True to the traditions of French psychoanalysis, IPI’s visiting guest speaker Alain Gibeault, formerly secretary general of the IPA, bases his theory and clinical practice on the metapsychology of Freud. …
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International Psychotherapy Institute blog, issues relating to psychodynamic psychotherapy, object relations theory and technique, psychoanalysis.
Alessandra Lemma: The Effect of the Internet on Sexuality and Identity
Jill Savege Scharff, October 5, 2019. I am here at the International Psychotherapy Institute weekend conference Technology and Ethics in Treatment and Training: Best Practices. I am sitting in the …
In Remembrance: Alice Brand Bartlett, Ph.D.
Alice Brand Bartlett, PhD 1950-2019 Dear Faculty, Students, & Friends of IPI, Alice Brand Bartlett was a beloved adjunct faculty in the International Institute of Analytic Training, …
The Contribution and Influence of Enrique Pichon Riviere
David Scharff steps back into presenter mode this morning. He is talking about Pichon Rivière’s concept of el vinculo, translated as “link”. David is excited to have found a …
IACFP conference, Lyon, July 2018
A few members of IPI recently returned from the beautiful city of Lyon at the confluence of the Rhône and Saône rivers in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of France. This …
Homage for Asbed Aryan
The members of the International Working Group on Teleanalysis hosted at the International Psychotherapy Institute were sad to learn that Asbed Aryan, who seemed to be getting better, had suddenly …
IPI Program Graduates
Congratulations to our IIPT (analytic) graduate Michele Kwintner and our Core (object relations) graduates, and our clinical consultation program graduates.
The Breadth and Depth of Slavery’s Wounds
Imagine a young African American man raised proudly by his mother, and now the first generation to go to college. Why might he fall victim to depression and academic failure? …
Settings and Modalities in Family and Couple Treatment
Thursday Feb 1,2018 Jeanne Magagna is speaking about working with parents to help their difficult and unhappy children. Of course parents expect the child therapist to be trained in …
Enrique Pichon-Rivière and his theory of the link
IPI faculty members presented a number of panels, presentations, and precongress workshops at the International Psychoanalytical Congress in Buenos Aires in July 2017. At one of those panels, David Scharff …