EVP

EVP Conference 2027

June 11th-13th 2027 in Vienna

"The Training Institute as an Object for Reflection: a challenge to enliven psychoanalytic transmission.”

This is an invitation only conference to be held in person as well as online for psychoanalysts engaged in teaching, supervising, analysing or organizing psychoanalytic training with priority given to societies in the EVP programme. The aim is to have several papers and also small groups aiming to discuss the challenges psychoanalytic institutes have reflecting to gain feedback on how they are doing and what they could do to be even better. Our hosts will be the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society.

The program will begin at Friday 5 pm CET, continue on Saturday 9am to 7pm CET and finish on Sunday 9 am to 1 pm CET.

Further details of timings and speakers will be posted on this website early in 2027.

Programme

The conference programme aims to be a space for in-depth reflection between colleagues on the multiple challenges psychoanalytic institutes have encountered trying to sustain and raise the quality of psychoanalytic transmission over the last 25 years. Speakers will clarify the distinct training models agreed by the IPA and what is specific about psychoanalytic clinical work in a changing world. They include Shmuel Erlich and Marina Altman (focusing on the three approved models of psychoanalytic training), Elisabeth Skale and Heribert Blass (on what has been learned through the EVP and other methodologies) and David Tuckett, Claudia Frank, Marie-Ange Wagtman, Bernard Reith and Patrick Miller (on the specifics of various challenges).

Invitations
Invitations will be sent out to Institutes that are part of the EVP programme in the summer of 2026 with individual attendance confirmed in October, after which further invitations will be issued to other psychoanalytic institutes.