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87 years after Freud's death: Days after losing his daughter Sophie, he wrote to Ferenczi: “Death, however painful it may be, does not affect my attitude toward life.” Not denial of loss, but commitment to sustain life, thought and work. A legacy for us.

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From the Music Studio to the Consulting Room with Edmund Sprunger, MSW (St. Louis)

Edmund Sprunger, MSW, psychoanalyst in St Louis. He holds a Masters in Social Work from the University of Michigan
#210
Podcast produced by Harvey Schwartz for the IPA.

https://t.co/CkwbGTqsDo

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Revising our founding myths in face of violence against women

by Susana Muszkat re: male violence and its naturalization in society.
She is a psychologist , psychoanalyst, a full and faculty member of the Brazilian Psychoanalytical Society São Paulo.

https://t.co/JkiRlGXzZO

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Today, we remember Edith Jacobson September 10, 1897, Haynau, German Empire, now Chojnów, Poland .

“These amazing facts are evidence of the changes in her endocrine production which resulted in a period of high fertility following years of sterility.” (p. 349)

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Happy birthday to Wilfred Ruprecht Bion (8 September 1897, Mathura, India .

He wrotes: “The disturbance of the impulse of curiosity on
which all learning depends, and the denial of the mechanism by which it seeks expression, makes normal development impossible.” (p. 314)

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Happy Birthday to Hanna Segal , August 20, 1918, Poland.

A gifted psychoanalyst, teacher, and writer, She was one of the most influential voices of the Kleinian tradition. Her work offered profound insights into unconscious phantasy, symbol formation, psychosis and creativity.

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*On this day August 18 in 1882*
Freud to Martha Bernays:

_"One should not be stingy with tenderness. Whatever is drawn from those funds is renewed through that very expenditure. If left untouched too long, it diminishes or the lock rusts."_

#Freud #EconomyOfLove

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Happy Birthday to Donald Meltzer , August 15, 1922, New York City, USA.

His work, deeply influenced by M.Klein and W.Bion, opened new ways of thinking about the inner world, emotional development, childhood, autism, and the aesthetic dimensions of the mind.

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Psychoanalysis On and Off the Couch

The Ethics of Psychoanalysis in Time of War: Iran Today with Gohar Homayounpour, PsyD (Paris)

“How do we continue doing this work when the socio-political realities are unimaginable? 
https://t.co/lCDQKqFe6W #209

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Happy Birthday to William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn , 11 August 1889, Edinburgh, Scotland , whose pioneering work profoundly shaped the development of psychoanalytic theory and our understanding of human relationships, object relations, and the inner world.

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Congress of French-Speaking Psychoanalysts Celebrates 100 Years
The Congress of French-Speaking Psychoanalysts has brought together, French-speaking analysts from dif.soc. assoc .– 26 today – We look forward to seeing you in Lisbon in ’27, in Paris in ’28, and in Liège in ’29.

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The latest neuroscience may be proving Freud right

An interview with Mark Solms https://t.co/EH8gQKv6GH

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In September, the IPA Prizes and Awards Committee will issue a call for nominations for 4 of the most prestigious honours to be conferred at the 2027 Vancouver Congress. These awards reflect the IPA’s highest recognition of dedication to the field of Psychoanalysis.

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Why I Write: From the Dot to the Line – Drawing a Thread Out and Writing it

 By  Jennifer Davids, Fellow British Psychoanalytical Society (BPaS), FIPA, born in South Africa, a chartered clinical psychologist , a Child, Adolescent , Adult Psychoanalyst.
https://t.co/ds9TQXehWK

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Happy Birthday to @Mark_Solms (Windhoek, Namibia, July 17, 1961 – present), neuroscientist and psychoanalyst whose work has profoundly shaped our understanding of consciousness, emotion, and the mind.
Pic. https://t.co/Iq92YTYhHy

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The JC’s next meeting, featuring a paper by Jack Drescher, MD, will be on Friday, September 11, 2026, at 4 p.m. London time, 11 a.m. US Eastern Time.
Registration, which is free of charge, is open .
https://t.co/sclZtTLoWY

The IPA (JC) is a project of the IPA C.C

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Happy Birthday in remembrance of Didier Anzieu, (July 8, 1923, Melun, France – November 25, 1999, Paris, France) whose pioneering work continues to inspire generations of psychologists and psychoanalysts.
Pic. https://t.co/WShSjg0isS

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Happy Birthday to Sándor Ferenczi! (Miskolc, Hungary, 7 July 1873 – Budapest, Hungary, 22 May 1933), one of the pioneers of psychoanalysis.
He wrote to Freud: “The vulnerability of organs may also come into consideration”.
Ferenczi, S. (1908) Letter from S Ferenczi to S. Freud,

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Psychoanalysis On and Off the Couch

My Journey from Veterinary Medicine to Psychoanalysis with Michele Gaspar DVM,MA,LCPC (Chicago)         

Michele Gaspar is an advanced candidate at the Chicago (CCP).

https://t.co/cTWIXPrieZ #207

https://t.co/djP4EvZ8fc

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Happy Birthday Marie Bonaparte! (2 July 1882, Saint-Cloud, France – 21 September 1962, Saint-Tropez, France).

She wrote that:“Thereafter, the destiny and influence of the infantile sadistic phantasies will differ with the sex of the child” (p. 328)

Bonaparte, M. (1935)