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Almost 600 colleagues, students, and candidates participated in the XVIth Forum of the International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies (IFPS), which took place in Athens between Wednesday, October 20 and Saturday, October 23, 2010, and was dedicated to the theme “The intrapsychic and the intersubjective in contemporary psychoanalysis.” The Forum was very well organized by the Hellenic Society of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (a component society of the IFPS), that is, by its president Grigoris Vaslamatzis, with the close collaboration of Dimitrios Kyriazis and Jenny Soumaki. Their greatest merit was to have been able to invite a wide variety of colleagues (many of them members of the International Psychoanalytic Association [IPA]) to present papers, with the result that there was a very stimulating scientific and personal exchange among the participants.
As usual, the Executive Committee of the IFPS had already met on the Tuesday afternoon, and the Assembly of Delegates worked for the whole day on Wednesday. The most urgent problem under discussion was of course the decision taken by the German Psychoanalytic Society and the Swedish Psychoanalytic Association to leave the IFPS by the end of 2010. As a matter of fact, the former became a member society of the IPA at the Chicago Congress in July 2009, and the latter fused with the Swedish Psychoanalytic Society to give rise to a united Swedish IPA group in May 2010.
The financial problem connected with the loss of about 850 members brought the Assembly of Delegates to decide to raise the membership fee from $18 to $25 a year per member. In terms of the identity crisis with which we felt confronted, we took the decision to consider the possibility that not only societies, but also single individuals, could become members of the IFPS. If such a change will be formalised with a modification of the statutes of IFPS, to be undertaken at the next Forum, in 2012, anyone interested in joining the IFPS as an “individual memb