PCAT(心理猫Pcat) is a China popular psychological therapists training platform with hundreds of thousands professionals members. Its goal is to improve Chinese psychological therapists academic and clinical practice skills. We welcome all kinds of psychology related collaborations. You can contact us in China Wechat account:心理猫Pcat, or our
The IAPSP International May Conference titled "The Vulture in the Room," took place on zoom on May 20th, 2023. Colleagues from Turkey co-hosted a case presentation offered by Mustafa Çevrim, followed by discussions from Şaziye Kazezoğlu, Petra Purkarthofer, and Jackie Gotthold. Arthur Gray moderated the
With the welcome boost of the ECP scholarship I was encouraged to attend my first IAPSP conference in-person in Washington, D.C. That in itself was a rich experience, with a personal highlight being the meeting of the Couples Therapy Special Interest Group. At this conference
The Early Career Professional (ECP) award has been one of the greatest opportunities I have had thus far as a new analyst. As a second year analytic training candidate, I was looking for additional opportunities to learn and network, particularly after two years of feeling
When I think of my experience as an ECP recipient, I’m still in awe of the ways it’s shaped me as a professional, as a clinician, and as a human being. Around two years ago this somewhat freshly graduated provisionally licensed career changer in his
The Canberra & Region Self Psychology Community 2023 Self Psychology Conference “Nurturing the Tendrils of Health: Working with the Forward Edge in Clients, Self and Community” was held on the 25th & 26th February 2023 in Canberra, Australia. This is the 2nd of such conferences
The Child & Adolescent Initiative hosted a presentation at the 2022 IAPSP Conference in Washington D.C. Presenters were William Ketterrer and Erica Young who work together in schools in New England, educating teachers in self psychology in hopes of creating a growth enhancing selfobject milieu,
by Karen Stewart For those living outside Australia, here’s a context for our Self Psychology Community: Canberra is the National Capital of Australia. The surrounding regional areas are expansive, and our group includes regional New South Wales (NSW) as well as the State of the
What is poetry that does not save/Nations or people? asks Czeslaw Milosz, surveying the destruction of Poland in 1944. Is he extolling the possibility for poetry to save us or lamenting its impossibility? Perhaps both. Milosz’s poem “Dedication,” ends up by
by Gabrielle Bélanger Dumontier, D. Psy., Ph. D. A proverb says that it takes a village to raise a child. For me, it helped to have a "village", or more precisely the IAPSP community, to support the development of my professional self in the very beginning