Volunteering in Bosnia, September 2011, Part 3
by Sheri Rosenfeld, LICSW, LCSW-C Day 3: Zenica I want to start with this picture: In the morning we were driven to the WFW headquarters where we learned more about the war and what led to it, what it...
View ArticleVolunteering in Bosnia September 2011, Part 4
By Sheri Rosenfeld, LICSW, LCSW-C Day 6: Srebrenica Of all the days in this journey, this 12-hour period of time on the last day was the most memorable, disturbing, life changing, and eye opening. Our...
View ArticleKent Ravenscroft, Founding IPI Faculty Member, Wins Bruno Lima Award
Kent Ravenscroft, author of Haiti Fair Well, and Emeritus faculty of IPI, was selected by the Committee on Psychiatric Dimensions of Disasters of the American Psychiatric Association to receive the...
View ArticleChanges in Brain Activity After Analytic Treatment
The following article link was sent to us by Dr. Horst Kaechele. Dr. Kaechele was our distinguished guest presenter at our October 2011 Weekend Conference. Dr. Kaechele is a German psychoanalyst and...
View ArticleGroup Narcissism and the Penn State Situation
Carl Bagnini, LCSW, BCD In reading the reports and investigative results regarding ongoing and extensive child sexual abuse at Penn State it occurred to me that what happened at the institution can be...
View ArticleIPI Gala Award Dinner and Dance
IPI Hosts Gala Awards Dinner and Dance The first International Psychotherapy Institute (IPI) Gala Awards Dinner and Dance took place on Saturday October 22, 2011 at Kenwood Country Club in Bethesda,...
View ArticleMichael Parsons and the Logic of Play in Psychoanalysis
By Yeshim Oz, MS, LMHP 2nd Year Student Core Program As we come nearer to the IPI weekend in January, I became curious about the guest speaker, Michael Parsons. In the age of technology, it was not...
View ArticleOn the Derivation of the Word Therapist
Charles Ashbach, Ph.D., therapist in the Philadelphia area. Faculty of the International Psychotherapy Institute (IPI) Faculty of the Philadelphia Psychotherapy Study Center (PPSC). E-Mail:...
View ArticleIn Argentina, Therapy is the Norm
CNN has recently posted a very interesting article about psychoanalysis in Argentina and how it is thriving there. If you would like to see the article follow this...
View ArticleDSM-V falls short
This recent article in the New York Times is an important admission by the psychiatric community that the notion of having the biological answer to mental illness is a myth. What biological psychiatry...
View ArticleIPI and IIPT at the International Psychoanalytic Association Congress in Prague
From Jill Scharff and Caroline Sehon Betty Benaim, Doug and Sharon Dennett, David and Jill Scharff, Caroline Sehon, Yolanda Varela and Lea Setton (faculty of the International Psychotherapy Institute...
View ArticleIPI and Westminster College Awarded Research Grant
Jill Scharff, Caroline Sehon, Janine Wanlass The International Psychotherapy Institute (IPI) and Westminster College are the proud recipients of a research grant award from the International...
View ArticleBook Review: Shrink Rap, by Dinah Miller, Annette Hanson, and Steven Roy Daviss
Scharff, J. S. (2013). Book review of Shrink Rap. In Psychodynamic Psychiatry 41(3): 473-477. Posted by permission of Guilford Press. Shrink Rap, by Dinah Miller, Annette Hanson, and Steven Roy...
View ArticleIPI February Weekend Conference
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis Around the World Monica Vorchheimer (BA), Mary Morgan (UK), Elizabeth Palacios (Madrid), Félix Velasco Alva (Mexico); John Zinner (Washington); Karen Proner (New...
View ArticleIPI welcomes Antonino Ferro
Distinguished analyst Antonino Ferro, president of the Italia Psychoanalytic Association, opened our April Weekend Conference by presenting his unique approach to the clinical situation as a waking...
View ArticleAn observation of Antonino Ferro’s discussion
Ferro showed us how to think of the history as a collection of facts or as a dream dreamt by the presenter of the case history. When a patient describes an avoidant attachment to a withdrawn and...
View ArticleMemoir of the future and the defense against knowledge
Having studied the analytic process as one in which the Beta elements are represented in images (pictograms) and then in narrative form, we moved on to look at the process that occurs in reverse, in...
View ArticleFerro on the IPI’s Group Affective Model
Ferro said that in the few days of this weekend conference he had not tried to convey concepts. He is grateful for all the models he has learned over the years (Bion, Klein, Winnicott, Ogden), but...
View ArticleNews of IPI participants at the IACFP Congress in Bordeaux, France
Caroline Sehon, Chair of IPI-Metro and Mary Morgan, Head of MA and Clinical Training in Couple Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy at the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships (TCCR) were elected, and...
View ArticleNews of IPI participants at the TCCR-IPI summer institute in London
David Scharff and Janine Wanlass led a collaboration with TCCR to join in teaching and group-leading at the TCCR 2014 summer school “When a Twosome Becomes a Threesome: Developing and Advancing Skills...
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