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🔔 Coming up next month: IJP Winter Study Meeting
Join us on Saturday 14th February from 2–4pm (BST) for our next Study Meeting, featuring Jill Salberg discussing her thought-provoking paper "Crises and Enactments
While Ending Treatment " (Vol. 105, Issue 4, IJP).
January 22, 2026 at 11:02 AM
Jill Salberg with discussants
Lesley Steyn and Stefano Bolognini 💬

14 February 2026
2:00 to 4:00 pm BST ⏰
Online via Zoom 💻

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January 21, 2026 at 11:00 AM
📝 Register now to join us online with Jill Salberg, Lesley Steyn and Stefano Bolognini

📅 Saturday 14 February 2026
⏰ 2:00 to 4:00 pm BST
💻 Online via Zoom

🎟 Registration via Eventbrite and PaDS (free for IJP subscribers)
More info at www.theijp.org/study-meetings
January 20, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Last chance 🔔 Join us tomorrow for the IJP Online Conference 2026 on Saturday 10 January 2026. Register via the IOPA to secure your spot now: psychoanalysis.org.uk/civicrm-even...
January 9, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Here’s our programme for this Saturday, when John Steiner, Giuseppe Civitarese, Cecilia Taiana, Joshua Durban, and Francis Grier will explore extreme violence – in war, childhood, autism, and the consulting room.
January 6, 2026 at 12:15 PM
🗓️ Join us this weekend for the IJP Online Conference 2026 on Saturday 10 January 2026. Register via the IOPA to secure your spot now: psychoanalysis.org.uk/civicrm-even...

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January 5, 2026 at 12:07 PM
✨ We’re delighted to share that Issue 5 of Volume 106 of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis is now available online!
November 24, 2025 at 11:00 AM
📚 In our Book Review section, Sharon Numa reviews The Trauma of Racism: Lessons from the Therapeutic Encounter, edited by Beverly J. Stoute and Michael Slevin (Routledge, 2023), a collection of essays examining racism as collective and individual trauma through the lens of psychoanalysis.
November 9, 2025 at 11:00 AM
📚 In our Book Review section, Miguel Leivi reviews On Freud’s “Neurosis and Psychosis” and “The Loss of Reality in Neurosis and Psychosis” 100 Years Later, edited by Gabriela Legorreta and Catalina Bronstein (Routledge, 2024).
November 8, 2025 at 11:00 AM
💬 In "Response to Moss" Shmuel Erlich reacts to Donald Moss’s letter.

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November 7, 2025 at 11:01 AM
💬 In "Response to Erlich" Donald Moss reacts to Shmuel Erlich’s paper in Issue 1, 2025.

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November 6, 2025 at 11:01 AM
💬 In "Response to Parsons" Shmuel Erlich reacts to Michael Parsons’s paper in Issue 1, 2025.

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November 5, 2025 at 11:00 AM
💬 In "Israel–Palestine and the Internal World" Michael Parsons reacts to Shmuel Erlich's paper in the Psychoanalytic Controversies Section on the Israel-Palestine Conflict (Issue 1, 2025).

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November 4, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Rosemary H. Balsam commemorates Harold P. Blum in "In Memory of Harold P. Blum, MD".
November 2, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Steven Cooper cherishes the memory of Lucy Bergson LaFarge.
November 1, 2025 at 11:01 AM
In "The Experience of Being Known," Nathan Kravis honors Lucy LaFarge.
October 31, 2025 at 11:01 AM
✉️ Letter to the Editor: Responding to Oren Gozlan’s critique, Roberto D’Angelo invokes the history of psychoanalysis and homosexuality to defend his call for greater empirical rigor. He asserts that Gozlan's letter and the prevailing psychoanalytic zeitgeist sidestep scientific evidence
October 29, 2025 at 11:02 AM
In "A Critique of Roberto D’Angelo’s “Do We Want to Know?”," Oren Gozlan argues that gender does not conceal psychic conflict but recruits and metabolizes it. He cautions against reducing trans youth to a type, reminding us that “Psychoanalysis does not treat populations. It listens to subjects.”
October 28, 2025 at 11:01 AM
🚀 Second in our Interdisciplinary Studies category: Francisco Pizarro Obaid and Rodrigo De la Fabián’s “Marie Langer, Psychoanalysis and Science Fiction: A Yearning for Change”
October 26, 2025 at 11:02 AM
🎬 In our Film Essay section, Jan Borowicz’s “On Man Who Lives Once Every Two Times: The Days When I Do Not Exist” (IJP 106:4) explores a man who vanishes every other day, using Fitoussi’s film to examine the psychic struggle to metabolize thoughts and emotions
October 25, 2025 at 10:02 AM
🔥 First of two in our Interdisciplinary Studies section, John Steiner’s “Injury, Grievance, and Revenge, in the Wrath of Achilles” explores how rage born of humiliation turns inward as grievance or outward as revenge, tracing Achilles’ transformation from withdrawal to violent action.
October 24, 2025 at 10:02 AM
🦠 In “The Representation of Pandemic Anxieties in a Psychoanalytic Group Psychodrama for Adolescents and Young Adults”, Olivier Taieb and colleagues explore how a psychodrama group in a Paris day hospital helped young people restore a transitional space during the Covid-19 crisis.
October 23, 2025 at 10:01 AM
👤 In “Processual Readings of the Drive Trajectory of a Perpetrator of Domestic Violence”, Élise Pelladeau and Alexandre Cedano explore the therapeutic treatment of a patient imprisoned for domestic violence.
October 22, 2025 at 10:01 AM
In her paper “Becoming Raced: Psychic Consequences of Transgenerational Racial Trauma” Dionne R. Powell explores how racial trauma is transmitted across generations and structured into the psyche.
October 21, 2025 at 10:15 AM
🕰️ Last chance! The IJP Autumn Study Meeting is happening tomorrow, October 11.

✅ Register now and bring your questions, critiques, and reflections.

📖 We look forward to seeing you!
October 10, 2025 at 10:01 AM