EFPP European Federation for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

21/08/2026

🌪️COMING SOON
New EFPP Monograph

🌺Exploring Perspectives in Group Analytic Psychotherapy in Europe Assessing Current Status and Shaping Future Directions
Edited by: 📌Anna Zajenkowska, 📌Hanne-Sofie Dahl

👉Exploring Perspectives Group Analytic Psychotherapy in Europe examines the theory, practice, research, and prospective developments of group analytic psychotherapy across European contexts. The volume brings together contributions from authors working in a range of European countries, offering an overview of current approaches within the field.

👉Individual chapters address the ways in which group analytic psychotherapy is practiced in culturally specific settings, with attention to the adaptation of the approach to local conditions and changing mental health demands. The book also considers the status of research within national clinical communities and outlines possible directions for further development.

👉The volume is intended for practitioners of group analytic psychotherapy, but also group psychotherapists and for those in training.

18/08/2026

📣EFPP Book Recommendation

📌Rony Alfandary, Ph.D., is a clinical social worker and senior lecturer at the School of Social Work at the University of Haifa, Israel. He served as Director of the Post-Graduate Programme in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at Bar-Ilan University until 2022. He is the author of twelve books, including prose and poetry.

👉Creativity and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at Times of War, Exile, and Trauma draws upon decades of clinical experience to illuminate the unique challenges and profound insights that emerge when practicing psychoanalytic psychotherapy within a multifaceted social terrain.

👉With reference to clinical case material and theoretical insight, Alfandary offers readers unprecedented access to therapeutic work conducted in Israel amid ongoing cultural tensions, military conflicts, and intergenerational trauma. Drawing from Winnicott, Bion, Klein, and Freud, the author explores how exile, trauma, and war fracture both individual identity and the social fabric, and how these ruptures can also spark unexpected creativity and growth. The book also covers a range of themes, including immigration, cross-cultural work, Holocaust memory, military trauma, and antisemitism, revealing how psychoanalytic practice adapts and responds to Israel's distinctive social pressures while offering universal insights into human resilience, trauma recovery, and the therapeutic relationship.

👉Creativity and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at Times of War, Exile, and Trauma will be of great interest to psychoanalytic psychotherapists, social workers, and psychologists. It will also be relevant for academics and scholars of trauma studies, literary studies, and interdisciplinary researchers.

👉Table of contents:

1. Listening to a Whisper: Psychoanalytic Social Work and the Ethics of Representing Inner Experience

2. Fiction, Truth, and Authenticity: Navigating the Ethical Borderlands of Therapeutic Writing

3. Threshold Encounters: The Paradox of Beginnings in Psychoanalytic psychotherapy

4. The Supervisory Quartet: How Institutional Containment Transforms Psychoanalytic Supervision in Multicultural Settings

5. The Contained and the Container: Erotic Transference as Annihilation in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

6. The Secret Wound of Exile: Literature and Film as Analytic Third in Psychoanalytic Therapy

7. When Fathers Fall Silent: Music as a Transitional Object in Adolescent Response to Paternal Trauma

8. Echoes Across Generations: Psychoanalysis, War Trauma, and Post-Memory in Israel

9. The Psychoanalytic Geography of Exile: Home, Loss, and Creative Return

10. We Do Not Want to Be Ruled Like This: Creativity and Public Protest

11. Beyond Professional Boundaries: Antisemitism and 7th October, 2023

14/08/2026

🌪️COMING SOON
New EFPP Monograph

🌺The Unconscious and the Family
The Psychoanalysis of Links and Transpersonal Pathologies
Author: 📌Anna Maria Nicolò

👉The Unconscious and the Family is an exploration of the complex unconscious dynamics that shape family and couple links. Drawing on extensive clinical experience, Anna Maria Nicolò offers profound insights into the psychopathology present in these contexts, illustrating the theoretical framework with compelling case studies of 👉couple conflicts, 👉trauma, and 👉psychotic disorders.
Nicolò presents an innovative reinterpretation of psychoanalytic concepts as they apply to family and couple therapy, establishing a theoretical foundation in the first part of the book and detailing practical interventions in the second. The hypothesis of the existence of 👉transpersonal disorders is gaining ground, particularly among couples dealing with 👉violence and 👉psychotic disorders. Special attention is given to
💥diagnostic approaches,
💥interpretation methods,
💥transference dynamics,
💥and the therapeutic use of the metaphor.
👉 Essential reading for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and mental health professionals working with families and couples, this volume fills a significant gap in the English-language literature on psychoanalytic approaches to family and couple therapy.

11/08/2026

📣We warmly invite all the Delegates to the next Delegates' Meeting, which will take place in late winter in ☀️sunny Rome. It will undoubtedly be a wonderful opportunity for enjoyable reunions and productive work for the entire Federation.
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07/08/2026

📣Dear Delegates, Colleagues, and Students
We are pleased to invite you to the Second ☂ EFPP Child & Adolescent (C&A) Section Study Day, 📌"Bridging the Inner World and External Network Realities in Child Psychotherapy", taking place
👉 online on 18 September 2026.

Registration is now open. All participants, including Adult, Couple & Family (PCFP), and Group Section Delegates, as well as non-EFPP participants, are kindly asked to register using the link:
👉 Registration: https://efpp.org/efpp-ca-sectionstudyday-18-09-2026

We hope many of you will join us for this second C&A Section Study Day and look forward to welcoming you in September.
With best wishes,
On behalf of the EFPP Child & Adolescent Section

04/08/2026

📣We 're recommending the article 👉"Sitting with Invisible Difference: Psychoanalytics and Autism" by 📌Nardus Saayman, 📌Clare Harvey, and📌 Tracy Davies Fletcher, published in the British Journal of Psychotherapy last year.

Psychoanalytic psychotherapy with neurodivergent individuals is an increasingly important area of clinical practice that every psychotherapist is likely to encounter in their work. Staying informed about the latest developments in this field is essential.
💨ABSTRACT:
Psychoanalytic psychotherapy and autism have had a complicated relationship. Much of the complication has arisen from patients with autism being misunderstood by those who have used a psychoanalytic lens. These misunderstandings arose not for a lack of trying—but rather from a disavowal of how neurological difference shapes what it means to become a person, and how these differences affect treatment needs. It has been autistic patients who have had to bear the consequences of these misunderstandings in much the same way as they do in their daily lives outside of therapy. It is not the psychoanalytic lens that has failed these patients, but rather its use without reference to the ever growing body of neurobiological knowledge. In this paper, we make the argument that many of the key psychoanalytic concepts—countertransference, the frame, narcissism, intellectualization and obsessions—need to be reviewed and altered when working with autistic patients.
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31/07/2026

🍃The time has come when many of us are heading off for a well-deserved ☀️🐚holiday after a demanding year of clinical work, and for many, academic and teaching commitments as well. We wish everyone a wonderful and restorative break🍉, the chance to recharge, clear your mind, and return with renewed energy 🦜for another year of creative and rewarding work.
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28/07/2026

📣An interesting event by British Psychoanalytic Council
👉14 November 2026
👉Time: 09:30 - 18:00

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Now 2026

The slippery slope: boundary violations in the consulting room and in our institutions

"Sexual boundary violations are not new to the psychoanalytic world, and we know that they are not unique to this profession but are in fact prevalent when power dynamics are at play. The BPC has investigated a series of significant sexual boundary violations in recent years, resulting in ☂️Registrants being removed from our Register. There have also been cases in the press, which have led to repeated calls for the profession of psychotherapy to be statutorily regulated.

👉https://www.bpc.org.uk/event/psychoanalytic-psychotherapy-now-2026/?fbclid=IwY2xjawTMFA9leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETA1N3pNSmxZcWZyWFRvNkdMc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHinxcbCgOyr0OFqP8pYYkgntw4j_CtGbHxhkiBxHYo50orfUvSKJG_G6UoUk_aem_7BgsV-gXrIWHv8HMqucG6Q

Join us for the BPC's flagship conference; Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Now 2026 - the slippery slope: boundary violations in the consulting room and in our institutions.

21/07/2026

📣After many years of dedicated service, our Administrative Secretary Anne Sauer is saying goodbye to the EFPP.

👉On behalf of the EFPP, we would like to express our sincere gratitude for the commitment, professionalism, and warmth that have shaped the EFPP community over the years. Your contribution has been invaluable, and your support for our members and organisations has left a lasting impact.🥀

💐Thank you for everything, and we wish you every success and happiness in the next chapter. You will always remain a valued part of the EFPP family.