Other/Wise and Selected Papers from IFPE Conferences
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 2024 Conference:
Friends, Enemies, Allies, Suspects
Summer 2025, Issue 1
Dichotomies of Connection
Kalpana Asok, M.S., M.A.
Learning at professional conferences: How do we create spaces that are welcoming and accessible for all?
June Madsen Clausen, Ph.D.
Dead to me: The alienating effect of having exceptional experiences
Dan Gilhooley, PsyaD
Dethroning the Inner Enemy
River Malcolm
Nausea and Other True Fictions of Maternal Subjectivity
Melissa Meade, Ph.D.
A Call for IFPE to Take Religion Seriously: Keeping the Spiritual Baby but Tossing the Metaphysical Bathwater
M. Chet Mirman, Ph.D. (IFPE 2024 Presidential Address)
Working for Her, Working for Me: The Interrelatedness of Poetry, Psychology, and Working for Denise Levertov
Marlene Muller
Betrayal Writ Large: From Moral Injury to the Sense of Impending Doom
Shierry Weber Nicholsen, Ph.D.
Friend? Enemy? Ally? Suspect? Women in Winnicott’s Life and Work
Katherine Weissbourd, Ph.D.
Please click here for the Summer 2025 edition.
Other/Wise: Selected Papers From the 2023 IFPE Conference,
“. . . but is it psychoanalytic?”
Spring 2024
Issue 1
Anti-Self, Help! and the Myth of Mental Health
Michael Allison
Being in the Sonoran Desert
Karol Marshall
Know and Care for Thyself: Selfies as Technologies of the Self
Melissa Meade, Ph.D.
The Role (and Limits) of Intention in Personal Transformation
M. Chet Mirman, Ph.D.
To repair or not to repair, that is the question … but is it psychoanalytic?
Bryan K. Nichols
Our Inheritance, Confronting the Sadistic Absence-of-Love and the Path to Ecological Repair
Tiffany H. Raether, Ph.D.(c)
Broken Oneness/Broken Wonder: The Psychic Kinship Ties of Michael Eigen and Spotnitz’s Modern Psychoanalysis
Adam Shechter
Psychoanalysis and History: Past and Present: Reworking trauma within one’s life cycle and its impact on how we work
Hanna Turken, LCSW, BCD, LPpsA