The Journal of Analytical Psychology has announced its 2027 International Conference under the theme “The Space Between: Its Limits and Possibilities, Collapse and Metamorphosis in the Analytic Vessel and the World.” The theme invites reflection on the threshold spaces where analytic work so often unfolds, the territory where emotional experience exceeds what can be put into words, where the analytic frame is tested, and where meaning may be missing, may emerge, or may transform entirely. The conference asks participants to consider those liminal moments in which collapse, impasse, and uncertainty sit alongside the potential for psychic movement, creative emergence, and metamorphosis. And there is good reason to act now: the call for papers is officially open, inviting practitioners, scholars, and trainees to submit proposals for presentations at this in-person event.
The conference will take place in the coastal city of Split, Croatia, from 14 to 17 October 2027, offering four days of rich clinical thinking and theoretical reflection in a striking Adriatic setting. Proposals are welcome on a wide range of clinical and theoretical subjects. The organizers particularly encourage contributions that engage deeply with clinical work, including explorations of early or unformulated states of mind, shared unconscious processes, somatization and shared psychosomatic states, transference and countertransference dynamics, and the analyst’s capacity to remain present at the very limits of what can be held or known.
The conference also recognizes that analytic work is always situated within a wider cultural, historical, political, and technological context, one currently marked by rapid change and mounting pressure on meaning-making itself. Contributions addressing these realities are equally welcome, including but not limited to topics such as artificial intelligence, psychedelics, intergenerational and collective trauma, and cultural upheaval.
The programme itself demonstrates the calibre of the event. The four days feature pre-conference workshops led by figures such as Donald Kalsched, Chiara Tozzi, and Mark Saban, alongside clinical discussion groups addressing psyche/soma experience, cultural complexes, AI intrusions into the analytic space, and gender. Plenary speakers across the three main conference days include Jay Barlow, Lara Lagutina, Donald Kalsched, Martin Schmidt, Nora Swan-Foster, Renos Papadopoulos, and Antonio Lanfranchi, with daily social dreaming matrices convened by Ali Zarbafi. A drinks reception and a gala dinner round out what promises to be a genuinely rich and challenging gathering.
Those wishing to present should submit a 500-word proposal by 31 July 2026 to Esther Waldron, Managing Editor, at esther@thesap.org.uk. Given the breadth of themes on offer, this is an unusually open invitation, and one that rewards early preparation. For those drawn to the threshold spaces of the analytic vessel, Split in 2027 promises a gathering that will both reflect the current state of Jungian thought and help move it forward.