Conference: “Anxiety: Between the Alien and the Other”

Dear colleagues, we invite you to participate in the 5th International Psychoanalytic Conference with multidisciplinary participation, “Anxiety: Between the Alien and the Other,” which will take place in Kyiv both in person and online via Zoom on March 22–23, 2025.

When war, crises, and the world are changing at breakneck speed, and the subject tries to find their place in this chaotic and unpredictable process, our goal is to make sense of anxiety, which becomes particularly acute in times of trial.

There are many possible ways to approach reflections on anxiety. Practical experience is the source of theory. Therefore, we are organizing a conference aimed at a joint professional discussion of this important topic. Renowned psychoanalysts, psychologists, philosophers, and sociologists have been invited to present papers so that we may reflect together on how the war has influenced the process of the subject’s transformation in light of social, economic, and political changes; what theoretical and practical approaches to trauma work we have developed over three years of full-scale invasion; how the tension between the Other and the Stranger contributes to the subject’s identity and capacity to, while acknowledging the Other, still insist on one’s own desires, and so on.

Join this important and timely conference, as the following speakers have already joined: S. Benvenuto (leading researcher at the Rome Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies at the National Research Council (CNR) and the European Institute of Higher Education in Psychoanalysis, Italy); R. Salecl (psychoanalyst, sociologist, and theorist at the University of Ljubljana, professor at Birkbeck College, University of London, and professor in the Department of Social Sciences, Medicine, and Health at King’s College London, Slovenia); K. Eskand (Ph.D. in Psychology and Pathopsychology, Professor at Louis Pasteur University in Strasbourg, clinical psychologist, author of books and publications, France); Y. Prohasko (psychoanalyst, translator, co-founder and associate professor at the Lviv Psychoanalytic Institute, lecturer in the Department of Intercultural Communication and Translation at Lviv National University); V. Dorozhkin (Doctor of Psychological Sciences, Professor at the Department of TPP at Lviv Polytechnic National University, moderator of the Psychoanalytic Psychology and Psychotherapy Division, President of the Ukrainian Association of Psychoanalytic Therapy, head of the “Psychologists at War” project), T. Lyuty (philosopher, essayist), O. Pokalchuk (social and military psychologist, expert in information and psychological operations), Y. Medynska (Ph.D. in Psychology, clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst, supervisor at the Ukrainian Psychoanalytic Society (UPS) and the Ukrainian Psychoanalytic Association (UKPA), director of the Lviv Psychoanalytic Institute of Mental Health); O. Fedorets (psychiatrist, psychoanalytic therapist, training analyst at the Ukrainian Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and the European Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, crisis psychotherapist, specialist in developmental trauma); M. Tkalych (Doctor of Psychological Sciences, professor at the Department of Psychology, Zaporizhzhia National University, director of the “Rating Lab” research laboratory); Y. Butsikin (PhD, associate professor at the Department of General Education Disciplines, Sigmund Freud University Ukraine, translator), M. Velykodna (PhD, associate professor, head of the Department of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at the Department of Psychology, Sigmund Freud University), O. Pavlovska (psychoanalyst, Master of Humanities and Social Sciences in Psychology from the Université Côte d’Azur, ECPP training psychoanalyst, UAP supervisor), O. Medvedeva (PhD, certified psychoanalyst, clinical psychologist, training psychoanalyst at the UIP, chair of the committee on certification programs of the Division of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapies of the NPA); O. Khrystenko (Master’s in Clinical Psychology, psychoanalytic practitioner, UIP lecturer), M. Kotsyuba (PhD, philosopher, lecturer at the Department of Philosophy, Bioethics, and History of Medicine at Bogomolets National Medical University

Main organizer: Division of Psychoanalytic Psychology and Psychotherapy – NPA of Ukraine: https://www.psychoanalysis.org.ua/

Participation fee:
If paid by 02/17/2025:

• 2,500 UAH – for everyone, 2,300 UAH – for members of the Division of Psychoanalytic Psychology and Psychotherapy, members of the NPA, and students of the Ukrainian Institute of Psychoanalysis

If paid by March 3, 2025:

• 2,800 UAH – for everyone, 2,500 UAH – for members of the PPD Division, members of the NPA, and students of the Ukrainian Institute of Psychoanalysis

If paid by March 20, 2025:

• 3,000 UAH – for everyone, 2,800 UAH – for members of the PPP Division, members of the NPA, and students of the Ukrainian Institute of Psychoanalysis.