17. bis 20. Oktober 2018 (Wien)
2018-10-17 - 2018-10-20
41. APSP Annual International Conference: Vienna –
Kohut – Self Psychology Searching for Creavity in Times of Crisis
We invite you to come to Vienna, the city where a little over one hundred years
ago psychoanalysis was created along with so many other innovations in art,
music and literature, and in the humanistic, social and natural sciences –
innovations that changed the world. Vienna during that exceptionally creative time
was also the birthplace of Heinz Kohut. It was there that he attended the
Döblinger Gymnasium, attended countless cultural events, underwent
psychoanalysis and studied medicine and it was there that the groundwork was
laid for his subsequent creative revisions of psychoanalysis. But Vienna during
the period of Kohut’s early years was also a hotbed of social and political
tension that culminated in the uprising of 1934 and the emergence of
Austro-Fascism and of anti-Semitism that culminated in the incorporation of
Austria into the Third Reich in 1938, an event that forced Kohut to flee the
city he loved and to which he was so deeply attached. In short, the Vienna of
Kohut’s early years was place of exceptional creativity and of deep crisis.
As we return to Vienna, we again face a world of creativity and crisis, albeit
different from the one that Kohut experienced. As was the case with Vienna of
Kohut’s early years, where exceptional crisis was accompanied by exceptional
creative achievement, this conference will seek to find creative ways to
respond to the crises of our contemporary world. In the search for creativity
in time of crisis, the conference will include four plenary panels, each
organized around one of four themes: the History of psychoanalysis and
self-psychology, set within its social, political and cultural context; the
Development of Kohut’s ideas and their fate over the years, as reflected in
contemporary concepts of adolescence; the Crises of our time to which
self-psychological developments seek to respond; and the Arts along with other
sources of Creativity that can help us respond to the crises of our
contemporary world.
Political, economic, social and cultural uncertainty and upheaval are
omnipresent as we plan this meeting. This upheaval does not exist just outside
our offices. It is ever present in the background and foreground of our
clinical work. Thus, the frame within which this meeting will unfold, will
recognize these crises as challenges and opportunities for creativity both
outside and inside the consulting room, in theoretical advances, in the
understanding of the human condition, and in responding effectively and humanistically
to the uncertainty and danger of our contemporary world. We invite you to join
us in Vienna in 2018 to develop creative responses through psychoanalysis and
self psychology to the crises that we face as clinicians and citizens in our
contemporary world. The conference will consist of a series of Pre-Conference
Workshops and Original Paper Presentations, covering a wide range of clinical
topics, along with the four Plenary Panels, which are followed by Post Panel
Discussions in small groups.
2018 Conference Co-chairs
Andrea Harms, PhD and Martin
Gossmann, MD
Termin:
17. bis 20. Oktober 2018
Veranstaltungsort:
Austria Trend Hotel Savoyen Vienna
Rennweg 16
1030 Wien
Österreich
Telefon: +43 (1) 206 33-0
Veranstalter:
International Association for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology, IAPSP Vienna
Circle for Psychoanalysis and Selfpsychology, WKPS & Institute of
Contemporary Psychotherapy + Psychoanalysis, ICP+P
Weitere Informationen:
Flyer
iapsp.org