XI International Congress - IACFP

COUPLES AND FAMILIES TODAY

Psychoanalysis facing the diversity of configurations.

Event dedicated to the memory of René Kaës

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July 22–25, 2026 · Guadalajara & Online

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Argument

Couples and Families Today

Psychoanalysis Facing the Diversity of Configurations

General Description

The configurations of couples and families are in constant transformation, influenced by socioeconomic, cultural, and technological factors in different societies. Traditional family models coexist with a diversity of living arrangements, such as single-parent families, blended families, and same-sex families. These changes pose new challenges for psychoanalysis, a discipline rooted in understanding the unconscious in human relationships and in the group structures of couples and families. Do the processes of culturalization and cultural destruction influence the psychic construction and the forms of relational linkage in contemporary society? How do we think about the difficulties in the process of symbolization and sublimation of the death drive and destruction? How do we approach from psychoanalysis the changes and transformations in family and couple structures and their manifestation in aspects such as maternal and paternal functions, gender issues, the new place of women and men in the couple, the recognition of same-sex couples, and reproductive technologies? What consequences do all these transformations have on unconscious alliances at the intrasubjective, intersubjective, and transubjective levels? How do we think about these different levels in relation to identificatory networks? How do we conceive current devices to observe the unconscious in links? How do we reflect from intersubjective psychoanalysis on the implementation of containment and support devices in extreme situations, such as natural disasters or wars? The congress offers an opportunity to discuss these topics, share advances and reflections, and highlight the importance of psychoanalysis in understanding and clinically addressing new family and couple dynamics. At the same time, it underscores the need to contribute to and advance this discipline in the face of contemporary evolutions.

Subtopics:

Changes in family and couple models
Social and cultural transformations and their repercussions on family and couple links
Processes of culturalization and effects on human psyche
Changes in gender roles and their influence on family and couple relationships
Clinical aspects of migration and immigration
Changes in parental functions
Points of agreement in various clinical-theoretical approaches in family and couple therapy
Creation of devices for observing the unconscious in links
Research and reflection groups
Current training of family and couple psychoanalysts in AIPCF
Repercussions of legislation and justice in the therapeutic process of couples and families
Psychoanalytic techniques for addressing new family and couple configurations today
Intercultural and transcultural perspectives in couple and family therapy

Participants

Scientific Program Participants

Experts in Couple and Family Psychoanalysis

Alejandra Alfonso

Silvia Amati

Christine Anzieu

Pierre Benghozi

Stefano Bolognini

Cristina Călărășanu

Elisabeth Darchis

Virginia De Micco

Alberto Eiguer

María Inés Fernández

Yolanda Gampel

Leticia Glocer Fiorini

Luis Armando González

Ludovica Grassi

Cynthia Gregory-Roberts

Rosa Jaitin

Christiane Joubert

Timothy Keogh

Ruth Levisky

Anne Loncan

Daniela Lucarelli

Hanni Mann Shalvi

Ana Marques Lito

Perrine Moran

Mary Morgan

Irma Morosini

Anna Maria Nicolò

Elisabeth Palacios

Manuela Porto

James Poulton

Silvia Resnisky

Maria Fernanda Rivas

Almudena Sanahuja

David Scharf

Lea Setton

Julie Suk

Ana Rosa Trachtenberg

Federico Urman

Olga Varela

Scientific Production of the Congress

Pre-Congress

Presentation of the scientific works developed by the Research Groups of the AIPCF Study Center, sharing their research advances and clinical developments during the day prior to the start of the Congress.

Thematic Panels

More than 80 scientific works presented by professionals from different parts of the world, organized into Thematic Panels that reflect the diversity and relevance of couple and family psychoanalysis.

📖 Consult the Agenda to know the complete program of the Pre-Congress, the Thematic Panels, and all other scientific activities of the Congress.

We thank all researchers, authors, coordinators, and Working Groups who, with their contributions, enrich the scientific production of this Congress.

Agenda

Program · International Congress of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis ·

All schedules correspond to local time in Mexico (Guadalajara). We suggest checking the time in your region here.

The Pre-Congress will take place in online format only.

07:30 Part 1 FIRST PART – René Kaës STUDY CENTRE (Scientific Council of the IACFP) – Clinical Reflection and Research Groups

Opening

Rosa Jaitin - Luis Armando González - Carmen Villoro

— The Impact of the Times on Subjectivity and Clinical Practice +

Coordinator

Irma Morosini (in collaboration with Bárbara Bianchini and Ondina Greco)

— Psychoanalytic Multifamily Therapy +

Coordinator

Norberto Mascaró - Claudio Maruottolo

— The Relational: Clinical Interventions on Three Continents +

Coordinator

Rocío Cabanzo

— THROUPLE – New nominations, new realities. Changes in the experience of being a couple +

Coordinator

Roberta Gorischnik

— Community social work with couples and families +

Coordinator

Patricia Alcalde

— The Journey of Linking in the Hospital Emergency Room. A Psychoanalytic Interpretation +

Coordinator

María Laura Diez

— Research on group, family and institutional projective tools +

Coordinator

Almudena Sanahuja · Magalie Bonnet Llompart

— Interventions and interpretations in couple psychoanalysis +

Coordinator

Alberto Eiguer

— Choosing a relationship in later life, chapter two: between security and adventure? +

Coordinator

Dina Oren

ROUND TABLES - CONCLUSIONS

Rosa Jaitin and Group Coordinators

09:50 Break Musical break (10 minutes)

10:00 Part 2 – A SECOND PART (A) · RIPPF Journal Presentation

— THE JOURNAL TODAY +

Historical and Current Perspective – Irma Morosini

Tribute to Kaës: Journal Issue No. 34

— THE FOUNDATION +

Review of the Founding Principles – Anna Maria Nicolò

— ROUNDTABLE +

Remembering René KAËS – Elisabeth Darchis – Rosa Jaitin – Christiane Joubert

11:15 Break Musical break (15 minutes)

11:25 Part 2 – B SECOND PART (B) · WAVES Newsletter and Journal Network of the René Kaës Study Center

— HISTORY +

WAVES Newsletter and Journal Network – Rosa Jaitin

Presentation of the Journals and Their Editors – Rosa Jaitin

— ROUNDTABLE – From Paper to Screen +

Anne Loncan (Le Divan Familial) – James Poulton (Tavistock) – Liliana Levy (AAPPG) – Edith Lecourt (SFPPG) – Mabel Marcinavicius (Controversias – APdeBA) – Roxana Mejide (La Época – APA) – Laura Katz (Revista de Psicoanálisis – APA) – Elizabeth Palacios (Aragonese Journal of Psychic Research on Children and Adolescents – AAPIPNA) – Silvia Lepore (Interazioni Journal)
Roundtable Coordinators: Luis Armando González · Irma Morosini

1:00 pm Conclusions Pre-congress closing conclusions

Speakers

Rosa Jaitin · Irma Morosini

7:30 am Opening Opening of the Congress

Speakers

Luis Armando González (Congress Chair) · Carmen Villoro (President of APG)

7:40 am Keynote Couple and Family Psychoanalysis in the Face of New Cultural and Social Challenges

Speakers

Anna Maria Nicolò (President of IACFP)

8:10 am Special Address Faraway Words

Words from

Stefano Bolognini · Yolanda Gampel

8:20 am Plenary PLENARY 1 · Couples and Families in a Troubling World

Chair

Cristina Călărășanu

Speakers

Alberto Eiguer: Why does society try to cut us off from our roots?
Olga Varela: Couples therapy: limits and scope in a changing world
James Poulton: The Return of the Infantile: Uncanny Similarities Between Narcissistic Couples and Authoritarian Cults

Discussants

Daniela Lucarelli · Hanni Mann Shalvi

9:50 am Debate Discussion with the Audience

10:20 am Break Break

10:30 am Round Table ROUND TABLE – DEBATE 1 · The Intersection of Identity, Culture, and Psychoanalysis Today

Chair

Irma Morosini

Speakers

Julie Suk: Constitutionalism of Maternal Care
Virginia De Micco: Family ties and cultural bonds: identity as an unconscious relational field
Timothy Keogh: Same wine, new bottles? A psychoanalytic vertex on contemporary couple and family relationships

Discussants

Rosa Jaitin

12:00 pm Debate Discussion with the Audience

12:30 pm Break Break

1:15 pm Round Table Thematic Round Tables

— MESA #6 - DISPOSITIVOS (Virtual · Idioma: ES) +

PRESENTA: Sara Gonzalez de Pablos - Cristina Rosa Nudel - Diana Hidalgo Jiménez - Moi Luisa · COORDINA: Rocío Cabanzo

— MESA #7 - DISPOSITIVOS (Virtual · Idioma: PT) +

PRESENTA: Bruno Bones de Alcantara Costa - Danielly Passos de Oliveira - Thassia Emidio · COORDINA: Andrea Seixas Magalhães

— MESA #8 - CLÍNICA - PAREJA (Virtual · Idioma: ES,PT) +

PRESENTA: Virginia Grosso - Giuliano Albo Mariana - Cristina Penín Viola - Serrano Pérez Teresa - João Paulo Ribeiro · COORDINA: Pedro Pala de Sá

— MESA #9 - PAREJAS HOY (Virtual · Idioma: ES,PT) +

PRESENTA: Antonia Staforelli - Casanueva Ravello Lorena - Juliana Beatriz Ferreira de Souza - Gomes Isabel Cristina - Andrea Maria Razzetti - Gorischnik Roberta - Fernanda Palermo - Fernandes Maria Inês Assumpção · COORDINA: Maria Lucia de Souza Campos Paiva

— MESA #10 - DISPOSITIVOS (Virtual · Idioma: PT) +

PRESENTA: Celia Blini - Beatriz Matoso - Isabel Cristina Gomes - Levy Lidia - Paula Godinho · COORDINA: Maria Luiza Dias Garcia

— MESA #1 - MIGRACIÓN (Presencial · Idioma: ES) +

PRESENTA: Alejandro Tamez - Maria Soledad Dawson - Luis Armando Gonzalez · COORDINA: Vicenta Ramirez

— MESA #2 - CAMBIOS (Presencial · Idioma: PT) +

PRESENTA: Gislaine De Dominics - Palmira Orozco Manriquez - Rizo Mendez Maria Cristina - Ana Sizalda Gonçalves Oliveira Oliveira - Patrick de Souza Rodrigues - Passos de Oliveira Danielly · COORDINA: Cristina Oetling

5:00 am Round Table Thematic Round Tables

— TABLE A - INTERCULTURALITY, AND THE CONTEMPORARY COUPLE (Virtual · Language: EN) +

PRESENTS: Simona Popa - Julia Kalaydjian - Ann Hardy - Marya Minasyan - Alexandrova Tatyana · CHAIR: Daniela Lucarelli

— TABLE B - CONTEMPORARY CHANGES IN THE FAMILY AND THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS (Virtual · Language: FR) +

PRESENTS: David Bichet - Christiane Joubert - Svetlana Hiers · CHAIR: Pierre Benghozi

— TABLE C - CHANGES IN FAMILY STRUCTURES AND RELATIONSHIP DYNAMICS (Virtual · Language: FR) +

PRESENTS: Anastasia Tsamparli - Constance Leconte - Almudena Sanahuja - Clarisse Vollon - Sanahuja Almudena · CHAIR: Meriem Mokdad

7:30 am Special Address Faraway Words

Words from

Christine Anzieu · Cynthia Gregory-Roberts

7:40 am Plenary PLENARY 2 · Psychoanalytic Challenges in Working with Diverse Couples and Families

Chair

Luis Armando González

Speakers

Leticia Glocer Fiorini: Adolescent's trans subjectivities in situation
Pierre Benghozi: Diversity of the family links 'maillage' and the malleability of the containing frame: the narrative genospatiogram
Ruth Levisky: The 'Vincular' Complex: a Clinical Tool for Contemporary Couple and Family Configurations

Discussants

Élisabeth Darchis · Federico Urman

9:10 am Debate Discussion with the Audience

9:40 am Break Break

10:00 am Round Table ROUND TABLE – DEBATE 2 · Theoretical and Clinical Models in Dialogue

Chair

Manuela Porto

Speakers

Alejandra Alfonso: Clinical Case Presentation
Rosa Jaitin: The Links' Subject and Transmissions in Psychoanalysis
Mary Morgan: A couple state of mind. A view from the Tavistock Model
Anna Maria Nicolò: Between the intrapsychic and interpersonal. The Plurality of the Unconscious in Couple and Family Psychoanalysis
Silvia Resnisky: Perspectives from the 'vincular' psychoanalysis

Discussants

Perrine Moran

12:00 pm Debate Discussion with the Audience

12:30 pm Break Break

1:15 pm Round Table Thematic Round Tables

— TABLE D - INTIMACY, SEXUALITY, AND CONTEMPORARY RELATIONSHIPS (Virtual · Language: FR) +

PRESENTS: Damian McCann - Thompson Kate - Elisabetta Cattaneo - Sonia Melgiovanni - Tossichetti Valeria · CHAIR: Cristina Călărășanu

— TABLE E - NEW FAMILY FORMS AND THE RECONFIGURATION OF THEORY (Virtual · Language: EN) +

PRESENTS: Ludovica Grassi - Konstantinos Taliouridis - Fabio Monguzzi - Zavattini Giulio Cesare · CHAIR: Hanni Mann-Shalvi

— TABLE G - CLINICAL SETTINGS, CARE PATHWAYS AND TRAINING (Virtual · Language: FR) +

PRESENTS: Hanane Riani - Maud Lescoffit - Sanahuja Almudena - Ghita Bennani · CHAIR: Rosa Jaitin

— TABLE #11 - PSYCHOSIS (Virtual · Language: ES,PT) +

PRESENTS: Ana Marques Lito - Silvia Rodríguez - Fabiana Gallardo · CHAIR: João Paulo Ribeiro

— TABLE #12 - LINKING LOGICS (Virtual · Language: ES) +

PRESENTS: Rocío Cabanzo - Sandra Hernández - Hilda Fuentes - Edith Bokler Obarzanek - de Pablos Paloma · CHAIR: Alejandro Tamez

— TABLE #13 - MIGRATION AND DIVORCE (Virtual · Language: PT) +

PRESENTS: João Pedro de Paula Menezes - Gomes Isabel Cristina - Vera Fernandes Pereira - Maria Luiza Dias Garcia · CHAIR: Manuela Porto

— TABLE #14 - CHANGES (Virtual · Language: ES) +

PRESENTS: Flavia Strauch - Giuliana Marin - Lisciotto Donatella - Juan Manuel González Rojas · CHAIR: Gislaine De Dominics

— TABLE #15 - CHANGES AND THE CLINIC (Virtual · Language: ES) +

PRESENTS: Amélia Pimenta - Magalhães Samantha - Pinto Susana - Fabiola Magdalena Haro Navarro - Liliana Grandal · CHAIR: Ruth Blay Levisky

— TABLE #16 - CLÍNIC (Virtual · Language: ES) +

PRESENTS: María Fernanda Rivas - Amenta Marcela - Awiron Susana - Buchsbaum Silvina - Dana Emmy - Drucaroff Eduardo - Iriart Ana María - Landau Adriana - Singman Liliana - Srugo Viviana · CHAIR: Luis Armando Gonzalez

— TABLE #3 - DEVICES AND CLINIC (In-person · Language: ES) +

PRESENTS: Roberta Gorischnik - Palacios Elizabeth - Maria Soledad Dawson - Adriana Laura Navarrete Bianchi · CHAIR: Carmen Villoro

— TABLE #4 - DEVICES (In-person · Language: PT) +

PRESENTS: Andrea Seixas Magalhães - Patrick de Souza Rodrigues - Passos de Oliveira Danielly - Rebeca Machado · CHAIR: Pedro Pala de Sá

5:00 am Round Table Thematic Round Tables

— TABLE F - TRAUMA, INCEST AND TRANSGENERATIONAL TRANSMISSION (Virtual · Language: FR) +

PRESENTS: Marie Gina Leconte - Didier Drieu - Cindy Vicente - Pierre Benghozi · CHAIR: Eugenia de Oliveira

9:00 am Special Address Faraway Words

Words from

Silvia Amati · Ana Marques Lito

9:10 am Plenary PLENARY 3 · Technical Tools in Contemporary Clinical Practice

Chair

Maria Fernanda Rivas

Speakers

Irma Morosini: Clinical Possibilities in Psychoanalytic Family Therapy: Technical Approaches
Cristina Călărășanu: Short-term frameworks: family psychoanalytic consultation
Almudena Sanahuja: Family projective tools, from research to current clinical application

Discussants

Christiane Joubert · Lea Setton

10:40 am Debate Discussion with the Audience

11:10 am Break Break

11:30 am Round Table ROUND TABLE – DEBATE 3 · Contemporary Training in Couple and Family Psychoanalysis

Chair

Anne Loncan

Speakers

David Scharf: Training for couple and family psychoanalysis across cultures: Experience in Russia and China
Ana Rosa Trachtenberg: Training in Couple and Family Psychoanalysis in Latin America
Elisabeth Palacios: Training in Couple and Family Psychoanalysis in Continental Europe

Discussants

María Inés Fernández · Ludovica Grassi

1:00 pm Debate Discussion with the Audience

1:30 pm Break Break

1:45 pm Ceremony Cultural Interlude and Closing of the Congress

The Host City: Guadalajara

A vibrant destination full of culture

And also available in virtual format.

Centro de la Amistad Internacional

Calle Eulogio Parra 2539, Lomas de Guevara, 44680 Guadalajara, Jal., Mexico

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The AIPCF Conference is proud to have Guadalajara as its host city. As the capital of the state of Jalisco and an epicenter of Mexican culture, "The Pearl of the West" offers a rich history, impressive architecture, and an unparalleled gastronomic scene.

Culture and Tradition

Guadalajara is the birthplace of mariachi and charrería, both recognized worldwide. The city is full of museums, theaters, and art galleries. Don't miss the historic center, with its majestic Cathedral, the Degollado Theater, and the Hospicio Cabañas, a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Local Gastronomy

Tapatío cuisine is one of the most varied and delicious in Mexico. Some of the dishes you can't miss are the famous tortas ahogadas, birria, carne en su jugo, and the traditional pozole. To refresh yourself, enjoy a tejuino or raicilla, a typical regional drink.