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Bion in Marrakech Conference 2019

Inspired by the work of Wilfred Bion, the Bion in Marrakech 2019 conference (22nd – 24th February 2019) will bring together French- and English-speaking analysts from different countries, creating a space to think across the borders of theoretical traditions, psychoanalytic societies and geographical areas. As with the past Bion in Marrakech conferences, it will be an opportunity to develop and discuss diverse ideas united by an engagement with Bion’s pioneering work.


2018 Poetry and Psychoanalysis Competition

We are delighted to announce the winners of our poetry and psychoanalysis competition, in collaboration with Under the Radar Magazine. The following winners were announced on Saturday 30 June 2018 at our conference Poetry and Psychoanalysis: Writing Shame, which was supported by the Forward Arts Foundation:

IOPA 'Special Prize' Winner (for mental health workers)

Cones – Louisa Campbell

Commended (in no particular order)


Ernest Jones Lecture 2018

Ernest Jones Lecture 2018

The 2018 Ernest Jones Lecture “Shell Shock: A Very British Practice” was delivered in style by Professor Sir Simon Wessely at UCL on 25th April. He gave an erudite but also highly entertaining account, rooted in the atmosphere and mores of World War 1. 


The First Annual Psychoanalysis & Poetry Competition

The first annual Psychoanalysis & Poetry competition was judged by poet and psychoanalyst Beatrice Garland. After a first degree in English Literature, she worked as a National Health Service clinician, teacher and researcher in psychological medicine at both the Tavistock Clinic and the Maudsley Hospital. She has won both the National Poetry Competition and the Strokestown International Poetry Prize, and was short-listed for the inaugural Picador Poetry Prize.


IoPA Poetry Conference 2017: Poetry and Psychoanalysis: Creative Borders and Boundaries

This coming weekend (9th-10th June 2017), the Institute of Psychoanalysis will be hosting a conference on poetry and psychoanalysis, focusing on ‘Creative Borders and Boundaries’. On Friday evening and throughout Saturday there will be poetry readings, lectures and discussions, with poets, academics and analysts exploring ideas around creativity, politics and consciousness across the separate, yet often complementary, worlds of poetry and psychoanalysis.

Co-organiser Susanne Lansman has talked about the motivations behind the event:


Psychoanalysis can help us make sense of Brexit. An article by David Morgan

The migrant threatens us where it hurts: in the unconscious fear that there is not enough to go round, writes David Morgan

“It is always possible to bind a number of people in love as long as there are others left over to receive the manifestations of their aggressiveness – the outsider may be different in only minor ways, but this will suffice.”

— Freud, Civilisation and Its Discontents
 


Wilfred Bion

Bion in Marrakech … 3rd Meeting – taking place in Marseille, February 16-19, 2017

In New York (1977) Bion suggested the writing of a book to be called “The Interpretation of Facts” in which ‘facts’ would be translated into dream language, in order to get ‘a two-way traffic’ going with the “Interpretation of Dreams” (in which dreams are translated into facts).


Sally Weintrobe

Disavowal: Sally Weintrobe and the Psychoanalysis of Climate Change Denial

What can psychoanalytic ideas bring to the discussion on climate change?

We spoke to Sally Weintrobe, a psychoanalyst and editor of Engaging with Climate Change, in which psychoanalytic ideas are used to help understand why we are in denial about climate change and the earth's future.


Casswell Bank Architects announced as winners to remodel Institute headquarters

We are delighted to announce that we will be working with Casswell Bank Architects on the remodelling of our headquarters, Byron House.

The first phase of work will commence in the Summer this year, and will involve the refurbishment of our child and adolescent consulting rooms and improved provision for our extensive archive.

The second phase will take place in the Summer of 2017, when substantial improvements will be made to our main lecture room, the Sigmund Freud Room.


"Therapy Wars": Nick Temple responds to Oliver Burkeman's piece in The Guardian

On January 7, The Guardian published an article by Oliver Burkeman"Therapy wars: the revenge of Freud", discussing the many differences between psychoanalysis and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.