Dear colleagues,

I hope you like the new format of our newsletter – we decided to use a shorter version since being candidate includes a lot of reading anyway. We are also using faster online tools, the IPSO web, and social media. If you are interested in future events, please follow our website, Facebook, and Twitter profiles. In the reports section, you will find reports from past events. The newsletter contains a summary of all the information, but the tools online allow us to share details and reports with you much faster.

There are lots of interesting psychoanalytical or psychoanalysis related events. If you are looking to share information about an interesting project in the future, don’t hesitate to contact me. In same way, if you took part at an interesting event and want to share your experience or write a report, you are more than welcome. One of the main tasks of IPSO is to help candidates with their study but  we certainly can’t do that it without your help.

Maintaining our website, Facebook and Twitter accounts up-to-date is a very demanding job and since many candidates (including me) are not native English speakers, we need volunteers to help proofreading and translating texts for the website and social media announcements.  IPSO is an international organization and we are aware that there are strong communities speaking different languages, we welcome candidates who can help us with translation into the four main IPA languages (English, Spanish, German, French) but also thinking to extend it to  Italian and Portuguese.

As you probably are aware, the next Congress, in Boston, USA, July 2015, is getting closer. If you would like to present your paper , the deadline for submissions is September 7, 2014; for more information, read our Call for Papers. Each paper proposed to the Congress will also be considered for the IPSO Writing Award. This means that you could present your paper at the Congress, have it published in the IPSO Journal, and win US$400 for the first place award and $200 for the second place award in each region.

There are other prizes related to the Congress as well: Tyson Prize and Sacerdoti Prize. For more information, please visit Awards and Prizes or contact me.

For those who cannot submit their paper in time or who are mainly interested in publishing, not presenting, the deadline for the IJP Annual Essay Prize will be announced during the following months. Don’t forget to visit our website. I have an impression that many candidates think they aren’t experienced enough for publishing in the IJP; however, IJP offers special conditions for candidates and a great help with preparing the final publication.

If you are more interested in the process of developing the text before publishing, I would like to draw your attention to a new interesting IJP study tool where you can read working papers and take part in peer discussions. The membership is free.

I wish you a happy summer holiday and good luck in your life, with your patients, studying and publishing!

Tomas Rektor

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