The International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP) is an organization that was founded in 2001 to promote the development of relational psychoanalysis

Relational psychoanalysis

Relational psychoanalysis is a school of psychoanalysis in the United States that emphasizes the role of real and imagined relationships with others in mental disorder and psychotherapy...

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The association is a professional and intellectual community of clinicians and non-clinicians (such as academics) who are committed to developing relational perspectives and exploring similarities and differences with other approaches to psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis is a psychological theory developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud. Psychoanalysis has expanded, been criticized and developed in different directions, mostly by some of Freud's former students, such as Alfred Adler and Carl Gustav...

and psychotherapy.