The CIPS Board is delighted to announce a co-sponsored Biennial Clinical Conference with NAPsaC, our North American Regional Association. The conference opens on Friday afternoon with a distinguished panel moderated by Alexandra Billinghurst, Vice President of the IPA, featuring Maxine Anderson, MD, Fred Busch, PhD, Michael Diamond, PhD and Robert Pyles, MD.

The Clinical Conference is unique in that it focuses entirely on group process. Participants will meet in small groups with colleagues throughout the North American Region, where each member presents their material related to the theme of this year’s conference. At the Plenary Session on Sunday, facilitators will summarize their groups’ experience to the larger conference group. Discussion of the theme co-mingles with comments about the conference experience. This year’s theme of “Trauma and Transformative Potential” will be further highlighted by the setting for the weekend at the Ritz Battery Park, in the shadow of the Twin Towers and the 9/11 Memorial Site.

SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS

CIPS is the acronym for the Confederation of Independent Psychoanalytic Societies. Since its formation, CIPS has been promoting the interest of the independent North American IPA societies and their members. CIPS member societies are: the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, the Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalysis, the Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, and the Psychoanalytic Center of California. Through its Direct Member category, any IPA analyst may join CIPS, and participate in their popular teleconference Study Groups and biennial Clinical Conference.  

NAPsaC is the acronym for the North American Psychoanalytic Confederation, an association of North American IPA Groups. It is a regional group whose principal function is to interface with other regional groups and the IPA, and to provide a forum for reports and discussions between IPA representatives and their North American constituents. The component societies of NAPsaC are:
the American Psychoanalytic Association, the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society, the Contemporary Freudian Society, the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, the Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalysis, the Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, and the Psychoanalytic Center of California.

The Location

With striking views of the New York Harbor and Statue of Liberty, The Ritz-Carlton New York, Battery Park will be stylish with just the right ambience.

Questions? 

If you have questions about any aspect of the conference please contact
Randi Wirth, PhD, FIPA
(212)722-6838
president@cipsusa.org

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