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18/06/2026

Send your Proposals Now! Deadline 30 June, 2026
The Human Condition in the Digital World
55th IPA Congress Vancouver 2027
We are inviting proposals for Panels and Small Discussion Groups
https://buff.ly/tXPFbme

17/06/2026

June 17, 1895. Freud to Fliess:

“My heart is entirely with psychology. If I succeed in this, I shall be satisfied with everything else. That, meanwhile, it does not reveal its secret to me is very painful. My family had a wonderful time in Bellevue and continue to do very well.” (p. 136)

Happy Birthday to Alice Bálint! born 16 June 1898 in Budapest (Alice Székely-Kovács)   – Manchester, 19 August 1939), a ...
16/06/2026

Happy Birthday to Alice Bálint! born 16 June 1898 in Budapest (Alice Székely-Kovács) – Manchester, 19 August 1939), a pioneering psychoanalyst who wrote the book “The Psychoanalysis of the Nursery”. .....

She did another analysis with Sándor Ferenczi and became a member of the Hungarian Association. As a renowned analyst, she led an active policy of scientific meetings between analysts in Budapest, Prague and Vienna.

Balint, Alice (6 November 2015). The Psycho-Analysis of the Nursery. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-37392-6.
Pic. bridgemanimages.com

15/06/2026

COWAP North America International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA) and WBCP present
Discussions on Gender: Discussion of the film:
Marie Langer: Desire and Revolution (2025)
by Marcelo Haber, Horacio Legras, and Belen de Martino

Friday, July 10, 2026
6:00pm - 7:30pm ET

Discussants:
Virginia Ungar,
Marcelo Haber, Horacio Legras, and Belen de Martino

Moderator:
Margarita Cereijido, PhD

Registration Link: https://wbcp.memberclicks.net/reg_cowap_ipa_film_7-10-26 #!/

Erik H Erikson, born15 June 1902  was a German-American child psychoanalyst and visual artist known for his theory on ps...
15/06/2026

Erik H Erikson, born15 June 1902 was a German-American child psychoanalyst and visual artist known for his theory on psychosocial development of human beings. He coined the phrase identity crisis.

Bugün, psikososyal gelişim kuramının kurucusu, Erik Erikson’ı doğum gününde saygıyla anıyoruz.

Erikson, Freud’un psikoseksüel gelişim modelini genişleterek, insan gelişimini yaşam boyu süren bir süreç olarak ele almış ve sekiz evreden oluşan psikososyal gelişim kuramını ortaya koymuştur. Her evrede birey, belirli bir psikososyal krizle karşılaşır ve bu krizin çözümü, kişiliğin sonraki gelişimini şekillendirir. Temel güven duygusuna karşı güvensizlik, özerkliğe karşı suçluluk ve utanç, kimliğe karşı rol karmaşası gibi kutuplar, bireyin iç dünyası ile toplumsal çevresi arasındaki etkileşimi yansıtır.

Erikson’ın düşüncesinin merkezinde “kimlik” kavramı yer alır; özellikle ergenlik döneminde yaşanan “kimlik krizi” fikri, psikanalitik literatüre kalıcı bir katkı olarak girmiştir. Bireyin “Ben kimim?” sorusuna yanıt aradığı bu sancılı ama yaratıcı süreç, Erikson’a göre patolojik bir gerileme değil; olgunlaşmanın, bütünleşmenin ve özgün bir kendilik oluşturmanın kaçınılmaz bir basamağıdır. Ona göre kimlik, sabit bir veri değildir; “kimlik, bir kez kazanılan değil, yaşam boyu yeniden müzakere edilen bir bütünlüktür”. Bu bağlamda çalışmaları, insan ruhunun yaşam boyu süren adaptasyon yeteneğine ve onarım gücüne duyduğu derin inancı barındırır.

Kültürel antropoloji ile psikanalizi ustaca harmanlayan Erikson, bireyin kimlik arayışının ve yaşadığı içsel çatışmaların, içinde büyüdüğü toplumun değerlerinden ve krizlerinden bağımsız anlaşılamayacağını vurgulamıştır. Ego psikolojisine getirdiği bu geniş perspektifle, egoyu yalnızca savunma mekanizmaları üreten bir yapı olarak değil; çevreyle etkileşime giren, uyum sağlayan, sentezleyen ve her krizden yeni bir güçle çıkan aktif bir yapı olarak konumlandırmıştır.

“Birey, kimliğini ancak, hem kendi hem de başkaları tarafından algılandığı şekliyle, tutarlı ve sürekli bir varlık olarak deneyimlediği zaman gerçekten var olur.”

Doğum gününde Erik Erikson’ı saygı ve minnetle anıyoruz.

Highlights of the Assisted Reproduction. Contemporary Psychoanalytic. Perspectives. Heidelberg, Germany. June 12-14, 202...
14/06/2026

Highlights of the Assisted Reproduction. Contemporary Psychoanalytic. Perspectives. Heidelberg, Germany. June 12-14, 2026.

12/06/2026

On this date, June 12, 1900:
“Do you suppose that someday one will read on a marble tablet on this house:
‘Here… the secret of the dream revealed itself to Dr Sigm Freud’?
So far there is little prospect of it.”
Freud, letter to Wilhelm Fleiss

Indeed, that marble plaque was placed there, in the mid-1980s. The town of Bellevue was a former casino near Kahlenberg where the Freud family used to spend their vacations at the end of the 19th century

Serge Lebovici was born June 10, 1915, in Paris; died August 11, 2000- was a highly influential French psychiatrist and ...
10/06/2026

Serge Lebovici was born June 10, 1915, in Paris; died August 11, 2000- was a highly influential French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He is widely recognized as a pioneer in child psychiatry and played a key role in the psychoanalysis of infants, as well as the study of early mother-child bonds
Pic. memoiresdeguerre.com

We invite you to the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA)  55th Congress in Vancouver, Canada, from July 25 ...
08/06/2026

We invite you to the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA) 55th Congress in Vancouver, Canada, from July 25 to 29, 2027. The event will take place at the Vancouver Convention Center (West Building), gathering psychoanalysts, candidates, and scholars to explore the theme: "The Human Condition in the Digital World". ....

Proposals Deadline : June 30 . https://youtu.be/IiTggsFpcLY?si=DCYIZ3oMm7JD0KOB

Promotional video with IPA President Heribert Blass and Vice-Presid...

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