Didier Anzieu has developed his own critical approach of the body in psychoanalysis during the seventies, associating Bowlby's view on attachment and the Freudian drives theory. Skin contact, maternal touching and hold ing, all primitive experiences were described as having a fundamental role in the development of the ego, and linked to adult unconscious functioning.

As Oruç Aruoba said “Solitude requires practice.” We are inviting you to our online symposium Psychoanalytic Views 15 on December 11-12, 2021 to share our solitary practices during the social isolation and to think about them together psychoanalytically.

This year the European Psychoanalytic Federation will organize the 6 conference for students and relatively recent graduated professionals around the theme of the "Body".

Melis Tanık, one of the Training Analysts of our association, became a COWAP European Representative Member in the IPA-COWAP Committee (Committee on Woman and Psychoanalysis), to which she contributed in various areas on behalf of our association.

We have been trying to live with the Covid pandemic which suddenly collapsed on us like a black fog for over a year. We first panicked, froze, and could not see our way out of anxiety.