Ivan Pronko

Psychoanalyst, psychiatrist

Lecturer at the International Institute of Depth Psychology
Author of the course “Understanding Autism: Psychiatric, Psychological and Psychoanalytic Aspects”
Co-author of the course “Psychoanalytic and psychological work with military personnel and their families: theory and clinical practice
Member of the Ukrainian Association of Psychoanalysis
Member of the Association of Child Psychiatry and Related Specialties of Ukraine
PhD candidate

Email pronkoivan@gmail.com
Telegram @ivanpronko

Publications

Pronko, I. (2024). An attempt to comprehend the formation of the autistic personality structure through the works of J. Lacan. Ukrainian Psychoanalytic Journal, 2(1), 96-107. DOI:https://doi.org/10.32782/upj/2024-1-11

Presentations at conferences

07.12.2024 In search for effective interventions for autism – a focus on evidence-based practices. At the conference of the Association of Child Psychiatry and Allied Professions of Ukraine “On the border of psychiatry and neurology: comorbidity of mental and neurological disorders. Issues of diagnosis and therapy”

13.11.2024 Behavioral interventions for autism through the lens of evidence-based medicine. At the conference of the Association of Child Psychiatry and Allied Professions of Ukraine “Day of the child psychiatrist”

18.10.2024 Traumatization of autistic persons as a therapeutic practice: pro et contra. At the conference of the Association of Psychiatrists, Neurologists, and Narcologists of Ukraine “Multidisciplinary approach as an effective paradigm for providing psychiatric, neurological and narcological treatment during the war”

08.09.2024 Traumatization of autistic persons as a therapeutic practice: pro et contra. At a conference of the Ukrainian Psychoanalytic Association “Psychoanalytic concepts of trauma. Psychoanalytic clinic in modern conditions”

06.06.2024 Traumatic experience of patients with ASD (psychodynamic analysis of clinical course and therapeutic practices). At the conference of the Association of Child Psychiatry and Allied Professions of Ukraine “Eighth Scientific and practical school on autism”

09.11.2023 Autism spectrum disorders through the prism of psychoanalytic theory. At the Third Symposium of the School of Child Psychiatry “Developmental disorders”

05.11.2023 Autism as a phenomenon of our time: can psychoanalysis help understand and correct? At the conference of the National Psychological Association of Ukraine “Psychoanalysis is on Time”

03.09.2023 Autism as a mental structure – formation and possibilities of influence. At the conference of the Ukrainian Psychoanalytic Association “The tragic dimension of Oedipus”

19.11.2022 In search of the sense of anxiety: from Freud and Lacan to Kierkegaard and Socrates. At the conference of the Ukrainian Psychoanalytic Association “Life after loss”

21.09.2022 The Death drive as a national idea. At the conference of the Ukrainian psychoanalytic Association “War. Death. Depression”