Business Meeting: Report

The Business Meeting of the IPA was held in the Auditorium of the RAI Congress Centre, Amsterdam on Wednesday 28 July 1993, from 09.00-16.00. The meeting was chaired by the President of the IPA, Professor Joseph Sandler.

In his welcoming remarks, Professor Sandler observed that a number of changes had been implemented during the two-year period since the last Business Meeting, including the first elections for Vice-Presidents by mail ballot, and the production of a new style Newsletter, International Psychoanalysis.

The Report of the last Business Meeting, held in Buenos Aires, in July 1991 was accepted. The IPA's Secretary, Dr Amati Mehler, read out the names of colleagues who had died since the last Congress and the meeting paid silent tribute to them. One of these colleagues was Dr Angel Garma, the founder of Latin American psychoanalysis, who had been an Honorary Vice-President of the IPA.

Professor Sandler put to the meeting the Executive Council's recommendation that Professor Serge Lebovici be made an Honorary Vice-President of the IPA. The proposal was approved by acclamation and Professor Lebovici accepted the office, welcoming the opportunity to work with old and new colleagues.

The incoming President, Dr Horacio Etchegoyen, announced that the Secretary for his administration would be Professor Ana Maria Andrade de Azevedo of the Brazilian Society of São Paulo. He also announced the appointment of five Associate Secretaries: Elizabeth T. de Bianchedi (Buenos Aires Psychoanalytic Association); Jorge Olagaray (Mendoza Psychoanalytic Society); Gunther Perdigao (American Psychoanalytic Association); Ludwig Haesler (German Psychoanalytical Association) and Ethel S. Person (American Psychoanalytic Association).

As usual, at the Business Meeting, the elections for offices on the Executive Council were of considerable interest. Dr Aslan, who had chaired the Nominating Committee, reported on the first such elections conducted by mail ballot, pointing out that the