Australian Psychoanalytical Society Inc.

Minds Under Siege: Dehumanization & Reparation
Join us In-person or Online for the Australian Psychoanalytical Society Conference 2026 as we explore the psychoanalytic dimensions of contemporary clinical work and wider social challenges.
Learn more and register:
https://www.psychoanalysis.asn.au/open-days-program-2026

How do we work analytically with patients who feel empty, unreachable, or cut off from emotional vitality?

Reclaiming Psychic Life: Clinical Approaches to Empty States and Vitalization

Anne Alvarez

Three online seminars
16, 23 & 30 July 2026

Drawing on decades of clinical work with autistic, severely deprived and withdrawn patients, Anne Alvarez explores the analyst’s role in restoring vitality, emotional presence and psychic life.

Bookings now open

For further information and registrations: https://www.psychoanalysis.asn.au/apas-seminars-anne-alvarez

Final Days to Book
Prof Dana Amir & Prof Merav Roth presenting Mind-Deadness to Mindedness on Thursday 4th June 8-9.30pm AEST.
Dana and Merav will present psychoanalytic reflections written in the aftermath of October 7, 2023 and the following war in Gaza, each approaching the radical impact of trauma from a distinct yet complementary perspective. Both explore the violent assault of catastrophic trauma on the mind’s capacity to sustain love, connection, meaning, and continuity — and the ways these vital functions may be reignited to prevent psychic collapse and promote productive mourning towards a meaningful future.
A recording will be available for a two week period following the seminar.
https://www.psychoanalysis.asn.au/seminar-series-may-june
Join us for this important conversation. https://www.trybooking.com/DLFQK

SAVE THE DATE
APAS is delighted to announce a three-part online lecture series with Anne Alvarez: Reclaiming Psychic Life: Clinical Approaches to Empty States and Vitalization.
The series explores states of psychic emptiness in which the issue may not be one of active resistance or withdrawal, but of “undrawal”. Anne Alvarez will reflect on how these states may be recognised clinically, and on therapeutic approaches that can help restore vitality and psychic life.

Dates: Thursday 16, 23 & 30 July 2026
Time: 7.30pm – 9.00pm Sydney time
Online via Zoom, Recordings will be available for two weeks following each seminar
Cost: $88 per seminar, $210 for the full series (inc. GST)
Discounts available for full-time students and IPA members and candidates

Further information to be posted to our Website soon www.psychoanalysis.asn.au.

How is parental experience shaped by racialisation, unconscious identification, and experiences of otherness?

Drawing from her clinical work and psychoanalytical thinking, Maxine Dennis reflects on how racialisation may become intertwined with early experiences of attachment, belonging, longing, and exclusion, both within the internal world and within social reality.

This presentation also engages deeply with contemporary questions surrounding racialisation, maternal subjectivity, and the emotional experience of being seen, misseen, or othered.

Thursday 25 June 2026
7.30pm Sydney time
Online via Zoom

Please note: due to the rich clinical material presented, this seminar will not be recorded.

We look forward to welcoming you for this seminar.

Further details can be found on our website at:
https://www.psychoanalysis.asn.au/apas-seminar-maxine-dennis

“We all need witnesses.”

On 4th June, Dana Amir and Merav Roth will explore what happens when emotional links collapse.

Drawing on psychoanalytic thinking, the seminar reflects on states of mind-deadness and on the possibility of recovering psychic aliveness in the aftermath of trauma and rupture.

Visit our Website to learn more about the seminar and registration details. https://www.psychoanalysis.asn.au/seminar-series-may-june

Thursday 4 June� 8.00 – 9.30pm AEST

We look forward to welcoming you to this conversation.

To book https://www.trybooking.com/DLFQK

What happens when organisations lose their capacity to think, care, and tell the truth?

Ahead of our upcoming seminar with Dr Rachel Gibbons, we invite you to explore two preparatory papers available on our website: Scapegoating in Healthcare and The ‘Impossibility’ of Working in Healthcare: Sacrifice to a Primitive God
Visit our website to access the papers and learn more about the seminar.
Thursday 28 May
8.00 – 9.30pm AEST
We look forward to welcoming you to this conversation.

https://www.psychoanalysis.asn.au/seminar-series-may-june

BOOKINGS - https://www.trybooking.com/DLFQK

www.drrachelgibbons.co.uk

The programme for the Australian Psychoanalytical Society Conference 2026 is now available. Featuring keynote speaker Paul Williams and a special afternoon session “In Conversation” with Nobel-Laureate J. M. Coetzee. Attend In person or Online - explore the full programme:
https://www.psychoanalysis.asn.au/open-days-program-2026

Last days to register.

Registrations are now open for the APAS Conference 2026:
Minds Under Siege: Dehumanization & Reparation.
Join us in Adelaide or online. View the programme and register here: https://www.psychoanalysis.asn.au/open-days-program-2026