SAPI Annual Conference 2024

We are excited to announce the details of the next SAPI/SAPA Conference titled Holding the Third: Exploring Paternal Functioning taking place in Johannesburg on 24 and 25 February 2024.

Our rich and diverse program will have a strong theoretical and clinical focus and will apply our theme to the broader social and political context of South Africa. 

Saturday will include our 3 keynote speakers - Tessa Dooms (Political Activist and Sociologist), Rui Aragão Oliveira (Training Analyst with the Portuguese Psychoanalytic Society) and Thomas Burkhalter (Clinical Psychologist and SAPI member). Our last session of the day will focus on the role of supervision and will include inputs by Rui Aragão Oliveira as well as Mary-Anne Smith (SAPA Training Analyst). 

Sunday will start with a panel discussion focusing on the recent inquest into the torture and murder of political activist Imam Haron by the South African apartheid government in 1969. The panel will include Diane Sandler (SAPA Psychoanalyst), Haroon Gunn-Salie (Artist), Odette Geldenhuys (Human Rights Lawyer) and Jonathan Shapiro (Cartoonist and Political Satirist). The day will conclude with a plenary session.

A full programme will be available in mid January and will include costs and registration details.

For those flying in from outside of Johannesburg, please note that on Friday night, 23 February 2024, we will host a pre-conference event where Jonathan Shapiro will be in conversation with Mark Solms.