IPI Fellows Groups
IPI's Fellows play a vital role in the Institute. Fellows are graduates of the two-year Object Relations Theory and Practice Program, who have elected to continue a high level of participation in IPI's programs. Many Fellows are also candidates in the Clinical Applications Program.
IPI's Fellows also contribute to the administration of IPI. In the past several years, Fellows have worked as committee members, led various initiatives, and served as conference small group leaders and session chairs. Most of IPI's standing committees, for example, have Fellows as active members.
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IPI Fellows Group, 2008
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IPI Fellows Group, 2007
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IPI Fellows Group, 2006
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Weekend Conferences
You may enroll for just one weekend, for several, or come to them as part of the two-year Object Relations Theory and Practice Program.
Conferences begin at 9:00 a.m. on Friday and end at 1:00 p.m. on Sunday. Conferences feature didactic and clinical presentations and daily large and small group discussion. Saturday morning workshops, 9:00 a.m. – 10:30 are open to all mental health professionals, free of charge, and will be followed by a reception and an optional small group discussion from 11:00 a.m. to noon for participants attending the workshop; the cost for Saturday morning only is $30 (IPI Members can attend for free with a guest). Pre-registration is required. Schedules, reading lists and educational objectives will be provided. Weekend courses for the 2008-2009 academic year will be held in the Washington, DC area, with the exception of the March 6-8, 2009 weekend to be held in Panama City, Panama. Registration fee for the weekend conferences is $505 ($485 for registrations postmarked 21 days in advance of the conference (Full IPI Members: $350; Associate Members: $400).
Registration
See General Information for complete details about IPI, registration, and the location of the 2008-2009 weekend conferences.
To download our registration form, see the Registration page.
2008-2009 Weekends
October 17-19, 2008
Through the Life Cycle: The Development of Relating, Identity and Thinking in Klein, Bion and Winnicott
With Meira Likierman, PhD.
Dr. Meira Likieman is Consultant Child Psychotherapist, Tavistock Clinic, and lectures regularly at Oxford University, the Anna Freud Center, the British Association for Psychotherapists and the London Centre for Psychotherapy. She has lectured internationally and published widely, including her book Melanie Klein: Her Work in Context. In this weekend we will examine the contributions of Klein, Bion and Winnicott to development in childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age, and explore the implications of psychic development of our patients throughout their lives.
Saturday Morning lecture: How infantile needs, wishes and suffering are manifest in infancy and in the lives of our adult patients
February 6-8, 2009
Thinking, Loss and Negation
With David Bell, MD
David Bell is Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst and Chair, the Scientific Committee, the British Psychoanalytic Society; Consultant Psychiatrist, Adult Department and Director, Personality Disorders Unit, the Tavistock Clinic. He lectures and publishes widely on Freud, Klein and Bion, severe disorders and psychoanalysis and literature, socio-political theory and philosophy. In this conference he will pursue themes of loss, negation, paranoia and timelessness in clinical analysis, literature and history.
Saturday Morning lecture: Nothing Matters and Everything is Permitted: Hannah Arendt and the Evil of Mindlessness
March 6-8, 2009
Group Analysis: Theory and Practice in Small and Large 'Groups'
With Earl Hopper, PhD
Dr. Earl Hopper is former Chair, Group of Independent Psychoanalysts, British Psychoanalytical Society; former President, International Association of Group Psychotherapy; Editor, The New International Library of Group Analysis, and author most recently of The Social Unconscious: Selected Papers and Traumatic Experience in the Unconscious Life of Groups. The weekend will feature extensive large group experience, as well as theoretical consideration of group dynamics focusing on transference and countertransference, the social unconscious and the Fourth Basic Assumption (Incohesion: Aggregation/ Massification).
Saturday Morning lecture: The Social Unconscious in Persons and Groups
April 24-26, 2009
The Therapeutic Relationship and the Dialogue of Unconsciouses: A Weekend Clinical Workshop
With Anthony Bass, PhD
Anthony Bass, PhD is Supervising Analyst, NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy; Joint Editor-in-Chief, Psychoanalytic Dialogues; President, the Stephen A. Mitchell Center for Relational Studies; and a Founding Director, the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. This conference will explore the nature of the psychoanalytical therapy relationship through the lens of 'relationship as a dialogue of unconsciouses' to deepen our grasp of unconscious dimensions of psychoanalytic work. Participants are asked to be prepared to share their work with patients with whom they feel an unusually intense affective engagement in order to study the emergent unconscious life of patient and therapist.
Saturday Morning lecture: Psychoanalysis as Mutual Analysis: Ferenczi's Mutual Analysis Updated
2009-20010 Weekend Conferences
October 16–19, 2009
Nancy McWilliams, PhD
January 29-31, 2010
Marilia Aisenstein
March 2010
Family, Couple and Child Psychotherapy
April 23-25, 2010
Dr. Stefano Bolognini
Summer Institutes
For two-year Object Relations Theory and Practice Program participants only.
Summer Institute Chair: Paul M. Koehler, M.S.W.
July 13-19, 2008
Infant Observation and Research Contributions to Object Relations Theory and Practice:
Infant observation, non-human primate research, and attachment research applied to containment and countertransference in clinical work.
July 2009
Object Relations Theory and Practice:
This institute covered the basics of object relations theory from Kleinian and British Independent object relations points of view, and applied them to clinical practice.