IPA webinar “Psychosis: Does psychoanalysis have a chance?” 27/09/2024

IPA Webinar
“Psychosis: Does psychoanalysis have a chance?”

Friday, September 27th, 4 p.m. London Time

Panellists: Franco de Masi and Alfredo Ortiz Frágola
Moderator: Elizabeth Danze

Webinar “Psychosis: Does psychoanalysis have a chance?” (27 September 2024).

This webinar will focus on examining the potential and limitations of psychoanalysis in the treatment of severe mental disorders, especially psychosis. Psychoanalytic theories related to psychosis will be explored in depth, including the understanding of its underlying mechanisms and the interpretation of symptoms from a contemporary psychoanalytic perspective. This seminar would also address specific technical experiences and adaptations of the psychoanalytic approach to working effectively with psychotic patients, highlighting success stories and challenges.

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Franco de Masi (Italy) (franco.demasi01@gmail.com)

He is a Training and Supervising Analyst of the Italian Psychoanalytical Society and former President of Centro Milanese di Psicoanalisi and Secretary of the Training Milanese Institute. He is a medical doctor and a psychiatrist who worked for twenty years in psychiatric hospitals. He has written many articles and three books on the origin of psychosis and its treatment: Vulnerability to Psychosis. A Psychoanalytic Study of the Nature and Therapy of Psychotic State (Routledge, 2009).  A Psychoanalytic Approach to Treating Psychosis. Genesis, Psychopathology and Case Study. (Routledge, 2020) and Beyond the Dynamic Unconscious (Karnac, in press, January 2025).

Title: Can Psychoanalysis Unravel the Enigma of Psychosis?

I will talk about the infantile origin and the sensorial functioning of the mind in psychosis and the specific way in which it is possible to approach its treatment. It is necessary to create a relationship between the healthy part of the patient and the analyst in order to analyze the way in which the psychotic part, originating in the infantile withdrawal, tries to continuously conquer the healthy part of the patient.

Alfredo Ortiz Frágola (Argentina) (aortizfragola@gmail.com)

He is an MD. Mg. Training and Supervising Analyst at the Buenos Aires Psychoanalytic Association. Member of the Psychoanalytic Education Committee, IPA since 2017.   Consulting Professor of Psychiatry in the University of Buenos Aires. International Fellow, American Psychiatric Association. He has been Chair of the Mental Health Department, Clinic Hospital, University of Buenos Aires and Chair of the Master in Psychopathology and Mental Health Program, Instituto Universitario de Salud Mental, Buenos Aires Psychoanalytic Association. He is in private practice of psychoanalysis, psychotherapy and consultation in Buenos Aires. His psychoanalytic research focuses on narcissism, borderline personalities, adolescence and relations between psychoanalysis and psychiatry. His last book is “Narcisismo y Psicopatología de Nuestro Tiempo” (Narcissism and Psychopathology of Our Time).

Moderator

Elizabeth Danze (USA): (edanze@utexas.edu)

She is a professor in the School of Architecture, where she holds the Bartlett Cocke Regents Professorship in Architecture. A principal with Danze Blood Architects, her work integrates practice and theory across disciplines by examining the convergence of sociology and psychology with the tangibles of space and construction. Elizabeth is co-editor of Architecture and Feminism and co-editor and author of Psychoanalysis and Architecture, The Annual of Psychoanalysis, Volume 33, and CENTER 17: Space and Psyche. She serves on the American Psychoanalytic Association’s Committee on Psychoanalysis and the Academy and is a Candidate at the Dallas Psychoanalytic Center.