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R. Wallerstein: I think the new format, whereby the panellists were able to be unrestricted in what they would talk about, was of great interest because of the fresh questions which were raised or the fresh way the questions were raised that we have been occupied with. We chose this instead of, as in the past, eliciting the individual reports from the different workshop sessions which a lot of people felt were sometimes rather repetitive.
Instead I met at lunch today with the eight people who had chaired the four workshop sessions: Cliff Yorke and Anna Wolff from Group One; Marion Burgner and Serge Lebovici from Group Two; Harold Blum and George Moran from Group Three; and Anne Hayman and Al Solnit from Group Four. I have tried to incorporate some of the highlights of what I thought was our very interesting round-table discussion, into the remarks that I will make, and I hope that you will get the benefit of them.
I want to bring my own conceptualization of the events we have been talking about this weekend into a somewhat larger framework and find a place for all the issues we have discussed in an overall conceptualization of the nature of the enterprise we are involved in: analysis, adult analysis, child analysis, its differentiation from or its relationship to psychotherapy of various kinds, whether more expressive or more supportive, as alluded to by Joe Sandler yesterday; its relation to issues of aims and goals that Tony Kris spoke a bit about. But basically as I have organized it, I will be giving my own thoughts into which I have fitted many of the highlights of the discussions, although perhaps to a lesser extent than I have in the past. I will be citing or reminding you of very familiar literature. I think just naming the titles of the articles without a description of content will remind you of the ideas they contain; because as somebody said yesterday, in this annual meeting made of up of different people from different parts of the world with different pe