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The President and the Secretary have met regularly twice a year in May and in December with the Officers of the American Psychoanalytic Association (December 1991 in New York, April/May 1992 in Washington, December 1992 in New York and May 1993 in San Francisco). Meetings were also attended by Past President Bob Wallerstein, Associate Secretary for the USA Arnold Cooper, Administrative Director Valerie Tufnell, and, occasionally, President Elect Horacio Etchegoyen.
The first meeting with the Local Organising Committee for the Amsterdam Congress was held, and there were also meetings with Congrex, the Professional Congress Organisation assisting with the Congress, and of the Programme Committee.
The Franco-Italian Congress in Rome was attended by the Secretary.
The first partial Executive Council meeting took place in New York. Matters discussed included dues arrears, the role of the President Elect, the establishment of a Working Party to consider the roles of IPA Officers, of an Ethics Commission to deal with ethical problems in Societies, and of a Working Party on immigrant analysts.
The President and Secretary met with the International New Groups and Site Visits Committee, and considered, amongst other issues, the fine-tuning of the New Groups policy for the USA and the policy for Eastern Europe.
A meeting with the American officers discussed the schedule for dues payments and arrangements for the San Francisco Congress.
The second annual IPA Standing Conference on Research was held at University College London from March 19-21. The theme was Research on the Transference.
The Local Organising Committee for the Congress met in Amsterdam with Betty Joseph, Chair of the Pre-Congress on Training.
Meetings were held concurrent with the Spring Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association in Washington. There was no meeting of the Executive Council, but IPA officers met with APsaA officers to discuss matters including the