Save the date!
Playing with Identity in an Age of Polarization
Presented by
Adam Shechter
Sunday, June 14, 2026
10:00 A.m. - 11:30 A.m. Pacific Time / 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Eastern Time
Via Zoom
IFPE 2026 Members: Free
Non-Members: $25
This global moment has brought identity politics to a deafening pitch of us-them projection. Who can know who they are, where they belong, and what that belonging means in a sociopolitical climate of ever-threatening polarization. Yet Lacan tells us the therapist is the one who is supposed to know. Though, what does it mean to know, especially under fascist conditions. And more relevantly, what can the different schools of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis each uniquely bring to this knowing when identity groups claim to know everything about everyone? Come and bring your therapist self, your school of thought, your everyday self, any and all of your identity selves. Let’s see how they play in a workshop dedicated to knowing a little more about identity in an age of polarization.
Registration will open in April.
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Adam Shechter is a psychoanalytic therapist who works with individuals, couples and groups. Since he was a young child the play of multiplicity and identity has been on his mind. Before becoming a therapist Adam pursued various creativity; writing, musicality, and visual art forms. Poetry ultimately won out though found more nourishing soils in becoming a therapist and focusing on the verbal relation of understanding others. His writing has been published in psychoanalytic and literary journals including European Journal for Psychoanalysis, GROUP, Other/Wise, Free Associations, Psychoanalytic Perspectives, The Minnesota Review and others. Adam has presented his work at various analytic conferences including EGPS, IFPE, APCS and IPHA. He also co-moderates an online study group on the work of Michael Eigen.