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A firm and encouraging sign of the laudatory impact of earlier poster sessions is the increased breadth and number of excellent contributions—from many countries and disciplines—in this, the fifth year the sessions have been held. In 2005, our expanding, integrative review committee could select from the largest number of submissions ever received. Our enhanced review committee—representing adult and child psychoanalysis, clinical psychology, developmental psychology, anthropology, and history—chose twenty-eight posters, displayed and energetically discussed at the 2006 Winter Meeting. These presentations are notable for their clear communication of conceptualizations, research approaches, and interpretations of findings; for their interfaces with biological, psychological, and psychiatric perspectives; and for a diversity of theoretical frameworks.
In light of the large number of accepted presentations, for the first time JAPA will publish the posters in two successive issues. We have chosen to begin publishing summaries (rather than telegraphic abstracts), in order to provide readers greater access to an investigator's thinking. While likely not as effective as the lively and informative conversations that occur with the researchers in front of their posters, these more elaborated reports should lead patient readers to a fuller grasp of the topic a poster is addressing (e.g., “Measuring Transference Phenomena with fMRI”). Moreover, through their excellent bibliographies, these summaries enable still deeper perusal of a poster's constructs, central themes, and empirical methods.
Almost half of this year's posters focused on aspects of psycho-dynamic therapy and psychoanalysis, addressing specific constructs and the research challenges posed by the complexity of psychoanalytic