Events and Seminars

Event:IARPP 21st Annual Conference
Venue:Athens, Greece
Date:19/06/2025 - 22/06/2025
Duration:4 Days
Extra Info:The Paradox of Freedom in Relational Psychoanalysis: Democracy and Tyranny In and Out of Therapy

Relational psychoanalysis continues to be a democratic endeavor. Since its inception, it has encouraged a dialogue about the paradox of theoretical freedom, technique, and varied areas of psychoanalytic encounter that each clinician in their subjective way brings to the consulting room. While eschewing positivism and rigid rules, Relational psychoanalysis also continues to invite an ongoing engagement with intrapsychic processes, interpersonal relations, and the outside world’s impact on conscious and unconscious dynamics. As geopolitical, social, and environmental catastrophes mount, it becomes ever more crucial that we at least attempt to track and navigate potential enactments of existential anxieties, aggression, and sequelae of tyranny in the consulting room. How we understand and implement all of this will be a large part of our conference focus. It’s not by coincidence that we plan for this dialogue to take place in historical Athens, the birthplace of democracy.
Organised By:The International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
Web Link:https://iarpp.net/conference/2025-iarpp-conference-athens/
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