Psike İstanbul

PSYCHOANALYTIC VIEWS 19 From the Singular to the Plural: Psyche in the Individual, Group, and Society
2025-12-06 08:00 - 2025-12-07 17:00 (Europe/Istanbul) | Saint Benoît French High School, Müeyyedzade, Lüleci Hendek Cd. No:61, Istanbul, 34425, Türkiye
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06 December 2025, Saturday

09.00 – 09.30
REGISTRATION

09.30 – 10.00
Opening Speech
Nilüfer ERDEM (President of Psike Istanbul)

10.00 – 10.45
CONFERENCE
Moderator: Aslı DAY

Yeşim KORKUT
When Trying to Understand the Individual-Group Relationship, Can We Talk About the
Group Unconscious or the SocialUnconscious?

10.45 – 11.15
Coffee Break

11.15 – 12.30
CONFERENCE
Moderator: Aslı KURUOĞLU

Philip STOKOE
Inside Out and Outside In, the Frame as the Border for Analytic Work

12.30 – 14.00
Lunch Break

14.00 – 15.30
PANEL
Moderator: Yücel YILMAZ

İlker ÖZYILDIRIM
The Inner World in the Shadow of Social History: Notes on Conscience, Superego, and Moral Masochism

Türkay DEMİR
A Psychoanalytic Perspective on the Two Fundamental Sociological Views on the Relationship between Society and the Individual

15.30 – 16:00
Coffee Break

16.00 – 17.30
PANEL
Moderator: Yasemin CENGİZ

Erol KÖROĞLU
Wounded Times: Memory, Trauma, and the Consciousness of Narrative

Discussant:
Nilüfer ERDEM
Discussion on Erol Köroğlu’s Text “Wounded Times: Memory, Trauma, and the Consciousness of Narrative”

* Workshops

17.45 – 19.15
Case Conference
Moderator / Translator: Tijen DEMİRÖRS
Discussant: Caroline GARLAND
Presenter : Turgut Can EROL

17.45 – 19.15
In Pursuit of Shared Dreams: A Study of the
Social Dreaming Matrix – * * First Meeting
Facilitator: Yeşim KORKUT
Co-Facilitator: Burçak ERDAL

07 December 2025, Sunday

10.00 – 11.15
IPSO PANEL
Moderator: Meltem TEMİZ

Meltem TEMİZ
The Civilised and the Discontented / How to Save Piggy?

Canan DİKMEN
From the Collective to the Individual: Examining the Transference Relationship and Representations of the Inner World in the Therapy Room in the Context of Social Events

Cüneyt BİLEN
An Overview of the Dynamics of Societies

11.15 – 11.45
Coffee Break

11.45 – 13.00
CONFERENCE
Moderator: Banu BÜYÜKKAL

Caroline GARLAND
The Discovery of Siblings: Oedipus Joins a Therapy Group

13.00 – 14.15
Lunch Break

14.15 – 15.30
PANEL
Belief, Identity, Psyche; A Psychoanalytic Perspective from Individual to Society
Moderator: Ayla YAZICI

Ayla YAZICI
Dynamics of Belief Systems in the Individual and Society

Ebru KIRLI
Between Two Worlds: Reflections of Social Polarization in Analytical Relationships

Shahin NOROUZZI
A Psychoanalytic Narrative on Lost in the Lap of the Dead Mother: Eternal Mourning

15.30 – 16.00
Coffee Break

16.00 – 17.15
CONVERSATION
Discussant / Moderator : Yavuz ERTEN

Ercan KESAL
Where the Sky of Our Childhood Go When We Grow Up?

Yavuz ERTEN
A Conversation on Where the Sky of our Childhood Go When We Grow Up?

17.15 – 17.30
Closing Speeches

* Workshops

17.30 – 19.00
Case Conference
Moderator / Translator: Cemile SERİN GÜRDAL
Discussant: Philip STOKOE
Presenter: Mustafa ÖZDEN

18.00 – 19 30
In Pursuit of Shared Dreams: A Study of the
Social Dreaming Matrix – * * Second Meeting
Facilitator: Yeşim KORKUT
Co-Facilitator: Burçak ERDAL

* The workshops are open only to local attendants.
Workshop sessions are fee-based.
* * Workshop language is Turkish.

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ONE THEORY ONE MASTER: SÁNDOR FERENCZI – JUDIT MÉSZÁROS
2025-10-19 10:00 - 16:30 | İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Santralİstanbul Kampüsü, Eski Silahtarağa Elektrik Santrali Kazım Karabekir Cad. No:2. Eyüpsultan 34060, İstanbul, Turkey
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Meeting with the Analyst - Mark Solms
2025-06-14 15:00 - 17:00
We invite you to join us for Mark Solms’ paradigm-shifting presentation at the intersection of neuroscience and psychoanalysis at our online event on 14 June 2025 at 13:00.

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PSYCHOANALYTIC VIEWS 18: “Sound and Silence”
2024-12-07 09:00 - 2024-12-08 19:30 | Saint Benoît French High School, Müeyyedzade, Lüleci Hendek Cd. No:61, Istanbul, 34425, Türkiye
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07 December 2024, Saturday

09.00 – 09.30
REGISTRATION

09.30 – 10.00
Opening Speech
Nilüfer ERDEM (President of Psike Istanbul)

10.00 – 11.15
PANEL
Moderator: Ayla YAZICI

Yeşim KORKUT
On Listening to Sounds, Language and Depths

Yücel YILMAZ
Silent Room

11.15 – 11.45
Coffee Break

11.45 – 13.00
CONFERENCE
Moderator: Özay ÖZDEMİR

Anjali GRIER
Sound and Silence in Group Psychotherapy with Nursery Aged Immigrant Children, with Special Reference to an Electively Mute Child

13.00 – 14.15
Lunch Break

14.15 – 15.30
PANEL
Moderator: Aslı DAY

Biray KOLLUOĞLU
Creating Meaning from Silence and Emptiness in Social Sciences

Yavuz ERTEN
From Non-representational Silence to Representations: From the Void of the Negative to the Space of the Positive

15.30 – 16:00
Coffee Break

16:00 – 17.15
CONFERENCE
Moderator: Banu BÜYÜKKAL

Francis GRIER
Illusion, Musicality and Evanescence

17.30 – 19:00
Workshop
Moderator: Tijen DEMİRÖRS
Discussion: Anjali GRIER
Presenter: Fatma VAROL

17.30 – 19:00
Workshop
Moderator: Cemile SERİN GÜRDAL
Discussion: Francis GRIER
Presenter: Nurhak ÇAĞATAY BİRER

08 December 2024, Sunday

10.00 – 11.15
IPSO PANEL
Moderator: Sevil KURAL

Ebru Tansel ÇAKICI
What Silence Says

Başak TOKATLIOĞLU
Defensive Silence

11.15 – 11.45
Coffee Break

11.45 – 13.00
CONFERENCE
Moderator and Translator
Nilüfer ERDEM

Anne BRUN
Listening to Sounds in Session and Working with Archaic Sounds

13.00 – 14.15
Lunch Break

14.15 – 15.30
PANEL
Moderator: Refhan BALKAN

Verda TÜZER
“Why are you so distant and silent?”

Murathan MUNGAN
Between Hiding and Calling String, Timbre, Tone

15.30 – 16.00
Coffee Break

16.00 – 17.15
CONFERENCE
Moderator: Yasemin CENGİZ

Suzanne MAIELLO
Prenatal Dialogues – The Sound Object: Voice and Rhythm in Psychoanalytic Practice

17:20 – 17:50
Closing Speech

Yavuz ERTEN
(Chair of Scientific Board)

Hülya AKAR ÖZMEN
(Chair of Organizing Board)

18.00 – 19 30
Workshop
Moderator: Işıl ERTÜZÜN
Discussion: Anne BRUN
Presenter: Turgut Can EROL

18.00 – 19 30
Workshop
Moderator: Şeyda SUNAR POSTACI
Discussion: Suzanne MAIELLO
Presenter: Mustafa ÖZDEN

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Salman Akhtar Conference (2024)
2024-03-24 10:00 - 14:00 | Yapı Kredi Kültür Sanat Merkezi, Tomtom, İstiklal Cd. No: 161 Beyoğlu, İstanbul, 34433, Türkiye
PSYCHOANALYTIC EXPOSITIONS AND INNOVATIONS OVER A LONG CAREER (1979-2024)
Salman AKHTAR
In the first part of the lecture, Salman Akhtar will discuss his explanatory and innovative contributions to the literature and practice of psychoanalysis, based on his theoretical and clinical experience gained during his long career in psychoanalysis. After reviewing Freud’s views on the death instinct, mourning, melancholia and religious belief, Klein’s manic defense and phantasy associated to Mahler’s separation-individuation, he will discuss his innovative contributions to psychoanalysis such as optimal distance, third individuation, schizoid wish to die and be reborn, forgiveness and human goodness.
In the second part, he will discuss the obstacles and techniques that we encounter in the work of the analyst-analysand pair in the analytic room through case examples. The main themes of the work in this part will be the transition from schisms through synthesis to informed oscillations, the four types of psychoanalytic listening and impediment to listening, bicultural treatments, the meaning of the analytic setting/framework, the technical handling of pauses, the simplicity-contradiction-paradox sequence, refusal to listen, imaginary interlocutors and stillness.

PROGRAM
10:00-12:00 Part I Psychoanalytic Theory
Moderator: Cemile SERİN GÜRDAL
12:00-12:30 Coffee Break
12:30-14:00 Part II Psychoanalytic Technique
Moderator: Cemile SERİN GÜRDAL
* Simultaneous translation will be provided. (Turkish – English)
Salman Akhtar, MD is an internationally known psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, writer, and poet based in the United States. He has published 110 authored or edited books and given lectures and workshops in over 40 countries. Dr. Akhtar has served on the editorial boards of the three most important journals of our field, namely Journal of The American Psychoanalytic Association, The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, and Psychoanalytic Quarterly. His books have been translated in many languages and he has received numerous professional honors, including the highly prestigious Sigourney Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychoanalysis. Recently a 10-volume set of his Selected Papers was released at a festive ceremony at the Freud House& Museum in London. Dr. Akhtar has published 18 collections of poetry and serves as a Scholar-in-Residence at the Inter-Act Theatre Company in Philadelphia.
www.psikeistanbul.org/en/
Secretariat: Funda ALBAYRAK
albayrak.funda@gmail.com / +90 552 376 59 41

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PSYCHOANALYTIC VIEWS 17 “Settling - Rooting”
2023-12-10 09:00 - 18:30 | Bosphorus University Albert Long Hall Cultural Center, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Güney Kampüsü No:20, 34342 Bebek Beşiktaş/İstanbul, İstanbul, 34342, Türkiye
10th December 2023, Sunday

09.00 – 10.30
CONFERENCE
Moderator: Yeşim CAN

Ülkü GÜRIŞIK
The Long Path to Rooting and Individuation

10.30 – 12.00
PANEL
Moderator: Fulya ALGIN TOKMAK

Refhan BALKAN ÖZTÜRK
How to Root a Foreigner/Outsider?

Türkay DEMİR
Can Psychoanalysis Be Imported (or Exported)?

12.00 – 13.00
Break

13.00 – 14.30
CONFERENCE
Moderator: Semra YALÇINKAYA

Bianca LECHEVALIER
Settling into the Body – Psyche and Family History Through Birth
Işıl ERTÜZÜN – Translator

14.30 – 16.00
IPSO PANEL
Moderator: Nilüfer ERDEM

Sema SÖZER
Residence: Shell-House

Çağla Pınar SEVİNÇ YALÇIN
Ghost Mothers, Ghost Children

16.00 – 16.30
Break

16.30 – 18.00
CASE STUDY
Moderator: Nesli KESKİNÖZ BİLEN
Discussion: Ülkü GÜRIŞIK
Presenter: Sevda ARSLAN POYRAZ

18.00 – 18.30
CLOSING SPEECH
Nuray TÜRKSOY KARALI Chair of Scientific Board
Nesli KESKİNÖZ BİLEN Chair of Organizing Board

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PSYCHOANALYTIC VIEWS 17 “Settling - Rooting”
2023-12-09 08:30 - 2023-12-10 19:00 | Bosphorus University Albert Long Hall Cultural Center, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Güney Kampüsü No:20, 34342 Bebek Beşiktaş/İstanbul, İstanbul, 34342, Türkiye
09th December 2023, Saturday

08.30 – 09.00
REGISTRATION

09.00 – 09.30
OPENING SPEECH
Aslı KURUOĞLU

09.30 – 11.00
PANEL
Moderator: Yasemin CENGİZ

Sezai HALİFEOĞLU
Where and How Does The Psychic-Mental Entity Settle?

Cemile SERİN GÜRDAL
Creating and Rooting in One’s Own Corner

11.00 – 11.30
Break

11.30 – 13.00
CONFERENCE
Moderator: Sevil KURAL

Michael GÜNTER
The Paradox of Illusions in Child Development. Roots and Wings, Destruction and Catastrophic Change

13.00 – 14.00
Break

14.00 – 15.30
PANEL: THE HISTORY OF PSIKE ISTANBUL
Moderator: Ayla YAZICI

Bella HABİP
Brief Notes on the Status of Psychoanalysis in Light of the 20th Anniversary of Psike Istanbul

Yavuz ERTEN
Relations with Self Psychology (Anatolia) Group During Establishment Process of Psike Istanbul

Işın SAYIN TAMERK
An Enriching Internal and External Adventure

15.30 – 17.00
PANEL
Moderator: Mine ÖZGÜROĞLU ÇUKURÇEŞME

Jülide KENAR
Resettling

Gönül YILDIRIM ÜRETME
Ruthless Love

17.00 – 17.30
Break

17.30 – 19.00
CASE STUDY
Moderator: Meltem TEMİZ
Discussion: Michael GÜNTER
Presenter: Burçak ERDAL

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Psikanaliz ve Edebiyat Buluşmaları - 2
2023-11-25 16:00 - 19:00 | Psike İstanbul, Süleyman Nazif Sokak, Park Apt. No: 13/12 Kat: 4 Valikonağı- Şişli –İstanbul, İstanbul, 34371, Türkiye
Edebiyatla psikanaliz arasındaki çok yönlü ilişkiyi irdelemek amacıyla başlattığımız Psikanaliz ve Edebiyat Buluşmaları toplantılarının ikincisinde estetik çatışma kavramına odaklanıyoruz.

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Dominique Scarfone
2023-03-19 16:30 - 20:00
The Sexual Drive for Power
Abstract: In this work, the author criticizes the sexual drive/destructive drive duality and relies on the fact that one does not encounter any abuse of power that is not connoted by the sexual in the Freudian sense, nor any sexual abuse that is not at the same time an abuse of power, in order to put forward the notion of a “sexual drive of power”. This is proposed not as a new drive, but as the final common trunk of the movements of the sexual death drive (Laplanche) and of narcissistic omnipotence. The junction between these two currents is made through what Freud called a Bemächtigungstrieb, often translated as “drive for mastery” or “drive for control” (in French: pulsion d’emprise), but which it would be more exact to call drive for power – thus highlighting the inherent
violence of its manifestation.
Dominique SCARFONE
Scarfone is honorary professor at the University of Montreal and member emeritus of the Société Psychanalytique de Montréal – from which he recently retired as a training analyst and where he currently directs the seminar “Penser avec Freud” (Thinking with Freud). In 2022 he was elected honorary member of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society.
He has taught psychoanalytic theory for over thirty years at the university, founded and directed the psychoanalytic journal Trans (1992-1999) and was for several years associate editor of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. He has published several books (Jean Laplanche, 1997; Oublier Freud ?, 1999; Les Pulsions, 2004; Quartiers aux rues sans nom, 2012; The Unpast – The actual unconscious, 2015) as well as numerous book chapters and around 70 original articles in many languages in national and international journals.

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PSYCHOANALYTIC VIEWS 16 - Time and Space
2022-12-10 09:30 - 2022-12-11 19:30

Psychoanalysis: One Theory, One Master - Didier Anzieu - Christine Anzieu-Premmereur (2022)
2022-03-20 16:00 - 19:30
Registration Information & Form
Didier ANZIEU – Christine ANZIEU-PREMMEREUR
PARTICIPATION: The conference is open to all.
LANGUAGE: English with simultaneous translation.
REGISTRATION FEE:
Early Registration (till February 28th): Regular fee: 30 €/35 $; IPSO members: 25 €/30 $
After February 28th: Regular fee: 35 €/40 $; IPSO members: 30 €/35 $
Please deposit the registration fee to the bank account of Istanbul Psychoanalytic Association for Training, Research, and Development, Garanti Bankasi Nişantaşı Branch, Branch Code: 132
Euro Account IBAN: [REDACTED]
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Please send the bank receipt and the Registration Form to the fax number (212) 224 10 03.
You may also send your receipt and registration form to psikeistanbul@gmail.com. In this case, please send the registration form in the attachment and state the number of your receipt and the bank branch.
REGISTRATION FORM
Name: …………………………………………………………… Surname: ………………………………………………………..
Profession:• Psychoanalyst • Psychoanalytic Candidate • Psychologist • Psychiatrist• Psychological Counselor

Social Service Specialist • Psychiatric Nurse• Student/Assistant

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Psychoanalytic Views 15: Solitude (2021)
2021-12-11 08:00 - 2021-12-12 17:00

PSYCHONALYTICAL VIEWS 14C “Uncanny Home/Universe” (2020)
2020-12-06 08:00 - 17:00
So life was meant to be a foggy and swaying sea that could not be seen even two steps ahead.
Sabahattin Ali, The Devil Inside Of Us
Before the Covid-19 pandemic, the recent events of this period would be perceived as a nightmare if it were a dream, and seen as an exaggerated science fiction if it were a movie.
Suddenly, all people and all places became uncanny and we had to take refuge in our homes … And we got behind the glasses all together. But were our homes or the universe safe?

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Psychoanalysis: One Theory, One Master - Ronald D. Fairbairn - Steven H. Cooper (2021)
2020-03-22 10:00 - 16:30
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PSYCHOANALYTIC VIEWS 12: "Internal World - External Reality" (2018)
2018-12-08 08:30 - 2018-12-09 19:00

Psychoanalysis: One Theory, One Master - Joyce McDougall - Jacques Press (2018)
2018-03-04 10:00 - 16:30
“ONE BODY FOR TWO”

Jacques Press

Full Day Conference and Case Study
(Case Presentation: Sevil Kural)
March 4th, 2018, Sunday
Time: 10:00 – 16:00
Venue: American Hospital, Nişantaşı, İstanbul
Certification of participation will be provided.

PSYCHOANALYSIS: ONE THEORY, ONE MASTER
JACQUES PRESS – JOYCE MCDOUGALL

Psike İstanbul, in the 2018 event of “One Theory, One Master”, is hosting a study bringing together the views of Joyce McDougall and Jacques Press. In the study titled “One Body for Two”, we are going to listen one of the masters of psychoanalysis, child and adolescent psychoanalyst Joyce McDougall, from Jacques Press, one of the important names of today’s psychoanalysis, who has been inspired by McDougall’s authentic contributions to psychoanalytic theory and psychosomatic.

PROGRAMME
10:00-11:00 Conference: One Body for Two 11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:30 Discussion 12:30-14:00 Lunch 14:00-16:30 Case Study and Discussion

JOYCE MCDOUGALL (1920-2011) has worked in England and in France as child and adolescent psychoanalyst. She has developed her own model by examining somatization processes, which she named as “archaic hysteria” or “one body for two”, in psychosomatic patients.

JACQUES PRESS is full member and training analyst in Swiss Psychoanalytical Society and Paris Psychosomatic Institute. The issue of transference and countertransference, which requires special attention in the field of psychosomatic, constitutes the focus of his views.

ATTENDANCE: Conference is open to public. Case Study is open to mental health professionals.
LANGUAGE: English with simultaneous translation. LOCATION: American Hospital, Nişantaşı-İstanbul
REGISTRATION FEE: 180TL. Psike İstanbul members, students, and assistants: 150 TL
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Introductory Seminars to Psychoanalysis 2018-2019
2018-01-01 08:00 - 2019-12-31 17:00

CINEMA EVENINGS 2018 - 2019 : “FROM UTOPIA TO DYSTOPIA”
2018-01-01 08:00 - 2019-12-31 17:00
In its eighth year, Psike Istanbul Cinema Evenings continue in collaboration with Moda Sahnesi. The discussions of the films of 2018-2019, under the title “From Utopia to Dystopia,” call us to handle the kaleidoscopic movements, which appears sometimes as dystopia and sometimes as utopia, of the age we are in. We’ll try to include our minds and souls, which oscillate between the “Good Place” and the “No Place”, in the world of meanings, through the means of psychoanalytic reading. The sessions, which will be held monthly on Friday evenings, will consist of film screenings followed by a discussion of the film through a psychoanalytic perspective with Psike Istanbul member psychoanalysts or psychoanalyst candidates and the active participation of directors, actors, experts and the audience.

PSYCHOANALYTIC VIEWS 11: "To Leave or to Stay?: Psychoanalysis and Immigration
2017-12-09 08:30 - 2017-12-10 19:30

The Authority of the Object: Jane McAdam Freud - Conference and Workshop - September 2017
2017-09-01 08:00 - 2017-09-30 17:00
In the conference, titled ’The Authority of the Object’ the artist will talk about how the intertwinement of psychoanalysis with her life influenced her personal as well as her artistic identity. In the workshop titled: The Authority of the Object/ Conceptual Sculpture Workshop’ participants will be asked to create their own sculptural composition under the supervision of the artist. We hope to come together in this event that brings together Psychoanalysis and art.

CONFERENCE: THE AUTHORITY OF THE OBJECT
I will speak about my recent works with objects. These works I made during a two-year artist’s residency at the famous London school – Harrow, which, along with Eton, is one of the feeder school for the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. Being in an educational seIIng, tapped into my ambivalent relationship to authority, which is a complicated mixture of ‘awe’ and ‘rebellion’. I wanted to work within these limitations and so I made use of what was ‘there’ and not what I wanted ‘there’ to be. Operating rather like rather like Alice in Wonderland, I allowed the objects I found to ‘speak’ to me in their status as pseudo instructors. In this paper, I contrast this idea with Freud’s theory of the ‘Thing’ and how we are affected by the image of the object on a pre-conscious and an unconscious level. One example is a work called OBJECT CONVERSATION, SIT, STAND, EAT. This installation seems to offer instructions to the viewer: The three chairs with their inscriptions seem to call one over and to at least take up the first offer – to SIT. It reads as an instruction and this instruction is taken on through the image of the chair. It is of course also a description – a description of the function of the chair – a form on which to sit but also a description of who we are –(in the eyes of another species perhaps- as we sit, stand or eat).
Jane McAdam Freud
THE AUTHORITY OF THE OBJECT/CONCEPTUAL SCULPTURE WORKSHOP
With objects we will provide, you will be asked to make a sculptural composition. Implementing a method to compose the sculptures you may choose to hang or balance selected objects, frame objects or line them up. Works will then be examined and a title found.
Jane McAdam Freud
JANE McADAM FREUD past winner of the European Trebbia Awards for achievement in the arts, is represented in the major public collections at home and abroad including the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum.
A prolific artist with 44 solo exhibitions McAdam Freud studied at the Royal College of Art, London (RCA) under the supervision of John Stetzeker the conceptual artist and Edwardo Paolozzi the sculptor, both of whom have had an influence on her work. She won a Scholarship to study sculpture in Rome winning the annual student prize. Jane has taught courses at the major London art school including the RCA, the University of the Arts, London and at the Academy of Fine Art in Antwerp, Belgium. She has published several papers on her works, which focus on family history and are informed by psychoanalytic theory.

Psychoanalysis: One Theory, One Master - Donald MELTZER - Bianca LECHAVELIER (2017)
2017-01-08 10:00 - 16:30
“MEETING WITH DONALD MELTZER IN PARIS AND IN LONDON, AND AFTER”

Bianca Lechevalier
Full Day Conference
January 8th, 2017 Sunday
Time: 10:00-16:30
Venue: ITU Social Facilities-Macka Campus, Istanbul
Participation Certificates will be provided.
This year, in “Psychoanalysis: One Theory, One Master”, Psike Istanbul is bringing together Donald Meltzer and Bianca Lechevalier. We are going to hear the authentic contributions of one of the masters of psychoanalysis, child and adolescent psychoanalyst Donald Meltzer, from Bianca Lechevalier, one of the important names of modern-day psychoanalysis who had had the chance to work with him.
Meeting with Donald Meltzer in Paris and in London, and After
“In 1954, upon completion of his medical and psychiatry specialty trainings in New York, Donald Meltzer settled in London. He completed his psychoanalytic training in London with M. Klein, W.R. Bion, R. Money-Kyrle and E. Bick. Together with his wife Martha Harris, he provided trainings in Tavistock Clinic and in London Psychoanalytic Association. Throughout the entire world, he gave numerous lectures. I had the chances to host him in Paris beginning from 1978, and to give numerous case presentations to him as part of the seminars hold by GERPEN (Psychoanalytic Training and Research Group for Child and Infant Development) between the years of 1974 and 2002. Meltzer, in the face of lack of meaning of psychotic anxieties, in a meticulous search for meaning, provided us the opportunity to jointly experience the field in which Beauty and Truth are explored.
In the weekends we met to study, we were hearing Meltzer linking theory and clinic in a totally new way and witnessing his theory being embroidered like lace in front of our eyes. Thus, we saw this great theorist who is among of the most creative psychoanalysts of twenty centuries conceiving and engraving one after another important concepts such as “upsetting” (le démentélement), “peristome”, “aesthetic conflict”, “clustrum”, “sadomasochism and tyranny” in a theory on which the “lively world of dream” leaves its mark.
The deep gratitude I bear toward him has led me to try to convey to you this enthusiastic atmosphere which constituted the source of the theory.”
Bianca Lechevalier
PROGRAM
10.00-11.00 Conference
11.00-11.30 Coffee Break
11.30-12.30 Discussion
12.30-14.00 Lunch
14.00-16.30 Case Study

Bianca Lechevalier is an infant, adolescent and adult psychoanalyst and psychiatrist. She is full member of the Paris Psychoanalytic Society (SPP), IPA training analyst. She is the prior chief of institute in The Paris Medical Faculty, academic member of Caen University and the prior chief of The Center for Child Psychopedagogical Counseling. In 2003, she was granted the Frances Tustin Prize. Since 1965 she continues to apply psychoanalytic treatment to children who has been diagnosed with autism. She has numerous papers, book chapters and four books on psychosomatic, autism, dream, and the children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors: Le corps et le sense (1968) in which she and her husband who is a neurologist wrote up their dialogues; Les Contes et la Psychanalyse (2001); Traitement psychanalytique mère- enfant (2004); and Le Souffle de l’Existence (2016).
PARTICIPATION: The theoretical part is open to everyone. The case study will be performed with the participation of mental health professionals.
LANGUAGE: French with translation.
VENUE: ITU Social Facilities, Macka Campus
REGISTRATION FEES• Participation Fee:180TL.

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CINEMA EVENINGS 2017 - 2018
2017-01-01 08:00 - 2018-12-31 17:00
In its seventh year, Psike Istanbul Cinema Evenings continue in collaboration with Moda Sahnesi. The 2017-2018 cinema discussions are centered on the theme of “Let’s Look at The Sky” and seek to find hope, broaden our horizon and open up space for the new, the healing and creativity. The sessions, which will be held monthly on Friday evenings, will consist of film screenings followed by a discussion of the film through a psychoanalytic perspective with Psike Istanbul member psychoanalysts or psychoanalyst candidates and the active participation of directors, actors, experts and the audience.

Cinema Evenings: Groundhog Day

The first film we are going to view/work through on the theme of “Let’s Look at the Sky” is Groundhog Day (1993) directed by Harold Ramis.
Date: November 24th, 2017
Place: Moda Sahnesi
Time: 20:00
Discussant: Meral Erten

Cinema Evenings: Departures

The second film we are going to view/work through on the theme of “Let’s Look at the Sky” is Departures (Okuribito, 2008) directed by Yôjirô Takita.
Date: December 22nd, 2017
Place: Moda Sahnesi
Time: 20:00
Discussant: Banu Büyükkal

Cinema Evenings: A Man Called Ove

The third film we are going to view/work through on the theme of “Let’s Look at the Sky” is A Man Called Ove (2015) directed by Hannes Holm.
Date: January 26th, 2018
Place: Moda Sahnesi
Time: 20:00
Discussant: Mine Özmen

Cinema Evenings: Harold and Maude

The forth film we are going to view/work through on the theme of “Let’s Look at the Sky” is Harold and Maude (1971) directed by Hal Ashby.
Date: February 23rd, 2018
Place: Moda Sahnesi
Time: 20:00
Discussant: Nesli Keskinöz Bilen

Cinema Evenings: Burn, Burn, Burn

The fifth film we are going to view/work through on the theme of “Let’s Look at the Sky” is Burn, Burn, Burn (2015) directed by Chanya Button.
Date: March 30th, 2018
Place: Moda Sahnesi
Time: 20:00
Discussant: Işın Sayın Tamerk

Cinema Evenings: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

The sixth film we are going to view/work through on the theme of “Let’s Look at the Sky” is Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) directed by Michel Gondry.
Date: April 27th, 2018
Place: Moda Sahnesi
Time: 20:00
Discussant: Eda Arduman

Cinema Evenings: Somersault in a Coffin

The seventh film we are going to view/work through on the theme of “Let’s Look at the Sky” is Somersault in a Coffin (1996) directed by Derviş Zaim.
Date: May 25th, 2018
Place: Moda Sahnesi
Time: 20:00
Discussant: Burçak Erdal

Cinema Evenings: The Constitution

The eighth film we are going to view/work through on the theme of “Let’s Look at the Sky” is The Constitution (2016) directed by Rajko Grlic.
Date: June 22nd, 2018
Place: Moda Sahnesi
Time: 20:00
Discussants: Fulya Algın Tokmak and Işıl Ertüzün

PSYCHOANALYTIC VIEWS 10: 'Separation' (2016)
2016-12-10 08:30 - 2016-12-11 18:00

Psychoanalysis: One Theory, One Master - Jean LAPLANCHE - Emma PICCIOLI (2016)
2016-02-28 08:00 - 17:00
Just as every year, Psychoanalysis: One Theory, One Master is once again bringing together two masters of psychoanalysis. We will have the opportunity to learn about Jean Laplanche, one of the most important psychoanalysts in history, from Emma Piccioli, one of the contemporary masters of psychoanalysis. Laplanche was among the most genuine figures of psychoanalysis to combine philosophical approach with the theory; elaborting Freud’s basic texts via acritical reading he reinterpreted the psychic process, seducton, trauma theories and the presence of the other.
Date: February 28th, 2016
Time: 10:00 – 16:30
Place: Psike Istanbul

THE PRIMACY OF THE OTHER IN PSYCHOANALYSIS
Jean Laplanche (1924-2012) radically reformulated Freud’s theory of the origin of the psychic apparatus. The core of his theorisation elaborates Freud’s early and abandoned ‘seduction theory’, removing the notion of seduction from the pathological sphere, giving it instead a place in normative development. In his ‘Generalised Theory of Seduction’ Laplanche introduces the role played by the adult other in the early constitution of psychic life, the ‘primacy of the other’: subjectivity is decentered, coming about only by way of the unconscious of an other. This requires the reconsideration of a number of key psychoanalytic concepts, beginning with that of the unconscious which can no longer be thought of as endogenous or primary.

PROGRAM
10.00-11.00 Seminar
11.00-11.30 Coffee Break
11.30-12.30 Discussion
12.30-14.00 Lunch
14.00-16.30 Case Discussion

Emma Piccioli, M.D., is a training and supervising analyst of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society. A past Vice President of the EPF she was also founding member of IPA Publications and member of the IPA Supervisory Committee for Turkey until 2008. She works in private practice in Florence.

Introductory Seminars to Psychoanalysis 2016-2017
2016-01-01 08:00 - 2017-12-31 17:00

CINEMA EVENINGS 2016 - 2017
2016-01-01 08:00 - 2017-01-31 17:00
In its sixth year, Psike Istanbul Cinema Evenings continue in collaboration with Moda Sahnesi. The 2016-2017 cinema discussions are centered on the theme of “Good-Evil” and seek to answer questions such as what is good / what is evil / and how they discretely become interchangeable. The sessions, which will be held monthly on Friday evenings, will consist of film screenings followed by a discussion of the film through a psychoanalytic perspective with Psike Istanbul member psychoanalysts or psychoanalyst candidates and the active participation of directors, actors, experts and the audience.

Cinema Evenings: Gandhi

The first film we are going to view/work through on the theme of “Good-Evil” is Gandhi (1982) directed by Richard Attenborough.
Date: November 25th, 2016
Place: Moda Sahnesi
Time: 20:00
Discussant: Nesli Keskinöz Bilen

Cinema Evenings: Pan’s Labyrinth

The second film we are going to view/work through on the theme of “Good-Evil” is Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) directed by Guillermo del Toro.
Date: December 23rd, 2016
Place: Moda Sahnesi
Time: 20:00
Discussant: Özden Terbaş

Cinema Evenings: Dogville

The third film we are going to view/work through on the theme of “Good-Evil” is Dogville (2003) directed by Lars Von Trier.
Date: January 27th, 2017
Place: Moda Sahnesi
Time: 20:00
Discussants: Cüneyt Bilen and Tuğba Kocaefe

Cinema Evenings: Fireworks

The forth film we are going to view/work through on the theme of “Good-Evil” is Fireworks (Hana-bi, 1997) directed by Takeshi Kitano.
Date: February 24th, 2017
Place: Moda Sahnesi
Time: 20:00
Discussant: Eda Arduman

Cinema Evenings: Look Who’s Back

The fifth film we are going to view/work through on the theme of “Good-Evil” is Look Who’s Back (Er ist wieder da, 2015) directed by David Wnendt.
Date: March 24th, 2017
Place: Moda Sahnesi
Time: 20:00
Discussants: Banu Büyükkal, Işıl Ertüzün, Meral Erten

Cinema Evenings: The Night of the Hunter

The sixth film we are going to view/work through on the theme of “Good-Evil” is The Night of the Hunter (1955) directed by Charles Laughton.
Date: April 28th, 2017
Place: Moda Sahnesi
Time: 20:00
Discussant: Nilüfer Erdem

Cinema Evenings: Lore

The seventh film we are going to view/work through on the theme of “Good-Evil” is Lore (2012) directed by Cate Shortland.
Date: May 26th, 2017
Place: Moda Sahnesi
Time: 20:00
Discussant: Meral Erten

Cinema Evenings: A Clockwork Orange

The eighth film we are going to view/work through on the theme of “Good-Evil” is A Clockwork Orange (1971) directed by Stanley Kubrick.
Date: June 16th, 2017
Place: Moda Sahnesi
Time: 20:00
Discussant: Yavuz Erten

PSYCHOANALYTIC VIEWS 9 'The Violence Within; The Violence We Live In' (2015)
2015-12-05 08:30 - 2015-12-06 19:00

SCHOOL AND THE FUTURE
2015-03-28 08:00 - 17:00
“School and Future:
The Future of the School, the School of the Future” Symposium
March 28th, 2015
The collaboration of Psike Istanbul and IELEV Educational Institutions which started with the symposium named “What is Happening to School, What is Happening at School?” at Istanbul High School on March 16th 2013, continues with a new one. Again we come together from different fields as academicians, teacher, psychologists, psychiatrists, psychological counselors, psychoanalysts/psychoanalyst candidates and parents to deliberate on school, education life and learning experiences. This year’s topic is “School and Future”. This time, we will try to take a look at our stories on education that take place at school from the perspective of the future. We will ask ourselves: Do the accumulating experiences in school life truly create a destination, a horizon for the youth in our changing world? We will ponder upon the representations of parents, teachers and students regarding the image of the future. We will travel through the past and today while looking at the future. Hope to see you all at Istanbul High School on Saturday, March 28th 2015 to think, to wonder and to find new inspirations together…
Program
Web Site
Psike Istanbul

Psychoanalysis: One Theory, One Master - Wilfred BION - Antonino FERRO (2015)
2015-02-22 10:00 - 17:00
INTERNATIONAL PSYCHOANALYTICAL ASSOCIATION (IPA) TURKEY PSYCHOANALYSIS STUDY GROUP: PSIKEISTANBUL EVENT
Psychoanalysis: One Theory One Master Wilfred BION-Antonino FERRO
“Bion”
All-day Conference
February 22, 2015 Sunday
10.00-17.00
BAHÇEŞEHİR UNIVERSITY
Türkan Şoray Hall – Beşiktaş
Just as every year, Psychoanalysis: One Theory One Master is once again bringing together two masters of psychoanalysis. We will have the opportunity to learn about Wilfred Bion, one of the most important psychoanalysts in history who has shaped psychoanalytic theory, from David Bell, one of the contemporary masters of psychoanalysis.
Psychoanalysis: One Theory One Master
‘Antonino Ferro, through W.R. Bion’s theories, reminds us that the psychic apparatus needs a relationship with the other in order to develop. Without a doubt, the other must have the capacity to contain, metabolize, and offer the products of this process back. In this context, the other must be filtering his emotions. Based on this thought, Ferro recognizes the human problem, including slow self-development, as having a psychic apparatus with unique features.
Antonino Ferro is the analyst and current president of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society as well as a member of IPA and APsaA. His books which have been translated into many languages include ‘Mind Works’, Avoiding Emotions, Living Emotions, Supervision in Psychoanalysis: The Sao Paulo Seminars. In 2007, he was awarded the Mary S. Sigourney Award. He was the Europe editor International Journal of Psychoanalysis until September, 2008. He became a member of CAPSA (Analytic Practice and Scientific Activities Committee) in 2006. He served as a member of the EPF program committee, and chair for the IPD supervision committee. He has been the consultant editor of IJF since April, 2012.
PROGRAM
Bion
10.00-11.30 Seminar
11.30-11.45 Coffee Break
11.45-12.30 Seminar
12.30-14.00 Coffee Break
14.00-16.30 Seminar
DUE TO LIMITED NUMBER OF SEATS, PLEASE CHECK AVAILIBILITY BEFORE REGISTRATION.
PATICIPATION: Open to everyone. Participation certificate will be provided.
LANGUAGE: French with simultaneous translation to Turkish
LOCATION: Bahçeşehir University Türkan Şoray Hall – Beşiktaş
REGISTRATION FEE: 150 TL
Members of Psike İstanbul, students and assistants: 125 TL
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The Birth of a Secret Language -Joan MIRO “WOMEN, BIRDS, STARS” - February 2015
2015-02-01 08:00 - 2015-02-28 17:00
PSIKE ISTANBUL, STUDY GROUP OF INTERNATIONAL PSYCHOANALYSIS ASSOCIATION (IPA) IN TURKEY
AN EVENT WITH THE COLLABORATION OF S.U. SAKIP SABANCI MUSEUM AND PSIKE ISTANBUL
The Birth of a Secret Language
JOAN MIRÓ
“WOMEN, BIRDS, STARS”
PANEL CONTRIBUTORS
Aslı Day, Nayla De Coster, Melis Tanık Sivri, Ümit Eren Yurtsever
“…Pure love
tickling the necks of
swallows”…
(Poetic Games, Miró)
Where do women, birds and stars come from? Are they from the land, the sky, or the land Miró’s poetry was born in? Was there only a spot of paint in the beginning? Black lines cutting through air like a sickle, stains in different colors and found objects picked up from here or there… How should one regard Miró’s art? Can psychoanalysis be a way of getting closer to Miró’s art, or the poetry that stands right behind it? Can Miró’s sculptures and Freud’s “The Interpretation of Dreams” be thought of together? Can women be as free as birds and stars? In addition to these questions posed by the panelists, the notions of free association, the unconscious, unconscious fantasies, the process of creativity and concepts of symbolization from poetry to painting will be discussed with a psychoanalytic approach. With the hope of meeting in an interactive event that will enable us to think together through contemporary art, where attendants will share their own associations and fantasies…
DATE: March 1, 2015, Sunday TIME: 14.00-15.30
LOCATION: Sakıp Sabancı Müzesi, Emirgan – İstanbul
Admission to the event is free of charge. Simultaneous interpretation will be provided.
The Joan Miró exhibition titled “Women, Birds, Stars” will be open to visit until March 8, 2015 at the S.U. Sakıp Sabancı Museum.
www.sakipsabancimuzesi.org/en
