Over the years, the IIP has offered high-quality formation programs, bringing students and professors from around the world together to advance the project of developing a living, contemporary psychoanalysis – one that is open and non-dogmatic. If you are engaged in clinical practice, are wishing to reinvigorate your study with a fresh perspective, and want to engage with the essential questions of psychoanalytic technique, this formation program is for you.
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This formation program is intended for individuals who already have some clinical experience. Classes are conducted by a team of faculty from different parts of the world who are widely recognized in their respective fields. The cohort brings together students from diverse backgrounds, fostering encounters with otherness and broadening the horizon of exchange.
The program consists of a year-long intensive inquiry into the foundations of psychoanalytic technique. Primary areas of focus include the topological paradigm developed in Lacan's later teaching, and questions of clinical ethics from the standpoint of contemporary issues and its inscription within a counter-hegemonic perspective. This formation encompasses the domains of theory, research, supervision, and reflection on clinical experience, forming an integrated environment of study and practice.
At the IIP, courses and seminars are led by professors of different nationalities, backgrounds, and professional paths. Our aim is to provide comprehensive and rigorous psychoanalytic formation while fostering research activities. We also promote theoretical dialogue with other fields of knowledge, including the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and the arts.
The International Institute of Psychoanalysis offers innovative and pluralistic formation that reaches beyond geographical borders and institutional affiliations. We aim to cultivate an open dialogue with professionals from diverse trajectories while preserving the independence that helps orient our way of working and our ethical position.
My experience at the IIP has been deeply enriching both intellectually and personally. The teachers come from different backgrounds and theoretical perspectives, which created a rich and stimulating learning environment. What touched me most was the kindness, gentleness, and genuine support of the team. Beyond theory, I learned an ethical and humane way of practicing psychoanalysis.
Taking part in IIP formations is always an extremely rich experience, much more than a simple formation. There is a transmission, a sharing, towards a moving clinic. Which also changes our clinic. The professors are always in research and provoke the dynamic movement of an active desire. The teaching quality of each professor, their professionalism, animated by genuine ethical rigor, and a sincere commitment. The professors communicate their joy, their passion in motion, always in a becoming. Relevant and committed formation that mobilizes the taste for research and for the living. The IIP is a supportive and attentive team. The professors, the exceptional translators, the administration accompany us throughout the process... At the end of the training a flavor remains, an enthusiasm, and leaves us with a certain desire to return, again and again. I look forward to the next formation programs! Axelle Trinchero
My formation with the IIP was a kind of (de)formation, whereby I was able to deconstruct and challenge psychoanalytic norms and Lacanian orthodoxies that had hindered my clinical practice. The IIP is a safe, open and intersectional community to find your own way and style in both the theory and practice of psychoanalysis. I highly recommend it.
My experience in the IIP formation has been truly transformative. Coming from a Legal background, I found in psychoanalysis, especially in the in-depth study of Lacan, a new way to understand the complexity of the human being and their relationships. The IIP provided me with a rigorous and welcoming study environment, where I could delve into concepts that were once distant to me, but now prove to be essential for my practice and my life. With each class and each reading, I feel my worldview expanding and I am walking a path of deep and meaningful discoveries. I recommend the IIP formation to everyone seeking a serious and passionate immersion into the universe of psychoanalysis and who wish to experience changes as profound as the ones I am undergoing.
Taking part in the IIP formation has introduced me to a new experience of psychoanalysis. Being among such diverse people and listening to voices that are also heterogeneous, talking about psychoanalysis from their unique trajectories makes me comfortable to also find the space to be diverse and to create my own path throughout psychoanalytic studies and practices. The classes and professors create an environment in which there’s space for emptiness and a bit of anxiety that accompanies those who propose to venture into the psychoanalytic (not) knowing, encouraging us but also welcoming us.
I was a student in the 21/23 formation program at the IIP, and thanks to it, my listening and clinical vision were profoundly altered. During the classes, psychoanalysis – since its most fundamental concepts – is discussed in an ethical, careful, and respectful way, considering other knowledge and contemporary issues. The transmission environment facilitates the horizontal circulation of speech, and the diversity of the groups is valued. The organization and accessibility are excellent.
Hi! My name is Zaíra, I’m a psychologist joining the IIP formation. I got to know the IIP through my supervisor who is also a professor at the Institute, and I was amazed by the inclusion politics, the quality of the professors and the themes approached during the formation. I’ve been in other schools and institutes and I can say it’s the place where I felt the most welcome and heard. I feel better prepared for clinical practice and I recommend it to people who, like me, are looking for a space with quality formation.
Enoe Isabela - Brazil - student of the 22/24 and 25/26 IIP formation
Marta de Rosa - Italy / France - student of the 23/25 and 25/26 IIP formation
The IIP is attentive to accessibility and, since its foundation, has implemented initiatives to support the inclusion of individuals with diverse needs as part of its ongoing effort to broaden access to psychoanalytic transmission. Upon request, all of our events can be translated into Brazilian Sign Language (Libras). We also work to ensure the inclusion of people with visual impairments by providing audio description of our content.
To expand the transmission of psychoanalysis, the IIP offers scholarships in specific circumstances.
Individuals of all nationalities may apply.
A portion of our scholarships is reserved for applicants with motor, sensory, or multiple disabilities.
A portion of our scholarships is reserved for applicants from public schools and for individuals who self-identify as Black, Brown (mixed-race), or Indigenous.
Scholarship applications must be submitted between August 31 2026, and September 7 2026. Results will be announced on September 14 2026.
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13h30 of recorded classes + 13h30 of live discussions
For the psychoanalyst, as for the artist, the problem of method articulates itself as a discourse on technique: not a codified set of procedures, but a living garland of questions, the fundamental paradoxes that each analyst must confront in their own way. In this seminar, we will put psychoanalysis itself into question; as a necessary consequence we will be put into question as well. From where in our being do we inaugurate the analytic function? How do we bring a rigorous reading to the case without violating the singularity that is at the heart of every analytic treatment? Down such avenues of curiosity and perplexity, we will pursue the essential ethical and epistemological problems of the practice of the psychoanalytic art.
Course schedule:
12h of recorded classes + 9h of live classes
“Lacan, Back to the Future” proposes a temporal shift in psychoanalytic teaching, bringing to the clinic the current situation and the rupture represented by the “last Lacan” and the possible advances from him.
We propose an immersion in which the foundations of mathematical topology and the theoretical-clinical demands of psychoanalysis are intertwined in an unprecedented way.
The approach of the Borromean knot as a paradigm of psychic plasticity establishes the basis for understanding the dynamics of the Real, the Symbolic and the Imaginary.
The course methodology combines conceptual presentations and case analysis, integrating mathematical rigor and clinical sensitivity. In this way, participants learn to apply topology as an innovative tool, applying mathematical concepts to inaugurate listening practices that consider subjective complexity in all its plasticity.
12h of recorded classes + 12h of live classes
For several decades Jacques Lacan will provide a teaching, especially during his Seminar. He will say repeatedly: he does not seek to transmit a knowledge. His Seminar is a space for a psychoanalyst to say, in the position of an analysand.
Lacan closes his text “Psychoanalysis and its teaching” with the following words: “A return to Freud, which provides the material for a teaching worthy of the name, can only be produced by the pathway by which the most hidden truth manifests itself in the revolutions of culture. This pathway is the only training that I can claim to transmit to those who follow me. It is called: a style.”
Teaching: insignis in Latin; what is marked with a sign.
What sign and what style is this Seminar about?
To explore these questions, we propose to study rigorously during this year, at each month the first sentence(s) of a Seminar. We will start with the Seminar 20th and continue like this, chronologically, until the 27th. This proposal will certainly be the opportunity to trace a possible path within this teaching.
12h of live classes
The construction of the clinical case is a practice at the very heart of the history of Freud's discovery. This course inscribes itself within that long tradition, one inseparable from the very ethics of psychoanalysis. Each month, an IIP faculty member will offer a succinct presentation of a clinical situation drawn from their own analytic practice. It will be for them to demonstrate the possible construction of the case and to draw from it its own invention — between structure and singularity. Ample time will be reserved for discussion and debate following the clinical presentation.
9h of live supervision
Supervision, also referred to as control, has been one of the fundamental pillars of psychoanalytic practice since its inception. It is easy to show that a psychoanalyst cannot, under any circumstances, forgo this practice. This pillar, as we know, is closely linked to personal analysis and the ongoing training of the clinician. In this program, we invite students to experience this practice within the framework of a small group. This group supervision does not replace individual supervision, of course. However, it is a rich and fruitful modality that has existed since Freud. Each student will be part of a group that meets once a month. At each meeting, one of the members will present a clinical case that will serve as the basis for the supervision session. Each group will be accompanied by a professor or IIP member who will serve as the supervisor.
9h of group research encounters
At the IIP, research is considered fundamental to psychoanalytic practice. Each participant is invited to contribute, from their own perspective and style, to the development of psychoanalysis. The program proposes the integration of students into research groups focused on the articulation between clinical practice and theory, with monthly meetings supervised by professors or members of the Institute.
This group aims to constitute a dynamic space for reflection, sharing, and production, with its central goal being to explore and work on the close—almost ontological—link that connects the psychoanalytic act to the act of research. Far from being separate activities, it is assumed that both share the same ethical and epistemic demands.
Within this space, each participant will develop their own research question, to be pursued throughout the formation, and will periodically present the progress of their work.
Although of an individual nature, this research is embedded in a working community that forms the educational horizon. At the end, those who wish may present their journey at the Research Symposium.
10h of live, recorded and discussion classes
Sigmund Freud is primarily a doctor and researcher specialized in brain anatomy and the nervous system. It is through articles that he will give to hear, from this starting point, the path he draws and which leads to the invention of psychoanalysis. This course offers an immersion in a part of this Freudian adventure. Professors will each seize an article by Freud and will visit it, question it, extract the guidelines, say how this text feeds the clinic, a research in the process of being done, but also say the limits, the errors that mark out, perhaps, the Freudian text.
4h30 of live classes
Psychoanalysis does not live in isolation. It is nourished by the questions the world poses to it, as well as by those it has not yet managed to formulate. In this spirit, we invite three professionals to speak about their work: a scientist, an artist, and a philosopher. Each will come with their own tools, their own enigmas, and their own relationship with the human subject. None of them will be called upon as spokespersons for psychoanalysis. And that is precisely the essential point, for the aim is to learn to listen differently. To hear a researcher describe their protocols and perceive, beneath the surface, what science does with the subject — or what it erases from them. To listen to an artist speak about their creative process and recognize, in their hesitations, something of the subject of desire and of the unconscious at work. To accompany a philosopher through their questions and sense where thought becomes embodied, where the concept turns into action. These three sessions are not illustrations of psychoanalytic theory. They are an invitation to practice, from the very beginning of one’s formation, this fundamental gesture of the analyst: to be traversed by a discourse, to receive what exceeds it, and to allow it to work within oneself. What each speaker says about their own world speaks indirectly to us about that of a contemporary psychoanalysis in motion.
5h of live classes
How does a psychoanalyst receive a patient? How do they listen, intervene, endure silence, navigate moments of crisis or impasse? How do they think about what they do — and what they choose not to do?
These essential questions rarely find answers solely in theoretical texts. It is in the encounter, in the way a practitioner speaks about their work, in the tone of their voice, and the style of their thinking, that something like the transmission of knowledge becomes possible.
This is the aim of this new course. In each session, a psychoanalyst is invited. A group of students will have prepared in advance a series of questions concerning the most concrete and technical aspects of clinical work: conducting therapy, handling transference, timing and interruption, session endings, analysis beginnings, difficult moments. These questions open the encounter; others emerge along the way, carried by the lively exchange.
From one session to another, different styles are shown and heard, not to extract a unified doctrine, but so that each student can perceive, in a lived way, what the idea of an ethics of psychoanalysis entails — not as an abstract principle, but as practice.
6h of live classes
A one and a half hour session at the end of each two months to collect questions and comments regarding the content of the courses and the formation in general. In this space the word will be listened to in the singularity of each one, as from the ethics of psychoanalysis. The content of these bimestriel meetings is open to the consideration of requests from anyone who wishes to make them.
1h of live classes
2h of live classes
Please note that dates are subject to change
