 Scientific Committee of the IPA (SCIPA) Intra-Regional Meeting for Europe Saturday 28th June 2025 Online from 3.30 to 5.15 pm (London time) ‘What does Research have to do with Psychoanalysis?’  Speaker: Gregorio Kohon | Respondent: Nicole Ropert | Chair: Kannan Navaratnem (This Zoom meeting will be in English) REGISTRATION IS FREE OF CHARGE The Scientific Committee of the International Psychoanalytic Association (SCIPA) invites you to participate in this inaugural intra-regional meeting for Europe. What is the IPA Scientific Committee? The Scientific Committee is a standing Committee of the IPA whose purpose is to maximise the effectiveness and outcomes of the scientific activities of component and provisional societies and study groups throughout the IPA. It also aims to work with other IPA bodies to reach out to IPA members and to the public to promote the scientific orientation of contemporary psychoanalysis. Abstract of Gregorio Kohon’s lecture:Psychic reality cannot be reduced to either the mental or the physical — the psychoanalytic object has its own characteristics, categories, and laws. Psychoanalytic theories are based on fundamental hypotheses and basic assumptions that have been arrived at through a mixture of clinical experience and self-reflection, speculative intellectual activity and intuition, free-floating attention and deduction, and the attribution of retrospective meaning and abstract representations. Psychoanalysis does not offer a single, unified, comprehensive theoretical model, nor can it propose an exclusive clinical approach to its object of study. The question of research is confronted by the complex nature of the object of analytic inquiry, reiterating the inappropriateness of any single paradigm. In considering research in psychoanalysis, ontological questions are as relevant as epistemological ones. The establishment of a particular and unique dialogue between patient and analyst characterises the psychoanalytic discipline. Clinical practitioners are accountable for what they do. In order to define the boundaries and aims of their work, psychoanalysts describe their theoretical ideas and clinical approaches through the study of single cases. This meeting is aimed at members of the scientific committees of all the IPA component member associations and societies. However, it is open to IPA members and candidates. REGISTRATION IS FREE OF CHARGE To join the meeting, please click register at the specified time and date. |
