International Psychoanalytical Association

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The International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA) is an association including 12,000 psychoanalysts as members and works with 70 constituent organizations. It was founded in 1910 by Sigmund Freud, on an idea proposed by Sándor Ferenczi.

History

In 1902 Sigmund Freud started to meet every week with colleagues to discuss his work and so Psychological Wednesday Society was born. By 1908 there were 14 regular members and some guests including Max Eitingon, Carl Jung, Karl Abraham, and Ernest Jones, all future Presidents of the IPA.[1] Society became the Vienna Psychoanalytical Society.

In 1907 Jones suggested to Jung that an international meeting should be arranged and Freud welcomed the proposal. Meeting took place in Salzburg, on 27 April 1908 and Jung named it the "First Congress for Freudian Psychology" and it is later reckoned to be the first International Psychoanalytical Congress, even so the IPA had not yet been founded.

IPA was established at the next Congress held at Nuremberg in March 1910.[2] Its first President was Carl Jung and its first Secretary was Otto Rank. Sigmund Freud considered an international organization to be essential to advance his ideas. In 1914 Freud published a paper entitled The History of the Psychoanalytic Movement.

The IPA is the world’s primary accrediting and regulatory body for psychoanalysis. The IPA's aims include creating new psychoanalytic groups, stimulating debate, conducting research, developing training policies and establishing links with other bodies. It organizes a large biennial Congress.

Regional organizations

There is a Regional Organisation for each of the IPA’s 3 regions:

Each of these three bodies consists of Constituent Organisations and Study Groups that are part of that IPA region. The IPA has a close working relationship with each of these independent organisations and values them highly, but they are not officially or legally part of the IPA.

Constituent organizations

The IPA's members qualify for membership by being a member of a "constituent organisation" (or the sole regional association).

Constituent Organisations

Provisional Societies

Regional associations

IPA Study Groups

"Study Groups" are bodies of analysts which have not yet developed sufficiently to be a freestanding society, but that is their aim.

Allied Centres

"Allied Centres" are groups of people with an interest in psychoanalysis, in places where there are not already societies or study groups.

International Congresses


The first 23 Congresses of IPA did not have a specific theme.

Number Year City President Theme
1 1908 Austria-Hungary Salzburg
2 1910 German Empire Nuremberg C. G. Jung
3 1911 German Empire Weimar C. G. Jung
4 1913 German Empire Munich C. G. Jung
5 1918 Hungary Budapest Karl Abraham
6 1920 Netherlands The Hague Sándor Ferenczi
7 1922 Germany Berlin Ernest Jones
8 1924 Austria Salzburg Ernest Jones
9 1925 Germany Bad Homburg K Abraham / M Eitingon
10 1927 Austria Innsbruck Max Eitingon
11 1929 United Kingdom Oxford Max Eitingon
12 1932 Germany Wiesbaden Max Eitingon
13 1934 Switzerland Lucerne Ernest Jones
14 1936 Czechoslovakia Marienbad Ernest Jones
15 1938 France Paris Ernest Jones
16 1949 Switzerland Zürich Ernest Jones
17 1951 Netherlands Amsterdam Leo Bartemeier
18 1953 United Kingdom London Heinz Hartmann
19 1955 Switzerland Geneva Heinz Hartmann
20 1957 France Paris Heinz Hartmann
21 1959 Denmark Copenhagen William H. Gillespie
22 1961 United Kingdom Edinburgh William H. Gillespie
23 1963 Sweden Stockholm Maxwell Gitelson
24 1965 Netherlands Amsterdam Gillespie/Greenacre Psychoanalytic Treatment of the Obsessional Neurosis
25 1967 Denmark Copenhagen P.J. van der Leeuw On Acting Out and its Role in the Psychoanalytic Process
26 1969 Italy Rome P.J. van der Leeuw New Developments in Psychoanalysis
27 1971 Austria Vienna Leo Rangell The Psychoanalytical Concept of Aggression
28 1973 France Paris Leo Rangell Transference and Hysteria Today
29 1975 United Kingdom London Serge Lebovici Changes in Psychoanalytic Practice and Experience
30 1977 Israel Jerusalem Serge Lebovici Affects and the Psychoanalytic Situation
31 1979 United States New York Edward D. Joseph Clinical Issues in Psychoanalysis
32 1981 Finland Helsinki Edward D. Joseph Early Psychic Development as Reflected in the Psychoanalytic Process
33 1983 Spain Madrid Adam Limentani The Psychoanalyst at Work
34 1985 Germany Hamburg Adam Limentani Identification and its Vicissitudes
35 1987 Canada Montreal Robert S. Wallerstein Analysis Terminable and Interminable – 50 Years Later
36 1989 Italy Rome Robert S. Wallerstein Common Ground in Psychoanalysis
37 1991 Argentina Buenos Aires Joseph Sandler Psychic Change
38 1993 Netherlands Amsterdam Joseph Sandler The Psychoanalyst’s Mind – From Listening to Interpretation
39 1995 United States San Francisco R. Horacio Etchegoyen Psychic Reality – Its Impact on the Analyst and Patient Today
40 1997 Spain Barcelona R. Horacio EtchegoyenPsychoanalysis and Sexuality
41 1999 Chile Santiago Otto F. Kernberg Affect in Theory and Practice
42 2001 France Nice Otto F. Kernberg Psychoanalysis – Method and Application
43 2004 United States New Orleans Daniel Widlöcher Working at the Frontiers
44 2005 Brazil Rio de Janeiro Daniel Widlöcher Trauma: New Developments in Psychoanalysis
45 2007 Germany Berlin Cláudio Laks Eizirik Remembering, Repeating and Working Through in Psychoanalysis & Culture Today
46 2009 United States Chicago Cláudio Laks Eizirik Psychoanalytic Practice - Convergences and Divergences
47 2011 Mexico Mexico City Charles Hanly Exploring Core Concepts: Sexuality, Dreams and the Unconscious
48 2013 Czech Republic Prague Charles Hanly Facing the Pain: Clinical Experience and the Development of Psychoanalytic Knowledge
49 2015 United States Boston Stefano Bolognini Changing World: the shape and use of psychoanalytic tools today
50 2017 Argentina Buenos Aires Stefano Bolognini Intimacy

Critics

Erich Fromm questioned this organization and finds that the psychoanalytic association "organized according to standards rather dictatorial".[3]

Elisabeth Roudinesco notes that ipa professionalizing psychoanalysis has become "a machine to manufacture significant". It also notes that in France, "Lacanian colleagues looked IPA as bureaucrats who had betrayed psychoanalysis in favor of an adaptive psychology in the service of triumphant capitalism".[4] She speaks of the "IPA Legitimist Freudianism, we mistakenly called "orthodox" ".[5]

Homophobia

Elisabeth Roudinesco criticism on multiple points in particular considers that "homophobia" of this association is the "disgrace of psychoanalysis".[6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Group portrait: Freud and associates in a photograph taken ca. 1922, Berlin. Sitting (from left to right) : Sigmund Freud, Sándor Ferenczi, Hanns Sachs. Standing (from left to right) : Otto Rank, Karl Abraham, Max Eitingon, Ernest Jones.
  2. ↑ How did the IPA begin?
  3. ↑ "La mission de Sigmund Freud : une analyse de sa personnalité et de son influence'", Erich Fromm, traduction from english by Paul Alexandre. Bruxelles : Complexe, 1975 and in Grandeurs et limites de la pensée freudienne, édition Laffont, 1980
  4. ↑ Elisabeth Roudinesco, "Pourquoi la psychanalyse ?" chapter four , « critiques des institutions psychanalytiques ». Fayard, Paris, 1999
  5. ↑ E.Roudinesco "Genealogy", p.60
  6. ↑ E. Roudinesco « la famille en désordre », in Eric Fassin, « L’inversion de la question homosexuelle » Revue française de psychanalyse, 2003/1 (Vol. 67).

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