Theme & Significance

This year our Autumn Psychoanalytic school in a warm and cozy Kutaisi is dedicated to the paths and insights that psychoanalysis offers for working with both individual and collective destruction. We will explore the importance of containing destructiveness — both in the analytic session and in social dynamics. The theme of the Kutaisi Autumn School is highly relevant in today’s world: How do we cope with aggression, anxiety, and destructive impulses in the psychotherapeutic session? How is this process reflected in a society where past traumas remain unprocessed and polarization is part of daily life? Psychoanalysis is not only a method for understanding and healing the inner world of the individual; it also plays a crucial role in comprehending the social processes that often operate unconsciously within groups and societies. Unconscious mechanisms shape not only personal pain but also collective behavior. Psychoanalysis provides a language to understand the symbolic logic of the motives that push humans toward aggression, brutality and which lead them towards what seems rational, but what is senseless and violent.

School Program Includes:

• Lectures
• Clinical presentations
• Discussions
• A workshop on ethical issues
• Clinical seminars and group supervisions
• Cultural excursion and a dance therapy evening led by an Australian dance therapist

Participants will receive certificates indicating the number of training hours.

Languages: English and Georgian with simultaneous translation.

Lecturers & Presenters

Jacob Ubbels

Child and adolescent psychiatrist, Dutch Psychoanalytic Society

Full member of the Dutch Psychoanalytic Society and IPA-member. Has qualified in C/A-psychoanalysis in 1989, training and supervising psychoanalyst since 1994, former president of the Dutch Psychoanalytic Society; He published and taught about several different psychoanalytic subjects. 2001-2014 he was faculty-member of the C/A-analytic training program of the Han Groen-Prakken Institute for Eastern Europe, and from 2018-2023 faculty member of the C/A-training of the Psychoanalytic Institute for Eastern Europe, member of the Eastern European Psychoanalytic Institute, Tehran’s Ham Ava Institute, and the Chinese-American Psychoanalytic Alliance.

Leontine Brameijer

Training analyst and supervisor, Dutch Psychoanalytic Society

Training analyst and supervisor with the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA) and a member of the Dutch Psychoanalytic Society. She is an experienced teacher of psychoanalytic trainees as well as of psychotherapists, psychiatrists and psychology undergraduates. Her clinical work is informed by the theories of Sigmund Freud, Melanie Klein and their successors within the British Kleinian school of psychoanalysis. In recent years she has specialized in working with young families and in infant-observation. She has co-edited and contributed to a collection of papers by Dutch Kleinian analysts and is currently working on a biography of Freuds patient Jeanne Lampl-de Groot.

Wouter Gomperts

Dutch psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist

Dutch psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist; IPA training analyst and supervisor at the Dutch Society for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. He teaches at the University of Amsterdam and practices at the Netherlands Institute for Psychoanalysis. Currently engaged in research projects focusing on the intersection of psychoanalysis and ethnic/cultural experience.

Khatuna Ivanishvili

Psychoanalyst and psychotherapist, president of Georgian Psychoanalytic Society

Psychoanalyst and psychotherapist; direct member of the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA); president of the Georgian Psychoanalytic Society; co-founder and training group leader of the Georgian Society for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. She is a teacher and supervisor of the training program of GPPS. Her practice and research focus on trauma, aggression, and socio-cultural phenomena. She is a frequent presenter at international conferences, has published works, and leads training courses in Georgia..

Nino Sesiashvili

IPA member, coordinator of adult section, seminar leader on Winnicott

Direct member of the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA); Member of Georgian Psychoanalytic Society, she is a coordinator of the adult section of the Georgian Society for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy; co-founder and training group member of the Georgian Psychoanalytic Society and the Georgian Society for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy; leads seminars on Winnicott in the training program of GPPS.

Nona Nakashidze

Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, IPA candidate

Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst; candidate of the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA); From 2014 she was in a training program of the Han Groen-Prakken Institute for Eastern Europe (HG-P Institute), member of the Georgian Psychoanalytic Society, member of the Georgian Society for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. .

Emanuela Quagliata

Training analyst, Italian Psychoanalytic Society, COWAP Co-Chair

Training and supervising psychoanalyst of The Italian Psychoanalytic Society (SPI) and of the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA). COWAP Co-Chair for Europe. Teacher at the Tavistock Clinic in London and is a member of the Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP), at the Institute of Psychoanalysis of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society, at the University of L’Aquila at the Centre of Childhood Psychosis. Editor of two books published by Routledge: ‘Assessment in Child Psychotherapy’ and ‘Becoming Parents, overcoming obstacles’ ; she has also edited in Italian a book on eating disorders in children and adolescents ‘A Vital Need’ and recently completed the publication of a series of 12 volumes on psychoanalysis for parents.

Organizers, Contacts & Participation Fees

Organizers

• The Georgian Psychoanalytic Society and the Georgian Society for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
• The Kutaisi Psychological Service Center “Open House”

The detailed schedule will be announced later.

Organizing Committee: Tamar Azmaiparashvili, Lali Tsertsvadze, Nino Sesiashvili, Levan Goguadze, Khatuna Ivanishvili, Ilike Zakashvili, Nino Kiladze

Contact

Tamar Azmaiparashvili: tamar.azmik@yahoo.com
Nino Sesiashvili: ninosesiashvili@yahoo.com

Participation Fees

• Tier I – GEL 380 (for payments made before September 15)
• Tier II – GEL 450 (for payments made from September 15 to October 1
• Online participation: 180 GEL

Fees Include:

• Accommodation at Hotel Solomon (a double room)
• Breakfast, lunch, and coffee breaks
• Transportation from Tbilisi
• Translated clinical materials
• Interpretation services during the school activities

Hotel Solomon Location

The School will be hosted at Hotel Solomon, 10 Khakhanashvili Street, Kutaisi.

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