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Retrospectively, because of the Coronavirus, it was a good idea to meet in Lisbon, two months ago, to hold the XXIst Forum of the IFPS, which had the title “Psychoanalytic encounter: Conflict and change” and attracted 220 participants. Because of the short time that Cristina Nunes and the Local Organizing Committee of the Portuguese Association of Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy had at their disposal after the Florence Forum of October 2018, they chose not to invite any big speakers from abroad and outside the IFPS. We are however thankful to them – and to the IFPS Executive Committee – for having allowed us to spend enough time in Lisbon to both visit such an attractive European capital (the European Green Capital for 2020) and to renew our collaboration with a whole series of colleagues.
The Executive Committee having met on Tuesday February 4, and the Assembly of Delegates on the Wednesday, the Forum was inaugurated during the afternoon of Wednesday, February 5, and closed on the evening of Saturday, February 8. The Forum can be summed up by the following numbers: 18 papers in the central panels, 48 individual papers, and 12 papers presented by the candidates running for the IFPS Conci-Benedetti Candidate Award. Of the participants 30% came from Portugal and 70% from other countries. The first IFPS meeting ever organized in Portugal, the Forum took place at the ISCTE University Institute, with António Coimbra de Matos (the founder of the Portuguese Association, together with Carlos Amaral Dias, 1946–2019) as president of the Scientific Committee.
The business meetings of the Executive Commitee and of the Assembly of Delegates took place in the historically attractive setting of the Lisbon Town Hall (located only a few minutes away from the famous, centrally located, Praça do Comércio); they were held in a very collaborative atmosphere and were very constructive. The two main bodies of the IFPS were glad to accept Juan Flores’ readiness to stand as c