IFPE’s 34th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference

Friends, Enemies, Allies, Suspects

October 17 – 19, 2024

Mayflower Park Hotel
405 Olive Way
Seattle, WA 98101

Awardees:
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Lynne Layton, Ph.D.
Hans W. Loewald Memorial Award

B. William Brennan, ThM, MA, LMHC
Distinguished Psychoanalytic Educator

Caprice D. Hollins, Psy.D.
Distinguished Psychoanalytic Educator

John Totten, LMHC
Distinguished Psychoanalytic Educator

Moreover, I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states…Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea.
Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail

" ... people experience and subdivide the world in terms of Us and Them. In this ever-shifting yet reliably fixed world-view, now elegantly invalidated by science, every last one of us is someone else's Outsider.
Al Young, Outsiders: Poems about Rebels, Exiles, and Renegades

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Program Descriptions

It is with great joy and anticipation that we invite you to join us in Seattle for IFPE’s 34th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference. Our conference presentations reflect the interpersonal, auto-biographical, cross-disciplinary, and philosophical concerns that define our organization, its members, and attendees.

Our theme this year, “Friends, Enemies, Allies, Suspects” sets the stage for an in-depth exploration of the multifaceted, interconnected, and always complicated nature of human relationships. We are honored to have the thoughts and insights of our presenters to stimulate our learning and discussion.  They will explore the profound ways in which the fundamental roles of friends, enemies, allies, and suspects shape our identities, influence our behaviors, and affect our psychoanalytic profession, our personal lives, and the point in time in history in which we find ourselves.

We invite you to join us for the rich, sometimes challenging, and often refreshing dialogue and community that can only be found at an IFPE conference!

Erin Wright
Conference Chair