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The International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA) is an association including 12,000 psychoanalysts as members and works with 70 constituent organizations. It was founded in 1910 by Sigmund Freud, on an idea proposed by Sándor Ferenczi. Its first President was Carl Jung and its first Secretary was Otto Rank.

The IPA is the world’s primary accrediting and regulatory body for psychoanalysis. Its mission is to assure the continued vigour and development of psychoanalysis for the benefit of psychoanalytic patients.

The IPA's aims include creating new psychoanalytic groups, stimulating debate, conducting research, developing training policies and establishing links with other bodies. It organizes a large biennial Congress which is open to all.

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The symbol of the International Psychoanalytical Association is a picture of Oedipus and the Sphinx, with the organisation's name spelled out in Trajan font

History of IPA

In 1902 Sigmund Freud started to meet every week with colleagues to discuss his work and so Psychological Wednesday Society was born. By 1908 there were 14 regular members and some guests including Max Eitingon, Carl Gustav Jung, Karl Abraham, and Ernest Jones, all future Presidents of the IPA. Society became the Vienna Psychoanalytical Society. In 1907 Jones suggested to Jung that an international meeting should be arranged and Freud welcomed the proposal. Meeting took place in Salzburg, on 27 April 1908 and Jung named it the "First Congress for Freudian Psychology" and it is later reckoned to be the first International Psychoanalytical Congress, even so the IPA had not yet been founded.

IPA was established at the next Congress held at Nuremberg in March 1910. Sigmund Freud considered an international organization to be essential to advance his ideas. In 1914 Freud published a paper entitled The History of the Psychoanalytic Movement.

Regional Organizations of the IPA

There is a Regional Organisation for each of the IPA’s 3 regions (in Europe it is the European Psychoanalytical Federation (or EPF); in Latin America it is the Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies of Latin America (or FEPAL); and in North America it is the North American Psychoanalytic Confederation (or NAPSAC). Each of these three bodies consists of Constituent Organisations and Study Groups that are part of that IPA region. The IPA has a close working relationship with each of these independent organisations and values them highly, but they are not officially or legally part of the IPA.

Allied Centres of the IPA

• Korean Psychoanalytic Allied Centre
• Psychoanalysis Studying Center in China
• Taiwan Center for The Development of Psychoanalysis
• The Center for Psychoanalytic Studies of Panama

Constituent Organizations of the IPA

The IPA organises itself into three geographical regions:

• Europe (including Australia, India and Israel)
• Latin America
• North America (Canada and the USA, and Japan)

Constituent Organisations

• Argentine Psychoanalytic Association
• Argentine Psychoanalytic Society
• Australian Psychoanalytical Society
• Belgian Psychoanalytical Society
• Belgrade Psychoanalytical Society
• Brasília Psychoanalytic Society
• Brazilian Psychoanalytic Society of Rio de Janeiro
• Brazilian Psychoanalytic Society of São Paulo
• Brazilian Psychoanalytical Society of Porto Alegre
• Brazilian Psychoanalytical Society of Ribeirão Preto
• British Psychoanalytic Association
• British Psychoanalytical Society
• Buenos Aires Psychoanalytic Association
• Canadian Psychoanalytic Society
• Caracas Psychoanalytic Society
• Chilean Psychoanalytic Association
• Colombian Psychoanalytic Association
• Colombian Psychoanalytic Society
• Cordoba Psychoanalytic Society
• Czech Psychoanalytical Society
• Danish Psychoanalytical Society
• Dutch Psychoanalytical Association
• Dutch Psychoanalytical Group
• Dutch Psychoanalytical Society
• Finnish Psychoanalytical Society
• French Psychoanalytical Association
• Freudian Psychoanalytical Society of Colombia
• German Psychoanalytical Association
• German Psychoanalytical Society
• Hellenic Psycho-Analytical Society
• Hungarian Psychoanalytical Society
• Indian Psychoanalytical Society
• Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research
• Israel Psychoanalytic Society
• Italian Psychoanalytical Association
• Italian Psychoanalytical Society
• Japan Psychoanalytic Society
• Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies
• Madrid Psychoanalytical Association
• Mato Grosso do Sul Psychoanalytical Society
• Mendoza Psychoanalytic Society
• Mexican Assn for Psychoanalytic Practice, Training & Research
• Mexican Psychoanalytic Association
• Monterrey Psychoanalytic Association
• New York Freudian Society
• Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society
• Norwegian Psychoanalytic Society
• Paris Psychoanalytical Society
• Pelotas Psychoanalytic Society
• Peru Psychoanalytic Society
• Polish Psychoanalytical Society
• Porto Alegre Psychoanalytical Society
• Portuguese Psychoanalytical Society
• Psychoanalytic Center of California
• Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California
• Psychoanalytic Society of Mexico
• Psychoanalytical Association of The State of Rio De Janeiro
• Recife Psychoanalytic Society
• Rio de Janeiro Psychoanalytic Society
• Rosario Psychoanalytic Association
• Spanish Psychoanalytical Society
• Swedish Psychoanalytical Association
• Swiss Psychoanalytical Society
• Uruguayan Psychoanalytical Association
• Venezuelan Psychoanalytic Association
• Vienna Psychoanalytic Society

Regional Associations of the IPA

• APsaA

IPA Study Groups

• Campinas Psychoanalytical Study Group
• Center for Psychoanalytic Education and Research
• Croatian Psychoanalytic Study Group
• Fortaleza Psychoanalytic Group
• Goiania Psychoanalytic Nucleus
• Korean Psychoanalytic Study Group
• Latvia and Estonia Psychoanalytic Study Group
• Lebanese Association for the Development of Psychoanalysis
• Minas Gerais Psychoanalytical Study Group
• Portuguese Nucleus of Psychoanalysis
• Psychoanalytical Association of Asuncion SG
• South African Psychoanalytic Association
• Study Group of Turkey: Psike Istanbul
• Turkish Psychoanalytical Group
• Vermont Psychoanalytic Study Group
• Vilnius Society of Psychoanalysts

Provisional Societies of the IPA

• Guadalajara Psychoanalytic Association (Provisional Society)
• Moscow Psychoanalytic Society (Provisional Society)
• Psychoanalytic Society for Research and Training (Provisional Society)
• Romanian Society for Psychoanalysis (Provisional Society)
• Vienna Psychoanalytic Association

International Congresses

The first 23 Congresses of IPA did not have a specific theme.

Number	Year	City	President	Theme
1	1908	[[Image:Template:Country flag alias Austria-Hungary|22x20px|Template:Country alias Austria-Hungary]] Salzburg
2	1910	[[Image:Template:Country flag alias German Empire|22x20px|Template:Country alias German Empire]] Nuremberg	C. G. Jung
3	1911	[[Image:Template:Country flag alias German Empire|22x20px|Template:Country alias German Empire]] Weimar	C. G. Jung
4	1913	[[Image:Template:Country flag alias German Empire|22x20px|Template:Country alias German Empire]] Munich	C. G. Jung
5	1918	[[Image:Template:Country flag alias Hungary|22x20px|Template:Country alias Hungary]] Budapest	Karl Abraham
6	1920	[[Image:Template:Country flag alias Netherlands|22x20px|Template:Country alias Netherlands]] The Hague	Sándor Ferenczi
7	1922	[[Image:Template:Country flag alias Germany|22x20px|Template:Country alias Germany]] Berlin	Ernest Jones
8	1924	[[Image:Template:Country flag alias Austria|22x20px|Template:Country alias Austria]] Salzburg	Ernest Jones
9	1925	[[Image:Template:Country flag alias Germany|22x20px|Template:Country alias Germany]] Bad Homburg	Abraham/Eitingon
10	1927	[[Image:Template:Country flag alias Austria|22x20px|Template:Country alias Austria]] Innsbruck	Max Eitingon
11	1929	Oxford	Max Eitingon
12	1932	[[Image:Template:Country flag alias Germany|22x20px|Template:Country alias Germany]] Wiesbaden	Max Eitingon
13	1934	[[Image:Template:Country flag alias Switzerland|22x20px|Template:Country alias Switzerland]] Lucerne	Ernest Jones
14	1936	[[Image:Template:Country flag alias Czechoslovakia|22x20px|Template:Country alias Czechoslovakia]] Marienbad	Ernest Jones
15	1938	[[Image:Template:Country flag alias France|22x20px|Template:Country alias France]] Paris	Ernest Jones
16	1949	[[Image:Template:Country flag alias Switzerland|22x20px|Template:Country alias Switzerland]] Zürich	Ernest Jones
17	1951	[[Image:Template:Country flag alias Netherlands|22x20px|Template:Country alias Netherlands]] Amsterdam	Leo Bartemeier
18	1953	London	Heinz Hartmann
19	1955	[[Image:Template:Country flag alias Switzerland|22x20px|Template:Country alias Switzerland]] Geneva	Heinz Hartmann
20	1957	[[Image:Template:Country flag alias France|22x20px|Template:Country alias France]] Paris	Heinz Hartmann
21	1959	[[Image:Template:Country flag alias Denmark|22x20px|Template:Country alias Denmark]] Copenhagen	William H. Gillespie
22	1961	Edinburgh	William H. Gillespie
23	1963	[[Image:Template:Country flag alias Sweden|22x20px|Template:Country alias Sweden]] Stockholm	Maxwell Gitelson
24	1965	[[Image:Template:Country flag alias Netherlands|22x20px|Template:Country alias Netherlands]] Amsterdam	Gillespie/Greenacre	Psychoanalytic Treatment of the Obsessional Neurosis
25	1967	[[Image:Template:Country flag alias Denmark|22x20px|Template:Country alias Denmark]] Copenhagen	P.J. van der Leeuw	On Acting Out and its Role in the Psychoanalytic Process
26	1969	[[Image:Template:Country flag alias Italy|22x20px|Template:Country alias Italy]] Rome	P.J. van der Leeuw	New Developments in Psychoanalysis
27	1971	[[Image:Template:Country flag alias Austria|22x20px|Template:Country alias Austria]] Vienna	Leo Rangell	The Psychoanalytical Concept of Aggression
28	1973	[[Image:Template:Country flag alias France|22x20px|Template:Country alias France]] Paris	Leo Rangell	Transference and Hysteria Today
29	1975	London	Serge Lebovici	Changes in Psychoanalytic Practice and Experience
30	1977	[[Image:Template:Country flag alias Israel|22x20px|Template:Country alias Israel]] Jerusalem	Serge Lebovici	Affects and the Psychoanalytic Situation
31	1979	New York	Edward D. Joseph	Clinical Issues in Psychoanalysis
32	1981	[[Image:Template:Country flag alias Finland|22x20px|Template:Country alias Finland]] Helsinki	Edward D. Joseph	Early Psychic Development as Reflected in the Psychoanalytic Process
33	1983	[[Image:Template:Country flag alias Spain|22x20px|Template:Country alias Spain]] Madrid	Adam Limentani	The Psychoanalyst at Work
34	1985	[[Image:Template:Country flag alias Germany|22x20px|Template:Country alias Germany]] Hamburg	Adam Limentani	Identification and its Vicissitudes
35	1987	[[Image:Template:Country flag alias Canada|22x20px|Template:Country alias Canada]] Montreal	Robert S. Wallerstein	Analysis Terminable and Interminable – 50 Years Later
36	1989	[[Image:Template:Country flag alias Italy|22x20px|Template:Country alias Italy]] Rome	Robert S. Wallerstein	Common Ground in Psychoanalysis
37	1991	[[Image:Template:Country flag alias Argentina|22x20px|Argentina]] Buenos Aires	Joseph Sandler	Psychic Change
38	1993	[[Image:Template:Country flag alias Netherlands|22x20px|Template:Country alias Netherlands]] Amsterdam	Joseph Sandler	The Psychoanalyst’s Mind – From Listening to Interpretation
39	1995	San Francisco	R. Horacio Etchegoyen	Psychic Reality – Its Impact on the Analyst and Patient Today
40	1997	[[Image:Template:Country flag alias Spain|22x20px|Template:Country alias Spain]] Barcelona	R. Horacio Etchegoyen	Psychoanalysis and Sexuality
41	1999	[[Image:Template:Country flag alias Chile|22x20px|Template:Country alias Chile]] Santiago	Otto F. Kernberg	Affect in Theory and Practice
42	2001	[[Image:Template:Country flag alias France|22x20px|Template:Country alias France]] Nice	Otto F. Kernberg	Psychoanalysis – Method and Application
43	2004	New Orleans	Daniel Widlöcher	Working at the Frontiers
44	2005	[[Image:Template:Country flag alias Brazil|22x20px|Template:Country alias Brazil]] Rio de Janeiro	Daniel Widlöcher	Trauma: New Developments in Psychoanalysis
45	2007	[[Image:Template:Country flag alias Germany|22x20px|Template:Country alias Germany]] Berlin	Cláudio Laks Eizirik	Remembering, Repeating and Working Through in Psychoanalysis & Culture Today
46	2009	Chicago	Cláudio Laks Eizirik	Psychoanalytic Practice - Convergences and Divergences
47	2011	[[Image:Template:Country flag alias Mexico|22x20px|Template:Country alias Mexico]] Mexico City	Charles Hanly	Exploring Core Concepts: Sexuality, Dreams and the Unconscious
48	2013	[[Image:Template:Country flag alias Czech Republic|22x20px|Template:Country alias Czech Republic]] Prague	Charles Hanly	Facing the Pain: Clinical Experience and the Development of Psychoanalytic Knowledge

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The IPA's symbol and initials; this mark was redrawn in this form in 2012

External links

• Organization website: International Psychoanalytical Association