in the universities and insufficient allocation of research funding, as well as an apparently declining interest in high-frequency psychoanalytic treatments of pa-tients who could benefit from analysis, albeit with major differences between the various European countries and societies) is also having an impact on the methodological certainty and self-assurance of its representatives. Rationalisations, the introduc-tion of the reality to be respected and the influence exercised by third parties (e.g. health insurance, social institutions) increasingly play a greater role in establishing the indications for psychoanalytic treatments, as well as in the continuation of high-frequency treatments that are viewed in a socially critical or even hostile way. The psychoanalyst finds himself in a turbulent social environment in which he is no longer pioneering a strange new treatment me-thod but all too often finds himself in a defensive re-

arguard position in relation to many other so-called more modern and ‘more successful’ psychothera-peutic methods.

In 1967 a volume was published entitled ‘From Anxiety to Method in the Behavioural Sciences’. The author1 made a fundamental critique of the beha-vioural scientific methodology and put forward the hypothesis that the scientific investigation of the human being was ‘hindered by the anxiety-inducing overlap between object and observer’, which ulti-mately distorts the ‘perception and interpretation of data’. In summary, he formulates the thesis that ‘behavioural scientific data inspire anxieties that are defended against by a pseudo-methodology inspi-red by the counter transference. This manoeuvre is responsible for almost all the deficiencies in the be-havioural sciences’.

The question of the future of psychoanalysis is being fiercely debated everywhere among us today and it is beginning to assume a truly existential signi-ficance. Some colleagues now have hardly any pati-ents in high-frequency treatments, and the bounda-ries with psychotherapy are blurring and being influenced by external factors. It might appear that anxiety is circulating — anxiety and concern about the future of psychoanalysis. Several analysts are strenuously urging that we should build bridges with the mainstream or adopt current research strategies in the human sciences in order to end the exclusion and to gain greater influence, while others are afraid that essential psychoanalytic positions are being recklessly abandoned in the process. But both sides are stirring up the anxiety that psychoanalysis will only have a future in one or the other of the two out-comes. Should we not now be considering the sub-ject ‘From anxiety to method in psychoanalysis?’

All the current urgent psychoanalytic topics, such as research and research methods, the validation of the many psychoanalytic concepts and so-called public relations or public image are also part of the

1 Georges Devereux (* 13.08.1908 † 28.05.1985), born as György Dobó, in Lugos, the Hungarian Transylvania, was an psychoanalytical orientated Anthropologist and Ethno-Psychoanalyst.

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test bed of self-reflexive psychoanalytic work of in-terpretation and insight. This involves maintaining controversial positions, which is particularly difficult under conditions in which strong affects are present. We believe that the best means of doing this is to formulate the anxieties and concerns we feel as pre-cisely as possible because this is the only way we can achieve a position that genuinely furthers our psychoanalytic work whether in clinical practice or research.

This means that we have also to face our view-points about the different meanings of methods in psychoanalysis: for example nowadays the appli-cation of methods in psychoanalytical treatment is the result of researches where different clinical-theoreti cal paradigms are involved in a fruitful dia-logue through an essential and vital debate? Or, on the contrary, the use of methods is based on defen-sive “therapeutic” protocols which copy other sorts of medical protocols which have nothing to do with the “enigma” of the human being and his relationship with other human beings?

The main presentations and their discussants will address clinical and theoretical aspects of the analyst’s anxiety in the counter-transference, the way he deals with his anxieties towards the use and applications of methods in the dialogue with the psy-choanalytical community, and with other sciences and the external environments. And how we present ourselves in modern times to be attractive for those people we wish to engage in psychoanalysis.

We hope that the Copenhagen conference too will prove a forum of exchange and understanding where members and candidates meet in a climate of mutual respect thus promoting integration of the manifold European psychoanalytic landscapes as they all will be united in the plenary meetings with the main speakers: Giuseppe Scariati (Swiss Soc), Antonio Pérez-Sánchez (Spanish Soc), Erwin Kaiser (German Assoc), André Beetschen (French Assoc), Bjorn Salomonsson (Swedish Assoc), Savvas Sav-vopoulos (Hellenic Soc), Leopold Nosek (Sao Paulo Soc) and Marie-France Dispaux (Belgian Soc).

And there will be a series of special panels on re-search matters, which will include among other to-pics the possibility for discussions of the findings of our Working Parties (2001-2009). The basic literature for these panels are the written reports from the Wor-king Parties, which will appear in the supplementary volume of the EPF Bulletin No. 64 in Autumn 2010.

We warmly invite you all to Copenhagen!

Peter WegnerPresident

Ronny JaffèVice-President and Chair of theProgramme Committee

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Friday, April 15, 201108:00-10:30 First Plenary on the Main Theme (simultaneously translated) • Openingtheconference Peter Wegner (EPF President), Bent Rosenbaum (Danish Soc) • Anxietyandmethodinpsychoanalysis. The analysts anxiety in applying the psychoanalytical method Giuseppe Scariati (Swiss Soc), Antonio Pérez-Sánchez (Spanish Soc) as discussant Chair: Jean-Michel Porte (Paris Soc)

11:00-12:30 Parallel Panels on the Main Theme • Anxieties and interpretation across the age range (simultaneously translated) Florence Guignard (Paris Soc), Marta Badoni (Italian Soc) as discussant Chair: Dieter Bürgin (Swiss Soc) • The anxiety of the analyst in the first interview (Panel in English) Mette Moeller (Danish Soc), Jacqueline Amati-Mehler (Italian Assoc) as discussant Chair: Paola Marion (Italian Soc) • Nos appartenances risquent-elles de nous rendre sourds? Can our sense of belonging turn us deaf? (Panel in French and English) Steven Wainrib (Paris Soc), Frederico Pereira (Portuguese Soc) as discussant Chair: Claude Rayna (Paris Soc) • COWAPPanel–Reflectionsongenderandanxiety (Panel in English) Alexandra Billinghurst (Swedish Assoc), James Rose (British Soc), Elisabeth Skale (Vienna Soc) Chair: Frances Thomson Salo (Australian Soc / British Soc)

14:30-16:00 Parallel Panels on the Main Theme • Anxiety: „The importunate companion“ (simultaneously translated) Rosemary Davies (British Soc), Giovanna Ambrosio (Italian Assoc) as discussant Chair: Luis Martin Cabré (Madrid Assoc) • Analyst, patients and staff in the complex world of a pediatric hospital (Panel in English) Franco D’Alberton (Italian Soc), Maria Teresa Hooke (Australian Soc) as discussant Chair: Anders Zachrisson (Norwegian Soc) • Psychoanalysis in the shadow of terror. Dealing with anxiety in a period of crisis (Panel in English) Ilany Kogan (Israel Soc), Majlis Winberg Salomonsson (Swedish Assoc) as discussant Chair: Diana Norsa (Italian Assoc)

16:30-18:00 Individual Paper Presentations (for details please check the programme folder)

16:30-19:30 Film Presentation chaired by Andrea Sabbadini (British Soc)

18:30-20:00 Individual Paper Presentations (for details please check the programme folder)

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Saturday, April 16, 201109:00-10:30 Second Plenary on the Main Theme • Fromanxietytomethodinpsychoanalysis(simultaneously translated) Erwin Kaiser (German Assoc), André Beetschen (French Assoc) as discussant Chair: Elisabeth Skale (Vienna Soc)11:00-12:30 Special Panel on Research • Theanalyst’sresearchandthetherapeuticsetting (simultaneously translated) Antonino Ferro (Italian Soc), Joachim Küchenhoff (Swiss Soc), Ronny Jaffè (Italian Soc) as discussant. Chair: René Roussillon (Paris Soc)11:00-12:30 Parallel Panels on the Main Theme • Theanalyst’sstepchildren–Freud’sneglectedconcepts (Panel in English) Sylvia Zwettler-Otte (Vienna Soc), Susann Heenen-Wolff (Belgian Soc), Jordi Sala (Spanish Soc) Chair: Milagros Cid Sanz (Madrid Assoc) • Thelonelinessoftheanalyst(Panel in English) Roger Kennedy (British Soc), Igor Kadyrov (Moscow) as discussant Chair: Gudrun Bodin (Danish Soc)14:30-18:00 Special Panel on Research • WorkingPartiesPresentation (simultaneously translated) David Tuckett (British Soc), Eike Hinze (German Assoc), Mira Erlich-Ginor (Israel Soc), Leopoldo Bleger (French Assoc), Bernard Reith (Swiss Soc). As discussants: Domenico Chianese (Italian Soc), Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber (German Assoc), August Ruhs (Vienna Assoc), Manuela Utrilla Robles (Madrid Assoc) Chair: Dieter Bürgin (Swiss Soc)14:30-16:00 Parallel Panels on the Main Theme • Anxietiesaboutoursharedenvironment: Engagingwithclimatechangeaspsychicwork(Panel in English) Sally Weintrobe (British Soc), Johannes Lehtonen (Finnish Soc) as discussant Chair: Fotis Bobos (Hellenic Soc) • Children,adolescentsandadults (Panel in English) Daniela Lucarelli (Italian Soc). As discussants: Carmen Wenk-Reich (German Assoc), Teresa Olmos de Paz (Madrid Assoc), Adela Abella Garcia (Swiss Soc) Chair: Duveken Engels (Dutch Soc) • Riskswetakewhengoingnewwaysoftraining (Panel in English) Gábor Szönyi (Hungarian Soc), André Haynal (Swiss Soc) as discussant Chair: Sverre Varvin (Norwegian Soc)16:30-18:00 Special Panel • Goingapart–comingtogether Ontheprocessofunitingtwopsychoanalyticsocieties(Panel in English) Alexandra Billinghurst (Former President Swedish Assoc), Anneli Mark Orbinski (Former President Swedish Soc), Arne Jemstedt (President Swedish Assoc) Chair: Frances Thomson Salo (Australian Soc / British Soc)16:30-18:00 Individual Paper Presentations (for details please check the programme folder)18:30-20:00 Meet-the-Author Cosimo Schinaia (Italian Soc), Jacques André (French Assoc)

Sunday, April 17, 201109:30-13:00 Third Plenary on the Main Theme (simultaneously translated) • Anxietiesincountertransference Björn Salomonsson (Swedish Assoc), Savvas Savvopoulos (Hellenic Soc) as discussant Chair: Leena Klockars (Finnish Soc) • Anxietyandallegoricrepresentation Leopold Nosek (Sao Paulo Soc), Marie-France Dispaux (Belgian Soc) as discussant Chair: Peter Wegner (German Assoc)

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This section of the conference is intended to allow members of the EPF component societies (includ-ing candidates) to become more involved with the EPF scientific work and to submit their ongoing clini-cal work and research for peer discussion and de-bate. It is also possible for smaller groups to submit

their work. The evaluation of previous conferences showed that these sessions were highly appreciated by the presenters as well as the participants. Sub-mitted papers will be selected by the Programme Committee.

Individual PapersFriday afternoon, Saturday afternoon

If you are interested in presenting please see www.epf-fep.eu for application form and instructions on submitting your work. Submitted papers should be no more than 8-12 pages / maximum 21600 letters. Deadline for submission: 15th November 2010. Enquiries to geber@t-online.de

A number of pre-registered workshops and dis-cussions on various themes have been described in this leaflet and more details can be seen regularly updated on the EPF website. Those registering on-line will have the opportunity to select one or more groups during the registration process. Those who

register by post or fax should mark their choices on the registration form.

You can select one option for each day that you will be at the conference. If you wish to take part it is essential that you apply within the deadline given in the registration form.

PLEASEREMEMBERYOUCANONLYSELECTONEOPTIONPERDAY.

Howtoparticipateinasmallgroupworkshop?

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WorkingPartyonComparativeClinicalMethods(WPCCM)Wednesday afternoon / Thursday all day

The WPCCM aims, rigorously, to try to compare how different psychoanalysts work making the as-sumption that those who accept the invitations to present are doing “real” psychoanalysis. It has de-veloped a new kind of clinical discussion aiming to help psychoanalysts understand their way of working and how it compares with other ways of doing psychoanalysis: from the two-step method de scribed in our book Psychoanalysis Comparable and Incomparable, the method has been developed regularly. The project enters now into a new phase in Copenhagen: with the same method, we will dis-cover the metapsychological concepts used by the presenter in such different fields as drives, defenses, affects, etc..

An experienced colleague will present. The task is to determine the specific method of doing psycho-analysis adopted by the presenter. The method of discussion involves a degree of formality and focus, which, perhaps surprisingly, has turned out to allow a much deeper psychoanalytic reflection. In the groups the presentation and preliminary clinical dis-cussion take about one hour. Three hours are then devoted to step 1, when the group will try to look at each “intervention” the presenter made in depth to try to decide what it seems to have been inten-ded to achieve and what implicit and explicit ideas about psychoanalytic work lie behind it. Another three hours will be devoted to step 2, finding what are the metapsychological concepts probably used by the presenter. Finally, an overall picture of how an analyst works based on these components will be described, including his theory on what creates the analytic situation and how this situation brings some change for this patient.

The CCM method is now being adopted in groups in meetings around the world. It usually works pro-perly and when it does is very different. It is part of a wider project within the EPF and IPA to explore and learn from clinical differences so that we can better define the essence of the psychoanalytic method. Those who attend will have the opportunity to be part of the wider project on subsequent occasions.

In Copenhagen there will be up to six groups of about twelve people using the method. Each group will be made up of colleagues from different Euro-pean societies. (All groups will work so that non-En-glish mother tongue speakers are helped to express themselves. At least one will use French – if there is sufficient demand. Please indicate if you can use French because this group only works if it includes people who speak French from a wide range of ori-entations). Groups will start meeting at 16.00h (pre-cisely!) on Wednesday and finish at 20.00h. They will then continue all day until 18.30h on Thursday with breaks for lunch and coffee. The time allows a more in-depth experience.

These workshops have been oversubscribed eve-ry year. Priority will be given to past participants but also to new participants applying before Christmas.Moderators will be from among the fol-lowing: Olivier Bonard, Dana Birksted-Breen, Micha-el Diercks, Nino Ferro, Marc Hebbrecht, Mary Heller, Eike Hinze, Angela Mauss-Hanke and David Tuckett.

Please Note: Groups begin on WEDNESDAY 13th of April at 16.00h. This allows participation in many other conference events, including other working parties. Those wishing to take part should attend all sessions of their group. Please be sure to state the languages you can speak on the application form.

Presenters requested:If you are an experienced psychoanalytic clinician (10 years in practice) and would like to present some of your ordinary work within one of these groups please email obonard@gmail.com as soon as possible.

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Asareminderthearticlessomeoftheparticipantshavereadbefore(writtenbyHaydéeFaimberg)are:‘Listening to listening’, Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 77: 667-677;‘Misunderstanding and psychic truths’, Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 78: 439-451.Both papers are reprinted as Chapters 7 and 8 in Haydée Faimberg The Telescoping of Generations:Listening to the Narcissistic Links between Generations, London and New York, Routledge 2005.

While attempting to develop new ways to ap-proach our discussion on clinical issues, it seems inevitable that at the same time we keep in mind as psychoanalysts our constructs (we cannot not have a theory). It would be an illusion to imagine that we fully understand the basic assumptions of the pre-senter (underlying his particular way of working) by translating into our own psychoanalytical language what the presenter is trying to convey. Each ana-lyst/translator has his own basic assumptions with which he translates. We shall go on with the task of co-creating a language to discuss differences and understand the presenter’s work. More often than we think clinical material is heard from one chosen implicit basic assumption (recognised or not).

It is part of our goals to train ourselves in liste-ning not only to recognise the presenter’s clinical assumptions but also to recognise our assumptions as well. We shall try to understand from which theo-ry we are listening to the presenter as well as trying to understand from which theory the presenter is listening to his patient and interpreting or not inter-preting. We explore the impact that the theoretical assumptions of each participant have on the discus-sion itself.

In this kind of dialogue we would be using the function of ‘listening to listening’ which had initially been limited to the psychoanalytical listening in the session. That is, to listen to how each intervention

in the discussion of the group is heard by the others in a particular context of the discussion. From the gap existing between what the participant thought he was saying and how he was heard we begin to co-create a language to understand the psychoana-lytical complexity of each issue. By „listening to how each participant listens to each other“, the sources of misunderstanding may appear and so we begin to recognise the basic assumptions of each participant. Thus, listening to misunderstanding is a valuable tool to discover different implicit basic assumptions.

The analyst presents the sessions, divided in se-quences, which allows that in each sequence the group can discuss in the position of not-knowing what would happen afterwards - which was the ori-ginal position of the presenter as an analyst. This way of presenting and discussing material has be-come our shared style in this Forum.

We take time (one day and a half) to reflect on ways of understanding the articulation between modes of working and underlying basic assumptions. It is im-portant to share the whole time exchange.

The moderators are: Nicole Carels and Stefan Balint, Antoine Corel, Laura Ambrosiano and Dieter Bürgin, Michael Sebek.

ForumonClinicalIssues(FCI)Wednesday afternoon / Thursday all day or Thursday all day/Friday afternoon

Because we are every year overbooked we recommend to those who are interested in this activity to ask to participate by e-mail to the chair Haydee Faimberg: h.faimberg@orange.fr if possible not later than beginning of November 2010. Participants of the last year have priority. Please write a short presentation and indicate the languages you understand and speak. We have a group on Wednesday from 17.00h up to 20.00h, which continues on Thursday from 09.00h up to 18.00h (English speaking) and other groups (English or French speaking) on Thursday from 09.00h up to 18.00h, which continues on Friday from 14.30h up to 18.00h. For reasons of methodology in the discussion participants should engage to be present the whole time.

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The WPSPTT offers two interconnected aspects:• It is a standing research group integrated into the

research programme of the EPF;• It propounds a special way of working in small

clinical groups. The clinical exchanges, in parti-cular on an international basis, form an important and fruitful experience in psychoanalysis today.

As a research group, it aims at defining and wor-king through the principal parameters at work in psychoanalytic treatment as it is practiced today in its diverse theories and practices. Treatment is un-derstood in its double meaning of therapeutic mo-dality and transformation of unconscious material. The ‘result’ of the analytic process is then assessed in the characteristics of psychic productivity. Treat-ment also includes a reflection on the character and modalities of oral and written analytic narration.

Contrary to other kinds of research activity, the methodology does not precede its application but arises and will arise gradually out of the practice of group work on material consisting of analytic sessi-ons. It is a matter of research in action. The method is thus conceived as ‘the possibility of reconstituting the path along which one has travelled without ha-ving had a clear consciousness of it’ (Lalande).

The small clinical groups are made up of 12 to 15 analysts from different analytic cultures working for a day on the same clinical material. The method of the working party we apply was inspired, with some variation, by that of J. Norman and B. Salomonsson, and also that of Jean-Luc Donnet. This method de-pends on an analogy between the analytic session

and its narrative in a group reacting to the listening and diffracting the analyst’s countertransference as well as the unrecognised aspects of the patient’s transference. The presenter relates no more than necessary of the session content (speech, affects, and actions) without giving any indication concer-ning biography, the history of the analysis or the set-ting. He then remains silent without responding to the questions raised by the group. The fundamental rule of the group is to associate freely on the ma-terial. The group thus ‘constructs’ the patient, each participant using his explicit and implicit theoretical references. The divide between theory and practice (Jean-Luc Donnet) thus becomes reality and makes its exploration possible.

The presenter then takes up his place in the dis-cussion and lends his thoughts and feelings to the group work. This step enables the group to assess après-coup the constructions worked through dur-ing the preceding step.

In Copenhagen there will be up to 5 groups in-cluding 1 or 2 French speaking groups. Moderators will be: Jan Abram, Leo Bleger, Stefano Bolognini, Catherine Desvignes, Bien Filet, Serge Frisch, Luc Michel, Nicole Minazio, Evelyne Sechaud, Philippe Valon, Eva Weil.

Please note that the groups will take place on Thursday 09.00h to 18.30h, one group will begin already Wednesday afternoon. And there will be a plenary session. Those wishing to take part should attend all sessions of their group.

Those wishing to participate in one of these groups should write soonest to geber-reusch@t-online.de and sfrisch@pt.lu.

WorkingPartyontheSpecificityofPsychoanalyticTreatmentToday(WPSPTT)

Wednesday afternoon/Thursday all day or only Thursday all day

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FreeClinicalGroups(FG)Thursday afternoon

Our experience with the new clinical groups at last year’s annual conference of the EPF in London was so rewarding and the feedback was so positive that we decided to offer these clinical groups again in Copenhagen.

The method we will use again is based on an idea of Wolfgang Loch’s, who has characterized the dis-cussion of clinical material in groups by comparing it to the model of the prism effect: Like the light beam that, when funnelled through a prism, will reveal he-retofore invisible parts and make them transparent, the group discussions will reveal thus far unmenti-oned and unconscious components of the patient and make him appear in his various parts and dif-ferent nuances. This process is not aimed at a di-mension of ‘right or wrong’ but at a more complete picture of the patient. In its core, the psychoanaly-tic method as a discourse oriented method, which aims at the mutual understanding between subjects, is particularly well suited to facilitate an understan-ding between different participants, psychoanalytic schools and traditions. Furthermore, this method avoids making supervision, in the strict sense, the main intent because the group is not only interested in a psychoanalytic process of understanding but also in arriving at possible interpretations.

The initial presentation of the material ends at a point just before the first intervention or interpre-tation has been made. Only when the group itself has arrived at one or more possible interpretations, will the presenter present the rest of the session. Infor mation about diagnosis, patient biography, the process, number of previous treatment hours and frequency of treatment will not be provided until the presented session has been discussed in its enti-rety.

Initial evaluation of the clinical material and of the ensuing group discussions in London has raised extremely interesting questions, and our plan is to continue to evaluate and to refine these; this is work which will occupy us for quite some time. The long term goal is to come up with process oriented, es-sentially psychoanalytic criteria for the indication of psychoanalyses in different settings.

The independent clinical groups (FG) in Copenha-gen will again consist of a moderator, a presenter, a reporter and a maximum of 15 participants. The clinical material may be chosen from psychoanalytic treatments in a variety of settings (one, two, three, four or five times a week). The participants ought to come from differential European societies. Hence a timely registration to participate in the groups is obli-gatory, otherwise a beneficial mix of groups (different countries and/or societies) may not be maintained. The groups are taking place on Thursday, 14th of April at 14.30h – 16.30h and 17.00h – 18.30h, before the welcoming reception of the conference. Eligible to participate are all colleagues registered for the conference, including training analysts, members and candidates. Due to multiple requests, in Copen-hagen we will offer groups in German, English and French. The following colleagues will act as mode-rators: Milagros Cid Sanz/Madrid (French), Joachim F. Danckwardt/Tuebingen (German), Eva Schmid-Gloor/Zurich (English), Jonathan Sklar/London (En-glish), Claudia Thussbas/Berlin (English) and Peter Wegner/Tuebingen (English).

Those wishing to participate in one of these groups should write soonest to geber-reusch@t-online.de (no later than 31.01.2011).

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WorkingPartyonInitiatingPsychoanalysis(WPIP)Friday afternoon

Understandinghowanalystscreateaspecificallypsychoanalytic opportunity in preliminary inter-views

The Working Party on Initiating Psychoanalysis (WPIP) has a broad remit to explore ways to improve referrals for full psychoanalysis. One central task is to share and develop our skills for beginning psycho-analytic treatment, and in particular for conveying to an unprepared patient the specific opportunity of-fered by the experience of psychoanalysis.

Small group clinical workshops in the Vilamoura, Athens and Barcelona conferences have helped the WPIP to study how psychoanalysts do preliminary interviews that lead to full psychoanalysis. Beginning with the Vienna conference, this has been extended to include the study of preliminary interviews that did not lead to psychoanalysis, leading for example to psychotherapy or to no treatment at all, in order to investigate what patterns might differentiate this kind of preliminary consultations from ones that lead to analysis. The workshops began by working blind to the results of each interview, to see whether or not they can predict its outcome. This procedure, with a new set of questions, worked very well at the Brus-sels and London conferences in 2009 and 2010.

Four such workshops will again be held in Copen-hagen. In each there will be a presentation of an initial consultation or series of consultations, follo-wed by an exploration of their dynamics and what the group thinks the likely outcome will be. This will involve general clinical discussion as well as a more focused exploration to look for specific patterns, using an improved discussion method based on ac-cumulated experience. The groups will be limited to about 15 people working together for two extended sessions. Three workshops will be in English and one in French. Participants receive more detailed in-formation about methods and procedures before the workshops. A plenary session at the end of the day will be devoted to comparing workshop experiences and findings.

WPIP team members are:Bernard Reith, Chair (Swiss Soc)John Boots (Australian Soc)Penelope Crick (British Soc)Alain Gibeault (Paris Soc)Ronny Jaffè (Italian Soc)Sven Lagerlöf (Swedish Assoc)Mette Moeller (Danish Soc)Elisabeth Skale (Vienna Soc)Rudi Vermote (Belgian Soc)Peter Wegner (German Assoc)

N.B.: These workshops are open to members and candidates of IPA societies and study groups on advance registration. As they do not function if they are too big, we are obliged to limit the number of seats. Since they are much in demand and generally oversubscribed, it is important that those who register for them really intend to participate.

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Forum for the Psychoanalysis of ChildrenThursday, Friday, Saturday

On Thursday the Forum will host our customary full day pre-conference. Presentations of psychoa-nalytic work with children in small groups will focus on the detailed clinical material which will bring us deeper into the psychoanalytic process. The dis-cussions will be facilitated by moderators who work according to the ‘weaving thoughts’ method, which has been used during previous pre-conferences and has proved to be extremely successful and in-spiring. (For those who are unfamiliar with this you may read about it in: “Weaving thoughts: A method for presenting and commenting psychoanalytic case material in a peer group”, Johan Norman and Bjorn Salomonsson, 2005, Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 86: 1281-1298.)

There will be four parallel groups depending on numbers of participants, accommodating seve-ral different languages. If any colleague wishes to present case material from adult work within the framework of the weaving thoughts method, you are welcome to do so. Those who are thinking they would like to present clinical material at the Thurs-day pre-conference should contact Jean-Louis Fouassier jean-louis.fouassier@wanadoo.fr andDanielle Goldstein goldsteindanielle@free.fr as soon as possible as it is helpful for the organizers to know this in advance.

On Friday, the programme continues with a Work-shop on Psychoanalytic work with Infants and Pa-rents. This is an innovative application of psychoa-nalysis and has proved very popular with the partici-pants over the 8 years it has run.

On Friday in the afternoon there will be a Work-shop on Child Psychoanalysis with a presenta tion and discussion of a clinical paper linked to the theme of the main conference. Details of the presen-ters for both of these items in our programme will be available later.

We warmly welcome to the Thursday pre-confe-rence and the Friday conference programme, both those colleagues who work with children in analysis and therapy, and any other colleague who finds our programme interesting. On behalf of the Forum, we look forward to seeing you in Copenhagen.

Elena Fieschi: EFIESCHI@terra.es, chair of the Fo-rum for the Psychoanalysis of Children

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Forum for the Psychoanalysis of AdolescentsThursday, Friday, Saturday

Those analysts who work with adolescents are fa-miliar with the impact aroused by the encounter with our young patients’ pathologies: massive school fai-lures, self-harming behaviours, eating disorders, ad-dictions, suicidal attempts, and other expressions of their need to attack their own bodies and potential for growth. The reactivation of archaic and Oedipal conflicts provoke in them intense anxieties, and their inability to contain incestuous and parricidal fanta-sies may lead to acting out as the preferred mode of dealing with them. Attacks on the setting are very common, and sometimes the use of projective identification in order to evacuate intolerable anxi-ety or pain may activate an intense countertransfe-rence response making it difficult for the analyst to think and process these projections, which may be expressed through their bodies, and have a bodily impact on the analyst, needing to be decodified and understood.

Our work, and even our identity as analysts, are called into question by this kind of work. It is known that for a long time the widely held view was that adolescents were not amenable to psycho-analytic treatment, and various forms of psycho-therapeutic intervention were seen as more adequate.

The analysts’ own experience of adolescence, and the way adolescent anxieties have been dealt with in their own analyses, are of tantamount importance when dealing with severely disturbed adolescent patients, something which Lampl de Groot, Laufer, Ladame, and other authors, stressed.

Group or individual supervision is also necessary when dealing with severely disturbed adolescents, as a help to contain and elaborate the anxieties the analyst has to experience as part of the work.

Familiarity with the specificity of adolescent pa-thology helps to understand behaviours, which in other stages of life are expression of serious pa-thology, under a different light. This also affects our technique and questions the quality and timing of interpretations, the use of the transference, and the pertinence of seeing the parents, in ways which may challenge the classical analytical method. These are some of the issues that shall be discussed in the Forum.

The Forum on Adolescence will include three working modules. Participants are required to file a separate request for each module. The first one will take place on Thursday afternoon and will con-tinue on Friday. Clinical groups starting on Thurs-day morning and continuing the following days will be organized. One will be dedicated to first contact and consultation in adolescence. A second clinical group will discuss the issue of psychoanalytic tech-nique with adolescents.

Persons willing to present a clinical case, in En-glish or French, are invited to write to Anna Nicolò (anna.nicolo@tin.it), as are those persons interested in taking part in any of the clinical groups. All mee-tings will focus on a clinical presentation, followed by a discussion from the floor.

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The panel will focus on the topic of the anxiety in outreach, especially with regard to psychoanalysis at the University: i. e. anxieties in transmitting and spreading psychoanalysis within academia; anxie-ties in choosing the topics and methodologies of research; anxieties in relating to the national and lo-cal societies and so on. The presenters will address this topic starting with their local experiences and will go on to draw a more general picture. This ge-neral overview can be compared and substantiated with the results of a European empirical study con-ducted by Shmuel Erlich and co-workers since 2003. Shmuel Erlich, who chaired the EPF Working Party on Interface, investigated the anxiety of psychoana-

lysts vis-à-vis the University as a part of paramount importance among other specific areas of interface. The panel will finally conclude asking an important question: What are we doing as psychoanalysts at the University in the field of outreach for making ourselves visible and known as well as for recruiting new candidates?

Chair: Franco Borgogno (Italian Soc)Presenters:Dominique Cupa (Paris Soc),Shmuel Erlich (Israel Soc),Patrizia Giampieri-Deutsch (Vienna Soc)

As part of the EPF conference, the IPSO pro-gramme provides an important opportunity for in-tercultural dialogue between candidates in an incre-asingly pluralistic European psychoanalytic lands-cape. The 2011 IPSO programme has the following itinerary:

Two forums relating to clinical questions, led by Haydée Faimberg, open to members and can-didates; one forum in English, the other forum in French. Haydée Faimberg (Paris Soc) will present her method “Listening to listening” on Wednesday, 13 April 2011. Case presentations by Timea Kardos (Hungarian Soc) in English in the morning, and by Fabienne Fillion (Paris Soc) in French in the after-noon. Prior registration necessary; participation only on confirmation.

Opening event on Thursday afternoon, 14 April 2011, with information presented by our Danish hosts. Followed by plenary event where the Danish IPSO representative, Britta Lundsgard, will present for discussion her ideas regarding the conference theme in a paper with the working title: ‘Anxiety, identity and loss’.

There will be supervisions with training analysts from different countries, among others: Mette Moeller (Danish Soc), Maria Teresa Savio Hooke (Australian Soc) and Bjorn Salomonsson (Swedish Assoc), who will familiarize us with his method of “weaving thoughts”. Case presentations by, among others, Joey Stam (Dutch Assoc) and Iva Ondracko-va (Czech Soc).

In addition, as part of the IPSO tradition, there will be a social dinner on Friday evening, 15 April 2011, for people to meet and talk about training require-ments and the different psychoanalytic traditions and cultures. We cordially invite all candidates to participate in our IPSO programme.

Eva Reichelt (IPSO Vice President for Europe), Holger Himmighoffen (IPSO Vice President-elect for Europe), Luisa Marino (IPSO President)

“PsychoanalysisandUniversity”PanelAnxieties in Mutual Exchange

IPSO

AdHocGroups,Forums,EventsandOpenMeetingThursday, Friday, Saturday

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The idea is to study this original Freud text in detail and to pay attention to the translations especially into English, but also into French, Italian and Spa-nish. By grasping the original meanings of words, but also appreciating the enrichments which might appear in other languages it might be possible to re-cognize hidden difficulties and new developments.

‘Wild’ Psycho-Analysis seems to be relevant for the theme of our conference: “Anxieties and Method in Psychoanalysis”. The paper is dealing with scientific and technical errors, due to a misunderstanding of the psychoanalytic concepts and to other ‘conveni-ent misapprehensions’ (S.E. XI, 226).

A film presentation is scheduled for Friday late afternoon. After a short introduction by Andrea Sab-badini (British Soc) a recent Danish film will be pre-sented followed by a discussion with its director.

The Ad Hoc Group on Ethics will have again a workshop in Copenhagen. The topic will be The Psy-choanalytic Setting and Ethics. We will continue the discussions which we started in EPF London Confe-rence about how setting and ethics go together and influence each other.

In many psychoanalytic institutes we observe a great amount of anxiety whether psychoanalysis will have a chance to survive. There is a dramatic decline of candidates, and psychoanalysts are of-ten not being acknowledged and respected despite their broad clinical competence. How can we gain more candidates and how can we find ways to sup-port psychoanalysis in our culture and society? To meet these challenges the IPA Outreach Committee has the task to find ways to make the psychoanalytic method understandable and attractive for the public without hurting its intimacy.

Some dimensions of psychoanalyts´ anxieties when they present themselves in the public will be outlined by two members of the committee and ou-treach initiatives from various European countries will be discussed.

Presenter:Paola Marion (Italian Soc), Serge Frisch (Belgian Soc), Outreach-Speakers from different countriesModeration:Franziska Henningsen (German Assoc)IPA Outreach-Committee in Europe:Franziska Henningsen (chair), Milagros Cid Sanz, Serge Frisch, Paola Marion, Stefanie Wilke, Franziska Ylander

Forum on Psychoanalysis and LanguageConsiderationsonFreud’sOriginalText:Über>wilde<Psychoanalyse,G.W.,Bd.8,118-125

(‘Wild’Psycho-Analysis,S.E.XI219-227)

Film Presentation AdHocGrouponEthics

AdHocGroups,Forums,EventsandOpenMeetingThursday, Friday, Saturday

OutreachinEuropeThe Anxiety to be seen and not to be seen

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Registeronlineatwww.epf-fep.eu

Information and an online conference timetable can be found at

www.epf-fep.eu

For registrations, hotels, transfer, and Saturday evening options please contact Geber + Reusch at geber-reusch@t-online.de.

Return the registration form to:

Congress-OrganisationGeber+Reusch

Habichtsweg 11D-60437Frankfurt/MainTel+49(0)69-505239Fax+49(0)69-90508884geber-reusch@t-online.de

Information and contact details

Registration fees before 28.02.2011 from 01.03.2011

Members of EPF-Societies/all IPA members

3.500,- DKK 4.200,- DKK

Participating Guests 4.000,- DKK 4.400,- DKK

Candidates 2.200,- DKK 3.200,- DKK

Members of EPF-Societies in Eastern Europeand individuals affiliated to the Han-Groen-Prakken-Psychoanalytic Institute

1.780,- DKK 2.300,- DKK

PleasenotethatallpricesarementionedinDanishCrown(DanishKroner)–thisisimportantforyourpayment.

What is included in the registration fee?• Participation in the scientific meetings. Note: some groups require pre-registration.• Welcome reception: On Thursday 14th April participants are invited to a welcome

reception. Drinks and light refreshments will be served.• Farewell cocktail: On Sunday 17th April drinks will be served at the Tivoli Congress Center

to mark the close of the conference.• Refreshments during the coffee breaks• Other social events

Certification (professional development points) has been applied for.Details to follow on the EPF website at www.epf-fep.eu

Registration information

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Ronny Jaffè (Italian Soc) - ChairFlorence Guignard (Paris Soc)Roger Kennedy (British Soc)Mette Moeller (Danish Soc)

Majlis Winberg Salomonsson (Swedish Assoc)Elisabeth Skale (Vienna Soc)

The EPF Programme Committee for the Copenhagen Conference 2011

From Copenhagen AirportYou can take the train direct from Copenhagen

Airport Terminal 3 on track 2 to Copenhagen. Get off at Copenhagen Central Station and walk to the ho-tels/Tivoli Congress Center, which is within 8-10 mi-nutes walking distance. You can get a train on tracks 11 and 12 at Central Station that will take you to Dyb-bølsbro Station. You can also take the no. 30 bus from Central Station to Fisketorvet Shopping Cen-ter. Tickets from the airport to Copenhagen Central Station are also valid on the bus, metro and S-train. Taking a taxi from the airport will cost approx. DKK 280. All taxis are metered and accept DanCard as well as major international credit cards.

FromtheOsloboatTake the S-train from Østerport Station and get off

at Dybbølsbro Station. The hotels/Tivoli Congress Center is located 5 minutes walk from the station.

Transport

Travel Insurance

Congress-Organisation Geber+Reusch offers a travel insurance. For further information please contact Congress-Organisation Geber+Reusch.

For the first time there will be two optional events for Saturday evening:

An evening with “Madame Butterfly” at the Opera at Holmen, Ekvipagemestervej 10: To start the eve-ning a guide from The Royal Theatre, the Opera, will give an introduction to “Madame Butterfly” (opera by Giacomo Puccini) – followed by a small dinner (5 tapas dishes incl. ½ bottle of red/white wine). The dinner will be at the Banquet at the 4th floor in the fo-yer of the Opera with a spectatular view over Copen-hagen. “Madame Butterfly” will start at 20.00h. Geber+Reusch offer tickets in various price ranges.

Or

For all others we are busy arranging a dinner in a splendid restaurant in Copenhagen. Up to now the details are not ready to be printed yet. Please mark in the registration form that you are interested and we will mail the details at a later date.

Please note that you have to make a bindingchoice–eitheroperaorrestaurant.

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On the occasion of the annual meeting of the EPF Geber+Reusch has managed to reserve an allotment in the two brand new hotels right next to the Tivoli Congress-Center.

WakeUpCopenhagen,CarstenNiebuhrsGade11The **hotel is situated right next to the Tivoli Con-

gress Center and offers cool and modern design in modest-sized rooms from 12-15sq. with toilet and shower, air condition and flatscreen TV. The hotel which is totally non smoking offers allergy friendly rooms with wooden floors. Guests can choose bet-ween STANDARD, rooms on the lower floors, and SKY, rooms on the middle floors.

TivoliHotel,ArniMagnussonsGade2****Tivoli Hotel is part of Tivoli Congress Center

and is therefore perfect for overnight stays during conferences. With its array of luxurious facilities, Ti-voli Hotel offers guests the chance to relax after a meeting, get together with business associates in the 12th-floor Skybar, with its amazing view of the city and across to Sweden. Tivoli Hotel is centrally located in downtown Copenhagen within walking distance to Tivoli Gardens and City Hall Square. Ti-voli Hotel is also a proud holder of the Green Key eco-label certification. The rooms offer aircondition, toilet and shower/bath, hairdryer, minibar, free wire-less Internet.

Hotel Accommodation

Tivoli Congress Center with WakeUp Copenhagen and Tivoli Hotel

Who, if I cried, would hear me among the

angelic orders?

And even if one of them suddenly

pressed me against his heart, I should fade in the strength

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4.12.1875 - 29.12.1926From the (First) Duino Elegies (1912/22)

Translated by J.B. Leishman