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The HBIGDA provides avenues for scientific interchange through its biannual conferences and publications.

The HBIGDA is responsible for establishing Standards of Care for the treatment of gender identity disorders. These standards are internationally accepted guidelines that promote the health and welfare of individuals with gender dysphoria.

The Austrian professional association of psychologists was founded in 1953 as an all-Austrian association intended to represent both psychologists' professional interests and to look after the interests of its members. BöP represents approximately 2400 academically trained psychologists who work either independently or in various institutions and organisations.

The official publication of BÖP is Psychologie in Österreich.

The organization provides professional consultation and facilitation in the area of inter-group relations, especially between religious and secular groups and the political left and right. It also trains group facilitators to further this end.

1. 2-nd International Scientific Congress: "When an Object Turns to be a Subject - Transformative Dialogue and the 'Other'" (August 15-17, 2010: Neve Ilan, Israel)

2-nd International Scientific Congress
"When an Object Turns to be a Subject - Transformative Dialogue and the 'Other'"

Event sponsored by: Besod Siach

August 15-17, 2010
Neve Ilan, Israel

Co-sponsored by the Israeli Association of Group Psychotherapy.

In traditional conferences, the staff, management and the participants are objects. This is the basis for most of the working hypotheses in all the learning events. This Congress offers an opportunity to explore ways in which more recent analytical methods and approaches, like the Inter-Subjective approach, can be integrated in our praxis and theoretical work.

The primary task of the conference is to explore how "The Other"— an object for splitting, projections, projective identification and other defense mechanisms against anxiety—becomes a subject throughout the dialogue experience; and when two people or groups can create an inter-subjective space for a such a dialogue. A central working hypothesis is that anxieties from annihilation and destruction in personal, national and sociological levels (systemic level) produce defenses like splitting, projections, etc.

The original psychological basis in the work of Besod Siach for many years is the open system theory, based mainly on the works of Bion, Rice, Miller, etc. Group Relations conferences, the foundation of our methodology, often lead to profound change and transformation in the individual’s understanding of self, organizations, and the self in organizations. We have changed the learning focus from the individual to those parts in well define parts of society which are in conflict, so the learning and understanding is about the "Systemic holistic self", the system itself and the unconscious processes that caused such conflicts. Another basic concept is the Kleinian- Bionian perspective, in which inner conflicts are projected or evacuated on the "Other", through projection of our inner "enmity" on him (S Erlich). In all those experiences, annual conferences were found to be the most valuable tools for learning through experience those aspects of rivalry within the boundaries of a society, sub systems or a system as a whole.

We will have an opportunity to explore a variety of theories—from Bion and Foulks, through Object Relation approach, the Independent Group, up to the Relational and Inter Subjective approaches.

Official language: Hebrew, with some English events.

Deadline for abstracts or proposals: 4/20/2010.

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