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As measured in psychoanalytic time, two years is not very long—since the timelessness of the unconscious is what we are accustomed to in our clinical practice. It is also not very long in terms of the length of psychoanalytic training, either. However, two years can be a significant period in the life of an IPA administration. In fact, it is mid-life. Since the last Business Meeting in Barcelona in 1997, when this administration began, we have been active on many fronts. In this report I would like to apprise the membership of some at least of the main achievements of the Executive Council and its network of subcommittees.
An increased number of IPA member now participate in its committee network that has been focused around a group of key committees. They are the Committee on Psychoanalysis and Society, the Committee on Inter-Regional Conferences, the International New Groups Committee, the Committee on Psychoanalytic Education, the Research Committee and Research Advisory Board, and the Budget and Finance Committee. I shall not comment on the work of the latter, except to emphasise its crucial importance to the financial well being of the Association, as it will be covered in the Treasurer's report. However. I do wish to point out that this hard-working committee has, in addition to its advisors and a member from the House of Delegates, two members from each IPA region. Each of these six members is highly skilled and experienced in financial matters, and none of them has any conflict of interest because they are not involved in any other IPA activity that is given financial support, with the sole exception of the member from the House of Delegates.
In highlighting the activities of the other key committees, I shall seek to put them in context in relation to the aims and objectives of this administration.
What has been called the ‘crisis in psychoanalysis’ has been much discussed and is very much with us. In setting up the Committee on Psychoanalysis and Society, the