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23/09/2025

✨ We’re delighted to announce that Issue 4 of Volume 106 of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis is now available online!

This issue spans Psychoanalytic Theory and Technique, Child and Adolescence, Psychoanalysis in the Community, Interdisciplinary Studies, Film, and Obituaries, alongside Letters and Book Reviews. Contributions address endings and enactments in treatment, the psychic consequences of racial trauma, structural stability in adolescence, therapeutic work in prisons, and pandemic anxieties in group settings. The issue also explores intersections of psychoanalysis with literature, myth, and film, while honoring the legacy of influential figures in the field.

Featuring contributions from: Jill Salberg, Leandro Jofré, Maria Inês Neuenschwander Escosteguy Carneiro, Didier Houzel, Dionne R. Powell, Elise Pelladeau, Alexandre Cedano, Olivier Taieb, Jeanne Defontaine, Catherine Le Du, Mohammad Mouma, Thierry Baubet, John Steiner, Francisco Pizarro Obaid, Rodrigo De la Fabián, Jan Borowicz, Nathan Kravis, Steven Cooper, Rosemary H. Balsam, Oren Gozlan, Roberto D’Angelo, Michael Parsons, Shmuel Erlich, Donald Moss, Sharon Numa, and Miguel Leivi.

Explore the full issue at pep-web.org and learn more about the Journal and subscription options at theijp.org.

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16/09/2025

🎂 Happy 140th Birthday to Karen Horney, born on this day in 1885!

Karen Horney (1885-1952) was a German-born psychoanalyst often considered as a neo-Freudian member of the cultural school. Trained in medicine in Freiburg and Berlin before emigrating to the United States in 1932, she became a leading critic of Freud’s views on female psychology, rejecting the idea of p***s envy and instead emphasizing the role of culture, society, and relationships in shaping psychic life. Horney’s early essays, however, were largely ignored until they were collected and published as Feminine Psychology in 1967.

Her clinical and theoretical contributions centered on defenses, inner conflict, and the struggle to overcome pride, neurotic claims, and “tyrannical shoulds.” In The Neurotic Personality of Our Time (1937) and New Ways in Psychoanalysis (1939), she described how individuals develop defensive strategies to cope with feelings of “basic anxiety” and helplessness, outlining the patterns of moving toward, against, or away from others. She placed particular emphasis on the child’s need for safety and love, and on how cultural and social forces, rather than biological determinism, contribute to psychological suffering.

Beyond her theoretical work, Horney was an influential teacher, clinician, and organizer, helping to establish the Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis and later the American Institute for Psychoanalysis. Her writings and independent stance paved the way for later developments in feminist theory, the interpersonal school, and relational psychoanalysis.

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14/09/2025

We are living in violent times, and this conference brings together psychoanalytic reflections on trauma, ethics, childhood, myth, and poetic form to explore how external and internal violence enters the world and the consulting room, how it can take the forms of grievance, revenge, disintegration, or defence, and how it can be contained, transformed, or sublimated.

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13/09/2025

The IJP Annual Online Conference 2026 will feature four leading psychoanalysts presenting on diverse aspects of violence. Join John Steiner, Giuseppe Civitarese, Cecilia Taiana, and Joshua Durban as they explore violence in its many forms, chaired by IJP's Editor-in-Chief Francis Grier on 10 January 2026!

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12/09/2025

Join us for the **IJP Annual Online Conference 2026** on Saturday 10 January 2026. Register via the IOPA to secure your spot now: https://buff.ly/ngPNu2e

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08/09/2025

🎂 Happy 128th Birthday to Wilfred Bion, born on this day in 1897!

Wilfred Ruprecht Bion (1897–1979) was a British psychoanalyst whose pioneering work reshaped post-Kleinian theory and practice. His early years in colonial India, followed by education in England and military service, left enduring traces in his reflections on group psychology, particularly his formulations of psychotic states and the necessity of containment. As a psychiatrist during the Second World War, his clinical encounters with severely disturbed patients led him to investigate the processes by which raw emotional experience is transformed into thought. These explorations laid the groundwork for his influential theories of thinking, the limits of representation, and the dynamics of emotional reality.

Bion’s landmark contributions include the concepts of container/contained, alpha function, and attacks on linking, which illuminate how the mind transforms raw sensory and emotional experiences into thoughts. He also elaborated on the psychotic process, showing how primitive anxieties and projective identifications can overwhelm thinking and interpersonal understanding. His work on group dynamics, later collected in "Experiences in Groups" (1961), offered crucial insights into how anxieties operate collectively, influencing both institutions and psychoanalytic training.

Beyond the consulting room, Bion engaged with the broader psychoanalytic community through teaching, seminars, and supervision, profoundly shaping the post-Kleinian tradition. His theoretical innovations and clinical insights continue to guide analysts in understanding the interplay between mind, emotion, and experience, leaving an enduring mark on psychoanalytic thought.
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07/09/2025

✨ How do sensory experiences open pathways for connection in analytic work with autistic children? At our Autumn Study Meeting, Luca Quagelli explores this question in dialogue with Maria Rhode and Joshua Durban.

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06/09/2025

📝 Register now to join us online for the Summer IJP Study Meeting with Luca Quagelli
📅 Saturday 11th October
⏰ 2–4pm BST
🎟 Register via Eventbrite or via PaDS at buff.ly/JWcfhf0
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06/09/2025

🎂 Happy 128th Birthday to Wilfred Bion, born on this day in 1897!

Wilfred Ruprecht Bion (1897–1979) was a British psychoanalyst whose pioneering work reshaped post-Kleinian theory and practice. His early years in colonial India, followed by education in England and military service, left enduring traces in his reflections on group psychology, particularly his formulations of psychotic states and the necessity of containment. As a psychiatrist during the Second World War, his clinical encounters with severely disturbed patients led him to investigate the processes by which raw emotional experience is transformed into thought. These explorations laid the groundwork for his influential theories of thinking, the limits of representation, and the dynamics of emotional reality.

Bion’s landmark contributions include the concepts of container/contained, alpha function, and attacks on linking, which illuminate how the mind transforms raw sensory and emotional experiences into thoughts. He also elaborated on the psychotic process, showing how primitive anxieties and projective identifications can overwhelm thinking and interpersonal understanding. His work on group dynamics, later collected in Experiences in Groups (1961), offered crucial insights into how anxieties operate collectively, influencing both institutions and psychoanalytic training.

Beyond the consulting room, Bion engaged with the broader psychoanalytic community through teaching, seminars, and supervision, profoundly shaping the post-Kleinian tradition. His theoretical innovations and clinical insights continue to guide analysts in understanding the interplay between mind, emotion, and experience, leaving an enduring mark on psychoanalytic thought.

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05/09/2025

🗓️ Join us on 11 October 2025 for our Autumn Study Meeting. Luca Quagelli will present Sensory Interweavings and Relational Openings in Clinical Work with Autistic Children, with discussions by Maria Rhode and Joshua Durban.

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03/09/2025

We are concluding our Issue 3 posts with some impressions from the IJP Panel at the 54th IPA Congress: The International Journal – A Psychoanalytic Anchor in Chaotic Times. Francis Grier (Editor-in-Chief) chaired the discussion with Heinz Weiss (Education Section Editor), Elizabeth Allison (Psychoanalytic Controversies Editor), and Abbot Bronstein (Analyst at Work Editor).

The panel reflected on how the IJP anchors the international psychoanalytic community, engaging with cultural change, hosting difficult debates, and exploring diverse clinical practices, while containing the many, sometimes conflicting, strands of psychoanalytic thought.

02/09/2025

Lastly in our keynote highlights from the 54th IPA Congress: 'Tradition and Change in Psychoanalytic Theory: Querying the Infantile' by Stephen Seligman. Seligman reflected on how theory shapes not only clinical choices but also institutional culture and belonging. By questioning established images of infancy, from Freud to Klein to Laplanche, he invited us to rethink the role of infantile sexuality, aggression, and psychic “primitivity.”

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