Letter from the IPA China Committee:
Dear NAPsaC Colleagues:
It is a pleasure to invite you to the IPA Centenary Congress in Beijing from 22nd to 24th October 2010. This will be our first IPA Congress in Asia with the theme, "Freud and Asia. Evolution and Change: Psychoanalysis in the Asian Context"
All societies and groups working in Asia: The IPA China Allied Centre, Israel Society, Indian Society, Japan Society, Korean Societydy Group), Taiwan Centre for the Development of Psychoanalysis, Turkish Society, Australian Society, and PIEE and IPSO and COWAP will be represented. Among analysts from Europe, Latin America, North America and Asia who are presenting are:
Salman Akhtar, Werner Bohleber, Jorge Canestri, Do-Un Jeong,Cláudio Eizirik, Shmuel Erlich, Mira Erlich Ginor, Paolo Fonda, Charles Hanly, Osamu Kitayama, Lea Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, Mary Target, Xiao Zeping, and Yang Yunping.
During the Congress we will have a special interactive program, Coming together in Beijing, intended as an open informal venue for the exchange of experiences, to facilitate communication about different national psychic heritages, and to foster personal acquaintance between the members of the Asian psychoanalytic groups and IPA members from other regions. Clinical Workshops, including the therapeutic relationship, eating disorders, working with couples and families, trauma, children, and personality disorders will take place on the 21st of October. A Cultural Program will take place from the 18th to the 21st of October.
Early-Bird registration prices start from $350 (IPA Members) and $220 (IPA Candidates). Registration is now open at: www.ipaasia.cn
For further information contact the Co-Chair of the Congress Planning Committee, Maria Teresa Hooke: mthooke@bigpond.net.au
I very much hope you can attend and participate in this seminal IPA event in Asia.
Sincerely,
Peter Loewenberg, Chair
IPA China Committee
