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"A new experience is in fantasy projected back into the past so that the new persons become aligned with the old ones, who become their prototypes."
Sigmund Freud, letter to Wilhelm Fliess, 1898
#Freud #psychology #projection #psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud, letter to Wilhelm Fliess, 1898
#Freud #psychology #projection #psychoanalysis
"Just as all fear is ultimately fear of oneself, so too is all doubt ultimately doubt about oneself.”
Hermann Rorschach (1913)
Rorschach, H. (1913) Stekel Der Zweifel. Zeitschr. f. Psychotherapie u. med. Psychologie
Hermann Rorschach - Born , Zúrich, 8 de November 1884 -
Hermann Rorschach (1913)
Rorschach, H. (1913) Stekel Der Zweifel. Zeitschr. f. Psychotherapie u. med. Psychologie
Hermann Rorschach - Born , Zúrich, 8 de November 1884 -
November 8, 2025 at 2:03 PM
"Just as all fear is ultimately fear of oneself, so too is all doubt ultimately doubt about oneself.”
Hermann Rorschach (1913)
Rorschach, H. (1913) Stekel Der Zweifel. Zeitschr. f. Psychotherapie u. med. Psychologie
Hermann Rorschach - Born , Zúrich, 8 de November 1884 -
Hermann Rorschach (1913)
Rorschach, H. (1913) Stekel Der Zweifel. Zeitschr. f. Psychotherapie u. med. Psychologie
Hermann Rorschach - Born , Zúrich, 8 de November 1884 -
Registration open!
Join the IPA webinar “Countertransference on Sexual and Gender Diversity” with Dr. Analia Wald & Dr. Oren Gozlan, moderated by Dr. Silvia Acosta.
🌍 In English
🔗 Register here: www.ipa.world/IPA/Dev/Even...
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#Psychoanalysis #GenderDiversity
Join the IPA webinar “Countertransference on Sexual and Gender Diversity” with Dr. Analia Wald & Dr. Oren Gozlan, moderated by Dr. Silvia Acosta.
🌍 In English
🔗 Register here: www.ipa.world/IPA/Dev/Even...
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#Psychoanalysis #GenderDiversity
November 7, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Registration open!
Join the IPA webinar “Countertransference on Sexual and Gender Diversity” with Dr. Analia Wald & Dr. Oren Gozlan, moderated by Dr. Silvia Acosta.
🌍 In English
🔗 Register here: www.ipa.world/IPA/Dev/Even...
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#Psychoanalysis #GenderDiversity
Join the IPA webinar “Countertransference on Sexual and Gender Diversity” with Dr. Analia Wald & Dr. Oren Gozlan, moderated by Dr. Silvia Acosta.
🌍 In English
🔗 Register here: www.ipa.world/IPA/Dev/Even...
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#Psychoanalysis #GenderDiversity
“I am deeply convinced that one cannot treat a child without speaking the truth of what we feel and think while being with them. Speaking the truth means ” (Dolto in “The Mirror Child”, 1987).From the Freud Museum
Françoise Dolto , November 6, 1908, was a French psychoanalyst
Françoise Dolto , November 6, 1908, was a French psychoanalyst
November 6, 2025 at 2:04 PM
“I am deeply convinced that one cannot treat a child without speaking the truth of what we feel and think while being with them. Speaking the truth means ” (Dolto in “The Mirror Child”, 1987).From the Freud Museum
Françoise Dolto , November 6, 1908, was a French psychoanalyst
Françoise Dolto , November 6, 1908, was a French psychoanalyst
On the anniversary of *Heinz Hartmann’s* birth, we share one of his most timely reflections — a reminder that the human ego is constantly balancing inner drives, moral ideals, and the realities of the external world.
His words remain strikingly relevant today.
His words remain strikingly relevant today.
November 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
On the anniversary of *Heinz Hartmann’s* birth, we share one of his most timely reflections — a reminder that the human ego is constantly balancing inner drives, moral ideals, and the realities of the external world.
His words remain strikingly relevant today.
His words remain strikingly relevant today.
New on Off the Couch!
Episode 192: “A Memoir of Transformation: A Patient Examines Two Analyses at Two Stages of Life”with Joan K. Peters, PhD.
What happens when we revisit our inner world, twice, across a lifetime?
🎙️ Listen here: buff.ly/nXeOxQM
Episode 192: “A Memoir of Transformation: A Patient Examines Two Analyses at Two Stages of Life”with Joan K. Peters, PhD.
What happens when we revisit our inner world, twice, across a lifetime?
🎙️ Listen here: buff.ly/nXeOxQM
Episode 192: A Memoir of Transformation: a patient examines two analyses at two stages of life with Joan Peters, PhD (Ojai, California)
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November 4, 2025 at 12:55 PM
New on Off the Couch!
Episode 192: “A Memoir of Transformation: A Patient Examines Two Analyses at Two Stages of Life”with Joan K. Peters, PhD.
What happens when we revisit our inner world, twice, across a lifetime?
🎙️ Listen here: buff.ly/nXeOxQM
Episode 192: “A Memoir of Transformation: A Patient Examines Two Analyses at Two Stages of Life”with Joan K. Peters, PhD.
What happens when we revisit our inner world, twice, across a lifetime?
🎙️ Listen here: buff.ly/nXeOxQM
“Women like Ida Bauer/Dora and Bertha Pappenheim/Anna O. provided foundational narratives through which Freud constructed his theory and practice.”
From: Friedman, K. (2025) Tell Me About Your Mother: Ashkenazi Jewish Women’s Embodiment, the Pursuit of Whiteness, and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
From: Friedman, K. (2025) Tell Me About Your Mother: Ashkenazi Jewish Women’s Embodiment, the Pursuit of Whiteness, and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
November 1, 2025 at 3:03 PM
“Women like Ida Bauer/Dora and Bertha Pappenheim/Anna O. provided foundational narratives through which Freud constructed his theory and practice.”
From: Friedman, K. (2025) Tell Me About Your Mother: Ashkenazi Jewish Women’s Embodiment, the Pursuit of Whiteness, and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
From: Friedman, K. (2025) Tell Me About Your Mother: Ashkenazi Jewish Women’s Embodiment, the Pursuit of Whiteness, and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
“I am bringing nothing but some candy for the children and some tiny trifles for the rest of you.”
In a letter from Sigmund Freud to Martha Bernays, December 18, 1885.
#candy #trick #treat #children #halloween #psychoanalysis
In a letter from Sigmund Freud to Martha Bernays, December 18, 1885.
#candy #trick #treat #children #halloween #psychoanalysis
October 31, 2025 at 2:07 PM
“I am bringing nothing but some candy for the children and some tiny trifles for the rest of you.”
In a letter from Sigmund Freud to Martha Bernays, December 18, 1885.
#candy #trick #treat #children #halloween #psychoanalysis
In a letter from Sigmund Freud to Martha Bernays, December 18, 1885.
#candy #trick #treat #children #halloween #psychoanalysis
🗓️ Dec 19, 2025 | 16:00 London / 11:00 ET
Join Ann D’Ercole, PhD for the next IPA Journal Club!
Topic: “The Lost Story of Clara Thompson. Love, “the kiss” and repair.”
🎓 Free registration: www.ipa.world/IPA/Dev/Even...
#IPAJournalClub #Psychoanalysis
Join Ann D’Ercole, PhD for the next IPA Journal Club!
Topic: “The Lost Story of Clara Thompson. Love, “the kiss” and repair.”
🎓 Free registration: www.ipa.world/IPA/Dev/Even...
#IPAJournalClub #Psychoanalysis
October 29, 2025 at 10:33 AM
🗓️ Dec 19, 2025 | 16:00 London / 11:00 ET
Join Ann D’Ercole, PhD for the next IPA Journal Club!
Topic: “The Lost Story of Clara Thompson. Love, “the kiss” and repair.”
🎓 Free registration: www.ipa.world/IPA/Dev/Even...
#IPAJournalClub #Psychoanalysis
Join Ann D’Ercole, PhD for the next IPA Journal Club!
Topic: “The Lost Story of Clara Thompson. Love, “the kiss” and repair.”
🎓 Free registration: www.ipa.world/IPA/Dev/Even...
#IPAJournalClub #Psychoanalysis
On the 27th October 1924, Sigmund Freud appeared on the cover of Time magazine for the first time. #Freud #Time #Psychoanalysis
October 28, 2025 at 10:45 PM
On the 27th October 1924, Sigmund Freud appeared on the cover of Time magazine for the first time. #Freud #Time #Psychoanalysis
🎧 New Podcast: Psychotherapeutic Aphorisms: Reflections from a Lifetime of Listening.
Dr. David Joseph, MD reflects on 50+ years of listening, lying (honestly), and never retiring his psychoanalytic mind. Symbolic symptoms, unlikable patients, and the art of dynamic therapy.
➡️ www.ipa.world
Dr. David Joseph, MD reflects on 50+ years of listening, lying (honestly), and never retiring his psychoanalytic mind. Symbolic symptoms, unlikable patients, and the art of dynamic therapy.
➡️ www.ipa.world
Episode 191: Psychotherapeutic Aphorisms: Reflections from a Lifetime of Listening with David Joseph, MD (Washington DC)
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
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October 21, 2025 at 1:49 PM
🎧 New Podcast: Psychotherapeutic Aphorisms: Reflections from a Lifetime of Listening.
Dr. David Joseph, MD reflects on 50+ years of listening, lying (honestly), and never retiring his psychoanalytic mind. Symbolic symptoms, unlikable patients, and the art of dynamic therapy.
➡️ www.ipa.world
Dr. David Joseph, MD reflects on 50+ years of listening, lying (honestly), and never retiring his psychoanalytic mind. Symbolic symptoms, unlikable patients, and the art of dynamic therapy.
➡️ www.ipa.world
“At that time he had been in a melancholia which made him unable to enjoy anything and obliged him to reject the most attractive offers.”
Sigmund Freud, A Seventeenth-Century Demonological Neurosis
Sigmund Freud, A Seventeenth-Century Demonological Neurosis
October 18, 2025 at 3:04 PM
“At that time he had been in a melancholia which made him unable to enjoy anything and obliged him to reject the most attractive offers.”
Sigmund Freud, A Seventeenth-Century Demonological Neurosis
Sigmund Freud, A Seventeenth-Century Demonological Neurosis
📘 New in the IPA Book Series
For the first time in English: Pierre Fédida’s radical essays on the body, aesthetics & psychoanalytic practice.
💸 IPA members get 30% discount.
🔗https://www.ipa.world
#IPABookSeries #Psychoanalysis #Fédida
For the first time in English: Pierre Fédida’s radical essays on the body, aesthetics & psychoanalytic practice.
💸 IPA members get 30% discount.
🔗https://www.ipa.world
#IPABookSeries #Psychoanalysis #Fédida
Psychopathologies of the Living: Selected Essays of Pierre Fédida
Psychopathologies of the Living makes the work of the French psychoanalyst Pierre Fédida (1934–2002) available in English for the first time. Patrick ffrench and Nigel Saint present key essays…
www.routledge.com
October 17, 2025 at 2:03 PM
📘 New in the IPA Book Series
For the first time in English: Pierre Fédida’s radical essays on the body, aesthetics & psychoanalytic practice.
💸 IPA members get 30% discount.
🔗https://www.ipa.world
#IPABookSeries #Psychoanalysis #Fédida
For the first time in English: Pierre Fédida’s radical essays on the body, aesthetics & psychoanalytic practice.
💸 IPA members get 30% discount.
🔗https://www.ipa.world
#IPABookSeries #Psychoanalysis #Fédida
📘 New in the IPA Book Series
For the first time in English: Pierre Fédida’s radical essays on the body, aesthetics & psychoanalytic practice.
💸 IPA members get 30% discount.
🔗https://www.routledge.com/Psychopathologies-of-the-Living-Selected-Essays-of-Pierre-Fedida/ffrench-Saint/p/book/9781032637587
For the first time in English: Pierre Fédida’s radical essays on the body, aesthetics & psychoanalytic practice.
💸 IPA members get 30% discount.
🔗https://www.routledge.com/Psychopathologies-of-the-Living-Selected-Essays-of-Pierre-Fedida/ffrench-Saint/p/book/9781032637587
Psychopathologies of the Living: Selected Essays of Pierre Fédida
Psychopathologies of the Living makes the work of the French psychoanalyst Pierre Fédida (1934–2002) available in English for the first time. Patrick ffrench and Nigel Saint present key essays…
www.routledge.com
October 17, 2025 at 1:51 PM
📘 New in the IPA Book Series
For the first time in English: Pierre Fédida’s radical essays on the body, aesthetics & psychoanalytic practice.
💸 IPA members get 30% discount.
🔗https://www.routledge.com/Psychopathologies-of-the-Living-Selected-Essays-of-Pierre-Fedida/ffrench-Saint/p/book/9781032637587
For the first time in English: Pierre Fédida’s radical essays on the body, aesthetics & psychoanalytic practice.
💸 IPA members get 30% discount.
🔗https://www.routledge.com/Psychopathologies-of-the-Living-Selected-Essays-of-Pierre-Fedida/ffrench-Saint/p/book/9781032637587
Talks on Psychoanalysis: The Mystery, Again with Mariano Horenstein
How do we hear the language of sexuality today? From hysteria to the trans clinic, this episode explores shifts in psychoanalysis.
🎙️ Listen here → talksonpsychoanalysis.podbean.com/e/the-myster...
#Psychoanalysis #Sexuality
How do we hear the language of sexuality today? From hysteria to the trans clinic, this episode explores shifts in psychoanalysis.
🎙️ Listen here → talksonpsychoanalysis.podbean.com/e/the-myster...
#Psychoanalysis #Sexuality
October 14, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Talks on Psychoanalysis: The Mystery, Again with Mariano Horenstein
How do we hear the language of sexuality today? From hysteria to the trans clinic, this episode explores shifts in psychoanalysis.
🎙️ Listen here → talksonpsychoanalysis.podbean.com/e/the-myster...
#Psychoanalysis #Sexuality
How do we hear the language of sexuality today? From hysteria to the trans clinic, this episode explores shifts in psychoanalysis.
🎙️ Listen here → talksonpsychoanalysis.podbean.com/e/the-myster...
#Psychoanalysis #Sexuality
“The neurotic symptom represents a sort of solution of an insoluble problem…”
A A Brill, from his presentation at the American Psychoanalytic Association, 1928
Brill was born this day, 12 October 1874
Early translator of the works of Sigmund Freud
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A A Brill, from his presentation at the American Psychoanalytic Association, 1928
Brill was born this day, 12 October 1874
Early translator of the works of Sigmund Freud
share.google/fY3ILRYEyVVt...
October 12, 2025 at 1:03 PM
“The neurotic symptom represents a sort of solution of an insoluble problem…”
A A Brill, from his presentation at the American Psychoanalytic Association, 1928
Brill was born this day, 12 October 1874
Early translator of the works of Sigmund Freud
share.google/fY3ILRYEyVVt...
A A Brill, from his presentation at the American Psychoanalytic Association, 1928
Brill was born this day, 12 October 1874
Early translator of the works of Sigmund Freud
share.google/fY3ILRYEyVVt...
October 9, 2025 at 10:04 PM
"Through it I wanted to bring myself closer to the higher sources of life. I should have prepared myself for this over a long period by invoking in my omission a higher, impersonal self, since "nectar" is not for mortal lips"
Ronald David Laing was born October 7, in Glasgow.
Ronald David Laing was born October 7, in Glasgow.
October 7, 2025 at 1:04 PM
"Through it I wanted to bring myself closer to the higher sources of life. I should have prepared myself for this over a long period by invoking in my omission a higher, impersonal self, since "nectar" is not for mortal lips"
Ronald David Laing was born October 7, in Glasgow.
Ronald David Laing was born October 7, in Glasgow.
An Analyst’s Reflections on Her Treatments and Her Life with Beverly Kolsky, MSW (Tupper Lake, New York)
A new podcast episode - 190- from Harvey Schwartz produced for the IPA buff.ly/icfDI3s
A new podcast episode - 190- from Harvey Schwartz produced for the IPA buff.ly/icfDI3s
October 6, 2025 at 1:05 PM
An Analyst’s Reflections on Her Treatments and Her Life with Beverly Kolsky, MSW (Tupper Lake, New York)
A new podcast episode - 190- from Harvey Schwartz produced for the IPA buff.ly/icfDI3s
A new podcast episode - 190- from Harvey Schwartz produced for the IPA buff.ly/icfDI3s
"systematizing the theory of affects is not merely a theoretical nicety, but has eminent practical importance"
David Rapaport, born this day, 30 September, 1911
David Rapaport, born this day, 30 September, 1911
September 30, 2025 at 1:04 PM
"systematizing the theory of affects is not merely a theoretical nicety, but has eminent practical importance"
David Rapaport, born this day, 30 September, 1911
David Rapaport, born this day, 30 September, 1911
Multiple IPA-endorsed conferences are happening around the world.
See a list, with links, on the IPA website:
ipa.world/dev/events/I...
#Events #Conference #Psychoanalysis
#Psychoanalyse #Psicoanalisis #Psychanalyse #Freud #psychology #therapy
See a list, with links, on the IPA website:
ipa.world/dev/events/I...
#Events #Conference #Psychoanalysis
#Psychoanalyse #Psicoanalisis #Psychanalyse #Freud #psychology #therapy
September 29, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Multiple IPA-endorsed conferences are happening around the world.
See a list, with links, on the IPA website:
ipa.world/dev/events/I...
#Events #Conference #Psychoanalysis
#Psychoanalyse #Psicoanalisis #Psychanalyse #Freud #psychology #therapy
See a list, with links, on the IPA website:
ipa.world/dev/events/I...
#Events #Conference #Psychoanalysis
#Psychoanalyse #Psicoanalisis #Psychanalyse #Freud #psychology #therapy
New podcast episode: Episode 189: When We Feel Provoked by the Politics of Our Patients
with Heribert Blass, Dr. Med. (MD) (Dusseldorf, Germany)
ipaoffthecouch.org/2025/09/21/e...
Produced for IPA by Harvey Schwartz
#psychology #Monday #therapy #psychoanalysis #politics
with Heribert Blass, Dr. Med. (MD) (Dusseldorf, Germany)
ipaoffthecouch.org/2025/09/21/e...
Produced for IPA by Harvey Schwartz
#psychology #Monday #therapy #psychoanalysis #politics
September 29, 2025 at 1:03 PM
New podcast episode: Episode 189: When We Feel Provoked by the Politics of Our Patients
with Heribert Blass, Dr. Med. (MD) (Dusseldorf, Germany)
ipaoffthecouch.org/2025/09/21/e...
Produced for IPA by Harvey Schwartz
#psychology #Monday #therapy #psychoanalysis #politics
with Heribert Blass, Dr. Med. (MD) (Dusseldorf, Germany)
ipaoffthecouch.org/2025/09/21/e...
Produced for IPA by Harvey Schwartz
#psychology #Monday #therapy #psychoanalysis #politics
“(The poet) “seeks in himself every kind of love of suffering, of madness”
G. Partridge, Psychoanalytic Review, 1930
Cartoon by Robert Mankoff
G. Partridge, Psychoanalytic Review, 1930
Cartoon by Robert Mankoff
September 27, 2025 at 1:03 PM
“(The poet) “seeks in himself every kind of love of suffering, of madness”
G. Partridge, Psychoanalytic Review, 1930
Cartoon by Robert Mankoff
G. Partridge, Psychoanalytic Review, 1930
Cartoon by Robert Mankoff
"the absent object is opposite to the character of the object when there"
Edna O'Shaughnessy
Born this day, 26 September, 1924
Edna O'Shaughnessy
Born this day, 26 September, 1924
September 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
"the absent object is opposite to the character of the object when there"
Edna O'Shaughnessy
Born this day, 26 September, 1924
Edna O'Shaughnessy
Born this day, 26 September, 1924
“Both psychoanalysis and anthropology study that which is distinctively human in mankind”
George Devereux, ethnologist and psychoanalyst, author of Reality and Dream: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian
Born this day, 13 September 1908
#culture #anthropology #psychotherapy
George Devereux, ethnologist and psychoanalyst, author of Reality and Dream: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian
Born this day, 13 September 1908
#culture #anthropology #psychotherapy
September 13, 2025 at 5:45 AM
“Both psychoanalysis and anthropology study that which is distinctively human in mankind”
George Devereux, ethnologist and psychoanalyst, author of Reality and Dream: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian
Born this day, 13 September 1908
#culture #anthropology #psychotherapy
George Devereux, ethnologist and psychoanalyst, author of Reality and Dream: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian
Born this day, 13 September 1908
#culture #anthropology #psychotherapy
We must not, however, underrate the role which identification processes, even normally, continue to play in the further development of personality.
Edith Jacobson 1961
We celebrate today the birthday of Dr Jacobson, 10 Sept 1897
Edith Jacobson 1961
We celebrate today the birthday of Dr Jacobson, 10 Sept 1897
September 10, 2025 at 1:05 PM
We must not, however, underrate the role which identification processes, even normally, continue to play in the further development of personality.
Edith Jacobson 1961
We celebrate today the birthday of Dr Jacobson, 10 Sept 1897
Edith Jacobson 1961
We celebrate today the birthday of Dr Jacobson, 10 Sept 1897