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

For the last 12 years the Syros Summer Workshop on Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Studies has become a living tradition. The Workshop, which takes place every other year in the well preserved neoclassical building of the Ermoupolis 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.

photographs from the workshop

3rd Infant Observation Workshop: Neuroaffective Development and Early Relationships as seen in Infant Observations. Guest speaker: Susan Hart, presenting a paper on "Basic principles of neuroaffective developmental psychology - From arousal regulation, through emotional synchrony to sef-regulation and mentalization." 29-31 October, Stockholm, Sweden.

Psychoanalytic infant observation is a vital component in the training of psychotherapists, psychoanalysts and clinicians of allied professions. Its usefulness to clinical work is well established worldwide, as it enables clinicians to conceptualise the nonverbal and implicit interactive processes, enhancing their capacity for perceptual and emotional receptivity. Following the infant’s emotional development within his/her family, the observers can develop 'empathic receptivity', as they unconsciously engage with primitive states of mind.

invitation and programme and registration form

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)

First announcement (flyer, pdf)

letter from the executive meeting, November 2008 Warsaw

by Gila Ofer 
and Peggy Deeny

Warsaw was quite beautiful in mid-November 2008 when the EFPP Executive gathered for the penultimate meeting in the term of office of this committee. The early darkness helped the city silhouette the light of the first snow of winter to give a lasting image of a city rebuilt and at peace with itself. Poland is a member of both Adult and Child Sections of EFPP and Warsaw was selected as the place in which and from which we could explore new possibilities for the developing EFPP and indeed fulfilling one of the priorities of this executive; further integration of countries from Central and Eastern Europe. The executive committee meets twice yearly, the EFPP Delegates meet bi-annually, so with at most five meetings every two years much committee work is done between meetings, beforehand in preparation for and afterwards in follow up to the actual meetings. During this session of the Executive we met twice in the centre of Europe, Berlin, once in the West, Copenhagen and once in each of the cities of the old East; Zagreb and Warsaw. read more...

The European Federation for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy was founded in 1991 in London.
Brian Martindale, a British psychoanalyst was elected as the first President and he formed, together with colleagues from the UK and other countries from Europe the first Executive Committee. This Board had as most important task to write the first version of the constitution, something that demanded a lot of inspiration and transpiration.
The overall aim of the EFPP has, from the start, been to contribute significantly to the wellbeing of mental health among people living in Europe and to facilitate communication between psychoanalytic psychotherapists in different parts of Europe. The EFPP is concerned with extending the availability of psychoanalytic psychotherapy and its applications in member countries, by promoting a European community network.
Read the whole text by Luc Moyson, Chair of the EFPP since 2007

Report from the Second Workshop on Infant Observation, February 2008, Pisa, Italy

workshop 
February 15-17 2008
Pisa, Italy

During the latest EFPP-conferences, presentations on infant observation have formed an ongoing theme. Since December 2005 special workshops on this subject have been arranged. The first one took place in Athens. The second one was arranged in February 2008, this time in Pisa. As usual it was advertised at the EFPP-website and also through direct e-mail to all delegates within the EFPP, who were asked to spread information on this event in their countries and sections.

The topic this time was: How can Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy make use of the method of Infant Observation?

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