IPAA Event – Sept 14 2019 – Circumcision – Video Art Presentation by Robin Buick RHA

In Thais, a Cenobite Monk, Atanael, travels to the city of his birth to try to convert Thais, a courtesan and priestess of Venus. He is warned against this course of action by others advising that he will suffer the revenge of Venus. He and Thais have a long and dramatic journey together replete with the conflict between earthly love and the eternal love of god in heaven.

The opera forms the backdrop to a video art presentation which was specially commissioned for our conference.

It is the work of Robin Buick RHA who is an Associate Member of our Group. He is a sculptor, artist and film editor and is currently an officer of the Royal Hibernian Academy.

His film is based around a talk entitled ‘Circumcision, Self-Analysis and Countertransference’ which he was writing for the Monkstown Group. It is based on the work of Carlo Bonomi.

Following the extraordinary interest after its first showing at this year’s IPAA conference, we are hosting a special showing with Q&A from the artist on Sept 14 at the Lexicon theatre Dun Laoghaire.

You can register for the event here.

Carlo is President of the International Sandor Ferenczi Network, a training and supervising analyst at the Societa Italiana di Psicoanalisi e Psicoterapia Sandor Ferenczi based in Florence Italy. Carlo’s major work is a Two Volume exploration of Freud’s work and inner life and his relationship with Sandor Ferenczi.

The Cut and the Building of Psychoanalysis examines Freud’s inner life and influences based on new interpretations of his dreams and his self-analysis. It explores how the trauma associated with the surgery performed on his patient Emma Eckstein influenced him and his construction of his theories of trauma.

Citing what she called ‘Freud’s neglect of the feminine’ Judith Dupont writes that Freud and Ferenczi interpreted these sources differently ‘resulting in a cut between their two conceptions of psychoanalysis which had lasting consequences on the evolution of the psychoanalytic community, its way of thinking and practicing’.

This video art presentation, named ‘Circumcision’ illustrates these conflicts symbolically thought the artist’s attempts to put together his thoughts for his talk and his own analysis. It was recently shared at our 2019 Conference, the Budapest School of Psychoanalysis: Ferenczi, the Balints and Beyond.

Join us for a special showing with Q&A from the artist on Sept 14 at the Lexicon theatre Dun Laoghaire.

We hope you enjoy the experience.

You can register for the event here.

IPAA2019 Final Programme

The IPAA 2019 conference will cover themes of the theory and practice of Ferenczi and the Budapest School including:

  • Innovations in therapeutic approach.
  • Counter-transference in the therapeutic relationship.
  • Regressive States.
  • A therapeutic model for treatment of Adult Survivors of Sexual abuse.
  • Balint Groups and Multi Disciplinary Team approaches in Health Service settings.

Final Programme
09.30 Registration
10.00 Welcome
10.05 President’s Address – A Budapest State of Mind – Fergal Brady
10.45 Dr Marcus Bowman – The Development and Consequences of Freud’s Seduction Theory
11.10 Coffee Break
11.30 Dr Arnold Rachmann – The Evil Genius of Psychoanalysis
13.00 Lunch
14.00 IPAA@The Movies – A special documentary on Ferenczi made as part of the ‘Major Figures of the 20th century series’ – Introduced by Dr Judith Mezaros
15.00 Dr Judit Mezaros – ‘Why Ferenczi Today?
15.20 Coffee & Animated Short: The Confusion of Tongues – Em Cooper (2018 Emmy Nominee).
15.40 Dr Arnold Rachman – ‘The Confusion of Tongues’
16.00 Panel Session – Chair: Ros Forlenza
16.20 Bringing Psychoanalysis To The NHS: The Balint Group – Christine Christie
17.00 Video presentation: Circumcision, Self-analysis and Countertransference by Robin Buick RHA.
17.45 Conference Close

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Healing Your Heart: Learning to Forgive Yourself & Others Two-day workshop – Benig Mauger

In this workshop, we will work with ‘the pain that heals’ with the archetype of the Wounded Healer, with what is wounded within us that still needs to be released, and we will learn how to Heal from Within. No healing can happen from a closed heart. We need to value our vulnerability and in doing so our hearts will open. Compassion is where our heart pain will lead us. Join me for a two-day workshop on Healing Your Heart.

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IPAA Conference 2019 – Lexicon Theatre, Dun Laoghaire – 11th May: The Budapest School of Psychoanalysis – 6 PSI/IACP/ICP CPD Points

The IPAA 2019 conference will cover themes of the theory and practice of Ferenczi and the Budapest School including:

  • Innovations in therapeutic approach.
  • Counter-transference in the therapeutic relationship.
  • Regressive States.
  • A therapeutic model for treatment of Adult Survivors of Sexual abuse.
  • Balint Groups and Multi Disciplinary Team approaches in Health Service settings.

Conference Agenda

09.30 Registration
10.00 Welcome
10.05 President’s Address – A Budapest State of Mind – Fergal Brady
10.45 Dr Marcus Bowman – The Development and Consequences of Freud’s Seduction Theory
11.10 Coffee Break
11.30 Dr Arnold Rachmann – The Evil Genius of Psychoanalysis
13.00 Lunch
14.00 IPAA@The Movies – A special documentary on Ferenczi made as part of the ‘Major Figures of the 20th century series’ – Introduced by Dr Judith Mezaros
15.00 Dr Judit Mezaros – ‘Why Ferenczi Today?
15.20 Coffee & Animated Short: The Confusion of Tongues – Em Cooper (2018 Emmy Nominee).
15.40 Dr Arnold Rachman – ‘The Confusion of Tongues’
16.00 Panel Session – Chair: Ros Forlenza
16.20 Bringing Psychoanalysis To The NHS: The Balint Group – Christine Christie
17.00 Video presentation: Circumcision, Self-analysis and Countertransference by Robin Buick RHA.
17.45 Conference Close

The Budapest School of Psychoanalysis and the work of pioneering psychoanalyst Sandor Ferenczi have been enjoying something of a revival. For half a century much of the richness of this tradition was suppressed and neglected. These decades coincided with the political tumult and warfare of the 20th century.

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall and with changes in the European political landscape, ideas that were hidden have come to the fore again. With this too has come the felt sense that some of the story of Ferenczi and the Budapest School has a familiar feeling to it; a return of something that was lost.

This conference brings some of the history and ideas of the Budapest tradition to a Dublin audience for the first time. We have two major figures in the Ferenczi revival here to present papers.

Arnold Wm. Rachman, PhD, FAGPA is a licensed psychologist, trained psychoanalyst, Member of the Board of Directors at the Sandor Ferenczi Center, The New School For Social Research, NYC, and Honorary Member at the Sandor Ferenczi Society, Budapest, Hungary.

Judit Mészáros, PhD is the president of the Ferenczi Society,
training analyst of the Hungarian Psychoanalytical association, board member of the International Ferenczi Network, as well as a psychoanalyst in private practice.

Fergal Brady, MA, President of the Irish Psycho-Analytical Association (IPAA) will host the event. Fergal works in private practice as a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist principally in Dundalk but also in Dublin.

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Prof Arnold Rachman to speak at IPAA 2019 on May 11

We are delighted to welcome celebrated author and international Ferecnzi expert to this year’s IPAA 2019 Conference.

Prof Arnold Rachman

Arnold Rachman is a licensed psychologist, trained psychoanalyst, Member of the Board of Directors at the Sandor Ferenczi Center, The New School For Social Research, NYC, and Honorary Member at the Sandor Ferenczi Society, Budapest, Hungary.

Prof. Rachman is also:

  • Clinical Professor Of Psychology – Aldelphi University, Derner Institute, Postdoctoral Program In Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Garden City, NY;
  • Associate Professor of Psychiatry, New York University Medical School, NYC;
  • Training and Supervising Analyst, Postgrad. Psychoanalytic Institute, NYC;
  • Supervisor, Relational Track, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis;
  • Board Member, The Sandor Ferenczi Study Center, The New School University, NYC;
  • Honorary Member, The Sandor Ferenczi Society, Budapest, Hungary.

Among his published works are:

  • Sandor Ferenczi: The Psychotherapist Of Tenderness and Passion. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, 1997.
  • Psychoanalysis’ Favorite Son: The Legacy of Sandor Ferenczi (ED.) Psychoanalytic Inquiry. 17;4, November, 1997.
  • Psychotherapy Of Difficult Cases: Flexibility and Responsiveness in Contemporary Practice. Madison, Conn: Psychosocial Press, 20003.
  • Sandor Ferenczi and the Evolution of Psychoanalysis: Innovations in Theory and Technique (ED.) Psychoanalytic Inquiry. 34:2, February-March. 2014.
  • With Susan A. Klett Analysis of the Incest Trauma: Retrieval, Recovery, Renewal. London: Karnac, 2015.

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