This PowerPoint presentation was originally developed by IPA Vice President Sergio Nick in February 2018 to provide IPA members with a clearer view of member benefits, IPA governance and committee structure. This version was adapted by Gunther Perdigao for North American IPA members.

MISSION

The IPA is a membership organisation – we exist because of our members and fortheir benefit. IPA is the world’s primary accrediting and regulatory body for thepsychoanalytic profession.

Primary aims:

• to foster and enhance members’ sense of participation in and belonging to aninternational psychoanalytic organization and community

• to advance psychoanalysis and to ensure the continued vigour and development ofthe science of psychoanalysis

«ONE IPA FOR ALL»

FACTS & FIGURES

• 12770 Members (and counting!)

• 5237 Candidates

• 84 Societies and 14 Study Groups in 47 countries across the world

WHAT THE IPA OFFERS ITS MEMBERS• Biennial Congress, the largest psychoanalytic congress in the world

• An opportunity to be part of the world's most international and theoretically diverse psychoanalyticorganization

• Sponsorship and development of about 35 new groups around the world, including in many places whereanalysis has never existed before

• The IPA Inter-Regional Encyclopedic Dictionary of Psychoanalysis, a unique reference workproduced by teams of analysts from all IPA regions

• The eJournal Psychoanalysis.Today (a joint initiative between IPA and the Regional Federations EPF,FEPAL, NAPsaC+APsaA)

• The CAPSA Inter- Regional Travel Fund, allowing analysts from one IPA region to present, supervise,and teach in another region

• A US$1m loan programme to help candidates with the costs of training

WHAT THE IPA OFFERS ITS MEMBERS (continued)

• Research: over 450 research projects funded over the past 20 years, with results available on IPA website

• IPA Website, with access to information and services, the online Roster of nearly 13,000 members,webinars and online debates

• 50 Committees, with around 600 members, on a wide range of vital topics

• Library of policy and best practice documents (eg. Policy on Ethics)

• Partnership with Karnac Publishing, for a book publication programme via IPA Publications Committee

• A diverse array of Awards to recognize IPA members who have made outstanding contributions topsychoanalysis

• Online archive of IPA historical documents and IPA Congress presentations (under development)

• Access to Lexicon, our offices in central London, with expert staff providing advice and assistance tomembers

IPSO – International Psychoanalytical Studies Organization

IPSO is the IPA’s candidate organization, established in 1971. IPSO members serve on many IPACommittees and jointly organize the biennial IPA-IPSO Congress. IPSO forwards to the IPA president anymembers who are interested in serving on an IPA Committee. The IPSO member of a committee is a fullvoting member of the Committee.

What in the world are “Broomhills” and “Lexicon”?In the UK, office buildings are traditionally given names. For about 30 years, the IPA headquarters were located in the outskirts of London and the building was called “Broomhills.”

Because of Broomhills’ relative inaccessibility, the IPA decided to move to a more central location in London. The name of the new headquarters building is “Lexicon.”

The three slides following show our new headquarters—an view of the modern building, a beautiful view from the building and the conference room.

One of the reasons the IPA moved into the center of the city was so that headquarters would be more accessible to members. Next time you’re in London, stop by to visit.

Lexicon, Unit B, Book House, 261a City Road London EC1V 1AH

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IPA Governance

In 2017 the IPA reorganized its administrative and governance committees. The next chart shows the governance structure of the IPA. The Board is the ultimate authority within the IPA.

ORGANOGRAM – ADMINISTRATIVE AND GOVERNANCE COMMITTEESBoard

Executive Committee

Communications:

WEB

Communications Advisory

Board

Social Media

Wiki Cttee

Elections:

Elections Cttee

Nominating Cttees

Eitingon Task

Force

Institu-tional Issues Cttee

Think Tank on the

Future of Psycho-analysis

Ethics Confident-iality Cttee

Prizes and

Awards

Appointments

Asia-Pacific

Planning

Finances:

Budget & Finance

Cttee

Dues Advisory

Investment Oversight

Candidates Loan Panel

IPA Fund

Events:

Congress Working Group

Congress Programme

Congress LAC

Asia-Pacific Programme

Early Congress Planning

TF

IPA Committees

The IPA’s many committees are divided into 3 broad categories: Scientific Committees, Development Committees and IPA in the Community Committees. The IPA Board appoints members from the 3 IPA regions (North America, Latin America and Europe) to serve on these committees. The next three charts show the various committees organized by category.

Interested in Serving on a Committee?North American Members should contact Peter Loewenberg (peterl@ucla.edu). Peter is the North American representative in charge of forwarding applicants and their CVs to the Board for consideration.

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEES

Board

Executive Committee

CAPSA COCAP COWAP Families & Couples

Inter-Committee Project on

Child Abuse

Sexual & Gender

DiversityAgeing History of

Psychoanalysis

Freudian Legacy

Task Force

Research Cttee

Clinical sub-cttee

Research Grants

sub-cttee

RTP/Sandler conf.

sub-cttee

DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEES

Board

ExecutiveCommittee

ING

EU, LA, NA sub-cttees

Liaison Cttees

Sponsoring Cttees

Site Visit Cttees

Allied Centre Review Cttees

China Cttee

ILAP

EPI

Education ClinicalObservation

Working Parties

IPA-IPSORelations

Publications

Encyclopedic Dictionary Task Force

Professional Observatory

IPA IN THE COMMUNITY COMMITTEESBoard

Executive Committee

IPA in Education

Early Childhood sub-cttee

Pre-school sub-cttee

Primary School sub-cttee

Secondary School sub-cttee

University sub-cttee

IPA and Humanitarian Organisations

United Nations sub-

cttee

Other Humanitarian

Orgs. sub-cttee (eg. UNICEF,

UNESCO, MSF, WHO)

Migration and Refugees sub-

cttee

IPA in Health

General Medicine

Medical Specialties sub-cttee

Psychosom-atics sub-

cttee

Mental Health

Links with Psychiatry sub-cttee

Addictions sub-cttee

Food Disorders sub-cttee

Violence Psychoanalysis and Law

IPA in Culture

Getting Engaged

Start by going to the IPA website(www.ipa.world) and click on IPA in the menu

at the top of the home page. Scroll down to committees, click on that and then

you have a choice. You can either enter the name of the committee you want to

look up or click on a full alphabetical list of committees.

Click on the committee you are interested in and you will see the mandate of

the committee and the members of the committee.

My aim for North America, shared by our president Virginia Ungar and the vice-

president Sergio Nick, is to make is to make access to the IPA as user friendly

as possible. We are working to make it easier for members to engage with the

various committees and be informed about their work.