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IARPP Conference 2025 - June 19 – June 22, 2025

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The Paradox of Freedom in Relational Psychoanalysis:

Democracy and Tyranny In and Out of Therapy


Relational psychoanalysis continues to be a democratic endeavor. Since its inception, it has encouraged a dialogue about the paradox of theoretical freedom, technique, and varied areas of psychoanalytic encounter that each clinician in their subjective way brings to the consulting room. While eschewing positivism and rigid rules, Relational psychoanalysis also continues to invite an ongoing engagement with intrapsychic processes, interpersonal relations, and the outside world’s impact on conscious and unconscious dynamics. As geopolitical, social, and environmental catastrophes mount, it becomes ever more crucial that we at least attempt to track and navigate potential enactments of existential anxieties, aggression, and sequelae of tyranny in the consulting room. How we understand and implement all of this will be a large part of our conference focus. It’s not by coincidence that we plan for this dialogue to take place in historical Athens, the birthplace of democracy.

We welcome you to the 21st IARPP conference and very much hope to see you there!

We look forward to seeing you in Athens, Greece – June 19-22, 2025.

Conference Co-chairs: Alkinoi Lala, MSc, Fotini Doumoura, MSc, and Stavros Charalambides, CGP, MSc

International Conference Committee: Udi Chen, Susanna Federici, Hazel Ipp,  Steven Kuchuck, Ilana Laor, Gianni Nebbiosi, and Sandra Toribio Caballero

 Local Committee: Maria Apostolopoulou, Eirini Germpana, Sevasti Gkioka, Marilou Kountria, Marianthi Michalakopoulou, and Maritina Pantoleontos







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  • María Hernández Gázquez
    A “late bloomer” into the practice of psychotherapy, I was introduced to the world of psychology thanks to my own analysis years ago. I currently share this passionate profession with a practice in real estate. Relational psychotherapist treating patients in Spanish and English; in person and online. Collaboration as translator since 2002. Relational psychotherapist treating patients in Spanish and English in person; Group supervision; individual supervision.
    Sessions
    • D9 : D-9: Insight or Blindness: Reality and Paradox in Relational Psychotherapy
  • Marina Van Den Handel, LP, PhD
    Marina Van Den Handel received her PhD in Linguistics from Sorbonne University in Paris and completed her psychoanalytic training at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy in NYC. Her experience growing in Cyprus has fueled her interest in recognition as it plays out both politically and clinically. She is currently in private practice in NY.
    Sessions
    • D9 : D-9: Insight or Blindness: Reality and Paradox in Relational Psychotherapy
  • Shoulamit Milch-Reich, PhD
    Dr. Milch-Reich is a native of Israel. She completed two doctoral programs - one in clinical psychology and one in developmental psychology - both at the University of Pittsburgh with a rigorous academic and research emphasis. This training was complemented by a clinical doctoral internship in the treatment of children and adolescents at Duke University Medical Hospital, followed by post-doctoral work at the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, where she combined clinical work, supervision and research. Dr Milch Reich’s research has been in developmental psychopathology, with a special emphasis on mental representations and the formation of object relations. Since returning to Israel, Shoulamit realized her heart is in clinical work, deveopmental-psychoanalytic understanding and research with a clinical emphasis. She is a member of the Israeli R@D (relational developmental), teaches psychoanalysis and developmental psychopathology at Tel Aviv University, has a private practice in the greater Tel Aviv area, and delivers professional workshops and television programs on child development and well-being.
    Sessions
    • P5 : Plenary V: The Psyche Around Us: Relational Psychoanalysis in Engagement with Severely Distressed Communities & CLOSING REMARKS
  • Uri Hadar, PhD
    Uri Hadar is professor of psychology in Tel Aviv University and the Ruppin Academic Center, where he is head of the MA Program in Clinical Geropsychology. He studied for BA and MA in Tel Aviv University and for PhD in the University of London. His fields of research include psychoanalysis, nonverbal communication and the cerebral representation of natural language. In these fields, he engaged in both empirical and theoretical research and has published widely about these issues. His three books discuss psychoanalytic psychotherapy from the vantage point of integrating Lacanian and Relational approaches. Uri Hadar believes that psychoanalysis may offer a valid perspective for understanding social issues that may lay the basis for political involvement. He is a member of an Israeli organization (“Psychoactive: Mental Health Professionals for Human Rights”) that investigates, promotes and practices this view, with special interest in Israeli-Palestinian relations.
    Sessions
    • MA-1 : Meet-the-Author 1: Psychoanalysis and the Unspoken
  • Rina Lazar, PhD
    Rina Lazar, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist. She is a senior teacher and supervisor in the Core Program, the Relational Track and the Ph.D. Studies in Psychoanalysis and its Interfaces, the Program of Psychotherapy, School of Continuing Medical Education, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University. She was one of the chairpersons of this program, a board member of the International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP) and the first chairperson of the Israeli chapter of the IARPP (Israeli Forum of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy). She works in a private practice in Tel-Aviv. Rina is the co-editor (with prof. Shlomo Biderman) in "Hakibutz Hameuchad" Publishing House of two books "Desire" and "The Blind spot". She edited a book called "Talking about Evil" (Lazar, 2017). The book was published by Routledge in the RBP series. Rina Lazar published papers in various psychoanalytic journals on topics such as: psychoanalysis versus psychotherapy, the dynamics of change, repetition compulsion, the work of the unconscious, subject, subjectivity and intersubjectivity, knowing hatred, the mother's sacrificing her off-springs, the dead mother, intimacy, mourning and melancholy revisited from multiple perspectives, meeting otherness, the therapeutic tale and its political context .
    Sessions
    • B2 : B-2: Between Democracy and Tyranny: Psychoanalysis in the Age of Collective Uncertainty, War and False Consciousness
  • Barry Magid, MD
    Barry Magid MD is a faculty member of The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy and The Stephen Mitchell Relational Study Center, both in New York City and has served on the Executive Board of The International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP). He is the editor of “Freud’s Case Studies: Self Psychological Perspectives” (Analytic Press 1993) and the author of numerous articles on Relational Self Psychology. He has also written extensively on the interface between Zen and Western Psychology.
    Sessions
    • D9 : D-9: Insight or Blindness: Reality and Paradox in Relational Psychotherapy
  • Fotini Doumoura, B.Sc.
    Fotini Doumoura is a Psychologist,B.Sc. In Psychology, Department of Psychology ,Panteion University of Athens. Specialized in Cognitive Analytics and Relational Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at the Institute for Relational and Group Psychotherapy.Specialized in Group Psychotherapy of the International Model Irvin Yalom and the Relational Dynamics of the group from the Institute for Relational and Group Psychotherapy. Training in Relational Modern Psychoanalysis from Tampa Bay Institute for Psychoanalytic studies,USA. Teaching at the courses for the curriculum of the Institute for Relational and Group Psychotherapy Psychologist in Social Service of the Municipality of Athens Maintain her private practice in Athens Faculty member of Institute for Relational and Group Psychotherapy. Member of International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Member of American Group Psychotherapists Association
    Sessions
    • P2 : President's Welcome & Plenary II: The Dialectics of Clinical and Social Freedom and Tyranny in the Consulting Room
  • Avi Berman, PhD
    Avi Berman, Ph. D. is a clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst, training analyst and a group analyst. He is a member in Tel- Aviv Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis and The Israeli Institute of Group Analysis. He is the initiator and co-founder of the Israeli Institute of Group Analysis and its first chairperson. He is the head of group psychotherapy track in Tel Aviv University’s psychotherapy program. He is a co-author of Victimhood, Vengefulness, and the Culture of Forgiveness (Together with Ivan Urlic and Miriam Berger). He is a co-editor of Sibling Relations and the Horizontal Axis in Theory and Practice". (Routledge, 2022) together with Smadar Ashuach and co-editor of “Tolerance – a concept in crisis” (Routledge, in print) together with Gila Ofer.
    Sessions
    • P3 : Plenary III: Caring for a Psychoanalytic Community: Using Social Unconscious and Group Dynamic Theories to Expand our Understanding of Power Dynamics
  • Amir Atsmon, M.A.
    Amir Atsmon is a drama-therapist, translator and editor of psychoanalytic literature and improvised-theater player and teacher. He works as a therapist at the Nes-Ziona psychoanalytic day-unit for women with cptsd, combining somatic experiencing, parts-work and drama-therapy. He also teaches and performs improv and playback theater around the world and develops and practices therapeutic version of these art forms. In his work as a translator, He has translated into Hebrew authors such as Loewald, Bion, McDougal, Bollas, Khan, Britton and others and works regularly with leading Israeli psychoanalysts. He has an M.A. in Drama-therapy and in Comparative Literature.
    Sessions
    • P5 : Plenary V: The Psyche Around Us: Relational Psychoanalysis in Engagement with Severely Distressed Communities & CLOSING REMARKS
  • Yael Greenberg, Psy.D., ABPP
    Yael Greenberg Psy.D., ABPP is a clinical psychologist and a psychoanalyst. She is a member of the training committee and a supervisor at the National Training Program at the National Institute of the Psychotherapies in New York. She is a training and a supervising analyst and a faculty member at the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center. I addition, she is a faculty member at the analytic training programs at NIP in New York and at ICP+P in Washington, DC. She is also an adjunct professor at Case Western Reserve University and faculty at The Cleveland Clinic Foundation. She has published and presented on the topics of immigration, shame in the analytic dyad, collective trauma and the nature of the analyst’s participation. Dr. Greenberg is in private practice in Beachwood, Ohio.
    Sessions
    • MA-1 : Meet-the-Author 1: Psychoanalysis and the Unspoken
  • Evripidis Gavras
    Evripidis Gavras is a licenced Psychologist (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), a Founding and Tactical Member at the Institute for Relational and Group Psychotherapy, Lecturer and Supervisor in the Master's Program in Specialization in Relational Psychotherapy/Psychoanalysis, Lecturer in the Specialization Program in Group Psychotherapy according to Irvin Yalom and the Relational Dynamics of Groups at the Institute for Relational and Group Psychotherapy. He holds a Master's Specialization in Cognitive-Analytic and Relational Psychotherapy from the Institute of Relational & Group Psychotherapy, and a Master's Degree in Clinical and Counseling Psychology (LaSalle University, US). He was trained in Relational Psychoanalysis at the Tampa Bay Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies (Florida), and holds a degree in Philosophy-Education-Psychology (University of Ioannina). He is a member of the American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA), the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP), and the Hellenic Psychological Association. He teaches in the Interdepartmental Program on the Theory & Practice of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy and in the training program in Group Psychotherapy based on the model of I. Yalom. As part of his continuous professional development, he has attended numerous training seminars and conferences and workshops and maintains his private office in Athens, offering individual and group psychotherapy sessions and supervision both in person and online.
    Sessions
    • B1 : B-1: Democracy and Tyranny in Psychoanalytic Institutes: The Group Turn
  • Veronica Csillag, MSW
    Veronica Csillag, LCSW is Faculty, Training and Supervising Analyst, and former Co-Director, Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis; Faculty, National Institute for the Psychotherapies. Associate Editor, Psychoanalytic Dialogues. She is the author of several psychoanalytic papers, which were published in a variety of journals, The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Dialogues and The Psychoanalytic Quarterly among them. Author, editor, From Budapest to Psychoanalysis: Three Portraits and their Analytic Frames, Routledge, 2022. She is in private practice in New York City.
    Sessions
    • B2 : B-2: Between Democracy and Tyranny: Psychoanalysis in the Age of Collective Uncertainty, War and False Consciousness
  • Adamopoulou Konstantina ,MSc
    My name is Konstantina Adamopoulou, and I am a Clinical and Community Psychologist. I hold an MSc in Clinical and Community Psychology, following my initial degree in Psychology. I further expanded my academic foundation with a second degree in Social Anthropology from Panteion University. In terms of psychotherapeutic training, I completed a Postgraduate Specialization Program in Cognitive Analytic and Relational Psychotherapy at the Institute of Relational and Group Psychotherapy. Additionally, I trained in Group Psychotherapy according to the Irvin Yalom International Model (IYMP) and am currently pursuing Psychoanalytic Training at the Tampa Bay Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies in Florida. I also completed a certification in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) and attended specialized seminars on Group Analysis and Classical Psychoanalysis. Throughout my career, I have worked in various psychiatric settings and served as an external collaborator in mental health services, supporting adolescents and adults. Currently, I practice as a freelance therapist in Glyfada, Greece, offering individual and group therapy sessions. I also teach both individual and group psychotherapy at the Institute of Relational and Group Psychotherapy. I am a member of the IARPP, the American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA), and a probationary regular member of Institute for relational and Group Psychotherapy
    Sessions
    • B7 : B-7: The Vitality of Relational Psychoanalysis as an Exit from the Complexity of Benevolent Tyranny, Time, and Independence
  • Sara Biondi, PsyD
    Sara Biondi, PsyD is a Psychoanalyst and a Sport Psychologist. She completed her training at the Institute of Self Psychology and Relational Psychoanalysis (ISIPSÈ) in Rome and she is member of ISIPSÈ. She was member of the Local Committee of IARPP Conference 2016 in Rome. She is member of the managing council of the Italian Association of Sport Psychology (AIPS) and is the Country Representative of the ENYSSP (European Network of Specialist in Sport Psychology). She is also in editorial board of Movimento, a sport psychology and sport science journal. She works in private practice in Rome with adolescents and adults and in a youth multisport club as sport psychologist. She is interested to apply relational psychoanalysis models also in the sport psychology context, in particular in the work with youth teams and coaches.
    Sessions
    • C1 : C-1: CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PANEL: Navigating Egalitarian and Tyrannical Processes in Relational Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Children and Parent
  • Paolo Stramba-Badiale, PhD
    Interlocutor of the session. graduated in Philosophy and specialized in Clinical Psychology at the University of Milan, Italy. I obtained a PhD in Experimental Psychology. I did my psychoanalytic trainings in two Italian Institutes. The first in a post-kleinian one. The second in Self Psychology and Relational Psychoanalysis at ISIPSé ( Institute of Specialization in Psychoanalytic Self Psychology and Relational Psychoanalysis, Rome and Milan, Italy). I coordinate the Institute of Specialization in Psychoanalytic Self Psychology and Relational Psychoanalysis (ISIPSé), in Milan, Italy, where I am Faculty and Training Analyst. Past-Member of the Council of IAPSP (International Association for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology). Member of IARPP ( International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy ). I presented many papers in the International Conferences of IAPSP and IARPP in the last twenty years. More than fifty papers published, in Italian and International reviews. Author of the paper “Affective Attunement, Vulnerability, Empathy: The Analytic Experience With Veronica”, Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 34, 279-287, 2014 Private practice in psychoanalysis in Milan, Italy.
    Sessions
    • C2 : C-2: Moving From Tyrannic Chairmanship to Relational Culture in Society
  • Sivanie Shiran, PhD
    Sivanie Shiran, PhD, is a senior Clinical Psychologist, Jungian Psychoanalyst and Organizational Consultant. She lectures widely on topics related to the unconscious aspects of leadership, and serves as adjunct faculty at Tel Aviv University and Reichman University. Using a psychoanalytic systemic approach, Dr. Shiran also serves as an Executive Coach for Senior Civil Servants in the public sector in Israel and for Senior Executives in multinational corporations at the Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Switzerland. Dr. Shiran is also a board member of OFEK, the Israeli association for the study of group and organizational processes, where she directs and staffs international group relations conferences, as well as a member of the Israel Institute for Jungian Psychology (IIJP) in honor of Erich Neumann.
    Sessions
    • C4 : C-4: Exploring Truth and Dreams: Expanding the Analytic and Therapeutic Boundaries
  • Stamatina Barmpagianni, M.A.
    Stamatina Barmpagianni is a Psychologist with a professional license (4549/2020), Probationary Regular Member of the Institute for Relational & Group Psychotherapy, Athens, Relational Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist (PgD) and now a Trainee Group Therapist according to Irvin Yalom & the Relational Group Dynamics. She is, also, the co-founder of Sirens of Relations along with her colleague Anastasia Stokou. She graduated from the Department of Psychology of the European University of Cyprus and is currently master’s graduand in Addiction Treatment-Addictionology (MSc) at the Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She is supervised six times a month for individual & group therapy and institutional issues. She has been in therapy as a patient since 2016 and has been in group since 2020. She currently works as a Psychologist at the National Organization for the Prevention and Treatment of Addictions - EOPAE and specifically at the transitional shelter for homeless drug users. She has also worked in the Permanent Drug Consumption Rooms with active users for over a year at OKANA. She has previously worked at a Day Center for People with Disabilities, in a department with young adults on the autism spectrum. The Institute for Relational & Group Psychotherapy has helped her participate in a conference of the International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, in Valencia, as a panel moderator. The last sessions she participated in ,thanks to the support of the institute, were: on a panel at the 8th Conference of Counseling Psychology & 3rd of Positive Psychology with a speech entitled "Common Existential Issues of Patients - New Therapist in Relational Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy" and at the 2nd Symposium of the Institute for Relational & Group Psychotherapy with a speech entitled "I am here, to build a home within you" Relational Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy as a support in the loneliness involved in multiple trauma. In terms of writing, she is involved in the 2nd Collective Volume of Relational Psychoanalysis & Group Psychotherapy from Disigma Publications. She is also involved in the book "If You Love Me, Will It Hurt ( ? )", a staged spoken word performance by Poetry Slam Gr. Finally, she is a member of the International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP) as well as the American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA).
    Sessions
    • C10 : C-10: The Analytic Dyad in Relational Psychoanalysis: Power Dynamics Between Inner Objects and Subjects
  • Anastasia Argyropoulou
    Anastasia Argyropoulou is a licensed psychologist (Panteion University of Athens), a probationary member at the Institute for Relational and Group Psychotherapy (ISOPS) and a group psychotherapist in training on the Postgraduate Program of Applied Specialization in Group Psychotherapy by Irvin Yalom and the Relational Group Dynamics (Interpersonal Group Therapy model) at ISOPS. She has completed her postgraduate specialization in relational psychoanalytic psychotherapy at ISOPS. She is under supervision and participates in both individual and group psychotherapy at ISOPS. As a member of ISOPS, she has participated in panels at the 8th Counseling Psychology Conference and the 3rd Positive Psychology Conference, delivering a talk titled "The Simultaneous Evolution of the Therapist and the Patient in the Introjection of Roles Through the Therapeutic Relationship: The Institutional Framework as a Container." She also presented at the 2nd Symposium on Relational Psychoanalysis & Group Psychotherapy with a talk titled "The Compulsive Repetition of Trauma and the Difficulty of Change in Relational Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy." She is a contributing author to the 2nd collective volume on relational psychoanalysis and group psychotherapy, published by Disigma Editions, with an article titled "The Compulsive Repetition of Trauma and the Difficulty of Change in Relational Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy." She is a member of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP) and the American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA). As part of her continuous professional development, she attends numerous training seminars and conferences both in Greece and internationally. She maintains her private office in Kavala, offering individual psychotherapy sessions for adults both in person and online.
    Sessions
    • D6 : D-6: What Happens When Authority Enters the Therapy Room?
  • Valeria Pulcini, MD, PhD
    Interlocutor of the session. MD – Neurologist - Psychoanalyst – PhD Neuroscience Faculty and Supervisor ISIPSè Milan Italy Member ofIARPP Member of the Council of ISIPSE Milan Member of the Council of IASPS Private Practice - Milan - Italy
    Sessions
    • D8 : D-8: Relational Evolution: Global, Interpersonal, and Intrapsychic Challenges in Group Work with Sexual Abuse Survivors
  • Orit Dudai, PhD
    Orit Dudai, Ph.D., Lecturer and Art Therapist. She teaches at the master’s program in Art Therapy at Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan and at the Kibbutzim College of Education, Art and Technology, Tel Aviv. Her research focuses on the interplay between psychoanalysis, cultural studies and cinema with a special emphasis on how preverbal mental states are manifested and worked through poetic style. Her clinical work is psychodynamic and relational oriented, and her practice in a private clinic in Tel Aviv is with adults and adolescents suffering from a wide range of mental issues such as trauma, anxiety and depression.
    Sessions
    • D9 : D-9: Insight or Blindness: Reality and Paradox in Relational Psychotherapy
  • Rex Kintanar, Psy.D.
    Rex Kintanar is a Filipino American psychologist in private practice in New York City, a Candidate in the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis, and an Adjunct Supervisor at the Danielsen Institute at Boston University. He received his doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology in San Diego, CA, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the William Alanson White Institute in NYC. Flowing from a commitment to human flourishing, his work is founded on constructivist anthropology, shaped by his personal, professional, and intellectual journey, and guided by the discipline and freedom inherent in relational psychoanalysis. His research interests come from a curiosity about the phenomenology of intersubjective experience, the intersection between psychoanalysis and spirituality, and the multiple interpretive frames in psychological assessment, especially the quantitative and qualitative aspects of the Rorschach. Before becoming a psychologist, Rex was a biologist, banker, teacher, and Roman Catholic priest. Having been dispensed from his vows by the Vatican, Rex is married to a fellow Filipino American with whom he has a young daughter.
    Sessions
    • D10 : D-10: 'When My Analyst Let Me Down'- Relational Injuries in the Psychoanalytic Process
  • Kostas Mathioudis, MSc, CGP
    Sessions
    • LG2 : Large Group 2
    • LG1 : Large Group 1
  • Earl Hopper, Ph.D.
    Earl Hopper, PhD, is a psychoanalyst, group analyst, certified group therapist, and organisational consultant in private practice in London. A Distinguished Fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association, an Honorary Member of the Group Analytic Society International, and an Honorary Member of the Institute of Group Analysis, he is a supervisor and training analyst for many psychotherapy organizations in England. He is alos a former President of the International Association for Group Psychotherapy and Group Processes (IAGP), and a former Chairman of the Association of Independent Psychoanalysts of the British Psychoanalytical Society. He participates in the governance and training programs of many local and international organisations. The author and editor of many publications in these fields, Dr Hopper is the Editor of the New International Library of Group Analysis for Routledge.
    Sessions
    • P2 : President's Welcome & Plenary II: The Dialectics of Clinical and Social Freedom and Tyranny in the Consulting Room
  • Stavros Charalambides, MSc, CGP
    Stavros Charalambides is a relational psychoanalyst and certified group psychotherapist, elected Iarpp Board of Directors member since 2018. He Co-Chairs the Iarpp special interest group regarding Couples, Families, and Groups with Gila Ofer. He has founded and directed the Greek Institute for Relational and Group Psychotherapy since 2016. He runs 8 groups per week, supervises intensely groups and individuals. He is Director and Founder of 4 different programs regarding Relational Psychoanalysis and Group Psychotherapy at Greece. His latest book (2022), the ‘Envy Executioner’ has been published in Greek by Disigma Publications. He edited the first collective book -in Greek- of relational psychoanalysis and group dynamics (published by Disigma Publications ,July 2023). His main interest in his writings and presentations relates to sibling dynamics, envy, mourning and hatred in the transference and countertransference , in the analytic dyad, the family, inter-organizational group processes , the Institutions , the small ,medium and large groups , the society and the multicultural world .
    Sessions
    • P3 : Plenary III: Caring for a Psychoanalytic Community: Using Social Unconscious and Group Dynamic Theories to Expand our Understanding of Power Dynamics
  • Victor Donas M.D.
    Interlocutor of the session. Victor Doñas, M.D. Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst,, Subspecialist in liason psychiatry (psychosomatics). Founder and first head of staff of Liason Psychiatry and Perinatal Mental Health Unit, Hospital San Jose, Santiago, Chile. Former attached teacher on Psychiatry, Psychopatolgy and Liason Psychiatry Universidad de Chile, Universidad de Santiago, Universidad Andres Bello, Instituto Psiquiátrico José Horwitz Barak. Former member of chilean IARPP Chapter Board (2016-2020), Co-founder of IARPP´s International Collective Space. Member of ILAS group. Author of published articles In Intenational and National Articules Journals in the interfield of Psychoanalysis, Relationality and Social Theory. Attached Teacher Diploma IARPP México-Contemporánep. Atteched Teacher Course Introduction to Relational Psychoanalysis IARPP Buenos Aires. Private practice as Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst at Santiago, Chile during the last 23 years. Musician.
    Sessions
    • P5 : Plenary V: The Psyche Around Us: Relational Psychoanalysis in Engagement with Severely Distressed Communities & CLOSING REMARKS
  • Maria Lechich, Ph.D.
    Maria Lechich, Ph.D., is Clinic Director, Faculty, Clinical Consultant and Head of the Psychology Externship Program at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She supervises at the NIP National Training Program and was Faculty in the Integrative Trauma Program at NIP from 2014-2023. In addition, she is Faculty and Supervisor at the Stephen Mitchell Relational Studies Center, where she was the Co-Director of the One--Year Introductory Program in Relational Psychotherapy from 2007-2015. Her areas of professional interest include trauma, enactment, ethics and clinical process. She is in private practice in New York City.
    Sessions
    • MA-1 : Meet-the-Author 1: Psychoanalysis and the Unspoken
  • Anastasia Stokou, MSc
    Anastasia Stokou is a Psychologist, a Relational Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, and a Trainee Group Psychotherapist (ISOPS). She has received specialized training in Sexual Disorders and Dysfunctions from the Hellenic Sexological Institute and in Online Sex Therapy from the Buehler Institute in the USA. She is co-founder of the website Sirens of Relations, alongside her colleague Stamatina Barbagianni, providing mental health services. Additionally, she collaborates as a psychologist at the therapy center “The Tree of Therapy” and serves as a lecturer and scientific associate at the Educational Institute of Synthetic Approach. Finally, she is a member of the International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP) and the American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA).
    Sessions
    • A2 : A-2: Struggle between Freedom and Enmeshment in Relational Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
  • Katherine Mechner, LMSW, MS
    As a journalist-turned-social worker, Katherine Mechner has devoted her professional life to helping people tell and make sense of their stories. She is currently training as a psychoanalytic candidate at the Institute for Expressive Analysis in New York City. She also volunteers with the Parole Preparation Project, using her training as a forensic social worker to support incarcerated New Yorkers in their efforts to get paroled.
    Sessions
    • A3 : A-3: Relational Process as a Bridge in Post-Traumatic Patients: In Dyadic and Group Therapy
  • Katerina Katsaouni MA
    Katerina Katsaouni is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist specializing in Relational Psychoanalysis from the Institute of Relational and Group Psychotherapy in Athens, Greece and in Modern Psychoanalysis from the Tampa Bay Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies (TBIPS) in Florida, USA. She is a graduate of the Department of Philosophy-Pedagogy-Psychology at the University of Athens, with majors in psychology, and holds a masters degree in Counseling Children and Young People from the University of Nottingham in the UK. She started working in 2010 as a mental health counselor in schools in England and in an alcohol rehabilitation center, and has maintained a private practice since 2013. She is a member of the International Association for Relational Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (IARPP) and the American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA), and is part of the teaching staff at the Institute of Relational and Group Psychotherapy as well as the Tampa Bay Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies. She has attended numerous conferences and seminars and has participated as a speaker at some of them in Greece and abroad.
    Sessions
    • A4 : A-4: Trauma, Breakdown and the Collapse of Meaning: A Psychoanalytic Exploration
  • Shira Kedem Ayalon
    Sessions
    • A6 : A-6: Inner Conflicts and Historical Traumas: War and Freedom via Relational Psychoanalysis
  • Konstantinos Dritsoulas, BSc, MSc, PgD
    Konstantinos Dritsoulas has a Psychology (BSc) degree from Canterbury Christ Church University and a master (MSc) degree in Clinical Psychology from University of Essex. He has successfully completed the postgraduate specialization program in clinical skills based on the cognitive analytical model and relational psychotherapy and psychoanalysis (PgD) at the Institute of Relational and Group Psychotherapy in Athens. He is under training in group analysis (PgD) at the Hellenic Institute for Group Analytic and Family Psychotherapy. He is certified in “Anxiety and Depression” and in “Mental Health: Traumatic Events and Coping with Bereavement” from National Kapodistrian University of Athens. Currently, he is in private practice with individuals and groups, and he is under the individual and group supervision in Hellenic Institute for Group Analytic and Family Psychotherapy in Athens. Furthermore, he is a member of the International Association for Relational and Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP) and American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA).
    Sessions
    • A5 : A-5: The Need to Re-Negotiate Freedom and Boundaries in Analysis: Virtual Reality and Hypermodernity
  • Stavroula Tsiorou, MSc
    Stavroula Tsiorou is an educator, psychologist , systemic family psychotherapist and certified group psychotherapist according to Irvin Yalom model. She graduated from the Department of History and Archaeology and the Department of Psychology of the University of Athens. She is psychologist in adolescent health from the post-graduate course in Adolescent and Developmental Health of the School of Medicine of the University of Athens. He completed a 5-year training in Systemic Family Counseling and Psychotherapy at the Human Relations Research Laboratory. She completed her training in Relational Group Psychotherapy according to Irvin Yalom model at the Institute for Relational and Group Psychotherapy. She studies Relational Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at the same Institute. She works at 4th High School of N. Heraklion. She collaborates as a research staff with the Choremian Children's Research Center at Athens’ Pediatric Hospital Agia Sofia. She coordinates relational psychotherapy groups according to Irvin Yalom model at the Institute for Relational and Group Psychotherapy as a probational faculty member, with Dr. Assimina Chioni at the Tree of Therapy and with Alexandra Kordosi in her private office. She teaches Systemic Psychotherapy at EKISYP. She is a member of the Hellenic Association of Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics and Adolescent Health-Medicine (EASPEII), the International Association of Relational Psychonalytic Psychotherapy (IARPP) and the American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA).
    Sessions
    • A9 : A-9: Evolving Self Identities and Social Integration: Intersubjectivity as a Container of the Patients’ Need for Gender Transformation and Unchained Growth
  • Sharon Beiman, PhD
    Faculty in the Academic College of Tel-Aviv Yaffo, Head of "Mifrasim Institute for Psychotherapy Training and Research" in the School for Behavioral Sciences at the Academic College of Tel Aviv Yaffo including heading "Ogen – Integration Based Psychotherapy Training Program" as part of the institute, former chair of the Israeli Forum for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy and former board member of IARPP, co-manager of "Siach Group - an Institute for Relational Psychotherapy" Tel Aviv, private practice Tel Aviv.
    Sessions
    • B2 : B-2: Between Democracy and Tyranny: Psychoanalysis in the Age of Collective Uncertainty, War and False Consciousness
  • Alessio Martella, PhD
    I come from Sicily but have been working in Milan for many years. I love my work, especially the clinical part, but I also feel very involved in study and theoretical reflection. My main interests are the experience of the body in therapy, how to work with images (dreams in particular) and the dynamics of transfert-countertransfert and enactment. I am a member of the Italian Society of Neuroendocrinoimmunology (Sipnei), the International Association for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology (IAPSP) and IARPP. In my spare time I practice vipassana meditation but only when I am not busy with my 3-year-old son.
    Sessions
    • B3 : B-3: Exploring Gender and Power: Relational Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Democracy and Authority
  • Liat Warhaftig-Aran
    Sessions
    • B4 : B-4: Collective Trauma as Paradoxical Link to Solidarity and Unthinkable Shared Unconscious
  • Carleen Miller
    Sessions
    • B5 : B-5: Power Dynamics, Uncertainty, Freedom and the Fluidity of Psychotherapeutic Relationships
  • Maxine Spedding
    I am a Clinical Psychologist and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cape Town. I currently serve as the Director of the Child Guidance Clinic, where the professional training in Clinical Psychology is coordinated. In this programme, I teach Psychological Assessment and Adult Psychotherapy to trainee Clinical Psychologists. My research interests have largely been centred on developing accessible, equitable and meaningful public psychological services for anyone who wants to access them. Having practised as a psychoanalytically-informed psychotherapist for the last 20 years, I have more recently been drawn to thinking of the issue of accessibility in relational and intersubjective terms and how experiences of sameness and otherness for marginalised people are echoed in the therapeutic relationship.
    Sessions
    • B7 : B-7: The Vitality of Relational Psychoanalysis as an Exit from the Complexity of Benevolent Tyranny, Time, and Independence
  • Marta Aizenman, PhD
    Short biography 1985. Psychologist Ph.D NJ License Awarded by NJ Board of Psychological Examiners #2006 1978. Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology. New York University 1963. National University of La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina, School of Education, M.A. in the Science of Education, Professional Experience 1983-Present. Private Practice, Princeton, NJ, USA 2012-Present. Clinical Supervisor, The Graduate School of Applied Psychology at Rutgers University 2021 -Present , Board member of the Mercer County Psychological Association. 2007-2009. Senior Staff Psychologist Counseling and Psychological Services, Rutgers University. 2008-2015. President of the Mercer County Psychological Association 1984-2007. Director, of Psychological Services, School of Behavioral Sciences , Rutgers University.
    Sessions
    • B8 : B-8: Moral Dilemmas of Relationality: Can Every Rupture be Contextualized and Repaired?
  • Shlomo (Momi) Beinart, PhD
    Shlomo (Momi) Beinart, Ph.D Clinical psychologist, Psychoanalyst Israel Psychoanalytic Society Head of the relational track at the Tel Aviv university post graduate psychotherapy program (medical school) Private practice in Tel Aviv
    Sessions
    • B9 : B-9: Relational Intimacy and the Body: Exploring Desire, Beauty, and Power in Democratic Spaces
  • Emmanuela Raña
    Psychologist with a Master's Degree in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, with extensive clinical experience providing therapy to adolescents, adults, and groups. Expert in crisis intervention and trauma management. Developed social inclusion programs in private schools, working with vulnerable populations. Implemented parent education programs and intervention protocols for addiction prevention.
    Sessions
    • B10 : B-10: The Shadow of Paternal Tyranny in Relational Psychoanalytic Encounters
  • Sharon Ostfeld-Etzion, PhD
    I am a clinical psychologist and supervisor in clinical psychology. I teach psychopathology and psychodiagnosis in the graduate program in developmental psychology at the Academic Center of Law and Business. I train interns in clinical psychology at Oti- The Israeli Association for Treatment and Research of Autism. I have taught for five years courses on the primary mental states at the psychodynamic psychotherapy school at Tel Aviv University. My current interest focuses on the development and research of parent-child psychotherapy and emotion regulation. I am also interested in intimate relationships between parents of children with autism and single mothers raising children with autism. Through my experience treating adults and children, training psychologists, and teaching psychology, I integrate my clinical and tutoring experience with evidence-based research.
    Sessions
    • C1 : C-1: CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PANEL: Navigating Egalitarian and Tyrannical Processes in Relational Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Children and Parent
  • Beth I. Feldman, Ph.D.
    Bio Beth Feldman is a clinical psychologist and certified psychoanalyst in private practice for almost thirty years. Beth’s practice includes adults and adolescents with mental health and substance abuse issues. She does individual therapy, couples therapy and group therapy. Beth also has a segment of her practice that she calls “Sane Parenting in a Crazy World”, in which she works with parents on a short-term basis to better understand and help their children. She received her undergraduate degree from Brandeis University (1983) and her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Long Island University (1990). Beth became a Certified Psychoanalyst (2018) after training at The Suffolk Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. Beth also has advanced training at the William Alanson White Institute (2012) in the treatment of addictions and eating disorders. As a writer, Beth has several published articles and her first book, "Case Studies in Relational Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis: If I Could Turn Back Time" is in publication.
    Sessions
    • C2 : C-2: Moving From Tyrannic Chairmanship to Relational Culture in Society
  • Marina Amore
    Marina Amore, psychologist, psychotherapist, and specialist in psychosomatic disorders, is a lecturer and a training and supervising analyst at ISIPSÉ (Institute of Specialization in Psychoanalytic Psychology of the Self and Relational Psychoanalysis). She is a member of the National Committee for Mental Disciplines of SIPNEI (Italian Society of Psychoneuroendocrinoimmunology), and a member of both IARPP (International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy) and IAPSP (International Association for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology). She also serves on the Editorial Board of PNEI Review. Her clinical approach integrates relational theory and Self Psychology, with a specific focus on somatic experience within intersubjective dynamics. She works with young adults and adults in individual, couple, and group settings. She emphasizes the clinical relevance of exploring bodily and somatic processes in the experience of the self and in intersubjective communication, especially in virtual contexts, which are increasingly common in contemporary clinical practice. With over 35 years of experience, she has devoted her career to the study of implicit and nonverbal communication—including somatic states and symptoms—within the framework of psychoanalytic psychotherapy. More recently, she has explored new ways of expanding sensory inquiry in dream analysis, particularly effective in once-weekly individual settings. She conducts individual and group training and supervision aimed at developing the therapist’s perceptual and sensory sensitivity, and at using bodily experience as a tool for clinical exploration. She has published several works on the role of the body in psychoanalytic psychotherapy and, in 1998, received an award from SIMP (Italian Society of Psychosomatic Medicine). She lives and works in Milan, Italy.
    Sessions
    • C4 : C-4: Exploring Truth and Dreams: Expanding the Analytic and Therapeutic Boundaries
  • Maria Tammone, PsyD
    Interlocutor of the session. Maria Tammone, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. I work in Rome in private practice, with adults and young adults. I am in the “Isipse” the Institute of relational psychoanalysis and psychology of the Self, in Rome. I took to several IARPP congresses in USA and Europe. I was in the organizing staff , Local committee, ROME IARPP congress, Rome 2016. Right now, I am part of the IARPP Board of Directors.
    Sessions
    • C5 : C-5: Psychoanalytic Heritage and the Tyrannic “Father" in the Analytic Setting
  • Adriana Cuenca Carrara, PhD
    Adriana Cuenca Carrara is a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist working in private practice in Tijuana, Mexico and San Diego, United States. She has a doctorate degree in Psychology from Mexico and she is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California. She is faculty member and supervisor of the Relational Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Master Program at Universidad Marista de Mérida, Mexico. She is a member of CAMFT California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists and a member of IARPP since 2013. She has lived and worked for the past 30 years between Tijuana and San Diego.
    Sessions
    • C6 : C-6: The Relational Psychotherapy Dealing with the Tyrannic Shadows of the Past and the Need for Freedom
  • Davide Belluardo, PhD
    Davide Belluardo was educated in Rome, where he received the degree in Psychology, a PhD in Dynamic Psychology and a specialization in Relational Psychoanalysis and Self-psychology from Isipsé of Rome, of which he is now a member. He lives now in Modica, in Sicily. He works at the Egle Institute of Psychology and Psychotherapy, where he practices as a psychoanalyst and carries out research. His interests especially concern the attachment theory, the relation between infant research and adult treatment.
    Sessions
    • C7 : C-7: From Tyranny to Dialogue: The Role of the Analytic Third in Navigating Power Dynamics in Relational Psychoanalysis
  • Oren Sol, PhD
    Oren Sol is a clinical psychologist with a private clinic in Tel Aviv, a lecturer and instructor for the existential psychotherapy program at the Kibbutzim College, and a doctoral student in theinterdisciplinary doctoral program in psychoanalysis, psychotherapy program, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University
    Sessions
    • C9 : C-9: Expanding Therapeutic Horizons: Innovative Animal-Assisted Therapy for Trauma Survivors through Mutual Regulation and Relational Healing
  • Yianna Kefala LICSW
    Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist /LICSW practising in London/UK. International experiences working with clients /couples from diverse backgrounds.
    Sessions
    • C10 : C-10: The Analytic Dyad in Relational Psychoanalysis: Power Dynamics Between Inner Objects and Subjects
  • Maria Galitsi, LCSW
    Maria Galitsi is a graduate of the Social Work Department of the Athens Institute of Technology and also a graduate of the Communication and Media Department of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She works at the Panhellenic Association of Disabled Persons “ERMIS” as head of the Psychosocial sector providing counseling support services to the population with intellectual disability, genetic syndromes and autism spectrum disorders and their families. In previous years, she was involved in United Nations Intergovernmental Agency programs dealing with psychosocial support for the refugee population through a coordinating role in the field and main responsibilities ensuring the quality assessment of needs and vulnerabilities and conflict resolution within a multicultural environment. She has also worked for child protection agencies and for almost ten years she was working as a journalist. She's a trainee relational psychoanalytic psychotherapist at the Institute for Relational and Group Psychotherapy (Athens). She's monitoring clinical cases under weekly supervision while in individual and group therapy. She is a member of the Association of Social Workers of Greece, a member of the International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP) and a member of the American Association of Group Psychotherapists (AGPA).
    Sessions
    • D2 : D-2: From Memory to Social Response: Rethinking Behavior and Oppression in Psychoanalysis
  • Carmine Schettini, MD
    Carmine Schettini, M.D., Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst ISIPSE’; he lives and works in Rome, Italy. He has been working for three decades in a Public Department of Mental Heath, specifically with psychotic patients and with groups of parents of serious patients. Faculty Member of the Institute ISIPSE’ (Institute of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology and Relational Psychoanalysis); Member of the IARPP Board of Directors (International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychoterapy). Co-Chair and Board liason of the IARPP Webinar Committee. Member of the Local Committee for the International IARPP Conferences in 2005 and 2016. Member of the IAPSP (International Association of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology).
    Sessions
    • D3 : D-3: Mourning in One or Two Minds? Intersubjective Crossroads
  • Jamie McMillan
    Jamie McMillan, MSW, RSW. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist. Interlocutor of session. Previous degree in English Literature. Senior Clinical Candidate at Toronto Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Currently in private practice, previously worked in public sector as a clinical social worker/counsellor in hospitals, child and family centres and community health clinics.
    Sessions
    • D5 : D-5: Psychoanalysis at the Borders: Navigating Democracy, Fluidity, and Conflict in a Changing World
  • Narjes Bahreini
    I'm Narjes from Iran. 32 years old and currently doing a phd in Germany. I have a master degree in general Psychology and it has been 6 years that I'm working as a psychologist with relational approach. I first started working with very young children and now I'm seeing adults too, for about 4 years. My phd is not related to Psychotherapy but is more a neuroscientific one on the neural perception of numbers in the human brain, although my therapist has recently found some meaning for it! last year was my first experience at IARPP and I could not feel more connected. I guess I will follow you around the world from now on. In my personal life, I've been deeply concerned with the concept of home and homelessness. Relatedly, I've been through a lot in my personal therapy and now I want to finally/hopefully put them into words.
    Sessions
    • D6 : D-6: What Happens When Authority Enters the Therapy Room?
  • Shlomit Yadlin-Gadot, PhD
    Shlomit Yadlin-Gadot, PhD. is a Clinical psychologist and training psychoanalyst in the Tel-Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. She is Chair of the Psychotherapy Program, School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, and Editor in Chief of Maarag - The Israeli Annual of Psychoanalysis, The Hebrew University. IARPP board member and co-chair of Intl. Colloquium Committee Author of "Truth Matters: Theory and Practice in Psychoanalysis " - Brill | Rodopi, 2016, and co-author of “Lacanian Psychoanalysis: A Contemporary Introduction” – Routledge 2023.
    Sessions
    • D7 : D-7: Hateful Imprisonment in the Shelter: The Impact of Underlying Complex Emotions in Analytic Thirdness
  • Michael C. Singer, PhD
    Michael C. Singer, PhD, is a clinical psychologist whose private practice on the Upper West Side of Manhattan includes adults, children, and couples. He also leads a support group for male survivors of childhood sexual abuse. Michael is a psychotherapy supervisor at the William Alanson White Institute and has also supervised doctoral candidates at the City College of the City University of New York and Adelphi University, where he earned his doctorate. An adjunct professor at Hunter College, his articles on treatment and training issues, LGBT mental health, and the treatment of children, as well as his research into the internal experience of performing artists, have appeared in a variety of professional journals. A former professional violist who holds a Master of Music degree in Viola Performance from the Manhattan School of Music, Michael’s continuing involvement with the arts is reflected in his activities as part of the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society’s Global Council. He is a frequent presenter at both the Artists Study Group and Service and the Sexual Abuse Study Group and Service at the White Institute.
    Sessions
    • D8 : D-8: Relational Evolution: Global, Interpersonal, and Intrapsychic Challenges in Group Work with Sexual Abuse Survivors
  • Angi Jacobs-Kayam, PhD
    Dr. Angi Jacobs-Kayam is the head of the MAAT program at Ha' Kibbutzim College, Israel. With a PhD in Art Therapy, she serves as a post-doctoral affiliate at the Mofet Institute and is the editor of the Haifa University Art Therapy Academic Journal. In addition, she supervises emerging art therapists in their fieldwork and is an active member of the audit committee for the Israeli Art Therapy Organization. Her research focuses on trauma-based art therapy, parental supervision through art therapy tools, teaching art therapy and the integration of art therapy within educational settings. In addition to her academic and supervisory roles, she practices privately, providing therapeutic support to individuals and groups.
    Sessions
    • D9 : D-9: Insight or Blindness: Reality and Paradox in Relational Psychotherapy
  • Lyn Elsa Georgy, M.phil in Clinical Psychology (NIMHANS)
    Lyn Elsa Georgy has been a clinical psychologist and psychodynamic psychotherapist for over 13 years now, with a keen interest in studying consciousness and the human psyche by corollary. Currently an International Affiliate with the American Psychologist Association (APA) and a Member of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP), her educational qualifications include an M.Phil. in clinical psychology from NIMHANS, Bangalore, India (2013) and a Masters in Clinical Psychology (2010).
    Sessions
    • D10 : D-10: 'When My Analyst Let Me Down'- Relational Injuries in the Psychoanalytic Process
  • Adella Nikitiades, PhD
    Adella Nikitiades is a clinical psychologist, practicing in private practice in New York City. She is a psychoanalytic candidate at NYU postdoctoral program in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. Dr. Nikitiades completed her doctoral degree in clinical psychology from The New School for Social Research, specializing on attachment science. She proceeded to complete her postdoctoral training at Montefiore Medical Center where she worked as an attending psychologist for three years, offering psychotherapy services to adults and children, supervising psychology and psychiatry trainees and lecturing on Trauma Informed Treatment, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy and Mentalization Based Treatment. She is an adjunct professor at John Jay College for Criminal Justice, where she has taught psychopathology, advanced supervision in victimology, and theories of personality.
    Sessions
    • E2 : E-2: Unintentional Therapist’s Disclosure in and out of the Consulting Room: Tyrannical or Liberating Regime in Analytic Thirdness?
  • Evridiky Evy Koutsamanis, MSc
    EDUCATION : Bachelor in Psychology (University of East London) Institute for relational and group therapy Master in business psychology (still studying) Course in school psychology Course in positive psychology Course in couple therapy Course in health psychology SKILLS : Problem solving Management Communication Empathy WORK EXPERIENCE : Human resources management (in an S.A. in Tourist business and restaurants) Private practice as a psychologist Member in : APA, AGPA, IARPP, BPS
    Sessions
    • E3 : E-3: Survival Guilt of the Therapist: The Tyranny of Relatedness
  • Maria Silvia Soriato Ph.D
    Maria Silvia Soriato Ph.D is a Psychotherapist and a Psychoanalyst ISIPSé. She is a Training Analyst, Clinical Supervisor and Member, ISIPSé in Rome. She is a Clinical Supervisor of multi-professional teams anti-violence Centres and Shelters for women victims of gender violence. She was Psychotherapist in NGOs that provide assistance to women victims of human trafficking and to men perpetrators of intimate partner violence.
    Sessions
    • E4 : E-4: The Agent for Change: Breaking Free of Theoretical Tyranny in the Analytic Process
  • Athina Stavropoulou, MD
    Sessions
    • E6 : E-6: Splinters in our Eyes, Splinters in our Skin: Enacting the Dialectic of Tyranny and Liberation in Relational Psychoanalytic Practice
  • Holly Levenkron, LCSW, LICSW
    Interlocutor of the session. Holly Levenkron, LCSW, LICSW, is a relational/interpersonal psychoanalyst who teaches and supervises in several psychoanalytic institutes. She has bi-city affiliations at ICP, the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy, in NYC and at MIP, The Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis, where she is Faculty and Supervising Analyst. She is currently Director of Psychoanalytic Training at ICP in NYC. She has lectured nationally and internationally with publications in English and Italian. She has taught courses on Relational Psychoanalysis, Affect Theory, Field Theory and has written and presented on Dissociation, Enactment, Affective Honesty, Adult Aspergers and Field Theory. She has a personal interest in studies addressing self-development and as a trained artist has worked with self-expression developing a strong interest in non-verbal affective communication as a way to open the intersubjective field. These interests culminate in her clinical work focusing on the value of finding one’s voice in both containing and direct ways. She is in private practice in New York and Cambridge, MA.
    Sessions
    • E7 : E-7: Affective Democracy in the Clinical Encounter: Recovering Complexity Against the Tyranny of Simplification
  • Roberto Vargas Arreola, PhD
    Dr. Roberto Vargas Arreola, Director of Postgraduate Studies in Psychoanalysis at the Intercontinental University, holds a PhD in Psychoanalysis and holds a postdoctoral degree in Contemporary Psychoanalysis from the same university. He is a member of the board of directors of the AMPPR (National Association of Psychoanalysts) and the National College of Clinical Psychoanalysts. He is a psychotherapist in private practice, thesis advisor, and case supervisor. He is the author of the clinical instrument PRAD: Relational Profile for Adolescents and the books The Skin of the World: A Look from Relational Psychoanalysis to Contemporary Families and Shared Dignity: Ethics from Relational Psychoanalysis in the Face of Violence and Objectification.
    Sessions
    • E8 : E-8: The Myth of Sisyphus, "Zorba the Greek" and Racial Discrimination in Classical Music
  • Claudia Villanueva Kuri, PhD
    Interlocutor of the session. Dr. Claudia Villanueva Kuri, has a PhD in Psychoanalysis from the Intercontinental University, has training as an individual and group therapist from AMPAG, is a postgraduate teacher and is dedicated to clinical practice in private practice.
    Sessions
    • E9 : E-9: Fear and Shame in an Israeli Psychoanalyst and His Patient: Lessons Learned in Times of War
  • ALEXANDRA KORDOSI, MA., BSc.
    Alexandra Kordosi is a licensed Psychologist in Greece and a Certified Counselling Psychologist in the UK. She is a certified group psychotherapist having completed a 3-year Pg. Dip. Training in Group Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis at the Institute for Relational and Group Psychotherapy (Athens) in conjunction with Yalom’s Institute (USA). She holds an MA. in Psychotherapy and Counselling from Regent’s College London, a BSc. in Psychology from Middlesex University London , a Pg. Cert. in Systemic Family Therapy from Birkbeck College London and a Pg.Cert. in Clinical Psychopathology from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She is a Certified Trauma and PTSD therapist, as well as a Certified Grief Support Therapist from Taking Flight International Corporation of Canada. She is a graduate member of the British Psychological Society (BPS), the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP) and the American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA). In her professional career, she has worked for various mental health institutions in Greece and the UK and has been working over the last fifteen years in private practice with individuals, couples, families and groups. Website: www.psychologyforus.com
    Sessions
    • E10 : E-10: The Role of Narrative Holes in Making Relational Sense of Tyranny and Democracy
  • Irit Kleiner-Paz
    Sessions
    • E11 : E-11: Democracy & Disavowal
  • Bracha Hadar
    Bracha Hadar is a clinical psychologist, group analyst, and bioenergetic analyst. She was educated and worked in the psychoanalytical perception of psychotherapy. At that time, 1970-1980, the body was absent in the psychotherapy arena. Bracha Hadar felt that she would not be able to bring her true self as a therapist unless the body becomes part of the therapeutic relationships. To achieve this goal she started to work with a movement therapist who was the head of a training program for movement therapy. She was part of this program in teaching and supervision. In addition she joined the first training group in Israel of Bioenergetic Analysis. Her move towards Bioenergetics was considered, in the psychotherapy field in Israel, as moving away from Psychoanalysis. From then on she wrote many papers, both in Hebrew and in English, dealing with the importance of the body and sexuality in the therapeutic process. Her main issue was the theoretical relations between the fields, rather than difference. In continuation of the Bioenergetic training she started a group analysis training, and was certified as a group analyst. She belonged to the first generation who established the Institute of Group Analysis in Israel. Both Bioenergetic Analysis and Group Analysis were offsprings of Psychoanalysis. From then on it was her main subject in writing. After her paper "The therapeutic Approach to the Body in Psychoanalysis and its Relation to Movement Therapy and Bioenergetic Analysis" was published in: J. of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis 29(3). 483-490, 2001, she was invited to give a lecture in the annual meeting of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis in New York. She was surprised to meet in the audience psychoanalysts who lived in New York and have never heard about Bioenergetic Analysis, whose center of training was in N.Y. In Group Analysis she wrote about the meaning of sitting in a circle face-to-face. The result of it was her paper "The Body of Shame in the Circle of the Group", which was published in J. of Group Analysis. One of the comments to the paper was written by Malcolm Pines, an important figure in Group Analysis: "In this excellent paper Bracha Hadar brings back together that which should not have been rent asunder: mind/body: body/mind’. Shame became an important subject in her writings. Her paper "The impact of Shame on the body presence of therapists and patients in the dyadic and group therapeutic meeting" was published in Hebrew in the Israeli journal "Sihot" and became part of the theoretical material in several programs teaching psychotherapy. Bracha Hadar always considered herself part of the psychoanalytic approach. The Relational branch of the psychoanalytical approach seemed to be the right forum to belong, because of its sensitivity to the body dimension of psychological caregiving. She conducted workshops in the conferences of the relational forum in Israel. In the last couple of years she has focused on the theme of aging. Her chapter "Is there hope for change at my age" was published in 2017 as a chapter in the book "Group Analysis in the Land of Milk and Honey" – A collection of papers written by members of the Israeli Institute of Group Analysis. Bracha Hadar conducts 3 groups in her private clinic. One of the groups consists of aging. Participants. Her credo is: "It is never too late to become the person you were born to be".
    Sessions
    • F1 : F-1: When the Tyrannical Objects of the Therapist and the Patient Meet Each Other: Ruptures and Repairs
  • Karen Perlman, PhD, LP, NCPsyA
    Interlocutor of the session. Karen Perlman, PhD, LP, NCPsyA, is a psychoanalyst in private practice with children, adolescents, adults, and families. She is Faculty Member and Supervisor at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies, where she completed her psychoanalytic training, and is also on the institute's Curriculum Committee. She is Co-Editor in Chief of Psychoanalytic Perspectives, and a board member of the American Journal of Psychoanalysis. She is also a consultant on child development and parenting issues to several schools, and has presented her work at both psychoanalytic conferences and in the community.
    Sessions
    • F2 : F-2: Trauma, Power, and Sexuality in the Consulting Room
  • Catalina Celsi, PhD
    Clinical psychologist and psychotherapist with extensive experience in relational psychoanalytic psychotherapy and adult patient care. My professional approach is characterized by passion, continuous learning, and dedication. With over ten years of experience in private practice and active involvement in academic and clinical institutions, I have taken on various roles, including teaching, clinical supervision, and coordinating multidisciplinary teams. Currently based in Madrid, I aim to continue my clinical practice while remaining open to ongoing professional development. My teaching and supervisory activities are fundamental to building and strengthening a bidirectional learning network. My current project focuses on actively promoting relational psychoanalysis by forming alliances and networks between Chile and Spain.
    Sessions
    • F5 : F-5: Democracy in the Consulting Room: Navigating Tyranny, Aggression, and the Paradox of Relational Healing
  • Nina Sander, MA
    Nina Sander is a candidate at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies in NIP's four-year training program in psychoanalysis and comprehensive psychotherapy. She is an active member of IARPP. Nina is Vice President/Incoming President of NIPPA, NIP’s Professional Association. She is also a founding member and co-chair of NIP’s Equity Advisory Committee, which seeks to guide the Institute in equitable and inclusive policy and planning. She is the founder and director of The Cassandra Project, a digital storytelling initiative affiliated with New York University that seeks to amplify the voices of women living and working on the frontlines of climate change. Prior to training in Psychoanalysis, Nina worked as an environmental educator, program director, and environmental justice advocate for various community-based organizations throughout the New York area. She is passionate about sailing, outdoor adventure, the theater, and her family.
    Sessions
    • F6 : F-6: The Relational Journey from Society to Community and From Institution to Consultation
  • Maria Founda
    Sessions
    • F7 : F-7: Tyranny and Democracy in Psychoanalytic Institutes
  • Matina Saranti, PgD
    Matina Saranti is a licensed psychologist since 2023. She studied Law at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Psychology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She has worked as a legal advisor from 2015 to 2024 and as a psychologist in private practice since 2023. She is a candidate in relational psychoanalytic psychotherapy at the Institute for Relational and Group Psychotherapy, Athens. Her training includes attending seminars, conferences and online educational programs in Greece and abroad. She is a member of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis & Psychotherapy (IARPP) and the American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA).
    Sessions
    • F8 : F-8: Shedding Light on ‘Hiding Places’ in Both Interior and Exterior Contexts as Responses to Trauma
  • Judith Enders, PhD
    Judith is an integrative individual and family therapist, systemic mediator, coach and group analyst. She also works with a lot of passion as a groupanalytic supervisor. After studying political science at the Free University of Berlin in the 1990s, she worked for many years in science and politics, including at the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU), Rutgers University, State University of New Jersey, the University of Erfurt and the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin. 2025 she finished a research project at the University of Leipzig to right wing developments in rural areas of eastern Germany (https://waysacrossthecountry.de/). After returning from a research stay in New York in 2007, she completed her doctorate on the topic of 'Knowledge Networks and Climate Policy' at the University of Kassel. The topic of sustainability is close to her heart, and in a holistic sense. This means thinking ecologically, socially and economically in a future-oriented and justice-oriented way. The focus is on human development. In 2017, she decided to integrate her scientific skills into the systemic and psychoanalytic field. Today, she succeeds in doing this by combining scientific focuses on feminism and sustainability with her lifeworld-oriented work as a consultant, coach and group analyst in the support of individuals, teams and groups. Dr. Enders has published several books on sustainable development, climate change and Eastern Germany studies. One of her most read books in English language, Theories of Sustainable Development, explores key concepts to achieving successful implementation of sustainability (Routledge, 2013). Enders is the founder of the Third Generation East initiative and serves as a board member of the Perspective Hoch Drei Society (https://perspektivehochdrei.de/).
    Sessions
    • F9 : F-9: Friendship as a Third - A Thread of Freedom within Relational Psychotherapy’s Texture
  • Tania Pires, PhD
    I am 46 years old and mother of a 12th years girl. Degree in Psychology (2001), Post-graduate in Family Therapy (2002), and Child Development Disorders (2003); Master (2006) and PhD (2011) in Health Psychology from the University of Minho - Portugal. Title of Specialist in Clinical and Health, Education and Community Psychology by the Order of Portuguese Psychologists (OPP); Supervisor and Advisor of Internships (OPP); Relational Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist (in training at PsiRelacional - Portugal). Member of APA and IARPP International. Since 2001 I have been working in the context of private clinic, with children, adolescents and adults, whether in the field of education, clinical and, more recently, relational psychoanalytic psychotherapy. This was the approach that made the most sense to me, namely because of the emphasis given to the relationship, to what happens in the here and now and to feeling. Psychotherapy is a way of being in life and a life project, which is reflected professionally but also in my personal relationships. I also develop my professional activity in a school contexts (since 2003) with children and adolescents (from 3 to 18 years old), families, teachers and school staff. I develop psychological and psychotherapeutic consultation in public contexts, I am part of the multidisciplinary team to support inclusive education and more recently a project in the field of welcoming migrant students. Despite some challenges, this is also a way to bring relational psychoanalysis closer to people. I have also worked in higher education as a teacher and researcher, in the training of young university students and professionals (teachers and school staff), in psychology and education signatures.
    Sessions
    • F10 : F-10: Playing in Psychotherapy: Hope, Mentalization, and Freedom
  • Anca Ditroi, PhD, CGP
    Sessions
    • LG2 : Large Group 2
    • LG1 : Large Group 1
  • Alkinoi Lala, MSc
    Sessions
    • P1 : Plenary I: Freedom of Knowing, Freedom of Being: The Dialectic between Multiplicity and Unicity in Politics and in Psychoanalytic Work
  • Amir Hossein Jalali Nadoushan, Psychiatrist, M.D
    Dr. Amir Hossein Jalali Nadoushan is a psychiatrist with over 14 years of academic and clinical experience in mental health. After earning the top rank in Iran’s national psychiatry board examination, he began his career as a faculty psychiatrist in 2009. Since then, he has remained deeply engaged in both the clinical and academic dimensions of psychiatry, with a particular focus on social and psychodynamic psychiatry. His formal training in psychodynamic field includes graduation from the Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Program at the Tehran Center for Psychoanalytic Studies, specialized training in interpersonal psychodynamic psychotherapy through an online course at the William Alanson White Institute in New York, and a diploma in Group Analysis from the Stockholm Group Analysis Institute. Throughout his career, he has had the privilege of learning from and working alongside esteemed psychoanalysts, including Dr. Spyros Orphanos, director of the postdoctoral program at NYU, as well as Susan Warsaw and Judy Roth, both prominent relational psychoanalysts based in New York. He is the founding chair of the Iran chapter of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (IARPP) and was honored to be selected as a fellow at the Teacher Academy of the American Psychoanalytic Association in 2021. His academic and clinical work is shaped by a deep interest in the cultural dimensions of psychiatric disorders and psychotherapy in Iran. He has presented lectures at numerous national and international conferences and served as the scientific secretary of the Fourth Iranian Congress of Psychoanalysis and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (2023). Beyond academia, he is committed to supporting the next generation of mental health professionals. He founded and served as the secretary of the Davidian Award for Young Psychiatrists, a national initiative recognizing and encouraging emerging talent in psychiatry. To foster dialogue and promote theoretical diversity within Iran’s psychotherapy community, he co-founded the Manjeh Educational Group for Comparative Approaches to Psychoanalysis, an initiative dedicated to interdisciplinary learning, pluralism, and critical exchange. In addition to his clinical and academic contributions, Dr. Jalali Nadoushan has played an active role in making essential psychotherapeutic literature accessible to Persian-speaking professionals. His published translations include Psychodynamic Formulation by Deborah Cabaniss et al. and Utilization of Psychodynamic Theories in Family Settings. He is currently working on the translation of two additional texts, including The Relational Revolution by Steven Kuchuk.
    Sessions
    • P2 : President's Welcome & Plenary II: The Dialectics of Clinical and Social Freedom and Tyranny in the Consulting Room
  • Haim Weinberg, PhD
    Dr. Weinberg is a licensed psychologist in California (PSY 23243) & Israel, in private practice in Sacramento, California, with more than 35 years of experience. He is also a group analyst and Certified Group Psychotherapist. He is past President of the Israeli Association of Group Psychotherapy and of the Northern California Group Psychotherapy Society, and list-owner of the group psychotherapy professional online discussion forum. Dr. Weinberg was the Academic Vice-President of the Professional School of Psychology in which he created and coordinates an online doctoral program in group psychotherapy and marital therapy. He published books on Internet groups and about Fairy Tales and the Social Unconscious, and co-edited a book about the large group and a series of books about the social unconscious. He is on the clinical faculty of Psychiatry at UC Davis Medical Center and Fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association and of the International Group Psychotherapy Association, as well as a Distinguished Fellow of the Israeli Group Psychotherapy Association. He has received several awards including the Harold Bernard Group Psychotherapy Training Award and the Ann Alonso Award for Excellence in Psychodynamic Group Therapy.
    Sessions
    • P3 : Plenary III: Caring for a Psychoanalytic Community: Using Social Unconscious and Group Dynamic Theories to Expand our Understanding of Power Dynamics
  • Steven Kuchuck, DSW
    Dr. Steven Kuchuck is Senior Consulting Editor (formerly Editor-in-Chief) of Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Associate Editor, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Co-Editor; Routledge Relational Perspectives Book Series, Immediate Past President of IARPP, faculty, NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and Board Member, supervisor, faculty, at NIP, and faculty/supervisor at the NIP National Training Program, Stephen Mitchell Relational Study Center and other institutes. Dr. Kuchuck’s teaching and writing focus primarily on the clinical impact of the therapist’s subjectivity. His most recent book is The Relational Revolution in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (Confer Books, 2021).In 2015 and 2016 he won the Gradiva Award for best psychoanalytic book: Clinical Implications of the Psychoanalyst’s Life Experience: When the Personal Becomes Professional and The Legacy of Sandor Ferenczi: From Ghost to Ancestor (co-edited with Adrienne Harris). His clinical and supervisory practice is in Manhattan.
    Sessions
    • P4 : Plenary IV: What is Happening to Us? The Ongoing Impact of Cumulative Trauma and Existential Crisis on the Clinician
  • MEHR-AFARIN KOHAN, MD, FRCPC
    Dr. Mehr-Afarin Kohan is a Toronto-based psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. She received her medical degree from SUNY Upstate Medical University, completed her residency in psychiatry at the University of Toronto and completed her analytic training at the Toronto Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis (TICP). She spends most of her time doing long-term psychotherapy and psychoanalysis at her private practice in Toronto and works with refugees at the Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture (CCVT). She is a psychodynamic psychotherapy supervisor at the University of Toronto. She is a board member, academic director and faculty at the TICP. She is the co-chair of the IARPP’s Candidates Committee. She was the recipient of the 2016 Susanne Chassay Memorial Paper Award from the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC). She has previously published in the Psychoanalytic Dialogues and Psychoanalytic Quarterly. She is also an award-winning published fiction writer. For more information visit mehrafarinkohan.com.
    Sessions
    • P5 : Plenary V: The Psyche Around Us: Relational Psychoanalysis in Engagement with Severely Distressed Communities & CLOSING REMARKS
  • Lauren Levine, Ph.D.
    Dr. Lauren Levine is Joint Editor-in-Chief of Psychoanalytic Dialogues. Her new book, Risking Intimacy and Creative Transformation in Psychoanalysis was published in Routledge’s Relational Perspectives Book Series in April 2023. It was just translated into Spanish by Dr. Marie Saba. Dr. Levine teaches and presents both nationally and internationally, and has published articles about sociocultural, racial and relational trauma, resilience, and creativity. She is on the Faculty of NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis, and The Stephen Mitchell Relational Study Center, where she’s Co-Director of the One Year Program in Relational Studies. Dr. Levine is Visiting Faculty at the Institute for Relational and Group Psychotherapy in Athens, Greece, and the Tampa Bay Psychoanalytic Society. She is a psychoanalyst in private practice in NYC.
    Sessions
    • F2 : F-2: Trauma, Power, and Sexuality in the Consulting Room
    • DG1-1 : Discussion Group 1-1
    • DG2-1 : Discussion Group 2-1
  • Tuly Flint
    Sessions
    • C8 : C-8: The Social World and Clinical Encounters as Waves between Hope and Barbarism
    • DG1-2 : Discussion Group 1-2
    • DG2-2 : Discussion Group 2-2
  • Matt Aibel, LCSW
    Matt Aibel, LCSW is an experienced psychoanalytic psychotherapist. He sees patients in New York City and remotely. He has studied, consulted, and collaborated with many of the nation’s most influential psychoanalysts. In addition to working with patients, he teaches, lectures, writes, edits, and supervises other therapists.
    Sessions
    • A1 : A-1: Sibling Dynamics in Relational Psychoanalysis
    • DG1-3 : Discussion Group 1-3
    • DG2-3 : Discussion Group 2-3
  • Ignacio Blasco Barrientos. PsyD
    Ignacio Blasco Barrientos. Psy.D Individual psychotherapist specialized in adolescents and adults. Professor Agora Relational and Intercontinental University Mexico Member IPR / FEAP / IARPP / IAPSP • Representative of Spain in the committee of candidates of IARPP International. • Member of the Board of Directors Section Group Psychotherapies and Section Psychoanalytic Psychotherapies FEAP.
    Sessions
    • C8 : C-8: The Social World and Clinical Encounters as Waves between Hope and Barbarism
    • DG1-4 : Spanish Discussion Group 1-4
    • DG2-4 : Spanish Discussion Group 2-4
  • Simona Caprilli, PhD
    Simona Caprilli is Psychology, Psychoanalyst and exercises private practice in Florence with children, adolescents and adults. She is member in Isipsè, Rome, and also teacher and supervisor. She is IARPP and IAPSP member and part of Educational Committee in IAPSP. She presented papers in several psychoanalytic conferences in IARPP. In 2022 she published a paper about childhood on PSC journal and she presented it on a Journal Club. From 2000 until 2015 she has worked at Pediatric Hospital of Florence A. MEYER as clinical psychologist.
    Sessions
    • DG1-5 : Discussion Group 1-5
    • DG2-5 : Discussion Group 2-5
  • Jean Principe, PhD
    Private practice for individuals and couples; clinical consultation and supervision groups; teaching.
    Sessions
    • DG1-6 : Discussion Group 1-6
  • Ronen Kowalsky, M.A.
    Ronen Kowalsky: Supervising clinical psychologist. Co-Founder and Head of the Institute of Psychotherapeutic Playback Theater. Head of the Analytic Psychotherapeutic Playback Theater program in Winnicott Center of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Tel Aviv. Member of the Israeli Institute of Group Analysis. Supervisor & Lecturer at Winnicott Center and The Academic College of Society and Art. Acted, wrote, and directed in various theaters. He established "The Left Bank Theater Group", Tel - Aviv, and the "Third Generation" German-Israeli theater project. He won the European ARENA prize for young directors. Co-writer of "An Introduction to Psychotherapeutic Playback Theater" (Routledge, 2022) and articles in the field.
    Sessions
    • DG1-7 : Discussion Group 1-7
    • DG2-7 : Discussion Group 2-7
  • Jean Principe, PhD
    Dr. Principe is a clinical psychologist and analyst with an office in Soho, New York City. In her private practice she sees individuals as well as couples; she also runs supervision groups and regularly provides consultation to other therapists and organizations. Dr. Principe has an extensive history of teaching and has published a journal article on the importance of the alliance in psychotherapy. She is a long-time board member of the Endowment for the Advancement of Psychotherapy at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard, whose mission is to support and expand education, professional training and research in dynamic psychotherapies.
    Sessions
    • DG2-6 : Discussion Group 2-6
  • Marc Rehm, Ph.D.
    Marc Rehm, Ph.D. is an Adjunct Professor and Supervisor at Adelphi University’s Postgraduate Program in Psychoanalysis and Faculty and Supervisor at The Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. He supervises doctoral candidates in clinical psychology at the NYU Postdoctoral Program Externship, at Adelphi University’s Derner School of Psychology, and at Yeshiva University’s Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology. Dr. Rehm is on the staff of Northern Westchester Hospital and maintains a private practice in New York City as well as from his home, over Zoom these days, in Westchester County, New York.
    Sessions
    • MA-1 : Meet-the-Author 1: Psychoanalysis and the Unspoken
  • Jessica Spilioti, MSc
    Jessica Spilioti is based in Athens, Greece, she works in Early Years education and is currently a candidate at the Institute for Relational and Group Psychotherapy (ISOPS). Jessica has a Joint Honours degree in Anthropology and Sociology (University of Aberdeen), a Master’s degree in Childhood Studies (University of Edinburgh) and she recently trained in the pedagogical principles of the Froebelian approach to early years learning (University of Edinburgh). Her educational role with children and psychotherapeutic work with adults are both a cause and effect of her multifaceted interests in being and relatedness. She is a member of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP) and the American Association for Group Psychotherapy (AGPA).
    Sessions
    • MA-2 : Meet-the-Author 2: Passion, Shame, and The Freedom To Become: Seizing The Vital Moment in Psychoanalysis
  • Alina Triantafyllou (BSc)
    Alina Triantafyllou was born in Athens in 1974. She is a trainee in the Institute of Relational and Group Psychotherapy in Greece. She is a member of The International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy and the American Group Psychotherapy Association. She has finished her graduate psychology studies and holds a bachelor's degree and a postgraduate degree in Law. She has participated in the 2nd Symposium of Relational Psychoanalysis and Group Psychotherapy, and the 8th Panhellenic Conference on Consulting Psychology.
    Sessions
    • A1 : A-1: Sibling Dynamics in Relational Psychoanalysis
  • ANNITA, CHATZIMICHAILIDI BSc, (PgD)
    Annita Chatzimichailidi holds a bachelor’s degree in social work and she has been trained by several postgraduate Institutions in psychotherapy. Her professional career began with her studies in Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy. She then specialized in "Behavioral Therapy for Anxiety Disorders, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder". She continued her education in Relational Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at the Institute of Relational & Group Psychotherapy, where she is currently a trainee in group therapy based on Yalom’s model. Additionally, she is undergoing training at the Tampa Bay Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies. In Athens, Greece, she works as a Coordinator of Educational Programs and Internships – Educator at the "Original Centre of Synthetic Treatments: Educational Institute of Synthetic Approach PC". Furthermore, she tutors cognitive-behavioral classes on Third Wave CBT and she conducts relational psychoanalytic classes in Synthetic approach programs. For three years, she volunteered as a social worker in an outpatient program for people experiencing their first psychotic episode at a Psychiatric Hospital in Athens. She has worked with NGOs assisting refugees and foundations that host minors who have been separated from their natural families by a prosecutor's order. She maintains affiliations with psychiatric centers where she conducts therapeutic sessions while also working in private practice. Until now, she has been a moderator at the 19th IARPP Annual Conference and presented to the candidates’ committee at the IARPP Conference in 2022.
    Sessions
    • A2 : A-2: Struggle between Freedom and Enmeshment in Relational Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
  • Dan Solomon, MA
    Dan Solomon is a licensed clinical psychologist working in both private practice and at “Clalit” Public Mental Health Services in Israel's Western Galilee region. He holds a master's degree in clinical psychology from Tel Aviv University and has completed a three-year program in psychoanalytic psychotherapy at the University of Haifa. Dan co-leads a study group with international psychoanalysts and is currently pursuing certification as a clinical psychology supervisor, as well as expanding his expertise in group psychotherapy. Dan lives with his wife and two kids in an ecological village in the north of Israel.
    Sessions
    • A3 : A-3: Relational Process as a Bridge in Post-Traumatic Patients: In Dyadic and Group Therapy
  • Judy Roth, PhD
    Dr. Judy Roth is a clinical psychologist/psychoanalyst, adjunct medical professor at The CUNY School of Medicine in New York City, and clinical consultant for the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis externship and human rights work group and the City College clinical psychology doctoral program. She is in private practice in New York city working with young adults and adults. She has been involved in psychological accompaniment and witnessing efforts inside and outside the formal office setting and is co-chair of the Global Psychosocial Network. Dr. Roth has published on efforts to bear witness to political violence and most recently on awakening to the implicated self. In her clinical and communal work, and in her writing Dr. Roth draws from relational and existential psychology and psychoanalysis. She is the daughter of Holocaust refugees, a parent, and a clinician who has had the privilege of working with first generation young adults, immigrants, and parents raising children in an ever-darkening world---experiences that deeply inform her orientation to the current moment.
    Sessions
    • A4 : A-4: Trauma, Breakdown and the Collapse of Meaning: A Psychoanalytic Exploration
  • Ondrej Matejka, PhD
    PhDr. Ondřej Matějka Ph.D., private practice in psychoanalytical psychotherapy (individual and group), associate member of Czech Society for Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy (group section), candidate member of Czech Psychoanalytical Society; assistant professor in contemporary European history (Charles University, Prague).
    Sessions
    • A6 : A-6: Inner Conflicts and Historical Traumas: War and Freedom via Relational Psychoanalysis
  • Gerardo Perez Alcaraz, MA
    Gerardo is a Clinical Psychologist and Psychotherapist with a relational focus. He earned a B.A. in psychology with a minor in sociology and holds a graduate degree in Clinical and Health Psychology. As part of his psychoanalytical training, he completed a Relational Psychotherapy Master´s program. He teaches an introductory seminar in Relational Psychoanalysis at Universidad Intercontinental and lectures at a graduate-level program at Universidad Marista. Gerardo is a member and candidate of AMPPR Mexico Contemporaneo. Based in Mexico City, he operates a private practice, where he works with adolescents and adults.
    Sessions
    • A5 : A-5: The Need to Re-Negotiate Freedom and Boundaries in Analysis: Virtual Reality and Hypermodernity
  • Elli Kazamiaki, PhD
    I am a psychologist focused on social issues, a relational psychotherapist in training, and a dance movement therapist. I hold a degree in Psychology from Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences in Athens and completed a three-year training program in Dance Movement Therapy at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. I have training in social issues, interpersonal violence, and gender perspectives, as well as in bodily techniques such as Authentic Movement and Laban Movement Analysis. My experience in related fields includes my current role as a psychologist at Salesians Sant Jordi, where I conduct individual sessions with adolescents and young people in youth reintegration programs, in addition to leading weekly workshops and case supervision. I have also led projects involving individual and group sessions with minors, group sessions with mothers, and psychological evaluation and support for individuals involved in temporary housing for refugee families—all from a psychodynamic relational therapeutic approach.
    Sessions
    • A7 : A-7: Detachment and Compassion: Understanding Freedom, Perversion and the shift from Conspiracy
  • SALLY BJORKLUND M.A., L.M.H.C.
    Sally Bjorklund MA, LMHC, is a psychoanalyst and supervisor in independent practice in Seattle, Washington. She was co-founder and faculty member of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Seattle (RPPS). She is on the editorial board of the journal Psychoanalytic Perspectives and is a supervisor for the National Training Program at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies (NIP). She was a contributor to Clinical Implications of the Psychoanalyst’s Life Experience: When the Personal Becomes Professional (Kuchuck, 2013), and has written and presented on topics including gender and sexualities, adoption, aging, working with hard to reach patients, and erotic transference.
    Sessions
    • A8 : A-8: From Freud to the Digital Age: The Evolution of Narcissism and the Expansive Self in Psychoanalytic Practice and Technology
  • Martin Altmeyer PsyD
    Dr. rer. med. habil. Martin Altmeyer, Dipl. Psych. Assoc. Professor Psychoanalytic Psychology (emeritus). Selected Publications: Das entfesselte Selbst. Versuch einer Gegenwartsdiagnose (Psychosozial-Verlag) 2023. Co-Author with Daniel Cohn-Bendit: Den historischen Wiederholungszwang überwinden. Für eine Zweistaatenlösung im Nahost-Konflikt (SPIEGELonline November 2023).
    Sessions
    • A9 : A-9: Evolving Self Identities and Social Integration: Intersubjectivity as a Container of the Patients’ Need for Gender Transformation and Unchained Growth
  • George Stephen Bermudez
    Dr. George Bermúdez, Psychologist-Psychoanalyst, Training & Supervising Psychoanalyst at The Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis Los Angeles, and 2020-21 Visiting Scholar at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC) has developed pioneering scholarship and practice –an expansion toward a social psychoanalysis–exploring the “social unconscious” through “social dreaming”. The author of “The Social Dreaming Matrix as a Container for the Processing of Implicit Racial Bias and Collective Racial Trauma” (International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, 2018) and “Community Psychoanalysis: A Contribution to an Emerging Paradigm” (Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 2019), he has focused on numerous contemporary socio-political concerns: American Xenophobia; Whiteness and Psychoanalysis; Black Reparations; The LGBTQ Unconscious in the Trumpian Era; and The Global Unconscious in the Time of Pandemic. Dr. Bermudez’ most recent work focuses on the applications of social dreaming to the discovery of potential solutions to our climate crisis and the development of “deliberative democracy”.
    Sessions
    • B1 : B-1: Democracy and Tyranny in Psychoanalytic Institutes: The Group Turn
  • Massimo Perrini ISIPSé
    Massimo Perrini, Psychologist, Psychotherapist, Psychoanalyst ISIPSé (Institute of Specialization in Psychoanalytic Self Psychology and Relational Psychoanalysis), member of IARPP and IAPSP, lives and works privately in Rome with adults, young adults, and couples. He actively collaborates in the seminars organized by ISIPSé, particularly as part of the study group on “Otherness and Psychoanalysis”, and serves as a trainer with a seminar titled "Otherness, Gender, and Intersubjectivity" at the Psychoanalysis program of the Institute ISIPSé in Milan.
    Sessions
    • B3 : B-3: Exploring Gender and Power: Relational Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Democracy and Authority
  • María Javiera Pomés Arroyave, Mstr.
    Javiera Pomés is a chilean psychologist, who lives and works in Madrid. She has a master's on emergency psychology and is currently studying the master program in relational psychotherapy at Agora Relacional. She has a private practice and it's a volunteer in the feminist psychotherapists network in Chile.
    Sessions
    • B4 : B-4: Collective Trauma as Paradoxical Link to Solidarity and Unthinkable Shared Unconscious
  • Yonit Shulman, M.A.
    Expert and Supervisor clinical psychologist. Psychoanalytic psychotherapist and supervisor. Head of psychology sector in Oti- The Israeli Autism Association, kindergartens and nurseries section; Academic co-director of Child & Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program, advanced studies, school of social work, Tel- Aviv University. Formerly head of child and adolescent section of the Israeli Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Association. Private practice. Specifically interested in child psychotherapy, autism over the lifespan, clinical writing, supervision and teaching.
    Sessions
    • B5 : B-5: Power Dynamics, Uncertainty, Freedom and the Fluidity of Psychotherapeutic Relationships
  • Alice Sommatis, PsyD
    My name is Alice Sommatis, I'm a psychologist and I’m almost at the tend of my path to become a psychotherapist at the Isipsé School of Psychotherapy in Rome. I started working three years ago as a freelancer in my private practice and as of this year as a coordinator of a program for recovery from old and new addictions. In my spare time I enjoy writing, writing has always accompanied me from preadolescence onward, in recent years I have been dedicating myself particularly to poetry which helps me both in my life and in my clinical practice.
    Sessions
    • B7 : B-7: The Vitality of Relational Psychoanalysis as an Exit from the Complexity of Benevolent Tyranny, Time, and Independence
  • Margaret Sperry PsyD, MFT
    Margy Sperry is a training and supervising analyst at ICPLA, and a member of the International council for IAPSP (the International Association of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology). She is a former associate editor for the Journal, Psychoanalysis Self and Context and the Co-chair of the Social Justice and Ethics special interest group within IAPSP. Margy’s writing challenges contemporary psychoanalysis to notice the cultural and socio-political contexts which frame the therapist’s and patient’s lived histories, especially the ways that those histories and contexts overlap and diverge, shaping the therapeutic process. She maintains a private practice in West Los Angeles.
    Sessions
    • B8 : B-8: Moral Dilemmas of Relationality: Can Every Rupture be Contextualized and Repaired?
  • Deborah Natasha Auer, CPsychol, DCPsych, CSAccred. PG Dip, BA(Hons) Psych.
    I am a dual registered Counselling Psychologist, Psychotherapist and Clinical Supervisor with thirteen years clinical experience. I have worked in a variety of settings from EAP organisations, primary and secondary care mental health services, colleges and charities. I work alongside the NHS as a Specialist Rhinology Psychologist providing support to the Ear, Nose and Throat department at Charing Cross Hospital in London. I also work part time in private practice. I provide one to one psychological therapy to people with various mental health issues and from all different sectors. I have a particular specialism in working with body image issues, appearance anxiety and how this manifests in the therapy room. I work with the Body Image Treatment Clinic in London providing preoperative and postoperative psychological treatment to patients who have undergone cosmetic surgery. I work with people who have experienced acute and complex traumas. I contribute to research papers, supervise, and teach assistant psychologists. I am an associate lecturer at the Metanoia Institute, London where I teach on the Doctorate in Counselling Psychology and Psychotherapy and work as a personal tutor. Alongside this, I work for the British Psychological Society where I assess students studying on the independent route to qualification as Counselling Psychologists.
    Sessions
    • B9 : B-9: Relational Intimacy and the Body: Exploring Desire, Beauty, and Power in Democratic Spaces
  • Michalis Elafros, MD
    Michalis Elafros is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist. He graduated as a psychiatrist from the psychiatric school of Verona, after completing his studies as a general practitioner in Perugia, Italy. He is also a graduate of the two-year training program in Phenomenological Psychopathology at the University of Florence. As a psychiatrist, he has many years of experience in Mental Health Centers, including participation in group psychotherapy and psychoeducation for hospitalized patients and their families. He has also worked as a senior psychiatrist at the "Galini" Psychiatric Clinic in Attica. Currently, he is training in the individual program at the Institute of Relational Psychoanalysis and Group Psychotherapy in Athens. He is a member of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP) and the American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA). Over the past two years, he has actively participated in conferences, seminars, and workshops with a psychoanalytic focus. Since May 2024, he is a faculty member of the Institute. He currently runs his private practice in Athens.
    Sessions
    • B10 : B-10: The Shadow of Paternal Tyranny in Relational Psychoanalytic Encounters
  • Kate Karagianni, MA
    Aikaterini Karagianni is a licensed psychologist based in Greece. She has a MA in Art Therapy from the University of Hertfordshire (UK) and has trained as a relational psychotherapist at the Athens Institute for Relational and Group Psychotherapy. She has worked extensively with children and families in clinical, community-based and educational settings both in Athens and in London. She is the founder of “Art Therapy Room”, a private arts-based mental health service for children, adolescents and parents. She is passionate about making art therapy services accessible to the community. She is a member of the European Federation of Art Therapy (EFAT), the British Association of Art Therapists (BAAT) and the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP).
    Sessions
    • C1 : C-1: CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PANEL: Navigating Egalitarian and Tyrannical Processes in Relational Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Children and Parent
  • Marina Mojovic
    CV for IARPP Conference 2024 in Athens Marina Mojović MA, MD, psychiatrist, training psychoanalytic psychotherapist, training group analyst, supervisor, and organizational consultant in Serbia. As clinician she initially worked with psychotic patients at the Psychiatric Clinic of the University Clinical Center of Serbia and the Therapeutic Community for difficult and traumatized patients, took part in development of the Center for Personality Disorders (among supervisors was Indian/American psychoanalysts Salman Akhtar). Since 2000 works in her private practice in Belgrade. She is the Founder of the Reflective Citizens Koinonia Method (RC) of working voluntary with citizens groups (since the late Nineties) and the International Reflective Citizens (IRC since 2020) with branches spreading in several countries. She is a full member of the International Association for Group Psychotherapy and Group Processes and member of its Group Section team, European Society of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (and delegate for Serbia), International Society for Psychoanalytic Studies of Organizations, Organization for Promoting Understanding of Society, International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy and Group Analytic Society International, where she was member of management committee. In Group Analytic Society-Belgrade member of training committee, founder of its Section and Training in ‘Psychoanalytic and Group Analytic Approach to Understanding Institutions, Organizations and Society’, Training for Conveners of Systems-psychodynamic groups, Training for Conductors of Large Groups and a co-founder of the Section for ‘Large and Median Groups’. Over six years co-conducts in private practice monthly large group (now hybrid) with participants from various countries, co-conducted large groups on international conferences. She also founded the Reflective Citizens Training Program, Social Dreaming Training, develops the Applied and Traveling Reflective Citizens projects, and other projects of exploring the Social Unconscious in Serbia and abroad. In the Koinonia-Art Training Community she organized a number of international conferences and workshops. Presents, and publishes internationally in areas of the Social Trauma, Social Unconscious and Large groups, conceptualized the ‘Social-Psychic Retreats’, ‘Conception Trauma’ of organizations and societies. CV for IARPP Conference 2024 in Athens
    Sessions
    • C2 : C-2: Moving From Tyrannic Chairmanship to Relational Culture in Society
  • Gabriella Elmo
    Dr. Gabriella Elmo lives and teachs in Rome as a literature teacher in high schools since 1983. She obtained her first degree in Ancient Literature at the University of Rome "Sapienza" and a second degree in Developmental Psychology at the same university . She has been registered with the Order of Psychologists of Lazio since 2016 and completed the specialization course in psychotherapy at ISIPSE' in Rome. She obtained her diploma as a psychotherapist on 12/21/2020 and completed the two-year Institute course at ISIPSE' in Rome in 2022, obtaining the diploma as a relational and self psychoanalyst in 2023. She has been working for five years at a non-profit organization in Rome, where she provides psychotherapy services for adult patients. He participated with some clinical works first at the twelfth ISIPSE' Congress held in Rome in October 2021, then at the thirteenth and fourteenth ISIPSE' Conference in Milan in 2022 and 2024 and at the Valencia Conference in June 2023. He is an ISIPSE' member and a member of IARPP.
    Sessions
    • C3 : C-3: Relational Challenges of Strength and Vulnerability: The Watch World in Survival and the Black South African Females
  • Duncan Cartwright, PhD
    Duncan Cartwright, Ph.D., is head of the Centre for Applied Psychology, Psychology, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa. He teaches Psychopathology and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy in the Master’s Clinica/Counselling training program. He is in part-time private practice. He is the author of Murdering Minds: Psychoanalysis, Violence and Rage-Type Murder (Brunner-Routledge,2002) and Containing States of Mind: Exploring Bion’s Container Model in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Routledge, 2010).
    Sessions
    • C4 : C-4: Exploring Truth and Dreams: Expanding the Analytic and Therapeutic Boundaries
  • Konstantine Pinteris, LCSW
    Born in Canada to Greek parents, Konstantine Pinteris' psychoanalytic practice is the result of a 25 year diverse professional career, which began in Psychology, first in NYC and then in London, U.K.. He trained and worked in a variety of treatment modalities and interventions within a wide field of settings and patients, including; hospital executive administration, ward staff, grass roots organizations, NGOs, clinics, sub-acute settings, prisons and drug treatment centers. He received all his academic degrees from New York University, in Psychology and Clinical Social Work. In addition, as a postgraduate, he completed my Psychoanalytic residency and training at The National Institute for the Psychotherapies (NIP) in NYC. Konstantine has been published by Oxford University Press (his first book as co-author, on Heinz Kohut) as well as by many journals, and he has delivered lectures and papers on psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in the USA, Europe, Australia and Asia. He works in both English and Greek.
    Sessions
    • C5 : C-5: Psychoanalytic Heritage and the Tyrannic “Father" in the Analytic Setting
  • Eirini Germpana,Msc
    Eirini Germpana is a mental health counselor, group psychotherapist and speech-language therapist. She has graduated from the Department of Speech-Language Therapy of the Technological Educational Institute of Patras, Greece. She has completed postgraduate studies specializing in Voice Pathology at the UCL in London. She has been an associate-lecturer of the University of Peloponnese, Greece, in the Speech-Language Therapy Department, since 2011 and also a lecturer in the Speech-Language therapy Department in the Metropolitan College, Athens, Greece (collaborates with Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh) since 2020. She holds a diploma in Mental Health Counseling and a Master's Degree in Irvin Yalom Group Psychotherapy and the Relational Dynamics of the Group, from the Institute of Relational and Group Psychotherapy, Greece. She is also a trainee in relational psychoanalytic psychotherapy and in modern psychoanalysis (Tampa Bay Institute, Florida- on line). She is a graduate student in Theater Studies and Creative Writing and also a graduate student in Bioinformatics-Neuroinformatics and in International & European Studies. She has been a speaker at various scientific conferences in Greece and abroad with oral and written announcements and have been involved in the writing, translation and editing of scientific books in the field of speech-language pathology and parental counseling. She is a member of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy and of the Special Interest Group for Couples, Families, Groups and also a member of the American Group Psychotherapy Association.
    Sessions
    • C6 : C-6: The Relational Psychotherapy Dealing with the Tyrannic Shadows of the Past and the Need for Freedom
  • Sarikosta Meropi, Pgd
    Meropi Sarikosta is a licensed psychotherapist specializing in relational psychotherapy, dedicated to helping adults build healthier, more fulfilling connections with themselves and others. With 14 years of experience, she understand the impact that relationships have on emotional well-being and personal growth. Her approach emphasizes the importance of authentic, empathetic interactions within therapy, allowing analysands to safely explore their relational patterns, attachments, and past experiences. By working collaboratively, she helps analysands identify and shift long-standing patterns that may hinder their relationships, fostering deeper self-awareness and healthier connections. Passionate about supporting analysands through challenges such as relationship conflicts, intimacy issues, self-esteem, and life transitions, she is committed to guide individuals towards meaningful change and emotional resilience.
    Sessions
    • C7 : C-7: From Tyranny to Dialogue: The Role of the Analytic Third in Navigating Power Dynamics in Relational Psychoanalysis
  • Gal Hakim-Asscher MA
    Educational psychologist, Co-executive of the Human and Animal Institute in Israel, Head of the Animal Assisted Psychotherapy Program at the Oranim Academic College in Israel, Works at private practice.
    Sessions
    • C9 : C-9: Expanding Therapeutic Horizons: Innovative Animal-Assisted Therapy for Trauma Survivors through Mutual Regulation and Relational Healing
  • Jaclyn Alexander, MFA, in training towards LP
    Jaclyn Alexander is a writer and therapist living in Brooklyn. She completed her MFA at The New School, where she was selected to be the research assistant to the head of the program. In 2018, Jaclyn published a book of poems through Finishing Line Press, received a writing fellowship through SLS in Tbilisi, Georgia, as well as a writing residency at Byrdcliffe in Woodstock, NY. She is in her 3rd year at NIP's 4-Year Training in Psychoanalysis, where she is working clinically with individuals and couples. Jaclyn is also a certified yoga instructor and has an active yoga and meditation practice, which informs her therapeutic work and writing.
    Sessions
    • C10 : C-10: The Analytic Dyad in Relational Psychoanalysis: Power Dynamics Between Inner Objects and Subjects
  • Lillian Evangelia Markaki, MD
    Lillian Markaki is a highly experienced psychiatrist and psychotherapist with a robust educational background and extensive professional experience. She earned her medical degree from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She further specialized in psychiatry through a residency at the same institution and obtained an MSc in Social Psychiatry from the University of Ioannina. Dr. Markaki has undergone comprehensive training in various psychotherapeutic modalities, including psychoanalytical, systemic, cognitive, and group analytic psychotherapy. She has also specialized in forensic psychiatry, earning an MSc from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Her professional journey includes significant roles as a specialty doctor in various psychiatric and neurological wards in Athens, Greece. Since 1998, she has been running a private practice as a psychiatrist-psychotherapist and has served as a scientific associate in several private clinics. Dr. Markaki has actively participated in numerous conferences, both as an organizer and speaker, and has contributed to various scientific abstracts and educational seminars. Her volunteer work includes founding and directing the Social Mission Clinic under the Hellenic Medical Association and being an active member of the 1110 support line for crisis management. Dr. Markaki's areas of expertise encompass a wide range of psychiatric conditions and therapeutic approaches, including individual and group psychotherapy, family therapy, treatment of trauma, anxiety disorders, depression, bipolar disorder, and more. She is also a member of several prestigious scientific associations and governmental committees, contributing to the advancement of mental health and psychiatry on both national and international levels.
    Sessions
    • D1 : D-1: Embodied Healing: Exploring the Intersections of Trauma, Somatic Experience, and Relational Psychoanalysis
  • Francesca Papi, PhD Candidate
    PhD Candidate in the “Philosophy, Science, Cognition and Semiotics” (PSCS) program at the Department of Philosophy (FILO) of the University of Bologna (Alma Mater Studiorum), with a master’s degree in “Philosophical Sciences” and a bachelor’s degree in “Philosophy”, recipient of a themed doctoral scholarship titled “Philosophy, Psychopathology and Pragmatism”. My research project aims to rediscover the legacy of Harry Stack Sullivan and highlight his philosophical relevance.
    Sessions
    • D2 : D-2: From Memory to Social Response: Rethinking Behavior and Oppression in Psychoanalysis
  • Mrs Sigal Flint
    Sigal Flint (MA) Group-analysis, psychodramtist , relational psychotherapist candidate in Tel Aviv university. Supervisor in psychodrama and expressive therapist and in focusing oriented therapy. Expert in the treatment of addictions and eating disorders through a feminist approach. Lecturer and supervisor at the master's program for expressive therapists at the Kibbutzim College of Education, Haifa University, and Beit-Berl. Combines in her work the knowledge acquired from the various fields of knowledge: theater, psychodrama, physical psychotherapy, 12 steps and group analysis Sigal has extensive field experience, including work in multi-professional teams in various therapeutic rehabilitation centers. Also gives experiential workshops dealing with the relationship between media and body image in Western culture. Sigalflint1@gmail.com +972544607623
    Sessions
    • D3 : D-3: Mourning in One or Two Minds? Intersubjective Crossroads
  • Margaret J. Black, LCSW, BCD
    Margaret Black, L.C.S.W., is a founding board member and North American Vice-President of IARPP and a founding board member, faculty and supervisor of the Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies. She is also a board member at NIP and an Associate Editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues. Margaret is co-author, with her late husband Stephen Mitchell, of Freud and Beyond: a History of Modern Psychoanalytic Thought. Margaret’s private practice is in NYC.
    Sessions
    • D4 : D-4: CANDIDATES PANEL: Negotiating the Third: Power Dynamics and Vulnerability within the Relational Supervisory Relationship
  • Giuseppe Leo
    Giuseppe Leo, MD, psychiatrist, living in Lecce (Apulia-Italy), working in a Public Mental Health service, founder of Frenis Zero psychoanalytic publishing house. Main book as an editor: "Infant Research and Psychoanalysis" (authored by B. Beebe, K. Lyons-Ruth, Ed Tronick, et al., 2021), Rock Music and Psychoanalysis (authored by Lewis Aron, Heather Ferguson, Joseph LeDoux, et al., 2020), Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis (3rd ed. 2023, authored by Allan Schore, B. van der Kolk, et al.). Last book edited for Frenis Zero are: "Why War in Ukraine? Psychoanalysis, Trauma and Resiliency", authored with Vamik Volkan, Sverre Varvin et al. (March 2023) and “Psychoanalysis in a Holy Land”, authored by Henry Abramovitch, Ambra Cusin, Merav Roth, Maria Patrizia Salatiello, Vamik Volkan. On October 12, 2024 I organized an International conference named “Why War in the Mediterranean?” (Lecce, Italy).
    Sessions
    • D5 : D-5: Psychoanalysis at the Borders: Navigating Democracy, Fluidity, and Conflict in a Changing World
  • Paria Naghizadeh
    Paria Naghizadeh is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist based in Iran. She pursued her studies in Clinical Psychology at Allameh Tabataba'i University and Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences. Her clinical journey began during her master’s program at Taleghani Hospital in Tehran. Her engagement with psychoanalysis dates back to 2010, participating in psychoanalytic, notably in Object Relations Theory at the School of Behavioral Sciences and Mental Health at Iran University of Medical Sciences. Paria is also a graduate of the comprehensive psychoanalytic psychotherapy program at HamAva Institute. In addition to her therapeutic work with adults, she has progressively integrated child clinical interviewing into her practice. She has conducted workshops on topics such as "Child Clinical Interviewing," "Mother-Child Relationships," and "Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health and Developmental Disorders from zero to Age Five." Additionally, she has led introductory courses on psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Her research interests focus on trauma, gender studies, true and false selves, psychosomatic symptoms, and the therapeutic relationship.
    Sessions
    • D6 : D-6: What Happens When Authority Enters the Therapy Room?
  • Alexia Papachristopoulou, MPH, PgD
    Alexia Papachristopoulou is a graduate of the Department of Psychology at the University of Essex, specialized in Clinical Skills based on Relational Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy from the Institute of Relational & Group Psychotherapy and a trainee in the 2nd year in the postgraduate program in Group Psychotherapy according to Irvin Yalom and Relational Group Dynamics. She has also a Master's degree in Public Health & Epidemiology (MPH) from the Medical University of Crete. As part of her group training, she has been co-coordinating a therapeutic group since September 2023 at the Institute of Relational and Group Psychotherapy.  She has her own private office in Kifissia, Greece as well as she is a scientific associate of the Psychotherapy Center in – between in Athens, providing individual and group sessions in person and online to adults, teenagers, couples and families. She has worked with the European Union Agency for Asylum, providing support to applicants for International Protection and to people belonging to socially vulnerable populations. She has also taken part in a research program at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the USA regarding health issues related to Childhood Obesity, Nutritional Behavior and Cognitive Functioning of children. She is an author of three related publications in scientific journals in PubMed. She is a member of the International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis & Psychotherapy (IARPP) and the American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA).
    Sessions
    • D7 : D-7: Hateful Imprisonment in the Shelter: The Impact of Underlying Complex Emotions in Analytic Thirdness
  • Ruth Zeligman, PhD.
    Dr. Ruth Zeligman is an Assistant Professor and clinical psychologist. She holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Adelphi University, NY. Dr. Zeligman serves as the head of the child track in the graduate program in Clinical Psychology at the Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo, Israel, where she has been teaching since 2011. Additionally, she has been teaching at the International BA in Liberal Arts at Tel Aviv University since 2013. Her research focuses on the empirical examination of psychoanalytic concepts as well as the effects of trauma using the Rorschach test along with self-report measures. In addition, she works as a clinical psychologist and supervisor in private practice in Tel-Aviv.
    Sessions
    • D9 : D-9: Insight or Blindness: Reality and Paradox in Relational Psychotherapy
  • Marina Sitareniou, BSc, MSc
    Marina Sitareniou is a Psychologist and maintains a private practice in Kallithea, Athens. She holds a degree in Psychology from the University of Rome "La Sapienza" and a Master's degree in Child and Adolescent Psychology from Leiden University in the Netherlands. At the moment she is specializing in Relational Psychotherapy at the Institute of Relational and Group Psychotherapy (ISOPS) and in Group and Family Therapy at the Hellenic Society of Analytical Group & Family Psychotherapy. Finally, she is an active member of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP) as well as the American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA).
    Sessions
    • E1 : E-1: Entrapment and Liberation in Relational Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: When the Frame Strives to Fit with Words and Bodies
  • Adamantia Kazani, BA, MSc
    Adamantia Kazani is a Psychologist (BA, Panteion University, Athens) with a postgraduate degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of Utrecht. Her interests include Substance Use and Trauma. She has completed "Therapeutic Treatment of Addictions" seminar of 18 ANO addiction treatment unit and has been employed by various rehabilitation programs, such as Okana Substitution Unit and 18 ANO. She has also volunteered for a year at the Exarchia Social Clinic as a psychologist to adults with severe psychopathology. She started her work experience at the Psychiatric Department of the Sotiria Hospital and since then she has worked with both children and adults. Since 2022 she has been working privately as a psychologist. Recently she has opened her own office in Athens. Adamantia is a current trainee in the program Clinical Skills Specialization based on Relational Psychotherapy / Relational Psychoanalysis for Mental Health Professionals Experience of the Institute of Relational Psychoanalysis and Group Psychotherapy of Athens, Greece. She is a member of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP) and the American Association for Group Psychotherapy (AGPA).
    Sessions
    • E2 : E-2: Unintentional Therapist’s Disclosure in and out of the Consulting Room: Tyrannical or Liberating Regime in Analytic Thirdness?
  • Nicole Dagher, MA
    Dynamic professional with over a decade of experience in hospitality, sales, and media production, seeking to leverage my strong communication, leadership, and problem-solving skills in the field of positive psychology. Passionate about contributing to the well-being and happiness of individuals through innovative and empathetic engagement. I am completing my Masters in Positive Psychology at New York College Athens and I am studying the Contemporary Interpersonal Psychodynamic Psychotherapy with the Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy Athens.
    Sessions
    • E3 : E-3: Survival Guilt of the Therapist: The Tyranny of Relatedness
  • Pilar Jennings, LP, PhD
    Pilar Jennings is a psychoanalyst based in New York City with a focus on the clinical applications of Buddhist meditation practice. She received her Ph.D. in Psychiatry and Religion from Union Theological Seminary, and has been working with patients and their families through the Harlem Family Institute since 2000. Dr. Jennings is a long-term practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism. She is a Visiting Lecturer at Union Theological Seminary; Columbia University; and a faculty member of the Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Science. Her publications have included “East of Ego: The Intersection of Narcissism and Buddhist Meditation Practice,” “Imagery and Trauma: The Psyche’s Push for Healing,” Mixing Minds: The Power of Relationship in Psychoanalysis and Buddhism (Wisdom Publications; 2010), and a memoir about her entry into clinical work: To Heal a Wounded Heart: On the Transformative Power of Buddhism & Psychotherapy in Action (Shambhala; 2017).
    Sessions
    • E4 : E-4: The Agent for Change: Breaking Free of Theoretical Tyranny in the Analytic Process
  • Pamela M. Nilsson, Ph.D., CGP
    Pamela Nilsson, Ph.D., CGP is a Clinical Psychologist and Relational Psychoanalyst in private practice in Cleveland, Ohio, USA where she works with individuals and couples as well as long-term psychoanalytic groups. In addition to her clinical work, Pam holds an adjunct clinical faculty appointment at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and University Hospitals of Cleveland where she supervises psychiatry residents. She held a faculty appointment for many years in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Case Western Reserve University where she taught and supervised doctoral students in psychology. She was also a senior staff psychologist at the Case Western Reserve University Counseling Service where she coordinated the center’s group psychotherapy program. Pam is an active member of the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center, Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology (Division 39), and American Group Psychotherapy Associations. She is also a Certified Group Psychotherapist through the International Board for Certification of Group Psychotherapists.
    Sessions
    • E6 : E-6: Splinters in our Eyes, Splinters in our Skin: Enacting the Dialectic of Tyranny and Liberation in Relational Psychoanalytic Practice
  • Hazel Ipp, PhD
    Hazel Ipp a psychologist psychoanalyst in private practice in Toronto, Canada. She is a Founding Board Member, Faculty and Supervisor of the Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. She also serves on the Faculty of the Toronto Institute for Child Psychoanalysis and ISIPse (Rome). She is Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and serves on the Editorial Boards of Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalysis: Self and Context. She is a Founding and current Board Director and Past President of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. She regularly teaches, supervises and presents nationally and internationally.
    Sessions
    • E7 : E-7: Affective Democracy in the Clinical Encounter: Recovering Complexity Against the Tyranny of Simplification
  • Ruth Lijtmaer PhD
    Ruth M. Lijtmaer, PhD, Senior supervisor, training analyst and faculty at the Center for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis of New Jersey. Private practice. Ridgewood, New Jersey. Board member of IFPE from 2015 to 2022. Co- Chair of the Social Responsibility Committee. Member IARPP.
    Sessions
    • E8 : E-8: The Myth of Sisyphus, "Zorba the Greek" and Racial Discrimination in Classical Music
  • Batya Shoshani, DSW
    Dr. Batya Shoshani (a Fullbright scholar), is a clinical social worker and a training and supervising psychoanalyst. Shoshani is the co founder, a faculty member and Supervisor of The Tel Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, and a senior lecturer (retired) in the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. She specializes in child and adolescent psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. In recent years Shoshani is interested in interdisciplinary studies trying to bridge and weave together the different narratives of Psychoanalysis, Literature and Philosophy. She has written numerous articles as well as two books, together with her husband, Dr. Michael Shoshani.
    Sessions
    • E9 : E-9: Fear and Shame in an Israeli Psychoanalyst and His Patient: Lessons Learned in Times of War
  • Bettina von Lieres D. Phil
    Bettina von Lieres D. Phil is an Associate Professor of Teaching Stream in the Department of Global Development at the University of Toronto Scarborough. She teaches undergraduate courses on citizenship and community development. She is a co-investigator in a global research program entitled “Building Back Better from Below: Harnessing Innovations in Community Response and Intersectoral Collaboration for Health and Food Justice Beyond the Covid-19 Pandemic”.
    Sessions
    • E10 : E-10: The Role of Narrative Holes in Making Relational Sense of Tyranny and Democracy
  • Mary P. Curry, PhD, LCSW
    Mary Curry is a Relational Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist in a private practice located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. The primary focus of her work is the treatment of traumatised individuals. While pursuing a PhD at Smith College School for Clinical Social Work, it became evident that the PhD program, focused on psychoanalytic theories and practice, did not include historical or contemporary psychoanalytic consideration of somatic concepts or body-based sensations as a crucial part of theory and practice. Being a seasoned clinician, who has a thirty-year practice in Vipassana Meditation – a practice based in the observation of sensations--, training in Somatic Experiencing (SE) and the Trauma Resiliency Model (TRM), Mary had begun to utilize somatic concepts and interventions in her work with patients, and in community mental health settings. While advancing in her studies, she began to identify both an historical inclusion of the interpretation of “sensations” throughout the development of the four psychologies, and an emerging contemporary “holding environment” for somatic considerations within Relational psychoanalysis and Intersubjectivity. This became the topic of her dissertation and research, titled--Decision-making process: a mixed method study of somatic awareness use by psychodynamic clinicians in the treatment of trauma-related disorders. By combining the perspective of Practice Based Evidence, contemporary traumatology, research focused on the neurobiology of traumatic stress, and Relational Psychoanalysis, she proposes an imperative for the assimilative integration of somatic concepts and interventions as an integral part of contemporary psychoanalytic theory and practice.
    Sessions
    • E11 : E-11: Democracy & Disavowal
  • Maritina Pantoleontos, BA,PgD
    Maritina Pantoleontos is a licensed psychologist and a trainee relational psychoanalytic psychotherapist. She collaborates with the Institute for Relational and Group Psychotherapy of Athens by conducting individual adult sessions both in person and online and she is also the executive administrator. She graduates of the Psychology Department of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (BA), and she is a final year trainee in the Postgraduate program in Clinical Skills based on Relational Psychoanalysis/Psychotherapy (PgD) of the Institute for Relational and Group Psychotherapy (ISOPS).She is in parallel individual and group therapy with a weekly frequency and receives double supervision from ISOPS and Matina Kaidantzi as well. She belongs on the writing team of ISOPS with a chapter in the 2nd collective volume of Relational Psychoanalysis and Group Psychotherapy according to Irvin Yalom by Disigma publications. As part of ongoing training, she participates as a speaker in panels and attends numerous educational programs, seminars, conferences both in Greece and abroad. She is a member of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP) and a member of the American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA) .
    Sessions
    • F1 : F-1: When the Tyrannical Objects of the Therapist and the Patient Meet Each Other: Ruptures and Repairs
  • Chatzichristou Stella, MSc
    Stella Chatzichristou Psychologist Msc, studied Psychology at Panteion University of Athens, complementing her education by attending numerous seminars and lectures. This experience allowed her to deeply explore and ultimately choose her psychotherapeutic approach. She completed a Postgraduate Specialization Program focused on clinical skills grounded in the Cognitive-Analytic Model, the Dialogical Self, and Relational Psychotherapy. Later, she completed her Master’s studies in “Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry” at the Medical School of Athens, which enhanced her knowledge of psychiatric disorders and their relationship to bodily pathology. She also participated in various psychotherapy seminars and training sessions, further strengthening her clinical experience and therapeutic perspective. Since 2012, she has been working in her own office in Athens—both individual and group—with children, adolescents, and adults, conducting sessions both in person and remotely. She has also collaborated with several facilities. Through these experiences and her continual personal growth, she has cultivated her unique therapeutic identity and approach. Her aim, with respect and profound empathy for each client’s subjectivity, is to support them throughout their psychotherapeutic journey.
    Sessions
    • F5 : F-5: Democracy in the Consulting Room: Navigating Tyranny, Aggression, and the Paradox of Relational Healing
  • PAULINA ROMAN MENDOZA
    Graduate in Psychology, Master in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy currently pursuing a Master in Relational Psychotherapy at the Agora Relational Center in Madrid, Spain. More than 10 years of experience in three main areas of psychology: Clinical, Educational, and as Head Hunter. She attends adolescents and adults in private practice and designs and gives talks, workshops and conferences for schools and companies in different fields.
    Sessions
    • F6 : F-6: The Relational Journey from Society to Community and From Institution to Consultation
  • Kassiani Feleki, MD, training analyst
    Kassiani Feleki is a Psychiatrist and a Training Analyst in North Hellenic Psychoanalytic Association, Thessaloniki, Greece, supervising and teaching since 2005. She's been working privately since 1996 in Thessaloniki. She has published various articles and organized and participated in Greek and International Conferences. She is a Member of IARPP since 2010.
    Sessions
    • F7 : F-7: Tyranny and Democracy in Psychoanalytic Institutes
  • Roshanak Vahdani, MA
    Roshanak Vahdani, M.A., is a psychologist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist currently in private practice in Sydney, Australia. She works with individuals and couples from a Jungian and relational psychoanalytic framework. Roshanak is a member of the International Association of Relational Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (IARPP). She has had formal training in Analytical Psychology as well asContemporary Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, and is interested in the intersection between intrapsychic, relational, existential and transpersonal dimensions of human experience, and how these can be effectively addressed in clinical practice.
    Sessions
    • F8 : F-8: Shedding Light on ‘Hiding Places’ in Both Interior and Exterior Contexts as Responses to Trauma
  • Udi Chen MA
    Udi Chen MA, is a clinical psychologist; he is the head of the Israeli Relational Chapter. Udi is a graduate of the Group Analysis Institute, and a group therapist. He teaches the relational theory at the "Winnicott Institute Tel Aviv" and at the psychotherapy school "Zramim" Haifa University. Udi’s clinical work is in Tel-Aviv and Pardes Hanna. He writes about siblinghood and friendship as well as about music and musicality in psychotherapy.
    Sessions
    • F9 : F-9: Friendship as a Third - A Thread of Freedom within Relational Psychotherapy’s Texture
  • Milko Prati, PsyD
    I graduated in Philosophy at the University of Milan, Italy and in Psychology at the University of Rome, Italy. I did my psychoanalytic training in Self Psychology and Relational Psychoanalysis at ISIPSé (Institute of Specialization in Psychoanalytic Self Psychology and Relational Psychoanalysis, Rome and Milan, Italy). Expert in “Clinical Relational Psychology and Attachment - Department of Psychology, University of Turin Supervising analyst at SCUOLA DI PSICOTERAPIA A ORIENTAMENTO PSICOANALITICO RELAZIONALE E DELL’ATTACCAMENTO (Turin - Italy) Member of IAPSP (International Association for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology) Member of IARPP (International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy). Private practice in psychoanalytic psychotherapy in Milan, Italy.
    Sessions
    • F10 : F-10: Playing in Psychotherapy: Hope, Mentalization, and Freedom
  • Prof. Andrew Samuels
    Andrew Samuels was a Founder Board Member of IARPP and served for fifteen years. Jungian training analyst in private practice in London. Former Professor of Psychosocial Studies at the University of Essex. Founder of Psychotherapists and Counsellors for Social Responsibility (UK) and Psychotherapists and Counsellors Trade Union. Elected chair of the UK Council for Psychotherapy. He works internationally as a consultant to politicians, parties and activist groups, and also to Britain’s National Health Service. His many books are translated into up to 22 languages and include Jung and the Post-Jungians (1985), A Critical Dictionary of Jungian Analysis (1986), The Political Psyche (1993), Politics on the Couch (2001), A New Therapy for Politics? (2016) (?Una Neueva Terapia para la Politica?, 2019), and Passions, Persons, Politics, Psychotherapy (2019). A selection of video talks is on www.andrewsamuels.com Samuels, Andrew (1985) Jung and the Post-Jungians. London & New York: Routledge. Samuels, Andrew (2006) ‘Transference/countertransference’. In Handbook of Jungian Psychology. Ed. Papadopoulos, Renos. London & New York: Routledge.
    Sessions
    • PC1 : A: Jung and Relational Psychoanalysis
  • Asimina Chioni, PhD
    Dr. Asimina Chioni Dr. of Clinical Psychology, UCL, London, Uk, Scientific Manager "The Tree of Therapy", Model Center for Synthetic Therapy and of "EKISYP" Educational Institute of Synthetic Approach, Lecturer in the Interdepartmental Training Program in Techniques & Skills in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy of EKISYP in collaboration with the Dromokaiteio. Former Scientific Associate of Asklipiou Voulas, Certified Group Psychotherapist with the interactive method of Irvin Yalom and the relational dynamics of the Group, specialized in Cognitive Analytics and Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapies, Member of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, specialization in Eating Disorders, Addictions, Systemic Psychodrama. Certified Mindfulness Instructor by the "International Mindfulness and Meditation Alliance" as a Mindfulness teacher. Certified psychotherapist for 3rd Generation CBT and personality disorders from the Beck institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy. Couples Therapy – Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT). Certified Member of the British Association of Clinical Hypnotherapists (GHSC) since 2006. Certified Supervisor in synthetic models of psychotherapy. Clinical and psychotherapeutic experience since 1995. In continuous collaboration with the Lifelong Learning Center KEPSYSY since 2005 as a trainer and supervisor. She has taken part in many international and Greek conferences and symposia. Continuous supervision with the Director of I.S.O.P.S. Mr. Stavros Charalambidis on issues of group psychotherapy with the Irvin Yalom model and institutional framework.
    Sessions
    • PC2 : B: The Importance of Relational Psychodrama in Group Psychotherapy
  • Martha Gilmore, Ph.D., CGP
    Interlocutor of the session. Martha Gilmore, PhD, CGP, AGPA - Fellow is a licensed psychologist and Certified Group Psychotherapist with the Sacramento Center for Psychotherapy in Davis and Sacramento, California. She has over forty years of experience conducting psychotherapy groups and extensive experience in the training and supervision of group psychotherapy at local, national, and international levels. She is a Fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association and Clinical Professor at the UC Davis Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Science. She is a frequent presenter at AGPA and international meetings and has served as Co-Chair of the Annual Meeting Committee of AGPA and as Secretary of the AGPA board. Her areas of specialty include relational individual, couple, & group psychotherapy and online process training groups for mental health professionals.
    Sessions
    • LG2 : Large Group 2
    • LG1 : Large Group 1
  • Spyros Orfanos, PhD, ABPP
    Spyros D. Orfanos, PhD., ABPP, Director & Clinical Professor, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis; Fellow, American Psychological Association; Scientific Advisory Board, Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna; Past president of the Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Division 39) of the American Psychological Association (APA), the American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis of the American Board of Professional Psychology, and the International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP); Editorial Boards Psychoanalytic Dialogues, and PsycCRITIQUES-Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books; 2023 recipient of the Division 39 International Activism for Social Justice Award in recognition of human rights work with asylum seekers, refugees, scholars-in-exile, and clinical interventions in Kabul, Tehran, and Guantánamo Bay. Independent practice of psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, supervision, and creativity study groups.
    Sessions
    • P1 : Plenary I: Freedom of Knowing, Freedom of Being: The Dialectic between Multiplicity and Unicity in Politics and in Psychoanalytic Work
  • Carlos Rodríguez Sutil, PhD
    Sessions
    • P2 : President's Welcome & Plenary II: The Dialectics of Clinical and Social Freedom and Tyranny in the Consulting Room
  • Gila Ofer, Ph.D.
    Gila Ofer, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist, training psychoanalyst, and group analyst. Dr. Ofer is co-founder and past president of The Tel-Aviv Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis (TAICP) and a founding member of The Israeli Institute of Group Analysis (IIGA) and she serves on the faculty of both institutes and at the Post-Graduate School for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Tel-Aviv University. Dr. Ofer has been the chair of the group analytic section and board member of the EFPP, and later the coordinator of Eastern European countries of the EFPP. Currently, she is the editor of the EFPP Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Review. She has published her work in leading journals and presented her work and taught in Israel, Europe, East Asia, and the US. Her edited book “A Bridge over Troubled Water: Conflicts and reconciliation in Group and Society” was published in 2017.
    Sessions
    • P3 : Plenary III: Caring for a Psychoanalytic Community: Using Social Unconscious and Group Dynamic Theories to Expand our Understanding of Power Dynamics
  • Alexander Levchuk, MA
    Alexander Levchuk is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalytic therapist who serves as Head of IARPP-Russia. Since 2019, he has been actively promoting relational psychoanalysis within the Russian-speaking psychotherapeutic community by translating key articles, leading reading groups on relational literature, and conducting theoretical seminars. Additionally, he co-organizes a weekly relational study group for Russian-speaking psychotherapists under the leadership of Matt Aibel (2020–2025).
    Sessions
    • P4 : Plenary IV: What is Happening to Us? The Ongoing Impact of Cumulative Trauma and Existential Crisis on the Clinician
  • Ilana Laor, PhD
    Ilana Laor, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and group analyst. Currently she is a board member and the president of the Israeli chapter of IARPP.  Laor teaches and supervises at the Psychotherapy Program: core and relational track at Tel Aviv University, Sackler School of Medicine. Laor also initiated a special project called "Chavruta" (ancient Hebrew for "in company"), at the relational track Tel Aviv University. For four consecutive years she conducted the project, bringing together artists, writers, film directors, bible scholars, judges, and brain researchers, who met with psychoanalytically oriented professionals, in order to share thoughts and hold discussions that were of mutual benefit. She was the former owner and Director of Ramat Aviv Institute, a private clinic certified by the Israel Ministry of Health for internship in clinical psychology, for analytical therapy for children and adults, individual, group, and couple therapy, relationally oriented.  She writes on the relational consulting room, and the analytic process and has been published in professional journals, in both English and Hebrew and has published 3 'relational' children's books. She is in private practice in Tel Aviv.
    Sessions
    • P5 : Plenary V: The Psyche Around Us: Relational Psychoanalysis in Engagement with Severely Distressed Communities & CLOSING REMARKS
  • Vasileios Komninos
    Sessions
    • DG1-1 : Discussion Group 1-1
    • DG2-1 : Discussion Group 2-1
  • George Stephen Bermudez
    Dr. George Bermudez, Psychologist-Psychoanalyst, Training & Supervising Psychoanalyst at The Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis Los Angeles, and 2020-21 Visiting Scholar at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC) has developed pioneering scholarship and practice –an expansion toward a social psychoanalysis–exploring the “social unconscious” through “social dreaming”. The author of “The Social Dreaming Matrix as a Container for the Processing of Implicit Racial Bias and Collective Racial Trauma” (International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, 2018) and “Community Psychoanalysis: A Contribution to an Emerging Paradigm” (Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 2019), he has focused on numerous contemporary socio-political concerns: American Xenophobia; Whiteness and Psychoanalysis; Black Reparations; The LGBTQ Unconscious in the Trumpian Era; and The Global Unconscious in the Time of Pandemic. Dr. Bermudez’ most recent work focuses on the applications of social dreaming to the discovery of potential solutions to our climate crisis and the development of “deliberative democracy”.
    Sessions
    • DG1-2 : Discussion Group 1-2
    • DG2-2 : Discussion Group 2-2
  • Helder Chambel
    Hélder Chambel is a Clinical Psychologist and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist. He is Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of the Algarve, Portugal. He has worked as a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist in various Portuguese government organizations: schools, National Health Service, Social Security. He is a full member of PsiRelacional – Associação de Psicanálise Relacional in Lisbon, Portugal (Training institute for psychotherapists) where he has held and still holds various positions: Member of the Board of Directors (vice-president); member of the Scientific Committee; Pedagogical coordinator; trainer in various seminars and Coordinator of the Freud Seminar. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the journal PsiRelacional - Perspectivas Relacionais em Psicanálise and has published several articles on relational psychoanalysis in Portugal and Spain. In 2023, published the book "Cara a Cara: La Creacion del Psicoterapeuta” by Ágora Relacional in Madrid.
    Sessions
    • B1 : B-1: Democracy and Tyranny in Psychoanalytic Institutes: The Group Turn
    • DG1-3 : Discussion Group 1-3
    • DG2-3 : Discussion Group 2-3
  • Berta Loret de Mola Vadillo, PhD
    Berta Loret de Mola PhD is a Psychoanalytic Relational Psychotherapist working in private practice in Mérida, Yucatán, México. She has a doctorate degree in Psychoanalytic Clinic from Centro de Estudios ELEIA in México City. She is foundress, faculty member and supervisor of the Relational Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Master Program at Universidad Marista de Mérida, México. She coordinated the Relational Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Master Program de Mérida, from 2013 to 2020. She is member of the International Association of Relational Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, since 2013. She has been working with children, adolescents, and adults for the past 30 years in México City and in Mérida Yucatán.
    Sessions
    • E1 : E-1: Entrapment and Liberation in Relational Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: When the Frame Strives to Fit with Words and Bodies
    • DG1-4 : Spanish Discussion Group 1-4
    • DG2-4 : Spanish Discussion Group 2-4
  • Lanaya Wade, PsyD
    Lanaya Wade, PsyD, is a Licensed Psychologist in New York. She spends the majority of her professional time in private practice, where she works with adults focused on depth therapy and with adults and children completing psychological assessment. Dr. Wade is also a core faculty Assistant Professor in a training program for master levels clinicians. She is currently a Candidate at New York University’s Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis. Her training also includes a Postdoctoral Fellowship and Internship at the William Alanson White Institute and education at the Oregon Psychoanalytic Center.
    Sessions
    • DG1-5 : Discussion Group 1-5
    • DG2-5 : Discussion Group 2-5
  • Marco Ponta, PsyD, PhD
    Psychotherapist and Psychoanalyst, ISIPSè associate member since 2021. • Member since 2014 of the IARPP, International Society of Psychoanalysis Relational, founded by Stephen Mitchell. •Psycho-oncologist. In particular, since 2014 in collaboration with ALTS-Association for the Fight against Breast Cancer and ANDOS-National Association of Women Having Breast Surgery, he has been carrying out clinical activities, individually or in groups, in the Campania region. • Previously Specialist at the Asl Napoli 2 north district 45, at the Child Neuropsychiatry Department • He currently works in Naples in his private studio, where he receives adults, couples and adolescents.
    Sessions
    • C3 : C-3: Relational Challenges of Strength and Vulnerability: The Watch World in Survival and the Black South African Females
    • DG1-6 : Discussion Group 1-6
    • DG2-6 : Discussion Group 2-6
  • Cathy Hicks, PhD
    Cathy Hicks PhD is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice in Sydney, Australia. She is a founder member and past president of the Australian Chapter of IARPP, and a former Board member of the IARPP. She was co-chair of the 2017 IARPP Annual Conference, held in Sydney, and is one of the current co-chairs of the IARPP Colloquium Committee.
    Sessions
    • DG1-7 : Discussion Group 1-7
    • DG2-7 : Discussion Group 2-7
  • Joyce Anne Slochower
    Joyce Slochower Ph.D., ABPP, is Professor Emerita of Psychology at Hunter College & the Graduate Center, CUNY. Joyce is faculty and supervisor at the NYU Postdoctoral Program, the Steven Mitchell Center, the National Training Program of NIP, Philadelphia Center for Relational Studies in Philadelphia and the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California in San Francisco. She is on the Editorial Boards of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Ricerca Psicoanalitica and Psychoanalytic Perspectives and is on the Board of the IARPP. Joyce has published over 100 articles on various aspects of psychoanalytic theory and technique. Joyce is co-Editor, with Lew Aron and Sue Grand, of “De-idealizing Relational Theory: A Critique from Within” and “Decentering Relational Theory: A Comparative Critique (2018, Routledge). Second Editions of her two books, Holding and Psychoanalysis: A Relational Perspective (1996) and Psychoanalytic Collisions (2006), were released in 2014 by Routledge. Her new book, Psychoanalysis and the Unspoken, was released by Routledge in June. She is in private practice in New York City where she sees individuals and couples, runs supervision and study groups.
    Sessions
    • MA-1 : Meet-the-Author 1: Psychoanalysis and the Unspoken
  • JoAnn Ponder, Ph.D.
    JoAnn Ponder, PhD is a psychologist-psychoanalyst who has a private practice in Austin, Texas, USA, providing psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, family/couples therapy, consultation, and study groups. She was trained in adult psychoanalysis and child psychotherapy at the Center for Psychoanalytic Studies in Houston, Texas, where she formerly served on the faculty. In 2004, she was awarded the David A. Freedman Candidate Paper’s Prize by Houston Psychoanalytic Society. Her publications include a co-edited book about women’s issues, book chapters about adoptive motherhood and the childhood loss of a parent, and journal articles about narcissism in psychoanalysis, collective trauma following the Tower shootings in Austin, psychological defenses against climate change, the influence of childhood trauma on subsequent career choice, and patients’ identifications and projections onto companion dogs.
    Sessions
    • MA-2 : Meet-the-Author 2: Passion, Shame, and The Freedom To Become: Seizing The Vital Moment in Psychoanalysis
  • GEORGIOS ZACHARIADIS, MSc (PgD)
    Georgios Zachariadis (MSc) was born in Athens in 1991. He is a Clinical Psychologist – Psychotherapist and Sociologist. He has an undergraduate degree in Sociology (BA) from the University of Crete in the field of Political Anthropology and certification in Social Psychology from the Paul Valery University of Montpellier (South of France). He also holds a BS in International Psychology from the Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands and a Master of Science from the University of Utrecht in the field of Clinical Psychology with a dissertation in Epigenetics and Neuroplasticity. He did his internship at a private mental health institution in Leiden (AntiLoneliness). He worked for two years as a tutor at the University of Rotterdam obtaining the title of a licensed Problem-Based-Learning (PBL) Instructor of higher education. In Greece, he is a licensed Clinical Psychologist and a member of the Association of Greek Psychologists (SEPS). He worked and continues to collaborate with private mental health institutions. In addition, he worked as an educational manager creating and assessing seminars and study programs concerning psychology at the Educational Institution of Integrative Psychotherapy (EK.I.SY.P) In addition, he participated in the administration of psychodiagnostic instruments for measuring neurodegenerative disorders at the Aeginetio Hospital of Athens. Today, he operates his private practice and specializes in Relational Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at the Institution of Relational Group Psychotherapy (ISOPS) where he owes gratitude for his accreditation and membership in the International Association for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (IARPP) in New York City as well as in the American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA). He always tries to remain up to date with the latest research and academic scholarships by following and participating in numerous conferences.
    Sessions
    • A1 : A-1: Sibling Dynamics in Relational Psychoanalysis
  • Ilene Philipson, PhD, PhD
    Ilene Philipson holds three doctorates in sociology, clinical psychology, and psychoanalysis. She is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles, and a Supervising Analyst at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis
    Sessions
    • A2 : A-2: Struggle between Freedom and Enmeshment in Relational Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
  • Alice Bar Nes, Ph.D
    Alice Bar Nes is a clinical psychologist. Faculty member in the post-graduate track “Independent Psychoanalysis: Radical Breakthroughs” at the advanced studies of the Program of Psychotherapy, Tel-Aviv University, and a faculty member at "Temurot" school of psychotherapy, Bar Ilan University, and at "Mivhar" extension of Haifa university. The author of Psychoanalysis, Mysticism and the Problem of Epistemology: Defining the Indefinable (2021) published in Routledge, and of various papers.
    Sessions
    • A3 : A-3: Relational Process as a Bridge in Post-Traumatic Patients: In Dyadic and Group Therapy
  • Rose Gupta, PsyD, LCSW
    Rose Gupta, PsyD, LCSW, is a psychoanalyst, clinical social worker, international speaker, and consultant. Her diverse, multicultural private practice in San Francisco encompasses members of the software, artificial intelligence and startup industries. She is a graduate/member of the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. Dr. Gupta has presented her papers at IPA, IARPP, International Sandor Ferenczi Network, International Psychohistory Association and NCSPP. She focuses on negation trauma, intersubjectivity, unrepresented states and internal objects without symbolization.
    Sessions
    • A4 : A-4: Trauma, Breakdown and the Collapse of Meaning: A Psychoanalytic Exploration
  • Anthony Bass, PhD
    Dr. Bass is on the faculty, and a training and supervising analyst at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. In addition, he teaches and is a supervising analyst (adjunct associate professor and former chair, relational orientation) at the NYU Postdoctoral Program for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, the National Institute for the Psychotherapies National Training Program, the Institute for Relational Psychoanalysis of Philadelphia, the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy and the Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies (founder and president). He was a founding member of the editorial board of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, the International Journal of Relational Perspectives, and is now editor in chief emeritus after stepping down after twelve years as chief editor. He is a founding and current director of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. He is in private practice for psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, couples therapy, and individual and group supervisory consultation in New York City. He leads clinical seminars and workshops throughout the US and Europe.
    Sessions
    • PC3 : C: It Takes Two to Know One—Freedom, Tyranny and the Reach of Imagination in the Therapeutic Relationship and Beyond—A Clinical Workshop
  • Marty Cooper, PhD
    Dr. Marty Aaron Cooper is an Associate Professor at SUNY Old Westbury, where he teaches courses in the Graduate Mental Health Counseling Program. His extensive background includes being a candidate and a diversity fellow at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, active roles as a supervising psychologist, and a focus on advancing LGBTQIA+ mental health care through research, education, and public service. Dr. Cooper also maintains a clinical practice, holds multiple state licenses, and has contributed significantly to scholarship in areas such as transgender identity treatment and multicultural competence, earning recognition for teaching excellence and leadership in psychological education.
    Sessions
    • A6 : A-6: Inner Conflicts and Historical Traumas: War and Freedom via Relational Psychoanalysis
  • Leora Trub
    Leora Trub, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at Pace University’s doctoral program in School/Clinical-Child Psychology and a practicing clinical psychologist. Her primary research interests involve how identity development, relationship formation and psychological well-being are impacted by digital technology, and the role of technology in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. She has published extensively on these and other topics in various journals, including in Psychoanalytic Psychology and Psychoanalytic Perspectives. She was recently awarded a research grant from the International Psychoanalytical Association to study analytic process through a screen from the perspective of analysts as well as patients. She also founded Academics for the Advancement of Psychodynamic Psychology in 2022, which is committed to reversing the sharp decline of psychoanalytic thinking in academic psychology programs.
    Sessions
    • A5 : A-5: The Need to Re-Negotiate Freedom and Boundaries in Analysis: Virtual Reality and Hypermodernity
  • Cassandra Seltman, LCSW, PhD
    Dr. Cassandra B. Seltman is a writer, psychoanalyst, and clinical supervisor in private practice in NYC. She teaches psychodiagnostics in the masters program at Hunter college and at the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis (NPAP). Publications can be found in The LA Review of Books, DIVISION/Review, Public Seminar, Flash Art, Modern Psychoanalysis, Studies in Gender and Sexuality, and the European Journal of Psychoanalysis.
    Sessions
    • A7 : A-7: Detachment and Compassion: Understanding Freedom, Perversion and the shift from Conspiracy
  • Temo Keshelashvili
    Temo Keshelashvili is a psychologist, a psychotherapist and post-academic candidate at the Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Temo moved to Toronto in 2015 and started a 4 year training in clinical psychoanalysis, where he had established his private practice. Temo co-founded two mental health organizations in Europe in his home country of Georgia and also worked for several international organizations between 2007-2015.
    Sessions
    • A8 : A-8: From Freud to the Digital Age: The Evolution of Narcissism and the Expansive Self in Psychoanalytic Practice and Technology
  • Juan Eduardo Pulido
    I am a Colombian psychologist from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, and I am currently enrolled in the Master’s program in Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Clinical Psychology at the Fundación Cardenal Vidal i Barraquer in Barcelona. I have trained in the clinical field since my undergraduate studies, and I currently work with patients virtually in Colombia as well as in person with residents of Barcelona. I am passionate about my work, with ideas to discuss and develop.
    Sessions
    • A9 : A-9: Evolving Self Identities and Social Integration: Intersubjectivity as a Container of the Patients’ Need for Gender Transformation and Unchained Growth
  • Michael Korson, MFT
    Michael Korson, MFT is a psychoanalyst in private practice in San Francisco, California. He is a graduate analyst member of the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC) and on the faculty at PINC (Group Process Faculty) and the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. He works with adults and adolescents, individuals and couples of diverse ethnic, gender and sexual orientations. He has published on topics including the candidate’s experience as well as practice during the Coronavirus pandemic.
    Sessions
    • B1 : B-1: Democracy and Tyranny in Psychoanalytic Institutes: The Group Turn
  • Eric Schwartz, LCSW
    Eric Schwartz, LCSW is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City and a faculty supervisor at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies Training Institute. He writes and presents on the integration of social theory and psychoanalysis; his most recent paper, ‘We’re Living in a Society: Ideology and the Social Object,’ was published in the Fall 2023 issue of Psychoanalytic Perspectives and received the NIP Educators’ Award.
    Sessions
    • B2 : B-2: Between Democracy and Tyranny: Psychoanalysis in the Age of Collective Uncertainty, War and False Consciousness
  • Dr. Warren Spielberg PhD
    WARREN SPIELBERG PhD, Fulbright Scholar is a psychologist, psychoanalyst and an Associate Teaching Professor at the New School in New York. He is a clinical supervisor at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in psychoanalysis, and faculty at the Adelphi University Postdoctoral Trauma program. He is Co-Editor of the book, “The Psychology of Black Boys and Adolescents- Two Volumes” (Praeger Publishers) and consults regularly on issues of race and dialogue to schools and organizations (WarrenKirklandconsulting.com) . He is an acknowledged authority on the problems of boys and men and is former member of the American Psychological Association (APA) Task Force on Guidelines for the Treatment of Boys and Men. He is also the recipient of the APA Practitioner of the Year Award for his work with the FDNY post 9/11. He is a Senior Fellow at the Equimundo Center for Masculinities and Social Justice where he has recently He is a co-authored the report “Masculinities and Male Trauma. His consultative work has included UNICEF, the NYC Mayor’s Young Men’s Initiative and the Obama Foundation My Brother’s Keeper Program. He currently consults with and lectures at Al Quds University, West Bank. He maintains a private practice in Brooklyn, NY where he treats children, adults, and families. His website is Warrenspielberg.com
    Sessions
    • B3 : B-3: Exploring Gender and Power: Relational Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Democracy and Authority
  • Chana Ullman Ph.D
    Chana Ullman, Ph.D, is a Clinical Psychologist, a Training Psychoanalyst and faculty at the Tel Aviv Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Dr. Ullman is faculty and supervisor at the relational track, the school of Psychotherapy, school of Medicine at Tel-Aviv University, and faculty at the doctoral program of Psychoanalysis at Tel Aviv University. Dr. Ullman is past- president of the International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. She is the author of the book "The transformed self: The psychology of religious conversion" (Plenum press, 1989) and of numerous publications regarding witnessing, political context and the psychoanalytic process from a relational perspective. She lives and practices in Rehovot, Israel.
    Sessions
    • B4 : B-4: Collective Trauma as Paradoxical Link to Solidarity and Unthinkable Shared Unconscious
  • Judi B. Kobrick, Ph.D., C.Psych
    Judi B. Kobrick, PhD, is a Clinical Psychologist and Psychoanalyst who maintains a private practice in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in Toronto, Canada. She is a founding member and president of the Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, where she also serves as a faculty member and a training and supervising psychoanalyst. She is the past president of the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and remains on its teaching faculty as well as being engaged in supervision. She was a longstanding member of the National Council of the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society. She has also participated as a member of the Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis and is the North American chair of the Committee on Analytic Practice and Scientific Activities of the International Psychoanalytic Association. As an active member of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy she has written and presented internationally, clinical papers on eating disorders, gender, trauma and dissociation, marginality and creativity.
    Sessions
    • B5 : B-5: Power Dynamics, Uncertainty, Freedom and the Fluidity of Psychotherapeutic Relationships
  • Shalini Masih
    Shalini Masih is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and writer whose life's work is deeply rooted in her fascinating upbringing. Born in India, Masih grew up surrounded by priests and healers, witnessing the mysterious realms of spirit possession and exorcism. These early experiences ignited her curiosity about the human psyche. With a PhD in Psychology from the University of Delhi and Masters in Psychoanalysis from Tavistock and Portman, London, Masih's academic prowess is matched only by her passion for healing. Mentored by luminaries like Michael Eigen and Sudhir Kakar, she has honed her craft, exploring the complexities of the human mind. A gifted writer, Masih's publications have garnered international recognition. Her paper, 'Devil! Sing me the Blues – A Life Struggling to be Born,' earned the prestigious Critics Award for Best Psychoanalytic Writing in 2018 and was nominated for the prestigious Gradiva Awards in 2020. The American Psychological Association's Division 39 honoured her with the Scholar Award for her groundbreaking clinical and research work. Now based in Worcestershire, England, Masih continues to weave together her Eastern roots and Western training, creating a unique tapestry of psychoanalytic practice. Beyond the clinic, Masih's world is filled with love, creativity, and rhythm. As a mother to her vibrant 6-year-old daughter and devoted dog owner, she cherishes family moments. In quiet hours, she expresses herself through writing, painting, and cooking Indian cuisine. Jazz music resonates deeply with her, and she often likens the psychoanalytic process to improvisational jazz – both requiring empathy, creativity, and a deep understanding of human cadence.
    Sessions
    • B7 : B-7: The Vitality of Relational Psychoanalysis as an Exit from the Complexity of Benevolent Tyranny, Time, and Independence
  • Noga Ariel-galor
    Dr. Noga Ariel Galor (Ph.D.) is a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and a Visual Art Therapist in private practice in Tel-Aviv, Israel. She is a lecturer at Ono Academic College and the Multidisciplinary Program in Humanities at Tel-Aviv University and in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy programs. She is a board member of the Israeli chapter of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP) and the Israeli Association for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.
    Sessions
    • B8 : B-8: Moral Dilemmas of Relationality: Can Every Rupture be Contextualized and Repaired?
  • Frederico Bento, Psy
    I am a clinical psychologist and a psychotherapist in training at PsiRelacional - Relational Psychoanalysis Association. I work in Lisbon, both in private practice and at a public social clinic, where I work with people from the inner city facing significant social and economical vulnerability.
    Sessions
    • B9 : B-9: Relational Intimacy and the Body: Exploring Desire, Beauty, and Power in Democratic Spaces
  • Panagiota Nikolaou
    Panagiota Nikolaou is a seasoned psychiatrist and licensed psychodynamic and psychoanalytic psychotherapist with over 15 years of experience in Sweden and Greece. Specializing in the treatment of patients with psychosis and personality disorders, Panagiota combines a depth of expertise with a compassionate, relational approach to psychotherapy. She currently serves as the scientific lead and supervisor at a public outpatient psychiatric clinic in Sweden and in her private practice in Greece, where she mentors clinicians and advances care standards. She is dedicated to the art of relational psychotherapy, emphasizing the profound impact of therapeutic relationships. She believes in exploring both conscious and unconscious dynamics, helping patients develop greater self-awareness and emotional resilience. Panagiota's therapeutic approach is grounded in an understanding of relationships as a pathway to mental health, drawing on both her academic rigor and her hands-on experience in clinical practice. Beyond her professional life, Panagiota is an avid traveler, drawn to the richness of human connection across cultures. She values the mental and emotional freedom that exploration brings and sees each journey as an opportunity to build new relationships and insights. This dedication to connection, both in and out of the clinical setting, deeply informs her work in psychoanalysis.
    Sessions
    • B10 : B-10: The Shadow of Paternal Tyranny in Relational Psychoanalytic Encounters
  • Marilou Kountria, MSc
    Marilou Kountria is a relational play therapist who lives and works in Athens, Greece. She is a full and faculty member of the Institute for Relational and Group Psychotherapy. Marilou is a child psychologist specializing in Play Therapy. She has Postgraduate Studies in Children & Young People's Mental Health & Psychological Practice (MSc) as well as Postgraduate Studies in Play Therapy (MSc). She is a member of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP), the American Association for Group Psychotherapy (AGPA) and the British Association of Play Therapists (BAPT). Marilou works both in private schools and in psychological support centers for children - teenagers and families. She believes that each person has their own story that has shaped what they are currently experiencing. Through her work, she strives to create a safe space where clients can tell their story, gain insight into how that has impacted them, and use the metaphor of play to explore and express their thoughts and feelings.
    Sessions
    • C1 : C-1: CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PANEL: Navigating Egalitarian and Tyrannical Processes in Relational Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Children and Parent
  • Amir Hakimjavadi, PhD Candidate
    I am Amir Hakimjavadi, a dedicated member of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP), currently serving as an official board member of the Iranian chapter while pursuing a PhD in Health Psychology and Psychiatry at URV University in Spain. My academic journey is complemented by my translation of Stephen Mitchell's influential work, "Relationality: From Attachment to Intersubjectivity," published by a leading psychoanalytic publisher in Iran, which aims to establish a theoretical framework for the relational approach to psychoanalysis and promote its development within the Iranian context. My individual relational psychoanalytic practice has been significantly shaped by the mentorship of Dr. Shahin Sakhi, a UCLA instructor and former president of Grex, the West Coast branch of the AK Rice Institute, alongside several other respected supervisors, providing me with invaluable insights over the past seven years. I currently manage both individual therapy and a relational group therapy that has been operational for over a year, adhering to the principles of relational psychoanalysis. Additionally, I am actively involved in a journal club focused on relational psychoanalytic literature in Iran, where I am committed to organizing future meetings for the IARPP-Iran chapter to present foundational articles that enhance scholarship and interest among Iranian practitioners and students. As part of my interdisciplinary research during my PhD studies, I am exploring relational-oriented psychoanalytic immunology, particularly in relation to psychosomatic and Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) patients, aiming to investigate the effects of psychoanalytic therapy on psychological well-being and its influence on the immune system in immunodeficient patients.
    Sessions
    • C2 : C-2: Moving From Tyrannic Chairmanship to Relational Culture in Society
  • Charity Mkone
    Charity Mkone is a clinical psychologist and lecturer at the University of Johannesburg, where she is involved in training clinical psychologists within the Master’s in Clinical Psychology program. Her academic and research work centres on psychoanalytic psychotherapy, focusing on the intersubjective dynamics between black female therapists and patients in South Africa. Her PhD research addresses themes such as the “strong black woman” narrative, sisterhood, and intergenerational trauma in the therapeutic space, examining how social identity and context shape therapeutic encounters. Alongside her academic role, Charity maintains a private practice in Johannesburg, primarily working with black female patients. She is a recipient of the Black Academic Advancement Programme (BAAP), a grant from South Africa’s National Research Fund supporting Black South African academics. This grant aims to advance early-career academics' academic and research training, enhancing their development as established researchers.
    Sessions
    • C3 : C-3: Relational Challenges of Strength and Vulnerability: The Watch World in Survival and the Black South African Females
  • Anne Maxwell Phd
    BIO SKETCH ANNE MARIE MAXWELL MARTINEZ She is a Clinical Psychologist, and has a PhD in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy by the Universidad Intercontinental in México City. Formed as a Psychoanalyst and Member of the Mexican Psychoanalytic Association. Worked as Coordinator of the Mexican Psychoanalytic Association Community’s Care Network. Has also worked with personnel of Family Violence Victims Units giving emotional contention. Has given courses and lectures for different educational institutions on a diversity of topics such as sexuality, gender, family. Founder and actually board member for the IARPP Mexican Local Chapter. Has publications in academic journals such as Radure, quaderni di materiali psichico and Cuadernos de Psicoanálisis and in books Other Psychic Cartographies, Other Faces of Freud, and Memory and Clinic. In private practice she works with adolescents, young and adults. She grew up in San Miguel de Allende a small bicultural town near México City, for her bachelor studies moved to México City where she currently lives, has a bicultural family and is mother of a young woman who is an artist.
    Sessions
    • C4 : C-4: Exploring Truth and Dreams: Expanding the Analytic and Therapeutic Boundaries
  • Carla Carvalho
    Clinical Psychologist, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and Body Psychotherapist. Master's Degree in Clinical and Health Psychology, from the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Lisbon. Trainned in: Relational Psychoanalysis, by PsiRelacional – Associação de Psicanálise Relacional Body Psychotherapy, by the Humanist Institute of Body Psychotherapy. Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, by the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute. Polyvagal Theory, by the PVI-Polyvagal Institute. Member of the Traumatic Stress Research Consortium - Trauma Research Consortium, of the Kinsey Institute and Indiana University. Clinical experience with children, adolescents, adults and seniors. Currently, he works in private practice, with adults and young adults. Member of IARPP – International Association for Psychoanalysis and Psychoterapy Member of PsiRelacional – Associação de Psicanálise Relacional Membro of SEPI – Society For The Exploration of Psychoterapy Integration
    Sessions
    • C5 : C-5: Psychoanalytic Heritage and the Tyrannic “Father" in the Analytic Setting
  • Irelena Pantelopoulou,MA
    Short Bio Irelena Pantelopoulou is a relational psychotherapist and a speech and language pathologist. She has graduated from the Department of Speech-Language Therapy of the Technological Educational Institute of Patras, Greece. She has a master degree in Special Education, from the University of Nicosia, Cyprus and she worked for 7 years at the University of Peloponnese as a Lecturer. She holds a diploma in Relational Psychoanalysis from the Institute of Relational and Group Psychotherapy, Athens. She is a member of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy and also a member of the American Group Psychotherapy Association. She is trained in sensory integration, behavioral communication methods and holds a diploma in sign language basics. Every day she looks for new treatment methods in order to offer the best to the public. In addition, she has been a speaker at various scientific conferences in Greece and abroad with oral and written announcements and she is an author of a scientific book in Pragmatic Skills and two fairy tales.
    Sessions
    • C6 : C-6: The Relational Psychotherapy Dealing with the Tyrannic Shadows of the Past and the Need for Freedom
  • Konstantinos Mouchalos
    Konstantinos Mouchalos is a relational psychoanalytic psychotherapist and group psychotherapist based in Glyfada, Greece. He studied Psychology at Deree - The American College of Greece and trained in Cognitive Analytic Therapy at the Institute for Cognitive Analytic Therapy. Additionally, he completed further education in Medical Psychology and Psychotherapy at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (EKPA) and received specialized training in Parental and Couples Counseling and Divorce Management. Mr. Mouchalos has been trained in Psychological First Aid (PFA) through Johns Hopkins University and, in collaboration with UCLA and Duke University, received further training in Psychological Recovery Skills (SPR) provided by the National Child Traumatic Stress Center. In private practice since 2016, he directs the Clinical Institute of Mental Health Konstantinos D. Mouchalos & Associates. He is a member of the International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP) and has served on its Candidates Committee since 2019. In 2024, he joined the faculty of the Institute for Relational and Group Psychotherapy (ISOPS) and is also a member of the American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA) and the International Association for Group Psychotherapy and Group Processes (IAGP). His clinical interests encompass group and individual therapy, as well as couple therapy, with a commitment to advancing relational psychoanalytic and group psychotherapeutic practices.
    Sessions
    • C7 : C-7: From Tyranny to Dialogue: The Role of the Analytic Third in Navigating Power Dynamics in Relational Psychoanalysis
  • Laura Frigau-London, PsyD, LMSW
    Received her PsyD at La Sapienza University (Rome) and LMSW at Hunter College (New York), trained as relational psychoanalyst at Isipse’ (Rome). Experienced bilingual psychotherapist working with multiculturally diverse clients. After working for several years in diverse contexts (inpatient and outpatient clinics, schools, etc.) in New York and Rome, she is now working in private practice in Cagliari (Sardinia) with adults and couples. Her main interests are in intersectionality, multiculturalism, migration processes, postcolonial theory, oppression, trauma and the contribution of infant research on adult treatment.
    Sessions
    • C8 : C-8: The Social World and Clinical Encounters as Waves between Hope and Barbarism
  • Shiri Raz, PhD
    Dr. Shiri Raz is the Director of the Trauma Therapy Center at Keren-Or Farm NGO, where she develops innovative approaches integrating relational psychoanalysis with animal presence in trauma treatment. She holds a Ph.D. in Hermeneutics and Cultural Studies from Bar-Ilan University and specializes in relational psychoanalytic approaches to trauma therapy. Her research focuses on the intersection of trauma, human-animal relationships, and psychoanalytic theory. She maintains a private practice specializing in trauma and PTSD treatment, and writes regularly about trauma, resilience, and human-animal relationships for Haaretz newspaper.
    Sessions
    • C9 : C-9: Expanding Therapeutic Horizons: Innovative Animal-Assisted Therapy for Trauma Survivors through Mutual Regulation and Relational Healing
  • Ioannis Dittopoulos MD
    John Dittopoulos MD, psychiatrist (United Kingdom), psychotherapist and psychoanalyst (Greece). He is full member of the Northellenic Psychoanalytic Society, of The International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP)- Thessaloniki Chapter, and full member of The Hellenic Society of Cognitive Analytic Psychotherapy. His main interest is psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy and currently works in private practice in Thessaloniki, Greece.
    Sessions
    • C10 : C-10: The Analytic Dyad in Relational Psychoanalysis: Power Dynamics Between Inner Objects and Subjects
  • Gillian Swanson, PhD
    I am in my fourth year of training as a psychoanalyst at the Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis in London, working in private practice. I also work as an academic and currently teach cultural history, research methodologies and contemporary cultural theory to undergraduates and doctoral students in the School of Arts at the University of the West of England, Bristol. My research and teaching addresses theories of embodiment, the senses and affect; visual culture; urban culture and everyday life. My most recent project is Berlin Fractured, an experimental memoir aiming to explore border crossings as embodied, material and spatially distributed human experiences, and the ways the uncanny reverberates in psychic attachments and multiple entanglements, confronting the challenges of writing ‘life’ in all its variability, contingency and precarity.
    Sessions
    • D1 : D-1: Embodied Healing: Exploring the Intersections of Trauma, Somatic Experience, and Relational Psychoanalysis
  • Bruce Herzog M.D., F.R.C.P(C)
    Bruce Herzog is a graduate in Psychology and Medicine from the University of Western Ontario, Canada. He completed his specialty training in Psychiatry and the Child and Adolescent Program at the University of Toronto, and received his Psychoanalytic certification at The Toronto Institute of Psychoanalysis. He is a faculty member at the Toronto Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis and an associate editor of the journal “Psychoanalysis, Self and Context”.
    Sessions
    • D2 : D-2: From Memory to Social Response: Rethinking Behavior and Oppression in Psychoanalysis
  • Sharon Strasburg, PhD
    Dr. Sharon Strasburg is a clinical psychologist. She is a lecturer and supervisor in the Psychotherapy Program at Tel Aviv University where she oversees the curricula and teaching staff. She is also a supervisor in the Psychotherapy Program at Bar Ilan University. Dr Strasburg's PhD thesis from Bar Ilan University explores psychoanalytic, linguistic, and literary aspects of symbolization processes. Her paper "Malfunctions in the Symbolic Space: A Psychoanalytic-Semiotic View" was published in Psychoanalytic Investigations in Philosophy: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Current Existential Challenges, edited by Dorit Lemberger, last year. She h a private practice working with adults.
    Sessions
    • D3 : D-3: Mourning in One or Two Minds? Intersubjective Crossroads
  • Daphne Venetsanou, MSc
    Daphne Venetsanou is a licensed psychotherapist based in Athens, Greece. She earned her degrees in Psychology from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and Deree – The American College of Greece, graduating with Honors. She is currently a candidate at the Institute for Relational and Group Psychotherapy, where she engages in individual and group psychotherapy, attends specialized classes, and receives weekly supervision. Daphne provides psychotherapy to adults through her internship, private practice, and in collaboration with the psychotherapy center Psychoplefsi. Her volunteer efforts are focused on child protection, having supported children under child protective services and participated in educational initiatives on sexual abuse prevention in Athens. Committed to continuous learning, Daphne regularly attends seminars, particularly in relational psychoanalysis and group psychotherapy, as well as in cognitive behavioral therapy and eating disorders. She is a member of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP) and the American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA).
    Sessions
    • D4 : D-4: CANDIDATES PANEL: Negotiating the Third: Power Dynamics and Vulnerability within the Relational Supervisory Relationship
  • Shahriar Borghei
    • Psychoanalytic psychotherapist • PhD Candidate at Seville University • Director of Bonyad Rahe Roshd Foundation • Psychoanalytic therapist and specialized psychology instructor
    Sessions
    • D5 : D-5: Psychoanalysis at the Borders: Navigating Democracy, Fluidity, and Conflict in a Changing World
  • Sepideh Shirani, MA
    Sepideh Shirani, an Iranian psychodynamic psychotherapist and member of the Tehran Center for Psychoanalytic Studies and IARPP, holds an MA in Psychology. Her primary research focus centers on understanding the impact of individual and shared traumas on individuals, clinical scenarios, and group dynamics. In her widely presented master's thesis, Sepideh contributed valuable insights to several Iranian sociological associations and sociology departments, addressing how certain homeless men, despite facing severe traumatic experiences and a lack of a sense of belonging, could navigate survival and transformative life changes. In addition, Sepideh has played an active role as the assistant to the scientific committee chair of the Fourth Iranian Congress of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychotherapy. Also, alongside her colleagues, she presented a symposium at the same congress, exploring the challenges faced by psychotherapists in the aftermath of the shared trauma in Iran in 2023. Notably, their symposium received acclaim as the most favored session by the audience.
    Sessions
    • D6 : D-6: What Happens When Authority Enters the Therapy Room?
  • Marianthi Michalakopoulou
    Marianthi Michalakopoulou, MSc, is a licensed military psychologist specializing in Relational Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and Interpersonal Yalomian Group Psychotherapy. She is a Faculty Member of the Institute for Relational & Group Psychotherapy (IRGP, Greece), an educator and a supervisor in the programs “Master in Clinical Skills based on Relational Psychotherapy / Relational Psychoanalysis for mental health professionals” and “Master of Applied and Theoretical Specialization in Group Psychotherapy by Irvin Yalom and the Relational Dynamics of the Group” of the IRGP and in “New Relational Psychoanalytic Psychodrama” of the Educational Institute of Integrative Psychotherapy (EKISYP). She studied Modern Psychoanalysis at Tampa Bay Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies, Florida. She has a masters degree for Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Αpplications of psychology in health. In conclusion, she is a Member of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP), the American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA), and the International Association of Group Psychotherapy and Group Processes (IAGP).
    Sessions
    • D7 : D-7: Hateful Imprisonment in the Shelter: The Impact of Underlying Complex Emotions in Analytic Thirdness
  • Frances V. Dillon, LMSW, CSW
    Fran Dillon, LMSW, CSW is a graduate of Columbia University School of Social Work and of The Training and Research Institute in Self Psychology (TRISP), where she is a training analyst. She has worked with sexual abuse survivors since 2004 and has worked and supervised students in hospital and mental health settings. She is a member of the Sexual Abuse Study Group and LGBTQ Study Group at the William Alanson White Institute, where she is also Co-Director of the Artist Study Group and Psychotherapy Service for People in the Arts. She facilitates a weekly sexual abuse survivor support group for women. She coordinated A Night of Healing in 2019 for male and female survivors at Columbia University and is currently planning a follow-up in 2025. Fran Dillon has written and presented papers nationally and internationally on the topics of sexual abuse, living with medical conditions and the use of creativity in the healing process. She is interested in the functionality of case assessment and intervention. She has integrated her extensive years of training, practice, and diverse cultural experience overseas in the Philippines, Japan, Spain and England to create a full-time psychotherapy/psychoanalytic private practice with men, women, and couples on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City.
    Sessions
    • D8 : D-8: Relational Evolution: Global, Interpersonal, and Intrapsychic Challenges in Group Work with Sexual Abuse Survivors
  • Adva Balzam, PhD.
    Dr. Adva Balzam is an assistant professor of Media at the College of Management Academic Studies, Israel. A clinical psychologist by training and a director of non-fiction television, she has created numerous series broadcast on major Israeli networks. Her upcoming articles will appear in OT: A Journal of Literary Criticism and Theory and Psychology, Culture, and Society. Her research centers on the intersection of documentary cinema, relational psychoanalysis, and cultural narratives.
    Sessions
    • D9 : D-9: Insight or Blindness: Reality and Paradox in Relational Psychotherapy
  • Dr. Micha Weiss
    Dr. Micha Weiss is a senior clinical psychologist and supervisor from Tel-Aviv, member of IARPP since its inception. Micha is a senior clinical lecturer at Colman Academic Institute and he teaches Ethics and Relational Psychoanalysis, and leads various experiential workshops that deal with the Ethical Presence of the psychoanalytic therapist. He has written various papers, among them 'Ethical Presence in the Psychoanalytic Encounter and the Role of Apology' (AJP, 2018). He is a member of the board of directors of IARPP, and member of the Ethical Committee of the Israeli Psychological Association.
    Sessions
    • D10 : D-10: 'When My Analyst Let Me Down'- Relational Injuries in the Psychoanalytic Process
  • Sevasti Gkioka, BSc, MSc
    Sevasti Gkioka is a psychologist (BSc., MSc.), training relational psychoanalytic psychotherapist and group therapist trainee, Regular Faculty Member of the Institute for Relational and Group Psychotherapy in Athens, Greece. She has received her Bachelor in Psychology and Master’s degree in Forensic Psychiatry at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. She has completed her postgraduate specialization in Relational Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and is a postgraduate group therapist trainee specializing in the international model of interpersonal interaction of I. Yalom at the Institute for Relational and Group Psychotherapy. At the same time, she is under psychoanalytic training at the Tampa Bay Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies in Florida. She is currently working as a relational and group psychotherapist in private practice conducting sessions (individual, adolescent, couple, group) in person and online and as a training relational psychoanalytic psychotherapist at the Institute of Relational and Group Psychotherapy. She has worked as a psychologist at KLIMAKA NGO for the Greek national Suicide Prevention Center, the Greek National Suicide Intervention Hotline and the IOLAOS Day Center for refugees and asylum seekers suffering from mental disorders. She is a co-author on various e-learning educational programs of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) in the topic of forensic psychology and criminology. She has completed her internship at the 2nd Psychiatric Clinic of the “Attikon” University General Hospital. She is a co-author of the 1st and 2nd Collective Volumes for Relational Psychoanalysis and Group Psychotherapy of the Institute for Relational and Group Psychotherapy by DISIGMA publications. She is a member of the International Association for Relational Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (IARPP), the American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA), and the Hellenic Forensic Psychiatric Association.
    Sessions
    • E1 : E-1: Entrapment and Liberation in Relational Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: When the Frame Strives to Fit with Words and Bodies
  • Maria Apostolopoulou, MSc
    Maria Apostolopoulou, MSc, is a licensed Psychologist specializing in Relational Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and Interpersonal Yalomian Group Psychotherapy. She is a Faculty Member of the Institute for Relational & Group Psychotherapy (IRGP, Greece), a supervisor and an educator in the programs “Master in Clinical Skills based on Relational Psychotherapy / Relational Psychoanalysis for Mental Health Professionals” and “Master of Applied and Theoretical Specialization in Group Psychotherapy by Irvin Yalom and the Relational Dynamics of the Group” of the IRGP and in “New Relational Psychoanalytic Psychodrama” of the Educational Institute of Integrative Psychotherapy (EKISYP). She is one of the three co-conductors of IRGP’s continuous Large Group and several international Large Groups, as well as one of the writers of the first and second collective book -in Greek- of relational psychoanalysis and group dynamics (published by Disigma Publications, July 2023). She is co-founder and co-director of the psychotherapy center ‘in-between’ based in Athens, Greece. She studied Clinical and Health Psychology at Leiden University, Netherlands, and Modern Psychoanalysis at Tampa Bay Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies, Florida. She has a special interest in group dynamics of conflict and the collective unconscious.
    Sessions
    • E2 : E-2: Unintentional Therapist’s Disclosure in and out of the Consulting Room: Tyrannical or Liberating Regime in Analytic Thirdness?
  • Sofia Korachai, Clinical Doctorate Candidate in Psychoanalytic Studies, MA, BsC
    I am currently pursuing a Clinical Doctorate at the University of Essex, within the Department of Psychoanalytic Studies. My studies are focused on the advancement of my training and specialisation as a Psychodynamic Counsellor. I completed my training as a Psychodynamic Counsellor & Therapist, MA. I am a BPS Accredited Psychologist specialising in Clinical Psychology (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge), in art therapy, play therapy, special education and I have completed my training in Contemporary Interpersonal Psychodynamic Therapy at ICPA.
    Sessions
    • E3 : E-3: Survival Guilt of the Therapist: The Tyranny of Relatedness
  • Laura D'Angelo M.Div, LP
    Laura D'Angelo, MDiv. LP, is a psychoanalyst in New York City who works with individuals, couples and groups. She is a faculty member at the National Association for Psychoanalysis (NPAP), and the Harlem Family Institute (HFI). She is a writer with credits in national magazines, newspapers as well as academic journals. She is a contributing author to Intersubjective Self Psychology: A Primer that was published by Routledge in 2019.
    Sessions
    • E4 : E-4: The Agent for Change: Breaking Free of Theoretical Tyranny in the Analytic Process
  • Anastasios Gaitanidis, PhD
    Dr Anastasios Gaitanidis is a Relational Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, Director of Studies, Author, Theory Editor and Supervisor. In addition to his clinical work as a psychoanalyst (London, UK), Anastasios held appointments as a Senior Lecturer and Director of Studies and provided clinical and research supervision to psychotherapists and counselling psychologists at Regent’s University London, University of Roehampton, and University of Hertfordshire. He currently holds the position of Visiting Professor for the professional doctorate in counselling psychology at Regent’s University London. Anastasios is the Theory Editor of the European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling (EJPC) and an author who published a substantial body of academic work including journal articles and edited books over the years, with a recent book publication entitled “The Sublime in Everyday Life”.
    Sessions
    • E6 : E-6: Splinters in our Eyes, Splinters in our Skin: Enacting the Dialectic of Tyranny and Liberation in Relational Psychoanalytic Practice
  • Susanna Federici, PhD
    Founding member, Faculty, Supervising analyst of ISIPSÉ (Institute for Self Psychology and Relational Psychoanalysis – Italy) Past-President of IARPP (International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy) Past Member International Council IAPSP (International Association Psychoanalytic Self Psychology) She presented her works at the IARPP conferences and Symposium; at the IAPSP conferences. She published on Psychoanalytic Dialogue, Psychoanalytic Inquiry and other international journals.
    Sessions
    • E7 : E-7: Affective Democracy in the Clinical Encounter: Recovering Complexity Against the Tyranny of Simplification
  • Laura Molet Estaper
    Laura Molet is a clinical psychologist specializing in treating children, adolescents and adults suffering in abusive relationships in which the central affection is shame. She has created Relational Home where she teaches and works as a psychotherapist. She is professor at the Universidad Intercontinental of México, UIC, and coordinates a working group at COPC, Official College of Psychologists of Catalonia, called Contemporary Psychoanalysis. She is the author of the book:”Pain is deaf”.
    Sessions
    • E8 : E-8: The Myth of Sisyphus, "Zorba the Greek" and Racial Discrimination in Classical Music
  • Dr. Michael Shoshani
    Dr. Michael Shoshani (a Fullbright scholar), is a clinical psychologist and a training and supervising psychoanalyst. Shoshani is the founder and first president, a faculty member and Supervisor of The Tel Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. In recent years Shoshani is interested in interdisciplinary studies trying to bridge and weave together the different narratives of Psychoanalysis, Literature and Philosophy. He has written numerous articles as well as two books, together with his wife, Dr. Batya Shoshani.
    Sessions
    • E9 : E-9: Fear and Shame in an Israeli Psychoanalyst and His Patient: Lessons Learned in Times of War
  • Hilary Offman, MD, FRCPC
    Hilary Offman, MD FRCPC is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst with a private practice in Toronto, Canada. She is a lecturer and supervisor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. She is also a supervising analyst, faculty and Board member for the Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis (TICP). She is the former co-chair of the Candidates Committee for the International Association of Relational Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (IARPP) and a current member of the IARRP Board of Directors, where she co-chairs the International Chapters Committee. Her writing interests include themes of otherness, queerness, and fatness. Her papers are used to teach about working psychoanalytically with patients who identify as non-binary. Her article “Fatphobia is Real” won the Council for Advancement and Support of Education in Medicine (CASE) Gold Writing Award.
    Sessions
    • E10 : E-10: The Role of Narrative Holes in Making Relational Sense of Tyranny and Democracy
  • Peter McKay
    Peter McKay is a Somatic Psychotherapist with a private practice in Melbourne, Australia. In addition to seeing adults and children as individual clients he also designs and facilitates courses on emotionally intelligent and embodied relations for kids. His work is informed by theories of attachment, trauma, self psychology and intersubjectivity. His studies include a Bachelor of Arts, Graduate Diploma of Training and Development, Certificate of Embodied Relational Dynamics and Diploma of Contemporary Somatic Psychotherapy. Further studies include Brainspotting Level 1 & 2 and Comprehensive Resource Model (CRM) 1 & 2 and the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity (IPSS) Distance Learning Program Years 1 and 2. Peter is a Clinical Member of the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia and a member of the International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP). He enjoys presenting on various somatically related topics at IARPP conferences and presenting webinars for eiseEducation (Relational Somatic Beings and Six Aspects of Somatic Psychotherapy).
    Sessions
    • E11 : E-11: Democracy & Disavowal
  • Danai Papadopoulou Liasi, MSc,PgD
    Papadopoulou Liasi Danai is a licensed Psychologist, MSc, Relational Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and trainee Group Psychotherapist. She works privately and at the same time she is an associate with the holistic psychotherapy center "In Between". She is a graduate psychologist of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She is a Relational Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist from the Post-graduate Program of Specialization in Clinical Skills based on the Cognitive Analytical Model and Relational Psychotherapy of the Institute for Relational and Group Psychotherapy (ISOPS). Moreover, she has a Post-graduate Education in the "Mental Health Program for Child and Adolescent" at the European University of Cyprus. She is currently training as a Group Psychotherapist from the Institute for Relational and Group Psychotherapy (ISOPS) in the Post-graduate Program of Applied and Theoretical Specialization in Group Psychotherapy according to Irvin Yalom and Relational Group Dynamics. She has completed the Post-Education one-year training in Cognitive Skills and Techniques Behavioral Model at the Synthetic Approach Educational Institute in collaboration with the Attica Dromokaiteio Psychiatric Hospital. She herself is in group and individual therapy and constant supervision believing that this is a necessary qualification for any mental health specialist. She participates in multiple conferences and seminars in Greece and abroad, both as a participant and as a speaker as well. Finally, she is a member of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP) and of the American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA).
    Sessions
    • F1 : F-1: When the Tyrannical Objects of the Therapist and the Patient Meet Each Other: Ruptures and Repairs
  • Sarah Schoen, Ph.D.
    Sarah Schoen, Ph.D. is Faculty, Supervising, and Training Analyst at the William Alanson White Institute, Adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychology at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and Invited Faculty at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. She is on the editorial board of Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Dialogues, and she teaches and writes about contemporary perspectives on gender, narcissism, and the clinical implications of the relational turn. She is co-editor, with J. Petrucelli and N. Snider, of Patriarchy and its Discontents: Psychoanalytic Perspectives (2023). She is in private practice in Manhattan’s Flatiron District.
    Sessions
    • F2 : F-2: Trauma, Power, and Sexuality in the Consulting Room
  • DIMITRIOS TSIAKOS
    Dimitrios Tsiakos- Brief Biographical Information Psychologist, MSc. Individual and group psychotherapist, tutor and supervisor. Owner and Clinical Director of Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy Athens (ICPA), Clinical Supervisor (University of Derby, UK); Lecturer at New York College, 4 years training in Psychoanalytic Studies (TBIPS, FL, USA); Certified Group Therapist (Yalom Institute, USA); Member of IARPP and ISPSO.
    Sessions
    • F5 : F-5: Democracy in the Consulting Room: Navigating Tyranny, Aggression, and the Paradox of Relational Healing
  • Alejandra Plaza Espinosa, PhD
    My affinity for IARPP has to do with a shared vision of what a human being is and what happens when a suffering person needs help. Many of the ideas from classical psychoanalysis, which I learned during my training as psychoanalyst, seemed out of place in the context of actual human relations, when encountering people who suffer and need understanding and empathy. Neutrality and abstinence were among those concepts. There were some theoretical aspects that sounded strange to me when I read them, as is the case with some elements from Melanie Klein’s theory. I came to understand my own unconscious resistance to these concepts, as they seemed awkward to me. When I shared my reflections with other classical psychoanalysts they found them irreverent. I didn’t find any agreement with them, only criticism. It was in an APA conference, where I was discussing my psychoanalytic opinions, that I fortunately met Steven Knoblauch. He was the one who invited me to become acquainted with IARPP. I was pleased to realize that the association’s ideas coincided with my own view of psychoanalysis. Later on I met Alejandro Ávila who introduced me to the IARPP-Spain chapter and invited me to establish a group in Mexico. Sometime later, when doing my PhD at the Universidad Intercontinental, I met colleagues who were also interested in relational psychoanalysis. We then decided to found a group to discuss our common interests related to our therapeutic vision. The fact that we came from different training environments made it a particularly enriching experience. In Mexico we didn’t know much about relational psychoanalysis until then. In fact there is still a need to disseminate these ideas.
    Sessions
    • F6 : F-6: The Relational Journey from Society to Community and From Institution to Consultation
  • Tanya Anagnostopoulou, PhD
    Tanya Anagnostopoulou, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and the Director of the Hellenic Institute of Psychology and Health, a non profit organization in Thessaloniki, Greece. After receiving her doctorate from the Pennsylvania State University in U.S., she has taught at the Department of Psychology of the University of Crete and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She currently offers clinical seminars at IPSY and is the author and/or editor of several books pertaining to psychoanalysis and psychology. She is a founding member of the IARPP Chapter in Thessaloniki, Greece.
    Sessions
    • F7 : F-7: Tyranny and Democracy in Psychoanalytic Institutes
  • Gabriela Gusita, MSc Psychologist
    International Vice-President of the International Psychohistorical Association https://psychohistory.us/about-us/ My name is Gabriela Gusita, I am 49 years old. I was born and raised in Romania. My studies consist of two Bachelors—Foreign Languages Philology (English-French) and Psychology and two Masters Degrees—“Applied Psychology in the domain of National Security” and Clinical Psychotherapy in Relational Psychoanalytic Approach. I have further studies on Psychoanalysis and Forensic Psychology. I am a licensed psychologist in Athens and a member of the Greek Association of Psychologists. I have been practicing as a therapist since 2014 and I have opened my private practice in 2017. I am also a scientific collaborator of a Private Bank and the Court and the Prosecutor’s Offices in Athens as a forensic psychologist. I am co-founder of the International “Ferenczi Study Groups” since 2020 and member of the International Forum on Violence. I am also a member of IARPP (International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy) and ISFN (International Sandor Ferenczi Network). I have been working as a therapist in three languages (Romanian, English and Greek) and I have participated with papers to local and international Conferences and Seminars on relationality, mutuality, trauma and suicide.
    Sessions
    • F8 : F-8: Shedding Light on ‘Hiding Places’ in Both Interior and Exterior Contexts as Responses to Trauma
  • Noga Guggenheim PhD
    Noga Guggenheim PhD, is a certified Clinical Social Worker, a psychotherapist and clinical supervisor (BIU). Noga holds an additional M.A. in Special Education. She holds certifications in Group Facilitation (HUJ) and Trauma Studies (TAU(. Along with her clinical work, Dr. Guggenheim has been engaged in teaching, research and writing. Her main interests are the manifestations of friendship in psychotherapy as well as topics that are on the fringes of the therapeutic discussion. Her published papers are based predominantly on the methodology of qualitative phenomenology.
    Sessions
    • F9 : F-9: Friendship as a Third - A Thread of Freedom within Relational Psychotherapy’s Texture
  • Alioscia Boschiroli, PsyD
    I'm a post-graduate Clinical Psychologist (University of Turin) and psychotherapist and I work in private practice with adult patients and couple in Pinerolo and Turin (Italy). I’m IARPP Member and IAPSP Member. Adjunct Professor in “Clinical Relational Psychology and Attachment - Department of Psychology, University of Turin Training and supervising analyst at SCUOLA DI PSICOTERAPIA A ORIENTAMENTO PSICOANALITICO RELAZIONALE E DELL’ATTACCAMENTO (Turin - Italy) Founder member and President of Associazione Culturale Studi Relazionali (Cultural Association RELATIONAL STUDIES) - Turin My clinical passions are: Ferenczi, the clinical and theoretical concept and implications of trauma, the pheomenological and structural organization of self as multiple and situated and the concept of authenticity as a link for coherence and continuity between phenomenological level and structural level of experience.
    Sessions
    • F10 : F-10: Playing in Psychotherapy: Hope, Mentalization, and Freedom
  • Gianni Nebbiosi, PhD
    He presented his works at the IARPP conferences, at the IAPSP conferences; at MIP Institute in Boston, at TICP in Toronto. He was co-chair of the IARPP Conference “Unconscious Experience: Relational Perspectives” held in Rome in 2005.
    Sessions
    • P1 : Plenary I: Freedom of Knowing, Freedom of Being: The Dialectic between Multiplicity and Unicity in Politics and in Psychoanalytic Work
  • Sandra Toribio Caballero, PHD
    SANDRA TORIBIO CABALLERO Sandra Toribio Caballero, PhD, works as a psychotherapist in private practice in Madrid (Spain). She trained at the Institute for Relational Psychotherapy (Madrid), where she is now faculty and deputy director of the training program in Relational Psychoanalysis. She is also a member of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP), being part of the Board of Directors since 2020. She has been a panelist in various IARPP-international conferences (Rome, Sydney, Tel Aviv) and in IARPP-Spain conferences. She has acted as translator/interpreter for various relational psychotherapists during their visits to Spain. Her main area of study and research is psychopathology and gender, as well as feminism and relational psychoanalysis.
    Sessions
    • P2 : President's Welcome & Plenary II: The Dialectics of Clinical and Social Freedom and Tyranny in the Consulting Room
  • Fabia Eleonora Banella, PhD, PsyD
    My name is Fabia E. Banella. I am a psychologist from Rome, where I work and live. I received my psychoanalytic training at the Institute of Relational Psychoanalysis and Self Psychology (ISIPSè, Rome). While I was in training I developed a strong interest in Infant Research, which I nurtured by working and studying the child’s early interactions in Ed Tronick’s Laboratory (Boston). Afterward I completed my PhD in infant socialemotional development and I founded the Brazelton Touchpoint Center (Rome), which offers training for professionals working with families and children. At this stage I teach Psychology at St John’s University (Rome Campus) and I work in my private practice with children, adults and families in Rome. I joined IARPP in 2012 for the Anniversary Conference in NY, and I have been actively participating ever since. I am a Board Member of IARPP and the Co-Chair of the Child, Adolescent & Parent Committee.
    Sessions
    • P4 : Plenary IV: What is Happening to Us? The Ongoing Impact of Cumulative Trauma and Existential Crisis on the Clinician
  • Peter Shabad, Ph.D.
    Peter Shabad, PhD is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Northwestern University Medical School. He is on the Teaching and Supervising Faculty of the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis (CCP) and the Teaching and Supervising Faculty of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. He is also Supervising and Training Analyst at the Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. He is an Associate Editor on the Editorial Board of Psychoanalytic Dialogues. Dr. Shabad is co-editor of The Problem of Loss and Mourning: Psychoanalytic Perspectives (IUP, 1989) and is the author of Despair and the Return of Hope: Echoes of Mourning in Psychotherapy (Aronson, 2001). He is the author of numerous papers and book chapters on diverse topics such as the psychological implications of death, loss and mourning, giving and receiving, shame, parental envy, resentment, spite, and regret. Dr. Shabad has a new book in press entitled Seizing The Vital Moment: Passion, Shame, and Mourning to be published by Routledge.
    Sessions
    • MA-2 : Meet-the-Author 2: Passion, Shame, and The Freedom To Become: Seizing The Vital Moment in Psychoanalysis
  • Elad Kimchi, M.A
    I've been practicing psychology at my own private practice in Tel Aviv for the last 8 years. During the first four years I have been studying and practicing at Siach Group, which is a relational clinic. I am still a member of the team there. I have been incorporating for the last five years the psychological support and treatment of the NYU students in the TLV branch. I was trained as a clinical psychologist in the IAF, after which I have spent two years working in Mental Health facilities (inpatients and outpatients). I have obtained my M.A from Tel Aviv University and my B.A from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
    Sessions
    • A3 : A-3: Relational Process as a Bridge in Post-Traumatic Patients: In Dyadic and Group Therapy
  • Stephen Gee B.A. Hons. P.G.C.E. Psychoanalyst U.K.C.P.
    Stephen Gee graduated from the University of Birmingham in 1974 and Goldsmiths' College University of London in 1976 with a PGCE in Drama and English. He received his psychoanalytic training at the Philadelphia Association 1997-8 and at The Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis in London 1998-2002. As an actor and director he performed at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester and toured widely in Europe with the New Music group Ensemble Recherche (Freiburg). He has a private practice in London and teaches regularly on the Site psychoanalytic training. During his training he worked at Islington Mind with many patients suffering form psychosis and ran a performance group for four years at The Studio Upstairs, an art and performance space for people suffering extreme and enduring mental distress. From 2005-2020 he supervised trainee therapists at London Friend, an LGBTQ organisation which welcomes clients with sexual orientation and gender identity issues, gay men caught up in the chemsex scene and LGBTQ asylum seekers from Pakistan, Africa and parts of Eastern Europe. He has presented papers at The Site and the Freud Museum London. He was Chair of The Site from 2008-2013 and from 2014 -2022 served on the Site's training committee.
    Sessions
    • A7 : A-7: Detachment and Compassion: Understanding Freedom, Perversion and the shift from Conspiracy
  • Christian Schulz-Quach, MD, PsyaD, MSc, MA, MRCPsych
    Dr. Christian Schulz-Quach is a Medical Psychiatrist and Existential Psychoanalyst based in Toronto. With over 20 years of consulting experience and a background in psychosomatic medicine and palliative care, Dr. Schulz-Quach integrates a diverse range of therapeutic approaches in his practice. He serves as a Staff Psychiatrist at the Centre for Mental Health, University Health Network (UHN), where he also holds the role of Medical Director of Workplace Violence Prevention. In his academic capacity, Dr. Schulz-Quach is an Associate Professor and Clinician Educator in the Department of Psychiatry and the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (IHPME) at the University of Toronto. His research and teaching focus on psychoanalysis, existential-phenomenological psychotherapy, and the intersection of clinical practice with organizational and societal dynamics. He is currently developing UHN’s workplace violence prevention training program, which emphasizes trauma-informed de-escalation and self-protection strategies. Dr. Schulz-Quach's scholarly work explores the application of existential phenomenology, particularly Heidegger's concept of being-in-the-world, in understanding complex systemic issues such as workplace violence in healthcare. He is passionate about fostering reflective practice and creating safe, empathetic spaces for both patients and healthcare professionals. His private practices are based in Toronto and Berlin.
    Sessions
    • A8 : A-8: From Freud to the Digital Age: The Evolution of Narcissism and the Expansive Self in Psychoanalytic Practice and Technology
  • Silvia B. Birklein, PhD
    Silvia B. Birklein, Ph.D., MA, BC-DMT, LCAT, CMA, KMP is a Clinical Psychologist, Psychoanalyst, and Dance Movement Therapist in Private Practice in New York City. She’s the founder and director of SYNC Psychological Services, PLLC, and SYNC Somatics™, a New York City group practice and training facility. She’s a clinical supervisor and faculty at SYNC; NYU Postdoc/Relational Track; Pace University; the New School University; the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy (ICP), and the Sino/American Mother-Infant Mental Health Program and at Apollo Institute in Beijing, China. She graduated from NYU Postdoctoral Program for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy and received a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology/MA in General Psychology from the New School for Social Research in NYC. In addition, she holds an M.A. in Dance/Movement Therapy and Counseling Psychology from Antioch University (1997), a B.A. in Psychology/Philosophy from the Freie University in Berlin (1990), and a B.A. in Social Work/Pedagogics from Berlin. Further, she holds certificates/degrees in Dance and Performance Arts, Dance Education, Laban Movement Analysis, and Kestenberg Movement Analysis (KMP), (a psychoanalytically and developmentally/intersubjectively informed movement analysis system), as well as training in Integrative Gestalt Therapy and many somatic/body approaches to psychotherapy. Her interests and research are about intergenerational transmission of affect, trauma, nonverbal behavior, the body, and movement in psychoanalysis, using the Kestenberg Movement Profile (KMP; Kestenberg; 1985), a psychoanalytically-based movement observation tool for object relations, and other somatic and movement approaches in her psychoanalytic practice; she is working with a variety of clients, integrating somatic approaches when appropriate. She continues to teach and present nationally and internationally, especially teaching psychoanalytic theories and interpersonal/relational theories. Currently, she is offering groups focusing on the somatic impact of trauma caused by individual and systemic social-political influences and conditions- bridging individual healing into collective social transformation.
    Sessions
    • D1 : D-1: Embodied Healing: Exploring the Intersections of Trauma, Somatic Experience, and Relational Psychoanalysis
  • Miri Keren
    Prof. Miri Keren, born in Paris, lives in Israel, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Board-Certified at the Israeli Medical Association, and a certified psychotherapist at the Tel Aviv University Psychotherapy School. Currently in the position of Associate Clinical Professor at the Bar Ilan University Azrieli Medical School and has been for 25 years Head of the Post Graduate Infant Psychiatry course. She was part of the Task Force team for the revision of the DC0-3R, now co-editor of the DC 0-5 Casebook. She was the founder and past director of the community-based infant mental health unit, affiliated to Geha Mental Health Center in Petah-Tiqwa (1996-2020). She implemented and supervised 6 units of Infant Psychiatry across Israel. She is today in the position of Clinical and Research Consultant at the Bar Ilan University Affiliated University Hospital in the north of the country (in process of getting the academic position), at the Beit Izi Shapira Center for disabled infants and toddlers, and at the FTT unit of the Schneider Hospital for Sick Children. As President of the World Association of Infant Mental Health in the years 2012-2016, she has been very invested in the implementation of a declaration of Infant’s Rights. She has founded in 2000 the Israeli WAIMH Affiliate and is currently its Honorary President, and Chairperson of the World Psychiatric Association Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Section. She has received the Leibovici WAIMH Award in June 2021 and received in June 2023 the World Association of Infant Mental Health Honorary President position.
    Sessions
    • D3 : D-3: Mourning in One or Two Minds? Intersubjective Crossroads
  • Masoud Asadi
    I am Masoud Asadi, a core member of the Iranian chapter of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP). I hold a Master’s degree in Family Studies from the University of Tehran and began my psychoanalytic journey with an Object Relations approach, later advancing under the mentorship of Dr. Elahe Sagart in Bionian psychoanalysis. Over time, I developed a strong affinity for the Relational approach through the influential works of Stephen Mitchell, Lewis Aron, and Steven Kuchuck. A year ago, I joined IARPP, where I am deeply involved in promoting relational scholarship. Recently, I was accepted into the Seattle Psychoanalytic Center, where I will undergo specialized training in the Relational approach from 2025 to 2026. With nearly five years of experience in analytic practice, I manage both individual and group therapy settings, with a particular focus on the nuances of the therapeutic session from a musical perspective. Music and its role within the therapeutic encounter are central to my practice, as I emphasize understanding the subtleties of therapeutic interactions through a musical lens. I am committed to supporting educational initiatives and discussions within the psychoanalytic community, aiming to enhance the skills and knowledge of Iranian practitioners in relational psychoanalysis. My work bridges theoretical understanding with practical application, fostering transformative therapeutic change through relational insight.
    Sessions
    • D4 : D-4: CANDIDATES PANEL: Negotiating the Third: Power Dynamics and Vulnerability within the Relational Supervisory Relationship

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Event Learning Objectives

  • Understand Relational psychoanalysis as a democratic endeavor: Participants will explore the various ways that relational psychoanalytic understanding embraces an open and inclusive dialogue among practitioners as well as among practitioners and their patients. Participants will learn to engage in critical thinking about how to understand, avoid, overcome and process tyrannical enactments with their patients.
  • Integrate theory and practice applying the paradox of theoretical freedom, with technique, and the various aspects of psychoanalytic encounters: Participants will learn to balance the freedom to explore theoretical ideas with the practical application of relational psychoanalytic techniques. They will also be able to recognize the diverse and dynamic nature of psychoanalytic encounters, where each interaction can bring new insights and challenges.
  • Link intrapsychic processes with interpersonal relations and a recognition of the impact of the outside world: Participants will focus on the multiple conscious and unconscious ways that turbulent factors such as wars, poverty, climate crisis, class, gender and authoritarian leadership can manifest in traumatic ways as reflected in intrapsychic development and interpersonal dynamics.
  • Explore how relational psychoanalysis enhances the dialogue on the horizontal and vertical axis in institutions: Registrants will recognize the ways in which contemporary psychoanalysis perceives representations of social structures that emerge in the analytic dyad. Psychoanalysts will be encouraged to decode institutional transferences and link them to ruptures and repairs in the dyad and socially, both inside and outside of the institute.

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