Professional Development Workshop PROPOSALS - CLOSED

Deadline: 19th January 2025 - CLOSED
Presentation Date: 25th of June 2025.

Professional Development Workshops (PDWs) will be offered during the first day of ISPSO’s Annual Meeting (AM 2025) in Philadelphia, USA. PDWs are designed to appeal to ISPSO members, and non-members, with an interest in the psychoanalytic study of organizations, regardless of profession. The PDWs offer:

• Knowledge, skills and/or practices in psychoanalytic, and systems-psychodynamic thinking as they apply to understanding and working with organizations
• Opportunities to think and learn about organizations in diverse ways
• Multiple approaches to psychoanalytically informed organizational work.

The PDW Committee is looking for workshop proposals of high quality that are informed by psychoanalytic thinking, but they do not have to take an approach that is solely psychoanalytic.

Workshop proposals do not have to be directly connected to the theme of this year’s annual meeting – “Justice, Organizations, and Psychoanalysis” – but may be related if you choose to do so. We welcome practitioners (consultants and leaders), academics (teachers and researchers), clinicians and others interested in professional development using psychoanalytic and systems-psychodynamic ideas and approaches.

How to Submit a Workshop Proposal

At the 2025 Annual Meeting, PDWs will be conducted in person, online or in hybrid format. 

Please submit your workshop proposal no later than January 19, 2025 (now closed). Notifications of acceptance will be made in March 2025. Thank you in advance to each of you who submits a proposal. We look forward to reviewing them and to seeing you in Philadelphia.

The 2025 PDW Committee

Dragana Vranjes MBA, MA - PDW Chair
Irena Izotova MA – ISPSO President
Alexandra Gerny MA – ISPSO President–Elect
Jack Marmorstein MA Ed.S, MA
Vasilina Demidovich MA
Petros Oratis PhD

Please note: If your proposal is accepted, we ask all authors to consider completing the application for continued education credits. Offering CE credits for your workshop can increase the number of people who attend it. However, it is not mandatory to do so. To get more information about how ISPSO supports your CE application process, please click here. 
If you have any questions about CE credits or the CE application process, contact Jeff Axelbank at jeff@jeffreyaxelbankpsyd.com

PAPER ABSTRACTS - CLOSED

Deadline: 30th December 2024  (midnight, Philadelphia time). 
Papers will be presented at the Symposium 27-29 June 2025 

We have invited papers for the Parallel Paper Sessions that focus on a wide range of significant issues related to “Justice, Organizations, and Psychoanalysis.” See the AM2025 Theme Statement.

We encourage people who submit papers for our conference to consider all the themes of justice. Presenters can deliver papers either in person or online. We are interested in papers that address justice issues in any part of the world. While we welcome papers that explore societal dynamics, we are particularly interested in papers that examine how these dynamics manifest and influence organizational dynamics. We welcome papers that critique this call for papers. 

AM 2025 Parallel Paper SelEction COmmittee

Larry Hirschhorn - Chair of Paper Selection Committee
Elyce Cole
Gerard Fromm
James Krantz
Marty Martin 
Jack Marmorstein
Anna Reiche 

Please note: If your paper is accepted, we ask all authors to consider completing the application for continued education credits. Offering CE credits for your paper’s presentation can increase the number of people who attend it. However, it is not mandatory to do so. To get more information about how ISPSO supports your CE application process, please click here. 
If you have any questions about CE credits or the CE application process, contact Jeff Axelbank at jeff@jeffreyaxelbankpsyd.com