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The International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA) is an association including 12,000 psychoanalysts as members and works with 70 constituent organizations. It was founded in 1910 by Sigmund Freud, on an idea proposed by Sandor Ferenczi. Its first Secretary was Otto Rank.

The IPA is the world’s primary accrediting and regulatory body for psychoanalysis. Its mission is to assure the continued vigour and development of psychoanalysis for the benefit of psychoanalytic patients.

The IPA's aims include creating new psychoanalytic groups, stimulating debate, conducting research, developing training policies and establishing links with other bodies. It organizes a large biennial Congress which is open to all.

History of IPA

In 1902 Sigmund Freud started to meet every week with colleagues to discuss his work and so Psychological Wednesday Society was born. By 1908 there were 14 regular members and some guests including Max Eitingon, Carl Gustav Jung, Karl Abraham, and Ernest Jones, all future Presidents of the IPA^[1]. Society became the Vienna Psychoanalytical Society. In 1907 Jones suggested to Jung that an international meeting should be arranged and Freud welcomed the proposal. Meeting took place in Salzburg, on 27 April 1908 and Jung named it the "First Congress for Freudian Psychology" and it is later reckoned to be the first International Psychoanalytical Congress, even so the IPA had not yet been founded.

IPA was established at the next Congress held at Nuremberg in March 1910.^[2] Sigmund Freud considered an international organization to be essential to advance his ideas. In 1914 Freud published a paper entitled History of the Psychoanalytic Movement.

Constituent Organizations of the IPA

Constituent Organisations Europe including Australia, India and Israel

• Australian Psychoanalytical Society
• Belgian Psychoanalytic Society
• Belgrade Psychoanalytical (Provisional) Society
• British (Provisional) Psychoanalytic Association
• British Psychoanalytical Society
• Czech Psychoanalytical Society
• Danish Psychoanalytical Society
• Dutch Psychoanalytical Association (Genootschap)
• Dutch Psychoanalytical Group (NPAG)
• Dutch Psychoanalytical Society
• Finnish Psychoanalytical Society
• French Psychoanalytical Association
• German Psychoanalytical Association
• German Psychoanalytical (Board Provisional) Society (DPG)
• Hellenic Psychoanalytical Society
• Hungarian Psychoanalytical Society
• Indian Psychoanalytical Society
• Israel Psychoanalytic Society
• Italian Psychoanalytical Association (AIPsi)
• Italian Psychoanalytical Society
• Madrid Psychoanalytical Association
• Norwegian Psychoanalytical Society
• Paris Psychoanalytical Society
• Polish Psychoanalytical (Provisional) Society
• Portuguese Psychoanalytical Society
• Spanish Psychoanalytical Society
• Swedish Psychoanalytical Association
• Swedish Psychoanalytical Society
• Swiss Psychoanalytical Society
• Vienna Psychoanalytic Society

Latin America

• Argentine Psychoanalytic Association
• Argentine Psychoanalytic Society
• Brasília Psychoanalytic Society
• Brazilian Psychoanalytical Society of Porto Alegre
• Brazilian Psychoanalytical Society of Ribeirão Preto
• Brazilian Psychoanalytic Society of Rio de Janeiro
• Brazilian Psychoanalytic Society of São Paulo
• Buenos Aires Psychoanalytic Association
• Caracas Psychoanalytic Society
• Chilean Psychoanalytic Association
• Colombian Psychoanalytic Association
• Colombian Psychoanalytic Society
• Córdoba Psychoanalytic Society
• Freudian Psychoanalytical Society of Colombia
• Mato Grosso do Sul Psychoanalytical Society
• Mendoza Psychoanalytic Society
• Mexican Association for Psychoanalytic Practice, Training and Research (MAPPTR) ^[3]
• Mexican Psychoanalytic Association
• Monterrey Psychoanalytic Association
• Pelotas Psychoanalytic Society
• Peru Psychoanalytic Society
• Porto Alegre Psychoanalytic Society
• Psychoanalytical Association of The State of Rio De Janeiro - Rio IV
• Psychoanalytic Society of Mexico – Park Mexico
• Recife Psychoanalytic Society
• Rio de Janeiro Psychoanalytic Society
• Rio III Psychoanalytic Association
• Rosario Psychoanalytic Association
• Uruguayan Psychoanalytical Association (APU)
• Venezuelan Psychoanalytic Association

North America including Japan

• American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA)
• Canadian Psychoanalytic Society
• Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies (IPS) (Provisional)
• Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR)
• Japan Psychoanalytic Society
• Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies (LAISPS)
• New York Freudian Society (NYFS)
• Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society (NPS) (Provisional)
• Psychoanalytic Center of California (PCC)
• Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC) (Provisional)

IPA Study Groups

• Asunción Study Group
• Croatian Psychoanalytical Study Group
• Guadalajara Psychoanalytic Study Group
• Moscow Psychoanalytic Society (Study Group)
• Moscow Society of Psychoanalysts (Study Group)
• Northern Ireland Association for the Study of Psycho-Analysis (NIASP) - Study Group
• Psychoanalytic Society for Research and Training (SPRF) (Study Group)
• Romanian Society of Psychoanalysis - Study Group
• Turkish Psychoanalytical Study Group
• Vienna Arbeitskreis for Psychoanalysis Study Group (WAP)

International Congresses

The first 23 Congresses of IPA did not have a specific theme.

References

1. ^ Group portrait: Freud and associates in a photograph taken ca. 1922, Berlin. Sitting (from left to right) : Sigmund Freud, Sándor Ferenczi, Hanns Sachs. Standing (from left to right) : Otto Rank, Karl Abraham, Max Eitingon, Ernest Jones.
2. ^ How did the IPA begin?
3. ^ Provisional Society

External links

Organization website: International Psychoanalytical Association

Number	Year	City	President	Theme
1	1908	Salzburg
2	1910	Nuremberg	C. G. Jung
3	1911	Weimar	C. G. Jung
4	1913	Munich	C. G. Jung
5	1918	Budapest	Karl Abraham
6	1920	The Hague	Sandor Ferenczi
7	1922	Berlin	Ernest Jones
8	1924	Salzburg	Ernest Jones
9	1925	Bad Homburg	Abraham/Eitingon
10	1927	Innsbruck	Max Eitingon
11	1929	Oxford	Max Eitingon
12	1932	Wiesbaden	Max Eitingon
13	1934	Lucerne	Ernest Jones
14	1936	Marienbad	Ernest Jones
15	1938	Paris	Ernest Jones
16	1949	Zürich	Ernest Jones
17	1951	Amsterdam	Leo Bartemeier
18	1953	London	Heinz Hartmann
19	1955	Geneva	Heinz Hartmann
20	1957	Paris	Heinz Hartmann
21	1959	Copenhagen	William H. Gillespie
22	1961	Edinburgh	William H. Gillespie
23	1963	Stockholm	Maxwell Gitelson
24	1965	Amsterdam	Gillespie/Greenacre	Psychoanalytic Treatment of the Obsessional Neurosis
25	1967	Copenhagen	P.J. van der Leeuw	On Acting Out and its Role in the Psychoanalytic Process
26	1969	Rome	P.J. van der Leeuw	New Developments in Psychoanalysis
27	1971	Vienna	Leo Rangell	The Psychoanalytical Concept of Aggression
28	1973	Paris	Leo Rangell	Transference and Hysteria Today
29	1975	London	Serge Lebovici	Changes in Psychoanalytic Practice and Experience
30	1977	Jerusalem	Serge Lebovici	Affects and the Psychoanalytic Situation
31	1979	New York	Edward D. Joseph	Clinical Issues in Psychoanalysis
32	1981	Helsinki	Edward D. Joseph	Early Psychic Development as Reflected in the Psychoanalytic Process
33	1983	Madrid	Adam Limentani	The Psychoanalyst at Work
34	1985	Hamburg	Adam Limentani	Identification and its Vicissitudes
35	1987	Montreal	Robert S. Wallerstein	Analysis Terminable and Interminable – 50 Years Later
36	1989	Rome	Robert S. Wallerstein	Common Ground in Psychoanalysis
37	1991	Buenos Aires	Joseph Sandler	Psychic Change
38	1993	Amsterdam	Joseph Sandler	The Psychoanalyst’s Mind – From Listening to Interpretation
39	1995	San Francisco	R. Horacio Etchegoyen	Psychic Reality – Its Impact on the Analyst and Patient Today
40	1997	Barcelona	R. Horacio Etchegoyen	Psychoanalysis and Sexuality
41	1999	Santiago	Otto F. Kernberg	Affect in Theory and Practice
42	2001	Nice	Otto F. Kernberg	Psychoanalysis – Method and Application
43	2004	New Orleans	Daniel Widlöcher	Working at the Frontiers
44	2005	Rio de Janeiro	Daniel Widlöcher	Trauma: New Developments in Psychoanalysis
45	2007	Berlin	Cláudio Laks Eizirik	Remembering, Repeating and Working Through in Psychoanalysis & Culture Today
46	2009	Chicago	Cláudio Laks Eizirik	Psychoanalytic Practice - Convergences and Divergences
47	2011	Mexico City	Charles Hanly	Exploring Core Concepts: Sexuality, Dreams and the Unconscious