Initiated by students: A lecture series on trans* realities in psychotherapy, science, and society
With this series of lectures, we invite you to understand transgender realities as an integral part of psychotherapeutic and psychoanalytic practice. The focus is on perspectives from real-life practice—from people who are grappling with the question of what a gender-sensitive and trans*inclusive stance can look like in concrete terms.
The aim is not only to exchange professional knowledge, but also to search together for an understanding, open, and respectful way of dealing with gender beyond binary and normative attributions. To this end, we want to look back at the past to better understand developments and look at the present together to open up spaces for future perspectives. The series is intended as an impetus to question existing ways of thinking, open up new spaces for action, and strengthen psychoanalysis and psychotherapy as living, evolving disciplines.
The Queer IPU is a student-led initiative at the International Psychoanalytic University (IPU) in Berlin that advocates for the recognition of queer, trans, and intersex lives in psychoanalytic theory and practice.
The lectures will take place in person. Participation is free and everyone is welcome!