Conferences, Events, and Workshops

IPTAR is a vibrant community of student and graduate analysts whose active engagement in the study, research, and development of clinical technique is enhanced by a series of structured programs, scientific meetings and workshops. These are open to the IPTAR membership and candidates, to interested academics, analysts, and analysts-in-training, and to the larger mental health community.

Program of Psychoanalytic Meetings

IPTAR presents a program of four to six open psychoanalytic meetings each year and a two-day conference. The themes that are selected for these presentations reflect currently vital psychoanalytic concerns and reveal both a commitment to classical psychoanalytic thought as well as a desire to hear new and challenging ideas from many different points of view. These meetings offer an avenue for creative discussion and have become significant events for the psychoanalytic community.

Program of Workshops for the Mental Health Professions

These workshops open to mental health professionals outside of IPTAR, as well as for our own members and candidates, are an opportunity to study with a member of the IPTAR community who has expertise in a particular area. The workshops meet for two to four sessions in a seminar format, providing a space for in-depth psychoanalytic inquiry.

Third Avenue Series

The Third Avenue Series are meetings for members and candidates that focus on special areas of inquiry. Held in the intimate setting of our conference room, These presentations are usually made by members of IPTAR, but may also include the participation of invited guests. These meetings concentrate on clinical concerns and are intended as forums for open-ended discussion.

Art, Psychoanalysis, and Society Project

The Art, Psychoanalysis, and Society Project's mission reflects IPTAR’s renewed effort to address the relevance of our discipline to a post-modern world that has become increasingly antagonistic to psychoanalysis. It is about “bringing the couch onto the streets” and placed IPTAR at the avant-guard of a current trend within the IPA to highlight what psychoanalysis has to offer to extra-transferential field. In this regard the Project is attempting to engage diverse disciplines in a meaningful dialogue. The Project functions as an umbrella under which visual arts, films, music, literature and socio-political affairs may be explored and understood with a psychoanalytic informed approach. Committee members chosen for this task had shown extensive expertise in one of the above-mentioned areas and constitute a cross section of the entire IPTAR community.