Working Psychoanalytically with Couples

This year, for the eighth time, we are organizing the conference Working Psychoanalytically with Couples in Warsaw. However, for the first time, the event will be held over two days, consisting of an online lecture on Friday, April 25, 2025, and an in-person conference in Warsaw on Saturday, April 26, 2025.

We invite international guests to join the online lecture on Friday, April 25, 2025. The lecture titled „Does Love Matter in the Therapy Room?”, delivered by Julie Friend, a psychoanalytic couple therapist from the USA will be fully translated into English.

Prior registration and payment are required here: REGISTRATION

The lecture will take place on April 25, 2025, from 8:00 PM to 9:40 PM CEST (6:00 PM to 7:40 PM UTC).

The Saturday part of the conference will be held in Polish. It will include a presentation by Susanna Abse: „Men in Love – Transformation or Repetition?” (the presentation itself will be in English, but the discussion will be in Polish); a talk by Karolina Pniewska: “You Make Me Feel Whole Again” – The Function of the Transformational Object in Romantic Relationships; and a clinical material presentation by Anna Rasińska.

Moreover, the Couple and Family Psychotherapy Section of the Polish Society for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (PTPP) organizes regular online lectures, most of which are translated into English. Information and registration are available at the following link: Open Lectures – Polskie Towarzystwo Psychoterapii Psychoanalitycznej

Information about Julie Friend

 

Julie Friend LCSW, BCD is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice including professional consultation, individuals, and couples. She is a Board member, founding member, and faculty of Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapy Group, where from 2010 to 2022 she served as the Director of its three-year Intensive Study Program. She serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal Couple and Family Psychoanalysis, is an Associate Member of SF-CP, and invited faculty at William Alanson White’s CCTEP program. Her publications include “Love as Creative Illusion and its Place in Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapy” (2013) and “Creative Illusion in couples: thoughts about the value of transitional experience for couple relationships” (2021). She has presented her work and teaches locally and internationally and is licensed in California and New York.

 Registration

Access to the online lecture (Friday, April 25, 2025) and its content in an electronic version 125,00 PLN (the rate for individuals from abroad who do not run a bussiness is 101.63 PLN plus VAT 23%)

    TERMS OF PARTICIPATION

     
     

    1. The conference fee is non-refundable. In case of withdrawal from the conference, it is possible to transfer the registration to another person.

    2. Participants are responsible for ensuring appropriate conditions for attending this part of the event, i.e., listening to the clinical presentation through headphones or in a closed room without access to third parties.

    3. The organizers reserve the right to change speakers if any of them are unable to attend the conference due to unforeseen circumstances.

    I have read and accept the terms of participation outlined in the Regulations of the 8th Conference “Working Psychoanalytically with Couples.” (*)

    I consent to the processing of my personal data for the purpose of handling conference registrations, assisting participants during the conference, preparing conference materials in the form of a video recording of the event, and issuing participation certificates, in accordance with Article 6(1)(a) of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of April 27, 2016, on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, repealing Directive 95/46/EC (i.e., processing is based on the consent of the data subject). Detailed principles for processing personal data are described in the Regulations of the 8th Conference “Working Psychoanalytically with Couples.” (*)

    I consent to the processing of my personal data to receive information via email about future editions of the "Working Psychoanalytically with Couples" conference, under Article 6(1)(a) of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of April 27, 2016, on the protection of natural persons concerning the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, repealing Directive 95/46/EC (i.e., processing is based on the consent of the data subject).

    Detailed principles for processing personal data are described in the Regulations of the 8th Conference “Working Psychoanalytically with Couples.”

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