Friday and Saturday, February 17th-18th
A clinical seminar in two sessions by

Dan Collins

Friday evening: 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
‘Lacan and Jakobson’
This talk will be given over to Dan’s work on the question of Roman Jakobson’s influence on Lacan and, more
broadly, what Russian Formalism might contribute to psychoanalysis.

Saturday morning: 10:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
‘Time for Interpretation’
In this session, Dan will talk about interpretation. In considering Sherlock Holmes stories as a model of interpretation, the necessity of a delay or deferral of interpretation, a time for understanding is stressed. The ‘false solution’ that’s required in detective stories (before the correct solution is arrived at) is a model of the time for understanding as intuited by writers of detective fiction

For the discussion period, attendees are encouraged to bring in examples of good, old fashioned, linguistic interpretation from their own practices and it is hoped these examples will turn into material for a good discussion.

Venue: Carmelite Community Centre
56 Aungier St., Dublin 2
(For further details contact Eve Watson at 087 9678965)

APPI Members €20, Non-Members €25, Students €10 for two sessions

Dan Collins lives and works in Buffalo, NY. He teaches English literature and practices psychoanalysis privately. He is the founder of Affiliated Psychoanalytic Workgroups (APW), a clinically-oriented Lacanian organisation that promotes Lacanian psychoanalysis in the United States through its conferences, study weekends, and other events. He regularly gives talks throughout the U.S.A. and in the U.K. on aspects of Freudian-Lacanian psychoanalysis. He completed his Ph.D. in 2005 on Lacan and language and psychoanalytic literary criticism. From 2002 – 2006 he was on the editorial board of the International Journal of Lacanian Studies. As well as being a member of APW, he is a member of the American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work, the Shakespeare Association of America and the National Association of Social Workers.

APPI is pleased to announce a collaboration with the U.S.-based APW (Affiliated Psychoanalytic Workgroups) taking place in Dublin in June 23-24, 2012. The study weekend will comprise papers, discussions and presentations which will respond to Lacan’s 22nd seminar, R.S.I. In preparation for the study weekend, the Scientific Committee proposes that a number of reading groups be organised and preliminary and ongoing discussion papers be circulated in advance of the study weekend.

Interested APPI members are invited to indicate their interest in participating in a reading group oriented to reading the seminar R.S.I. It is envisioned that reading groups will meet once or twice a month between February – June 2012 and that each reading group could aim to put together a working paper to reflect their engagement with the seminar. Contact evewatson@eircom.net to register interest in a reading group.

AGM – Friday May 11th, 2012 in the Carmelite Community Centre, Aungier Street, Dublin 2 at 7p.m.

18th Annual Congress
The Psychoanalytic Act: Contemporary Theory and Practice
Saturday, November 19th, 2011

Education and Research Centre, St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Elm Park, Dublin 4

9.30a.m. – 5.30p.m.

The 18th Annual Congress seeks to address the question of the psychoanalytic act in light of contemporary theory and practice. Those interested in speaking are invited to submit titles and abstracts of no more than 300 words on the various aspects (historical, cultural, theoretical, clinical) of the topic outlined above to evewatson@eircom.net or alanrowan@svuh.ie before Monday, October 17th, October 2011. You are asked to refer to the ‘Guidelines for the Presentation of Abstracts and Papers’ and the ‘Guidelines for the Presentation of Clinical Material.’ There will be a selection committee.

Keynote Speaker: Colette Soler
Colette Soler is a psychoanalyst trained by Jacques Lacan. She practices and teaches psychoanalysis in Paris. She founded the Forums movement and the psychoanalytic School of the Lacanian field. Her most recent books are What Lacan Said About Women (2005), Lacan, l’Inconscient reinvente (2009) and Les Affects lacaniens (2011)

The Psychoanalytic Act: Contemporary Theory and Practice

Congress Fee:  Members €80, students/unwaged €40 and non members €100

PROGRAMME

9:00 – 9:25    Registration

9:25 – 9:30    Welcome Remarks from Gerry Moore, Chair of APPI

9:30 – 11:00    Panel 1 (Chaired by Rob Weatherill)
Presentations 9:30 – 10:30 followed by discussion 10:30 – 11:00
Alan Rowan: ‘The Psychoanalytic Act as Act, Risk, Excess and Orientation’
Kevin Murphy: ‘The Psychoanalytic Act: An Engagement with the “More and More Forgotten” Reality of the Unconscious’
Marie Walshe: ‘The Act of a Dummy’
Carol Owens: ‘Having a Riot – 1968/2011 (Which Lack, What Act?)’

11:00 – 11:30    Coffee Break

11:30 – 1:00    Panel 2 (Chaired by Martin Daly)
Presentations 11:30 – 12:30 followed by discussion 12:30 – 1:00
Anna Comerford: ‘Non-Intervention on Transference: I Just Don’t Get It’
Gabrielle O’Kelly: ‘Mind the Gap: Hearing and Not Hearing the Radical Singularity of the Subject’s Speech’
Eve Watson: ‘It’s all in the Timing! Time and the Psychoanalytic Act’
Donna Redmond: ‘What Can the Poet Teach us About the Psychoanalytic Act?’

1:00 – 2:00     Lunch

2:00 – 2:15    Poetry Reading – Mr. Tomas Clancy (One of the most popular lecturers
of law in Ireland, wine correspondent with the Sunday Business Post) reads Finnegans Wake.

2:15 – 3:30    KEYNOTE PRESENTATION by Colette Soler (Paris) entitled ‘The Concept of the Analytical Act.’ (Session and Discussion Chaired by Helena Texier)
Re. the question of what the concept of analytical Act, produced by Lacan in 1967 changes in the direction of the treatment?

3:30 – 4:00    Coffee Break

4:00 – 5:30      Panel 3 – Recent and Ongoing Research (Chaired by Joanne Conway)
Presentations 4:00 – 5:00 followed by discussion 5:00 – 5:30
Ray O’Neill: ‘Desire is/as a Social Construct: Lacan and Hommo Sexual Acts’
Therese Maguire: ‘”I” am Because You Cared’
Magda Kurzawska: ‘How to Act: Treatment in the Bi-Lingual Clinic’
Alan Corcoran: ‘The Oedipus Complex in the Wizard of Oz or What Can Dorothy Tell us About Psychoanalysis’

5:30 p.m.    Close of Congress

Congress Dinner at Il Segreto, 13a/13 b Merrion Row, Dublin 2, at 8:00 p.m.  €38.50 per person All welcome.

Contact marybarry101@gmail.com or 086 7849145 with any queries

Sol Aparicio

A clinical seminar entitled

“How does one become an analyst?”

Saturday, October 8th 2011

10:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Venue
Carmelite Community Centre
56 Aungier St., Dublin 2, Brandsma Room, Ground Floor

(For further details contact Eve Watson at 087 9678965 or
Mary Barry at 086 7849145)

APPI Members €15, Non-Members €20, Students €10
Sol Aparicio works as a psychoanalyst in private practice in Paris. She is a founder of the Ecole de Psychanalyse des Forums du Champ Lacanien in France and teaches psychoanalysis at the Colleges Clinique in Paris. She also works with outpatients at the Villejuif psychiatric hospital.

Treating Mental Health Today: Critical Perspectives from Psychoanalysis

Co-hosted by the Association for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in Ireland (APPI), Irish Circle of the Lacanian Orientation (ICLO-NLS), Shine, Independent College, Dublin, DCU School of Nursing
September 17th 2011. Time: 9:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Venue: DCU, School of Nursing, Mella Carroll Theatre (Collins Ave. Entrance)

Key Note Speakers

Dr. Patrick Bracken, MD, PhD, Consultant Psychiatrist and Clinical Director of West Cork Mental Health Services

Prof. Marie-Héléne Brousse (Université Paris 8), Psychoanalyst, Member of the Ecole de la Cause Freudienne

John O’Donoghue, Poet and Commentator

Dan Neville, T.D.

Conference Fee:  €50 General admission   €20 unwaged/student

Email marybarry101@gmail.com/0867849145 for booking form and more information

Programme
8:45 – 9:30    Registration
9:30 – 9:50    Introductory Remarks by Mr. Dan Neville T.D.
Chaired with remarks by Ms. Patricia Seager, Assistant Director Shine
9:50 – 10:50    Keynote Presentations I – Dr. Pat Bracken (Chair: Martin Daly)
10:50 – 11:15    Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:15 Keynote Presentation II – Professor Marie-Helene Brousse
(Chair: Olga Cox-Cameron)
12:15 – 1:15    Panel Presentation ‘Mental Health and Analysis: A Necessary Engagement?’
(Chair: Hugh Arthurs)
Speakers: Alan Rowan, Mary-Rose Kiernan, Claire Hawkes, Eve Watson.
1:15 – 2:15    Lunch
2:15 – 3:15    Panel Presentation ‘The Psychoanalytic Subject: Plurality and Singularity.’
(Chair: Rob Weatherill)
Speakers: Carol Owens, Gerry Moore, Harriet Parsons, Kevin Murphy.
3:15 – 3:45    Guest Presentation: John O’Donoghue, Poet and Commentator
(Chair: Kevin Murphy)
3:45 – 4:00    Coffee Break
4:00 – 5:00    Panel Presentation ‘Perspectives and Challenges: The Next Decade’
(Chair: Mary Cullen)
Speakers: Dr. Anthony McCarthy, Cathal Morgan, Donna Redmond, Florencia Shanahan
5:00 – 6:00    Roundtable Entitled ‘What is Working in the Treatment of Mental
Health?’
(Chair: Eve Watson)
Participants: Dr. Pat Bracken, Marie-Helene Brousse, Dr. Anthony McCarthy, Alan Rowan.
6:00 p.m.    Conference Close

*An exhibition of art will be on display throughout the day.

Clinical Seminar Series
2010-2011

Saturday, June 11th 2011

PAUL VERHAEGHE
A clinical seminar in two sessions

“The Art of Louise Bourgeois – A Psychoanalytic Perspective”
10:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
&
“Society and Its Discontents”
2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

CPD POINTS WILL BE AWARDED

Venue
Carmelite Community Centre
56 Aungier St., Dublin 2

APPI Members €20, Non-Members €25, Students €10 for full day

Paul Verhaeghe is senior professor at the University of Ghent (Belgium) and head of the Department for Psychoanalysis and Counselling Psychology. He teaches clinical psychodiagnostics and psychoanalytic psychotherapy and works as a psychoanalyst in private practice. He is the author of Does the Woman Exist? (1999), Beyond Gender: From Subject to Drive (2001), On Being Normal and Other Disorders (2004), which won the Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic Scholarship, and New Studies of Old Villains (2009).

AGM

WILL BE HELD ON

FRIDAY, MAY 6TH 2011

AT 7.P.M.

CARMELITE COMMUNITY CENTRE

56 AUNGIER STREET,

DUBLIN 2

WINE RECEPTION WILL FOLLOW AFTER MEETING

End(s) of Analysis
Testimony of the Pass
by Anne Lysy

For the first time in Ireland an AS (Analyst of the School) in function will present a testimony of her personal analysis after undergoing the Pass, the procedure invented by Jacques Lacan to account for the experience of the end of analysis and the production of a psychoanalyst.
Anne Lysy is an analyst in Belgium, a member of the School of the Freudian Cause (ECF) and the World Association of Psychoanalysis (WAP). She is the current President of the New Lacanian School (NLS).

The afternoon will be dedicated to interrogate the “End(s) of Analysis” in the form of a Clinical Conversation with presentations by Rik Loose and Joanne Conway.

Saturday April 16th between

11am -4pm

Edith Stein Room,

Carmelite Parish Centre,Clarendon St,Dublin 2

(entrance through bell café ) opposite Brown Thomas

and not St Vincent’s Dept of Psychotherapy, Fairview.

Suggested Reading: Hurly-Burly 2 & Hurly-Burly 4.

Booking is essential please contact us on info@iclo-nls.org

Clinical Seminar Series 2010-2011

Does Psychoanalysis still have anything to do with Sexuality? In Search of a Theoretical and Clinical ‘Metistopia’

with

Dany Nobus

Saturday, April 2nd 2011
10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Note New Venue
Carmelite Community Centre, 56 Aungier St., Dublin 2
Carmel Room – 1st Floor

€15 members, €10 students, €20 non-members

Dany Nobus is Professor of Psychology and Psychoanalysis, and Head of the School of Social Sciences at Brunel University (London), where he directs the MA Programme in Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Society. He is the author of Jacques Lacan and the Freudian Practice of Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2000) and Knowing Nothing, Staying Stupid: Elements for a Psychoanalytic Epistemology (with Malcolm Quinn) (Routledge, 2005), alongside numerous papers on the history, theory and practice of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. He is also the editor of Key Concepts of Lacanian Psychoanalysis (The Other Press, 1999) and (with Lisa Downing) Perversion: Psychoanalytic Perspectives/Perspectives on Psychoanalysis (Karnac, 2005), and Editor-in-Chief  of Journal for Lacanian Studies (JLS).