Welcome to the online journal of the International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education. Other/Wise and Selected Papers from IFPE Conferences are journals that offer a selected sampling of papers based on presentations made at IFPE’s most recent conference. Reflecting IFPE’s commitment to originality, creativity and diversity of thought and format, contributions can and have included scholarly papers, clinical papers, personal and autobiographical narratives, poetry, artwork, films and music.
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Selected Papers from IFPE’s 2025 Conference:
TRUTH
Spring 2026, Issue 1
Confessional Disclosure Statement
Michael Allison
Feeling the Spiritual Beyond Dogma: An Epistolary Dialogue on Undeniable Truths and Unknowable Realities
Anna Benedict and Tyson J. Conner
Unspoken and “unimaginable” truths about stillbirth: Writing to heal and recover amidst the deceptive silence of denial
Amy M.V. Bowers, Ph.D.
Protecting the Brand, Betraying the Child: The Truth About Freud’s Abandonment of the Seduction Theory
Susan G. Burland, Ph.D. and Alexandria Cara, Psy.D.
Elizabeth Loftus: False memories and the search for a true self
Erin Cantor M.A., MSW, LCSW
Fiction Tells the Truth
Jeanette Farrell
Reflections on the path to Inquiry: Challenges and Opportunities in the Psychoanalytic Work with Hispanic-Latino Immigrants
Dioselina Ruiz Godbold
Truth in Revision: Story, Memory, and Subjectivity in Psychoanalysis
Kerry L. Malawista, Ph.D.
The Problem with Truth
M. Chet Mirman, Ph.D.
Searching for a Third: A Psychoanalytic Reflection on Holding Opposing Realities After the Election
Lisa Moscatiello, Psy.D.
My Father was a Magician – Illusions, Perspectives, and the Father Archetype
Erika Pelzer
Racialized Noses, Transference Magic, Childhood Bonds
Adam Shechter
Embracing “Whiteness” and Accountability as Therapeutic Themes
Mary Watkins