
Marilia Aisenstein
(France)

Marilia Aisenstein is a training and supervising analyst in the Hellenic Psychoanalytical Society and the Paris Psychoanalytical Society, former President of the Paris Society, Former chair of the International New Groups committee (ING) of IPA. Co-chair of the Annual French-speaking Congress. Former representative for Europe at the IPA’s executive Committee. Worked for many years at the Paris Psychosomatic Institute.
She is the author of several books and numerous articles in French, English and Greek. Her latest book is being translated in English under the title 'Desire, Pain and Thought', published in 2020.
Seminar
Marilia Aisenstein
A modern approach to psychosomatics
24 May 2021
Destructiveness: new ways of understanding
20 March 2022
Pain and masochism
29 October 2023
On the unity of psyche and soma. A psychoanalyst's view
26 May 2024
On psychoanalytic technique with patients with somatic diseases
16 February 2025
Masochism
18 July 2021
Psychoanalysis of somatic patients
5 February 2023
Fantasy in literature and psychoanalysis
17 December 2023
Transfer and countertransfer
14 July 2024
The mysterious leap from somatics to psyche
5 December 2021
Allergic object relations
25 June 2023
Repetition and the compulsive desire to repeat
25 February 2024
Destructiveness and masochism: clinical issues and problems of conceptualization
15 December 2024
Dear Colleagues!
We had an interview with a famous French psychoanalyst and author Marilia Aisenstein (conducted by IPA psychoanalyst Mikhail Yerish, interpreter Yakov Podolniy).Marilia Aisenstein speaks about herself, her life journey, how she became a psychoanalyst. The outstanding personalities she has worked with and learnt from. About such a key concept in psychoanalysis as masochism. About her contribution to the theory and practice of psychoanalytic treatment of psychosomatic disorders.
