Friday April 12, 2024 Today, IPI is back in its weekend conference location at the Rockville Hilton to study The Unstructured Unconscious and the Repressed Unconscious: A Clinical Paradigm for …
Howard Levine April 2024
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International Psychotherapy Institute blog, issues relating to psychodynamic psychotherapy, object relations theory and technique, psychoanalysis.
In Remembrance of Walt H. Ehrhardt
Dear IPI Community, On October 27th we lost a valued friend and colleague, Walt Ehrhardt, Ed.D., L.P.C (August 26, 1940–October 27, 2022). Walt was a founding faculty member of IPI …
Thoughts on Psychoanalysis: Waiting and Fishing
Over the last couple of years which have been dominated by the pandemic, we’ve all had to put many things on hold— and wait. Recently, when thinking about waiting, …
In remembrance, Paula Margetts Swaner
December 3, 2021 I am sad to inform you that the IPI community lost a friend and esteemed colleague. Dr. Paula Swaner (Nov. 23, 1927–Nov. 30, 2021) was a …
2021 Sigourney Award Recipients
November 23, 2021 Dear IPI Community, We are pleased to share the news that David E. Scharff, MD, FABP and Jill Savege Scharff, MD, FABP, MRC.Psych. are recipients of …
Your Child Is Struggling. Could Your Marriage Be to Blame?
David Scharff, MD The health of your partnership plays a major role in your child’s mental health. KEY POINTS Maintaining marital and personal satisfaction creates a huge benefit for the …
Six Hard-Won Lessons: Teaching Psychoanalysis Online
David Scharff, MD Scharff, D. E. (2021). Six Hard-Won Lessons: Teaching Psychoanalysis Online. The American Psychoanalyst, 55(3), 29–30. The International Psychotherapy Institute (IPI) and its psychoanalytic training program, the International …
Watching Afghanistan from Iran
August 16, 2021 I don’t know if you hear the news about Afghanistan or not. The government has fallen and their president fled. The whole country is now under …
The Two Kinds of COVID Couples
The pandemic can draw couples closer—or push them apart. Here’s why. I’m a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst specializing in couples and family therapy. Like many people across the world, many of …
Returning to In-Person Treatment During COVID-19 – If, When, and How
Original August 4, 2020 Revised January 16, March 11, April 29, 2021 Dear Colleagues, If you’re thinking about returning to in-person work, or have already done so, we hope …
