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17/12/2025

SAVE THE DATE :

New Worlds: New Dimensions
28th February 2026
10am-1pm online only

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20/06/2025

✨21st century crucial problems for psychoanalysis✨

📆Dates: July 12th, 2025

⏰10:30am – 12:30pm.

💻Online and in person

Title: Crucial challenges to the analyst’s desire

https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/crucial-challenges-to-the-analysts-desire-with-hilda-fernandez-alvarez-tickets-1380644798759

In this seminar we will discuss the clinical concerns that Lacan identified as Crucial problems for psychoanalysis, presented in Lacan’s Seminar 12 (1964-1965): identification, demand and transference. We will approach these analytic notions through Lacan’s play on topological surfaces. Topology help us to imaginarize some problems and to locate the movement of thought within the psychoanalytic act. The key to understanding the topology of these central challenges in psychoanalytic practice lies in the desire of the analyst. This Seminar will invite us to think about these clinical challenges, posed by the field of the Real on the subject’s suffering, through some vignettes that pertain to both the clinic and the culture of the 21 st century.

Dr. Hilda Fernandez-Alvarez is a Lacanian psychoanalyst based in Vancouver, Canada. She has a vast wealth of clinical experience with diverse populations in public and private settings in Mexico and Canada. She has a Master’s degree in clinical psychology from Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), a Master’s degree in literature from University of British Columbia (UBC) and a PhD in Geography from Simon Fraser University (SFU). Her doctoral dissertation articulates a critique of how discourses of trauma and healing are used in public mental health institutions. She co-founded the Lacan Salon in September 2007 and is the president of Corpo Freudiano Vancouver Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis, just formed last March 2025, and which emerged from the Salon. She is an associate of the SFU Institute for the Humanities and has conducted clinical seminars since October 2015. Dr. Fernandez-Alvarez speaks regularly in various psychoanalytic conferences and colloquies and her research has been published internationally and focuses on the theory and practice of psychoanalysis, trauma, discourse, socio-spatial practices, love and politics. She is co-editor of Lamella, a section of the Journal Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society.

17/06/2025

✨21st century crucial problems for psychoanalysis✨

📆Dates: July 12th, 2025

⏰10:30am – 12:30pm.

💻Online and in person

Title: Crucial challenges to the analyst’s desire

https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/crucial-challenges-to-the-analysts-desire-with-hilda-fernandez-alvarez-tickets-1380644798759

In this seminar we will discuss the clinical concerns that Lacan identified as Crucial problems for psychoanalysis, presented in Lacan’s Seminar 12 (1964-1965): identification, demand and transference. We will approach these analytic notions through Lacan’s play on topological surfaces. Topology help us to imaginarize some problems and to locate the movement of thought within the psychoanalytic act. The key to understanding the topology of these central challenges in psychoanalytic practice lies in the desire of the analyst. This Seminar will invite us to think about these clinical challenges, posed by the field of the Real on the subject’s suffering, through some vignettes that pertain to both the clinic and the culture of the 21 st century.

Dr. Hilda Fernandez-Alvarez is a Lacanian psychoanalyst based in Vancouver, Canada. She has a vast wealth of clinical experience with diverse populations in public and private settings in Mexico and Canada. She has a Master’s degree in clinical psychology from Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), a Master’s degree in literature from University of British Columbia (UBC) and a PhD in Geography from Simon Fraser University (SFU). Her doctoral dissertation articulates a critique of how discourses of trauma and healing are used in public mental health institutions. She co-founded the Lacan Salon in September 2007 and is the president of Corpo Freudiano Vancouver Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis, just formed last March 2025, and which emerged from the Salon. She is an associate of the SFU Institute for the Humanities and has conducted clinical seminars since October 2015. Dr. Fernandez-Alvarez speaks regularly in various psychoanalytic conferences and colloquies and her research has been published internationally and focuses on the theory and practice of psychoanalysis, trauma, discourse, socio-spatial practices, love and politics. She is co-editor of Lamella, a section of the Journal Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society.

24/04/2025

✨Save the date✨ APPI Congress 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS 🎤📢

To the couch and beyond
Critical issues facing psychoanalysis
The royal Marine Hotel, Dun Laoghaire & Online
Saturday 22nd November 2025

Guest speaker : Ian Parker

Psychoanalysis and history: Reflections on Seminar XII

Seminar XII was given by Lacan at a moment of crisis, of a turning point in the history of psychoanalysis, and it includes reflection on the location of psychoanalysis as such in history. Key questions – ‘crucial problems’ posed for psychoanalysts – include the inclusion of the clinician and researcher in the phenomena they describe, and the position of the analyst. We see in Seminar XII an account of the ‘extimate’ nature of psychoanalysis, in dimensions of space, of the place of the clinic in culture, and of time, of the historicity of psychoanalytic theory and practice. This paper extracts elements of the argument from the seminar and its engagement with contemporary psychoanalytic debates to explore how our psychoanalysis today might, in the light of decolonial critiques, reflect upon itself.

Ian Parker is a practising psychoanalyst in Manchester working with the Red Clinic, and co-author, with David Pavón-Cuéllar, of Psychoanalysis and Revolution: Critical Psychology for Liberation Movements (2021, 1968 Press)

20/02/2025

Saturday, March 8
Libido from Ego to Object: Reading Freud's On Narcissism

Seminar presented by Amanda Bay

Online

Saturday, March 8 · 10am - 12pm GMT

The talk will center on a close reading of Freud’s classic 1914 paper. We will have ample time for questions and discussion, both theoretical and clinical. We might consider, for example, what Lacan’s thought contributes to the Freudian understanding of narcissism. The text of reference will be Strachey’s translation in the Standard Edition.

Bio:
An American psychoanalyst from California, Amanda has been living and working in Paris for over 25 years. She is a practicing analyst at Espace Analytique, where she has co-lead the seminar The Pleasure of Reading Freud (2019-2020), as well as the seminar Anxiety: from Freud to Lacan (2021-2022). Since 2023, in partnership with colleagues at Espace, Amanda has helped to guide the monthly seminar, Clinical Transmission, under the direction of Marielle David. Amanda is a founding member of the program Appui-Psy: psychoanalysts offering pro-bono consultations to the employees of the humanitarian association Utopia 56. She has a special interest in the intersection of psychoanalysis and literature.

https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/libido-from-ego-to-object-reading-freuds-on-narcissism-tickets-1223229585619

20/02/2025

Friday, March 21
Imagining a revolutionary unconscious

A radical role for psychoanalysis troubling times . In-Person and On-Line

Friday, March 21 (5-7pm GMT)

Michael O’Loughlin is Professor in the College of Education and Health Sciences and in the Derner School of Psychology at Adelphi University, New York. He has authored, edited or co-edited many books, including (with C. Owens & l. Rothschild), Precarities of 21st century childhoods: Critical explorations of time(s), place(s), and identities (2023). His latest book (with L. Rothschild & S. Akhtar), Between amnesia and recollection: Environmental, creative and clinical pathways to memory, will be published by Karnac. Since 2018 he has been coeditor of the journal Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society. He is also editor of the book series, Psychoanalytic Interventions: Clinical Social, and Cultural Contexts, and co-editor of the book series Critical Childhood & Youth Studies. He directs the Adelphi Asylum Project and he has a private practice for psychotherapy and psychoanalysis on Long Island, NY. He was a Visiting Scholar at Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California [PINC] for 2023-2024, and he will teach there again in May 2025.

https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/imagining-a-revolutionary-unconscious-tickets-1254455824139

14/02/2025

✨ICLO Event ✨

Diagnosis and Beyond
ICLO-NLS Introductory Seminar 2025
A series of three seminars by Linda Clarke, Joanne Conway, Caroline Heanue, Rik Loose, Raphael Montague, Alan Rowan

Diagnosis and Beyond
ICLO-NLS Introductory Seminar 2025
Dates: Wednesday 22nd January – 26th February – 26th March
Time: 7pm – 9pm Dublin time
Venue: Online by Zoom & in person at the Carmelite Centre, Aungier St., D2
Fees: All 3 seminars €50 (students €30) / each seminar €20 (students €15)

https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/iclo-nls-introductory-seminar-diagnosis-and-beyond-tickets-1100249318329

11/02/2025

✨Advertisement for new contract with the Department of Education✨

Counsellors are required to join Cpl Healthcare in the delivery of counselling services to children on sessional basis in Cavan, Laois, Leitrim, Monaghan, Tipperary, Mayo and Longford on behalf of the Department of Education.
Counsellors will provide blocks of eight counselling sessions per referral.

Overview of duties:
• Counsellors will be required to adhere to the Code of Ethics of their relevant accrediting body
• Counsellors will be required to attend professional supervision while providing counselling as part of this programme
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• Complete and issue a summary report summarising interventions and strategies
• All interactions are to be carried out in a professional manner
• Engage in robust data protection to ensure sensitive information on the referred child is always kept confidential and safe
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An applicant must possess;

1. A recognised qualification at Level 7 (primary degree) or higher in a relevant human science.

Plus either 2a, 2b & 2c or 2d, 2e & 2f as follows:

2 (a) Hold a degree or post-graduate qualification in counselling, or psychotherapy recognised by at least one of the following: the Psychological Society of Ireland; or the Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy; or the Irish Association for Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy; or one of the ten accrediting psychotherapy bodies within the Irish Council for Psychotherapy (ICP); or the Irish Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (IACP); or the Irish Association of Psychotherapy and Play Therapy (IAPTP); or the Association of Child Art Psychotherapists (ACAP)

2 (b) Have full accredited membership with of one of the above professional bodies

2 (c) Two years (minimum of 150 hours) of relevant supervised experience providing counselling to children

Or

2 (d) A professional accredited qualification in child and adolescent counselling

2 (e) Have full accredited membership with of one of the following professional bodies: the Psychological Society of Ireland (PSI); Irish Association of Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy (IAHIP); Irish Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (IACP); Irish Association of Psychotherapy and Play Therapy (IAPTP); Association of Child Art Psychotherapists (ACAP); or one of the ten accrediting psychotherapy bodies within the Irish Council for Psychotherapy (ICP).

2 (f) One year of relevant supervised experience providing counselling to children

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A selection process will also apply

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11/02/2025

LACUNAE, THE APPI INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR LACANIAN PSYCHOANALYSIS

ISSUE 28 (2025)

✨CALL FOR PAPERS✨

Lacunae, which is developing into one of the leading journals in the field of Lacanian psychoanalysis, invites submissions to its forthcoming Issue 28 which will be published in Summer 2025. Issue 28 is open and general themed. We invite clinical and theoretical submissions that are principally informed by Freudian-Lacanian psychoanalysis that may also reach out to other disciplines such as philosophy, language and literature, the arts, medicine, science, critical and cultural theory, and politics. The deadline for submissions to Issue 28 is May 1, 2025.

The journal is peer-reviewed and offers feedback on all submissions. The blind peer review process identifies those that are best suited for publication at the time.

We have updated and simplified the writing guidelines for submissions. The editor is available to discuss any queries about academic writing and submission requirements. For submissions and queries, contact Eve Watson at edlacunae@appi.ie

Check out Lacunae online for digital versions of the journal at https://appi.ie/lacunae-journal/

22/12/2024

Dear Members and Friends,

As the festive season approaches, we at the Association for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in Ireland (APPI) want to take a moment to wish you a Merry Christmas and a joyful New Year!

This time of year is perfect for reflection and connection. We celebrate not only the progress we’ve made in our professional journeys but also the meaningful relationships we’ve built within our community.

May this Christmas season bring you peace, joy, and moments of warmth with loved ones. Let’s carry the spirit of building connections and engagement into the New Year, continuing to support one another in our shared mission to further the work of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in Ireland.

Thank you for your dedication and passion. We look forward to another year of growth and collaboration!

Warmest wishes,
APPI

22/12/2024

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