The EFPP European Federation for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and the Hellenic Society of Group Analysis and Family Therapy
Psychoanalytic Group Psychotherapy Section and Psychoanalytic Couple & Family Therapy Section Conference.
24 - 27 May 2012, Athens, Greece
Conflict and Reconciliation in Groups, Couples, Families & Society
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For the last 14 years the Syros Summer Workshop on Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Studies has become a living tradition. The Workshop, which takes place every other year in the neoclassical building of the Hermoupolis Town-Hall in the Cycladic island of Syros, is organised by the Hellenic Association of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy under the auspices of EFPP. From the first Workshop, back in May 1998, EFPP and IPA members from all over Europe have been joining this event in this sunny and picturesque Greek island of the Aegean Sea.

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The 2011 Delegates Meeting has elected Anne-Marie Schloesser as chair of the EFPP. She addresses all EFPP member networks and their delegates:

"I am honoured to take over as the fifth Chair of the EFPP  in its 21st year. First I want to express our grateful thanks to our recent past Chair Luc Moyson for not only his four years in the Chair but for his many years of work for the EFPP. He was amongst the founding generation of the EFPP. Thanks to Luc and  to our three other past chairs Siv Boalt, Serge Frisch and Brian Martindale, the EFPP is coming of age. Now not only entering our 21st year, we are in the 21st century as well and we have to adapt to many things that are new; new technology, new forms of communication,  but above all to a new economic and political climate for psychoanalytical psychotherapy. I will make it my mission together with my colleagues on the Executive committee and with the support of our delegates, that the EFPP is ready to meet the challenges for psychoanalytic psychotherapy now. Together we will build a secure platform for the continuing development of psychoanalytic psychotherapy in Europe."

Anne-Marie Schloesser' s profile...

Psychodynamic psychotherapy for children and adolescents: a critical review of the evidence base

Psychodynamic psychotherapy for children and adolescents: a critical review of the evidence base

by Nick Midgley (EFPP research coordinator) & Eilis Kennedy

For many years psychoanalytic and psychodynamic therapies have been considered to lack a credible evidence-base and have consistently failed to appear in lists of 'empirically supported treatments'. This study systematically reviews the research evaluating the efficacy and effectiveness of psychodynamic psychotherapy for children and young people. The researchers identified 34 separate studies that met criteria for inclusion, including nine randomised controlled trials. While many of the studies reported are limited by sample size and lack of control groups, the review indicates that there is increasing evidence to suggest the effectiveness of psychoanalytic psychotherapy for children and adolescents. The article aims to provide as complete a picture as possible of the existing evidence base, thereby enabling more refined questions to be asked regarding the nature of the current evidence and gaps requiring further exploration.

1st combined conference, organised by EFPP adult section and EFPP child & adolescent section.
14 - 16 october, 2011, Krakow, Poland
Siblings. Rivalry and Envy - Coexistence and Concern.
Main Speakers: Angela Joyce (United Kingdom), Jeanne Magagna (United Kingdom), Franz Wellendorf (Germany)

The Conference Centre of Krakow Medical School, Centrum Dydaktyczno-Konferencyjne UJ, was an outstanding venue for the conference. The conference was attended by almost 400 participants from all over Europe, the Ukraine and Russia in the East, from Portugal and Ireland in the West, from Scandinavia in the North, from Greece, Italy, and Spain in the South and all the countries in between. This broad participation from all over Europe signed the very profound experience of being siblings from across Europe working together. Read more...

Delegates Meeting 2011
in Kortenberg, Belgium

The biannual Delegates Meeting was held in Kortenberg, Belgium, 11-12 March, 2011. 90 delegates from 25 countries met in the University Psychiatric Center Sint-Jozef to discuss and plan the future activities of the EFPP.

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by Marie-Ange Widdershoven, and Effie Layiou-Lignos.

The 7th Syros Workshop of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Studies 4th, 5th and 6th June 2010

by Marie-Ange Widdershoven, EFPP Child and Adolescent Section delegate (Greece) and Effie Layiou-Lignos, Workshop organizer

The workshop, organized by John Tsiantis, MD, DPM, FRC Psych and Effie Layiou-Lignos M.Psych.Psych of the Hellenic Association of Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, is the 7th Workshop in a 12-year tradition of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Studies held in the 19th century neoclassical building of the Town Hall of Hermoupolis, the capital of Syros Island in the Cyclades. read more...

by
Athena Chatjoulis,
Anne-Marie Schlösser, and Gila Ofer

The Second Summer School in Kazakhstan «Theory and Technique of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy»

ВТОРАЯ ЛЕТНЯЯ ШКОЛА ПСИХОАНАЛИЗА В КАЗАХСТАНЕ
ТЕОРИЯ И ТЕХНИКА ПСИХОАНАЛИТИЧЕСКОЙ ПСИХОТЕРАПИИ

by Athena Chatjoulis, Anne-Marie Schlösser, and Gila Ofer

Finishing our Kazakhstan summer school experience, all of us agreed that it was an interesting, fruitful but also peculiar experience, both in terms of the group of the participants and of the place. Anne-Marie Schlösser was the coordinator of  the project for the EFPP with Gila Ofer, Athena Chatjoulis, and Gabriela Mann as fellow teachers. We will start from the place, since the place and the people who had invited us has constituted the frame of our work. read more...

New volume of EFPP Book Series

Assessing Change in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Children and Adolescents. Today's Challenge

Assessing Change in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Children and Adolescents. Today's Challenge. Edited by John Tsiantis and Judith Trowell. Karnac, London, 2010.

This book draws together work from across Europe by leading clinical researchers who have been looking into the effectiveness of psychoanalytic interventions. They are mostly time limited, brief, non-intensive ways of working so are applicable in many settings and can therefore be generalised to other clinical teams. The populations worked with are diverse and often present mainstream services with refractory clinical problems, so an applied psychoanalytic approach is well worth trying given the evidence presented in this volume.

There is in addition an excellent theoretical chapter on the issues for such clinical research from Stephen Shirk which merits consideration by those wanting to evaluate their own work.

This book has had a long gestation but it is an important contribution to services for child and adolescent mental health services to ensure the full menu of interventions is retained in these times of financial restraint with increasing family distress and concerns about inadequate parenting, family breakdown and troublesome adolescents.

New volume of EFPP Book Series

Play and Power

Play and Power. Edited by Karen Vibeke Mortensen and Liselotte Grünbaum. Karnac, London, 2010.

The power of play, so central to psychoanalytic theory and practice, is conjoined to the social psychological or socio-politically coloured concept of power, giving rise to many fruitful discussions of how these concepts manifest themselves in clinical work with children, groups and adults.

The inspiration for this book was the 3-section EFPP conference in Copenhagen in May 2007 with the main theme "Play and Power". At the conference and in the book, this theme is presented both inside and outside the therapeutic space. It is amply illustrated in clinical cases from individual psychotherapies with children and adults and from group analysis. Most of the examples are with hateful or resigned children and adults who have been exposed to extremely damaging or unhelpful environments, and who demonstrate convincingly some of the devastating consequences that abuse of power in the real world may have. Play and power are also explored in the broader context of the community, however. In relation to society at large, psychoanalytic psychotherapy has important contributions to offer society, and we need playful creativity and power to bring forward our knowledge about it.

New volume of EFPP Book Series

The Analytic Field. A Clinical Concept

The Analytic Field. A Clinical Concept. Edited by Antonino Ferro and Roberto Basile. Karnac, London, 2009.

'Until now no book has ever attempted to compare and contrast contributions on analytic field theory and at the same time to explore its clinical and technical implications. This volume is intended for the first time to link together many of these writings and to provide an initial wide-ranging survey of the subject - for it is our contention that a theory of the field in various of its loci can also be inhabited by different theories. A particular aim of this book is to present not only theoretical discussions of field theory, but also contributions on clinical work and technique. For this reason we have given preference to articles with a substantial clinical component which exemplify specific underlying technical theory. In the Babel of psychoanalytic languages, clinical practice is in our view the most effective way of comparing psychoanalytic models.' -
From the Introduction

‘At last, a book that illustrates the historical evolution of the concept of the analytic field right up to the most recent developments. An indispensable book for any analyst interested in the new horizons of contemporary psychoanalysis.’
Stefano Bolognini, President of the Italian Psychoanalytical Society

New volume of EFPP Book Series

Crossing Borders - Integrating Differences
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Transition

Crossing Borders - Integrating Differences. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Transition. Edited by Anne-Marie Schloesser and Alf Gerlach. Karnac, London, 2010.
This book contains the collection of papers delivered at the Fifth Conference of the EFPP Adult Section in Dresden, Germany in 2005.

"Crossing borders and integrating differences is an essentially psychoanalytic task like few others. This book allows the reader to take an adventurous trip at many levels, all true at the same time: from the migrants as people who were born elsewhere to the migrants understood as aspects of ourselves yet undiscovered and difficult to come in contact with. I stronlgy recommend this outstanding collection of articles to all therapists ready to migrate now and then towards new borders of psychoanalysis."
Roberto Basile, Analyst of the Italian Psychoanalytical Association and co-author of The Analytic Field: A Clinical Concept