Moreover, it has twelve corresponding members, many of whom frequently contribute to its activities. The Society's activities aim at supporting the creativity of its members in the field of psychoanalysis. For that purpose, during the academic year,in addition to its regular educational activities, the Society organizes monthly scientific presentations, with the participation of guest psychoanalysts from various countries. It also organizes intramural scientificmeetings and public lectures with presentations by its members and candidates. What psychoanalysis is.
Psychoanalysis is both a theory of the mind and a therapeutic method.
As a theory, psychoanalysis represents a very special methodological approach and knowledge, as well as a way of understanding the psychic phenomena, whether these belong to normal psychic life or to psychopathology. As a therapy method, psychoanalysis addresses itself to people in whom unknown and beyond conscious control psychic processes influence, in a repetitive way , decisions, interpersonal relations, self esteem, and lead to the formation of symptoms like anxiety, depression, phobias etc. In our century, psychoanalytic thinking has infiltrated psychiatry, psychology and the social sciences to the point that it would be hard to imagine what would the systems of human understanding be today, were theyto be deprived of notions such as the psychic mechanisms of repression, denial or negation , the work of dreaming, the special significance of the interpersonal relationship that develops between analyst and patient etc. Psychoanalytic ideas became sources of inspiration in art, literature, theater and cinema. Furthermore, in recent years, a dialogue developed between psychoanalysis and the positive sciences.