International Congresses
The first 23 Congresses of IPA did not have a specific theme.
| Number | Year | City | President | Theme |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1908 | Salzburg | ||
| 2 | 1910 | Nuremberg | C. G. Jung | |
| 3 | 1911 | Weimar | C. G. Jung | |
| 4 | 1913 | Munich | C. G. Jung | |
| 5 | 1918 | Budapest | Karl Abraham | |
| 6 | 1920 | The Hague | Sándor Ferenczi | |
| 7 | 1922 | Berlin | Ernest Jones | |
| 8 | 1924 | Salzburg | Ernest Jones | |
| 9 | 1925 | Bad Homburg | Abraham/Eitingon | |
| 10 | 1927 | Innsbruck | Max Eitingon | |
| 11 | 1929 | Oxford | Max Eitingon | |
| 12 | 1932 | Wiesbaden | Max Eitingon | |
| 13 | 1934 | Lucerne | Ernest Jones | |
| 14 | 1936 | Marienbad | Ernest Jones | |
| 15 | 1938 | Paris | Ernest Jones | |
| 16 | 1949 | Zürich | Ernest Jones | |
| 17 | 1951 | Amsterdam | Leo Bartemeier | |
| 18 | 1953 | London | Heinz Hartmann | |
| 19 | 1955 | Geneva | Heinz Hartmann | |
| 20 | 1957 | Paris | Heinz Hartmann | |
| 21 | 1959 | Copenhagen | William H. Gillespie | |
| 22 | 1961 | Edinburgh | William H. Gillespie | |
| 23 | 1963 | Stockholm | Maxwell Gitelson | |
| 24 | 1965 | Amsterdam | Gillespie/Greenacre | Psychoanalytic Treatment of the Obsessional Neurosis |
| 25 | 1967 | Copenhagen | P.J. van der Leeuw | On Acting Out and its Role in the Psychoanalytic Process |
| 26 | 1969 | Rome | P.J. van der Leeuw | New Developments in Psychoanalysis |
| 27 | 1971 | Vienna | Leo Rangell | The Psychoanalytical Concept of Aggression |
| 28 | 1973 | Paris | Leo Rangell | Transference and Hysteria Today |
| 29 | 1975 | London | Serge Lebovici | Changes in Psychoanalytic Practice and Experience |
| 30 | 1977 | Jerusalem | Serge Lebovici | Affects and the Psychoanalytic Situation |
| 31 | 1979 | New York | Edward D. Joseph | Clinical Issues in Psychoanalysis |
| 32 | 1981 | Helsinki | Edward D. Joseph | Early Psychic Development as Reflected in the Psychoanalytic Process |
| 33 | 1983 | Madrid | Adam Limentani | The Psychoanalyst at Work |
| 34 | 1985 | Hamburg | Adam Limentani | Identification and its Vicissitudes |
| 35 | 1987 | Montreal | Robert S. Wallerstein | Analysis Terminable and Interminable – 50 Years Later |
| 36 | 1989 | Rome | Robert S. Wallerstein | Common Ground in Psychoanalysis |
| 37 | 1991 | Buenos Aires | Joseph Sandler | Psychic Change |
| 38 | 1993 | Amsterdam | Joseph Sandler | The Psychoanalyst’s Mind – From Listening to Interpretation |
| 39 | 1995 | San Francisco | R. Horacio Etchegoyen | Psychic Reality – Its Impact on the Analyst and Patient Today |
| 40 | 1997 | Barcelona | R. Horacio Etchegoyen | Psychoanalysis and Sexuality |
| 41 | 1999 | Santiago | Otto F. Kernberg | Affect in Theory and Practice |
| 42 | 2001 | Nice | Otto F. Kernberg | Psychoanalysis – Method and Application |
| 43 | 2004 | New Orleans | Daniel Widlöcher | Working at the Frontiers |
| 44 | 2005 | Rio de Janeiro | Daniel Widlöcher | Trauma: New Developments in Psychoanalysis |
| 45 | 2007 | Berlin | Cláudio Laks Eizirik | Remembering, Repeating and Working Through in Psychoanalysis & Culture Today |
| 46 | 2009 | Chicago | Cláudio Laks Eizirik | Psychoanalytic Practice - Convergences and Divergences |
| 47 | 2011 | Mexico City | Charles Hanly | Exploring Core Concepts: Sexuality, Dreams and the Unconscious |
| 48 | 2013 | Prague | Charles Hanly | Facing the Pain: Clinical Experience and the Development of Psychoanalytic Knowledge |
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