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"A new experience is in fantasy projected back into the past so that the new persons become aligned with the old ones, who become their prototypes."
Sigmund Freud, letter to Wilhelm Fliess, 1898
#Freud #psychology #projection #psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud, letter to Wilhelm Fliess, 1898
#Freud #psychology #projection #psychoanalysis
On this December 2nd, we celebrate the birthday of Otto Fenichel (Wien, 1897), whose penetrating insights into early psychic life continue to illuminate psychoanalytic thought.
#Psychoanalysis #tuesday
#Psychoanalysis #tuesday
December 2, 2025 at 12:04 PM
On this December 2nd, we celebrate the birthday of Otto Fenichel (Wien, 1897), whose penetrating insights into early psychic life continue to illuminate psychoanalytic thought.
#Psychoanalysis #tuesday
#Psychoanalysis #tuesday
Multiple IPA-endorsed conferences are happening around the world.
See a list, with links, on the IPA website:
ipa.world/dev/events/I...
#Events #Conference #Psychoanalysis
#Psychoanalyse #Psicoanalisis #Psychanalyse #Freud #psychology #therapy
See a list, with links, on the IPA website:
ipa.world/dev/events/I...
#Events #Conference #Psychoanalysis
#Psychoanalyse #Psicoanalisis #Psychanalyse #Freud #psychology #therapy
December 1, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Multiple IPA-endorsed conferences are happening around the world.
See a list, with links, on the IPA website:
ipa.world/dev/events/I...
#Events #Conference #Psychoanalysis
#Psychoanalyse #Psicoanalisis #Psychanalyse #Freud #psychology #therapy
See a list, with links, on the IPA website:
ipa.world/dev/events/I...
#Events #Conference #Psychoanalysis
#Psychoanalyse #Psicoanalisis #Psychanalyse #Freud #psychology #therapy
*Today, 29th November, is the birthday of Jean-Martin Charcot.*
Born in *1825, this year marks the 200th anniversary* of his birth.
"Charcot's concern with hypnotic phenomena in hysterical patients led to very great advances in this important field of hitherto neglected and despised facts"
Born in *1825, this year marks the 200th anniversary* of his birth.
"Charcot's concern with hypnotic phenomena in hysterical patients led to very great advances in this important field of hitherto neglected and despised facts"
November 29, 2025 at 12:03 PM
*Today, 29th November, is the birthday of Jean-Martin Charcot.*
Born in *1825, this year marks the 200th anniversary* of his birth.
"Charcot's concern with hypnotic phenomena in hysterical patients led to very great advances in this important field of hitherto neglected and despised facts"
Born in *1825, this year marks the 200th anniversary* of his birth.
"Charcot's concern with hypnotic phenomena in hysterical patients led to very great advances in this important field of hitherto neglected and despised facts"
Task Force on Representation and Rotation. met in Madrid last weekend
Claudio Eizirik Chair
Virginia Ungar and Altamirando Andrade, Harriet Wolfe and Maureen Murphy, Stefano Bolognini, Teresa Pai and In Su Lee
Claudio Eizirik Chair
Virginia Ungar and Altamirando Andrade, Harriet Wolfe and Maureen Murphy, Stefano Bolognini, Teresa Pai and In Su Lee
November 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Task Force on Representation and Rotation. met in Madrid last weekend
Claudio Eizirik Chair
Virginia Ungar and Altamirando Andrade, Harriet Wolfe and Maureen Murphy, Stefano Bolognini, Teresa Pai and In Su Lee
Claudio Eizirik Chair
Virginia Ungar and Altamirando Andrade, Harriet Wolfe and Maureen Murphy, Stefano Bolognini, Teresa Pai and In Su Lee
Nina Coltart, born on 21 November 1927, is remembered today for her profound contribution to British psychoanalysis. In Attention (1990), she writes:
“The practice of attention is rooted in pure listening, a listening that becomes deepened by trust. […] #attention #trust
“The practice of attention is rooted in pure listening, a listening that becomes deepened by trust. […] #attention #trust
November 21, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Nina Coltart, born on 21 November 1927, is remembered today for her profound contribution to British psychoanalysis. In Attention (1990), she writes:
“The practice of attention is rooted in pure listening, a listening that becomes deepened by trust. […] #attention #trust
“The practice of attention is rooted in pure listening, a listening that becomes deepened by trust. […] #attention #trust
Piera Aulagnier was an Italian-born French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, born on November 19, 1923
"To return now to the concept of violence, I would say that I called primary violence, the psychical action by which one imposes on another’s psyche a choice, thought or action"
"To return now to the concept of violence, I would say that I called primary violence, the psychical action by which one imposes on another’s psyche a choice, thought or action"
November 19, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Piera Aulagnier was an Italian-born French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, born on November 19, 1923
"To return now to the concept of violence, I would say that I called primary violence, the psychical action by which one imposes on another’s psyche a choice, thought or action"
"To return now to the concept of violence, I would say that I called primary violence, the psychical action by which one imposes on another’s psyche a choice, thought or action"
Psychoanalysis On and Off the Couch
A New Podcast Episode "On Transience and the Cycle of Time: Freud and Ecclesiastes "with Paul Marcus, PhD (Great Neck, New York)
193 - produced by Harvey Schwartz for the IPA
listen-
IPAOfftheCouch.org
buff.ly/ddYBsPc #psychoanalysis #podcast
A New Podcast Episode "On Transience and the Cycle of Time: Freud and Ecclesiastes "with Paul Marcus, PhD (Great Neck, New York)
193 - produced by Harvey Schwartz for the IPA
listen-
IPAOfftheCouch.org
buff.ly/ddYBsPc #psychoanalysis #podcast
November 17, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Psychoanalysis On and Off the Couch
A New Podcast Episode "On Transience and the Cycle of Time: Freud and Ecclesiastes "with Paul Marcus, PhD (Great Neck, New York)
193 - produced by Harvey Schwartz for the IPA
listen-
IPAOfftheCouch.org
buff.ly/ddYBsPc #psychoanalysis #podcast
A New Podcast Episode "On Transience and the Cycle of Time: Freud and Ecclesiastes "with Paul Marcus, PhD (Great Neck, New York)
193 - produced by Harvey Schwartz for the IPA
listen-
IPAOfftheCouch.org
buff.ly/ddYBsPc #psychoanalysis #podcast
"Just as all fear is ultimately fear of oneself, so too is all doubt ultimately doubt about oneself.”
Hermann Rorschach (1913)
Rorschach, H. (1913) Stekel Der Zweifel. Zeitschr. f. Psychotherapie u. med. Psychologie
Hermann Rorschach - Born , Zúrich, 8 de November 1884 -
Hermann Rorschach (1913)
Rorschach, H. (1913) Stekel Der Zweifel. Zeitschr. f. Psychotherapie u. med. Psychologie
Hermann Rorschach - Born , Zúrich, 8 de November 1884 -
November 8, 2025 at 2:03 PM
"Just as all fear is ultimately fear of oneself, so too is all doubt ultimately doubt about oneself.”
Hermann Rorschach (1913)
Rorschach, H. (1913) Stekel Der Zweifel. Zeitschr. f. Psychotherapie u. med. Psychologie
Hermann Rorschach - Born , Zúrich, 8 de November 1884 -
Hermann Rorschach (1913)
Rorschach, H. (1913) Stekel Der Zweifel. Zeitschr. f. Psychotherapie u. med. Psychologie
Hermann Rorschach - Born , Zúrich, 8 de November 1884 -
Registration open!
Join the IPA webinar “Countertransference on Sexual and Gender Diversity” with Dr. Analia Wald & Dr. Oren Gozlan, moderated by Dr. Silvia Acosta.
🌍 In English
🔗 Register here: www.ipa.world/IPA/Dev/Even...
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#Psychoanalysis #GenderDiversity
Join the IPA webinar “Countertransference on Sexual and Gender Diversity” with Dr. Analia Wald & Dr. Oren Gozlan, moderated by Dr. Silvia Acosta.
🌍 In English
🔗 Register here: www.ipa.world/IPA/Dev/Even...
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#Psychoanalysis #GenderDiversity
November 7, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Registration open!
Join the IPA webinar “Countertransference on Sexual and Gender Diversity” with Dr. Analia Wald & Dr. Oren Gozlan, moderated by Dr. Silvia Acosta.
🌍 In English
🔗 Register here: www.ipa.world/IPA/Dev/Even...
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#Psychoanalysis #GenderDiversity
Join the IPA webinar “Countertransference on Sexual and Gender Diversity” with Dr. Analia Wald & Dr. Oren Gozlan, moderated by Dr. Silvia Acosta.
🌍 In English
🔗 Register here: www.ipa.world/IPA/Dev/Even...
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#Psychoanalysis #GenderDiversity
“I am deeply convinced that one cannot treat a child without speaking the truth of what we feel and think while being with them. Speaking the truth means ” (Dolto in “The Mirror Child”, 1987).From the Freud Museum
Françoise Dolto , November 6, 1908, was a French psychoanalyst
Françoise Dolto , November 6, 1908, was a French psychoanalyst
November 6, 2025 at 2:04 PM
“I am deeply convinced that one cannot treat a child without speaking the truth of what we feel and think while being with them. Speaking the truth means ” (Dolto in “The Mirror Child”, 1987).From the Freud Museum
Françoise Dolto , November 6, 1908, was a French psychoanalyst
Françoise Dolto , November 6, 1908, was a French psychoanalyst
On the anniversary of *Heinz Hartmann’s* birth, we share one of his most timely reflections — a reminder that the human ego is constantly balancing inner drives, moral ideals, and the realities of the external world.
His words remain strikingly relevant today.
His words remain strikingly relevant today.
November 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
On the anniversary of *Heinz Hartmann’s* birth, we share one of his most timely reflections — a reminder that the human ego is constantly balancing inner drives, moral ideals, and the realities of the external world.
His words remain strikingly relevant today.
His words remain strikingly relevant today.
New on Off the Couch!
Episode 192: “A Memoir of Transformation: A Patient Examines Two Analyses at Two Stages of Life”with Joan K. Peters, PhD.
What happens when we revisit our inner world, twice, across a lifetime?
🎙️ Listen here: buff.ly/nXeOxQM
Episode 192: “A Memoir of Transformation: A Patient Examines Two Analyses at Two Stages of Life”with Joan K. Peters, PhD.
What happens when we revisit our inner world, twice, across a lifetime?
🎙️ Listen here: buff.ly/nXeOxQM
Episode 192: A Memoir of Transformation: a patient examines two analyses at two stages of life with Joan Peters, PhD (Ojai, California)
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
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November 4, 2025 at 12:55 PM
New on Off the Couch!
Episode 192: “A Memoir of Transformation: A Patient Examines Two Analyses at Two Stages of Life”with Joan K. Peters, PhD.
What happens when we revisit our inner world, twice, across a lifetime?
🎙️ Listen here: buff.ly/nXeOxQM
Episode 192: “A Memoir of Transformation: A Patient Examines Two Analyses at Two Stages of Life”with Joan K. Peters, PhD.
What happens when we revisit our inner world, twice, across a lifetime?
🎙️ Listen here: buff.ly/nXeOxQM
“Women like Ida Bauer/Dora and Bertha Pappenheim/Anna O. provided foundational narratives through which Freud constructed his theory and practice.”
From: Friedman, K. (2025) Tell Me About Your Mother: Ashkenazi Jewish Women’s Embodiment, the Pursuit of Whiteness, and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
From: Friedman, K. (2025) Tell Me About Your Mother: Ashkenazi Jewish Women’s Embodiment, the Pursuit of Whiteness, and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
November 1, 2025 at 3:03 PM
“Women like Ida Bauer/Dora and Bertha Pappenheim/Anna O. provided foundational narratives through which Freud constructed his theory and practice.”
From: Friedman, K. (2025) Tell Me About Your Mother: Ashkenazi Jewish Women’s Embodiment, the Pursuit of Whiteness, and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
From: Friedman, K. (2025) Tell Me About Your Mother: Ashkenazi Jewish Women’s Embodiment, the Pursuit of Whiteness, and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
“I am bringing nothing but some candy for the children and some tiny trifles for the rest of you.”
In a letter from Sigmund Freud to Martha Bernays, December 18, 1885.
#candy #trick #treat #children #halloween #psychoanalysis
In a letter from Sigmund Freud to Martha Bernays, December 18, 1885.
#candy #trick #treat #children #halloween #psychoanalysis
October 31, 2025 at 2:07 PM
“I am bringing nothing but some candy for the children and some tiny trifles for the rest of you.”
In a letter from Sigmund Freud to Martha Bernays, December 18, 1885.
#candy #trick #treat #children #halloween #psychoanalysis
In a letter from Sigmund Freud to Martha Bernays, December 18, 1885.
#candy #trick #treat #children #halloween #psychoanalysis
🗓️ Dec 19, 2025 | 16:00 London / 11:00 ET
Join Ann D’Ercole, PhD for the next IPA Journal Club!
Topic: “The Lost Story of Clara Thompson. Love, “the kiss” and repair.”
🎓 Free registration: www.ipa.world/IPA/Dev/Even...
#IPAJournalClub #Psychoanalysis
Join Ann D’Ercole, PhD for the next IPA Journal Club!
Topic: “The Lost Story of Clara Thompson. Love, “the kiss” and repair.”
🎓 Free registration: www.ipa.world/IPA/Dev/Even...
#IPAJournalClub #Psychoanalysis
October 29, 2025 at 10:33 AM
🗓️ Dec 19, 2025 | 16:00 London / 11:00 ET
Join Ann D’Ercole, PhD for the next IPA Journal Club!
Topic: “The Lost Story of Clara Thompson. Love, “the kiss” and repair.”
🎓 Free registration: www.ipa.world/IPA/Dev/Even...
#IPAJournalClub #Psychoanalysis
Join Ann D’Ercole, PhD for the next IPA Journal Club!
Topic: “The Lost Story of Clara Thompson. Love, “the kiss” and repair.”
🎓 Free registration: www.ipa.world/IPA/Dev/Even...
#IPAJournalClub #Psychoanalysis
On the 27th October 1924, Sigmund Freud appeared on the cover of Time magazine for the first time. #Freud #Time #Psychoanalysis
October 28, 2025 at 10:45 PM
On the 27th October 1924, Sigmund Freud appeared on the cover of Time magazine for the first time. #Freud #Time #Psychoanalysis
🎧 New Podcast: Psychotherapeutic Aphorisms: Reflections from a Lifetime of Listening.
Dr. David Joseph, MD reflects on 50+ years of listening, lying (honestly), and never retiring his psychoanalytic mind. Symbolic symptoms, unlikable patients, and the art of dynamic therapy.
➡️ www.ipa.world
Dr. David Joseph, MD reflects on 50+ years of listening, lying (honestly), and never retiring his psychoanalytic mind. Symbolic symptoms, unlikable patients, and the art of dynamic therapy.
➡️ www.ipa.world
Episode 191: Psychotherapeutic Aphorisms: Reflections from a Lifetime of Listening with David Joseph, MD (Washington DC)
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
ipaoffthecouch.org
October 21, 2025 at 1:49 PM
🎧 New Podcast: Psychotherapeutic Aphorisms: Reflections from a Lifetime of Listening.
Dr. David Joseph, MD reflects on 50+ years of listening, lying (honestly), and never retiring his psychoanalytic mind. Symbolic symptoms, unlikable patients, and the art of dynamic therapy.
➡️ www.ipa.world
Dr. David Joseph, MD reflects on 50+ years of listening, lying (honestly), and never retiring his psychoanalytic mind. Symbolic symptoms, unlikable patients, and the art of dynamic therapy.
➡️ www.ipa.world
“At that time he had been in a melancholia which made him unable to enjoy anything and obliged him to reject the most attractive offers.”
Sigmund Freud, A Seventeenth-Century Demonological Neurosis
Sigmund Freud, A Seventeenth-Century Demonological Neurosis
October 18, 2025 at 3:04 PM
“At that time he had been in a melancholia which made him unable to enjoy anything and obliged him to reject the most attractive offers.”
Sigmund Freud, A Seventeenth-Century Demonological Neurosis
Sigmund Freud, A Seventeenth-Century Demonological Neurosis
📘 New in the IPA Book Series
For the first time in English: Pierre Fédida’s radical essays on the body, aesthetics & psychoanalytic practice.
💸 IPA members get 30% discount.
🔗https://www.ipa.world
#IPABookSeries #Psychoanalysis #Fédida
For the first time in English: Pierre Fédida’s radical essays on the body, aesthetics & psychoanalytic practice.
💸 IPA members get 30% discount.
🔗https://www.ipa.world
#IPABookSeries #Psychoanalysis #Fédida
Psychopathologies of the Living: Selected Essays of Pierre Fédida
Psychopathologies of the Living makes the work of the French psychoanalyst Pierre Fédida (1934–2002) available in English for the first time. Patrick ffrench and Nigel Saint present key essays…
www.routledge.com
October 17, 2025 at 2:03 PM
📘 New in the IPA Book Series
For the first time in English: Pierre Fédida’s radical essays on the body, aesthetics & psychoanalytic practice.
💸 IPA members get 30% discount.
🔗https://www.ipa.world
#IPABookSeries #Psychoanalysis #Fédida
For the first time in English: Pierre Fédida’s radical essays on the body, aesthetics & psychoanalytic practice.
💸 IPA members get 30% discount.
🔗https://www.ipa.world
#IPABookSeries #Psychoanalysis #Fédida
📘 New in the IPA Book Series
For the first time in English: Pierre Fédida’s radical essays on the body, aesthetics & psychoanalytic practice.
💸 IPA members get 30% discount.
🔗https://www.routledge.com/Psychopathologies-of-the-Living-Selected-Essays-of-Pierre-Fedida/ffrench-Saint/p/book/9781032637587
For the first time in English: Pierre Fédida’s radical essays on the body, aesthetics & psychoanalytic practice.
💸 IPA members get 30% discount.
🔗https://www.routledge.com/Psychopathologies-of-the-Living-Selected-Essays-of-Pierre-Fedida/ffrench-Saint/p/book/9781032637587
Psychopathologies of the Living: Selected Essays of Pierre Fédida
Psychopathologies of the Living makes the work of the French psychoanalyst Pierre Fédida (1934–2002) available in English for the first time. Patrick ffrench and Nigel Saint present key essays…
www.routledge.com
October 17, 2025 at 1:51 PM
📘 New in the IPA Book Series
For the first time in English: Pierre Fédida’s radical essays on the body, aesthetics & psychoanalytic practice.
💸 IPA members get 30% discount.
🔗https://www.routledge.com/Psychopathologies-of-the-Living-Selected-Essays-of-Pierre-Fedida/ffrench-Saint/p/book/9781032637587
For the first time in English: Pierre Fédida’s radical essays on the body, aesthetics & psychoanalytic practice.
💸 IPA members get 30% discount.
🔗https://www.routledge.com/Psychopathologies-of-the-Living-Selected-Essays-of-Pierre-Fedida/ffrench-Saint/p/book/9781032637587
Talks on Psychoanalysis: The Mystery, Again with Mariano Horenstein
How do we hear the language of sexuality today? From hysteria to the trans clinic, this episode explores shifts in psychoanalysis.
🎙️ Listen here → talksonpsychoanalysis.podbean.com/e/the-myster...
#Psychoanalysis #Sexuality
How do we hear the language of sexuality today? From hysteria to the trans clinic, this episode explores shifts in psychoanalysis.
🎙️ Listen here → talksonpsychoanalysis.podbean.com/e/the-myster...
#Psychoanalysis #Sexuality
October 14, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Talks on Psychoanalysis: The Mystery, Again with Mariano Horenstein
How do we hear the language of sexuality today? From hysteria to the trans clinic, this episode explores shifts in psychoanalysis.
🎙️ Listen here → talksonpsychoanalysis.podbean.com/e/the-myster...
#Psychoanalysis #Sexuality
How do we hear the language of sexuality today? From hysteria to the trans clinic, this episode explores shifts in psychoanalysis.
🎙️ Listen here → talksonpsychoanalysis.podbean.com/e/the-myster...
#Psychoanalysis #Sexuality
“The neurotic symptom represents a sort of solution of an insoluble problem…”
A A Brill, from his presentation at the American Psychoanalytic Association, 1928
Brill was born this day, 12 October 1874
Early translator of the works of Sigmund Freud
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A A Brill, from his presentation at the American Psychoanalytic Association, 1928
Brill was born this day, 12 October 1874
Early translator of the works of Sigmund Freud
share.google/fY3ILRYEyVVt...
October 12, 2025 at 1:03 PM
“The neurotic symptom represents a sort of solution of an insoluble problem…”
A A Brill, from his presentation at the American Psychoanalytic Association, 1928
Brill was born this day, 12 October 1874
Early translator of the works of Sigmund Freud
share.google/fY3ILRYEyVVt...
A A Brill, from his presentation at the American Psychoanalytic Association, 1928
Brill was born this day, 12 October 1874
Early translator of the works of Sigmund Freud
share.google/fY3ILRYEyVVt...
October 9, 2025 at 10:04 PM
"Through it I wanted to bring myself closer to the higher sources of life. I should have prepared myself for this over a long period by invoking in my omission a higher, impersonal self, since "nectar" is not for mortal lips"
Ronald David Laing was born October 7, in Glasgow.
Ronald David Laing was born October 7, in Glasgow.
October 7, 2025 at 1:04 PM
"Through it I wanted to bring myself closer to the higher sources of life. I should have prepared myself for this over a long period by invoking in my omission a higher, impersonal self, since "nectar" is not for mortal lips"
Ronald David Laing was born October 7, in Glasgow.
Ronald David Laing was born October 7, in Glasgow.
An Analyst’s Reflections on Her Treatments and Her Life with Beverly Kolsky, MSW (Tupper Lake, New York)
A new podcast episode - 190- from Harvey Schwartz produced for the IPA buff.ly/icfDI3s
A new podcast episode - 190- from Harvey Schwartz produced for the IPA buff.ly/icfDI3s
October 6, 2025 at 1:05 PM
An Analyst’s Reflections on Her Treatments and Her Life with Beverly Kolsky, MSW (Tupper Lake, New York)
A new podcast episode - 190- from Harvey Schwartz produced for the IPA buff.ly/icfDI3s
A new podcast episode - 190- from Harvey Schwartz produced for the IPA buff.ly/icfDI3s