Keynote speakers

Argentine physician, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst, and a prominent figure in contemporary Latin American psychoanalytic thought. He served as President of the Sociedad Psicoanalítica del Sur and of the Fundación para el Estudio de la Depresión. In 2006, he received the Platinum Konex Award in recognition of his contribution to psychoanalysis. His best-known books include Narcisismo. Autoestima, identidad, alteridad [Narcissism: Self-Esteem, Identity, Alterity], Las depresiones. Afectos y humores del vivir [Depressions: Affects and Moods of Living], and Intersubjetividad y clínica [Intersubjectivity and Clinical Practice].

Angela Joyce is Fellow, and Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst and Child Psychoanalyst with the British Psychoanalytical Society (BPAS). She trained as a child analyst at the Anna Freud Centre, was a founding member of the pioneering Parent-Infant Project applying psychoanalysis to working with babies and their families, and jointly led the child psychotherapy service.
She has retired from clinical practice but is the current Chair of the Child and Adolescent Training Committee at the BPAS and continues to supervise candidates in training for both adult and child psychoanalysis. She is past Chair and current trustee of the Winnicott Trust; a Trustee of the Squiggle Foundation; and has been an Honorary Senior Lecturer at University College London. She has published in the areas of Winnicottian studies, early child development, child analysis and parent infant psychotherapy. She wrote the Introduction for Vol 6 of the Collected Works of DW Winnicott.