25th Joseph Sandler Psychoanalytic Research Conference 2025

What do Psychoanalysts do today?
Bridges between contemporary theory, practice, and research

Simultaneous translation English / Spanish

Friday, September 19 - Sunday, September 21, 2025

Buenos Aires, Argentina

The Sandler Conference will take place from Friday 19 September to Sunday 21 September. The conference will be organised by the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association (APA) and will have simultaneous translation in English/Spanish.

Location of the Joseph Sandler Conference: Asociación Psicoanalítica Argentina (APA), Rodríguez Peña 1674, City of Buenos Aires.

RTP participants are welcome to attend the Sandler Conference (19-21 September 2025) and will be able to pay the reduced rate for IPA candidates and students.

Translations / Clarifications: All plenaries have simultaneous translation. Parallel panels 1 and 2 are in English without translation and 3 and 4 are in Spanish without translation.

Listening in groups GROUPS

Conversation sessions on the contributions of multifamily psychoanalysis

The purpose of this meeting is to open a space for conversation, collective thinking, and transmission around the multifamily psychoanalytic device, a practice that has demonstrated its clinical and transformative power in contexts such as current clinical practice, whether institutional or private, in the field of education, and in private practice.

Since its inception, multifamily psychoanalysis has focused on experience, speech, and connection, understanding symptoms as manifestations of unrepresented emotions. By bringing together multiple subjects—patients, family members, professionals—in the same listening environment, the multifamily device enables a group dynamic where the singular is linked to shared experiences.

This modality favours the approach to complexity, the unfolding of resonances, cross-identifications and subjective openings that often do not take place in individual or traditional devices.

In times when social ties are fragmented and clinical practice faces complex challenges, the multifamily approach offers a valuable tool: shared, pluralistic listening that does not attempt to close off meaning, but rather to accommodate the words of others in their difference.

These conferences are intended to be a space for horizontal exchange between professionals, students, and work teams interested in collectively reflecting on the theoretical, technical, and ethical contributions of this practice. Various clinical experiences, conceptual foundations, and the implications of enabling a space where ‘listening in a group’ is also building community will be addressed.

PLEASE NOTE: Independent research projects will be accepted in accordance with the guidelines provided on the project submission platform, which can be accessed by clicking here.

Conference Team:

Lic. Eva Rotenberg
Coordinator of the Multifamily Psychoanalysis Area at APA

Lic. Maria Elisa Mitre
APA-DITEM

Lic Maria Edith Granel
Miembro de APA

Fernando Frassoni
DITEM

Lic. Juan Pinetta
Secretario General de APA