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Michael Diercks
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Michael Diercks, Dipl. Psychologist, is a member, training and supervising analyst of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society (VPS) and the IPA. Having been head of the child guidance clinic in Wien-Heiligenstadt from 1989 to 2001, he now works in private practice. He was a member of the Training Committee of the VPS from 2005 and Director of Training from 2009 to 2013 and another two years 2018-2019. As a member of the European Working Party on Comparative Clinical Methods (CCM) since 2005 and later of the Comparative Clinical Methods Association he has facilitated numerous workshops in this framework. Passionate about and committed to training in psychoanalysis, he prepared and chaired visits within the European Visiting Project (EVP) created in 2018 to strengthen psychoanalytic training and to ensure and improve its quality. He published several papers in German on psychoanalytic technique, psychoanalytic listening and on Bion’s theory of thinking as well as a paper in the International Journal of Psychoanalysis on Freud’s handling of the transference in the case of the “Ratman”. Eike Hinze, psychiatrist and neurologist, working as psychoanalyst in private practice in Berlin. Training analyst and chair of the training committee at the Karl-Abraham-Institute, Berlin. Chair of the IPA Committee on Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Aging. Since 2006 he has been active in the development of psychoanalysis in Eastern Europe. Publications mainly on psychoanalytic practice and training and psychoanalytic treatment of elderly patients Marinella Linardos, Ph.D. is adjunct professor of Medical and Health Psychology, faculty of Medicine and Surgery at the Catholic University of Rome, Italy. She is a full member of the Italian Association of Psychoanalysis, chair of the International Psychoanalytic Association Working Parties Committee, member and founder of the ad Hoc Group of the European Psychoanalytic Federation on “Psychoanalysis and literature” and Coordinator for Europe of the Comparative Clinical Methods (CCM) group. She works as psychoanalyst in private practise and as medical psychologist in Gemelli Hospital Oncological Department, Rome. Michael Šebek, Ph.D. CSc. is a training and supervising analyst of the Czech Psychoanalytical Society (IPA). Elected twice as President, he is a former director the Society’s Psychoanalytic Institute and Assistant Professor in Medical Psychology at Charles University, Prague. He served on the international editorial board of Psychoanalytic Inquiry, as secretary for Europe of the IPA, and in various roles for the Han Groen Prakken Training Institute for Eastern Europe. A former Erikson Scholar at the Austen Riggs Centre he has moderated Haydee Faimberg's in Forum on Clinical Issues as well Comparative Clinical Method workshops. Appointed as a visitor on the European Exchange Visiting Program (EVP and EVP2), he has also advised on psychoanalytic training in various societies including in Moscow. Trained as a psychoanalyst under a communist regime, he has published in English, German, French, Polish, Russian and Czech on the totalitarian mind, totalitarian objects, death drive, and relations between psychic and external realities as well as on psychosomatic issues. Abbot Bronstein, PhD is a psychologist and psychoanalyst. He is the editor of the Analyst at Work Section and an Associate Editor for International Journal of Psychoanalysis. Co-Chair of Comparative Clinical Methods Working Party in North America, he is a former Training and Supervising Analyst at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis and a board member of the International Psychoanalytic Association. He has been visiting faculty at Emory and Oregon Psychoanalytic Institutes and has taught and presented widely in North America and Europe including publishing written papers on fetishism, ending analysis, remote and in office analysis. Recently h