Dear Colleagues.
Our association has achieved many successes in the last year: first of all, our membership has doubled thanks to everyone’s commitment, and the admissions committee coordinated by Irma Morosini has worked hard to ensure the entry into our field of well-prepared colleagues.
The membership fee has reduced considerably, thus facilitating the presence of many colleagues in many parts of the world.
On the scientific side, the organisation of scientific days, in French, English and Spanish-Portuguese, has been launched, which can be attended in person or via links.
The French-speaking day showed a good level of clinical, theoretical and research development.
The Spanish-Portuguese day will take place on28th and 29th March 2025 on the theme “Clinical Psychoanalysis of Couple and Family”.
The English conference will focus on “Countertransference in psychoanalytic work with couples and families and in society” and is organised in collaboration with Tavistock Relationships. This conference will take place on 6 and 7 June 2025, from 14.00 to 18.30 (CET).
The scientific committee, led by Cristina Calarasanu, is working on the preparation of the international congress on the theme “Couple and family today. Psychoanalysis in the face of new configurations”, to be held in Guadalajara, with the support of the Psychoanalytical Society of Guadalajara, whose local committee is coordinated by Luis Armando González. The congress will be a hybrid event, face-to-face and on Zoom.
The Congress is scheduled to take place fromThursday 25 June to Saturday 27 June 2026. A closing and farewell dinner will be organised on Saturday. An accompanying group will be set up to make participants feel safe and welcome. In parallel to the congress, there will be the possibility of organising a tourist program with visits and excursions.
The Study Centre, as part of the Scientific Committee, continues its intense activity, coordinated by Rosa Jaitin, and it is to Rosa and her team that we owe the publication of the newsletter that you have already received, which reports on the life of our Association.
I am writing to inform you that you will receive the notice of the Ordinary General Assembly and the Extraordinary General Assembly to be held on Sunday 2 February 2025.
At these meetings you will be informed about the ongoing activities and amendments will be proposed to incorporate the latest developments into the Statutes, in order to provide legitimacy to certain functions.
Against this backdrop, it is proposed that the Articles of Association of our association be amended at an Extraordinary General Meeting to take account of changes in our activity. The proposed amendment would be as follows:
The first modification to article 18-1 is intended to specify that the President of the Association has a scientific representative role and not just an administrative one. Currently, article 18-1 reads as follows
18-1” The President shall direct the Association and shall have the broadest powers to represent it in all countries to which its members belong, vis-à-vis the public authorities and third parties”.
It is amended as follows
18.1 “The President shall be the scientific representative of the Association, shall direct it and shall have the broadest powers to represent it before public authorities and third parties in all countries to which its members belong.”
The second modification includes in the statutes the already existing entities, i.e. the Study Centre and the Bulletin.
ELECTIONS TO THE ADMINISTRATION COUNCIL
As far as the Board of Directors is concerned,the following colleagues, whom we would like to thank for their intensive and effective work to date, are stepping down in accordance with our current Articles of Association: Pierre Benghozi, Rosa Jaitin, Irma Morosini, MariaManuela Porto and Karen Proner.
We therefore call for new nominations. Nominations should be addressed to the President of the Association and be accompanied by the following documents:
- Letter of motivation (French, English and Spanish versions)
- 2 Letters of introduction, drafted by full members of IACFP (English, French and Spanish versions)
- Curriculum vitae indicating your university degree and training in the field (personal psychoanalysis and training or experience in couple and family psychoanalysis)
Candidates may be asked to submit documents attesting to their qualifications.
Candidates must be full members of the AIPCF and in good standing with the society.
I reproduce below the provisions of the statutes governing this election:
ARTICLE 16: Board of Directors
16-1. Composition
The Board of Directors shall be composed of a maximum of 24 directors elected by the General Meeting from among the full members, by simple ballot on a single ballot paper (postal or secure electronic voting is permitted). The candidates elected are those who obtain the highest number of votes and are divided into three distinct geographical units, namely:
- America,
- Europe,
- Africa, Asia and Oceanía.
Each of these units is assigned an equivalent number of administrators.
Each of the three geographical units has 8 members, two of whom are directly elected by the geographical unit in question. If a geographical unit fails to fill all the seats reserved for it, these seats will remain vacant until the next elections.
At present, the remaining members of the Council after the end of the terms of office of Pierre Benghozi, Rosa Jaitin, Irma Morosini, Karen Proner and Maria Manuela Porto are as follows
- For Europe:
Cristina Calarasanu, Sara González de Pablos, Anne Loncan, Daniela Lucarelli, Anna Nicolò (Possible seats to be elected 4)
- For America:
Patricia Alcalde, Graciela Consoli, Maria Luiza Diaz Garcia, Luis Armando Gonzalez, Manuel Liss (Possible 3 seats to be elected)
- For Asia, Africa and Oceanía:
Hanni Shalvi Mann, Felisa Perry (Possible seats to be filled 6)
The following persons have put themselves forward as candidates:
- Maria Grazia Giachin (Italy)
- Christiane Joubert (France)
- Paloma De Pablo Rodriguez (Spain)
- Eugenia de Oliveira (Portugal)
- Maria Laura Diez (Argentina)
- Rafael Navarro (Argentina)
- Dina Oren (Israel)
- Giuseppe Saraò (Italy)
- AnastasiaTsamparli (USA.-Greece)
- Gislaine Varela Mayo de Dominicis (Brazil)
For this election, we will be able to vote from 6 January to 26 January, and this time we will vote by post, to avoid any confusion or misunderstanding.
You will receive a convocation and at the same time an e-mail containing voting possibilities and voting rules.
I hope to see many of you at our Assembly, and I wish you happy holidays and a new year full of health, serenity and well-being, effective work and new scientific achievements.
Anna Maria Nicolò
IACFP President