2nd International Conference on Psychoanalytic Couple and Family Therapy, Montreal, 2006

IPI was well represented by Faculty and Members at the Montreal Conference, where both teaching and learning experiences were shared with colleagues from Canada, France, Argentina, Brazil, Italy, Germany, Norway and Israel. Presentations were given by IPI Faculty and Members Jill Scharff, David Scharff, Carl Bagnini, Norma Caruso, Jim Poulton, Janine Wanlass, and Yolanda de Varela. During the conference, IPI became a founding institutional member of a new association of psychoanalytic couple and family therapists, with the French/Argentine psychoanalyst Alberto Eiguer as President. The new association will hold biennial conferences, with the next planned for either Barcelona or Buenos Aires.

Special Conferences

Periodically, IPI sponsors or cosponsors special conferences on topics of current interest. These conferences are open to all; participants do not need to be enrolled in an IPI training program to attend.

Past Conferences

International Conference on Prejudice and Conflict, December 2005, in Salt Lake City

A conference designed to explore the malignancies of prejudice on individual, group, national and societal levels.

Presenters included Salman Akhtar, George Awad, Ira Brenner, Peter Fonagy, James Gilligan, Forrest Hamer, Anna Higgitt, David Knowlton, Hanna Mann-Shalvi, Henry Parent, James Poulton, Nadia Ramzy, David Scharff, Jill Scharff, Carlo Strenger, Shashi Tharoor, Stuart Twemlow, Hans-Jurgen Wirth, and Elizabeth Young-Bruehl

2nd International Conference on Psychoanalytic Couple and Family Therapy in Montreal.

This conference focused on the Transgenerational in psychoanalytic couple and family theories.

Presenters included clinicians and researchers from around the world.

Future Conferences

No conferences are currently beyond the early planning stages. Please check back for more information.

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