EFPP Board

Janaki Hemaratne
EFPP Financial Officer & Treasurer

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Anne Sauer
EFPP Administrative & Web Secretary

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María Eugenia Cid Rodríguez
EFPP President

• President of the EFPP. Clinical psychologist, University of Santiago de Compostela and Madrid.
• Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, training at Red Cross Hospital in Madrid and the Tavistock Clinic in London.
• Psychoanalyst, Associate member of the Psychoanalytic Association of Madrid (APM-IPA).
• Involved with the EFPP since its foundation, as delegate and co-opted member of the board for several years.
• Very actively involved in the development of the EFPP spanish network, as member of the board and president of the Spanish Association for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (AEPP), currently Spanish Federation for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (FEPP).
• Founding member, board member and training member of the Association for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Madrid (AMPP).
• Clinical work in private practice in Madrid.

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Gianfranco Buonfiglio
EFPP Adult Section
Section Chair

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Keren Amouyal
Adult Section
Section Representative

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Odile Gaveriaux
EFPP Child & Adolescent Section
Section Chair & Honorary Secretary

• Child & adolescent psychoanalytical psychotherapist, trained at the Tavistock Clinic (London), member of the Tavistock Society of Psychotherapists TSP and of the British Psychoanalytic Council BPC.
• Worked for 25 years in an Outpatient Consultation Center for child & adolescent, as well as in the child psychiatry department of the public hospital in Lorient (Brittany); now works in private practice.
• Founded in 1990 in Lorient/Larmor-Plage, with the support of the Tavistock Clinic, the Centre d’Études Martha Harris, which provides Tavistock Model trainings for future child & adolescent psychotherapists, as well as for all professionals in childhood. Is Head of Training.
• Held the rotating Presidency of the French Federation of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy for Child & Adolescent FFPPEA, affiliated member of EFPP.
• Delegate of the child & adolescent section of the EFPP since 2013, co-opted member of the Board in March 2022.
• Elected member of the Board and representative of the child & adolescent section in March 2023.

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Alix Vann-Nicollier
EFPP Child & Adolescent Section
Section Representative

• EFPP Child & Adolescent Section Representative.
• Member of the EFPP E-Journal Editorial Board.
• Chair of the French-speaking Swiss section of the EFPP.
• Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist in Vevey, Switzerland. Supervisor. Lecturer.

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Cristina Calarasanu
EFPP Couple & Family Section
Section Chair & Vice President

• Vice-President of the EFPP, psychoanalytical psychotherapist, trained in relational psychoanalysis in Bucharest, Romania and in link psychoanalysis in Lyon, France.
• Founder member and secretary of the Romanian Association for the Psychoanalysis of the Family and Group Links (ERP).
• Member in the Scientific Council of the International Association for Couple and Family Psychoanalysis (AIPCF), lecturer in Insight Psychoanalytic School.

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Michael Stasch
EFPP Couple & Family Section
Section Representative

• President of the German Association of Psychoanalytic Couple- and Family-Therapy (BvPPF).
• Co-chair of the EFPP Couple and Family Section.
• Member of the scientific board of the journals “Psychotherapeut” and “Psychoanalytische Paar- und Familientherapie”.
• Working in private practice in Heidelberg, Germany as psychoanalyst, family therapist and supervisor.

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Anna Zajenkowska
EFPP Group Section
Section Chair

• Anna Zajenkowska, PhD, is a professor at the Maria Grzegorzewska University in Warsaw.
• She has a PhD from the Department of Psychology, University of Warsaw.
• She has also obtained her psychological expertise at the University of Vienna.
• She is a trained group analyst, a member of the Scientific Committee of the Institute of Group Analysis Rasztów, a delegate to the group section and a board member of the European Federation for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.
• In addition, she has a master’s degree in International Commerce from the University of Korea and has completed postgraduate studies in monetary policy at the Polish Academy of Sciences.
• She also has several years of international experience in business (Poland, Austria and Korea), which she has used conducting intercultural trainings.
• All her activities focus on working with groups and facilitating communication between different communities. She conducts psychotherapy and group psychotherapy in the clinic, but also research related to for example the effects of mentalization trainings among inmates. She is one of the founders and main organizer of the Poland on the Couch Project.

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Yafi Shpirer
EFPP Group Section
Section Representative (Co-Opted)

Born in Argentina, Yafi Shpirer immigrated to Israel in 1977 and has since lived in Kibbutz Nitzanim, located approximately 18 km from the Gaza border. She is married, a mother of three sons, and a grandmother to five grandchildren.

Yafi holds a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Education for preschool and elementary school with a focus on theatre and dance. She is a certified supervisor in psychodrama and currently serves as Chair of the Psychodrama Division within the Israeli Association of Creative and Expressive Therapies (YAHAT).

A graduate of group analysis from the IIGA, Yafi is also a Co-opted board member of the EFPP. She works as a supervisor and trainer across all the Resilience Centres in southern Israel.

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