Dogma and Reflection in the Psychoanalytic Encounter

The Hanna Segal Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies | Symposium 2026

April 18, 2026 | Warsawa, Poland

This year’s symposium is dedicated to exploring the tension between dogma and reflection – two forces that are constantly present in the lives of both individuals and groups.

The presentations offer new perspectives on psychoanalysis and open the way for a renewed reflective encounter within psychoanalysis, particularly in relation to the analytic relationship, learning, and ethics.

What unites the contributions is a spirit of inquiry and openness – a willingness to move beyond fixed assumptions and to enter into dialogue with uncertainty.

In an encounter where dogma and reflection do not exclude one another but instead create a creative tension, the possibility of new, living psychoanalytic thinking emerges.

Registration: sympozjum.isphs.pl/en