Argentina
Luis Hornstein
Physician and psychoanalyst. He has served as advisor to the Mental Health Department of the City of Buenos Aires and as Co-Director, together with Mauricio Goldenberg, of the Centro de Estudios Psicoanalíticos de Caracas between 1978 and 1983. He was President of the Southern Psychoanalytic Society and of the Foundation for Research on Depression. Recipient of the 2006 Konex Platinum Award for lifetime achievement in the humanities. Visiting professor at numerous universities and institutions across Latin America and Europe. Author of a foundational body of work in contemporary psychoanalysis, including Theory of Ideologies and Psychoanalysis, Narcissism, Identity, Otherness, Intersubjectivity and Clinical Practice, Depressions: Affects and Moods of Living, The Current Crossroads of Psychoanalysis, and his recent book Psychoanalytic Clinical Practice: From Dogma to Critical Thought, among other titles. His work has been decisive in articulating clinical practice, theory, and contemporary cultural and social issues, and has significantly shaped the trajectories and transformations of Latin American psychoanalytic thought.
United Kingdom
Drs. Angela Joyce, Tobias Jenkins & Adrian Sutton (The Squiggle Foundation)
We are honoured to welcome from the United Kingdom Dr Angela Joyce, Dr Tobias Jenkins, and Professor Adrian Sutton, leading figures of The Squiggle Foundation, one of the foremost organisations dedicated to the study, preservation, and dissemination of Donald Winnicott’s work and legacy. Established as a charitable foundation in 1981, The Squiggle Foundation has played a pivotal role in promoting the British Independent Tradition and fostering contemporary clinical, theoretical, and interdisciplinary dialogue inspired by Winnicott’s ideas.
Dr. Angela Joyce is a Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society, a Child Psychoanalyst trained at the Anna Freud Centre, former Chair of the Winnicott Trust, and a long-standing contributor to the development of Winnicottian thought through her clinical, educational, and editorial work.
Dr. Tobias Jenkins, current Director of The Squiggle Foundation, is a psychoanalytic scholar whose research explores the history of the British Independent Tradition and the work of W.R. Bion. Through his leadership, the Foundation continues to expand its educational activities and international collaborations, bringing Winnicott’s ideas into dialogue with contemporary psychoanalytic and cultural debates.
Professor Adrian Sutton, Squiggle Fellow and former President of the Foundation, is widely recognised for his contributions to Winnicottian clinical thinking, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, ethics, authority, trauma, and organisational dynamics. His work exemplifies the Foundation’s commitment to applying psychoanalytic understanding beyond the consulting room to wider social and institutional contexts.
Argentina
Norberto G. Rabinovich
Has practiced and taught psychoanalysis for more than 45 years in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He also did so in Santiago, Chile, for a decade. He was a founding member of the Escuela Freudiana de Buenos Aires in 1974 and served as a Member Analyst there until 1989. He is also a founding member of the groups “Letrafonía, espacio psicoanalítico” and “Lacantera freudiana”.
He has published El Nombre del Padre. Articulación entre la letra, la ley y el goce (1999), El inconsciente lacaniano (2006), Lágrimas de lo real. Un estudio sobre el goce (2007), La letra y la verdad (2014), and El pecado original del psicoanálisis (2017).
Confirmed Featured Speakers
Brazil
Jô Gondar
Full Professor at the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro. Psychoanalyst and full member of the Psychoanalytic Circle of Rio de Janeiro. Member of the Executive Committees of the International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies and the International Sándor Ferenczi Network. Co-author, with Eliana Reis, of Com Ferenczi: clínica, subjetivação e política and Com Ferenczi: o coletivo na clínica. Her most recent book is Ferenczi and the Political Dimension of Psychoanalysis (2026).
Spain
Miguel Ángel González Torres
Training Analyst at the Madrid Psychoanalytic Centre. Member of the Executive Committee of the IFPS and of the Editorial Board of the International Forum of Psychoanalysis. Head of Psychiatry at Basurto University Hospital and Associate Professor of Neurosciences at the University of the Basque Country. His clinical and research work focuses on personality pathology, identity and aggression. He is a Life Member of Clare Hall College, University of Cambridge. Author of Who am I? Exploring Identity in Sexuality, Politics and Art.
Lithuania
Darius Leskauskas
MD, PhD. Professor of Psychiatry and Head of Post-Doctoral Studies in Psychotherapy at the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences. Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst with over twenty-five years of clinical experience. Member of the Executive Committee of the IFPS. His current research focuses on the impact of cyber-technologies on adolescent development.
Italy
Anna Maria Loiacono
An interpersonal and relational psychoanalyst, training and supervising analyst at the H.S. Sullivan Institute in Florence, and former President of the Italian Society of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis (SIPI), she currently also serves as Secretary General of the International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies.
She is the author of the book Interpersonal Psychoanalysis: A Contemporary Introduction, devoted to contemporary developments in interpersonal psychoanalysis, ranging from Harry Stack Sullivan to current perspectives in the field.
Greece
Dr. Grigoris Maniadakis
Dr. Maniadakis is a training and supervising analyst and past President of the Hellenic Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. He also served as Supervisor at the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Unit of the Athens University Department of Psychiatry.
His work has focused on the psychoanalytic treatment of non-neurotic states, the psychoanalytic understanding of art and literature, and the history of psychoanalysis in Greece. Between 2014 and 2022, he served as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Forum of Psychoanalysis, contributing significantly to the development of one of the major journals within the IFPS community.
Alongside his psychoanalytic work, he is also the author of two books of poetry, reflecting a sustained dialogue between psychoanalysis, culture and artistic sensibility.
Chile
Carlos Peña González
Lawyer, PhD in Philosophy and Master in Sociology. Principal of Diego Portales University and university professor. Weekly columnist for El Mercurio and Vice President of CIPER Chile. Board member of the Nicanor Parra Foundation, Councillor of the Municipal Theatre of Santiago, and Board Member of the Museum of Memory and Human Rights. His work focuses on philosophy, culture and critical analysis of contemporary public life.
Spain
Juan Rodado
A training analyst at the Centro Psicoanalítico de Madrid, he is also Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Murcia and Head of the Consultation Liaison Psychiatry Unit at Reina Sofía University Hospital in Murcia.
His work has focused on the dialogue between psychoanalysis, psychiatry, and contemporary technologies, including research and reflections on artificial intelligence, models of mind, and current cultural transformations.
Also, his intersections between vitalist philosophies and approaches to psychoanalytic practice offer new perspectives on some of the central problems that traverse contemporary clinical work.
Chile
Grupo Bi-lógica ICHPA
This group represents one of the singular working spaces that has continuously, over several decades, maintained an active clinical and theoretical engagement with the work of Ignacio Matte Blanco and his theory of Bi-Logic.
Their contributions have helped sustain one of the most original and complex proposals in psychoanalysis, while also connecting Matte Blanco’s thought with contemporary clinical problems and building bridges with current authors and developments.
United States
Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Society & Institute (PPSI) of New York Group Supervision Experience
Since 1963, the Postgraduate Center in New York has been a landmark institution in supervisory psychoanalytic training in the United States. The PPSI team has presented live experiential group supervision sessions at the last five IFPS Fora.
Participants:
Linda Mayers, Co-editor of the Handbook on the Clinical Treatment of Adopted Adolescents and Young Adults and former Dean of Students at PPSI. Ona Lindquist, psychoanalyst in Brooklyn working with creative and performing artists. Valerie Angel, former Director of the Supervisory Training Program at PPSI and member of the IFPS Executive Committee. Nobuko Meaders, former Director of PPSI New York. Iris Levy, Training Analyst and Senior Supervisor at PPSI. Rebeca Aramoni, Vice-Secretary of the IFPS Executive Committee and presenter of clinical material.