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What a huge relief and what great joy for all of us to be able to meet again in person after the two and a half years that had elapsed since the XXIst International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies (IFPS) Forum held in Lisbon on February 5-8, 2020, with the beginning of the pandemic lockdown only about one month later! This is why we were all so thankful to the Executive Committee of the IFPS and to Miguel Ángel González Torres, the president of the Centro Psicoanalítico de Madrid and the chair of the scientific committee of the Forum, and to the colleagues who collaborated with him in organizing the latest Forum. Among these had been Romulo Aguillaume, who had organized the previous Forum in Madrid in May 1998, together with Alejandro Gállego Meré (1929-2000) - both pioneers of the IFPS in Madrid. Two of the main speakers at that time had been Gaetano Benedetti (1920-2013) and Adolf Grünbaum (1923-2018), the former dealing with the psychotherapy of schizophrenia, and the latter with his philosophical critique of psychoanalysis (see Conci, 1998).
More than 200 colleagues from 21 countries participated in the 2022 Forum, which was hosted by the Madrid Academy of Medicine, situated behind the Reina Sofia Museum, close to the Atocha Railway Station. Four were the guest speakers, 26 the colleagues who delivered the plenary papers, and 48 those who presented the individual papers, with simultaneous translation into English and Spanish. The Forum was also meant to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the foundation of IFPS (in Amsterdam on July 30, 1962), one of the topics of the historical panel that took place on the Friday morning.
As usual, the Executive Committee (EC) worked the whole day on Tuesday October 18, starting with the report on the organization of the Forum by Miguel Ángel Gonzalez Torres, the financial report by Valerie Angel, and the report on the Section of Individual Members by Jan Johansson and Darius Leskauskas. In the second part of the morning, Ma