International Association of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis

The IACFPP turned into born on the North American continent within the summer of 2006 during the second one international congress in Montreal.

For two years, we laboured in the direction of this goal with practitioners coming specifically from Europe, North America, valuable and South the United States. Notwithstanding our linguistic difficulties, and other barriers we controlled to collect numerous therapists who worked psychoanalytically with families and couples. these therapists shared the view that households and couples are groups that function in a selected psychic manner.

We described the idea of the shared theoretical foundations as:’ couples and family psychoanalysis (CFP) is based on psychoanalytic theories. Given the correct frame, its goal is to facilitate the analysis of subconscious techniques in both households and couples. To achieve this, it rests at the development and the amplification of transference and counter transference.

Objectives:

The affiliation turned into often created to foster and to expand those practices and theories.

The proposed international exchanges promote verbal exchange among the diverse therapists and their respective associations. Their purpose is also to turn out to be more seen to capacity sufferers and to interested therapists. The association intends to sell vigorously theoretical research a good way to renew and to elaborate standards. Likewise, it proposes medical/theoretical studies, courses and clinical activities. A bi-annual global Congress also allows a broader visibility of all of the sports and outputs. Congresses additionally provide an area to refine coaching contents and methods designed to put together PCF therapists.