Opening address by the IPA president to the conference on Parent–Infant Disturbance, Paris, November 13–14, 2015

Abstract

In his opening video address, Dr. Stefano Bolognini elaborates on “the social function of psychoanalysis in the field of psychic suffering in childhood and in adolescence.”

Key words:

• social function of psychoanalysis
• suffering
• childhood
• adolescence

Additional information

Notes on contributors

Stefano Bolognini

Author

Stefano Bolognini, MD, is a psychiatrist and training analyst, president of the International Psychoanalytical Association, and past president of the Italian Psychoanalytical Society.