Pavel Koltaj, PhD
Personal information:
Name: Pavel Koltaj
Address: Gerbičeva ulica 57, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Email: info@kavelj.si
Phone: +386 40 23 74 86
Date of birth: 12. 07. 1976
General education:
2003 Bc.Sc. Philosophy and Sociology of Culture, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
2015 Ph.D. in Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
Training in psychotherapy:
2006—11 Participation in a group therapy training group, mentor: Eduard Klain
2011— Psychoanalytic training in accordance with the standards of International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA)
2012 Introductory Seminar for Psychotherapy, organized by Slovenian Association of Psychotherapists
2012—19 Personal Psychoanalysis with Ettore Jogan
2014— Member of the Croatian Psychoanalytical Society (HPSD, ex-HPSG)
2014 Clinical practice at the Psychiatric Clinic Ljubljana
2014— Private practice in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy
2014—15 Counselor for elderly people, ZDUS
2015— Clinical discussion group, mentor: Lilija Varjačić Rajko
2016 Observation in Child Development Centre in Feldenkrais Way (Pedokinetika), mentor: Andreja Semolič
2016—18 Psychoanalytic Infant observation, mentor: Breda Jelen Sobočan, supervisor: Judith Woodhead
2017— Candidate of HPSD
2017— Supervision with Paolo Fonda
2019— Member of the Society for observation and understanding of the importance of early developmental period
2019— Associate member of Slovenian Society for Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy
2019— Clinical seminars (HPSD)
(Summer) Schools for candidates and analysts:
2009 Han Groen-Prakken European Psychoanalytic Institute (PIEE) Summer School Odessa, Ukraine
2010 PIEE Summer School Odessa, Ukraine
2011 PIEE Summer School Budva, Montenegro
2013 PIEE Summer School Budva, Montenegro
2014 PIEE Summer School Budva, Montenegro
2015 European Psychoanalytical Institute (EPI) Psychoanalytic School, Iseo, Italy
Schools for child and adolescent psychoanalysis:
2010 PIEE School for Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis, Bled, Slovenia (member of local organizing committee)
2011 PIEE School for Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis, Bled, Slovenia (member of local organizing committee)
2012 PIEE School for Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis, Bled, Slovenia (secretary of local organizing committee)
2013 PIEE School for Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis, Portorož, Slovenia (secretary of local organizing committee)
2014 Forum for Psychoanalysis of Children, European Psychoanalytical Federation (EPF) preconference, Torino, Italy
2016 Forum for Psychoanalysis of Children, EPF preconference, Berlin, Germany
Other IPA and EPF events:
2011 International Psychoanalytical Studies Organization (IPSO) Meeting for Candidates, Belgrade, Serbia
2014 EPF Conference, Torino, Italy
2016 EPF Conference, Berlin, Germany
Theoretical seminars:
2011 Psychoanalytical Society of Slovenia, seminar with Robert Hinshelwood, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2012 University of Trieste, Neuropsychoanalysis Conference, Trieste, Italy
2014 Libero and Zora Polojaz Foundation, Integration and Splitting Seminar, Trieste, Italy
2014—17 HPSD theoretical seminars, Zagreb, Croatia
2015 Slovenian Society for Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy (SDPP), seminar with Kitty Schmidt, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2015 SDPP, seminar with Eike Hinze, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2015 HPSD seminars in Child and Adolescence Psychoanalysis, Zagreb, Croatia
2016 SDPP, seminar with Maria Adelaide Lupinacci, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2016 SDPP, seminar with Eduard Klain, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2016 Libero and Zora Polojaz Foundation & HPSD, International Meeting on Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Sarajevo, Bosnia
2017 Psychoanalytical Society of Serbia (PSS), International Conference on Women and the Question of Femininity in Psychoanalysis, Belgrade, Serbia
2017 PSS, International Conference Thinking on the Border, Belgrade, Serbia
2017 Institute Zavedno, Neuropsychoanalysis workshop with Maggie Zellner, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2017 SDPP, seminar with Thijs de Wolf, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2017 SDPP, seminar with Marta Badoni, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2018 SDPP, seminar with Maria Anna Tallandini, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2018 HPSD, seminar with Giovanni Battista Foresti, Zagreb, Croatia
2018 Libero and Zora Polojaz Foundation, Encounter and Listening seminar, Trieste, Italy
2018 Medical University of Vienna (Department of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy), Conference on Psychotic structure, Vienna, Austria
2019 SAZU, seminar on lacanian psychoanalysis with René Lew, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2019 SDPP, seminar on projective identification with workshop by Kitty Schmidt, Ljubljana, Slovenia (member of the organizing committee)
2019 SDPP, seminar on ethics in therapy practice with workshop by Gabor Szonyi, Ljubljana, Slovenia (member of the organizing committee)
2019 SDPP, seminar with Thijs de Wolf, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2019 HPSD, seminar on psychoanalytical process, Zagreb, Croatia
2019 SDPP, seminar on non-verbal, Ljubljana, Slovenia (member of the organizing committee)