2/19/2010

It is a pleasure to invite you to the IPA Centenary Congress in Beijing from 22nd to 24th October 2010.  This will be our first IPA Congress in Asia with the theme, "Freud and Asia. Evolution and Change: Psychoanalysis in the Asian Context"

All societies and groups working in Asia: The IPA China Allied Centre, Israel Society, Indian Society, Japan Society, Korean Societydy Group), Taiwan Centre for the Development of Psychoanalysis, Turkish Society, Australian Society, and PIEE and IPSO and COWAP will be represented. Among analysts from Europe, Latin America, North America and Asia who are presenting are:

Salman Akhtar, Werner Bohleber, Jorge Canestri, Do-Un Jeong,Cláudio Eizirik, Shmuel Erlich, Mira Erlich Ginor, Paolo Fonda, Charles Hanly, Osamu Kitayama, Lea Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, Mary Target, Xiao Zeping, and Yang Yunping.

 During the Congress we will have a special interactive program, Coming together in Beijing, intended as an open informal venue for the exchange of experiences, to facilitate communication about different national psychic heritages, and to foster personal acquaintance between the members of the Asian psychoanalytic groups and IPA members from other regions. Clinical Workshops, including the therapeutic relationship, eating disorders, working with couples and families, trauma, children, and personality disorders will take place on October 21.  A Cultural Program will take place from 18th to the 21st of October.