Through the year, the members of the International Psychoanalytic Association – both graduates and members in the programs run at the European Psychoanalytic Institute (successor to the Han Groen-Prakken Psychoanalytic Institute for Eastern Europe) worked together to create a professional community. The result of this joint is a conference with a focus on discussing traumatic gaps in the modern world. The purpose of the conference is to restore, preserve and develop those connections that arose thanks to the contribution of those who created the PIEE, supported it, contributed to its transformation into the EPI, as well as contributed to shaping new professional connections.

We invite you to join the international psychoanalytic conference “LIFE AFTER A BREAKUP. FRAGMENTATION OR INTEGRATION”, which is to be held in the city of Gyumri, Armenia (October 9 – October 13).

“To every thing there is a season, and a time for every purpose under the heaven.”
_{Ecclesiastes 3:1}

“I may have meant
that I love both this stone and that river,
and in general,
all the changes, which we observe and from which we can learn.”
_{Siddhartha, by H. Hesse.}

We, graduates of the Institute, are experiencing another difficult breakup in our professional progress path – the shutdown of the Han Groen-Prakken European Psychoanalytic Institute in 2023. That was a natural and an inevitable process of maturation, which, under the current conditions, cannot but reflect the complex social processes underway in Eastern Europe. Wars, as a consequence of interethnic and other conflicts, create breakups in professional links, gaps in the lives of both psychoanalysts and their patients. All this facilitates potential fragmentation of perception and, consequently, possible fragmentation of our professional community. Fragmented perception prevents a person and society as a whole from building real relationships with themselves and with the world.

Dear colleagues from the organizing committee, dear fellow psychoanalysts, candidates and psychotherapists from Eastern and Western Europe,

The International New Groups Committee of the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA) commends your efforts to stay connected and continue working so productively after the closure of EPI. We fully support the approaching conference “LIFE AFTER A BREAKUP. FRAGMENTATION OR INTEGRATION”, which will be held in Armenia during October 2024. It is a title that resonates on many levels.

We believe that the efforts of the conference organizers are extremely important at this time of uncertainty, suffering and chaos in Eastern Europe. It is a sign of the unification that IPA psychoanalysis provides.
On behalf of ING Committee, including the Committee for Eastern Europe, and of course on my own behalf, we all wish you a successful and fruitful professional meeting.

The main place of accommodation will be the SHIRAZ hotel, which has provided special discounted prices for conference participants. The room price includes breakfast and access to the SPA. Please select the required number type in the registration form. The number of rooms of each type is limited. If there are no places in the category you require, the organizers will contact you and offer accommodation options nearby. The hotel has different rooms, including rooms with two single beds, which makes it possible to cooperate with another conference participant in renting a room. Please indicate in the registration form if you would like to share a room with one of the conference participants.

You can book one of the following rooms at the SHIRAZ Hotel. Prices when booking through us are marked in black. Blue - if you want to book yourself.

Exchange rates 15/08/2024: ~ 1 euro = 422AMD

Single room Sngl/Dbl - 26 000 AMD
Sunday-Thursday - 33 000 AMD
Friday-Saturday - 40 000 AMD

Double/Twin Room - 30 000 AMD
Sunday-Thursday - 38 000 AMD
Friday-Saturday - 45 000 AMD

Place in a double or triple room - 15 000 AMD

Triple room - 45 000 AMD
Sunday-Thursday - 52 000 AMD
Friday-Saturday - 60 000 AMD

Quadruple room -65 000 AMD
Sunday-Thursday - 78 000 AMD
Friday-Saturday - 90 000 AMD

Self-booking

Self-booking

Self-booking

Self-booking

Venue - ALEXANDROVSKI

The conference will be held in the center of Gyumri, the second largest city in Armenia. The Aleksandrovski restaurant will become a place for classes, and coffee breaks and a welcome cocktail will be organized there.

There is an international airport in Gyumri, from which it is quite easy to get to the city center by taxi, we recommend using the YandexGO application, it accepts all cards and cash. Taking a taxi “on the spot” can be very expensive and uncomfortable. Make sure you have the application on your phone.
Most likely, your flight will be to Yerevan; the airport in Yerevan serves a lot of flights from different countries. The road from Yerevan to Gyumri by car takes 2 hours and costs about 50 euros. In this case, also, use the YandexGO or GG application directly from the airport. For convenience and economy, we will create a chat in telegram so that conference participants can easily find colleagues or a colleague who will arrive at a similar time, so that in a pleasant company, by taxi, you can get to Gyumri.
You can also get to Gyumri from Yerevan by electric train and bus. Contact representatives of the local organizing committee if you need further details.

Breakfast is included in the price of the SHIRAZ hotel.
A welcome cocktail will be organized in the large hall on the territory of the ALEXANDROVSKI restaurant, where, in the future, the conference will be held.
During the breaks, an area with coffee breaks will be organized on the territory of the ALEXANDROVSKI restaurant complex.
Participants organize lunches and dinners themselves. The city center is quite small, so finding a place where you can get tasty food is not difficult.
The gala dinner will be organized at the Cherkezi Dzor fish restaurant. Participation in the gala dinner is paid separately - 40 euros. Please indicate on the registration form that you would like to participate in the gala dinner.

Organizational fee:

You can pay for the conference (organization fee, payment for the gala dinner) in Russian rubles until September 15 by transfer, mark in the registration form.
Also, you can pay for the conference by transfer in euros or drams until September 15. Please indicate your desire in the registration form, the organizers will contact you or write to the organizing committee by icopsychoanalysis@gmail.com
Upon arrival, it will be possible to pay only in drams and euros personally to the organizers during registration.
After September 15, 2024, the registration fee is not refundable.
Payment for accommodation is made on site. We can guarantee accommodation at a reduced price only for those who pay the registration fee before September 15, 2024 and book their accommodation through the conference registration form.
Accompanying persons will be able to take part in the evening events of the conference (welcome cocktail, exhibition of works by Narine Papyan, gala dinner).

Organizational fee:
18,000 RUR/190 €/80000 AMD
200 €/85000 AMD

Accompanying person's fee:
9000 RUR/100 €/40000 AMD
100 €/40000 AMD

Gala dinner:
4000 RUR/40 €/18000 AMD
40 €/18000 AMD

Until 9.10.2024

Until 9.10.2024

Until 9.10.2024