It is with deep emotion that we learned of the passing of Marilia Aisenstein.

We wish to pay tribute to her for the essential role she played in the history of the Paris Psychosomatic School and within the Institute of Psychosomatics, IPSO Pierre Marty.

Marilia belonged to the generation trained by our pioneers. Her knowledge of psychosomatics was profound and organic; her clinical sensitivity, rare and striking.

Former President of the Paris Psychoanalytical Society, she was highly influential both within the European Federation of Psychoanalysis and the International Psychoanalytical Association. Throughout her life, Marilia was a committed woman. She tirelessly contributed to the dissemination of psychosomatic clinical thinking in Europe, Latin America, and the United States.

Her pursuit of dialogue and connections with Anglo-Saxon psychoanalysis greatly advanced the international reach of our ideas.

As President of IPSO during years marked by essential challenges, Marilia played a decisive role in integrating our institution within the Mental Health Association of the 13th arrondissement. She worked to build strong ties, both with the J. Favreau Center and the A. Binet and J. Kestemberg Centers, to which she had long been affiliated.

Always dedicated to a form of psychosomatic clinical thinking that considered psychosis and borderline states, she engaged in decisive exchanges with Benno Rosenberg and André Green regarding the evolution of psychosomatics in recent decades, working closely with Claude Smadja and Gérard Szwec.

More recently, her active participation in the editorial board of the Vocabulary of Psychosomatics, to which she contributed with consistency and passion, reflected her deep commitment to the dissemination of psychosomatic thinking.

As a trainer of a large number of psychosomatic clinicians—many of whom practice today at the IPSO Consultation Center—Marilia Aisenstein was an inspiring figure for all, through her teachings, her supervisions, and her numerous writings.

We express our deepest gratitude for the depth and magnitude of her contributions.

On behalf of the members of IPSO,

Diana Tabacof
President of the IPSO Pierre Marty Association

Paris, May 14, 2025