Tarsila do Amaral, Operários (Workers), 1933
International congress
Second International Meeting of Psychoanalysis in Psychiatry Section (PIP) of WPA
In Collaboration with Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association NY
On the Discontents of Patients and Clinicians in Psychiatry Today: What Psychoanalysis Can Offer
June 6 – 7, 2026
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Goldwurm Auditorium
Icahn Medical Institute, 1st floor
1425 Madison Ave., New York, NY
(corner of East 98th Street)
In-person and on Zoom
In our times, the field of psychiatry is confronted with unprecedented clinical difficulties and impasses that are not often openly discussed. Psychiatric practice has been increasingly transformed into an exercise in applying standardized diagnoses, obligatory protocols, and ready-made treatments determined by an imaginary universal that obliterates the singularity of the human subject. It is no coincidence that this trajectory has been accelerated by the adaptation of new technologies that make it appear as if the real presence of the clinician is superfluous. Yet, these new technologies can also offer new possibilities. How can we make use of them while sustaining an ethics of care?
We are interested in what psychoanalysis can contribute to considerations of the discontents of patients and clinicians today. For example, how to give space to the importance of the physical presence of the clinician, the value of giving adequate time to the clinical encounter, and the essential dimension of listening carefully to the specificity of the patient’s suffering—which is always singular? What can psychoanalytic experience teach us about why the patient’s speech must be at the center of all care, as well as the impact of the transferential relation between patient and clinician? What do we think should be the necessary formation/training for clinicians today and what kinds of policies need to be put into place?
By way of this encounter between psychiatry and psychoanalysis, we hope to discuss these matters as well as myriad topics that have remained in the shadows. We welcome psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, scholars, clinicians from all disciplines and other interested participants to join the discussion of how to create an ethical clinic of care for our time.
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[program in Progress]
Saturday June 6, 2026
8:30am: Registration
9:15am: Opening Remarks — Paola Mieli (NY)
9:30am – 11:15am
The Impact of Social Media on the Psyche and the Social Link
Moderator: Lillian Ferrari (NY)
Speakers: Jean Pierre Lebrun (Belgium), Vlad Novakovic (NY), Beverly Stoute (GA)
11:15am: Break
11:30am – 1:15pm
The Usage of AI in Psychiatry and in Psychotherapy
Moderator: Paola Mieli (NY)
Speakers: Yann Diener (France), Fabian Guenole (France), Jennifer Harper (NY), Luigi Janiri (Italy)
1:15pm: Lunch Break
3:00pm – 5:00pm
Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis in the Institution
Moderator: Ona Nierenberg (NY)
Speakers: Mario Colucci (Italy), Sarah Faitell (NY), Dominique Tourres Landman (France), Hachem Tyal (Morocco)
Sunday June 7, 2026
8:30am: Registration
9:15am: Opening Remarks — Maria Ammon (Germany)
9:30am – 11:15am
Psychoanalysis in Psychiatry: Present Challenges
Moderator: Paola Mieli (NY)
Speakers: Mario Eduardo Costa Pereira (Brazil), Marco Antonio Couthinio Jorge (Brazil), Hervé Granier (France), André Michels (Luxembourg)
11:15am: Break
11:30am – 1:15pm
Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Medications
Moderator: Michel Botbol (France)
Speakers: Swapnil Gupta (NY), Patrick Landman (France), Joanna Moncrieff (England), Thomas Shultz (Germany)
1:15pm: Lunch Break
3:00pm – 5:00pm
Psychiatric Training in Our Times
Moderator: Michel Botbol (France)
Speakers: Stathis Argyriou (NY), Anna Blech (NY), Jean Jacques Bonamour du Tartre (France), Juan Mezzich (NY), Alix Vicente Spadini (Brazil)
5:00pm: Break
5:15pm – 6:00pm: Closing Remarks
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Tickets: $195
Advanced Ticket: $150 (available soon, ends May 1, 2026)
Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association Members, AFs, and Yearly Participants: $100
Sponsors:
Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association, NY
The Solomon and Gillespie Fund, NY
Scientific and Organizing Committee:
Maria Ammon (DE), Michel Botbol (FR), Mario Eduardo Costa Perreira (BR), Lillian Ferrari (NY), Fabian Guenole (FR), Hervé Granier (FR), Dusica Lecic Tosevski (SRB), Juan Mezzich (NY), Kareen Malone (GA), Paola Mieli (NY), Ona Nierenberg (NY), Vlad Novakovic (NY), Hachem Tyal (MA)
Local Coordinating Committee:
Ania Baumritter (NY), Lillian Ferrari (NY), Caroline Kasnakian (NY), Kareen Malone (GA), Paola Mieli (NY), Annie Muir (NY), Ona Nierenberg (NY)