Welcome to Oslo (Norway)

With great pleasure, the Oslo Local Committee in Norway
extends a warm invitation and sincere welcome to you.

With great pleasure, the Oslo Local Committee in Norway extends a warm invitation and sincere welcome to you.

‘Early bird‘ discount registrations before 31st January 2026

Submissions should be received not later than 30th Novemer 2025.

You will receive the outcome of your submission at the beginning of January 2026.

Venue

Clarion Hotel the Hub
Biskop Gunnerus gate 3
0155 Oslo, Norway

Hotels / room blocks

The EPF Conference 2026 will take place in beautiful Oslo – The Norwegian capital Oslo is located on the south coast of the country at the entrance to the Oslo Fjord.

In order to be at the heart of this wonderful city, the EPF Board has chosen the “Clarion The Hub Hotel” as the venue to ensure short distances in the central location (“Hub”) of the city.

A hotel contingent has been set up especially for you directly at the venue, which you can access and book yourself via the following button:

The number of rooms per night is limited and the conditions are available for a specific period of time. Therefore, we recommend that you book early.

Arrival

  • by Plane 
    Oslo-Gardermoen Airport
  • by Express Train from the Airport
    The Airport is well connected to the City Center by express train a short ride of ~20 Minutes will bring you to our venue. Tickets can be bought directly at the Airport or online in advance under the following link:
    https://www.visitnorway.com/listings/flytoget-airport-express-train/

Parking

Underground parking for 390 vehicles
(height: Hotel 1.90 m, Congress Center 2.1 m)
Parking prices

Bild von The local organising committee recommends
The local organising committee recommends

an overview of interesting cultural locations in and around Dresden. Click on the circle to download the PDF (156 kb).

Picture of the congress centre
© X-Weinzar

For your general information please visit the official tourism website of Dresden: https://www.dresden.de/de/tourismus/tourismus.html.php

At a glance
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Programme final

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Pre-Conference

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09:00–10:30

Subjectivities in Conflict: Neutrality and the Ethics of Otherness in Couple and Family Work

English 

Taksim Square

3rd Floor

09:00–17:00

Clinical Observation 3-LM Group – Workshop

English

Prado Park

1st Floor

09:00–17:00

Clinical Observation 3-LM Group – Workshop

French

Hyde Park C

1st Floor

09:00–17:00

Workshop Remote Analysis: Clinical case

English

Nyhavn

3rd Floor

09:00–17:30

The MOSE in European Training Institutes

English

Ueno Park

1st Floor

13:00–17:00

IPSO Workshop on „The Specificity of Psychoanalytic Treatment Today“

English

Central Park A and B

1st Floor

13:00–18:00

Thinking analytically between languages

English

Festplassen

3rd Floor

14:00–15:30

Subjectivities in Conflict: Neutrality and the Ethics of Otherness in Couple and Family Work

English

Taksim Square

3rd Floor

14:00–17:00

IPSO Workshop ‘Listening to Listening’

English

Frognerparken

1st Floor

14:00–18:00

COWAP | Absence, Intrusion, Being Present: the analytic space of becoming

English

Hyde Park A

1st Floor

14:00–19:00

EPF commitee on the Specificty of Analytical Treatment today

English

Alexanderplatz

3rd Floor

14:00–19:00

EPF commitee on the Specificty of Analytical Treatment today

French

Darling Harbour

3rd Floor

16:00–18:00

Exploring Training Process and Practice (ETTP)

English

Piazza Navona and

Trafalgar Square

3rd Floor

17:15–19:30

Faimberg’s method of listening to listening for the discussion of clinical presentations in groups

English

Nyhavn

3rd Floor

15:00–18:00

Forum on Psychoanalysis of Children – Internal Meeting

Chair: Jean-Louis Fouassier (French Psychoanalytical Association)

This is an exclusive meeting.

Organisers‘ Office n° 12

Floor 1

09:00–18:00

IPSO Workshop on „The Specificity of Psychoanalytic Treatment Today“

English

Central Park A and B

1st Floor

09:00–12:00

Are you on my side? The intertwining of internal and external reality in an “occupied territory”: re-thinking analytical neutrality in an era of radical polarisation

English

Frognerparken

1st Floor

09:00–12:00

Challenging Neutrality: Sexual and Gender Diversity in Clinical and Institutional Contexts 

English

Hyde Park C

1st Floor

09:00–12:00

Institutional Matters Committee Neutrality – asset or obstaclein psychoanalytical institutions?

English

Ueono Park

1st Floor

09:00–13:00

Clinical Observation 3-LM Group

English

Prado Park

1st Floor

09:00–13:00

Clinical Observation 3-LM Group

French

Stureplan

3rd Floor

09:00–15:00

IPA Community and the World

English

Festplasen

3rd Floor

09:00–17:00

Remote Analysis Workshop

French

Freedom Square

1st Floor

09:00–17:00

Workshop: Psychosomatics in Contemporary Psychoanalysis

English

The Latin Quarters and Senat Square

3rd Floor

09:00–17:00

Weaving Thoughts Workshop

English

Shibuya, Red Square and Times Square

3rd Floor

09:00–18:00

EPF commitee on the Specificty of Analytical Treatment today

English

Alexanderplatz

3rd Floor

09:00–18:00

EPF commitee on the Specificty of Analytical Treatment today

French

Darling Harbour

3rd Floor

10:00–13:00

Free Clinical Groups – Mediators Meeting

English

Grand Place

3rd Floor

10:00–16:00

Old Age: Finiteness, Losses and Development

English

Taksim Square

3rd Floor

10:30–13:00

Psychoanalysis of adolescence: clinical reflection presentation of clinical material

English

Hyde Park B

1st Floor

11:00–13:00

Neutrality as Hybridization: Toward a Psychoanalytic Clinic of Emerging Technosubjectivities

English

Hyde Park A

1st Floor

13:00–17:00

Free Clinical Groups

English

Grand Place and Stureplan

1st Floor

14:00–17:00

Committee on Collective Traumas „No silence“

English

Frognerparken

1st Floor

14:00–17:00

Migration, Trauma, and the Analyst’s Position – A Challenge to Neutrality

English

Hyde Park A

1st Floor

14:00–17:00

Climate breakdown, inequality and migration: what they make us feel and think

English

Hyde Park C and Ueno Park

1st Floor

14:30–17:00

SECRET ORIGINS AND IMAGINED ORIGINS BETWEEN SHAME AND REVELATION KITTY’S CARE

English

Hyde Park B

1st Floor

17:00–19:00

Attuning to exiled patients // Accordages avec les patients exilés

English

Nyhavn

3rd Floor

17:00–19:00

Psychoanalysis and Neutrality in the Digital Space: Ethics and Comunication

English

Taksim Square

3rd Floor

17:30–19:00

Weaving Thoughts Workshop (EPF Committee Workshop)

English

Ueno Park

1st Floor

18:00–19:00

Free Clinical Groups – Mediators Meeting

English

Grand Place

3rd Floor

19:00–21:00

Welcome Reception with Snacks and Drinks

The EPF will offer a selection of cold beverages and snacks.

Mingle Area

2nd Floor

Pre-registration is essential for participation in these groups

Welcome Reception

Thursday, 26th March 2026 

Oslo City Hall
Rådhusplassen 1
0037 Oslo, Norway

https://www.oslo.kommune.no/oslo-city-hall/

Main Conference

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08:45 – 09:30

Opening the Conference

Jan Abram (EPF President/BPAS)
Udo Hock (EPF Vice President/DPV)
Eckehard Pioch (DPG President)
Thomas Beier (DPV)

Presentations will be simultaneously translated/interpreted.

Grand Auditorium

Floor 1

09:30 – 11:00

FIRST PLENARY ON THE MAIN THEME: „Les égarements de la liberté“

Presenter: Laurence Kahn (APF)
Discussant: Michael Parson (BPaS/APF)
Chair: Eckehard Pioch (DPG)

Presentations will be simultaneously translated/interpreted.

Grand Auditorium

Floor 1

11:00 – 13:30

Meet the Societies

Thomas Beier (DPV)
Eckehard Pioch (DPG)

Seminar 5

Floor 2

11:00 – 11:30

Central Coffee Break

The EPF will offer a selection of hot and cold beverages as well as snacks.

Terasse

Floor 3

11:30 – 13:00

IPSO Opening

Erika Lepiavka (IPSO President), Jan Abram (EPF President/BPAS), Udo Hock (EPF Vice President/DPV), Nergis Güleç (EPF General Secretary), Harriet Wolfe (IPA President), Adriana Prengler (IPA Vice President), Adela Escardo (IPA Treasurer), Johanna Velt (IPSO Vice-President for Europe), Paola Solano (IPSO Vice-President Elect Europe), Dorothee von Tippelskirch-Eissing (DPV Vice President), Eckehard Pioch (DPG President), Selina Seitz;Florian Bossert (IPSO German representatives)

European Paper Award

Winner: Ritika Arora

Runner-up: Jessieca Kronholm

Chair: Valerie Curen (IPSO Editor)

Presented in English.

Saal 4

Floor 1

11:30 – 13:00

Post Plenary Discussion Group

Laurence Kahn (APF)
Michael Parsons (BPS/APF)
Moderator: Stefano Bolognini (SPI)
Moderator: Daniela Luca (SRDP)

Presented in English.

Konfernez 5

Floor 4

11:30 – 13:00

PARALLEL PANEL ON THE MAIN THEME: „Psychoanalytic Archives and Freedom“

Christine Diercks (VPS)
Ewan O’Neill (RMARA)
Christine English (BPS)
Chair: Jasminka Šuljagić (PSS)

Presented in English.

Seminar 1

Floor 2

11:30 – 13:00

PARALLEL PANEL ON THE MAIN THEME: „Freedom and its Discontents“

August Ruhs (WAP/VPA)
Discussant: Bent Rosenbaum (DPS)
Chair: Eija Repo (FPS)

Presentations will be simultaneously translated/interpreted.

Grand Auditorium

Floor 1

11:30 – 13:00

PARALLEL PANEL ON THE MAIN THEME:  „TheBLAUE: Portrait of a journal The editors from three German-speaking countries present the
Journal for Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice (ZpTP)“

Martina Feurer (DPV)
Erika Kittler (DPV)
Sabine Schlüter (VPA)
Andreas Mittermayr (WPV/VPS)
Harro de Groot (SGPsa)

Presented in English.

Konferenz 1

Floor 4

11:30 – 13:00

PARALLEL PANEL ON THE MAIN THEME:  „Adolescence and transition: creative freedom or defensive organization?“

Presenters: Laura Accetti (Italian Psychoanalytical Society);
Discussant: Didier Houzel (French Psychoanalytical Assosiation)
Chair: Marta Mirabella (Istituto Winnicott)

Presented in English.

Konferenz 2

Floor 4

11:30 – 13:00

PARALLEL PANEL ON THE MAIN THEME: „Freedom and Boundaries in Psychoanalytical Institutions“

Milagros Cid Sanz (APM)
Discussant: Bernard Chervet (SPP)
Chair: Yesim Korkut (PSIKE)

Presented in English.

Konferenz 3

Floor 4

11:30 – 13:00

PARALLEL PANEL ON THE MAIN THEME: „German entanglements and their reactivation in old age“

Martin Teising (DPV)
Thomas Beier (DPV)
Chair: Denis Flynn (BPS)

Presented in English.

Konferenz 4

Floor 4

11:30 – 13:00

PARALLEL PANEL ON THE MAIN THEME: „Freedom and the development of Psychoanalysis in Eastern Europe“

Dimo Stantchev (BPS)
Discussant: Igor Kadyrov (MPS)
Chair: Paolo Fonda (SPI)

Presented in English.

Konferenz 6

Floor 4

11:30 – 13:00

PARALLEL PANEL ON THE MAIN THEME: „Stuck in the beats of repetition?: A Journey through Günter Grass´s ´The Tin Drum“

„Good Friday Food and Fizz Powder: The birth of memory from the artisitc gift of fantasizing.“

Nadja Troeger (SPP)
Johannes Döser (DPV)
Discussant: Pinar Limnili Özeren (PSIKE)
Chair: Rotraut De Clerck (DPV)

Presented in English.

Konferenz 7

Floor 4

15:00 – 16:30

PARALLEL PANEL ON THE MAIN THEME: „Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.”(Kris Kristofferson)

Aydan Özdaglar (DPV)
Discussant: Virgina de Micco (SPI)
Chair: Welsh (SPP)

Presented in English.

Konferenz 1

Floor 4

15:00 – 16:30

PARALLEL PANEL ON THE MAIN THEME: “Is psychoanalysis still “emancipating” in wartime and/or severe traumatic circumstances?”

Igor Romanov (UPS)
Discussant: Eike Hinze (DPV)
Chair: Christine English (BPAS)

Presentations will be simultaneously translated/interpreted.

Grand Auditorium

Floor 1

15:00 – 16:30

PARALLEL PANEL ON THE MAIN THEME: „Libertà va cercando, ch’è sì cara…“

Alberto Luchetti (SPI)
Discussant: Brigitte Eoch-Duval (APF)
Chair: Pascale Michon-Raffaitin (APF)

Presented in English.

Konferenz 2

Floor 4

15:00 – 16:30

PARALLEL PANEL ON THE MAIN THEME: „Parent-Infant-Psychotherapy: A liberating method for postpartum depression of the mother with her baby“

Angela Köhler-Weisker (DPV)
Chair: Thomas Jung (VPA)

Presented in English.

Konferenz 3

Floor 4

15:00 – 16:30

PARALLEL PANEL ON THE MAIN THEME:  „Freedom and Authority in Psychoanalytic Education in our Times“

Angelika Staehle (DPV)
Benedetta Guerrini (SPI)
Valentino Ferro (SPI)
Bettina Berdal (NPS)
Kristin Fjelnseth Wold (NPA)
Torsten Siol (DPV)

Presented in English.

Konferenz 4

Floor 4

15:00 – 16:30

PARALLEL PANEL ON THE MAIN THEME: „WINGS of FREEDOM The transformational process from an encapsulated biological soma to a libidinal body − a psychosomatic approach“

Denny Panitz (HPS)
Jonathan Sklar (BPS)
Diana Tabacof (SPP)

Wolfgang Lassmann (WPV)
 

Presented in English.

Konferenz 5

Floor 4

15:00 – 16:30

PARALLEL PANEL ON THE MAIN THEME: „How to get free from the threatening ghosts of the past? From the Analysis of a Five-Year-Old Foster Child“

Alfred Walter (DPG)
Majlis Winberg Salomonsson (SPA)

Presentations in English.

Konferenz 6

Floor 4

15:00 – 16:30

PARALLEL PANEL ON THE MAIN THEME: „Psychoanalysis, a road to freedom. The analysis of a case of intergenerational transmission of trauma from a Japanese internment camp in Indonesia during World War II, 1942-1945“

Alexander Maria Janssen (DPS)
Discussant: Dorothee von Tippelskirch-Eissing (DPV)
Chair: Anna Kravtsova (UPS)

Presentations in English.

Konferenz 7

Floor 4

17:00 – 18:30

Individual Paper Presentation

Room allocations shown below

16:30 – 17:00

Central Coffee Break

The EPF will offer a selection of hot and cold beverages as well as snacks.

Terasse

Floor 3

17:00 – 18:30

“Between Liberty and Coercion: Large Group Contraints on Individual Freedom”

Moderators: Shmuel Erlich (IPS)
Mira Erlich-Ginor (IPS)
Dorothee von Tippelskirch-Eissing (DPV)

Presented in English.

Konferenz 6

Floor 4

17:00 – 20:00

Film Presentation

“Fake Freedom or The Art of Lying: The Film Riefenstahl” by Andres Veiel.

The film presentation will follow a discussion with the film director Andres Veiel:“Organised by Anne Patterson, Davide Rosso, Gilbert Beronneau and Roland Havas“

Presented in English.

Grand Auditorium

Floor 1

09:00 – 10:30

SECOND PLENARY ON THE MAIN THEME:
„Versuch einer psychoanalytischen Bestimmung  von Freiheit“

Bernd Nissen (DPV)
Discussant: Jasminka Šuljagić (PSS)
Chair: Thomas Beier (DPV)

Presentations will be simultaneously translated/interpreted.

Grand Auditorium

Floor 1

11:30 – 13:00

Post Plenary Discussion Group

Bernd Nissen (DPV)
Jasminka Šuljagić (PSS)
Moderator: Stefano Bolognini (SPI)
Moderator: Daniela Luca (SRDP)

Presented in English.

Konferenz 5

Floor 4

11:00 – 11:30

Central Coffee Break

The EPF will offer a selection of hot and cold beverages as well as snacks.

Terasse

Floor 3

11:30 – 13:00

PARALLEL PANELS ON THE MAIN THEME

„Free association and freedom in the specificity method“

Presenter: Leopold Bleger (APF)
Presenter: Serge Frisch (BPSI)
Presenter: Levy Ruggero (SPPA)
Chair: Valérie Bouville (DPV)

Presented in English.

Konferenz 4

Floor 4

„Degrés de liberté et identification: quelques illustrations“

Emmanuelle Chervet (SPP)
Discussant: Pilar Puertas Tejedor (APM)
Chair: Maurice Khoury (ALDeP)

Presentations will be simultaneously translated/interpreted.

Grand Auditorium
 

Floor 1

„COWAP and S&GDS Committee: Sexuality, Gender and Freedom“

Patricia Alkolombre (APA)
Leticia Glocer Fiorini (APA)
Chair: Conceição Tavares Almeida (SPP)

Presented in English.

Konferenz 1

Floor 4

„The Truth Will Set You Free: Explorations into psychoanalytic truth and freedom“

Jean Arundale (BPA)
Discussant: Marc Hebbrecht (BSP)
Chair: Alberto Carrion (MPA)

Presented in English.

Konferenz 2

Floor 4

‘I decide what is true!’ On the struggle for freedom of thought in the face of internal (and external) propaganda”

Claudia Frank (DPV)
Discussant: Tatiana Alavidze (MPS)
Chair: Ewa Glód (PTPa)

Presented in English.

Konferenz 3

Floor 4

“Psychoanalytic Freedom under Lock and Key: “Oh, you’re here to stop me being violent?” “No, I’m here so you can choose”.”

Carine Minne (BPaS)
Massimo De Mari (SPI)
Chair: Ronald Doctor (BPaS)

Presented in English.

Konferenz 7

Floor 4

“Migration as an act of freedom and mourning”

Asli Erkan (IPD)
Gordana Maksimović (BPS)
Discussant: Nasim Ghaffari (SGPsa)
Chair: Sabina Jahović (BPS)

Presented in English.

Konferenz 6

Floor 4

“Escape from Freedom Revisited: Anxiety and Freedom within Groups.”

Susan Kolod (APsA)
Petra Heymanns (DPV)
Maria Pia Conte (BPaS)
Chair: Heribert Blass (DPV)

Presented in English.

Konferenz 8

Floor 4

11:00 – 13:00

Meet the Societies

„DPV – DPG: Trennung und Wiederannährung (Separation and rapprochement)“

Thomas Beier (DPV)
Lisa Werthmann-Resch (DPV)
Eckehard Pioch (DPG)
Johanna Naumann (DPG)

Presented in English.

Seminar 3

Floor 2

14:00 – 16:00

Round Table Discussion

The IPU: a German example of the surviving of psychoanalysis in the University

Christa Rohde-Dachser (DPG)
Jan-Hendrik Olbertz (President IPU)
Martin Teising (DPV)
Chair: Jan Abram (BPAS)

Presentation will be simultaneously translated/interpreted.

Grand Auditorium

Floor 1

14:00 – 16:30

Workshop on Writing a Psychoanalytic Paper for the International Journal of Psychoanalysis (IJP) *

Presenter: Bernard Reith (SGPsa)
Chair: Francis Grier (BPaS)

Presented in English.

Seminar 1

Floor 2

16:30 – 18:00

Joint EPF/IPA Working Parties

„Freedom to enhance psychoanalytic research groups“

Serge Frisch (BPS)
Katrine Zeuthen (DPS)
Moderator: Marinella Linardos (SPI)
Chair: Udo Hock (EPF Vice President)

Presented in English.

Grand Auditorium

Floor 1

15:00 – 16:30

PARALLEL PANELS ON THE MAIN THEME

COWAP-Europe „The Interplay of Freedom and Dependency: Exploring Gendered Realities“
Nasim Ghaffari (SGPsa)
Carine Minne (BPaS)
Discussant: Emanuela Quagliata (IPS)
Discussant: Angelika Staehle (DPV)
Chair: Melis Tanik Sivri (PSIKE)

Presented in English.

Konferenz 6

Floor 4

„Thinking frees itself – a reading of Freud’s “Negation”“

Johannes Picht (DPV)
Chair and Discussant: Stefanie Sedlacek (DPG)

Presented in English.

Seminar 3

Floor 2

“What kind of presence in the absence when working online? Between freedom and discontents.”

Dimo Georguiev Stantchev (BPS)
Discussant: Martina Burdet Dombald (MPA)

Chair: Maria Teresa Flores (PPS)

Presented in English.

Konferenz 1

Floor 4

“On Freedom for thinking: finding a place of one’s own. Interference by a Premature Superego in infants, and its Après-Coup interpretation in adolescents and adults.”

Christine Franckx (BSP)
Fernando Martín Gomez (APA)
Maria Teresa Flores (PPS)
Christine Anzieu-Premmereur (SPP)
Chair: Antònia Grimalt (SEP)

Presented in English.

Konferenz 2

Floor 4

“FREEDOM IN FREE ASSOCIATION IRED (IPA Dictionary)”

Eva Papiasvili (APsA)
Jerome Scott Blackman (APsA)
Antonio Pérez Sánchez (SPS)
Chair: Stefano Bolognini (ISS)

Presented in English.

Konferenz 3

Floor 4

„Political Caesura and the Analysts’ Freedom of Thought“

Eran J. Rolnik (IPS/DPV)
Chair: Paola Francesca Acquarone (DPG)

Presented in English.

Konferenz 4

Floor 4

“Free Thinking in Psychoanalytic Institutions – an illusion?”

Sylvia Schulze (DPG)
Discussant: Victor Blüml (VPS)

Chair: Claudia Thußbas (DPV)

Presented in English.

Konferenz 8

Floor 4

“The terror of greater freedom to be/do gender: implicit and explicit theories”

Elisabeth Imhorst (DPV)
Anat Schumann (IPS)
Konstantinos Argyropoulos (HPS)
Athanassios Alexandridis (HPS)
Moderator: Eva Reichelt (DPV)
Chair: Frances Thomson-Salo (APS)

Presented in English.

Konferenz 5

Floor 4

“Spaces for psychic freedom in times of extrreme cruelty and violence. Psychoanalytic work with children and adolescents and with those who assist them.”

Mónica Cardenal (APdeBA)
Carlos Vásquez (SPP)
Presenter: Adriana Prengler (CPS)
Chair: Simona Nissim (SPI)

Presented in English.

Konferenz 8

Floor 4

16:00 – 17:00

Central Coffee Break

The EPF will offer a selection of hot and cold beverages as well as snacks.

Terasse

Floor 3

17:00 – 18:30

“Between Liberty and Coercion: Large Group Contraints on Individual Freedom”

Moderators: Shmuel Erlich (IPS)
Mira Erlich-Ginor (IPS)
Dorothee von Tippelskirch-Eissing (DPV)

Presented in English.

Konferenz 6

Floor 4

17:00 – 18:00

INDIVIDUAL PAPER PRESENTATIONS

Room allocations shown below

19:30 – 00:00

Dining & Dancing in the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès *

Including reception and dinner costs.

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Ambassadors‘ Lounge

Floor 4

* Pre-registration is essential for participation in these groups

Individual Paper Presentations

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The Theme of Freedom in Bizet’s Carmen

Presenter: Jerome Blackman (American Psychoanalytic Assosiation)

Presented and discussed in English

Seminar 1

Level 2

Psychoanalytic Publication and the Freedom of Disguise

Presenter: Victori Barker (British Psychoanalytic Society)
Chair: Maia Kirchkheli (British Psychoanalytical Society)

Presented and discussed in English

Seminar 3

Level 2

«Parlez librement ou vous perdrez votre liberté !» Le paradoxe de l’obligation de soin comme un des gradients de contrainte dans cure

Presenter: Piotr Krzakowski (Paris Psychoanalytical Society)

Chair: Valérie Burnet (Swiss Society of Psychoanalysis)

Presented and discussed in French

Conference 1

Level 4

Psychic Freedom and Symbolization: The Impact of Early Maternal Omnipotence on Analytical Treatment

Presenter: Nino Sesiashvili
Chair: Paola Somaini (British Psychoanalytic Society)

Presented and discussed in English

Conference 2

Level 4

In-between. From a Fossil to the Statue of Liberty. On the parallel processes of reclaiming freedom within patient and analyst

Presenter: Anna Gasiorowska-Krawczyk (Polish Psychoanalytical Society)
Chair: Angelika Staehle (German Psychoanalytical Association)

Presented and discussed in English

Conference 3

Level 4

Freedom and trauma in late adolescence gender transition

Presenters: Jorge Camara (Portuguese Psychoanalytical Society)

Presented and discussed in English

Conference 4

Level 4

Freedom from the Self

Presenter: Alice Marble (Norwegian Psychoanalytic Society)

Presented and discussed in French

Conference 5

Level 4

Freedom in the dissociative process

Presenter: Guiseppe Riefolo (Italian Psychoanalytical Society)

Presented and discussed in English

Conference 7

Level 4

The Yearning for Freedom: Revisiting the Curative Factor in Psychoanalysis in the Contemporary Clinic

Presenter: Tamara Peleg-Cohen

Presented and discussed in English

Seminar 3

Level 2

From Tyranny to Democratic Freedom: Psychoanalysis Meets the Struggle

Presenter: Barış Şensoy

Presented and discussed in English

Conference 1

Level 4

Compulsory Repetition of the Circular Movements Towards Freedom

Presenter: Khatuna Ivanishvili

Chair: Maia Kirchkheli

Presented and discussed in English

Conference 2

Level 4

Human Overboard: The psychological Challenges of Mental Freedom

Presenter: Amit Edelstein (Israel Psychoanalytic Society)

Presented and discussed in English

Conference 3

Level 4

Who is the Fascist? – Freedom and Boundaries in Psychoanalysis

Presenter: Helene Wolf (Swedish Psychoanalytical Association)

Presented and discussed in English

Conference 4

Level 4

Translating the Infantile: The Psychoanalyst’s Receptivity to Early and Unarticulated Experiences as a Path to Emotional Freedom

Presenter: Tuba Tokgoz (Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research)

Chair: Nicole Ropert (Chilean Psychoanalytic Association)

Presented and discussed in English

Conference 5

Level 4

Infinity is the fragile limit of our inner Freedom

Presenter: Luisa Branco Vicente (Portuguese Psychoanalytical Society)

Presented and discussed in English

Conference 7

Level 4

Equipment Rooms Parallel Panels and Individual Paper

  • The room for your Parallel Panel Presentation and Individual Paper Presentation will be equipped with the standard Setup:
    TV Monitor or Screen, with Projector and depending on room size, microphones

  • If you would like to share your paper or .pptx., please bring your own Laptop
    If you need special connectors, please do not forget to bring them!

  • Rooms will be prepared with a theatre style seeting arrangement to secure as much participants possible for each room – if you decide to rearrange the chairs, we kindly ask you to leave the room in its original condition out of fairness to the next presenter. 

Your access to the pre-published conference papers on the EPF website

  • If you are a previously registered user of the EPF website, it is advisable to verify that you are using the correct username and password at https://www.epf-fep.eu/en/login This will help you avoid any login issues before and during the conference.

      Attendance fees - Registration starts on 1st September 2025

      435,00 €*

      545,00 €

      Member of an EPF-Society / IPA member

      110,00 €

      PSIKE Istanbul, IPD (Istanbul Psychoanalytical Association), ALDeP (Lebanese Association for the Development of Psychoanalysis)
      525,00 €*

      635,00 €

      No participation in the clinical workshops and sponsored by the president or officer of an EPF member society
      205,00 €*

      310,00 €

      Registered in IPA component societies and endorsed by the president or officer of an EPF member society

      60,00 €

      European Psychoanalytic Institute

      60,00 €

      Student

      *Early bird‘ discount, registrations before 31st January 2026

      Participation fees subject to change.

      Contact and further information

      Organiser and responsible for the programme

      European Psychoanalytical Federation
      Rue Gérard
      351040 Etterbeek
      Belgium

      PCO – Professional Conference Organiser
      Support of the Organiser, Attendee management and Contact
      CSi Hamburg GmbH

      CSi Hamburg GmbH
      Goernestraße 30
      20249 Hamburg
      Germany