SAVE THE DATE!
Brochure and conference registration to be posted in August!

35th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference 

TRUTH

November 6 - 8, 2025

Yours Truly DC
IHG Vignette Collection Hotel
1143 New Hampshire Avenue NW
Washington D.C. 20037

Awardees:

Dorothy E. Holmes, Ph.D.
Hans W. Loewald Memorial Award

Anne Adelman, Ph.D. & Kerry L. Malawista, Ph.D.
Distinguished Psychoanalytic Educators

Ana Lucia Araujo, Ph.D.
Distinguished Psychoanalytic Educator

 Daniel Gaztambide, Psy.D.
Distinguished Psychoanalytic Educator

We hope you will join us at IFPE’s 35th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference: TRUTH

As the saying goes, “the truth will set you free.” Yet, life teaches us that the truth is not always so easy to access. In fact, it can be said that the foundation of Psychoanalysis represented an effort to help individuals confront and reveal to themselves the truths that they have been too afraid to face. The harsh reality of some truths can be too difficult to swallow, so we often live in illusion. Indeed, clinicians sometimes support and even suggest illusion to help evade or tolerate a reality too horrific to face. Yet, we know that a life built on protracted illusion is a life built on a foundation of sand, fragile and unstable.

The challenge of truth presents itself in myriad domains. Couples often fight over truth, leaving clinicians hapless in the face of two witnesses to the same event offering completely different accounts. The social-cultural-political domain is often a fraught battle over competing narratives in a search for dominance, with truth sacrificed at the altar of hegemony. There is talk of fake news, alternative facts, silos of information impenetrable to contradictory facts. Where lies truth in this tangled web?

Our 2025 IFPE Conference in the Nation’s Capital was originally themed as “Repair.” Current events in our country raise the question of whether this moment offers opportunity for repair. In the UN’s description of the 5 ingredients of reparation, the very first is a comprehensive truth telling. Without at least a loose consensus on truth, there can be no repair, be that of the individual, the couple, the small group, or the large collective. And thus, we backtrack in an effort to shore up the foundation, determine if we can find our way back to truth, whatever that may be. Our 2024 Loewald Award recipient, Lynne Layton, tells us that hegemony requires illusion built on the disavowal of truth, and that the search for truth requires “dis-illusionment,” painful though it may be.

What say us, this body of dedicated clinicians, researchers, professors, thinkers, about this struggle? Let us convene in DC and bring our best to meet the challenges of discovering elusive TRUTH.

 Our conference will be held November 6 – 8th, 2025, in Washington D.C. at Yours Truly DC, an IHG Vignette Collection Hotel.

Bryan K. Nichols and Douglas F. Maxwell
Conference Co-chairs               

HOTEL:

Yours Truly DC Hotel room block conference rate is $229 (+taxes) per night. Hotel room reservation link to be posted in August.
About the hotel: https://www.ihg.com/vignettecollection/hotels/us/en/washington/wasvc/hoteldetail

FAQ’s

• What does it cost to attend the conference? Our “Early Bird” registration fee is $385 USD for Members, and $460 for Non-Members.

  Non-profit, Government employee, Psychoanalytic Candidate or Early Career (up to 5 years post grad): $185 USD

  Full-time Student (Graduate or Undergraduate only): $105 USD (Does not apply to psychoanalytic candidates)

• When will I know if my proposal has been accepted? You will receive an email after the proposals have been reviewed, approximately mid-to late June.

• If my proposal is accepted, when will I know the day and time to present? We will notify you of the time and date of your presentation in August when the program has been formalized. Please note that the notification you will receive in August represents a provisional program and may be subject to change.

• What is your refund policy? Registration fees are non-refundable and non-transferable for those scheduled to present at the conference.

• What is the nightly rate at Yours Truly DC hotel? Our room block is $229 per night, plus taxes. The $30 Destination Fee is waived. Please reserve your room prior to the October 7th room block cut-off date.

• What is the price for parking at the hotel? Day rate is $25. Overnight parking is $45.

Presenter Registration:
(Attendee Registrations opens in August)

Please note: Your acceptance is a reservation for a presentation slot, thus the conference fee is non-refundable, and non-transferable. Your acceptance is also an acknowledgement that you are the sole author of your presentation and its published abstract, and that IFPE assumes no responsibility for their contents.

For Non-profit, or government employees, please email proof/verification in the form of a copy of your i.d. Psychoanalytic Candidates must supply verification letter from an institute or training facility. Students please provide proof of student i.d.
Please email the verification/Student I.D. to IFPEcontact@gmail.com

You do not need a Paypal account. Please click on pay by “Debit or Credit” underneath the Paypal login. Thank you!

All attendees will receive a PDF of the Conference Booklet.
Print copies are free for Members and Non-Members may order by October 1st for $15 .

Thursday, November 6th: Ticket to Bring a GUEST to the “No-Host” Evening Cocktail Reception: $25 Per Person
(Your admission is complimentary if you are wearing your IFPE conference name badge.)

Saturday, November 8th, 7:00 – 9:00 p.m., Awards Banquet Dinner: $89 Per Person
Dinner pricing includes entrée, grilled romaine Caesar salad, rolls,
roasted potatoes, green beans, and Red Velvet cake, soft drinks,
tax and gratuity. A "No Host" bar will be available.

Questions? Please contact us: IFPEcontact@gmail.com