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IARPP Conference 2026 - May 7– May 10, 2026

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Can Hate Last?

Reclaiming Clinical Sensibilities in Relational Psychoanalysis


It has been 25 years since Stephen Mitchell published his last book, Can Love Last: The Fate of Romance Over Time. Now, we find ourselves considering the fate of hate over time as we seek to come to terms with the impact of the hatred we face in our internal worlds (in hating and being hated) and in the social-cultural-interpersonal surround in which hatred and destructiveness abounds and shapes the field in which we live and practice. When uncertainty grows and there is a lack of future prospects and vision, polarizations often offer the illusion of cohesion around something or someone defined in opposition to someone or something else. The commitment to creating or contributing to a sustainable and supportive way of life seems fragile and perhaps futile. Hate can become a strong affective bond as a misguided response to a deeper need for care and recognition. In this context, reclaiming clinical sensibilities to further our recognition of the complexity of bonds and affects becomes a precious counter-cultural commitment that is increasingly necessary.

Relational theory’s pluralistic emphasis on interpersonal relationships and the co-construction of meaning particularly lends itself to a creative exploration of hate’s complexity, allowing us to inhabit a position from which we might hope to metabolize, integrate, and transform it. How, then, does a Relational clinician work when pulled in the direction of being a bad object? How do we manage the intense transference and countertransference engendered by feelings of hate? And what does it all look like in the context of the asymmetrical mutuality of a relational frame?

At this conference, we will explore how we live and work in the context of the hate we encounter, both within ourselves and others, and inside and outside our consulting rooms.

We look forward to seeing you in Toronto, ON, Canada – May 7- 10, 2026.

Conference Co-chairs: Hazel Ipp, PhD and Hilary Offman, MD, FRCPC

International Conference Committee: Anthony Bass, Margaret Black Mitchell, Susanna Federici, Steven Kuchuck, Gianni Nebbiosi, Phil Ringstrom, and Sandra Toribio Caballero

Local Committee: Judi Kobrick, Afarin Kohan, Nira Kolers, Deborah Levine, Jamie McMillan, Faye Mishna, Christian Schulz-Quach, and Bettina Von Lieres

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Cancellations/Refunds: If your entire registration must be cancelled, a refund less $75 administrative fee will be allowed if requested in writing (nilou@km-direct.com) by April 6th, 2026. Cancellations made in writing between April 7th - 23rd, 2026 will be refunded 50% plus the $75 administrative fee. We regret that cancellations made after April 23rd, 2026 will not be accepted. Cancellations on optional ticketed items such as the conference reception will not be accepted after April 23rd, 2026. IARPP highly encourages all attendees to purchase travel insurance to cover airfare, accommodations, and any other expenses that may be incurred. This precaution helps protect against unforeseen circumstances that could disrupt travel or participation. Please note that IARPP is not responsible for any losses or costs for travel to/from the conference, including those resulting from weather or force majeure events, including but not limited to natural disasters, personal health issues, bereavement, political unrest, or other disruptions beyond our control.






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  • Sean Braune, PhD
    Sean Braune, PhD is a psychodynamic psychotherapist in private practice specializing in anxiety, depression, ADHD, trauma, and stress. He attended Toronto Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis (, 3-year Diploma in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Graduated 2025.
    Sessions
    • A4 : A-4: The Range of Rage: Relational Struggles with Hatred and Repair Fantasies in Psychoanalytic Encounters
  • Athanasios Chymas, MSc
    Athanasios Chymas ispsychologist, a graduate of the Department of Psychology at the University ofCrete, and a graduand in Relational Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at theInstitute of Relational and Group Psychotherapy (Athens). He holds apostgraduate degree(MSc) in Investigative Psychology from the University ofHuddersfield. He also holds a diploma in Forensic Psychology and Criminologyfrom "Peri Psychis." He has further training in Cybercrime andCorrectional Psychology through the Continuing Education Center of the Nationaland Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). He is a member of theInternational Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy(IARPP) and the American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA). He volunteersas a psychologist at "The Smile of the Child" and has completed hispractical training working with adolescents who have developed deviant ordelinquent behavior at the Child and Adolescent Center's Special Mental HealthUnit "Oselotos."
    Sessions
    • A4 : A-4: The Range of Rage: Relational Struggles with Hatred and Repair Fantasies in Psychoanalytic Encounters
  • 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 a faculty member of 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: The Range of Rage: Relational Struggles with Hatred and Repair Fantasies in Psychoanalytic Encounters
  • 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
    • B5 : B-5: The Paradox of Hate as Bond: Anti-Holding in Psychic and Collective Life
  • Stuart A. Pizer, PhD, ABPP
    Faculty, Supervising and Personal Analyst, Founding Board Member, Past-President, Massachusetts Inst. for Psychoanalysis
    Sessions
    • D9 : D-9: PANEL CHANGE: Facing the Unimaginable: When You No Longer Recognize Your Country
  • Stephanie Ferrell, LCSW
    Sessions
    • E10 : E-10: Institutional Configurations of Hatred
  • Tiffany N. Brown, PhD
    Dr. Tiffany N. Brown is a licensed Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Faculty for the Department of Psychiatry at Penn Medicine. She earned her doctorate degree from Howard University and completed her predoctoral internship and postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania Health System. Licensed in Pennsylvania and California, Dr. Brown maintains a private practice and serves as a mental health consultant to various organization. Dr. Brown is dedicated to serving and advancing the profession of psychology. She has held various leadership positions, including Chair of the Board of Directors for the National Register of Health Service Psychologists, and she currently serves on APA’s Board of Professional Affairs.
    Sessions
    • F8 : F-8: The Destructive Impact of Dehumanization & Meta-Dehumanization
  • Deborah Levine PhD, RSW
    Deborah Levine is a registered clinical social worker with extensive psychoanalytic training. I have over 30 years of experience helping adults of all ages manage a range of issues. In addition to serving individuals, I provide supervision and consultation to clinicians. If you would like to know more about my supervision and consultation services for clinicians or have questions about fees or contact information, click the buttons below.
    Sessions
    • A3 : A-3: Bridging Polarized Worlds
    • LG1 : Large Group 1
    • LG2 : Large Group 2
  • Benjamin Berger, LLB, LLM, JSD
    Benjamin L. Berger is a therapist in training at the Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, a Full Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, and a Member of the College of the Royal Society of Canada. He also holds a status-only appointment as a Professor in the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto and is a research guest at the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society. He holds a JSD and LLM from Yale University, where he studied as a Fulbright Scholar, earned his LLB from the University of Victoria, and obtained his BA (Hons) in Religious Studies from the University of Alberta. His primary areas of research specialization are law and religion, legal and social theory, criminal and constitutional law, and the law of evidence. He has published 8 books and authored over 50 articles and 20 book chapters in leading national, international, and interdisciplinary journals. His most recent co-edited volume is Making Promises: Oaths, Treaties, and Covenants in Multi-jurisdictional and Multi-religious Societies (University of Toronto Press, 2025).
    Sessions
    • A6 : A-6: The Hatred We Share
  • Judit Parejo García, PhD
    Psychotherapist and Perinatal Psychologist • Private Practice (Madrid) • Associate Professor at UNED
    Sessions
    • A7 : A-7: Transference, Countertransference, and Hate
  • Kristen Melnyk, MD
    I am a psychoanalyst and psychiatrist in private practice working with adults in Los Angeles. For the past five years I have taught a Relational psychotherapy and psychoanalysis course and supervised psychotherapy interns at the Wright Center Los Angeles (WILA). I am on faculty at the New Center for Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles where I have taught courses on diversities and sociocultural issues, Winnicott, intersubjectivity, and ethics. I supervise UCLA psychiatry residents and I am a member of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP) and the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA).
    Sessions
    • A9 : A-9: Embodied Parenthood in Therapy: Between Care, Hate, and Rupture
  • Ana Rodríguez Gonzalo, PhD
    Ana Rodríguez Gonzalo, PhD has extensive experience in the clinical field, having started working in public hospitals in 1997. For the past six years, she has combined this work with private practice, specializing in Relational Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with an integrative approach. Her professional career has been closely linked to working with cancer patients, people with psychosomatic problems, anxiety, eating disorders, and chronic organic diseases. She is the author of several publications in health sciences and an active researcher in projects funded by public institutions, focusing on the effectiveness of interventions in reducing anxiety and interventions to improve self-care in patients with chronic conditions.
    Sessions
    • B2 : B-2: Capturing Dissociated Elements: A Search for Cultural Containers Through Non-violence
  • Tyia Grange Isaacson, LCSW, PhD
    Tyia Grange Isaacson, LCSW, PhD, works with individuals, couples and children including very young children. She has been in practice since 1998, and was formerly an adjunct lecturer for Columbia University school of Social Work as well as a qualified expert witness for child custody cases. She was trained in New York City where she cultivated cultural sensitivity working with diverse patients treating a wide array of problems.
    Sessions
    • B4 : B-4: The Metamorphosis of Hate in Clinical Engagement: Silence, Fear and Desire
  • Fanny Guglielmucci, PhD
    Fanny Guglielmucci is psychoanalyst and Associate Professor of Psychodynamic Psychology and Philosophy of Psychoanalysis at Roma Tre University (Department of Philosophy, Communication and Performing Arts), where she coordinates PSYLab – Research-Intervention Laboratory of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, and she directs the master in Psychoanalytic Studies. Her work bridges psychoanalysis, political theory, philosphy and cultural studies, with a focus on trauma, dreaming, and social transformation. She is a visiting research fellow at the University of São Paulo and collaborates internationally on projects linking psychoanalysis with social justice, human rights, and environmental humanities. Her current research develops the concept of Oneiricopolitics and explores how love and dreams may be a collective response to the eco-existential threats of our contemporaneity.
    Sessions
    • B5 : B-5: The Paradox of Hate as Bond: Anti-Holding in Psychic and Collective Life
  • Lisa Walter, PsyD
    Lisa Walter, PsyD has been in private practice providing psychotherapy to individuals and couples for more than years and providing psychoeducational training and consultation to organizations for 16 years. Specialties: Anxiety and Depression, intimacy and sexuality, relationship issues at home or at work, 'Intellectual giftedness'.
    Sessions
    • B3 : B-3: The Paradox of Hate
  • Sari Burkes, MSW, RSW
    Sari Burkes, MSW, RSW is a Registered Social Worker, training and practicing in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and foundations of psychoanalysis. She has a Master of Social Work from Wilfred Laurier University and has been trained in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy. She is a registered social worker with the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers (OCSWSSW), a member of the Ontario Association of Social Workers, and a candidate in the Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Sari’s professional background includes specialized training and experience working with: attachment, divorce and separation, grief and loss, family planning, infidelity, life transitions, mental health, post-partum, parenting, sexuality and self-worth.
    Sessions
    • B6 : B-6: When the World’s Gone Mad: The Lasting Effects of Hate in and out of the Treatment Room
  • 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
    • B8 : B-8: Hate as an Agent of Survival
    • DG1-8 : Discussion Group 1-8
    • DG2-8 : Discussion Group 2-8
  • Victoria Font Saravia, BSc
    Victoria Font Saravia has a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology. She is the Vice-president and founding member of IARPP Buenos Aires (Asociación Internacional de Psicoanálisis y Psicoterapia Relacional, Buenos Aires [International Association for Psychoanalysis and Relational Psychotherapy]). Along with Yanina Piccolo, they offer workshops on the OH Associative Cards in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is a co-author of the book "Psicoanálisis Relacional. Una nueva mirada, una nueva práctica, (Relational Psychoanalysis. A New Perspective, A New Practice), Letra Viva Publishing House, 2021, and of the book "Alianzas entre pares" (Peer Partnerships), Conjunto Publishing House, 2020. https://www.linkedin.com/in/victoria-font-saravia-99151715/
    Sessions
    • B9 : B-9: Transgenerational Hatred
    • MA-2 : Meet-the-Author 2: Pain is Deaf
  • June Higgins, PhD, CPsych
    June Higgins, Ph.D., is a Clinical Psychologist who maintains a private practice in psychoanalytic psychotherapy in Toronto, Canada. She is a clinical supervisor in the Advanced Training Program in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society, and she is a faculty member at the Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis.
    Sessions
    • B10 : B-10: Hateful (Dis)Identifications
  • Maria Jose Mezzera, MA
    María José Mezzera, native of Uruguay, but living in Chile. StudiedClinicalpsychology attheCatholicUniversity in Santiago. Founded and worked at anaddictionsday hospital for 10 years. Startedanalytic training at theChileanInstitute of Psychoanalysis(APCH-IPA) in 2008 and havebelongedto IARPP since 2011. Local chaptermembersinceitsinception Co-chairedthescientificcommitteeforthe 2013 International Conference in Santiago. Member and co-chair of IARPP´sCandidate´sCommittee. Currenlyserving a secondtermontheboard of IARPP Chile. Member of ILAS network.
    Sessions
    • C1 : C-1: Hating Better, Resistance as a Way of Subjectivation
  • Philippa Orsborn, BA,LLB, MCAPCT
    Sessions
    • C2 : C-2: The Abuses of Empathy and Witnessing
  • Rachel Altstein, JD, LP
    Rachel Altstein, LP, JD, is co-Editor in Chief of Psychoanalytic Perspectives and teaches psychoanalytic writing at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies (NIP). She is a member of Beatrice Beebe’s Infant Research Board, and chairs the Educator’s Award for Unpublished Scholarship at NIP. Before entering the psychoanalytic field, she worked as an attorney specializing in prisoners’ rights, criminal defense, and anti-death penalty litigation. She publishes and presents on themes occurring in language and writing, and in the psychoanalytic writing process in particular. She maintains a practice in New York City.
    Sessions
    • C4 : C-4: Psychoanalytic Encounters with Hateful Speech and Identity Claims
  • Cathy Martin
    Sessions
    • C5 : C-5: Navigating Hate and Trust: From Inherited Wounds to Analytic Encounters
  • Rodolfo Pérez
    Sessions
    • C7 : C-7: Gender Dysphoria and Interplay of Hate
  • Shalini Jain, RP
    Sessions
    • C8 : C-8: Hate and the Feminine
  • Karen Perlman, PhD, LP
    Karen Perlman, PhD, LP, is apsychoanalyst and a faculty member at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies. She is also Senior Editor of the journal Psychoanalytic Perspectives, in which she has recently published an introduction, "The Relationality of Skin," and a board member of the American Journal of Psychoanalysis. A member of the APA (Division 39, Psychoanalysis), the International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis, and the Connecticut Society of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, she has a private practice in Armonk, NY and Greenwich, Connecticut.
    Sessions
    • C9 : C-9: Psychotherapy In Times of Hate
  • Kirsten Ainsworth-Vincze, MSW, RSW
    Sessions
    • C10 : C-10: Hating the “Other”
  • Manuela Tosti, PsyD
    Manuela Tosti, PsyD, lives in Bolzano (Italy) where she works with adults and adolescents in a private practice. She studied Psychology at Leopold Franzens Universitàt Innsbruck (Austria) and has been trained as a Psychotherapist at the Training Institute of Self Psychology and Relational Psychoanalysis (ISIPSE’) in Milano, where she is currently trained as a Psychoanalyst.
    Sessions
    • D3 : D-3: Women, Bodies, and Partner Violence
  • Margy Sperry, PsyD
    Margy Sperry, PsyD is a Core Faculty member and Training and Supervising analyst at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles, CA. She is a member of the International Council of the IAPSP. Her recent writing, published in bothRelational Dialogues, and Psychoanalysis, Self and Context, focuses on Psychoanalytic Complexity Theory as well as the implications of the analyst’s situatedness. She maintains a private practice in Los Angeles, CA.
    Sessions
    • D5 : D-5: Surviving A Mother’s Hate
  • John Jacob, MB BCh, MPS, RP
    For nearly 15 years, I have journeyed with individuals, couples, and families as they work toward enhancing their quality of life and mental wellbeing. Following the completion of my medical training, I found myself drawn to the practice of psychotherapy because it provided me with an opportunity to better foster therapeutic relationships. I value connection and the propensity for healing, growth, and self-reflection that exists within the therapeutic space. I completed a Master of Pastoral Studies, Psychotherapy and Spiritual Care to enhance my ability to work with individuals from a wholistic lens, thereby combining my medical, psychotherapeutic and spiritual care training. In addition to mind-body-soul integration, I have extensive experience working with individuals belonging to LGBTQIA2S+, HIV/AIDS, and BIPOC communities, and welcome clients from all spectrum of diversity.
    Sessions
    • D6 : D-6: The Lost Object
  • Lisa Lyons, PhD
    Lisa Lyons, Ph. D. is a psychoanalyst and psychologist. She is on the teaching and supervisory faculties of the Stephen Mitchell Center For Relational Studies, where she is Co-Director of the Brief Seminar Series, the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy, and the National Institute for the Psychotherapies Four Year Psychoanalytic Program and Program in Integrative Psychotherapy. She has published and presented nationally and internationally on the Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma, Dissociation, Dreams and Reverie, Mindfulness and psychotherapy, sexual trauma, cross-cultural psychoanalysis, integrating Relational Psychoanalysis and Dialectical Behavior therapy,and political repression. She also performs trauma-focused psychological evaluations for individuals seeking Asylum and fighting Deportation. She has received awards from the APA Science Directorate and the Psychoanalytic Research Fund. She is in private practice in New York City and Teaneck, New Jersey.
    Sessions
    • D9 : D-9: PANEL CHANGE: Facing the Unimaginable: When You No Longer Recognize Your Country
  • Nathan Klaehn Registered Social Worker, MSW, RSW
    In my practice I see adults of any age, background, and from any walk of life who have challenges around depression, anxiety, trauma (child and adult), sexuality, sexual identity, gender, workplace difficulties, loss/grief, and many other issues, concerns or areas of confusion/conflicted living. I work closely with the people I see to identify constraints and increase self-awareness, in an effort to create new possibilities for living and relating. I have11 years experience working as a registered social worker and psychotherapist, much of which has been spent working with post-secondary students pursuing creative fields of work and study. My approach to this work is always responsive to the needs and dynamics of each person, including frequency and duration of our work. My training as a social worker and as a psychoanalyst (in process) allow me to approach the people I see in ways that take their social locations, formative life experiences, and their dispositions into consideration.
    Sessions
    • D10 : D-10: The Somatic Expression of Hate
  • Chris Trevelyan, MSW, RSW
    Chris Trevelyan has a Masters in Social Work. He is also a psychotherapist, educator and a senior psychoanalytic candidate at The Toronto Institute for the Contemporary Psychoanalysis.
    Sessions
    • E2 : E-2: Artistic Explorations of Hate
  • 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
    • E5 : E-5: Social and Clinical Polarizations
  • Emily Ets-Hokin, PhD, ABPP
    I am a licensed clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst with over 30 years of experience in solo private practice, teaching and service in the community. Having a relationship with my patients and taking care of them are central in my work. Perhaps because of my background in the arts (dance), I also deeply value the creative yet disciplined use of self and an active authentic engagement in the therapeutic process. I specialize in the treatment of adolescents and young adults (18-25). I also treat individuals, couples, and families who struggle with transitional issues throughout the life cycle. I received a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Northwestern University Medical School and a B.A. in Psychology from the University of California at Berkeley. I completed my psychoanalytic training with and now serve on the faculty of the Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. I am board certified by the American Psychological Association (ABPP). I am a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, SUNY Buffalo School of Medicine, serve as co-chair for education (PAWNY), and have presented nationally on topics including dreams, women and stress, dance and psychoanalysis, religion, and gender issues.
    Sessions
    • E7 : E-7: Whose Monster Is in the Room?
  • Macarena López Magnasco, M.A.
    Interlocutor of the session. Psychologist at Gabriela Mistral University. Accredited Clinical Psychologist. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist for Groups, Couples, and Families, Chilean Association of Analytic Group Psychotherapy (ACHPAG) and Latin American Federation of Analytic Group Psychotherapy (FLAPAG). Member of IARPP (International Association for Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis) and ARPP (Chilean Group of Relational Psychoanalysis). Chilean representative in the group of children and parents. Member of APSAN (Psychoanalytic Association of Santiago), and of the Chilean Society of Adolescence. Clinical Psychologist Private Practice: children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families. Clinical Psychologist at the Nevería Addiction Treatment Center. Undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in different Universities, Academies, and Institutions. Study and Supervision Groups since 1993, Psychoanalysis Study Group Linking, Family and Couple since 2009. Has publications in specialized magazines and books on Addictions, Groups, Personality Disorders, and Couple Therapy. Editorial Committee APPR Magazine, Chile.
    Sessions
    • E8 : E-8: The Hateful Legacy of Sexual Abuse
  • Alex Manafu, PhD
    My interests are in the philosophy of science (especially the physical sciences), and the metaphysics of science, where I have done work on reductionism and emergence, as well as on natural kinds. I am also interested in the philosophy of psychiatry. Before joining the philosophy department at York, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, where I am currently an associate member. Degrees Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Western Ontario M.A. in History and Philosophy of Science, University of Calgary M.A. in Logic and Theoretical Philosophy, University of Bucharest B.A. in Philosophy, Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza
    Sessions
    • E9 : E-9: Institutional Orphans: Hatred, Racism, and the Fragility of Belonging
  • Jessica Spilioti, MSc
    Jessica Spilioti is based in Athens, Greece and works in Early Years education. She is currently a candidate at the Institute for Relational and Group Psychotherapy, Greece. Jessica has a Joint Honours degree in Anthropology and Sociology (University of Aberdeen), a Master’s degree in Childhood Studies (University of Edinburgh) and has trained in the pedagogical principles of the Froebelian approach to early years learning (University of Edinburgh). She is a member of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP) and the American Association for Group Psychotherapy (AGPA).
    Sessions
    • E10 : E-10: Institutional Configurations of Hatred
  • Linda Attoe, MA, RP, CMHP, OVCS
    I have trained in many therapeutic modalities and have over 24 years of clinical experience as well as many years of personal psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. Areas of particular interest to me are recovery from coercive environments, the effect of nutrition on health, and understanding the themes and patterns that we struggle with over time, as we strive to develop into our best selves. All of my appointments are by Telehealth. I am a Board Certified Telehealth Professional (II). I offer a complementary 20-minute consultation, single-session consultations, brief solution-focussed work, counselling, and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. I also offer Supervision to RPs(Qualifying) and RPs,
    Sessions
    • F3 : F-3: The Institutional Unconscious, the Uncanny, Technology, and the Fate of Hate
  • Nafeesa Ladha, MPH, LP
    I specialize in working through trauma using IFS, EMDR, Somatic Therapy, Psychoanalytic, Structural Dissociation, decolonizing approaches and work with immigrants, parents, adoptees, professionals, BIPOC, LGBTQ+, ADHDers, CPTSD, sexual abuse survivors, men's issues and first responders. I personalize therapy based on client needs.
    Sessions
    • F4 : F-4: The Analyst Who Hates: Emotional Complexities in Challenging Clinical Encounters
  • Colin Lennard-White, MA
    Sessions
    • F5 : F-5: When the Analyst Hates the Patient
  • Maya Fennig, PhD
    Dr. Maya Fennig is an Assistant Professor of Social Work at Tel Aviv University. Her research focuses on trauma, forced migration, social polarization, and the mental health of children and families affected by war and captivity, with projects in Israel-Palestine, Italy, and Greece. She combines ethnographic methods with clinical research to inform interventions and policy.
    Sessions
    • F8 : F-8: The Destructive Impact of Dehumanization & Meta-Dehumanization
  • Benyam Worku Dubale, MD
    Dr. Benyam Worku Dubale is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Department of Psychiatry of Addis Ababa University (AAU). He is an expert in Trauma Psychiatry and Vulnerable Population Mental Health, having completed his subspecialty training in Trauma Psychiatry at the University of Toronto.
    Sessions
    • F9 : F-9: Can Hate Outlast Love? Reckoning with the Persistence of Destructiveness in Clinical and Cultural Life
  • 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
    • B11 : B-11: Survival on the Relational Ridge
  • Tracy Sidesinger, PsyD
    Tracy Sidesinger, PsyD is a psychoanalytic psychologist bilocated between Brooklyn and Upstate New York. She integrates Jungian and Relational approaches to address transgenerational aspects of the lost feminine with individuals and couples in private practice. Dr. Sidesinger’s interests span across maternal subjectivity, traumatic memory, and community psychoanalysis, and she has published articles and book chapters on these topics. She is current member of the Committee for Public Information at the American Psychoanalytic Association. In the past, she has served as representative to the Mental Health Liaison Group for the Psychotherapy Action Network (PsiAN), and as a board member for both the Museum of Motherhood in St. Petersburg, FL and the Jungian Association of Central Ohio (JACO) in Columbus, OH.
    Sessions
    • F-11 : F-11: Hate as Mission and False Reparation—Intergenerational Trauma, Loyalty and the Idealization of the Ancestors
  • Gary Rodin, MD
    Gary Rodin is the Joint University of Toronto/University Health Network Harold and Shirley Lederman Chair in Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care and is Head of the Department of Supportive Care at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto. Dr. Rodin is the Director of the Global Institute of Psychosocial, Palliative and End-of-Life Care (GIPPEC) and a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. He is a clinician-investigator who has published widely on the psychiatric and psychosocial aspects of cancer and other medical illnesses. Under his leadership, the Department of Supportive Care at the Princess Margaret has now achieved an international reputation for its academic and clinical excellence. Dr. Rodin has authored texts on Depression in the Medically Ill, and on the Psychiatric Aspects of Transplantation and is currently leading research on the psychological impact of advanced and terminal disease in affected patients and their families.
    Sessions
    • A1 : A-1: What is Absent and What is Present In The Emergence of Hatred
  • Andrea Monroy Toro
    Sessions
    • A3 : A-3: Bridging Polarized Worlds
  • John Sloane, MD
    John Sloane is a family physician who does mental capability evaluation for medicolegal purposes. Most of my clients are lawyers but members of the public also contact me directly.
    Sessions
    • A5 : A-5: Hate and Religion
  • Dale Gody, PhD, FABP
    Dale Gody, Ph.D., FABP is a Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst at the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute where she teaches relational and advanced relational theory, psychoanalysis and feminism, and case report writing. She previously served as the Director of the Exploring Psychoanalysis Program at CPI. For over forty years she has presented papers at APSAA, APA Division 39, CAPP, and IASPP on topics such as chance encounters between patient and therapist, maternal desire, analyst vulnerability, and countertransference. Her articles are published in the Journal of Psychoanalytic Psychology, International Journal of Psychoanalysis, and The International Journal of Controversial Discussions in Psychoanalysis. She is currently in private practice in Salt Lake City.
    Sessions
    • A6 : A-6: The Hatred We Share
  • Nahaleh Moshtagh, PhD, FIPA, RP
    Dr. Nahaleh Moshtagh is a psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist based in Toronto. She is a graduate of the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute and Iran University of Medical Sciences. Dr. Moshtagh is the recipient of the 2022 Edith Sabshin Teaching Award from the American Psychoanalytic Association. She is the Director of the HamAva Institute for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Tehran, Iran. She serves as teaching faculty and supervisor at the Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. She is also a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. She has published in JAPA, Psychoanalytic Review, Modern Psychoanalysis, International Forum of Psychoanalysis, and Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Her book "Becoming a Listening Mind: A Companion for Early Career Psychotherapists" is in publication process with Karnac.
    Sessions
    • A7 : A-7: Transference, Countertransference, and Hate
  • Christina Connell, RP
    Christina is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and clinical supervisor in private practice in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Christina completed psychoanalytic training in child psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in 1992, followed by finishing a further four-year training in adult psychoanalytic psychotherapy in 2020. Christina has enhanced her more than 30 years of clinical experience with intensive training in Mentalization Based Therapy at the Anna Freud Centre in London, England, and interpersonal psychoanalytic training at the William Alanson White Institute in New York. She has an advanced diploma in Family Mediation from Conrad Grebel College at the University of Waterloo. Christina is currently faculty member, supervisor and co-chair of the Curriculum Committee at the Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, and faculty member and supervisor at the Canadian Institute for Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Toronto. Elected to the International Membership Council at IAPSP, the International Association of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology, Christina also represents the International Membership Council on the IAPSP Executive.
    Sessions
    • A8 : A-8: What Brings Us Together Pulls Us Apart: Using hate in the analytic process
  • Alkinoi Lala, MSc
    Sessions
    • A9 : A-9: Embodied Parenthood in Therapy: Between Care, Hate, and Rupture
  • Faye Mishna, PhD
    Faye Mishna is a Professor at the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work (FIFSW) at the University of Toronto. She joined the Faculty as an Assistant Professor and served as Dean from 2009 to 2019. She is cross appointed to the University of Toronto’s Department of Psychiatry. Her program of research focuses on bullying/cyberbullying and consensual sexting and nonconsensual image sharing among youth, informal cyber technology use in social work practice and clinical practice. An integral component of her research entails collaboration with school boards, and community agencies and organizations. She is an Inaugural Fellow of the Society for Social Work and Research and maintains a small private practice in psychotherapy and consultation.
    Sessions
    • A10 : A-10: Women’s Subjectivity Under Siege: Relational and Cultural Psychoanalytic Explorations of Nazar (Evil Eye), Filial Duty, Misogyny, and the Emergent Spaces of Healing
    • LG1 : Large Group 1
    • LG2 : Large Group 2
  • 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
    • B1 : B-1: CHILD AND ADOLESCENT INVITED PANEL: The Unwelcome Child in the consulting room: Ferenczi, Adolescence, and the Experience of Hate in the Clinical and Social Surround
    • DG1-10 : Discussion Group 1-10
    • DG2-10 : Discussion Group 2-10
  • Neil Altman, PhD
    Neil Altman is a faculty member at the William Alanson White Institute in New York and an honorary member of the William Alanson White Society. He is Editor Emeritus and Associate Editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues: The International Journal of Relational Perspectives, and on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy, the Journal of Child Psychotherapy, and the International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies. He is author of “The Analyst in the Inner City: Race, Class, and Culture through a Psychoanalytic Lens”,(Routledge 2010) “Relational Child Psychotherapy” (Other Press, 2002), Psychoanalysis in Times of Accelerating Cultural Change: Spiritual Globalization (Routledge 2015) and “White Privilege: A Psychoanalytic Perspective” (in preparation).
    Sessions
    • B2 : B-2: Capturing Dissociated Elements: A Search for Cultural Containers Through Non-violence
  • Gabriella Elmo
    Dr. Gabriella Elmo is born and lives in Rome. She was 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
    • B4 : B-4: The Metamorphosis of Hate in Clinical Engagement: Silence, Fear and Desire
  • 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
    • B3 : B-3: The Paradox of Hate
    • DG1-7 : SPANISH Discussion Group 1-7
    • DG2-7 : SPANISH Discussion Group 2-7
  • Fiona Roy Sullivan, PhD
    DR. FIONA ROY SULLIVAN IS A PSYCHOLOGIST/PSYCHOANALYST IN FULL TIME INDEPENDENT PRACTICE
    Sessions
    • B6 : B-6: When the World’s Gone Mad: The Lasting Effects of Hate in and out of the Treatment Room
  • Keith Haartman, PhD
    Keith Haartman is a psychoanalyst In private practice in Toronto. He is on faculty at the Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. He is the author of “Watching and Praying: Personality Transformation in 18th Century British Methodism” (Rodopi, 2004).
    Sessions
    • B7 : B-7: Between Rage and Renewal: Relational Sensibilities in Inherited and Emerging Worlds
  • Shaifila Ladhani, PhD
    Shaifila Ladhani is a psychotherapist and a supervisor from India. Her work explores gender, desire, and psychic risk through psychoanalytic lenses. She is writing a doctoral thesis on psychic deadness and contributes to conversations at the intersection of psychotherapy and culture.
    Sessions
    • B8 : B-8: Hate as an Agent of Survival
  • Dorit Yadid, PhD
    A clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst based in Tel Aviv. Serves as a faculty member at the Tel Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, teaching in both the Training Program and the School of Psychotherapy. Theoretical work integrates Bionian psychoanalysis, affective neuroscience, and relational models, with a focus on trauma, unmentalized states, and early mental development. Holds a Ph.D. in Psychology from Bar-Ilan University, where research focused on the neuroscience of emotion regulation. In private practice, works with adolescents and adults.
    Sessions
    • B9 : B-9: Transgenerational Hatred
  • Stefania Baresic, MA
    Born and raised in Italy, I attended the Classical branch of the Italian high school system. I went on to study Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Florence, before immigrating to Toronto in 1991. An indirect and eclectic learning path, as a full-time housewife and mother, business owner and graduate of a six-year program in integrative energy medicine and bioenergetics, led me to reconnect with my calling and to apply in 2014 to the Centre for Training in Psychotherapy. After graduating from the Centre in 2020, following my interest in the way shame and dissociation shape relational, emotional and cognitive capacity and in the therapeutic role of the embodied relational presence of the analyst, I trained at the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute and took courses with D.Dana on polyvagal theory applied to psychotherapy and with J.Fisher on trauma induced dissociation and fragmentation. Currently I am a registered psychotherapist in private practice, working with adults struggling with the intersecting effects of developmental, multigenerational, historical and social trauma. I also hold a position as Graduate Fellow at the Centre for Training in Psychotherapy, supporting students in the Foundation Phase of the program.
    Sessions
    • B10 : B-10: Hateful (Dis)Identifications
  • 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
    • P2 : PRESIDENT'S WELCOME & PLENARY II: The Paradox of Hate: Complexity Lost and Found
  • 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
    • C1 : C-1: Hating Better, Resistance as a Way of Subjectivation
    • DG1-9 : Discussion Group 1-9
    • DG2-9 : Discussion Group 2-9
  • Marie Saba, M.A.
    My name is Marie Saba, MA in psychoanalysis, working in my private practice as psychoanalytic psychotherapist and clinical supervisor. Founder President of the IARPP Peruvian Chapter, from 2017 until 2021. I founded Espacio Gradiva publishing house, which specializes in the publication of mental health books. I have been in charge of the translation of several books by relational authors such as Lewis Aron and Galit Atlas, Dramatic Dialogues (Dialogos Dramáticos), Galit Atlas´s Enigma of Desire (El Enigma del deseo), Daniel Shaw, Traumatic Narcisism (Narcisismo Traumático), Andrew Samuels A New Therapy for Politics. This year we will present the translation of Donnel Stern's The Infinity of the Unsaid, Galit Atlas's When minds meet, the work of Lewis Aron, and Robert Grossmark's The Unobtrusive Relational Analyst. For the last four years I have been teaching a weekly workshop on literature and relational psychoanalysis.
    Sessions
    • C2 : C-2: The Abuses of Empathy and Witnessing
  • Philip Classen, PhD, CPsych
    Philip Classen is a skilled psychologist and marriage & family therapist with excellent education, training and clinical experience. He completed a AAMFT accredited Master of Arts in Marriage & Family Therapy in 1988, at the Fuller School of Psychology, in Pasadena, California, and a Ph.D., in Marriage & Family Therapy, with an emphasis in Clinical Psychology, in 1993, also at the Fuller School of Psychology.
    Sessions
    • C3 : C-3: Dynamics of War and Annihilation
  • Ira Moses, PhD, ABPsa
    Ira Moses, PhD, ABPsa, is a Training and Supervising Analyst, Former Director of Training, and Former Director of Clinical Services at the William Alanson White Institute, where he teaches the seminar that functions as the Alternative Pathway to becoming a Supervising Analyst. He is on the faculty of the Western New England Psychoanalytic Institute and Visiting Faculty of the San Diego Psychoanalytic Center; He was a former Board Member and Faculty of the China American Psychoanalytic Alliance and is on the faculty of the Ukrainian Intensive Psychodynamic Program; He has published articles on the Misuse of Empathy; Anonymity and Self Disclosure; the Analyst's Resistance to Asking Questions; and recently "Wrestling with Reductionism is Racial and Cultural Discourse"
    Sessions
    • C4 : C-4: Psychoanalytic Encounters with Hateful Speech and Identity Claims
  • Mohamad Mahdi Sheikh Ghahderijani
    My name is Mohamad Mehdi Sheikh ghahderijani. I was born on October 29, 1995 in Isfahan, Iran. I have a BA in Dramatic Literature. I am currently studying for a MA in Acting, have defended my thesis, and am writing my thesis for graduation. • I have completed an introductory course in relational psychoanalysis. • I have completed an introductory course in analytic group therapy. • I have participated in group relations conference courses as a member and staff member. I grew up with a stutter since I was three years old, and spent most of my childhood and adolescence in speech therapy rooms, psychology rooms, and later in my youth in analytical and cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy rooms. Since I stuttered and still do, I have had a great interest in human differences, or as the popular (and incorrect) term goes, disabilities in people. For the past two or three years, I have been involved with the deaf community and, through communication and work, I have tried to reduce the barrier between them and the so-called "healthy" people. As I approach my thirties, I have decided to use the experiences I have gained over the years to become qualified in individual and group therapy and to make the path of group relationship conferences accessible to people of all backgrounds. Maybe in ten years I will be able to make my dream a reality and for that reason, I want to build a larger social network and learn from them to become a better person. Maybe that is why I am at this conference, to learn from people from other lands.
    Sessions
    • C5 : C-5: Navigating Hate and Trust: From Inherited Wounds to Analytic Encounters
  • Angela Facundo, PhD, LP
    I trained in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at the Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis (TICP), and I now work in private practice as a Registered Psychotherapist in Toronto, seeing patients both virtually and in person. My academic and clinical work inform one another. I teach at the TICP in their Essentials program and Psychoanalysis program. I am also an English professor at Queen’s University, where my research and teaching explore the relationship between literature and mental health. Before Queen’s, I taught at the University at Buffalo and York University. My English PhD from York established my specialization in psychoanalytic theory, literary and critical theory, queer theory, and contemporary fiction.
    Sessions
    • C6 : C-6: From the Sacred Womb to the Silent Body: Hate, Shame, and Recognition in the Experience of Iranian Women Facing Infertility
  • Francy Wang, MD
    Francy Wang is a psychoanalyst and a registered psychotherapist in private practice in Ontario, Canada. She is a graduate of Toronto Contemporary for Psychoanalyst providing psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic therapy to adults, adolescents, couples, and families. She finished her medical & psychiatric training and family therapy training in China and taught in the medical schools. Other than clinical practice in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, she also teaches and supervises students for The China American Psychoanalytic Alliance (CAPA). She presented her ideas and cases in international conferences.
    Sessions
    • C7 : C-7: Gender Dysphoria and Interplay of Hate
  • CARLEEN MILLER, PhD
    Carleen Miller, PhD, LP, LMFT I am a psychotherapist, psychoanalyst, individual, couple and family therapist, clinical supervisor and an organizational consultant. I received my PhD in Clinical Social Work from the Institute for Clinical Social Work in Chicago, Illinois. I also hold a master’s degree in Couple and Family Therapy. I received postdoctoral training in psychoanalysis at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies. Additionally, I received a certificate in psychoanalytic psychotherapy from the Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute and a certificate in global mental health, trauma and recovery from the Harvard University Continuing Education Studies Program. I am on the board of directors of the National Institute for the Psychotherapies (NIP) in New York City. Additionally, I serve as the Director of the National Training Program in Contemporary Psychoanalysis (NTP) at NIP. I am on the faculty member at NIP and the Institute for Clinical Social Work in Chicago. In addition to my clinical work, I serve as the Chief of Staff for a Global Humanitarian and Human Rights organization that works with Refugees, Immigrants and other marginalized communities. Additionally, I have served as the Executive Director of a Refugee Resettlement Organization and the Director of Social Services for a Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault and Human Trafficking program.
    Sessions
    • C8 : C-8: Hate and the Feminine
  • Christian Desmarais, MD
    Dr Christian Desmarais is a psychiatrist working in a mental health team specialized in violent extremism intervention in Montreal. He also works at Albert-Prévost Hospital in Montreal in a hospitalization unit. He does supervision medical students and psychiatry residents in these contexts. He specializes both in violent extremism intervention and psychodynamic psychotherapy.
    Sessions
    • C9 : C-9: Psychotherapy In Times of Hate
  • Anabelle Soto
    I am a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) in the states of New York and Florida, with experience supporting a variety of clients in their work to improve their mental health. As a psychotherapist, I believe that mental health and behavior are intrinsically tied to past experiences. Therefore, I work with clients to support them as they achieve greater self-awareness, discover the roots of their issues and build the resources they need to reach wellness. I have been working in the mental health field for over 10 years. During this time, I have gained significant experience helping people deal with anxiety, depression, domestic violence, relationship problems, identity issues and substance use (specialized in the harm reduction approach). Through my education and experience, I have come to understand the importance of culture in the therapeutic process. I identify as a bicultural clinical social worker, specializing in the Latinx community. I am a native Spanish speaker and have native fluency in English. I received a master’s in social work from the Silverman School of Social Work and am continuing my specialization at the Center for Modern Psychoanalysis studies, Florida Psychoanalytic Center and SMPR-IARPP Mexico. In addition to my formal education, I have extensive hands-on experience with LGBTQ clients, immigrants and counseling people living with HIV/AIDS.
    Sessions
    • C10 : C-10: Hating the “Other”
  • 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
    • P3 : PLENARY III: In the Line of Fire: Negotiating the Experience of Hating and Being Hated
  • Patricia Barroilhet, MA
    Sessions
    • D1 : D-1: Invited Panel-Candidate’s Panel: Encountering the Unexpected: When Hate Haunts the Analytic Room
  • 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
    • D2 : D-2: Rethinking Psychoanalytic Work with Psychotic Patients Through an Ontological Philosophy Lens
  • Xiaofeng Long, MA
    Female, 53, married, Chinese， private practicing therapist; teacher and faculty in Sichuang Heguang Clinical Psychology Institute and CIC 2016. 3 – Current: private practicing psychodynamic psychotherapist 2021.9 – Current: instructor at Sichuang Heguang clinical psychology institute and CIC （CAPA in China) 2020.9 - Current: Psychoanalyst candidate at Chicago Psychoanalysis Institute 2023.9-2025.6 ：Finishing 2-year Relational Psychoanalysis and psychotherapy training program 2017.9- 2022. 6: Finishing China American Psychoanalysis Alliance (CAPA) Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy & supervision training 2014. 9 – 2020. 6: Finishing training programs in 2-year psychodynamic psychotherapy, 3-year Winnicott, 2-year self-psychology, 1-year Klein. 2011.1: Getting the certification of psychology counselor 2014.7: Finishing application Psychology with psychoanalysis master program 2015.12-2016.3 • Practice as a psychology counselor in the Mental Health Center of West China Hospital of Medical Sciences, Sichuan University
    Sessions
    • D3 : D-3: Women, Bodies, and Partner Violence
  • Caryn Sherman Meyer, LCSW
    Caryn Sherman-Meyer, LCSW, is faculty, supervisor and training analyst at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies and other psychoanalytic institutes in New York. She is past director of NIP’s Four-Year Adult Training Program in Psychoanalysis and Comprehensive Psychotherapy, founding director of its License Qualifying Program in Psychoanalysis and a member of its Board of Directors. Caryn teaches and writes about therapeutic action, eating disorders, otherness, and life transitions. She has presented her ideas and clinical work at psychoanalytic conferences and institutes and has authored: The Reversal of Roe v Wade and the Psychological Assault on Women: Discussion (2024) in Psychoanalytic Perspectives; Becoming A Psychoanalyst (2020) in Psychoanalytic Perspectives; Swimming Lessons: Aging, Dissociation and Embodied Resonance (2016) in Psychoanalytic Perspectives; and What’s Fat Got to Do with It? On Different Kinds of Losses and Gains in the Analytic Relationship (2015) in Psychoanalytic Inquiry. Caryn practices and supervises individuals, couples and groups in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in New York City. (Nilou, if the bio is too long I can delete the administrative info.)
    Sessions
    • D4 : D-4: Trapped in Sexed Binaries: The Mental Toll of Reactionary Politics
  • Sepideh Shirani
    Sepideh Shirani Iran Sepideh Shirani, an Iranian psychodynamic psychotherapist, holds an MA in social psychoanalytic studies from the University of Essex and is a candidate at the Tehran Center for Psychoanalytic Studies. She is interested in social psychoanalysis and does not treat psyche and society as separate domains. Her work focuses on the interaction between social traumas and the psyche, as well as on how power dynamics in the family and in society shape intrapsychic dynamics.
    Sessions
    • D5 : D-5: Surviving A Mother’s Hate
  • Cheri L. Hausmann, MA, LMFT
    Cheri L. Hausmann, MA, LMFT, is a PhD candidate in Marriage and Family Therapy at Texas Woman’s University and holds a Master’s in History from Eastern Washington University. Her work bridges psychoanalytic theory, family systems, and historical inquiry, with a particular focus on object relations, grief, and maternal absence. She is the author of a chapter in the Routledge International Marriage and Family Therapy Handbook (2023) and has presented her research at conferences, including work on the history of women in object relations and the existential-spiritual dimensions of family grief. Her forthcoming projects include Reclaiming the Empirical Roots of Psychoanalysis: Object Relations and Family Systems Theory as Extensions of Freud Against Lacanian Critique and The Absent Mother: Maternal Death, Object Relations, and the Missing Object in Lacanian Psychoanalysis. She maintains a private clinical practice and has extensive teaching and supervisory experience in academic settings.
    Sessions
    • D6 : D-6: The Lost Object
  • Maxwell S. Sucharov, MD
    Maxwell S. Sucharov, M.D., is an emeritus member of the International Council of the International Association for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology and is on the Editorial Board of Psychoanalysis, Self and Context. He has a private psychotherapy practice in Vancouver, Canada, where he is a Clinical Faculty member in the Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia.
    Sessions
    • D7 : D-7: When Hatred in the World Invades the Couch
  • Linda Iny Lempert, PhD, PsyD
    My clinical training was completed at the Allen Memorial Institute and the Montreal General Hospital, where I conducted psychological assessments and outpatient psychotherapy. I subsequently worked as a Psychologist and Clinical Supervisor at the Centre local des services communautaires (CLSC) Lac St. Louis, within a multidisciplinary treatment program for individuals with mental health difficulties. During this time, I also completed a two-year post-graduate training program in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy at the Jewish General Hospital, and worked in independent practice as well. Since 2002, I have been working primarily in private practice conducting psychotherapy with individuals and couples in both English and French for a wide range of concerns. At the same time, I continue to provide assessments and treatment for individuals involved in traumatic accidents, including Independent Psychological Evaluations for lawyers and insurers, as well as disability assessments. I also completed an advanced psychoanalytic training program at the Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis (TICP) in 2014, which includes four years of theoretical and clinical training. I continue to be involved with the TICP, assisting with the development of ongoing professional education.
    Sessions
    • D8 : D-8: Hate, Love, and Transformation
  • Barabar Pizer Ed.D., ABPP
    Barbara Pizer, EdD, ABPP, is faculty, personal and supervising analyst, and former board member of the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis; assistant clinical professor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; associate editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues; in private practice in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
    Sessions
    • D9 : D-9: PANEL CHANGE: Facing the Unimaginable: When You No Longer Recognize Your Country
  • Abigail Walch
    Abigail Walch is a licensed psychoanalyst who treats individual adults and couples in the Flatiron District of New York City. She completed her advanced training in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy at the Institute for Contemporary Therapy (ICP). Prior to becoming a psychoanalyst, she was a magazine writer and editor at a range of major global publications, from Newsweek to Vietnam News. She spent the final decade of her editorial career as a features editor at Vogue, where she covered politics, health, culture, and food as well as assigned and edited personal essays about moments of transformative life change. She received her MS in Journalism from Columbia University and her BA in Human Biology and Latin American Literature from Stanford University.
    Sessions
    • D10 : D-10: The Somatic Expression of Hate
  • William J. Coburn, PhD, PsyD
    William J. Coburn, Ph.D., Psy.D. is a psychoanalyst, a licensed clinical psychologist, and a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in West Los Angeles. He is Founding Editor Emeritus of Psychoanalysis, Self and Context (formerly the International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology), Associate Editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, and an Editorial Board Member of Psychoanalytic Inquiry. He is a Faculty Member and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles. He is a Founding Council Member Emeritus of the International Association for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology (IAPSP), Former Chair of the IAPSP Publications Committee, and an Advisory Board Member of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP). He is also an International Editorial Board Member of Revista Italiana Telematica Di Psicologia Psicoanalitica Del Se Intersoggettivita Psicoanalisi Relazionale. In addition to having published articles in the areas of intersubjectivity, complex systems, countertransference, and supervision, he co-edited (with Nancy VanDerHeide) Self and Systems: Explorations in Contemporary Self Psychology (2009, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences), and also co-edited (with Roger Frie) Persons In Context: The Challenge of Individuality in Theory and Practice (2010, Routledge). His more recent book is titled Psychoanalytic Complexity: Clinical Attitudes For Therapeutic Change (2014, Routledge).
    Sessions
    • E1 : E-1: Mythology and the Metamorphosis of Hate
  • 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
    • E2 : E-2: Artistic Explorations of Hate
  • Stephen Hartman, PhD
    Stephen Hartman, PhD is an executive editor of the journal Psychoanalytic Dialogues and a co-editor of Studies in Gender and Sexuality. He teaches at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California in San Francisco and at the NYU Postdoctoral Program where he is a member of the relational track faculty. Stephen participates in an interdisciplinary conversation on critical development studies as a member of the Collaboration for Research on Democracy, and contributes to the CORD Network Blog.
    Sessions
    • E3 : E-3: Hatred, War and Shared Trauma
  • Carla Carvalho, MD
    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
    • E4 : E-4: Mutual Hate and Dissociation Post-Empire: Echoes of Portuguese Colonialism in Therapy
  • Alexandra (Alex) Belinski, MSW
    Alexandra (Alex) Belinski, MSW, is a clinical social worker and psychotherapist with a private practice specializing in PTSD, Complex PTSD, sexual trauma, dissociative disorders, and crisis intervention. Trained in psychodynamic psychotherapy and certified in EMDR, she integrates relational and trauma-informed approaches in her clinical work. For over eight years, she served at the Lev Hasharon Mental Health Center in Netanya, where she headed the Social Services Department and supervised a team of 15 social workers. She has also practiced at a multidisciplinary clinic for sexual trauma survivors and supervised clinicians in an integrative trauma program at Tel Aviv University’s Academic Center for Continuing Medical Education. Alex holds a Master of Social Work and a postgraduate psychotherapy diploma from Tel Aviv University, and has completed advanced training in group facilitation.
    Sessions
    • E5 : E-5: Social and Clinical Polarizations
  • Brent Willock, PhD
    Dr. Willock is the founding President of the local chapter of the American Psychological Association’s Division of Psychoanalysis, and of the Toronto Institute & Society for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. He has contributed many chapters to books, published in prominent journals, and serves on the editorial boards for several journals and book series. For the Washington Psychoanalytic Foundation’s New Directions in Psychoanalytic Thinking Program, he is a Writing Mentor. He is author of Comparative-Integrative Psychoanalysis (finalist, Goethe Award), First Editor of Understanding and Coping with Failure; Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Identity and Difference; Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Passion; On Deaths and Endings (Gradiva Award), Taboo or Not Taboo? (Goethe Award), Loneliness and Longing (Goethe Award). Dr. Willock serves on the Board of the Canadian Institute for Child & Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psycho–therapy, the faculty of the Institute for the Advancement of Self Psychology, and the Advisory Board of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. His many contributions have been honored by the Ontario Psychological Association, the American Psychological Association, the Canadian Psychological Association, the International Federation for Psychoanalytic Education, the University of Chicago, the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, and the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis.
    Sessions
    • E6 : E-6: Hateful Personalities and Victimhood
    • DG1-10 : Discussion Group 1-10
    • DG2-10 : Discussion Group 2-10
  • Laura Wynn, LCSW
    Laura Wynn is a private practice clinician and writer working in Manhattan, New York in a busy private practice. After focusing her work for several years in community mental health clinics in Brooklyn and Manhattan, she has begun focusing on using relational psychotherapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to treat mood disorders and OCD. Laura has a diverse academic background; she majored in Middle Eastern Studies at NYU and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa; she received her MSW from Hunter College, where she focused her thesis on universal basic income as well as clinical social work; and she is currently working on a Master of Liberal Arts in genocide, mass violence, and crimes against humanity at CUNY.
    Sessions
    • E7 : E-7: Whose Monster Is in the Room?
  • Balin Anderson, LCSW
    A psychoanalyst in private practice in Denver, Colorado, Balin is a graduate of the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy’s Psychoanalytic Program in New York City. Balin earned her MSW from the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. She began her career as a social worker at Planned Parenthood of New York City; Balin also served as a medical interpreter for Spanish-speaking patients. She is a faculty member at the Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis, and serves as the Secretary for the Denver Psychoanalytic Society.
    Sessions
    • E8 : E-8: The Hateful Legacy of Sexual Abuse
  • Julian Humphreys, PhD, RP
    Julian Humphreys PhD RP is a newly minted Registered Psychotherapist in the Province of Ontario, Canada, having recently completed the three-year program in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at the Toronto Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis. He works primarily with men who want to understand themselves, their partners and their workplaces better. Julian is also a Master Certified Coach with the International Coaching Federation, and has worked one-on-one with senior leaders in large multinational organizations such as eBay, PwC, Microsoft, Ferrero, DHL, Bayer and Merck for the past 10 years. He has contributed to several Routledge collections, including 'Complex Situations in Coaching' (2019) and 'The Coaching Psychology Handbook' (forthcoming), for which he wrote the chapter on Psychodynamic Coaching. He is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Philosophy of Coaching, one of the world’s leading coaching journals, that will soon celebrate its 10-year anniversary. Julian maintains an affiliation with INSEAD, the European business school that advocates for a psychodynamic approach to leadership development. His PhD, completed in 2010 at the University of Toronto, was in the Philosophy of Education. Originally from the UK, he has lived in Canada for almost 30 years.
    Sessions
    • E9 : E-9: Institutional Orphans: Hatred, Racism, and the Fragility of Belonging
  • 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. Furthermore, 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
    • E10 : E-10: Institutional Configurations of Hatred
  • 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
    • F2 : F-2: Beyond the Dyad: Hate, Institutional Illiteracy, and the Urgency of the Group Turn
  • Patricia Ticiento Clough PhD, LP
    Patricia Ticineto Clough is a professor emerita of sociology and women studies at City University of New York. She is the author of several publications, among them, Autoaffection: Unconscious Thought in the Age of Teletechnology, and most recently, The User Unconscious: Affect, Media, and Measure. She is co-editor of The Affective Turn: Theorizing the Social, and Beyond Biopolitics Essays in the Government of Life and Death. Clough is a practicing psychoanalyst in New York City where she also teaches at National Institute for the Psychotherapies and the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy where she is supervisor and member of the Training Committee, Curriculum Committee, and the Diversity Task Force. Her teaching and writing focus on the relationship of the psyche and the social in context of current social media/technologies.
    Sessions
    • F3 : F-3: The Institutional Unconscious, the Uncanny, Technology, and the Fate of Hate
  • James Pearl, PhD
    James Pearl, PhD is a psychoanalyst in private practice in Sag Harbor, NY. He is a graduate of the Institute for Expressive Analysis, NY. and on the faculty of He Guan Institute in Cheng Du, PRC. He has presented internationally in Florence Italy, Havana Cuba, Toronto Canada, Cheng Du, China, Casablanca and Marrakech, Morocco.
    Sessions
    • F4 : F-4: The Analyst Who Hates: Emotional Complexities in Challenging Clinical Encounters
  • 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
    • F5 : F-5: When the Analyst Hates the Patient
  • Raúl Naranjo, PsyD
    Psychologist with over 25 years of clinical experience in psychotherapy and helping individuals with mental health issues.
    Sessions
    • F6 : F-6: From Mask to Message: The Relational Life of Hate and Longing
  • 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
    • F7 : F-7: Racial Hatred as Defense Against Relationality, Mortality and Their Angst
    • DG1-8 : Discussion Group 1-8
    • DG2-8 : Discussion Group 2-8
  • Katrina Zahlawi, MSW
    Katrina Zahlawi is a Palestinian MSW candidate in the Social Policy and Human Rights track at Tel Aviv University. She has professional experience in child development, addiction recovery, and foster care, as well as in leading gender-empowerment programs for Palestinian girls in Jaffa. At Tel Aviv University, she co-facilitates a Jewish-Palestinian student dialogue group and serves as a research assistant on projects examining social polarization and belonging in times of conflict. As a Palestinian student, Katrina regards her work as a deeply personal and professional commitment, driven by a vision to advance social change, justice, and equality.
    Sessions
    • F8 : F-8: The Destructive Impact of Dehumanization & Meta-Dehumanization
  • Earl Bland, PsyD, PsyD
    Earl D. Bland, PsyD, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst, and professor of psychology at the Rosemead School of Psychology, Biola University in La Mirada CA. He primarily teaches clinical courses in the area of psychoanalytic psychotherapy, clinical theory, and the integration of psychology and religion. Earl also serves on faculty at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles. He is the co-author of Christianity and Psychoanalysis: A New Conversation (2014) and The Integrative Mindset (2025); as well as numerous other publications in the areas of psychoanalytic treatment and the intersection of psychology/psychoanalysis & religious faith. He maintains a private practice where he treats individuals and couples.
    Sessions
    • F9 : F-9: Can Hate Outlast Love? Reckoning with the Persistence of Destructiveness in Clinical and Cultural Life
  • Romy A. Reading, PhD
    Dr. Romy Reading is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City working with adults across the lifespan. She is a graduate of the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and received her doctorate from The New School for Social Research. Her clinical thinking is shaped by a diverse range of psychoanalytic theories, social theory, queer theory, critical race theory, and feminist theory. Currently, she is a co-host of the Gradiva award-winning podcast Couched, which features interdisciplinary conversations between psychoanalysts and experts from a wide array of fields. Guests have included Dr. Judith Butler, National Book Award winner Susan Choi, and Dr Robert Lifton, among many others. She has also authored many psychoanalytic book reviews and manuscripts covering a wide range of topics. To learn more please go to www.romyreading.com.
    Sessions
    • F10 : F-10: Morality as a Third in Hateful Encounters
  • Sam Izenberg, MD
    Assistant Professor at University of Toronto, department of psychiatry
    Sessions
    • A11 : A-11: Countertransference Anger and Hatred: The Last Frontier?
  • Michal scherayber hollender phd.
    Art Therapy - Psychothrapist and supervider in private clinic and in mahagalim center.teaching theroy publish book about loewalld ideas
    Sessions
  • Jonathan Blazon Yee, MFA, LCSW
    Jonathan Blazon Yee, MFA, LCSW, is a graduate, faculty and Board member of the National Institute for the Psychotherapies (NIP). His writing appears in several psychoanalytic publications, including ‘Psychoanalytic Perspectives’, ‘Psychoanalytic Inquiry’, and ‘Psychoanalysis, Self, and Context,’ where he has recently joined the editorial staff. Jonathan received his MSW from New York University following a career in fine arts, teaching, and education management. He operates a private practice in New York City that engages in experiences of identity and cultural integration, particularly within the Asian American community.
    Sessions
    • B11 : B-11: Survival on the Relational Ridge
  • 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
    • C-11 : C-11: Getting Sucked in and Being Spit Out: How Analysts Get Framed by Hatred
  • Nira Kolers, PhD
    Nira Kolers, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and researcher associated with Toronto, notably with the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and the Coachhouse Clinic, focusing on child psychology, therapeutic preschools, and psychiatric research, with publications appearing in journals like the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry and the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.
    Sessions
    • D-11 : D-11: How to Survive Hate Without Becoming Hateful or Annihilated? Two cases of women from Brazil
  • Patrick Rafferty, PhD
    Patrick Rafferty is a psychoanalytic psychologist in private practice in Brooklyn, New York. He received his doctorate from the New School for Social Research where he worked in the Center for Attachment Research and he completed his post-graduate fellowship First Episode Psychosis Unit of The Zucker Hillside Hospital where he then worked for many years. He maintains an ongoing independent study of psychoanalysis using individual supervisions and study groups. In his spare time he is an oil painter, a writer, and loves the great outdoors.
    Sessions
    • F-11 : F-11: Hate as Mission and False Reparation—Intergenerational Trauma, Loyalty and the Idealization of the Ancestors
  • Zeynep Catay Caliskan, PhD
    Zeynep Catay, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist in private practice in New York City, working with both adults and children. She is also trained as a dance/movement therapist and practitioner of the Somatic Experiencing method. In addition to her clinical work, she is a part-time faculty member in the Clinical Psychology Ph.D. Program at the New School for Social Research and an advanced candidate at the NYU Postdoctoral Program for Psychoanalysis. From 2005 to 2019, Dr. Catay served on the faculty of the Psychology Department at Istanbul Bilgi University, where she also founded the certificate program in Creative Movement and Dance/Movement Therapy. Drawing on her background in dance/movement therapy, clinical psychology, and psychoanalysis, she has conducted research and published on nonverbal dynamics, somatic countertransference, and embodiment in psychotherapy. Her most recent project involved a collaboration between the Center for Attachment Research at the New School and the Child Psychotherapy Process Research Lab at Istanbul Bilgi University. This project resulted in the development of “Psychotherapist’s Nonverbal Coordination Coding System”; a video-based method to evaluate therapist’s ability to coordinate their nonverbal communication in child therapy sessions.
    Sessions
    • PC2 : B: Pre-Conference B: Navigating the Embodied Interactive Field in Psychoanalysis: Opportunities and Challenges to Surviving Hate
  • 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
    • A1 : A-1: What is Absent and What is Present In The Emergence of Hatred
    • DG1-1 : Discussion Group 1-1
    • DG2-1 : Discussion Group 2-1
  • José Bahamondes, PhD
    Clinical psychologist with a relational psychoanalytic approach. Member of the APPR Chile board of directors and the Candidates Committee of IARPP International. I have a private practice in Las Condes where I see adolescents and adults, and I also work at Centro Templanza and am part of the Colectivo Trenza clinical network. IARPP Members registering from USA & Canada for in-person attendance.
    Sessions
    • A2 : A-2: PANEL CHANGE: Facing the Unimaginable: When You No Longer Recognize Your Country
  • Carolina Meucci
    Dr. Meucci graduated in Clinical Psychology at Sapienza University of Rome, in 2002. Dr. Meucci then spent 1 year completing an internship at Lutheran Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY after which she became a licensed psychologist in Italy. She worked with the same hospital for two more years on a research project with children and adolescents affected by the trauma of September 11th: CATS (Children and Adolescence Trauma Treatment and Services). Dr. Meucci then enrolled in a two-year master’s program in Forensic Psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, graduating in 2007. She later completed a four-year specialization in psycho-dynamic psychotherapy at ISIPSè (Institute of Specialization in Psychoanalytic Self-Psychology and Relational Psychoanalysis) in Rome, graduating in 2012. She became a certified EMDR practitioner in 2020 (EMDR Europe Association). Dr. Meucci currently works at the JCU Counseling Center as Head of Counseling and in her private practice, and is currently enrolled as a candidate at the 2-year post-specialization program at ISIPSè psychoanalytic institute.
    Sessions
    • A3 : A-3: Bridging Polarized Worlds
  • Jane Kivnick
    Jane Kivnick is an LCSW and Psychoanalyst practicing in Brooklyn, New York. After completing her Masters of Social Work at New York University, she graduated from the 4 year Psychoanalytic Program at The Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Manhattan. Prior to starting her private practice, Jane volunteered at a rape crisis center in Mombasa, Kenya, worked as a school therapist at New Design High School in Manhattan, and helped created the therapeutic division at Tia, a health clinic for female-identifying patients with locations in New York, Arizona and Los Angeles. She now works with children, adolescents, adults, couples and families.
    Sessions
    • A5 : A-5: Hate and Religion
  • Rosetta Castellano, Ph.D.
    She is Faculty at the Institute for Self-Psychology and Relational Psychoanalysis ‘Isipsé’ in Rome and Milan, Italy, where she teaches “Infant Research and Psychoanalysis”, “Psychoanalysis and couple psychotherapy” and “Clinical applications of Attachment Theory”. She is author of several articles, chapters, and books on attachment in couple relationships and couple’s psychotherapy. Her current research focuses on attachment disorganization in couple’s relationship. She is in private practice in Avellino, Italy, where she works with couples and adults.
    Sessions
    • A6 : A-6: The Hatred We Share
  • 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
    • A7 : A-7: Transference, Countertransference, and Hate
  • Michal Scheraybe Hollender, PhD
    Art Therapy - Psychothrapist and supervider in private clinic and in mahagalim center.teaching theroy publish book about loewalld ideas
    Sessions
    • A8 : A-8: What Brings Us Together Pulls Us Apart: Using hate in the analytic 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
    • A9 : A-9: Embodied Parenthood in Therapy: Between Care, Hate, and Rupture
  • Minh Truong-George, Auck.BA, Dip Psychotherapy
    Minh Truong-George is a psychosynthesis psychotherapist, who arrived in New Zealand as a child refugee from Vietnam. Her husband is from Vanuatu and they have three adult children. Her life is thus interwoven with diverse cultures including Chinese, Vietnamese, Ni-Vanuatu and New Zealand. She is especially interested in the dance between Eastern and Western psychology and the holding of clients that includes both “height” and “depth”. As well as working in her private practice, she provides short term therapy for clients in the Public Health and Business sectors. She honours and respects clients’ individual challenges and needs, and aims to work creatively and intuitively to embrace clients’ wisdom and resources for meaningful changes in life. Being an ordained Buddhist and meditator, she sits intimately with her clients’ deep exploration of their spirituality, their light and shadow, and their purpose and meaning in life
    Sessions
    • A10 : A-10: Women’s Subjectivity Under Siege: Relational and Cultural Psychoanalytic Explorations of Nazar (Evil Eye), Filial Duty, Misogyny, and the Emergent Spaces of Healing
  • Susan Klebanoff, PhD
    Susan Klebanoff is a psychologist in private practice in New York City. She is on the faculty of the Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies, where she has served as a mentor and supervisor to candidates. She has also served as a supervisor at the Institute for the Psychotherapies (NIP) and the Ferkauf School of Yeshiva University for many years. She was co editor of the two volume book series, Ghosts in the Consulting Room and Demons in the Consulting Room (Routledge, 2016). She writes and speaks on a variety of topics including Intergenerational transmission of trauma, immigration, family estrangement, eating disorders and creativity.
    Sessions
    • B1 : B-1: CHILD AND ADOLESCENT INVITED PANEL: The Unwelcome Child in the consulting room: Ferenczi, Adolescence, and the Experience of Hate in the Clinical and Social Surround
  • Neetu Sarin, PhD
    Dr Neetu Sarin (PhD) is Faculty at the School of Human studies, Ambedkar University Delhi. She works clinically with people suffering from psychosis, personality disorders and dissociative disorders. She teaches courses on the body, listening, psychoanalytic psychotherapy and gender to the graduate programs in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Her doctoral work is in the field of states of dissociation and intergenerational transmission of trauma. She particularly likes the use of myths, fables and tales and their relationship with the psyche-soma. She was recently awarded the prestigious 'Sudhir Kakar prize' (2016) for best psychoanalytic writing under 40. She spends her free time designing aesthetics, nurturing her relationships and plants.
    Sessions
    • B2 : B-2: Capturing Dissociated Elements: A Search for Cultural Containers Through Non-violence
  • Walter Monterosso, PhD
    Psychologist-Psychotherapist and Sociologist Psychoanalyst ISIPSé (Institute of Specialization in Psychoanalytic Self Psychology and Relational Psychoanalysis) Member of IARPP Member of IAPSP Practices the freelance profession as a psychotherapist for adolescents, adults and couples. He is involved in research, university professor in psychology of chronicity in the second level Masters at Niccoló Cusano. Vice President of ANPESA, a patient association coordinated by SIGR- Italian Society of GastroRheumatology.
    Sessions
    • B4 : B-4: The Metamorphosis of Hate in Clinical Engagement: Silence, Fear and Desire
  • 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
    • B5 : B-5: The Paradox of Hate as Bond: Anti-Holding in Psychic and Collective Life
  • María Paz Ardito, LCP
    María Paz Ardito has been a practicing clinical psychologist in Santiago, Chile, and Chicago, IL, for the past 18 years. She teaches relational psychoanalysis and supervises at graduate level at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. She is a co-founder of Colectivo Trenza, a psychoanalytic organization devoted to studying, researching and providing training at the intersection of psychoanalysis, feminism and gender studies. She is Licensed as Clinical Psychologist by Chile's CNAPC. Her clinical and research interests include relational psychoanalysis, immigration and transgenerational trauma, and the dialogues between psychoanalysis and feminism.
    Sessions
    • B3 : B-3: The Paradox of Hate
  • Lorraine Caputo
    Lorraine Caputo, LCSW is a clinical social worker and psychoanalyst and EMDR therapist in Manhattan. She is a graduate of Smith College, SSW. She teaches, supervises and is a training analyst at Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis (MIP); Director, Faculty and Consultant to the (MIP) Certificate Program in Trauma Studies (CPTS). She has taught at NIP, IEA, ICP and in the MIP CPTS. Her psychoanalytic influences range from Bion to Ferenczi to Laplanche and the writings of the feminist psychoanalysts, including Adrienne Harris and Muriel Dimen.
    Sessions
    • B6 : B-6: When the World’s Gone Mad: The Lasting Effects of Hate in and out of the Treatment Room
  • 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
    • B7 : B-7: Between Rage and Renewal: Relational Sensibilities in Inherited and Emerging Worlds
  • Sam Guzzardi, LCSW
    Sam Guzzardi is a member and graduate of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity in New York and a faculty member at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies. His academic writing on gender and sexuality has one several prizes, including the Ralph Roughton Award of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the Tiresias Prize of the International Psychoanalytic Association. He has a diverse practice where he is curious about questions of queerness, identity, development, and trauma. Sam's scholarship often revolves around his interest in comparative psychoanalysis and in placing psychoanalytic theory in dialogue with ideas from other traditions, including disciplines such as queer theory, post-colonial studies, performance studies and literature. His most recent paper, "Laplanche in the Consulting Room: An Emerging Paradigm for Psychoanalytic Therapeutic Action" is to be published in Psychoanalytic Dialogues in October of 2025.
    Sessions
    • B8 : B-8: Hate as an Agent of Survival
  • 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
    • B9 : B-9: Transgenerational Hatred
  • Laurel Jill Offman
    I am a trainee/candidate in my final year at the Bowlby Centre in North London. The paper I am submitting comprises a case from my clinical training. I have come to psychoanalytical psychotherapy after working as an international media executive and a journalist in conflict zones. Consistent throughout my career has been an engagement in issues of gender, race, work, culture and the arts, family dynamics and intergenerational trauma. As a filmmaker and experienced public speaker, I have addressed many of these topics in public forums.
    Sessions
    • B10 : B-10: Hateful (Dis)Identifications
  • 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
    • P1 : PLENARY I: Hate: Contexts and Consequences
  • Philip Ringstrom, PhD, PsyD
    Philip Ringstrom, Ph.D., Psy.D. is a Senior Training and Supervising Analyst and Faculty Member at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, in Los Angeles, California, where he is also in full time private practice. He is a Member of the Editorial Boards of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, International Journal on Psychoanalytic Self Psychology and Psychoanalytic Perspectives. He is also a founding member of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy and a member of the International Council of Self-Psychologists. He has published over 60 articles, chapters and reviews and has presented at conferences all over the world. His book A Relational Psychoanalytic Approach to Conjoint Therapy (Routledge 2014) won the Goethe Award for best book in psychoanalysis for 2014. He is currently working on a new book on Three-Dimensional Field Theory in Relational Psychoanalysis a topic that is the culmination of over 40 years of thinking and research.
    Sessions
    • P2 : PRESIDENT'S WELCOME & PLENARY II: The Paradox of Hate: Complexity Lost and Found
  • Victor Donas M.D.
    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
    • C1 : C-1: Hating Better, Resistance as a Way of Subjectivation
  • 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
    • C2 : C-2: The Abuses of Empathy and Witnessing
    • DG1-5 : Discussion Group 1-5
    • DG2-5 : Discussion Group 2-5
  • Mariia Pankova, MA
    Mariia Pankova, 36 years, Ukrainian, Kyiv. Eight years of individual practice (in person and online). Main requests - adaptation, change of residence, depression, relationship conflicts, and professional fulfilment.
    Sessions
    • C3 : C-3: Dynamics of War and Annihilation
  • Joe Wise, MD
    Joe Wise, MD is a psychoanalyst in private practice in Brooklyn, NY. As a board-certified child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist, his work is broad including working with youth and families, most from his local community. Earlier Joe was an Army psychiatrist and veteran of a deployment to the Middle East. He also has extensive experience with group work and is a Certified Group Psychotherapist (CGP). As an LGBTQ+ clinician, he has increasingly helped children and their families navigate the complexities of identity.
    Sessions
    • C4 : C-4: Psychoanalytic Encounters with Hateful Speech and Identity Claims
  • Maritina Pantoleontos, BA,PgD
    Maritina Pantoleontos is a licensed psychologist (License No. 389380/23), a relational psychoanalytic psychotherapist, and a trainee group psychotherapist. She is a prospective faculty member and Executive Administrator of the Institute for Relational and Group Psychotherapy of Athens, while also she is a scientific associate at the holistic psychotherapy center In Between. She graduated from the Department of Psychology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and has completed postgraduate diploma in clinical skills based on relational psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Currently, she is pursuing a postgraduate diploma in applied group psychotherapy, following the international interpersonal model of Irvin Yalom, at the Institute for Relational and Group Psychotherapy. She has completed over 1300 hours of mandatory and voluntary clinical practice. Since 2020, she has been engaged in ongoing personal individual and group psychotherapy on a weekly basis and is currently receiving clinical supervision five times per month. She contributed as an author to the second collective volume on relational psychoanalysis and group psychotherapy according to Irvin Yalom, published by DISIGMA Publications in 2024. As part of her professional development and continuing education, she actively attends and participates in numerous seminars, training programs, and conferences both in Greece and abroad. She is a member of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP) and the American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA).
    Sessions
    • C5 : C-5: Navigating Hate and Trust: From Inherited Wounds to Analytic Encounters
  • Azade Abooei, PhD
    I am a counseling psychologist, university lecturer, and couple therapist based in Iran. I hold a PhD in Counseling and serve as a faculty member at the university, where I teach and supervise graduate students. My clinical and academic interests center on couple therapy, emotionally focused therapy (EFT), and group analytic approaches. I also run a private practice offering online psychotherapy and group therapy for women, with a focus on self-compassion, relational dynamics, and work–life balance.
    Sessions
    • C6 : C-6: From the Sacred Womb to the Silent Body: Hate, Shame, and Recognition in the Experience of Iranian Women Facing Infertility
  • Tamar Efrat, LP, EdD, Dipl Psych
    Tamar grew up in Germany (and Switzerland) where she trained and worked as a clinical psychologist. She has been living in New York since 1997. She graduated from the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center in New York, where she serves as a supervisor, LP program director, and faculty member. She is a control analyst at Blanton-Peale Institute. Tamar holds a doctorate in College Teaching of Art from Columbia University, focusing on arts-based research and “remembering through video.” She is in private practice in New York.
    Sessions
    • C7 : C-7: Gender Dysphoria and Interplay of Hate
  • Jill Gentile, PhD
    Jill Gentile, PhD is clinical adjunct associate professor at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, sits on many editorial boards, including as associate editor for Psychoanalytic Dialogues and Studies in Gender and Sexuality. Her essays were awarded the 2017 Gradiva Award and the 2020 Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JAPA) prize and the 2024 Maurice Burke Prize. In addition to many scholarly essays, she is the author of the book, Feminine Law: Freud, Free Speech, and the Voice of Desire, with Michael Macrone (Karnac, 2016). Her ongoing passionate commitments are to the connections among democracy, the uncanny, the feminine and free speech, and the spiritual turn in psychoanalysis. Her main private practice is in New York City where she sees individuals and couples, and hosts online clinical study groups.
    Sessions
    • C8 : C-8: Hate and the Feminine
  • Elad Kimchi, M.A
    Elad is a clinical psychologist with more than a decade of experience in private practice in Tel Aviv. He began his training as a clinical psychologist in the Israeli Air Force and later spent two years working in mental health facilities, providing both inpatient and outpatient care. He went on to complete a B.A. in Psychology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, followed by an M.A in Clinical Psychology at Tel Aviv University. For four years, Elad studied and practiced at the Siach Group, a relational psychotherapy clinic, where he remains an active member of the professional team. Over the past eight years, he has also provided psychological support and treatment for students at the New York University Tel Aviv branch. Elad’s work integrates relational perspectives with broad clinical experience, offering psychotherapy to adults navigating a wide range of personal and interpersonal challenges.
    Sessions
    • C9 : C-9: Psychotherapy In Times of Hate
  • Elina Ryzhenkova, MSc
    I am a clinical psychologist and relational therapist originally from Saint Petersburg, Russia, and currently based in Tbilisi, Georgia. I maintain a remote private practice working with adults in long-term psychotherapy, offering both individual and group treatment. My clinical focus is on how early relational experience forms the basis of psychic suffering and on the implicit dimensions of the therapeutic relationship and analytic change. In addition to my clinical work, I have been actively involved in the development of IARPP Russia since its inception. I also teach seminars and facilitate reading groups on relational psychoanalysis, and I am part of the two-year online program in relational psychoanalytic psychotherapy at the International Academy of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (Kazakhstan).
    Sessions
    • C10 : C-10: Hating the “Other”
  • Hilary Offman, MD, FRCPC
    Hilary Offman, MD FRCPC, is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Toronto, and a lecturer and supervisor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. She is a supervising analyst, faculty member, and Board member at the Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis and serves on the Board of the International Association for Relational Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, where she co-chairs the International Chapters Committee and this conference, “Can Hate Last: Reclaiming Clinical Sensibilities in Relational Psychoanalysis.” Her scholarship and teaching focus on otherness, queerness, and fatness, including award-winning work on fatphobia and psychoanalytic approaches to working with non binary patients, and she recently published her first poem in the Annals of Internal Medicine. When not working, she enjoys knitting with wool that is far too expensive, spending time with her family, and sharing her office with her dog Steve, who plays a vital role in supporting her work with patients.
    Sessions
    • P3 : PLENARY III: In the Line of Fire: Negotiating the Experience of Hating and Being Hated
  • Sandra Buechler, PhD
    Sandra Buechler, Ph.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the William Alanson White Institute. She is the author of Clinical Values: Emotions that Guide Psychoanalytic Treatment, (Analytic Press, 2004), Making a Difference in Patients’ Lives, (Routledge, 2008), which won the Gradiva award, Still Practicing: The Heartaches and Joys of a Clinical Career, (Routledge, 2012), Understanding and Treating Patients in Clinical Psychoanalysis: Lessons from Literature, (Routledge, 2015) Psychoanalytic Reflections: Training and Practice, (IPBooks, 2017) Psychoanalytic Approaches to Problems in Living, (Routledge, 2019), Poetic Dialogues (IPBooks, 2021) and the forthcoming Erich Fromm: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge, 2024).
    Sessions
    • DG1-2 : Discussion Group 1-2
    • DG2-2 : Discussion Group 2-2
  • 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
    • D3 : D-3: Women, Bodies, and Partner Violence
    • DG1-4 : Discussion Group 1-4
    • DG2-4 : Discussion Group 2-4
  • 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
    • E4 : E-4: Mutual Hate and Dissociation Post-Empire: Echoes of Portuguese Colonialism in Therapy
    • DG1-7 : SPANISH Discussion Group 1-7
    • DG2-7 : SPANISH Discussion Group 2-7
  • Montserrat Barragan, MPP
    Interlocutor of the Session. M.A. Montserrat Barragan is in private practice in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. She presented at the VI Conference on Relational Psychoanalysis of the Institute of Relational Psychoanalysis of Barcelona in May 2021. Her essay was published in the book: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND RELATIONAL PSYCHOTHERAPY WITH WINNICOTT. Commitment, creativity and freedom of thought in today's clinic, Francesc Sáinz (compiler); and in the Relational Thinking Collection – “Essays and Experiences” Series, edited by: Ágora Relational together with the Institut Català D. Winnicott.
    Sessions
    • MA-2 : Meet-the-Author 2: Pain is Deaf
  • Samuel Gerson, PhD
    Sessions
    • P4 : PLENARY IV: Hate in the Shadow of Mourning: Tragedy, Trauma, and Loss
  • Masoomeh (Bita) Abdollah Ghapoochi, MA, Iran
    Sessions
    • D1 : D-1: Invited Panel-Candidate’s Panel: Encountering the Unexpected: When Hate Haunts the Analytic Room
  • 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
    • D2 : D-2: Rethinking Psychoanalytic Work with Psychotic Patients Through an Ontological Philosophy Lens
  • 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
    • D4 : D-4: Trapped in Sexed Binaries: The Mental Toll of Reactionary Politics
  • 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
    • D6 : D-6: The Lost Object
  • Jon Sletvold, PsyD
    Jon Sletvold, Psy.D. ,is a licensed specialist in clinical psychology and psychotherapy. He was founding Board Director of the Norwegian Character Analytic Institute and is currently Faculty, Training and Supervising Analyst at the Character Analytic Institute. He is former chair of the Psychotherapy Specialty Board of the Norwegian Psychological Association. He has published articles particularly on the role of the body in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in national and international journals He is co-editor of two books: Den terapeutiskedansen [The therapeutic dance] and Karakteranalytiskedialoger [Character analytic dialogues] and the editor of Tage Philipson – Kjærlighetogidentifisering [Love and Identification]. He is the author of The Embodied Analyst: From Freud and Reich to Relationality,published by Routledge Taylor and Francis in the Relational Perspectives Book Series, 2014, winner of the Gradiva Award, 2015.
    Sessions
    • D7 : D-7: When Hatred in the World Invades the Couch
  • Douglas Zimmerman, MA, Ed, LCSW-R
    I am a psychoanalyst with over 25 years in the field. I have a full-time private practice, and specialize in the treatment of OCD, ADHD and ASD: Those with a neurodivergent mindset. Having trained both behaviorally and analytically, I utilize a two pronged approach when working with my patients. Of late, I have been implementing and utilizing alternative treatments into my practice, such as ketamine and Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP); and I recently presented my paper "Tragic Person Evolved: Transforming Tragedy Into Hope Through New, AlternativeTreatments", at the 45th Annual IAPSP International Conference in Rome, Italy, at Explorations for IPSS in New York City, with Jill Gentile. And in October of 2025, I will be presenting my new paper, "Altered States and Altered States: A Reverie" I'm passionate about hockey, traveling, and all things art. I live with my wife, also an analyst, and our 7 year old daughter and our 10 year old mini-labradoodle in New York City.
    Sessions
    • D8 : D-8: Hate, Love, and Transformation
  • Jess Eipper
    Jess Eipper is a graduate of Smith College School for Social work and completed analytic training at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy in 2021. She is currently in private practice in Brooklyn NY and is on the faculty at ICP’s Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Program.
    Sessions
    • D10 : D-10: The Somatic Expression of Hate
  • Nancy C. Winters, MD, FIPA
    Nancy C. Winters, MD, FIPA, is a training and supervising analyst at the Oregon Psychoanalytic Institute and the Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society and Institute in Seattle, and a Clinical Professor at Oregon Health & Science University. She is on the Editorial Boards of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and The Psychoanalytic Quarterly. Her recent publications include “Autoimmunity and Its Expression in the Analytic Situation: Contemporary Reflections on Our Inherent Self-Destructiveness” (2022), “A Home to the Lie: The Contemporary (Per)version of Truth” (2023), and “Transformations in O Online: Group Process in the Virtual Realm” (2024). Her paper “Schubert’s Final Piano Sonata as Metaphor for Analytic Termination” will be presented in Seattle in October.
    Sessions
    • E2 : E-2: Artistic Explorations of Hate
  • Amir Hossein Jalali Nadoushan, Psychiatrist, M.D
    Here’s a tightened and polished version of your bio — concise, professional, and reader-friendly while retaining the key highlights: ⸻ Dr. Amir Hossein Jalali Nadoushan is a psychiatrist with over 14 years of academic and clinical experience in mental health. After graduating first in Iran’s national psychiatry board examination in 2009, he has combined clinical work with teaching and research, focusing particularly on social and psychodynamic psychiatry. His psychodynamic training includes graduation from the Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Program at the Tehran Center for Psychoanalytic Studies, advanced training in interpersonal psychodynamic psychotherapy at the William Alanson White Institute (New York), and a diploma in Group Analysis from the Stockholm Group Analysis Institute. He has also studied with leading psychoanalysts such as Spyros Orphanos, Susan Warsaw, and Judy Roth. Dr. Jalali Nadoushan is the founding chair of the Iran chapter of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (IARPP) and was named a fellow of the Teacher Academy of the American Psychoanalytic Association in 2021. He has lectured widely at national and international conferences and served as scientific secretary of the Fourth Iranian Congress of Psychoanalysis and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (2023). Committed to advancing the field, he established the Davidian Award for Young Psychiatrists and co-founded the Manjeh Educational Group for Comparative Approaches to Psychoanalysis, fostering pluralism and dialogue in Iran’s psychotherapy community. He has also contributed to making psychotherapeutic literature accessible in Persian, publishing translations such as Psychodynamic Formulation (Cabaniss et al.) and Utilization of Psychodynamic Theories in Family Settings, with forthcoming translations including Steven Kuchuk’s The Relational Revolution.
    Sessions
    • E3 : E-3: Hatred, War and Shared Trauma
  • Miriam Pires dos Santos, PsyD
    Miriam Pires dos Santos – Clinical Psychologist and Founder of AfroPsis Holds a degree in Social and Organizational Psychology (2002) and Clinical Psychology (2004) from ISPA. Full Member of the Portuguese Psychologists Association (C.P.-10633). Professional Background: In the field of Social and Organizational Psychology, she has experience in Training, Human Resources, and diplomatic contexts. In Clinical Psychology, she has worked with children, adolescents, and their families in hospital settings, early childhood intervention, and residential care. A special interest in mental health issues within African communities in Portugal led her, together with colleagues, to found AfroPsis – Platform of Afrodescendant Psychologists in Portugal in 2021. She is a member of PsiRelacional, specializing in Relational Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, and collaborates with Clínica Social. She regularly participates in lectures, interviews, and conferences on topics related to Afrodescendant Mental Health, Immigration, and Maternal-Child Mental Health. She serves as a Junior Year Supervisor at the Portuguese Psychologists Association (OPP) and practices Clinical Psychology in both private and community settings in Lisbon and Seixal.
    Sessions
    • E4 : E-4: Mutual Hate and Dissociation Post-Empire: Echoes of Portuguese Colonialism in Therapy
  • Zahra Bayan, MA
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    Sessions
    • B11 : B-11: Survival on the Relational Ridge
    • E5 : E-5: Social and Clinical Polarizations
  • Michael Stuart Garfinkle, PhD
    Michael Stuart Garfinkle, Ph.D. Certificate in Psychoanalysis, IPTAR; Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, Derner Institute, Adelphi University. Clinical Faculty: Adelphi University; Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai; IPTAR; the New School. Editorial Board Member: Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association; the International Journal of Psycho-Analysis. Author of papers and book chapters in topics in clinical psychoanalysis, trauma, and interventional cardiology. Convenor of two international psychoanalytic conferences in Reykjavík, Iceland (“Psychoanalysis on Ice”; 2014 & 2018).
    Sessions
    • E6 : E-6: Hateful Personalities and Victimhood
  • Danielle Novack, Ph.D.
    Danielle Novack, Ph.D. is a New York-based psychologist and psychoanalyst with roots in Toronto. She is co-director of the One-Year Introductory Program in Relational Studies at the Stephen Mitchell Relational Study Center, faculty at the William Alanson White Institute’s Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program, and an associate editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues. She has published and presented internationally on a variety of subjects, including analytic trust, engaging hard-to-reach patients, and the psychoanalytic treatment of eating disorders. She is a graduate of the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and practices in Manhattan.
    Sessions
    • E7 : E-7: Whose Monster Is in the Room?
  • Anna Seifi Fath, MA
    Anna Seifi Fath, M.A. is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist whose professional path has been shaped by a deep commitment to psychoanalytic thinking and practice. Over the past fourteen years, she has completed comprehensive training in classical psychoanalysis at the Freudian Group of Tehran and has continued her professional development through advanced programs in psychoanalytic psychotherapy and couples therapy under the supervision of instructors from Iran, the United States, and the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association. Anna’s ongoing work is grounded in continuous personal analysis and both individual and group supervision, which have supported her clinical growth and deepened her understanding of the therapeutic process. Drawing from classical and contemporary psychoanalysis, she integrates relational and intersubjective perspectives into her clinical work. Over the past five years, her focus has expanded toward relational psychoanalysis and intersubjective approaches, and in collaboration with two colleagues, she has co-translated two books in these fields into Persian. Her clinical experience includes participation in long-term analytic group therapy as well as specialized training in addiction psychotherapy at the Iranian National Center for Addiction Studies. She has also worked with trauma survivors, particularly women affected by sexual violence and PTSD, using contemporary integrative methods such as ACT and EMDR.
    Sessions
    • E8 : E-8: The Hateful Legacy of Sexual Abuse
  • 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
    • E9 : E-9: Institutional Orphans: Hatred, Racism, and the Fragility of Belonging
  • 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
    • E10 : E-10: Institutional Configurations of Hatred
  • Neil McLaughlin, PhD
    I teach sociological theory at McMaster University, where I am a professor of sociology. I also have a status appointment at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology. I have published extensively on the history of Erich Fromm and the various Neo-Freudian psychoanalysts, the sociology of knowledge and intellectual history.
    Sessions
    • F1 : F-1: Hate in Our Psychoanalytic Organizations and Academic Institutions
  • 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
    • F2 : F-2: Beyond the Dyad: Hate, Institutional Illiteracy, and the Urgency of the Group Turn
  • Mike Langlois, MSW
    Psychotherapist Mike Langlois received his BA from Connecticut College in 1991, and his MSW from Smith College School for Social Work in 1994. He has over 30 years of experience practicing psychotherapy with adults and families and is slowly getting better at it. He is also a teaching associate in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
    Sessions
    • F3 : F-3: The Institutional Unconscious, the Uncanny, Technology, and the Fate of Hate
  • 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. She is currently specializing in Relational Psychotherapy and Group Psychotherapy at the Institute of Relational and Group Psychotherapy (ISOPS) . In 2025, she presented at the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP) conference in Athens. 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
    • F4 : F-4: The Analyst Who Hates: Emotional Complexities in Challenging Clinical Encounters
  • Tania Pires, PhD
    Degree in Psychology (2001), PhD (2011) in Health Psychology from the University of Minho - Portugal. I work as a clinical and educational psychologist in various Portuguese Organizations, wiith children, teenagers and adults. Work as relational psychoanalytic psychotherapist (in training) and I am member of PsiRelational (Portugal).
    Sessions
    • F5 : F-5: When the Analyst Hates the Patient
  • Morteza Modarres Gharavi, PhD
    Dr. Morteza Modarres Gharavi, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist in New York State and a graduate psychoanalyst of the William Alanson White Institute. He currently serves as a Supervising Psychologist at Pratt Institute’s Counseling Center in Brooklyn, where he provides psychotherapy, supervision, and psychoanalytic training. Formerly an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology at Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, where he founded the Clinical Psychology Department at Ibn Sina Hospital, Dr. Modarres Gharavi’s work explores the intersections of psychoanalytic theory, culture, and subjectivity, with a focus on cultivating cross-cultural psychoanalytic dialogues.
    Sessions
    • F6 : F-6: From Mask to Message: The Relational Life of Hate and Longing
  • Kris Yi, PhD, PsyD
    Dr. Kris Yi, Ph.D., Psy.D., is a psychologist and psychoanalyst in full time private practice in Pasadena, CA. She works with individuals, couples, and families of diverse ethnicity and sexual orientation. Her expertise is is ethnic identity, cross-cultural dynamics, and immigrants.
    Sessions
    • F7 : F-7: Racial Hatred as Defense Against Relationality, Mortality and Their Angst
  • Michael Korson, MFT
    Michael Korson, LMFT, CGP is a certified psychoanalyst, relational psychotherapist and certified group psychotherapist in San Francisco, California. He is a Personal and Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC) and is on the faculties at PINC (Group Process Faculty) and the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. In private practice, he works with adults and adolescents, individuals and couples of diverse ethnic, gender and sexual orientations. He has published and presented on the group turn in psychoanalytic institutes, the candidate's experience, and practice during the Coronavirus pandemic.
    Sessions
    • F8 : F-8: The Destructive Impact of Dehumanization & Meta-Dehumanization
  • Brad Strawn, PhD
    Brad D. Strawn, PhD (licensed psychologist) is the Evelyn and Frank Freed Professor for the Integration of Psychology and Theology, Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy, Pasadena, CA. he is co-editor of Spiritual Diversity in Psychotherapy: Engaging the Sacred in Clinical Practice (APA) and Christianity & Psychoanalysis: A New Conversation. He holds a certification in psychoanalytic psychotherapy from the San Diego Psychoanalytic Center.
    Sessions
    • F9 : F-9: Can Hate Outlast Love? Reckoning with the Persistence of Destructiveness in Clinical and Cultural Life
  • 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
    • F10 : F-10: Morality as a Third in Hateful Encounters
  • 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
    • P5 : PLENARY V: Moving Beyond Despair – The Generativity of Psychoanalytic Community
  • Karen J. Maroda, PhD, ABPP
    Karen J. Maroda, PhD, ABPP, is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Medical College of Wisconsin and in private practice in Milwaukee, WI. She is board certified in psychoanalysis by the American Board of Professional Psychology, a Fellow of both the American Psychological Association and the American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis, and a full member of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the International Psychoanalytic Association. She is the author of four books, The Power of Countertransference, Seduction, Surrender and Transformation, Psychodynamic Techniques (2nd edition in press) and The Analyst’s Vulnerability, as well as numerous journal articles and book reviews. Additionally, she sits on the editorial boards of The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Psychoanalytic Psychology and Contemporary Psychoanalysis and gives lectures and workshops both nationally and internationally.
    Sessions
    • A11 : A-11: Countertransference Anger and Hatred: The Last Frontier?
  • Cheryl Goldstein, PhD, PsyD
    Dr. Cheryl Goldstein received her PhD in Comparative Literature and Jewish Studies from UCLA and her PsyD from the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles. Her areas of research includes the intersection of psychoanalysis and Jewish thought, the concepts and uses of displacement. She is the co-author of "Hans Loewald: A Contemporary Introduction," and her current work focuses on the contribution of Hans Loewald to contemporary relational psychoanalytic theory and practice. She teaches at the New Center for Psychoanalysis and at ICP where she is also a training and supervising analyst. She has a private practice in Los Angeles, California.
    Sessions
  • 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
    • C-11 : C-11: Getting Sucked in and Being Spit Out: How Analysts Get Framed by Hatred
  • Helena Vanessa de Souza, PhD
    Helena Vanessa de Souza is a clinical psychologist, sexologist, and relational psychoanalyst in training. She has worked in private practice for over ten years, offering in-person psychotherapy in Brazil and online sessions for Brazilian immigrant women living abroad. Her clinical and theoretical work focuses on the intersections between sexuality, culture, and subjectivity, especially in the context of women’s experiences of desire, pleasure, and belonging. She coordinates the Relational Psychoanalysis Seminars of the Brazilian Association for Relational Psychoanalysis (ABPR), collaborates on theoretical and clinical dissemination projects, and is co-founder of Edonna, a project dedicated to sexual and affective education for women. Her current research interests include relational psychoanalysis, female sexuality, and the ethics of the analyst’s implication in the clinical encounter.
    Sessions
    • D-11 : D-11: How to Survive Hate Without Becoming Hateful or Annihilated? Two cases of women from Brazil
  • Penny Rubinfine, DSW, LCSW
    Penny Rubinfine, DSW, is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice in New York City. She has previously written and presented on loss and mourning, with a particular interest in absence as a form of early attachment that may influence later relationships and complicate the experience of loss. She has presented on otherness and identity, and has written about (and mourned) psychoanalysis as a politically and socially progressive philosophy that has been weakened and diluted by right wing members of the profession.
    Sessions
    • F-11 : F-11: Hate as Mission and False Reparation—Intergenerational Trauma, Loyalty and the Idealization of the Ancestors
  • Beatrice Beebe, PhD
    Beatrice Beebe is Clinical Professor of Psychology (in Psychiatry), College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University Medical Center, New York State Psychiatric Institute. She is an infant researcher and a psychoanalyst. Her recent book is: The mother-infant interaction picture book: Origins of attachment (Beebe, Cohen & Lachman, Norton, 2016). She has a YouTube account: http://youtube.com/@dr.beatricebeebe8658. Her new research direction, with Julie Herbstman, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, is the association of prenatal environmental toxins with 4-month mother-infant interaction.
    Sessions
    • PC1 : A: Pre-Conference A: How Can We See What We Don't See? Infant Research and Adult Treatment
  • Steven Hugh Knoblauch Ph.D.
    Steven H. Knoblauch Ph.D. is Clinical Adjunct Associate Professor at the Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, New York University and faculty/supervisor at The Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity.  He is author of The Musical Edge of Therapeutic Dialogue (2000), Bodies and Social Rhythms: Navigating Unconscious Vulnerability and Emotional Fluidity (2021), and co-author with Beebe, Rustin and Sorter of Forms of Intersubjectivity in Infant Research and Adult Treatment (2005).  He serves on the editorial boards of Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, and Psychoanalysis, Self and Context. For 17 years prior to entering psychoanalytic training Steven worked in Community Mental Health in various community based programs. From 1975 to 1988 he worked at The Door, an internationally recognized model program for comprehensive person centered service delivery to inner city adolescents. His roles there included clinician, supervisor and trainer/consultant to organization/clients globally. After the 9/11 event in New York, he worked with Emanuel Ghent’s daughter, Valerie, as a trainer and supervisor in the development and implementation of Feel The Music, a program for families who lost family members in that tragedy. From 2022 to 2023 he served as a supervisor for The Women’s Prison Association in New York.
    Sessions
    • PC2 : B: Pre-Conference B: Navigating the Embodied Interactive Field in Psychoanalysis: Opportunities and Challenges to Surviving Hate
  • Suzi Naiburg, PhD, LICSW
    Suzi Naiburg, PhD, LICSW (www.SuziNaiburg.com), is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis in private practice in Belmont, MA, USA; author of Structure and Spontaneity in Clinical Prose: A Writer’s Guide for Psychoanalysts and Psychotherapists (Routledge 2015); author of published papers on clinical process, clinical writing, Mark Twain, and Henry James; guest editor of Psychoanalytic Inquiry 40:2,“‘Slouching Towards Bethlehem’: Our Analytic Self Emerges”; coeditor of Psychoanalysis, Self and Context 16:2, “How Clinical and Personal Writing Catalyze the Implicit, Unspoken, and Unspeakable in the Analyst and the Field”; editor and writing coach who has taught well over 300 clinical writing workshops.
    Sessions
    • PC3 : C: Pre-Conference C: Writing Unthinkable Emotions and Finding the Hidden, Vulnerable Self--A Clinical Writing Workshop
  • Sandra Buechler, PhD
    Sandra Buechler, Ph.D. has a doctorate in clinical psychology and is a graduate of the William Alanson White Institute. Her first book, Clinical Values: Emotions that Guide Psychoanalytic Treatment, (Analytic Press, 2004) has been translated into Japanese, German, Italian, and Spanish. Her second book, Making a Difference in Patients’ Lives: Emotional Experience in the Therapeutic Setting, won the Gradiva Award, and has been translated into Spanish. Still Practicing: The Heartaches and Joys of a Clinical Career, (Routledge, 2012) examines shame, sorrow, and resilience during training and at subsequent stages of a clinical career. Understanding and Treating Patients in Clinical Psychoanalysis: Lessons from Literature (2015) uses short stories to illustrate defensive patterns. Psychoanalytic Reflections: Training and Practice (IP Books, 2017) explores how values, such as hope and courage, and emotions such as loneliness and sorrow, affect treatment and training relationships. Her most recent book, Psychoanalytic Approaches to Problems in Living (Routledge, 2019) looks at how people can cope with loneliness, aging, mourning, physical suffering, and other challenges.
    Sessions
    • A1 : A-1: What is Absent and What is Present In The Emergence of Hatred
  • 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
    • A2 : A-2: PANEL CHANGE: Facing the Unimaginable: When You No Longer Recognize Your Country
  • Alan Nathan, PsyD
    Dr. Alan Nathan is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in the Washington DC area since 2006. He was associate professor with the American School of Professional Psychology, Argosy University clinical psychology doctoral program, for eleven years. Dr. Nathan specializes in trauma recovery with survivors of childhood sexual and other forms of abuse, and in clinical work with the cultural and political dimensions of the psyche. His professional publications include “Introduction to an Integrative Attachment-Based Model of Sexual and Loving Feelings in Psychotherapy” and “Reflections on the Trauma of Racism”. His unpublished paper presentations include “The Loving-Generative Parental Couple: Its Role in Development of Psychic Reality and the Core Sense of Self” and “Discovering Conceptual Bridges between Psychoanalysis and the Black Liberation Movement”. He is a member of the Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy and the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. Member and volunteer with Braver Angels, a national organization whose mission is to bridge America's political divide in an effort to strengthen our democratic republic.
    Sessions
    • A3 : A-3: Bridging Polarized Worlds
  • 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
    • A5 : A-5: Hate and Religion
  • Ashley Leeds, LCSW
    Ashley is a graduate NIP’s Four Year Training Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy and she maintains an adolescent and adult private practice in Brooklyn where her areas of interest are gender and sexuality, children of divorce, and eating disorders. She is a trained group therapist, has a certificate in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy, and is a 200 hour-YTT certified yoga instructor. She is on faculty at NIP in the One Year Evening Program. Ashley was an IAPSP ECP award recipient in 2022.
    Sessions
    • A6 : A-6: The Hatred We Share
  • Joy A. Dryer, Ph.D.
    Joy A. Dryer, Ph.D. is a Clinical Psychologist, Psychoanalyst, Divorce Mediator, former Adjunct Assoc.Professor at NYU, and most recently PACT Institute Supervisor and Faculty (PACT=Psychobiologic Approach to Couples Therapy). In private practice in New Paltz NY and NYC for over 40 years, Dr. Joy specializes in integrating PACT’s principles and divorce mediation work, with a focus on helping couples decide whether to stay, or to separate. Dr.Joy writes a substack joydryerphd.substack.com about how she works, with the hope of helping folks maintain secure relationships and contributing to a better world.
    Sessions
    • A7 : A-7: Transference, Countertransference, and Hate
  • Cheryl Goldstein
    Sessions
    • A8 : A-8: What Brings Us Together Pulls Us Apart: Using hate in the analytic process
  • Manali Arora, M.A.
    Manali Arora is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and researcher in India. She is an affiliate with the Indian Psychoanalytic Society (IPS) and a member of ICP+P (Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, Washington). She is also a candidate for the formation at the International Institute of Psychoanalysis (IIP). Her work addresses underexplored areas in the Indian psychoanalytic landscape, particularly sibling relationships and work with marginalized communities. Her latest work on caste dynamics as well as on caregiving relationships has been published in the New Association Magazine of the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC). She has also presented her work at numerous international conferences such as The International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP), the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society (APCS), the Association for Psychosocial Studies (APS), and the Clinical Reflections Conference by the ICP+P.
    Sessions
    • A10 : A-10: Women’s Subjectivity Under Siege: Relational and Cultural Psychoanalytic Explorations of Nazar (Evil Eye), Filial Duty, Misogyny, and the Emergent Spaces of Healing
  • Heather Ferguson, LCSW
    Heather Ferguson, LCSW, is faculty and supervisor at the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity, the National Institute for the Psychotherapies, the Manhattan Institute, and the Institute for Expressive Analysis, all in NYC. She is Co-Book Review Editor for Psychoanalysis, Self and Context, and has chapters in Ghosts in the Consulting Room: Echoes of Trauma in Psychoanalysis, (Eds, Harris, Kalb, and Klebanoff) and Art, Creativity, and Psychoanalysis: Perspectives from Analyst-Artists, (Ed., Hagman).
    Sessions
    • B1 : B-1: CHILD AND ADOLESCENT INVITED PANEL: The Unwelcome Child in the consulting room: Ferenczi, Adolescence, and the Experience of Hate in the Clinical and Social Surround
  • Ashis Roy, PhD
    Dr Ashis Roy is faculty at Centre of Psychotherapy and Clinical Research, Ambedkar university Delhi, and a psychoanalytic psychotherapist. He works with adults and is especially interested in states of fragmentation and negation in his patients. His doctoral work is a study of intimacy in Hindu- Muslim couples with a focus on Erik Erikson negative identity. Dr Roy has been teaching psychology and psychoanalysis since 2007. He has been practicing as a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist since 2007 as well. He has supervised many research works of post-graduate students in the field of suicide, psychosis, and other areas, while creating a frame of clinical research in India, where narratives emanating from psychotherapy are the central focus. He has been an active member on the online Eigen workshop, dedicated to the writings of Michael Eigen and through this he has become more concerned about developing what is Indian about psychoanalysis. He is a training candidate with Indian Psychoanalytic Society, Kolkata (IPA). His clinical work has been supervised by Mallika Akbar (Supervising analyst IPS) , Neil Altman (Relational analyst, IARRP, NYC), Pumpi Harel (Training analyst, Israel) and Michael Eigen (Relational Analyst, IPA)
    Sessions
    • B2 : B-2: Capturing Dissociated Elements: A Search for Cultural Containers Through Non-violence
  • 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 supervising psychoanalyst. 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
    • B4 : B-4: The Metamorphosis of Hate in Clinical Engagement: Silence, Fear and Desire
    • DG1-6 : Discussion Group 1-6
    • DG2-6 : Discussion Group 2-6
  • 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
    • B5 : B-5: The Paradox of Hate as Bond: Anti-Holding in Psychic and Collective Life
  • Alice Sommatis, PsyD
    Alice Sommatis is a psychologist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist trained at the Isipsé School of Relational Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Rome. She works in private practice, with a particular focus on therapeutic work with young adults. Her clinical and theoretical interests center on dissociative processes, the continuity/discontinuity of subjective experience, and dynamics of self-fragmentation. In her spare time she enjoys writing; writing has always accompanied her from preadolescence onward, in recent years she has been dedicating herself particularly to poetry, which helps her both in her life and in her clinical practice.
    Sessions
    • B3 : B-3: The Paradox of Hate
  • Michelle Shubin
    Interlocutor of the session. Michelle Shubin, LCSW, BCD is on faculty at The Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy and The Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center. She is both a training analyst and supervisor in addition to consulting privately. She has written and presented on matters concerning addiction and attachment disorders, especially with individuals whose histories have been profoundly affected by legacies of intergenerational trauma and loss. Her published works appear in Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Psychoanalytic Perspectives and has a chapter in the book, Loss, Grief, and Transformation., ed., Shoshana Ringel, 2022 Michelle maintains a private practice in both New York City and Maplewood, New Jersey. She works with individuals and couples.
    Sessions
    • B6 : B-6: When the World’s Gone Mad: The Lasting Effects of Hate in and out of the Treatment Room
  • 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
    • B7 : B-7: Between Rage and Renewal: Relational Sensibilities in Inherited and Emerging Worlds
  • 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
    • B8 : B-8: Hate as an Agent of Survival
    • DG1-3 : Discussion Group 1-3
    • DG2-3 : Discussion Group 2-3
  • Marty Cooper, PhD
    Dr. Marty Aaron Cooper is Interim Director and Associate Professor of Mental Health Counseling at SUNY Old Westbury. He is an advanced candidate at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis where he serves on multiple committees including co-chairing the colloquium committee. Dr. Cooper is the editor for GROUP the journal of Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society. His scholarship and practice focus on advancing LGBTQIA+ mental health care, multicultural competence, and psychoanalytic approaches to identity and trauma. He has published widely on transgender identity treatment, intergenerational and historical trauma, and religion and sexuality, and has contributed expert commentary in national media outlets. In recognition of his contributions, he has received awards for teaching excellence and leadership in psychological education. In addition to his academic and research work, Dr. Cooper maintains a clinical practice and holds multiple state licenses as a psychologist and mental health counselor.
    Sessions
    • B9 : B-9: Transgenerational Hatred
  • David Harvey, LCSW, MSS, MA
    David Harvey, LCSW, MSS, MA is a licensed clinical social worker and therapist in private practice. He has previously worked with various agencies in Philadelphia, focusing on the interconnected issues of addiction, harm reduction, and LGBTQ+ mental health. He is a visiting instructor at Bryn Mawr Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research. Harvey's scholarly work on identity, sexuality, and media has been published in multiple peer-reviewed journals. Currently, he is an advanced psychoanalytic candidate at the Institute of Relational Psychoanalysis of Philadelphia and serves on the board of the Philadelphia Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology. His documentary short films, RED RED RED and AMBIVALENCE: ON HIV & LUCK, have screened internationally at venues that include Whitney Museum of American Art, Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia and New Fest: The New York LGBTQ+ Film Festival.
    Sessions
    • B10 : B-10: Hateful (Dis)Identifications
  • 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
    • P1 : PLENARY I: Hate: Contexts and Consequences
  • 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
    • P2 : PRESIDENT'S WELCOME & PLENARY II: The Paradox of Hate: Complexity Lost and Found
  • Eyal Rozmarin, PhD
    Eyal Rozmarin, PhD, co-chairs the IARPP Collective Committee. He is an associate editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, former co-editor of Studies in Gender and Sexuality and an associate editor of the Routledge book series, Relational Perspectives in Psychoanalysis.
    Sessions
    • C1 : C-1: Hating Better, Resistance as a Way of Subjectivation
  • Daniel Goldin, MFT, Psy.D.
    Daniel Goldin serves as editor of Psychoanalytic Inquiry. He is a training and supervising analyst on the faculty of the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles and has written numerous articles for Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Psychoanalysis: Self and context and Psychoanalytic Inquiry. His book Pragmatic Psychoanalysis will be published by Routledge this year.
    Sessions
    • C2 : C-2: The Abuses of Empathy and Witnessing
  • Patricia Fernandez, LCSW
    I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker working in private practice in New York City.
    Sessions
    • C3 : C-3: Dynamics of War and Annihilation
  • Malin Fors, PhD
    Malin Fors is a Swedish psychologist and psychoanalyst living in the world’s northernmost town, Hammerfest, Norway. She has worked for a decade at the local hospital’s psychiatric outpatient unit and also has a busy private practice. She is an assistant professor at the University of Tromsø, the Arctic University of Norway, where she teaches medical students on topics of diversity, privilege awareness, and critical perspectives on cultural competency. For over 10 years, as a guest lecturer at Gothenburg University in Sweden, Fors has taught clinical psychology students about how issues of power, privilege, and gender create biases in the assessment of psychopathology. She is the 2016 recipient of the Division 39 Johanna Tabin Award for her book ”A Grammar of Power in Psychotherapy,” released last year by APA Press. She was featured in a demonstration DVD in the APA Psychotherapy Video Series, released in October 2018. In spring, 2020, she will be the Erikson Scholar at the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, MA.
    Sessions
    • C4 : C-4: Psychoanalytic Encounters with Hateful Speech and Identity Claims
  • Danai Papadopoulou Liasi, MSc,PgD
    Papadopoulou Liasi Danai is a licensed Psychologist, MSc, Relational Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, trainee Group Psychotherapist and probationary faculty member. 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
    • C5 : C-5: Navigating Hate and Trust: From Inherited Wounds to Analytic Encounters
  • Hamideh (Toranj) Mohammadinasab, PhD
    I am a clinical psychologist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist with a relational orientation and fourteen years of clinical experience. I currently serve as a therapist, supervisor, and instructor at Nojaan Psychology Clinic, where I provide training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy and clinical practice. My professional interests focus on the intersection of culture, migration, and gender, with a particular emphasis on the emotional lives of Middle Eastern women. My work integrates contemporary relational psychoanalysis, trauma-informed approaches, and cross-cultural perspectives to explore how silence, shame, and desire are shaped and transformed through human
    Sessions
    • C6 : C-6: From the Sacred Womb to the Silent Body: Hate, Shame, and Recognition in the Experience of Iranian Women Facing Infertility
    • D3 : D-3: Women, Bodies, and Partner Violence
  • Marina Van Den Handel, PhD, LP, NCPsyA
    Marina is originally from Cyprus and has been living in the United States for many years. She recently graduated from the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy in New York and is now in private practice in Manhattan. Before pursuing psychoanalysis, Marina worked both in business and academia in the United States and in France. She holds a PhD in Linguistics from the Sorbonne, and a Master’s in International Cultural Studies from the University of Grenoble.
    Sessions
    • C7 : C-7: Gender Dysphoria and Interplay of Hate
  • 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
    • C8 : C-8: Hate and the Feminine
  • Massimo Perrini ISIPSé
    Massimo Perrini, Psychologist, Psychotherapist, Psychoanalyst ISIPSé (Institute of Specialization in Psychoanalytic Self Psychology and Relational Psychoanalysis), member of IARPP, lives and practices privately in Rome, working with adults, young adults, and couples. He presented a paper at the 21st IARPP Annual Conference in Athens last year and at the 45th IAPSP Annual Conference in Rome in 2024. He actively participates in seminars organized by ISIPSé, especially in the study group on “Otherness and Psychoanalysis”, and serves as a trainer for a workshop on "Otherness, Gender, and Intersubjectivity” at the Psychoanalysis Program of ISIPSé.
    Sessions
    • C9 : C-9: Psychotherapy In Times of Hate
  • Ruth Lijtmaer, PhD
    Ruth M. Lijtmaer, PhD, is a senior supervisor, training analyst, and faculty member at the Center for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis of New Jersey, USA and is in private practice in Ridgewood, New Jersey, USA. She frequently presents lectures and papers at both national and international levels. She is the author of several scholarly publications and book chapters concerning multicultural and religious issues, trauma, social trauma, transference-countertransference and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. She is a Board member of IFPE. Her latest is publications are the papers: "Untold stories and the power of silence in the intergenerational transmission of trauma". American Journal of Psychoanalysis (2017), 77,3, 274-284; and "Variations on the Migratory Theme: Immigrants or Exiles Refugees or Asylees". Psychoanalytic Review, (2017) 104, 6, 687-694 (2017 b). Paper: "Untold stories and the power of silence in the intergenerational transmission of trauma". American Journal of Psychoanalysis 77,3, 274-284
    Sessions
    • C10 : C-10: Hating the “Other”
  • 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
    • P3 : PLENARY III: In the Line of Fire: Negotiating the Experience of Hating and Being Hated
  • 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
    • E1 : E-1: Mythology and the Metamorphosis of Hate
    • DG1-1 : Discussion Group 1-1
    • DG2-1 : Discussion Group 2-1
  • 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
    • E1 : E-1: Mythology and the Metamorphosis of Hate
    • DG1-2 : Discussion Group 1-2
    • DG2-2 : Discussion Group 2-2
  • Stavros Charalambides, MSc, CGP
    Stavros Charalambides (catinstitutedirector@gmail.com), is a writer, theatrical producer and playwright, a supervising and training relational psychoanalyst and group psychotherapist. He has been an elected Board Member of the IARPP since 2018, and since February 2024, also serves as an elected Board Member of the American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA). Together with Gila Ofer, he co-chairs the IARPP Special Interest Group on Couples, Families, and Groups.He is the founder and director of the Greek Institute for Relational and Group Psychotherapy (established in 2016), where he has also developed and currently oversees four specialized training programs in relational psychoanalysis and group psychotherapy.Charalambides works extensively with individuals, couples, siblings, small and large groups, and institutional systems. His main clinical and theoretical interests focus on sibling dynamics, envy, mourning and hatred in the transference and countertransference across different analytic and group settings — from the dyad to the multicultural social field.His latest individual book, The Envy Executioner, was published in Greek in 2022 (Disigma Publications). His second book, The Enraged Slaves, came out in March 2025, also by Disigma Publications.He is the editor of the first and second collective Greek volumes on relational psychoanalysis and group dynamics, published in July 2023 and September 2024, respectively. He is currently editing the third collective volume, scheduled for publication shortly. Additionally, his third individual book is also forthcoming.
    Sessions
    • F2 : F-2: Beyond the Dyad: Hate, Institutional Illiteracy, and the Urgency of the Group Turn
    • DG1-3 : Discussion Group 1-3
    • DG2-3 : Discussion Group 2-3
  • 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
    • A11 : A-11: Countertransference Anger and Hatred: The Last Frontier?
    • DG1-4 : Discussion Group 1-4
    • DG2-4 : Discussion Group 2-4
    • MA-1 : Meet-the-Author 1: Case Studies in Relational Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis: If I Could Turn Back Time
  • Matt Aibel, LCSW
    Matt Aibel, LCSW Faculty/Supervisor at National Institute for the Psychotherapies (NIP), Institute for Relational Psychoanalysis of Philadelphia, Adelphi University, and Russian Relational Study Group. Submissions Editor, Psychoanalytic Perspectives; Editor, IARPP Bulletin; Board Member, Webinar and Colloquium Committee Member, IARPP. Published in many analytic journals. Matt practices in Manhattan and remotely.
    Sessions
    • F1 : F-1: Hate in Our Psychoanalytic Organizations and Academic Institutions
    • DG1-5 : Discussion Group 1-5
    • DG2-5 : Discussion Group 2-5
  • Peter N Maduro, JD, PsyD, PsyD
    Peter Maduro is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst with a private practice in Santa Monica, California, USA. He is on faculty and a Training and Supervising analyst at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis in West Los Angeles, CA, USA.
    Sessions
    • F7 : F-7: Racial Hatred as Defense Against Relationality, Mortality and Their Angst
    • DG1-6 : Discussion Group 1-6
    • DG2-6 : Discussion Group 2-6
  • 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
    • MA-1 : Meet-the-Author 1: Case Studies in Relational Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis: If I Could Turn Back Time
  • Jessica Benjamin, PhD
    Jessica Benjamin is a practicing psychoanalyst, supervisor and faculty member of the New York University Postdoctoral Psychology Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, as well as faculty and founding board member of the Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies. She is the author of The Bonds of Love (1988); Like Subjects, Love Objects (1994); Shadow of the Other (1998); and Beyond Doer and Done To: Recognition theory, Intersibectivity and the Third (2018). Her work has been translated into many languages, and her essay "Beyond Doer and Done To: An Intersubjective View of Thirdness" has been the most cited article on PEPweb for the last five years, as well as in the top ten for the last two decades. She has studied collective trauma, organized a project for Acknowledgment in Israel/Palestine, and continues to publish on the importance of acknowledgment and the idea of moving from doer and done to into the Third of recognition both clinically and in social relations.
    Sessions
    • P4 : PLENARY IV: Hate in the Shadow of Mourning: Tragedy, Trauma, and Loss
    • F-11 : F-11: Hate as Mission and False Reparation—Intergenerational Trauma, Loyalty and the Idealization of the Ancestors
  • Florence Loh, MSW, RSW, Dipl CICAPP, RP
    Florence Loh is a psychoanalyst and graduate of the Toronto Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Her work is grounded in relational psychoanalysis and focuses on integrating cultural ethics with psychoanalytic ideas, intergenerational transmission of experience, and the treatment of developmental trauma.
    Sessions
    • D1 : D-1: Invited Panel-Candidate’s Panel: Encountering the Unexpected: When Hate Haunts the Analytic Room
  • Dr. Michael Shoshani
    Dr. Michael Shoshani (a Fullbright scholar), is a senior 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 taught and lectured at Tel Aviv University and Bar Ilan University for many years. He has written numerous articles as well as two books, together with his wife, Dr. Batya Shoshani.
    Sessions
    • D2 : D-2: Rethinking Psychoanalytic Work with Psychotic Patients Through an Ontological Philosophy Lens
  • Hillary Grill, LCSW
    Hillary Grill, LCSW is a psychoanalyst practicing in New York City. She is a supervisor and faculty member at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies, the Institute for Expressive Analysis and the Stephen Mitchell Relational Study Center. She is executive editor for the journal Psychoanalytic Perspectives, presents frequently and is a published author. Her work centers on the psychological impact of the implicit and explicit feminine imperativethat women must bear and raise children.
    Sessions
    • D4 : D-4: Trapped in Sexed Binaries: The Mental Toll of Reactionary Politics
  • 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
    • D5 : D-5: Surviving A Mother’s Hate
  • Ann Marie Sacramone, MSEd, LP
    Ann Marie Sacramone is faculty and supervisor at The Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity and The Harlem Institute. She was the inaugural Co Chair of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Child and Adolescent Committee, and a past chair of the Schools Committee of the American Psychoanalytic Association. She has presented widely and published articles on the application of infancy research and relational theories to original treatment models in individual, community and school settings. Ms. Sacramone treats adults and children in private practice.
    Sessions
    • D6 : D-6: The Lost Object
  • Doris Brothers, PhD
    Doris Brothers, Ph.D. is a co-founder and faculty member of the Training and Research in Intersubjective Self Psychology Foundation (TRISP). She served as co-editor of Psychoanalysis, Self and Context with Roger Frie from 2015 to 2019 and is chief editor of eForum, the online newsletter of the International Association for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology (IAPSP). She serves as consulting editor of Psychoanalytic Inquiry. She is active on the advisory board and council of IAPSP. She has published three books and many journal articles. Her last book is Toward a Psychology of Uncertainty: Trauma-Centered Psychoanalysis (Analytic Press, 2008). Her private practice is on the upper west side of Manhattan, New York, USA.
    Sessions
    • D7 : D-7: When Hatred in the World Invades the Couch
  • Erica Lipper, LMHC
    Erica Lipper is a psychotherapist in private practice in New York City. A graduate of Brooklyn College, she completed advanced clinical training with the Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies, as well as trauma-studies with the Karen Horney Clinic/American Association for Psychoanalysis.
    Sessions
    • D8 : D-8: Hate, Love, and Transformation
  • 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
    • D10 : D-10: The Somatic Expression of Hate
  • Tayler L'Amoureux, LICSW
    I am a co-owner of a psychotherapy collective in the heart of Minneapolis, MN. I work with children and adults as the navigate the complexities of their inner and outer worlds utilizing a psycho-dynamic approach. In June of 2025 I graduated with a PhD from the Institute for Clinical Social Work in Chicago, IL with a focus on psycho-dynamic/psychoanalytic theory. I am profoundly grateful for my experience in my doctoral program, including the education received, the congruent personal analysis, and the ongoing case supervision for the past five years that have together greatly shaped me into the clinician, researcher, and person I am today. I am currently interested in the use of art as a portal to learning more about the depths of the human experience. While I am not an artist myself, I do find myself quite moved by the arts, and often gain a deeper understanding of my subjective experiences within creative spaces.
    Sessions
    • E2 : E-2: Artistic Explorations of Hate
  • 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
    • E3 : E-3: Hatred, War and Shared Trauma
  • 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
    • E4 : E-4: Mutual Hate and Dissociation Post-Empire: Echoes of Portuguese Colonialism in Therapy
  • 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
    • E5 : E-5: Social and Clinical Polarizations
    • DG1-9 : Discussion Group 1-9
    • DG2-9 : Discussion Group 2-9
  • Karl Loszak, MD
    Karl is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in part-time private practice in Toronto. He is a part-time doctoral candidate in the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto, with an interest in philosophy of mind and history of psychiatry. His dissertation focuses on the life and work of American psychiatrist Harry Stack Sullivan (1892-1949), as a case study in the social production of scientific knowledge.
    Sessions
    • E6 : E-6: Hateful Personalities and Victimhood
  • 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
    • E7 : E-7: Whose Monster Is in the Room?
  • Seyed Majid Jazayeri, MA
    Seyed Majid Jazayeri, M.A., is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist trained at the Tehran Psychoanalysis Institute. He has over fourteen years of professional clinical experience and more than two decades of continuous personal analysis and supervision with multiple psychoanalytic therapists. Majid has worked extensively with individuals, couples, groups, and organizational systems, integrating psychoanalytic, relational, and intersubjective perspectives. His professional background includes clinical work in addiction treatment centers, schools, and managerial assessment programs. A former faculty member of the Tehran Psychoanalysis Institute, he continues to teach, study, and translate key psychoanalytic texts, including works on intersubjective psychoanalysis. In 2024, he founded Mahiyat Online Psychotherapy Clinic and created Radio Mahiyat Podcast, a psychoanalytically informed program promoting mental health awareness and public dialogue for Persian-speaking audiences.
    Sessions
    • E8 : E-8: The Hateful Legacy of Sexual Abuse
  • Konstaninos Mouchalos, PhD
    Konstantinos Mouchalos was born in Athens, Greece and made studies in Psychology at Deree the American College of Greece. Later on he trained as a psychotherapist in the Cognitive Analytic Therapy(CAT) model at the Institute for Cognitive Analytic Therapy(which has now been renamed as Institute for Relational and Group Psychotherapy). He had fulfill his military obligations in the medical division, as a psychologist in the Army Hospital of Rhodes. Afterward he continued his studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (UoA) in Psychology and more specific in Medical Psychology and Psychotherapy. Furthermore he have been trained in Psychological First Aid (P.F.A.) through John Hopkins University. The last four years he have been practicing in his private office at Glyfada, Athens. He is a member of IARPP since 2017 and lately he has been a member of the Candidate's Committee of IARPP, representing Greece. He is also a trainee member in group psychoanalysis at the Institute for Relational Group Psychotherapy.
    Sessions
    • E9 : E-9: Institutional Orphans: Hatred, Racism, and the Fragility of Belonging
  • Marianthi Michalakopoulou, MSc
    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
    • E10 : E-10: Institutional Configurations of Hatred
  • 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
    • F1 : F-1: Hate in Our Psychoanalytic Organizations and Academic Institutions
  • Ehsan Salehi, MA
    Ehsan Salehi is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist-in-training and a group-analysis trainee based in Iran. He earned a BA in Psychology from the University of Isfahan, Iran and is completing an MA in Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology at Kharazmi University (Tehran, Iran). He has recently accepted for an MA in psychoanalysis in GCAS college and has awarded a Virtual Scholarship program in division 39 of APA. He is the co-founder and co-manager of the Ravanyaraa Psychology & Health Group’s psychoanalytic journal clubs in Isfahan, hosted at the Rooyesh-e Digar Institute. During his undergraduate years, he was an active member—later Head of the Clinical & Health Section—of the University of Isfahan’s Scientific Association of Psychology, and a member of Iranian Health Companion. He also served for 15 months on the editorial board of the Specialized Psychoanalysis Section of the AGAH Clinic & Institute website as an author and translator.
    Sessions
    • F3 : F-3: The Institutional Unconscious, the Uncanny, Technology, and the Fate of Hate
  • 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. Adamantia participated as a presenter in the IARPP conference 2024 in Athens. She is a member of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP) and the American Association for Group Psychotherapy (AGPA).
    Sessions
    • F4 : F-4: The Analyst Who Hates: Emotional Complexities in Challenging Clinical Encounters
  • Anya Josephs, MSW
    Anya Josephs is a psychotherapist in New York City. They have worked in a variety of settings, including Assertive Community Treatment, Community Mental Health, and now in private practice. Their practice focuses on the treatment of eating disorders and work with LGBTQ+ and neurodivergent people from a relational psychodynamic lens. Outside of their practice, Anya is a creative writer publishing primarily in the speculative short fiction space and a director of theatre both classical and contemporary.
    Sessions
    • F5 : F-5: When the Analyst Hates the Patient
  • Seyed Sepehr Hashemian, PhD
    Dr. Seyed Sepehr Hashemian, Ph.D., is a registered psychologist in Quebec, Canada, and an invited member of the Psychoanalytic Society of Montreal. He is currently pursuing his postdoctoral studies at the University of Sherbrooke in Health Sciences. Besides that, as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, his work explores the intersections of psychoanalytic theory, culture, and subjectivity, with a focus on immigrants' experiences and challenges. He is also the main editor of the IPA Inter-Regional Encyclopedic Dictionary (IRED) and the translator of the intersubjectivity entry of IRED into the Persian language.
    Sessions
    • F6 : F-6: From Mask to Message: The Relational Life of Hate and Longing
  • 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
    • F8 : F-8: The Destructive Impact of Dehumanization & Meta-Dehumanization
  • Roy Barsness, PhD
    Dr. Roy Barsness is the author of the text, Core Competencies in Relational Psychoanalysis: A Guide to Practice, Study and Research (Routledge, 2018) and author of the text: Psychodynamic Supervision: In a New Key (Routledge, 2024). He has published several professional articles, presents frequently at professional conferences and teaches nationally and internationally on relational psychoanalysis. He is the Founder and Director of the Contemporary Psychodynamic Institute, former Professor of Psychology and Academic Dean at The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology. He was formerly the Clinical Director of the Clinical Psychology Program at Seattle Pacific University and Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Washington
    Sessions
    • F9 : F-9: Can Hate Outlast Love? Reckoning with the Persistence of Destructiveness in Clinical and Cultural Life
  • Or Netanely, MA
    A clinical psychologist (MA) in Israel, and a psychoanalysis candidate at the WIlliam Alanson White Institute in NY. Working in private practice with complex trauma patients, exploring social trauma through social dreaming, and writing on the moral aspects of therapy.
    Sessions
    • F10 : F-10: Morality as a Third in Hateful Encounters
  • 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
    • P5 : PLENARY V: Moving Beyond Despair – The Generativity of Psychoanalytic Community
  • Andrea Monroy Toro
    I take into account psychoanalytic frameworks, educational and psycho-social strategies, and the multicultural backgrounds, gender identities and uniqueness of the individuals with whom I work. I love the challenge of working to achieve positive social transformations. I am passionate about the implementation and management of clinical and social project strategies that impact directly upon the lives of individuals and communities. I believe in teamwork, creativity and resilience. Also I practice counseling for Spanish and English speakers. Psychoanalytical counseling both online and offline is for me an artesanal process requiring significant time and great attentiveness for both listener and talker. The goal of my work as counselor is to accompany a person in finding their unique self without pressure to adhere to formulaic or readymade answers or solutions.
    Sessions
  • Robin Young
    Psychoanalyst/psychotherapist in private practice in NYC for more than 40 years. Supervise and teach at NPAP, the Mitchell Center and ICP. Published papers in psychoanalysis
    Sessions
  • Siyuan Li, MPH, CUHK
    psychotherapist, private practice, adult therapy, children & adolescents therapy, infant-parent psychotherapy MPH, CUHK
    Sessions
    • B11 : B-11: Survival on the Relational Ridge
  • Sandra Silverman, LCSW
    Sandra Silverman, LCSW, is Faculty and Supervisor at The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy. She is Faculty, Supervisor and a member of the Executive Committee at The Stephen Mitchell Relational Study Center. Sandy has written and presented on topics including analytic vulnerability, gender and trauma. Her recent publications include, “Did You Say He Has a Hitler Mustache? Vulnerability and Destabilization in the Face of Trauma,” Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 2019, and “The colonized mind: Gender, trauma and mentalization” Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 2015. She is in private practice in New York City.
    Sessions
    • C-11 : C-11: Getting Sucked in and Being Spit Out: How Analysts Get Framed by Hatred
  • Taylise Spolti, PsyD
    Taylise Spolti is a relational psychoanalyst, founding member of the Brazilian Association for Relational Psychoanalysis (ABPR), and coordinator of its Relational Psychoanalysis Seminars. She maintains a private practice in Curitiba, Brazil, working exclusively with women and focusing on relational and transgenerational trauma. Her clinical approach integrates body, affect, and the ethics of implication, drawing from relational psychoanalysis, attachment theory, and contemporary somatic perspectives. She is affiliated with the Winnicott School of Curitiba and is currently completing training in Somatic Experiencing®️ and Relational Psychoanalysis.
    Sessions
    • D-11 : D-11: How to Survive Hate Without Becoming Hateful or Annihilated? Two cases of women from Brazil
  • Marc Carafa, PsyD
    Marc Carafa, PsyD, is a psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist in private practice in the Philadelphia area. He completed his analytic training at the Institute for Relational Psychoanalysis of Philadelphia. His writing and presentations have explored analyst vulnerability and mutual affect regulation within the analytic dyad, and his teaching and training interests include the process of group relational supervision.
    Sessions
    • F-11 : F-11: Hate as Mission and False Reparation—Intergenerational Trauma, Loyalty and the Idealization of the Ancestors
  • 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
    • A2 : A-2: PANEL CHANGE: Facing the Unimaginable: When You No Longer Recognize Your Country
  • Robin Young, PhD
    Robin Young, Ph.D. Private Practice of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy for more than 40 years; Supervisor; Adjunct Assistant Profession NYU; Lecturer NPAP; Written and presented psychoanalytic papers; psychoanalytic research.
    Sessions
    • A8 : A-8: What Brings Us Together Pulls Us Apart: Using hate in the analytic process
  • Barbara Perry, PhD
    Barbara Perry is a Professor in the Faculty of Social Science and Humanities at Ontario Tech University, and the Director of the Centre on Hate, Bias and Extremism. She also holds a UNESCO Chair in Hate Studies. In 2024, she was named to the Order of Canada. She has written extensively on social justice generally, and hate crime and right-wing extremism specifically. She has published several books spanning each of these areas, including Diversity, Crime and Justice in Canada, In the Name of Hate: Understanding Hate Crime, and Right-wing Extremism in Canada. She was the General Editor of a five volume set on hate crime (Praeger), and editor of Volume 3: Victims of Hate Crime of that set. In 2019, she published Right-wing Extremism in Canada, and in 2022 she published Right-wing Extremism in Canada and the United States. Her work has been published in journals representing diverse disciplines: Theoretical Criminology, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Journal of History and Politics, and American Indian Quarterly. Dr. Perry continues to work in the area of hate crime, and has made substantial contributions to the limited scholarship on hate crime in Canada, including work on anti-Muslim violence, antisemitic hate crime, hate crime against 2SLGBTQI communities, the community impacts of hate crime, and right-wing extremism in Canada. She is regularly called upon by policy makers, practitioners, and local, national and international media as an expert on hate crime and right-wing extremism.
    Sessions
    • P1 : PLENARY I: Hate: Contexts and Consequences
  • Gurmeet S. Kanwal, MD
    Gurmeet S. Kanwal, MD, is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Medical College of Cornell University (NYC), and Supervising Psychoanalyst at the William Alanson White Institute (NYC). He is also Teaching Faculty at HamAva Institute for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Tehran, Iran). He is Past President of the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute and Editorial Board Member of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. He is also Staff Psychiatrist at Scarborough Health Network (Toronto) and Co-Founder of Mobius Psychological Services (Toronto). He is the 2024 recipient of the Cooper Award for seminal contributions to psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy, of the Cornell Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Kanwal is co-editor (with Salman Akhtar) of the books, Bereavement: Personal Experiences and Clinical Reflections (Karnac, 2017) and Intimacy: Clinical, Cultural, Digital and Developmental Perspectives (Routledge, 2019).
    Sessions
    • C3 : C-3: Dynamics of War and Annihilation
  • 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
    • MA-2 : Meet-the-Author 2: Pain is Deaf
  • Alejandro Avila-Espada, Ph.D, M.S.
    Alejandro Ávila-Espada, Ph.D. Clinical Psychologist & Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist. Full Professor & Chair (currently retired) of Psychotherapy at Madrid Complutense University (1984-1990 / 2004-2020) and University of Salamanca (1990-2004), both in Spain. Founder and Honor President of IARPP-Spain chapter. Member of the Board of Directors de IARPP (2011-2018). Member of IAPSP. Honor President and Training-Faculty Member of the Instituto de Psicoterapia Relacional (Madrid, Spain). Editor of the e-journal Clínica e Investigación Relacional, founded 2007. Between his books: La tradición interpersonal. Perspectiva social y cultural del psicoanálisis (Ágora Relacional, Madrid, 2013) [The Interpersonal Tradition. A Social and Cultural Perspective of Psychoanalysis]; and Relational Horizons: Mediterranean voices bring passion and reason to relational psychoanalysis (Astoria, NY: International Psychoanalytic Books, 2018). Contact: avilaespada@psicoterapiarelacional.es More info and selected papers can be retrieved at the web page: www.psicoterapiarelacional.es/paginaspersonales/AlejandroAvilaEspada.aspx
    Sessions
    • P4 : PLENARY IV: Hate in the Shadow of Mourning: Tragedy, Trauma, and Loss
  • Shiva Kamrouz, PhD
    My professional journey in psychosomatics and psychoanalysis began in 2006, when I co-founded the Raieen Counselling Centre in Isfahan to provide counselling, psychotherapy, and professional training. Through collaboration with Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, I attended three summer schools on psychosomatics at the University of Freiburg in Germany, which shaped my early approach to supporting patients and families. In 2011, I began collaborating with Professor Alister Cunningham in Toronto, assisting him in group therapy courses for cancer patients—work that I continued until the COVID-19 pandemic and have since maintained online. A year later, I attended a workshop led by Professor Horst Kächele, which marked my first significant encounter with psychoanalysis and redirected my focus toward this field. Since starting my PhD in 2017, I have dedicated myself entirely to psychoanalysis through structured training at Roozbeh Hospital in Tehran, courses with international analysts, and a comprehensive Freud-reading program. I began personal therapy in 2016 and have consistently worked under individual and group supervision for my clinical cases. Since 2018, I have practised analytic therapy with psychosomatic and individual patients, and since 2020, I have expanded into analytic couple therapy. Alongside my clinical work, I teach psychoanalysis, present papers on philosophy and culture, and continue to develop my expertise in both French and English to access a wider range of psychoanalytic
    Sessions
    • D8 : D-8: Hate, Love, and Transformation

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Target Audience

This educational activity is intended for behavioral health professionals, including Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, and MFT's.

Event Learning Objectives

  • Analyze how hate and destructiveness emerge and operate within the relational field, shaped by both intrapsychic processes and sociocultural forces.
  • Apply relational psychoanalytic theory to clinical encounters involving intense affective states such as hate, rage, and rejection.
  • Demonstrate therapeutic approaches for engaging patients who position the analyst as a “bad object,” with attention to the complexities of asymmetrical mutuality.
  • Critique clinical and cultural responses to polarization and hate, including the clinician’s potential participation in dominant or defensive narratives.
  • Identify relational sensibilities that support the containment, recognition, and transformation of socially embedded expressions of hate.
  • Assess the ethical, emotional, and subjectivity-related challenges clinicians face when working with socially charged forms of hate in the therapeutic setting.

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