Jonathan Sklar is a training analyst and fellow of the British Psychoanalytic Society. He now works in full time analytic practice in London. From 2007-2011 he was Vice President of the European Psychoanalytic Federation. He is the author of many publications, e.g: Landscapes of the Dark: History, Trauma, Psychoanalysis and Balint, Groups and Training.

Dr. Michael Parsons is a training psychoanalyst at the British Psychoanalytical Society, a member of L’Association Psychanalytique de France and of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He is the author of books such as Living Psychoanalysis: From Theory’s Experience, 2014, Routledge and The Dove That Returns, The Dove That Vanishes: Paradox and Creativity in Psychoanalysis, 2000, Routledge, and of numerous publications in many psychoanalytic writings.

Clinical Seminar

Seminar on the theory of  D. W. Winnicott

Lecture

Repetition, Transformation and Après-coup

Rosine Jozef Perelberg, PhD is a Training Analyst and Supervisor and a Fellow of the British Psycho-Analytical Society, Visiting Professor in the Psychoanalysis Unit, Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology at University College, London, Corresponding Member of the Société Psychanalytique de Paris.  She is the author of many books, e.g: Time, Space and Phantasy; Gender and Power in Families and Dreaming and Thinking. She has a psychoanalytic private practice in London.

François Ladame – Swiss Society of Psychoanalysis

Hate and Adolescence: Who Hates Who? (Haine et adolescence: qui hait qui?)

Alessandra Lemma – British Psychoanalytical Society

Present without Past. The disruption of temporal integration in a case of transsexuality.

Margot Waddell – British Psychoanalytical Society

The Hour of the Stranger: A psychoanalytic view of adolescence and the complex relationship between development and what is known as “emerging borderline personality disorder” during the teenage years.

Jan Abram is a psychoanalyst in private practice in London. She is a Member of the British Psychoanalytical Society; Honorary Archivist of The Winnicott Trust; Member of the London Editorial Board for The International Journal of Psychoanalysis. She was director of the Squiggle Foundation from 1996-2000.

Agenda:

Clinical Seminar

Seminar on the theory of  D. W. Winnicott

Open Lecture: Winnicott’s Angels and Mannocci’s Clouds – A psychoanalytic reflection on ‘The Annunciation’

Leon Kleimberg is a training psychoanalyst at the British Psychoanalytical Society, a lecturer at the Tavistock Clinic as well as University College London. He is also the author of many publications about psychoanalysis within in the fields of psychopathology, creativity and immigration.

René Roussillion (Paris Psychoanalytical Society)

Primary trauma and the feel of agony

Béatrice Ithier (Paris Psychoanalytical Society)

Dream thoughts follow the trauma’s path

Justyna Zalewska-Drzeżdżon (Polish Psychoanalytical Society)

Trauma – the unthought and unrecognised experience

David Bell is a Training and Supervising psychoanalyst of the British Psychoanalytic Society. He was a President BPS. He is a consultant psychiatrist in psychotherapy in the Adult Dept of the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust where he is director of Fitzjohns Unit, a specialist unit for serious psychological disorders. He teaches Freud and the history of psychoanalytic concepts at the Institute of Psychoanalysis and at the Tavistock Clinic. He is a Professorial Fellow at Birkbeck College. He writes and lectures on a variety of subjects including the history and development of psychoanalytic concepts (Freud, Klein and Bion), psychosis, personality disorder, suicide and trauma. Throughout his professional career he has been deeply involved in the relation between psychoanalysis and other disciplines such as literature, philosophy, culture and socio-political issues and has made numerous contributions in these areas. He is one of the UK’s leading psychiatric expert in asylum and immigration, human rights. He has written numerous papers and chapters in books and monographs, edited: Reason and Passion; Psychoanalysis and Culture: a Kleinian perspective; Paranoia and Living On The Border.

Lecture – The death drive: Fenomenological perspectives in contemporary Kleinian theory

The lecture has been made possible by a partnership between The Psychology Institute at Gdańsk University and The Polish Psychoanalytical Society

Edna O’Shaughnessy is a Distinguished Fellow and Training and Supervising Analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society. She came to psychoanalysis from a background of philosophy. She moved to Britain from South Africa in the 1950s, and trained as a child psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic. She then trained as a psychoanalyst at the British Society in the 1960s, with Roger Money-Kyrle as her training analyst.

Using Klein’s theories, O’Shaughnessy was one of an influential group of post-Kleinian analysts who in the late 1970s and 1980s explicated the vicissitudes of defensive organisations of the personality. Her two most important papers in this area are entitled, ‘A clinical study of a defensive organization’ (1981) and ‘Enclaves and Excursions’ (1992).

O`Shaughnessy expanded the concept of abnormal superego. In ‘Relating to the Super-ego’, (1999)  she  described  the normal superego as originating from the earliest object relations, while the abnormal superego arises from the earliest dissociations that have been inflicted and suffered in childhood.

Key publications

1981 O’Shaughnessy, E. ‘A clinical study of a defensive organization’. International Journal of Psychoanalysis. 62:359-428. Republished in E. Spillius, (ed.) Melanie Klein Today Vol. 2. Routledge (1988).

1992 O’Shaughnessy, E. ‘Enclaves and Excursions’. International Journal of Psychoanalysis. 73(4): 603-614.

1999 O’Shaughnessy, E. ‘Relating to the superego’. International Journal of Psychoanalysis. 80(5): 861-870. Republished in C. Mawson (ed.) Bion Today. Routledge (2011).

2011 Spillius, E. and O’Shaughnessy, E. (eds.) Projective Identification: The Fate of a Concept. Routledge.

2014 O’Shaughnessy, E and Rusbridger, R. (ed)  Inquiries in Psychoanalysis: Collected papers of Edna O’Shaughnessy. Routledge.

Reference:

http://www.melanie-klein-trust.org.uk/oshaughnessy

Robert Hinshelwood (British Psychoanalytical Society)

Melanie Klein: Her basic concepts: Comparisons with the work of Donald Winnicott

Jan Abram (British Psychoanalytical Society)

Donald Winnicott: How the discourse with Klein shaped his clinical innovations

Following the theoretical papers, Beata Maciejewska-Sobczak (Polish Psychoanalytical Society) presented clinical material which was discussed from both theoretical approaches by Jan Abram and Robert Hinshelwood.

Prof. R.D. Hinshelwood is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society; Professor in the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex; previously Director of The Cassel Hospital, London; and author of A Dictionary of Kleinian Thought (1989)

Prof. Jan Abram is a Training and Supervising Analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society (incorporating the Institute of Psychoanalysis). She is in full time private practice in London; Chair of the Scientific Committee; Honorary Professor of the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex; Visiting Lecturer for Tavistock Centre. She is author of The Language of Winnicott (1996 & 2007) and editor for Donald Winnicott Today (2013)

Beata Maciejewska-Sobczak is a psychoanalyst, member of the Polish Psychoanalytic Society, training and supervising therapist of the Polish Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Society. She is co-editor of Siblings. Envy and Rivalry, Coexistence and Concern (Karnac 2014).

Neville Symington (Australian Psychoanalytical Society)

Learning from a Psychotic Patient

Avner Bergstein (Israel Psychoanalytic Society)

Beyond the Spectrum: Fear of Breakdown, Catastrophic Change and the Unrepressed Unconscious

Agnieszka Leźnicka-Łoś (Polish Psychoanalytical Society)

Psychotic Process: Defence or Representation of Primary Trauma?

Neville Symington (Australian Psychoanalytical Society)

Training psychoanalyst, author of many books: A Pattern of Madness; Becoming a Person through Psycho-Analysis; The Psychology of The Person. In 2007 he started an organization Psychotherapy of Psychotic Patients. He teaches extensively in Great Britain, Israel, Norway, Denmark, Poland, Portugal, Germany, Brasil, United States, India, New Zealand and Australia.

Avner Bergstein (Israel Psychoanalytic Society)

Training and supervising psychoanalyst and child analyst, academic lecturer. He conducts seminars on primitive mental states and Bionian concepts. He has many papers on the clinical implications of the works of Bion and Meltzer: Attacks on linking as well as a drive to communicate: Tolerating the paradox; On boredom: A close encounter with encapsulated parts of the psyche.

Agnieszka Leźnicka-Łoś (Polish Psychoanalytical Society)

Psychoanalyst, supervising and training therapist of the Polish Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Society. Author of the book: Psychoanalytic therapy in theory and practice.

The guests of the Conference will be:

Florence Guignard (Paris Psychoanalytical Society)

Oedipus – with complex or without

Angela Joyce (British Psychoanalytical Society)

Images and words: some contemporary perspectives on the concept of regression

Valli Kohon (British Psychoanalytical Society)

Did you jump or were you pushed? Countertransference in the treatment of children

Papers presented by:

Jan Abram and Robert Hinshelwood

Following the theoretical papers Dawid Bieńkowski will present clinical material, which will be discussed from both theoretical approaches.

Prof. Jan Abram is a Training and Supervising Analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society (incorporating the Institute of Psychoanalysis). She is in full time private practice in London; Visiting Professor, Psychoanalysis Unit, University College London; Visiting Lecturer for Tavistock Centre. She is the author of The Language of Winnicott (1996 & 2007) and the editor for Donald Winnicott Today (2013).

Prof. Robert D. Hinshelwood is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society; Professor in the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex; previously Director of The Cassel Hospital, London; and the author of A Dictionary of Kleinian Thought (1989) and Bion’s Sources (2003).

Dawid Bieńkowski is a Psychoanalyst, member of the Polish Psychoanalytic Society, training and supervising therapist of the Polish Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Society.

Caroline Polmear

Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society and Institute. She works in a full time psychoanalytic practice in London and enjoys running clinical workshops for European Analysts three times a year. She has a longstanding interest in psychoanalytic work with adolescents and young adults and supervises the student counsellors at University College London University in their work with students at the college.

Ewa Modzelewska-Kossowska

(Polish Psychoanalytic Society) Psychoanalyst, works with adults, children and teenagers. Her interests also include a psychoanalytic study of literature, film and art. On numerous occasions she taught at the Summer Schools organized by the Han Groen-Prakken Psychoanalytic Institute for Eastern Europe. For three years she has been co-leading, along with prof. Adam Lipszyc, the Seminar „Austrian Literature and Psychoanalysis”, at the Austrian Cultural Forum in Warsaw.

Dr Victor Sedlak

Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst at the British Psychoanalytical Society and an Honorary Member of the Polish Psychoanalytical Society. He teaches in Poland and Germany and was Resident Visiting Professor at Kyoto University in Japan. He is in full time private psychoanalytical practice in the North of England.

Date: 15.03 – 17.03.2019 (Friday – Sunday)   Place: Polin, Museum of the History of Polish Jews, ul. Mordechaja Anielewicza 6, 00-157 Warsaw, Audytorium

The term “Return of the repressed“ refers to the tendency discovered by Freud to repeat the past that has not been worked through in the form of symptoms. We would like to ask the question if the “antiliberal turn“ in Poland and in other post-communist countries, also noticeable in Germany and in some West-European countries, could be treated as the symptom of the legacy of past century totalitarianism that has not been worked through? Or is it the expression of new regression to archaic fears and politically manipulated aggression towards the globalisation processes that cannot be integrated by the traditional democratic mechanisms?

Are the current crisis of liberal democracy and the breaking down of European project only temporary phenomena or do they have deeper roots in the socio-cultural transformations of our time?

Psychoanalysis as the heir of European Enlightenment preached the ideas of social and individual emancipation. The Freudian project consisted of three elements: ethics of self-knowledge, critical hermeneutics of culture and psychotherapy. But as the result of the development of psychoanalysis the therapeutic element became dominating.

We would like to ask the question about the critical potential of contemporary psychoanalysis. Does it offer the adequate cognitive means to understand the disturbing social phenomena? Could it become the critical theory and practice again?

  Languages: Polish, English   Detailed Program on the Website: https://www.ipu-berlin.de/archiv/detail/return-of-the-repressed-psychoanalysis-and-the-legacy-of-totalitarianism-in-the-21st-century.html

Cooperation: Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Pedagogical University, Cracow, International Psychoanalytic University Berlin,  NPRH Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Polish Psychoanalytic Society, Warsaw, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Polin, Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Polish Academy of Sciences.

Scientific and Organisational  Committee: Ewa Kobylinska-Dehe (IPU Berlin, IFiS PAN), Paweł Dybel (IFiS PAN, Warsaw, UP Cracow), Katarzyna Prot-Klinger (APS, Warsaw), Karolina Szymaniak (Wroclaw University), Ludger M. Hermanns (Karl Abraham Institut, Berlin), Ewa Głód (PTPa, Warsaw)

Papers presented by:

Anna Maria Nicolò (Italian Psychoanalytical Society)
Playing Revisited Today

Gabriel Sapisochin (Madrid Psychoanalytical Association)
Enactment: Plea for an Expanded Theory of Psychoanalytic Listening

Massimo Vigna-Taglianti (Italian Psychoanalytical Society)
Ruptures and Reconnections: Play as a Thread for Sewing Up

Anna Maria Nicolò, M.D., President of Italian Psychoanalytical Society (SPI), Child psychiatrist, training and supervising analyst. Child and adolescent psychoanalyst, she is a former chair of the Forum for adolescence of the European Psychoanalytical Federation (FEP), and currently a member of the FEP Adolescent Forum Committee, and Regional Representative (for Europe) to the Board of Representatives of the International Psychoanalytical Association  (IPA).

She was scientific secretary of the Istituto Winnicott (ASNE-SIPsIA) the Course of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy for Child, Adolescents and Couple, in Rome.  She is supervisor of a therapeutic Community for young psychotics.

She is also co-editor of the book collection Contemporary Psychoanalysis: Developments and Perspectives (Franco Angeli) and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Interazioni.

Author of many papers and  books in Italian, English, Spanish and French.

Gabriel Sapisochin is a Medical Doctor, originally trained as a Psychiatrist, and for many decades entirely devoted to his private practice as Psychoanalyst. He is Full Member and Training Analyst of Madrid Psychoanalytic Association, Trained as Child and Adolescent Psychoanalyst, Past Chief Editor of Revista de Psicoanalisis de Madrid and European Representative within the IPA Ethics Commitee.

He has dedicated several decades of clinical treatment and research to exploring the ontogeny of subjectivity, developing new assumptions on the registering of the intersubjective in intrasubjectivity and how we listen to it in the analytic process via enactment. He has coined the term psychic gesture to describe a relational script arising from the projective attribution of the parental unconscious.

He is current Professor of a long-standing yearly seminar for candidates of Madrid’s Institute of Psychoanalysis devoted to listening through the detour of enactment.

His papers on this issue are published in several languages and among them Second Thoughts on Agieren: Listening to the Enacted published in 2013 in the IJP and more recently Enactment: Listening to Psychic Gestures published in the IJP in May 2019.

Massimo Vigna-Taglianti is a MD and Child Neuropsychiatrist. He’s Full Member of Italian Psychoanalytical Society and International Psychoanalytical Association, Training and Supervising Analyst, expert in analysis of children and adolescents and Scientific Chair of Italian Psychoanalytic Society. He is also Adjunct Professor of Child and Adult Psychiatry in Aosta University. He is particularly interested in his clinical work and in his writings in transference/countertransference dynamics and above all in role-reversal phenomena, as well as in meaning of actions and play in psychoanalysis.

22nd May 2021
The Polish Psychoanalytical Society invites you to the 22nd Conference „The many facets of sexuality”
to be hosted online via Zoom
10am to 5:30pm Warsaw Time

Papers presented by:
Anna Czownicka (Polish Psychoanalytical Society)
Anna Czownicka, PhD, is a psychologist and psychoanalyst working with adults, children and adolescents. She is a training and supervising analyst of the Polish Psychoanalytical Society (PTPa), former chairwoman of the PTPa. Past Associate Professor of the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Warsaw. For over thirty years she has been working in her own psychoanalytical practice. She conducts numerous theoretical and clinical seminars, also cyclical seminars on the independent approach in psychoanalysis. She is the translator of psychoanalytical books into Polish, including the works of D. W. Winnicott.

Ilka Quindeau (German Psychoanalytical Society)
Ilka Quindeau is Full Professor for Clinical Psychology and Psychoanalysis. Since 2018 she is president of the International Psychoanalytic University (IPU) in Berlin. Trained as a clinical psychologist and sociologist, she is now working as a training and supervising analyst in the German and International Psychoanalytical Society (DPV/IPA). She has published over 100 chapters and articles and has authored or edited several books. Her main research interests are trauma, post-war societies, gender and sexuality studies.

Andrea Sabbadini (British Psychoanalytical Society)
Andrea Sabbadini is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society and its former Honorary Secretary and Director of Publications.
He works in private practice in London, is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at University College London (UCL), a Consultant to the IPA in Culture Committee,, the Director of the European Psychoanalytic Film Festival (epff) and a former trustee of the Freud Museum.
He has been the founder editor of the journal Psychoanalysis and History as well as the editor of Book Reviews (2000-2008) and of Film Reviews (2009-2014) for The International Journal of Psychoanalysis.
His books includeBoundaries and Bridges: Perspectives on Time and Space in Psychoanalysis (Karnac 2014) and Moving Images: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Film (Routledge 2014). His edited books include Even Paranoids Have Enemies (1998), The Couch and the Silver Screen (2003), Projected Shadows (2007) and Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Virtual Intimacy and Communication in Film (2019), all published by Routledge.

Conference fee: 60 €
The Conference will be in Polish and English with all papers and discussions translated.
Payments with proper annotation;
“Sexuality 2021 conference” should be made to:
The Polish Psychoanalytical Society
IBAN PL50 1440 1390 0000 0000 1529 4892 / SWIFT: NDEAPLP2
SEBA transfers are preferable.

Registration is based on payment by transfer to the account, along with clearly stated details of participant and sending an e-mail to ptpa@psychoanaliza.org.pl in order to receive a link to register your zoom connection.

All applications should be made before 16th May 2021.

On 23rd of May at 6:40pm Warsaw Time there will be a discussion with Andrea Sabbadini and dr. Kuba Mikurda on Kieślowski’s “A Short Film about Love”. Available with the same Zoom link for all the Conference participants.

Dear All
On behalf of the organizing committee, I would like to invite you to:
 
2nd Bionian Symposium
Transformations. Constructions. Psychoanalysis of 21st Century.
 
The Symposium will take place on 26th October 2024 from 9:30 AM to 3:30 PM (UTC+01:00) in Gdańsk and online via the Zoom platform.
 
PROGRAM
 
9:30 AM – 9:45 AM Opening
 
9:45 AM – 11:30 AM Howard Levine 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝘂𝗱’𝘀 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀. 𝗧𝗼𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝗮 𝗣𝘀𝘆𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘀𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟮𝟭𝘀𝘁 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗿𝘆 – 𝗧𝗼 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗹 𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝘆 𝗳𝗹𝗲𝘀𝗵 moderated by Bartosz M. Puk
 
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM Break
 
12:00 PM – 1:45 PM Tomasz Kudelski 𝗖𝗮𝘁𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗰 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 moderated by Magdalena Jusińska
 
1:45 PM – 2:15 PM Break
 
2:15 PM – 3:30 PM Panel discussion: Howard Levine, Tomasz Kudelski, Magdalena Jusińska, Bartosz M. Puk
 
 
ADDRESS
Conference Center, Museum of the Second World War
Plac W. Bartoszewskiego 1
80-862 Gdańsk
POLAND
 
THE SYMPOSIUM FEE
 

Application form

 
Online participant on Zoom: 360 PLN
Participant locally: 450 PLN
 
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3RD BIONIAN SYMPOSIUM
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Papers presented by:
 
Avner Bergstein is a training and supervising psychoanalyst and a faculty member of the Israel Psychoanalytic Society. He maintains a private practice working with adults, adolescents, and children and has worked for several years in a kindergarten for children with autism. He has authored numerous papers exploring the clinical implications of Bion’s and Meltzer’s writings and is the author of Bion and Meltzer’s Expeditions into Unmapped Mental Life: Beyond the Spectrum in Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2019). A visiting lecturer at several psychoanalytic institutes, he also conducts reading seminars on the works of W.R. Bion. He has received the IPA 2021 Elizabeth Young-Bruehl Prejudice Award and the Holtzman Interdisciplinary Prize for 2024.
 
 
Agnes Szajcz is a clinical psychologist and training psychoanalyst at the Hungarian Psychoanalytical Society. She previously worked in a therapeutic community with patients with borderline personality disorder and psychosis, and now has a private practice. Her other main field is education: she teaches at the Hungarian Society, in psychotherapy training, and at universities, and she was Director of Training of the Hungarian Society for 5 years. She is a founding member of the Central European Seminar, a post-Bionian theory and supervision group. She has published several papers in the Hungarian Lélekelemzés, and in 2024 she published her first English-language article, Understanding the Phenomenon of Negative Myths, in American Imago.
 
 
EVENT PROGRAM
 
 
08:30 a.m. – 09:30 a.m. Registration for guests attending in person
 
09:30 a.m. – 09:45 a.m. Opening
 
09:45 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Avner Bergstein „Buried in the Future Which Has Not Happened” Non-linear Time, Non-logic and the Ultimate Reality of the Session
moderated by: Justyna Zalewska
 
11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Break
 
12:00 p.m. – 01:45 p.m. Agnes Szajcz Understanding the Phenomenon of Negative Myths
moderated by: Piotr Dworczyk
 
01:45 p.m. – 02:15 p.m. Break
 
02:15 p.m. – 03:30 p.m. Panel discussion: Avner Bergstein, Agnes Szajcz, Justyna Zalewska, Piotr Dworczyk
 
 
ADDRESS
Conference Center, Museum of the Second World War
Plac W. Bartoszewskiego 1
80-862 Gdańsk
POLAND
 
 
THE SYMPOSIUM FEE
Online participant on Zoom: 430 PLN
Participant locally (before 7 DEC 2025): 520 PLN
Participant locally (from 7 DEC 2025): 600 PLN