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In April 2020, Sydney will play host to the International Psychoanalytical Association’s 3rd Asia-Pacific Conference.

During the three-day conference, more than 60 eminent speakers will present on topics that explore feelings of belonging, displacement and loss during times of turmoil.

A rich programme of lectures, seminars, panel discussions and small clinical groups will provide a platform for professionals in the field to discuss psychoanalytical work in different cultural contexts, share similarities and understand differences to enrich their psychoanalytic understanding.

Notification of acceptance of proposals: 30th November, 2019

When
April 30th to May 2nd, 2020

Where
Pier One Hotel
Walsh Bay, 11 Hickson Road, Sydney NSW 2000

COWAP Pre Congress

The Desiring Woman: Ambiguities, Displacements and Contradictions in a changing World

The Committee on Woman and Psychoanalysis (COWAP) presents a pre-congress to the IPA Asia - Pacific conference in 2020.

Panel Topics include : : Sexual and Gender Diversity; Motherhood and Reproduction; Self-defeating behaviour and masochistic states; Aboriginal women; Maternal Subjectivity and the Feminine; Sexual and Gender identifications; Transference /CT: erotic and maternal; Family violations and social violence and others.

When
28 April 2020
8:30am - 5:50pm

Where
Holme Building, University of Sydney,
Sydney NSW

Keynote speaker
Virginia Ungar, President IPA

Enquires
Congress Administration

COFAP Pre Conference Workshop

Facilitating Repair in Families and Couples

Hosted by COFAP - the IPA Couple and Family Psychoanalysis Committee

Facilitating Repair in Couple and Families is a one day workshop featuring experienced couple and family psychotherapists from within the Asia-Pacific region who will present cases illustrating ways of working with couples and families presenting with indications of breakdown in their functioning.

When
Wednesday 29 April 2020
8:30am - 5:00pm

Where
Holme Building, University of Sydney,
Sydney NSW

Enquires / Abstract submissions
Timothy Keogh
timothykeogh@bigpond.com

WPSPTT Pre Congress Workshop

The Working Party on the Specificity of Psychoanalytic Treatment Today will have groups during the pre-congress to the IPA Asia - Pacific conference in 2020.

The group work takes place over one and one half days. The methodology applies tenets of the psychoanalytic methodology itself, free association and neutral listening. Consecutive sessions of a current analysis are presented to a group of 6 to 16 psychoanalysts and candidates. The group work constitutes two interconnected components of psychoanalytic research. The research aim is to identify the fundamental aspects of psychoanalytic treatment.

When
Tuesday, April 28, 2020, 5:15 pm to 8:30 PM Wednesday, April 29, 2020 9 am – 6:15 pm

Where
University of Sydney,
Sydney NSW

Enquires
Ronnie Shaw

Please write “WPSPTT " in the subject line
rshaw@ashcomm.com

Summoned by the Tides: Cultivating a Mind in Mindless Worlds

A ten lecture series by Maurice Whelan

Our 24-hour news cycle informs us about problems and politics in all corners of the world. Our minds overflow with information. This series selects two issues: clerical sexual abuse of children; the election of Donald Trump as US President. To collect information is one thing. To think is another. This is a series about thinking. If we learn to think clearly about the two selected issues, we will have a clarity of mind that will help us to think about anything. Central to the series are the beliefs that where language is debased thought is debased, and that literature promotes life-giving beliefs and ideas that sustain the mind. Our mind begins dependent on others. But it is something we must learn to care for. When we know what damages and what protects our mind and our capacity for thought, we discover how it can grow and create.

When
Thursdays 7.30-9.00pm
29th Aug,
5th, 12th, 19th Sept
31st Oct, 7th, 14th, 28th Nov
5th, 12th Dec, 2019

Where
Sydney Institute
5 Penshurst Street, Willoughby NSW 2068

Live or via Video Conference

Between the Mind & the Brain

Small group seminars by Dr Peter Smith

A small-group seminar program consisting of a weekly evening seminar over four weeks, led by Dr Peter Smith, a Training Analyst of the Australian Psychoanalytical Society and Member of its Melbourne Branch.

Aim: to explore the relationship between Psychoanalytical models of the Mind and Brain, using material from a book written by British Kleinian Psychoanalyst, Ronald Britton: “Between Mind and Brain: Models of the Mind and Models in the Mind”.

This seminar program would be of interest to clinicians who are actively engaged in clinical work. This could be in any setting public or private.

Format : This program will be delivered in a face-to-face small group setting. (maximum number of 8 participants) A capacity to physically attend is required. Some pre-reading from the book will be required for each seminar. Its anticipated the group discussion will be open and informal.

When
Thursday evenings , November 7, 14 , 21 & 28, 2019
7:30 PM to 9 PM

Where
Melbourne Institute for Psychoanalysis,
400 Tooronga Road, East Hawthorn

Enquires
Tim Alexander

Cost
$330. Payable upon acceptance of a place. Each of the participants receive a copy of the book.

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