Reports on the 6th Pre-Congress Conference on Training, London, 1975—I. Summary of the 6th Pre-Congressconference on Training: 'The Contribution of Child Analysis to the Training Inadult Analysis'

It is a difficult and rewarding task, but also a signal honour, to have this opportunity to summarize for you the endeavours, the accomplishments, and perhaps as well, the limitations in the sense of the open and unresolved questions, of this 6 th Pre-Congress Conference on Training of the I.P.A., the first however to be devoted to issues of child analysis, on this occasion the topic of the relationship of child analysis (now grown to sufficient maturity to warrant such attention), its relationship to its parent, adult analysis. The topic as originally formulated by the Organizing Committee was stated as 'The Contribution of Child Analysis to the Training in Adult Analysis' though as we shall see, there were clear presuppositions built into the very construction of the title that were themselves the subject of some vigorous debate within the various discussion groups.

In order to provide some external framework or set of guidelines for the intense small group discussions that occupied us during the bulk of our proceedings, the Organizing Committee further formulated a set of four so-called orientation lines, which though by now thoroughly familiar to you, I will nonetheless restate as benchmarks against which we can view the various directions the ensuing discussions took. These four orientation lines within which you all worked, hopefully not as constraints but rather as stimuli to discussion and interchange are as follows: (1) The bearing of child analysis and developmental theory on the understanding of the psychic functioning of the adult; (2) The bearing of child analytic process and technique upon the conduct of adult analysis; (3) The understanding of family and social context in child analytic work and its influence upon adult analysis; and (4) The bearing of child and adolescent analysis upon the understanding of transference and countertransference in the analysis of adults.

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