Pre-Published Conference 2026 papers

This collection includes a range of presentations from the EPF Conference, such as plenary sessions, parallel panels, working groups, and individual paper submissions.

Plenaries

Adela Abella: The Psychoanalyst and Their Patient Facing the Ecological Crisis - What Neutrality May Mean
Siri Erika Gullestad: Neutrality – the essence of the psychoanalytic cure
Henrik Enckell: Discussion of Siri Gullestad's "Neutrality – the essence of the psychoanalytic cure"
Thomas Jung: Agieren, die Neutralität auf die Probe stellen

Parallel Panels and Committees

Luz Abatángelo Stürzenbaum: Asymptotic Neutrality: Between Subjectivity and Analytical Listening
Silvia R. Acosta: Beyond neutrality: The analyst's position in cases of domestic violence
Dana Amir: Two-Dimensional Neutrality vs. Three-Dimensional Neutrality: On Neutrality as Exclusion vs. Neutrality as Hospitality
Paloma Araoz: Discussion of “Neutrality as undecidable between body and mind: the role and vicissitudes of sublimation in a clinical case”
Susan Baxt: CAMOUFLAGE: Hiding in Plain Sight (a butterfly story)
David Bell: Psychoanalyst as Analyst/Psychoanalyst as Citizen
Fotis Bobos: On Benevolent Neutrality and the Maternal Function in Psychosomatics: A Discussion of Marinella Linardos’ Paper
Sara Boffito: “I owe so much to those I don’t love.” Affects and constraints in the analyst’s thinking
Monica Bomba: Rethinking Neutrality in the Age of Chatbots
Valérie Bouville: Discussion of Talat Parman's text: ‘When the “Remote” Clinician is Welcomed into the Adolescent's Space’
Mónica Cardenal: “Assistance in catastrophes and analytical neutrality. Between pain and destructiveness” Experience working with children
Anna Cordioli: Neutrality is to achieve together an architrave
Gloria Demby: Hidden Sources of Aggression & Love in Large Groups
Marie-France Dispaux: Ethics, the psychoanalytic institution and the third party
Silvia de Egea: After the Storm: Neutrality as a Form of Containment
Kalyane Fejtö: Neutrality, Authority, Trust and Structure in the Dialogue of European Societies
Kristin Fjelnseth Wold: Psychoanalytic Training Today: Neutrality, Authority, Trust and Structure in the Dialogue of European Societies
Teresa Flores: The emergence of the infantile in the analysis of an adult patient
Anna Gąsiorowska-Krawczyk: Neutrality and Sex. A Female Analyst and a Female Patient in the Room
Anna Gätjen: From gibberish to kicking: A challenge for the analytic attitude
Magdalini Georgiakou: Wilfred Bion and the question of neutrality
Alain Gibeault: Psychoanalytic Training Today: Neutrality, Authority, Trust and Structure in the Dialogue of European Societies
Jérôme Glas: L’équation personnelle de l’analyste, une modulation de la neutralité
Susie Godsil: Discussion of Jeanne Wolff Bernstein’s Paper ‘Tracing the Origins of Neutrality: An Investigation of the Concept Never Formulated by Freud Through its English and French Translations’
Mette Hvalstad: Psychoanalytic Training Today: Neutrality, Authority, Trust and Structure in the Dialogue of European Societies
Valérie Ji-Sook Burnet: Freud Superstar? The Psychoanalyst and Their Public Avatar: a Tempered Neutrality
Vladimir Jović and Gertraud Schlesinger-Kipp: Beyond Neutrality: Psychoanalysis with Traumatized Refugees
Vladimir Jović : Discussion of Sverre Varvin’s Paper ‘Neutrality in Relation to Atrocities and Dehumanisation’
Dimitris Kavallieros: Who believes in the existence of an innocent reading?
Sue Kolod: KEEP YOUR FRIENDS CLOSE AND YOUR ENEMIES CLOSER: LEADERSHIP AND NEUTRALITY
Ruggero Levy: Unbearable psychic pain and the inevitable turbulence of the analytical field
Marinella Linardos: Neutrality as Undecidable Between Body and Mind: The Role and Vicissitudes of Sublimation in a Clinical Case
Hazel Mackie: An Infant Observation: Maintaining Neutrality Under Pressure
Maya Mladenova: Neutrality, Empathy and Rage: How facets of identity usurp the working task – observations from a group-relations conference for psychoanalysts
Alicia Monserrat: IMPLIED NEUTRALITY : Reflections on the Dana Event in Valencia
David Morgan: Neutrality? Bystanders and the Refusal to Witness: Reflections on Ukraine Gaza Grenfell and Climate
Aleksandra Novakovic: Discussion of the papers by Dimitris Kavallieros and Carlos Tamm
Talat Parman: When the “Remote” Clinician Is Welcomed into the Adolescent’s Space
Luisa Perez: Level 2 of the 3LM and Its Usefulness in Clinical Practice and Writing
Maria Pia Conte: A chosen trauma
Mirella de Piccioto: Neutrality, Authority, Trust and Structure in the Dialogue of European Societies
Laura Ravaioli: Raffaello, his analyst, and the group as a good environment
Bruce Reis: Discussion of Sara Boffito’s Paper ‘‘I Owe so Much to Those I Don’t Love.’ Affects and Constraints in the Analyst’s Thinking’
Andrea Rodriguez-Quiroga Parks: Ethical Reflections on the Publication of Clinical Material in Psychoanalysis
Bruno Salesio S. Francisco: SOME IDEAS ON MODERATING WORK WITH THE THREE-LEVEL MODEL
Ellen Sparer: Meeting of Societies on Education (MOSE) Panel
Angelika Staehle: The Ethical Dimension in psychoanalytic Training. The relation between neutrality, confidentiality and responsibility.
Carlos Tamm: KAFKA AND THE INVISIBLE COURT
Conceição Tavares de Almeida: Gender and countertransference in the analytic couple
Conceição Tavares de Almeida: Le chameau qui pleure ou l’ombre du rêve incarnée : pour une métapsychologie contemporaine de la rencontre analytique
Antonella Trotta: Discussion of Monica Bomba’s and Valérie Ji-Sook Burnet’s Papers
Sverre Varvin: Neutrality in Relation to Atrocities and Dehumanisation
Joseph Wise: Neutral-Enough Leadership
Jeanne Wolff Bernstein: Tracing the Origins of Neutrality: An Investigation of the Concept Never Formulated by Freud Through its English and French Translations

Individual Papers

Gilles Ambresin: Rehabilitating the Freudian Surgeon
Riadh Ben Rejeb: Quelle neutralité du psychanalyste en milieu musulman ? Réflexions autour du mot arabe « Muḥallil » (analyste)
Chiara Berrini & Davide Bruno: If on an Autumn’s Afternoon Two Analysts. Neutrality Tested in Clinical Practice: A Field Perspective
Jorge Câmara: Neutrality, trauma, and neutralisation Will we return to adolescents with the pink triangle?
Paola Coppola: Neutrality between the Ideal and the Jointly Lived Experience of the Analytic Couple
Idit Dori: Do You Hear My Call? Pregnancy and Birth in the Shadow of Desertion and Death
Steffen Elsner: Neutralität als Voraussetzung für Urheberschaft und Spontaneität
Max Ervast: Neutrality in Contemporary Psychoanalysis: A Conceptual Comparison of Two Models
Ana Luisa Duarte Ferreira: NEUTRALITY – Under the threat of the sky falling on our heads
Gaddini A., Ippedico L., Riefolo G.: Neutrality in action Or: on the subjective contribution of the analyst
Liana Giorgi: Tensions Inherent in the Concept of Neutrality and the Psychoanalytic Controversies they Engendered
Marc Hamburger: Killing neutrality. On the balance between helping and harming
Nathalie Jozefowicz: L’impossible neutralité : deuil d’une illusion ou illusion d’un deuil ?
Fridolin Mallmann: Fire walk with me
Martine Sandor-Buthaud: Relying on psychoanalysis in working with judges : facilitating the psychic meaning of neutrality and impartiality in their practice
Iris Sarajlić Vuković: Witnessing, Neutrality and Encounter of Two Subject Sharing Outer Reality of War
Gisela Schleske: The Chamber Music of Neutrality Listening, Resonance and Play as the Analytic Pair unfolds
Claire Squires: NEUTRALITY AND FLEXIBILITY OF THE FRAMEWORK IN BORDERLINE PATIENTS AND PARENTS-BABIES THERAPIES
Julie Sutton: “The little asides on the fringes of the stage” Difficult-to-reach patients, the negative transference and an ordinary musicality in the consulting room
Bianca Tiator: The Metamorphosis or: The Search for lost Neutrality
Alexander Felixovich Uskov: Why Neutrality?