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:
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iapsp.org

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