(2007 – 2015)
In order to support the training of a group of psychotherapists interested in psychoanalysis and motivated for eventual analytical training, the Foundation in agreement with the Psychoanalytic Institute for Eastern Europe (PIEE) association, decided to organize a series of seminars and cover their expenses. These seminars were conducted by psychoanalysts from the Italian Psychoanalytic Society, which belongs to the International Psychoanalytic Association.
The seminars included a presentation of the paper during the morning, and a small-group discussion of a clinical case followed in the afternoon. In May 2007, psychoanalysts Vlasta Polojaz and Andrea Braun reported on “Growth and Crisis: from Adolescence to Adulthood. The Incest.”.
In December of the same year Ronny Jaffé spoke on “Adolescence, Transgenerational and the Post-Modern Age” and also ” Adolescence. The Adolescent’s Rite of Passage in the Present Day.” All papers were followed by discussion groups on clinical cases. In May 2008, Graziano De Giorgio (Interpretation and Timing)and Sisto Vecchio of Brescia (The Windows of the Wolf-Man) collaborated. In November of the same year Marta Badoni (An Introduction to Psychoanalytic Work in Childhood and Adolescence) and Paola Molone (Counselling in the Psychoanalytic Institution).
In Kiev, Drs. Loris Zanin and Chiara Cattelan held the last seminar, which took place on September 5 and 6, 2015 with the presentation of their theoretical clinical contributions: “An hysterical adolescent”and “Thinking about psychoanalysis and autism” by C. Cattelan. The reports were followed by clinical discussion groups with case presentations by Ukrainian colleagues from different cities.
This event concluded our project, which had seen a long interruption due to both family and personal problems of those involved and Ukrainian political and economic instability. All this, however, has not stopped the development of psychoanalysis, as Ukrainian colleagues have now been granted Provisional Study Group status by the IPA.