INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS

Second International Meeting of Psychoanalysis in Psychiatry Section (PIP) of WPA

In Collaboration with Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association NY

On the Discontents of Patients and Clinicians in Psychiatry Today: What Psychoanalysis Can Offer

June 6 – 7, 2026

Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Goldwurm Auditorium
Icahn Medical Institute, 1st floor
1425 Madison Ave., New York, NY
(corner of East 98th Street)

In-person and on Zoom

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In our times, the field of psychiatry is confronted with unprecedented clinical difficulties and impasses that are not often openly discussed. Psychiatric practice has been increasingly transformed into an exercise in applying standardized diagnoses, obligatory protocols, and ready-made treatments determined by an imaginary universal that obliterates the singularity of the human subject. It is no coincidence that this trajectory has been accelerated by the adaptation of new technologies that make it appear as if the real presence of the clinician is superfluous. Yet, these new technologies can also offer new possibilities. How can we make use of them while sustaining an ethics of care?

We are interested in what psychoanalysis can contribute to considerations of the discontents of patients and clinicians today. For example, how to give space to the importance of the physical presence of the clinician, the value of giving adequate time to the clinical encounter, and the essential dimension of listening carefully to the specificity of the patient’s suffering—which is always singular? What can psychoanalytic experience teach us about why the patient’s speech must be at the center of all care, as well as the impact of the transferential relation between patient and clinician? What do we think should be the necessary formation/training for clinicians today and what kinds of policies need to be put into place?

By way of this encounter between psychiatry and psychoanalysis, we hope to discuss these matters as well as myriad topics that have remained in the shadows. We welcome psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, scholars, clinicians from all disciplines and other interested participants to join the discussion of how to create an ethical clinic of care for our time.

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Saturday June 6, 2026

8:30am: Registration

9:15am: Opening Remarks — Paola Mieli (NY)

9:30am – 11:15am
The Impact of Social Media on the Psyche and the Social Link
Moderator: Lillian Ferrari (NY)
Speakers: Jean Pierre Lebrun (Belgium), Fabian Guénolé (France), Vlad Novakovic (NY), Beverly Stoute (GA)

11:15am: Break

11:30am – 1:15pm
The Usage of AI in Psychiatry and in Psychotherapy
Moderator: Paola Mieli (NY)
Speakers: Carlton Jama Adams (NY), Yann Diener (France), Jennifer Harper (NY), Luigi Janiri (Italy)

1:15pm: Lunch Break

3:00pm – 5:00pm
Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis in the Institution
Moderator: Ona Nierenberg (NY)
Speakers: Mario Colucci (Italy), Sarah Faitell (NY), Dominique Landman (France), Hachem Tyal (Morocco)

5:00pm: Break

5:15pm – 6:30pm: Closing Discussion

Sunday June 7, 2026

8:30am: Registration

9:00am: Opening Remarks — Maria Ammon (Germany)

9:30am – 11:15am
Psychoanalysis in Psychiatry: Present Challenges
Moderator: Paola Mieli (NY)
Speakers: Mario Eduardo Costa Pereira (Brazil), Marco Antonio Couthinio Jorge (Brazil), Hervé Granier (France), André Michels (Luxembourg)

11:15am: Break

11:30am – 1:15pm
Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Medications
Moderator: Michel Botbol (France)
Speakers: Swapnil Gupta (NY), Patrick Landman (France), Joanna Moncrieff (England), Thomas G. Schulze (USA & Germany)

1:15pm: Lunch Break

3:00pm – 5:00pm
Psychiatric Training in Our Times
Moderator: Mario Eduardo Costa Pereira (Brazil)
Speakers: Stathis Argyriou (NY), Anna Blech (NY), Jean Jacques Bonamour du Tartre (France), Juan Mezzich (NY), Alix Vicente Spadini (Brazil)

5:00pm: Break

5:15pm – 6:00pm: Closing Remarks

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Tickets: $195
Advanced Ticket: $150 (until May 17, 2026)
Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association Members, AFs, and Yearly Participants: $100
Students with ID: $60 (Please email a photo of your Student ID to admin@apres-coup.org)

Sponsors:
Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association, NY
The Solomon and Gillespie Fund, NY

Scientific and Organizing Committee:
Maria Ammon (DE), Michel Botbol (FR), Mario Eduardo Costa Perreira (BR), Lillian Ferrari (NY), Fabian Guenole (FR), Hervé Granier (FR), Dusica Lecic Tosevski (SRB), Juan Mezzich (NY), Kareen Malone (GA), Paola Mieli (NY), Ona Nierenberg (NY), Vlad Novakovic (NY), Hachem Tyal (MA)

Local Coordinating Committee:
Ania Baumritter (NY), Lillian Ferrari (NY), Caroline Kasnakian (NY), Kareen Malone (GA), Paola Mieli (NY), Annie Muir (NY), Ona Nierenberg (NY), Vicky Vidalaki (NY)

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Continuing Education (for in-person attendance only)

Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association is approved by the New York State Education Department State Board for Mental Health Practitioners to provide continuing education for Licensed Psychoanalysts (#P-0044), Licensed Psychologists (#PSY-0077), Licensed Social Workers (#SW-0597), and Licensed Mental Health Counselors (#MHC-0189). Professionals licensed in states other than New York State should consult their respective licensing boards regarding continuing education eligibility. Continuing education credit is available only to practitioners licensed in the United States.

Seven-and-a-half (7.5) CE credits will be granted per day to Licensed Social Workers, Licensed Psychoanalysts, Licensed Psychologists, and Licensed Mental Health Counselors who have registered, have documented evidence of attendance of the presentation, and complete the evaluation form. Upon completion of the evaluation form, a Certificate of Completion will be emailed to all participants who comply with these requirements.

To receive credit, you must attend the full day in person, and sign in at the beginning of the day and sign out at the end of the day.

Learning Objectives:
For the presentations on June 6, 2026: 
After the presentations, participants will be able to:

1. Identify the impact, positive and negative, of social media on the psyche and the social link.
2. Discuss the contemporary implications of AI in psychiatry, psychoanalysis, and the social link.
3. Analyze the contributions of psychoanalysis to the practice of psychiatry within institutional settings.

For the presentations on June 7, 2026:
After the presentations, participants will be able to:

1. Discuss the contemporary challenges faced by psychoanalysis within psychiatry and socio-political contests.
2. Identify the advantages and limitations of medications within psychiatric and psychoanalytic treatments.
3. Analyze the implications of contemporary psychiatric training.