IPU15 Week of Celebration

Time: 12-2 pm

In addition to his book launch in the evening, David Tuckett will offer IPU students the opportunity to talk with him in more detail.

Participation is limited to 30 places. IPU students from all study programs can register here.

This workshop will look at the at the methods used in the 20 year European Comparative Clinical Methods research project – to find a way to collect everyday data from psychoanalytic sessions, to discuss this data to bring out differences between analysts and to develop a conceptual framework to present results and conclusions. The study, which looked at 16 cases collected from over a thousand workshops, has produced the largest collection of examples of how contemporary psychoanalysts do their work and in the process had created more secure researchable definitions for the key clinical concepts of psychoanalysis – how to infer unconscious content, transference and countertransference and how an analyst makes a difference. Otto Kernberg has described the study and the book in which it is described as a ”profound, comprehensive analysis of the present crisis in the theory and practice of psychoanalytic technique. The penetrating, objective, and fair description of the dominant alternative models of psychoanalytic interventions upgrades the very level of the respective controversial discussions.”

Knowing What Psychoanalysts Do and Doing What Psychoanalysts Know by David Tuckett, Elizabeth Allison, Olivier Bonard, Georg Bruns, Anna Christopoulos, Michael Diercks, Eike Hinze, Marinella Linardos and Michael Sebek. 

6 pm | Lecture Hall 1, 3rd floor, Stromstraße 2, 10555 Berlin

Participation is free of charge. Registration is not required.

Psychoanalyst David Tucket (University College London) presents his new book Knowing What Psychoanalysts Do and Doing What Psychoanalysts Know. 

In this talk David Tuckett (the lead author of the European Comparative Clinical Methods team) will describe how they collaborated with over a thousand colleagues worldwide over twenty years to collect a unique dataset of everyday clinical sessions, using a new workshop discussion method designed to reveal differences. Faced with diversity in psychoanalytic practice and wanting to surface and understand it, they had to evolve a new theoretical framework. This framework, which will be the main focus of the talk, covers different approaches to the analytic situation (using the metaphors of cinema, dramatic monologue, theater, and immersive theater): different sources of data to infer unconscious content; differences in the troubles patients unconsciously experience and how to approach them; and differences in when, about what, and how a psychoanalyst should talk. Taking the form of eleven very practical questions for psychoanalysts to ask of each session they conduct, the framework helps experienced psychoanalysts and students alike determine their intention and independently assess their progress. At the emd of the talk the new framework will be used to ask some practical questions about contemporary technical controversies with some surprising results.

David Tuckett, M.A.-M.Sc.
trained in Economics, Medical Sociology and Psychoanalysis and held previous positions at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School and Bedford College (University of London) and Cambridge University. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Psychoanalysis (London) and has worked part-time in psychoanalytic clinical practice since 1977. He is currently Director of the UCL Centre for the Study of Decision-Making Uncertainty, Principal Investigator for the CRUISSE network (Confronting Radical Uncertainty in Science, Society and the Environment), and a Senior Research Fellow with the place-based renewal team at the Blavatnik School of Government of Oxford University. His research work, attempting to integrate insights psychoanalysis, sociology, cognitive psychology and economics, covers Economic and Financial Decision-Making, Psychoanalysis and Medical Sociology.

From 1988-2001 he was Editor of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and from 1999-2004 President of the European Psychoanalytic Federation. He is also Chief Executive Officer of Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing, a US-based not-for-profit social enterprise which has developed a comprehensive archive of psychoanalytic works and videos. He introduced new ways of peer review and research into psychoanalytic practice and writing, for which he was awarded the Sigourney Prize in 2007.

Time: 2-4 pm

Prof. Louis Castonguay (Penn State University, USA) joins IPU doctoral students in conversation as part of the doctoral colloquium Psychotherapy Research and its Foundations. 

6 pm | Lecture Hall 1, 3rd floor, Stromstraße 2, 10555 Berlin

„Working through some wishes and fears of clinicians, trainees, and researchers: A collaborative journey"

Participation is free of charge. Registration is not required.

Louis Georges Castonguay, PhD. 
is currently Liberal Arts Professor of Psychology at The Pennsylvania State University. 

The primary focus of his research is on factors related to the process and impact of psychotherapy, including client characteristics (e.g., limited financial resources, discrimination), therapist (e.g., therapist effects), therapeutic relationship (e.g., working alliance), client’s processes (e.g., insight, corrective experience), therapeutic interventions (e.g., techniques), and contextual (e.g., center effects) variables. Over the last several years, he has been involved in the development of practice-research networks and has conducted practice-oriented research aimed at better understanding and improving psychotherapy as practice in natural settings.

He has more than 250 publications, including 13 co-edited books, including the seventh edition of Bergin and Garfield’s handbook of psychotherapy and behavior change (with Michael Barkham and Wolfgang Lutz).

He received the Early Career Contribution Awards from the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR), American Psychological Association Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy (APA SAP), and the American Psychological Association Society of Clinical Psychology. The APA SAP also honored him with the Distinguished Contributions to Teaching and Mentoring Award, Distinguished Research Publication Award, as well Distinguished Psychologist Award for lifetime contributions to the field. Furthermore, he received the Distinguished Research Career Award and the Lifetime Contribution Award from SPR. He served as President for both SPR and its North American chapter. 

Time: 3 pm

The IPU congratulates its employees who have diligently and passionately supported the IPU for 5, 10 and 15 years.

IPU employees from all member groups are warmly invited.

You can find more information about the conference and how to register here.

It is not easy to come to terms with yourself. Gaining clarity about and being honest with yourself does not come naturally. We are strangers to ourselves and do not know when we are deceiving ourselves. In our dealings with others, too, we move between openness and concealment, honesty and simulation. Truthfulness is an ideal of behavior towards others and ourselves. However, we usually encounter it in tension with untruthfulness. The contrast between truth and falsehood, authenticity and simulation permeates our individual and social lives. We are not sure to what extent we are normally really sincere and truthful, to what extent we can be, want to be. The conference explores this tension with a special focus on conversation as a place of concealment, but also as a resource for truth, for finding and understanding each other.

6:15 pm | Lecture Hall 1, 3rd floor, Stromstraße 2, 10555 Berlin

“The dichotomy of truthfulness. Being true from the other.”
Prof. em. Dr. Emil Angern (University of Basel)

The lecture is part of the symposium “Truthfulness and Untruthfulness in Conversation”.

Participation is free of charge. Registration is not required.

8:15 pm | Stromstr. 2, 2nd floor (IPU Library)

Participation is free of charge. Registration is not required.

We cordially invite you to our exhibition in the “Freud showcase”. In this format, entitled “lost & found”, we want to make objects relating to the history of psychoanalysis speak for themselves and inspire a younger generation with historical questions.

Our first exhibition, which we opened on Freud's 168th birthday, is dedicated to five found objects from the world's first psychoanalytic clinic, the Berlin-Tegel Sanatorium (1927-1931). These objects went on the run with the psychoanalysts Ernst Simmel and Mosche Wulff during the National Socialist era, are marked by their journey across the oceans and found their way back to Berlin from Hollywood and Tel Aviv.

Heike Bernhardt, Ludger M. Hermanns, Uwe Kaminsky and Regine Lockot
Initiative Freud-Museum-Berlin
Archive for the History of Psychoanalysis e.V.

You can find more information about the conference and how to register here.

It is not easy to come to terms with yourself. Gaining clarity about and being honest with yourself does not come naturally. We are strangers to ourselves and do not know when we are deceiving ourselves. In our dealings with others, too, we move between openness and concealment, honesty and simulation. Truthfulness is an ideal of behavior towards others and ourselves. However, we usually encounter it in tension with untruthfulness. The contrast between truth and falsehood, authenticity and simulation permeates our individual and social lives. We are not sure to what extent we are normally really sincere and truthful, to what extent we can be, want to be. The conference explores this tension with a special focus on conversation as a place of concealment, but also as a resource for truth, for finding and understanding each other.

Time: 1-3 pm

WITH FREUD IN BERLIN 

In its relatively short existence of around 125 years, psychoanalysis has permeated our entire lives. It is so present in culture, business, therapy and the feature pages of newspapers that anyone interested feels deeply familiar with its basic assumptions. With its omnipresence, its contours are becoming blurred. Now it is in danger of being completely absorbed into the mainstream and disappearing.
The commemorative plaques “With Freud in Berlin” secure the traces of many of its most important representatives who lived and worked here in Berlin and were socialized here. They often came to Berlin as refugees, e.g. from Hungary, and then had to leave our city, again as refugees.
Despite their often dramatic life stories, they were able to create a treasure trove of ever-evolving psychoanalytic concepts.

The IPU will invite selected guests from within the universtiy as well as from Berlin institutes an universities.

www.mitfreudinberlin.de