On behalf of the Scientific Committee,
Agnieszka Hańbowska
Claudia Frank is a Supervising and Training Analyst of the German and the International Psychoanalytic Association, and works as a psychoanalyst in private practice. She spent 1988–2001 at the Department for Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics at the University of Tübingen, where she also completed her postdoctoral thesis. She is a Guest Member of the British Psychoanalytical Society. From 2016 to 2018, she was chair of the German Psychoanalytical Association’s Central Training Committee.
Her research focuses on the history, technique, and theory of Kleinian analysis with various publications, such as “Melanie Klein in Berlin. Her First Psychoanalyses of Children” (Routledge, 2009) and three papers with J. Milton (ed.), “Essential Readings from the Melanie Klein Archives” (Routledge, 2020), in addition to papers in applied psychoanalysis (psychosomatics; on Antigone; Giacometti; Morandi, etc.).
She was co-editor of Jahrbuch der Psychoanalyse from 2002–2013. Together with Heinz Weiss, she is the editor of various books on Kleinian psychoanalysis in Germany. Currently, they are editing a German translation collection of Roger Money-Kyrle’s papers.
Edyta Biernacka – psychoanalyst at the Polish Psychoanalytical Society and the International Psychoanalytical Association. Supervisor and training psychotherapist at the Polish Society for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. Psychotherapist and supervisor at the Department for the Treatment of Personality Disorders and Neuroses at the Babiński Clinical Hospital in Kraków. Co-leads the Kraków School of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.
Author of articles on the treatment of patients with severe personality disorders, published in the volumes Jak Feniks z popiołów? Odradzanie się psychoanalizy w powojennej i dzisiejszej Polsce (Like a Phoenix from the Ashes? The Revival of Psychoanalysis in Postwar and Contemporary Poland), Dlaczego leczycie tych psychopatów. 20 lat doświadczeń klinicznych OLZON (Why Do You Treat These Psychopaths. 20 Years of Clinical Experience at OLZON), and Odnaleźć swoje miejsce. Psychoterapia psychoanalityczna w Polsce ( Finding One’s Place. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Poland). Scientific editor of the Polish editions of Psychic Bisexuality: A British–French Dialogue edited by Rosine Perelberg and Psychotic Waves by Richard Lucas. Translator of several articles, including those by Melanie Klein, David Bell, and Irma Brenman-Pick.
Wojtek Hańbowski – training psychoanalyst and child and adolescent psychoanalyst at the Hanna Segal Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies (ISPHS) and the Polish Psychoanalytical Society, and former President of both organisations. He is a consultant for the ISPHS Clinics in Warsaw and Kraków. He served as a member of the IPA International New Groups Committee and as Chair of the European Psychoanalytical Federation Election Committee.
In the 1980s, he worked at the Rasztów Centre for Neurosis Treatment, in Psychiatric Home Treatment, and he run the Centre for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Warsaw. From 1993 to 1997, he lived in London, where he studied at the British Psychoanalytical Society and the Tavistock Clinic, and worked at the Cassel Hospital.
After returning to Poland, he consulted and supervised many NHS-funded mental health units, including Wards for Neurosis and Personality Disorders in Kraków, Starogard, and Międzyrzecz, as well as the Clinic for Addiction Treatment and the Adolescent Unit in Gdańsk.
The author of books: W cieniu zmarłego obiektu (In the Shadow of the Dead Object), Tożsamość psychoanalityka (The Identity of the Psychoanalyst), Wykłady z Freuda (Lectures on Freud) and Wykłady z Klein (Lectures on Klein) and co-editor of Zaklinowani czarodzieje. Psychoterapia psychoanalityczna osób uzależnionych (Stuck Magicians: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Addiction Therapy).
Małgorzata Bajor-Wocial, President of the Hanna Segal Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies
Agnieszka Hańbowska, Chair of the Scientific Committee
Wojtek Hańbowski
The Hanna Segal Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies Polish Psychoanalytical Society
The Ego and the Superego in a Never-ending Conflict.
Chair: Rafał Pniewski
Claudia Frank
German Psychoanalytical Association/DPV
Notes on ‘Re-orientation’ by Supervision. Misconceptions Threatening Emotional Pressures in Psychoanalytic Training to be Faced.
Chair: Izabela Gogolewska
Edyta Biernacka
Polish Psychoanalytical Society
Polish Society for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
“Know you are loved”:
Psychoanalysis and agential realism.
Chair: Maciej Musiał
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