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 – 10:30 a.m. are open to all mental health professionals, 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 2010-2011 academic year will be held in the Washington, DC area, with the exception of the March 25-27, 2011 weekend to be held in Indianapolis, Indiana. 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 2009-2010 weekend conferences.
To download our registration form, see the Registration page.
November 12-14, 2010
The work of transformation in psychoanalytic practice
With Jorge Canestri, M.D., from Rome, Italy
Jorge Canestri is Training and Supervising Analyst for the Italian and Argentine Psychoanalytic Association, President, Italian Psychoanalytical Association, European Editor, International Journal of Psycho-Analysis; Chair of the IPA’s New Groups Committee. He has edited and authored many books papers. Co-author, The Babel of the Unconscious: Mother tongue and Foreign Languages in the Psychoanalytic Dimension; Director of the webpage: Psychoanalysis and logical mathematical thought. In this weekend, Dr. Canestri will lead us in thinking about modern ideas of change in psychoanalytic therapy, and his emerging ideas of psychoanalytic growth.
Saturday Morning lecture: Interpretations and Constructions.
January 21-23, 2011
The mysterious leap of soma into psyche
With Marilia Aisenstein, from Paris, France
Marilia Aisenstein is Training-analyst, Paris and Hellenic Psychoanalytical Societies; Past President Paris Psychoanalytic, Past Chair of IPA’s New Groups Committee, Past Editor, French Revue of Psychoanalysis, and 1992 recipient of “Prix Maurice Bouvet” for a psychoanalytic work. She has written 130 books and articles. In this weekend, Marilia Aisenstein will focus on the interrelationship of body, physical and emotional development, symptom and psychic process in the great tradition of French psychosomatic theorists.
Saturday Morning lecture: On transference and counter-transference with difficult cases
March 25-27, 2011
Join us for this special weekend in Indianapolis, Indiana:
Why has Psycho-Analysis Lost the Person ?
With Neville Symington, from Sydney, Australia
Training Analyst, Sydney Psychoanalytic; former President, Australian Psychoanalytic; Former chair Psychology, Tavistock Clinic, London; Diplomate, philosophy and theology; 12 books including The Analytic Experience and Emotion and Spirit; a novel, A Priest’s Affair, and a book of poetry IN-GRATITUDE and other POEMS. Neville Symington is widely known for his probing thought on spirituality and psychic process, original ideas on narcissism, and his breadth of original analytic theorizing. This weekend will feature these themes and an exploration of the elusive question of the person in psychoanalysis.
Saturday Morning lecture: Spiritual Detachment - Essential in the Treatment of Psychosis.
April 29-May 1, 2011
Countertransference, Neutrality and the Analytic Field.
With Claudio Eizirik, M.D. from Porto Alegre, Brazil
Claudio Eizirik is Training and Supervising Analyst, Porto Alegre Psychoanalytic Society, Adjunct Professor, Federal University, Rio Grande do Sul; Former President, International Psychoanalytic Association. Many books and papers on analytic technique and the relation of psychoanalysis and culture including a recent paper on the therapeutic action of psychoanalysis. Dr. Eizirik will lead us in looking at current issues in the practice of analytic therapy, including the concept of the analytic field, the maintenance of an analytic persona, and the uses and misuses of countertransference and neutrality.
Saturday Morning lecture: How to become and remain a psychoanalyst.
October 16–18, 2009
Individuality in Depth: How Psychodynamic Diagnosis Shapes and Is Shaped by the Therapeutic Relationship
With Nancy McWilliams, PhD
Nancy McWilliams teaches at the Rutgers Graduate School of Applied & Professional Psychology and is Past President of the Division of Psychoanalysis (39) of the American Psychological Association. She has written several influential books on psychodynamic assessment and treatment. This weekend links the advances in psychodynamic diagnosis with close study of the therapeutic process.
Saturday Morning lecture: Working with Clients with Paranoid Trends
January 29-31, 2010
Being Human: Psychoanalytic Approaches to Children and Adults
With Julio Moreno, M.D and Virginia Ungar, M.D., Buenos Aires.
Drs. Moreno and Ungar are training analysts, Buenos Aires Psychoanalytical Association, and child and adult analysts. Dr. Moreno teaches couple and family therapy and is the author of "Being Human: Inconsistence, the Link and Upbringing." Dr. Ungar has published numerous papers and is Latin American member of the Board and Executive Committee of the IPA and Chair of the IPA Committee on Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis. This weekend will explore modern developments in child analysis, and the concept of “the link”, a bridging concept that has emerged as central to European and South American analytic thinking as applied especially to group and family therapy, and to the intergenerational transmission of trauma.
Saturday Morning lecture: The theory of link: association and connection, Dr. Julio Moreno
March 12-14, 2010
Join us for this special weekend in Salt Lake City, Utah:
Family, Couple and Child Psychotherapy
Shifting Internal Objects:
The Use of Couple and Family Treatment in the Development of Self
The internal worlds of both therapists and patients are constructed by early family experiences, including representations of couple and sibling relationships. These object constellations dramatically influence our interactions with peers, choice of intimate partnerships, and formation of personal identity. Couple, child and family treatments provide a unique opportunity to shift problematic individual and systemic object relations, through examination of shared transferences, identifications, collusive defenses, intergenerational repetitions, and unconscious fantasies. Join us for a weekend where we discuss the value, theory, and craft of child, family, and couple treatments and their potential impact on the development and repair of self.
Saturday Morning lecture: TBA
April 23-25, 2010
Psychoanalytic Empathy and Interpsychic Relationship
With Stefano Bolognini, M.D.
President, Italian Psychoanalytic Society; member, European Editorial Board of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis; Supervisor, Adult and Adolescent Psychiatric Services, Italian National Health System. Author: Psychoanalytic Empathy and the forthcoming Secret Passages: Theory and Technique of the Interpsychic Dimension.
Leading Italian analytic writer, Stefano Bolognini links crucial therapeutic processes to his emerging ideas of shared unconscious dimensions.
Saturday Morning lecture: “Notes from the deep: On Unconscious Communication.”
Summer Institutes
Object Relations Theory and Practice Program Summer Institute
For two-year Object Relations Theory and Practice Program participants only.
Summer Institute Chair: Paul M. Koehler, M.S.W.
July 11-17, 2010
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.
Couple, Child and Family Institute
Stand alone, or in conjunction with the Couple, Child and Family Therapy Program.
Program Chair: Janine Wanlass, Ph.D.
July 12-17, 2010
How Did We Get Here and What Do I Do Now? Untangling Transference and Countertransference Dilemmas in Child, Couple & Family Treatment:
Hosted by IPI Salt Lake. Presenters and Conference Faculty: David Scharff, MD, Jill Scharff, MD (by video), Colleen Sandor, PhD, Jim Poulton, PhD, Carl Bagnini, LCSW, BCD (by video), Doug Dennet, MD, Sharon Dennett, MSW, Bonnie Eisenberg, PhD, Mike Stadter, PhD (by video), Geoff Anderson, PhD, and other invited guests.
Untangling, understanding, and making therapeutic use of transference and countertransference resonses in the treatment of children, couple, and families presents a challenge to even the most experienced clinicians. Object relations theory provides a framework for making sense of these often frustrating and confusing therapeutic entanglements. Grounded in theory and explored through clinical case vignettes, we offer a series of experience-near presentations for clinicians working with children, adolescents, couples, and families. Participants may select presentations focused on their population of interest or join us for an entire week of engaging clinical discussion. We will provide opportunities for case consultation for interested participants.
Entire Institute: M-F 9:00-5:15, Sat 9-12:30 [33 CE; $780]
Couple Track: Th & F 9:00-5:15, Sat 9-12:30 [15 CE; $395]
Child, Adolescent and Family Track: M-@ 9:00-5:15 [18 CE; $445]
Registration fees will be discounted by 10% for full IPI members, 5% for associate members and 50% for full-time students.
Location: Westminster College, 1840 South 1300 East, Salt Lake City, UT 84105
For more information on the institute, registration, location and lodging options please contact IPI (info@theipi.org or 301-215-7377).
International Institute for Psychoanalytic Training Summer Institute
For participants in the IIPT program only.
Program Chair: Jill Scharff, M.D.
June 21-27, 2010
Theme of Institute: To be announced