Sandler Conference - Program in english
25th Joseph Sandler Psychoanalytic Research Conference
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
Program in progress
Friday, September 19
9:30-11:00 Fellow’s Day
11:30-12:00 Registration
12:00-12:30 Welcome Mirta Goldstein (APA president), Siri Gullestad (Chair Research Board, IPA), Heribert Blass (IPA President), Clara R. Schejtman (Local Host)
Plenary I
12:30-13:45
Chair: Abel Fainstein
Charles Fisher (Los Angeles): Dream Interpretation in the Amazon Rainforest: "Wayusa Space" as a Meta-Methodology for Psychoanalytic Dream Theory.
Discussant: Norma Semer (Brazil)
13:45-15:00
Chair: Maridel Cantelli
Ruben Zukerfeld (SAP, Buenos Aires): A psychoanalytic research model on vicissitudes in the face of adversity: from vulnerability to resilience.
Discussant:Alejandro Tamez (online Mexico)
15:00 -15:30 Coffee break
15:30 -17:15
Chair: Gabriela Hirschl
Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber (Frankfurt/Main, online): How do psychoanalysts work with chronic depressed, early traumatized patients?Clinical and neuroscientific findings from the MODE Study
Discussant: Sergio Rojtenberg (Buenos Aires)
17:15-18:30
Chair: Alejandra Doretti
Line Indrevoll Stänicke (Oslo): Adolescents at risk offline and online. A psychoanalytic perspective.
Discussant: José Sahovaler (Buenos Aires)
18:30-19:00. Coffee Break
Public lecture
19:00-20:30
Chair: Siri Erika Gullestad
David Tuckett (London): Knowing what psychoanalysts do and doing what psychoanalysts know.
Saturday, September 20
Plenary II
9:00-10:15
Chair: Ricardo Diehl
Mark Solms (Capetown, online): The man who lived in a dream. A brief example of psychoanalytic work with a neurological patient
Discussant: Erik Stänicke (Oslo)
10.15-10.30 Coffee break
10.30-11:45
Chair: Juan Pinetta
Stephan Hau (Stockholm): The analysis of interactive patterns in a psychodynamic psychotherapy with help of machine learning and AI – a pilot study
Discussant: Jianyin Qiu (Shanghai, online)
11:45 – 13:00
Chair:Gabriela Goldstein
Siri Erika Gullestad (Oslo): “I don’t want to bother you”. Analyzing embodied ways of being
Discussant: Virginia Ungar (Buenos Aires)
13:00 – 14:00 Break Lunch
14:00 -15:15
Chair: Fernando Gomez
Clara R. Schejtman (Buenos Aires): Research Contributions to a Parent-Infant Psychotherapy Training Program
Discussant: Susan Donner (Los Ángeles)
15:15-16.30:
Chair: Perla Fenkel
Alexandra Harrison (Cambridge, Massachusetts): Breaking the Cycle of Child Abuse and Neglect: A Qualitative Study of Pregnant Teens in El Salvador”?
Discussant: Constanza Duhalde (Buenos Aires)
16:30 – 17:00 Coffee Break
Parallel Panels
17:00-19.15
Panel 1 English:
Chair:Alexandra Harrison
Interactive play modalities , Emotional Availability and Reflective Functioning in mothers and fathers with their children at preschooler age. Ines Vardy , Milagros Maurette, Clara Schejtman (University of Buenos Aires, University Belgrano, IPA)
Adult–Child interactions in Early Childhood: A Study on Mutual Affective Transformation Processes and Their Clinical Implications. Alberto Manzi, Constanza Duhalde y Vanina Huerin (Mercy University N.Y, University of Buenos Aires and University Belgrano)
Psychoanalysis, a worldview that inspires and provokes Discussants: Erik Stänicke, Siri Gullestad, Line Indrevoll Stänicke
Panel 2 English
Chair: Jorge Catelli
Attentional Processes and their Challenges in Children Raised in Digital Contexts, Analia Wald (APA, University of Buenos Aires)
ADHD Development from Childhood to Adulthood: A Psychoanalytic View Katrin Luise Lazer (Germany)
Psychoanalysis and severe disorders in early childhood. Clinical and community research with autistic spectrum disorders and infant mental health. Nahir Bonifacino (APU, Uruguay )
Panel 3 Spanish
Chair: Azucena Tramontano
Study of the desire for a child in the male´s construction of masculinity.
Patricia Alkolombre (APA, Universidad del Salvador)
Comparative Study of Psychological Responses to the Climate Crisis and Adaptive Psychological Factors in the Spanish and Argentine Populations. Rodriguez Quiroga, A.; Bongiardino, L.; Malleville, M. E; Yates, R.; Arredondo, A. and Botero, C. (Argentina/Spain).
FEPAL presenters
Panel 4 Spanish
Chair: Laura Escapa
Expanding networks: Parental Reflective Function and Reflective Model of grupal intervention.
Zucchi Alejandra , Sapena Pastor Clarisa, Kurtz Virginia, Escalera Malvina, Guadalupe Melo Mariana, Pizarro Florencia y Marini Noelia. (Universidad Católica de Misiones)
Pathways to Affect-Discourse Integration: The role of Gestural Interaction in Change Episodes in a Case of Focal Teletherapy at a University Mental Health Service during the Pandemic. Pierina Traverso, Carla Mantilla (Universidad Católica PERU)
Research committe FEPAL
19:15 Reception, Dinner party with all the assistants
Sunday, September 21
Plenary III
Chair
9:00-10:15 Andrea Rodriguez Quiroga (Barcelona): Transformations of a Patient in Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT): Pilot Study.
Discussant: Judith Felman (London)
10:15-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-11:45
Chair: Nora Woscoboinik
Rogerio Lerner (São Paulo): What does psychoanalysis reveal about the personality of individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder?
Discussant: Konstantinos Taliouridis (Chicago)
11:45-12.45:00 Closure of the conference
Conference Fees
The conference fee includes refreshments and reception party on Saturday evening
Standard Ticket Registration until August 15, 2025: ...…250 US$
Standard Ticket Registration after August 15, 2025: ….. 270 $
Reduced Ticket (Latin Americans) until August, 15, 2025 : …..160 $
Reduced Ticket (Latin Americans) after August 15, 2025 : …..180 $
IPA-Members (Latin Americans) until August 15, 2025 : …….130 $
IPA-Members (Latin Americans) after August 15, 2025 : …….150 $
Student, candidates, national researchers and RTP fellows 2025… 100$
Standard Online Ticket: …………………………………….200 $
Reduced Online Ticket (Latin Americans, IPA-Members).100 $
Friday and Sunday Ticket and Saturday and Sunday Ticket 40% reduction from the correspondent fee.
Please supply a copy of a document confirming student status. If applying for a
candidate/fellow ticket, please provide evidence of your institute (documents must be sent together with your registration).
Cancellation until August 15, 2025: 100% refund
Cancellation from August 15 till September 10, 2025: 50% refund
Cancellation after September 10, 2025: no refund
Conference site.
Asociación Psicoanalítica Argentina
Address Rodriguez Peña 1764, Buenos Aires City
Accommodation:
Special pre-reservations hotels special rates for our delegates referred by APA.
www.aqsuites.com . Hotel
Hotel 20% discount
(till July 30th 2025)
AQ Tailored Suites
WhatsApp for reservations +54 9 11 6211 2842
Montevideo 937, C1019ABS Cdad. Autónoma de Buenos Aires
800 metros APA
Double room
Incluye:
- Welcome dinner
- Buffet Breakfast.
- Discounted meeting rooms.
Suites 35 m2 / King beds (2x2) or two queen beds (1,60x2).
Standard fee: U$D 248 / Discounted U$D 198,40
