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It was hoped that all of the regional meetings, held since the Rome Congress, could be reported on in this issue of the Bulletin but due to an advanced publication date that plan had to be abandoned. Instead, the events of two meetings: the 7th Conference of Central European Psychoanalytical Association and the European Psycho-Analytical Federation are presented. Regrettably, a third, the Congress of Romance Languages, has had to be delayed because of translation difficulties but a summary will be included in the next issue when reports of the Berlin 50th Anniversary celebration (7–8 October), the Conference of English Speaking Members held under the auspices of the British Psycho-Analytical Society (2–4 October), and the VIIIth Congress of Latin America are published.
Bad Aussee, Austria, 22–27 March 1970
The Conference was organized by the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society under the Chairmanship of Dozent Dr W. Solms in cooperation with the German and the Swiss Psychoanalytic Societies. The Conference was attended by 140 German-speaking psychoanalysts from nine countries: Austria, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Holland, Israel, Switzerland, Sweden and the United States. Of this number about one-third were experienced analysts, and the others mainly candidates. As has been reported earlier, the meetings have as their primary goal an educational purpose, i.e. to offer a forum for the exchange of ideas with colleagues and to provide the younger German-speaking analysts an opportunity to present their cases to training analysts from other countries, particularly since some of the participants practise in areas with limited local training facilities.
The central theme of the first three mornings was group therapy and family therapy. Efforts were made to apply psychoanalytic understanding to group and family processes. The topic was introduced by Dr T. Brocher, who read a