SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT

The Libero and Zora Polojaz Foundation (Trieste, Italy) in collaboration with Hrvatsko Psihoanalitičko Društvo shall organize an

INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON

PSYCHOANALYSIS AND PSYCHOTHERAPY

Saturday 22 October 2016 at the Bošnjački Institut, Sarajevo

The so-called “talking cure” that was defined by one of the first psychoanalytic patients was a remarkable discovery within the patient-doctor relationship. Psychoanalysis was developed out of this “cure”, along with psychoanalytic psychotherapy. In this seminar, a number of psychoanalysts from the Croatian and the Italian Psychoanalytic Societies, which are both part of the IPA, consider certain essential concepts of treatment based on psychoanalysis. These concepts will then be discussed and investigated in working groups. It is well-known that the path of psychoanalysis commenced from traumatic experiences that emerged from patients’ memories, although most of these memories later proved to be phantasies. Nevertheless, trauma alongside phantasy is both an organizer as well as a disorganizer of psychic experience. Trauma can be gradually reconstructed over the course of psychotherapy, thus fostering the recovery of psychic creativity. Scientific committee: Andrea Braun, psychoanalyst of the Società Psicoanalitica Italiana Paolo Fonda, psychoanalyst of the Società Psicoanalitica Italiana Stanislav Matačić, psychoanalyst of the Hrvatsko Psihoanalitičko Društvo Vlasta Polojaz, psychoanalyst of the Società Psicoanalitica Italiana

Program

Conference Hall Chair: Stanislav Matačić 9.00 Welcome from the Local Organizing Committee 9.20 Introduction to the Seminar – Vlasta Polojaz 9.40 About psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy – Paolo Fonda 10.00 Setting in psychoanalytic psychotherapy – Anna Nicolò 11.00 Coffee break 11.30 New technologies and psychoanalytic psychotherapy – Andrea Braun 11.50 First comments by participants 12.30 Lunch break Chair: Sanja Borovečki Jakovljev 14.00 Panel: Researching topics to be discussed in working groups 14.30 Working groups led by Croatian and Italian psychoanalysts 16.30 Coffee break 17.00 Final panel with group leaders and speakers – Closing remarks 17.30 Closing

The main speaker, Anna Nicolò (Rome, Italy) is a medical doctor, child and adolescent psychiatrist, training analyst of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society (SPI) and of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA). Member of the previous Board of Representatives of the IPA and previous chair of the EPF (European Psychoanalytical Federation) “Forum for Adolescents Psychoanalysis”, she is the scientific director of the journal Interazioni (Interactions) and author of numerous publications.

Organizing Committee

Maja Dobranić-Posavec, candidate of the Croatian Psycoanalytic Society Sabaheta Duranović, candidate of the Croatian Psycoanalytic Society Alma Kreševljaković, analysand of the Croatian Psycoanalytic Society

Official languages are English, Croatian and Bosnian.

The seminar is free of charge, but the participation is limited.

For information contact: meeting.sarajevo2016@fondazione-polojaz.org

With the sponsorship of

Bošnjački Institut, Mula Mustafe Bašeskije 21, Sarajevo

Slovensko društvo za psihoanalitično psihoterapijo

The Libero and Zora Polojaz Foundation in collaboration with the Revoltella Museum in Trieste shall organize a psychoanalytic seminar on

INTEGRATION and SPLITTING

Saturday 15 November 2014 at the Revoltella Museum, Trieste Why hold a psychoanalytic seminar on integration and splitting in today's age? Psychoanalytic theory has dealt with splitting since its inception and has explored the pathological aspect of this form of defense through studies of fetishism and psychoses. These are situations in which a denied reality is replaced by a virtual one, which is also a particularly common defense mechanism in different forms of trauma. In cases of borderline and narcissistic disorders splitting plays a prominent role, insomuch as it isolates the affects which are too painful and too difficult to integrate. However, integration and splitting are also well-known processes in normal, emotional life. Integration that is naturally preceded by a state of non-integration can shatter, disintegrate and then give rise to new integration. Integration can, therefore, be seen as a process in continuous evolution and never delineated in a permanent manner. Nonetheless, in certain circumstances every part of it can degenerate. The Seminar offers the opportunity to delve into the different manifestations of these processes on an intrapsychic, interpersonal, and trans-subjective level. Further, the centennial of the beginning of World War I -- which occurs this year -- can be considered a source of reflection on integrative and disintegrative aspects, on fragmentation and on splitting. All these aspects, which are caused by external events, occur not only in the lives of populations but also within and between nations. We should remember that the destructiveness of the war itself stimulated the blossoming of certain Freudian concepts of great importance, such as the life and death drives and the psychology of groups. The scientific committee: Andrea Braun

Paolo Fonda Vlasta Polojaz (Psychoanalysts of the Società Psicoanalitica Italiana)

With the sponsorship of Società Psicoanalitica Italiana and of Centro Veneto di Psicoanalisi

The Libero and Zora Polojaz Foundation in collaboration with the Revoltella Museum in Trieste shall organize a psychoanalytic seminar on

INTEGRATION and SPLITTING

Saturday 15 November 2014 at the Revoltella Museum, Trieste Why hold a psychoanalytic seminar on integration and splitting in today's age? Psychoanalytic theory has dealt with splitting since its inception and has explored the pathological aspect of this form of defense through studies of fetishism and psychoses. These are situations in which a denied reality is replaced by a virtual one, which is also a particularly common defense mechanism in different forms of trauma. In cases of borderline and narcissistic disorders splitting plays a prominent role, insomuch as it isolates the affects which are too painful and too difficult to integrate. However, integration and splitting are also well-known processes in normal, emotional life. Integration that is naturally preceded by a state of non-integration can shatter, disintegrate and then give rise to new integration. Integration can, therefore, be seen as a process in continuous evolution and never delineated in a permanent manner. Nonetheless, in certain circumstances every part of it can degenerate. The Seminar offers the opportunity to delve into the different manifestations of these processes on an intrapsychic, interpersonal, and trans-subjective level. Further, the centennial of the beginning of World War I -- which occurs this year -- can be considered a source of reflection on integrative and disintegrative aspects, on fragmentation and on splitting. All these aspects, which are caused by external events, occur not only in the lives of populations but also within and between nations. We should remember that the destructiveness of the war itself stimulated the blossoming of certain Freudian concepts of great importance, such as the life and death drives and the psychology of groups. The scientific committee: Andrea Braun

Paolo Fonda Vlasta Polojaz (Psychoanalysts of the Società Psicoanalitica Italiana)

With the sponsorship of Società Psicoanalitica Italiana and of Centro Veneto di Psicoanalisi

Centro veneto di Psicoanalisi