38th EPF Annual Conference 2025 - Freedom, Freiheit, Liberté - EPF 38th Annual Conference „Identifications“ / EPF 38ème conférence annuelle "Identifications" / EPF 38. Jahreskonferenz "Identifikationen"

38^th EPF Annual Conference
Dresden (Germany)

2^nd until 3^rd April 2025 | Pre-Conference

4^th until 6^th April 2025 | Main Conference

Freedom

Freiheit

Liberté

A Warm invitation and welcome from the Dresden (Germany) local committee

‘Early bird‘ discount registrations before 31^st January 2025

Submissions should be received not later than November 30th 2024.

You will receive the outcome of your submission at the beginning of January 2025.

Venue

and Welcome Reception (03/04/2025)

ICD – Internationales Congress Center Dresden
Devrientstrasse 10-12 / Ostra-Ufer 2
01067 Dresden, Germany

Hotels / room blocks

We have negotiated conditions and set up room blocks for you. Please book your stay directly under the keyword or booking link, within the overview above. All special agreements expire on the date specified and are subject to request and availability!

Arrival

by Plane
Dresden Airport (DRS)
by Car
A4 motorway (Dresden-Neustadt exit) or via the B171 federal road
(Dresden-Südvorstadt exit)
by Deutsche Bahn AG
Dresden is an important hub in the long-distance transport network of Deutsche Bahn AG. There are connections to many major German cities several times a day, usually every 2 hours.
The ICE, EC and IC trains stop at both Dresden Central Station and
Dresden-Neustadt station. International destinations such as Wroclaw, Prague, Liberec, Bratislava, Budapest and Vienna can be reached directly.
You can also reach cities such as Basel, Zurich, Copenhagen and Amsterdam via night train connections with the City Night Line without changing trains
Deutsche Bahn journey planner
Tram line 11
Stop „Dresden-Kongresszentrum/Haus der Presse“

Parking

Underground parking for 390 vehicles
(height: Hotel 1.90 m, Congress Center 2.1 m)
Parking prices

About Dresden

Picture of The local organising committee recommends

The local organising committee recommends

an overview of interesting cultural locations in and around Dresden. Click on the circle to download the PDF (156 kb).

https://www.dresden.de/en/city/mayor.php

For your general information please visit the official tourism website of Dresden: https://www.dresden.de/de/tourismus/tourismus.html.php

At a glance
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Main-Conference

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Pre-Conference

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Wednesday, 2^nd April 2025

09:00–16:00

International New Groups (ING) Committee Meeting

This is an exclusive meeting.

Organisers‘ Office n° 15

Floor 1

09:00–16:00

EPF Council Meeting

This is an exclusive meeting.

External **

16:00–20:00

Clinical Observation 3-LM Group (French) *

Reporter: Luisa Pérez-Suquilvide (Uruguayan Psychoanalytical Association)
Moderators/Chairs: Bruno Salésio da Silva Francisco (Canadian Psychoanalytic Society);
Margret-Ann Fitzpatrick-Hanly (Canadian Psychoanalytic Society)

Conference 8

Level 4

09:00–17:00

Psychoanalytic Education Committee (PEC) IPA: Meeting of Societies on Education

This is an internal meeting.

Seminar 3

Level 2

09:00–18:00

International New Groups (ING) Committee Meeting*

Presented in English.

Conference 5

Level 4

14:00–15:00

Local Committee Meeting

This is an internal meeting.

Seminar 7

Level 2

14:00–17:00

IPSO Workshop on „Haydée Faimberg’s ‚Listening to Listening‘ Discussion Method“ *

Chair: Dieter K. Bürgin (Swiss Society of Psychoanalysis)

For IPSO members only.

Presented in English.

Seminar 6

Level 2

14:00–18:00

COWAP Workshop „Woman and Freedom“

Patricia Alkolombre (Argentine Psychoanalytic Association)
Emanuela Quagliata (Italian Psychoanalytical Society)

Conference 4

Level 4

15:00–18:00

Forum on Psychoanalysis of Children – Internal Meeting

Chair: Jean-Louis Fouassier (French Psychoanalytical Association)

This is an exclusive meeting.

Organisers‘ Office n° 12

Floor 1

15:00–19:00

IPSO Workshop on „The Specificity of Psychoanalytic Treatment Today“ – Group 1 *

Moderators: to be announced

For IPSO members only.

Presented in English.

Seminar 4

Level 2

15:00–19:00

IPSO Workshop on „The Specificity of Psychoanalytic Treatment Today“ – Group 2 *

Moderators: to be announced

For IPSO members only.

Presented in English.

Seminar 5

Level 2

15:30–19:00

Forum „The Specificity of Psychoanalytic Treatment Today“ – Group 1 (English – Members/Candidates) *

Moderators: to be announced

Seminar 1

Level 2

15:30–19:00

Forum „The Specificity of Psychoanalytic Treatment Today“ – Group 2 (French – Members/Candidates) *

Moderators: to be announced

Seminar 2

Level 2

16:00–18:00

Forum on Exploring Training Process and Practice (ETPP) *

Chair: Ann-Mari Rytöhonka (Finnish Psychoanalytical Society)

Conference 1 +2

Level 4

16:00–20:00

Clinical Observation 3-LM Group (English) *

Moderators: to be announced

Conference 7

Level 4

16:30–18:00

Programme Committee Meeting

This is an internal meeting.

Conference 7

Level 4

16:30–17:30

Central Coffee Break

The EPF will offer a selection of hot and cold beverages as well as snacks.

Terrace

Level 3

17:15–19:30

Forum „Working with Haydée Faimberg‘s ‚Listening to Listening‘ Method“ – Group 1 (French) *

Chair: Dieter K. Bürgin (Swiss Society of Psychoanalysis)

Seminar 6

Level 2

Thursday, 3^rd April 2025

* Pre-registration is essential for participation in these groups

** Steigenberger Hotel de Saxe, Neumarkt 9, 01067 Dresden

Main Conference

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Friday, 4^th April 2025

08:45 – 09:30

Opening the Conference

Jan Abram (EPF President/BPAS)
Udo Hock (EPF Vice President/DPV)
Eckehard Pioch (DPG President)
Thomas Beier (DPV)

Presentations will be simultaneously translated/interpreted.

Grand Auditorium

Floor 1

09:30 – 11:00

FIRST PLENARY ON THE MAIN THEME: „Les égarements de la liberté“

Presenter: Laurence Kahn (APF)
Discussant: Michael Parson (BPaS/APF)
Chair: Eckehard Pioch (DPG)

Presentations will be simultaneously translated/interpreted.

Grand Auditorium

Floor 1

11:00 – 13:30

Meet the Societies

Thomas Beier (DPV)
Eckehard Pioch (DPG)

Seminar 5

Floor 2

11:00 – 11:30

Central Coffee Break

The EPF will offer a selection of hot and cold beverages as well as snacks.

Terasse

Floor 3

11:30 – 13:00

IPSO Opening

Erika Lepiavka (IPSO President), Jan Abram (EPF President/BPAS), Udo Hock (EPF Vice President/DPV), Nergis Güleç (EPF General Secretary), Harriet Wolfe (IPA President), Adriana Prengler (IPA Vice President), Adela Escardo (IPA Treasurer), Johanna Velt (IPSO Vice-President for Europe), Paola Solano (IPSO Vice-President Elect Europe), Dorothee von Tippelskirch-Eissing (DPV Vice President), Eckehard Pioch (DPG President), Selina Seitz;Florian Bossert (IPSO German representatives)

European Paper Award

Winner: Ritika Arora

Runner-up: Jessieca Kronholm

Chair: Valerie Curen (IPSO Editor)

Presented in English.

Saal 4

Floor 1

11:30 – 13:00

Post Plenary Discussion Group

Laurence Kahn (APF)
Michael Parsons (BPS/APF)
Moderator: Stefano Bolognini (SPI)
Moderator: Daniela Luca (SRDP)

Presented in English.

Konfernez 5

Floor 4

11:30 – 13:00

PARALLEL PANEL ON THE MAIN THEME: „Psychoanalytic Archives and Freedom“

Christine Diercks (VPS)
Ewan O’Neill (RMARA)
Christine English (BPS)
Chair: Jasminka Šuljagić (PSS)

Presented in English.

Seminar 1

Floor 2

11:30 – 13:00

PARALLEL PANEL ON THE MAIN THEME: „Freedom and its Discontents“

August Ruhs (WAP/VPA)
Discussant: Bent Rosenbaum (DPS)
Chair: Eija Repo (FPS)

Presentations will be simultaneously translated/interpreted.

Grand Auditorium

Floor 1

11:30 – 13:00

PARALLEL PANEL ON THE MAIN THEME: „TheBLAUE: Portrait of a journal The editors from three German-speaking countries present the
Journal for Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice (ZpTP)“

Martina Feurer (DPV)
Erika Kittler (DPV)
Sabine Schlüter (VPA)
Andreas Mittermayr (WPV/VPS)
Harro de Groot (SGPsa)

Presented in English.

Konferenz 1

Floor 4

11:30 – 13:00

PARALLEL PANEL ON THE MAIN THEME: „Adolescence and transition: creative freedom or defensive organization?“

Presenters: Laura Accetti (Italian Psychoanalytical Society);
Discussant: Didier Houzel (French Psychoanalytical Assosiation)
Chair: Marta Mirabella (Istituto Winnicott)

Presented in English.

Konferenz 2

Floor 4

11:30 – 13:00

PARALLEL PANEL ON THE MAIN THEME: „Freedom and Boundaries in Psychoanalytical Institutions“

Milagros Cid Sanz (APM)
Discussant: Bernard Chervet (SPP)
Chair: Yesim Korkut (PSIKE)

Presented in English.

Konferenz 3

Floor 4

11:30 – 13:00

PARALLEL PANEL ON THE MAIN THEME: „German entanglements and their reactivation in old age“

Martin Teising (DPV)
Thomas Beier (DPV)
Chair: Denis Flynn (BPS)

Presented in English.

Konferenz 4

Floor 4

11:30 – 13:00

PARALLEL PANEL ON THE MAIN THEME: „Freedom and the development of Psychoanalysis in Eastern Europe“

Dimo Stantchev (BPS)
Discussant: Igor Kadyrov (MPS)
Chair: Paolo Fonda (SPI)

Presented in English.

Konferenz 6

Floor 4

11:30 – 13:00

PARALLEL PANEL ON THE MAIN THEME: „Stuck in the beats of repetition?: A Journey through Günter Grass´s ´The Tin Drum“

„Good Friday Food and Fizz Powder: The birth of memory from the artisitc gift of fantasizing.“

Nadja Troeger (SPP)
Johannes Döser (DPV)
Discussant: Pinar Limnili Özeren (PSIKE)
Chair: Rotraut De Clerck (DPV)

Presented in English.

Konferenz 7

Floor 4

15:00 – 16:30

PARALLEL PANEL ON THE MAIN THEME: „Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.”(Kris Kristofferson)

Aydan Özdaglar (DPV)
Discussant: Virgina de Micco (SPI)
Chair: Geneviève Welsh (SPP)

Presented in English.

Konferenz 1

Floor 4

15:00 – 16:30

PARALLEL PANEL ON THE MAIN THEME: “Is psychoanalysis still “emancipating” in wartime and/or severe traumatic circumstances?”

Igor Romanov (UPS)
Discussant: Eike Hinze (DPV)
Chair: Christine English (BPAS)

Presentations will be simultaneously translated/interpreted.

Grand Auditorium

Floor 1

15:00 – 16:30

PARALLEL PANEL ON THE MAIN THEME: „Libertà va cercando, ch’è sì cara…“

Alberto Luchetti (SPI)
Discussant: Brigitte Eoch-Duval (APF)
Chair: Pascale Michon-Raffaitin (APF)

Presented in English.

Konferenz 2

Floor 4

15:00 – 16:30

PARALLEL PANEL ON THE MAIN THEME: „Parent-Infant-Psychotherapy: A liberating method for postpartum depression of the mother with her baby“

Angela Köhler-Weisker (DPV)
Chair: Thomas Jung (VPA)

Presented in English.

Konferenz 3

Floor 4

15:00 – 16:30

PARALLEL PANEL ON THE MAIN THEME: „Freedom and Authority in Psychoanalytic Education in our Times“

Angelika Staehle (DPV)
Benedetta Guerrini (SPI)
Valentino Ferro (SPI)
Bettina Berdal (NPS)
Kristin Fjelnseth Wold (NPA)
Torsten Siol (DPV)

Presented in English.

Konferenz 4

Floor 4

15:00 – 16:30

PARALLEL PANEL ON THE MAIN THEME: „WINGS of FREEDOM The transformational process from an encapsulated biological soma to a libidinal body − a psychosomatic approach“

Denny Panitz (HPS)
Jonathan Sklar (BPS)
Diana Tabacof (SPP)

Wolfgang Lassmann (WPV)

Presented in English.

Konferenz 5

Floor 4

15:00 – 16:30

PARALLEL PANEL ON THE MAIN THEME: „How to get free from the threatening ghosts of the past? From the Analysis of a Five-Year-Old Foster Child“

Alfred Walter (DPG)
Majlis Winberg Salomonsson (SPA)

Presentations in English.

Konferenz 6

Floor 4

15:00 – 16:30

PARALLEL PANEL ON THE MAIN THEME: „Psychoanalysis, a road to freedom. The analysis of a case of intergenerational transmission of trauma from a Japanese internment camp in Indonesia during World War II, 1942-1945“

Alexander Maria Janssen (DPS)
Discussant: Dorothee von Tippelskirch-Eissing (DPV)
Chair: Anna Kravtsova (UPS)

Presentations in English.

Konferenz 7

Floor 4

17:00 – 18:30

Individual Paper Presentation

Room allocations shown below

16:30 – 17:00

Central Coffee Break

The EPF will offer a selection of hot and cold beverages as well as snacks.

Terasse

Floor 3

17:00 – 18:30

“Between Liberty and Coercion: Large Group Contraints on Individual Freedom”

Moderators: Shmuel Erlich (IPS)
Mira Erlich-Ginor (IPS)
Dorothee von Tippelskirch-Eissing (DPV)

Presented in English.

Konferenz 6

Floor 4

17:00 – 20:00

Film Presentation

“Fake Freedom or The Art of Lying: The Film Riefenstahl” by Andres Veiel.

The film presentation will follow a discussion with the film director Andres Veiel:“Organised by Anne Patterson, Davide Rosso, Gilbert Beronneau and Roland Havas“

Presented in English.

Grand Auditorium

Floor 1

Saturday, 5^th April 2025

Sunday, 6^th April 2025

* Pre-registration is essential for participation in these groups

Individual Paper Presentations

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Friday, 4^th April 2025, 17:00-18:30

The Theme of Freedom in Bizet’s Carmen

Presenter: Jerome Blackman (American Psychoanalytic Assosiation)

Presented and discussed in English

Seminar 1

Level 2

Psychoanalytic Publication and the Freedom of Disguise

Presenter: Victori Barker (British Psychoanalytic Society)
Chair: Maia Kirchkheli (British Psychoanalytical Society)

Presented and discussed in English

Seminar 3

Level 2

«Parlez librement ou vous perdrez votre liberté !» Le paradoxe de l’obligation de soin comme un des gradients de contrainte dans cure

Presenter: Piotr Krzakowski (Paris Psychoanalytical Society)

Chair: Valérie Burnet (Swiss Society of Psychoanalysis)

Presented and discussed in French

Conference 1

Level 4

Psychic Freedom and Symbolization: The Impact of Early Maternal Omnipotence on Analytical Treatment

Presenter: Nino Sesiashvili
Chair: Paola Somaini (British Psychoanalytic Society)

Presented and discussed in English

Conference 2

Level 4

In-between. From a Fossil to the Statue of Liberty. On the parallel processes of reclaiming freedom within patient and analyst

Presenter: Anna Gasiorowska-Krawczyk (Polish Psychoanalytical Society)
Chair: Angelika Staehle (German Psychoanalytical Association)

Presented and discussed in English

Conference 3

Level 4

Freedom and trauma in late adolescence gender transition

Presenters: Jorge Camara (Portuguese Psychoanalytical Society)

Presented and discussed in English

Conference 4

Level 4

Freedom from the Self

Presenter: Alice Marble (Norwegian Psychoanalytic Society)

Presented and discussed in French

Conference 5

Level 4

Freedom in the dissociative process

Presenter: Guiseppe Riefolo (Italian Psychoanalytical Society)

Presented and discussed in English

Conference 7

Level 4

Saturday, 5^th April 2025, 17:00-18:30

Equipment Rooms Parallel Panels and Individual Paper

The room for your Parallel Panel Presentation and Individual Paper Presentation will be equipped with the standard Setup:
TV Monitor or Screen, with Projector and depending on room size, microphones
If you would like to share your paper or .pptx., please bring your own Laptop
If you need special connectors, please do not forget to bring them!

Overview conference centre: https://www.maritim.com/en/meetings-celebrations/germany/hotel-internationales-congress-center-dresden/meetings-celebrations

Your access to the pre-published conference papers on the EPF website

If you are a previously registered user of the EPF website, it is advisable to verify that you are using the correct username and password at https://www.epf-fep.eu/en/login This will help you avoid any login issues before and during the conference.

If you are not a previously registered user of the EPF website, please register on the EPF website well before the conference at https://www.epf-fep.eu/en/registration

Attendance fees - Registration starts on 2nd September 2024

435,00 €*

545,00 €

Member of an EPF-Society / IPA member

110,00 €

Member or Candidate of one of the following Societies / Study Groups

PSIKE Istanbul, IPD (Istanbul Psychoanalytical Association), ALDeP (Lebanese Association for the Development of Psychoanalysis)

525,00 €*

635,00 €

Guest

No participation in the clinical workshops and sponsored by the president or officer of an EPF member society

205,00 €*

310,00 €

Candidate

Registered in IPA component societies and endorsed by the president or officer of an EPF member society

60,00 €

EPI member / EPI candidate

European Psychoanalytic Institute

60,00 €

Student

*Early bird‘ discount, registrations before 31st January 2025

Participation fees subject to change.

General terms of registration

Contact and further information

Organiser and responsible for the programme

European Psychoanalytical Federation
Rue Gérard
351040 Etterbeek
Belgium

PCO – Professional Conference Organiser

Support of the Organiser, Attendee management and Contact

CSi Hamburg GmbH
Goernestraße 30
20249 Hamburg
Germany