IPTN

Welcome to Irish Poetry Therapy Network - IPTN, a non-profit organisation that provides an environment where participants explore at first hand, through the use of poetry therapy and bibliotherapy, the healing power of poetry as a means of identifying and dealing with various life issues.

Find out more about us and how to join our network by checking out our site.


Confidentiality Agreement: IPTN Sessions are held in a confidential space. Participants, discussions and poems are only published with agreement. These sessions use poetry as therapy and are not psychotherapy sessions.

Thursday 26 January 2017

Ivor Browne Interview on RTE Radio

Listen here to Ivor Browne and his interview with Miriam Meets. Very interesting view on psychotherapy and medication.

Sunday 22 January 2017

The Artist/Analyst is Present



Psychoanalysing Documentary Film-
8th Psychoanalytic Film Festival


SCREENING & DISCUSSION: 'At the Interface between Creative Arts Practice and Clinical Psychoanalytical Practice',

Sat 4th February '17 : 12.30PM-3.15PM : IMMA

'Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present' (2012, directed by Mathew Ackers and Jeffrey Dupre)

The film screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Noreen Giffney and discussants from the creative arts, curatorship, arts criticism, philosophy, psychoanalysis, psychology, art therapy, visual culture and film studies (Jacinta Lynch, Katherine Waugh, Grainne Casey and Lisa Moran)

Further details and events here