The IPI Blog

International Psychotherapy Institute blog, issues relating to psychodynamic psychotherapy, object relations theory and technique, psychoanalysis.

For Some Psychotherapists, the Work Has Always Been Virtual

A therapist shares knowledge gained from two decades of teaching online. Familiarity with the experience of online therapy can help ameliorate stress, both on therapists and our patients. Online learning …

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How the Light Gets In: Contemporary Understanding and Treatment of Trauma

 A lecture-discussion by Dominique Scarfone  Today is Saturday April, 10, 2021, and I am at the IPI Saturday morning guest lecture by Dominic Scarfone. I am sitting here in my …

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The Boulder Tragedy

Karen Mohatt, March 24, 2021 A day after the latest shooting and tragedy in Boulder, CO I was thankful to still be home-officing because my office is only 4 blocks …

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On the Intersectionality of Racism and Sexism

Jill Savege Scharff   I am sitting in my home office, in front of my Zoom screen, where I sit often these days.  But today is a special day.  I …

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Reflections of the IPI Weekend Conference by Dra. Iraira Butcher 

Be Thoughtful and Act: Confronting Racism Inside and Outside of Our Minds Reflections of the IPI Weekend Conference by Dra. Iraira Butcher    After finding much needed containment in the …

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Recent IPI Faculty Publications

Change across a completed analysis assessed using a modified Three-Level Model Jill Savege Scharff & Pat Hedegard The authors present their design for a clinical teaching exercise to study transformation …

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Some thoughts about the transition to an online weekend conference  

Jill Savege Scharff Because of physical distancing to combat COVID-19, the International Psychotherapy Institute (IPI) moved its April weekend conference on sex and gender and its student graduation ceremony from …

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Changes in Frames: COVID-19 and Teleanalysis

 April 2020   Yolanda Varela, PhD, President, IPA Panamanian Association of Psychoanalysis (Provisional Society); supervising analyst, IPA; supervising analyst and graduate, APsaA International Institute for Psychoanalytic Training.   Thoughts arising …

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CORE Student Reflection on French Psychoanalysis

In preparing to write this blog on our recent weekend exploring French Psychoanalytic thought and its contribution to understanding psychotic and borderline states, I found myself worrying about using too …

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Analytic Student Reflection on French Psychoanalysis

During the November 8th through 10th weekend of 2019, the International Psychotherapy Institute hosted the French psychoanalyst Alain Gibeault. French analytic writing is often criticized by British and American analysts …

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