Our committee develops the year-long Intensive Study Group and is responsible for the Fall Introductory Event. The upcoming 2002 — 2003 ISG will complete a six-year study of Kleinian and post-Kleinian psychoanalytic theory and practice and will focus on the work of Wilfred Bion. To complement this ISG, we are also offering a Bion-inspired case conference. The Fall Introductory Event this past September featured visiting Bionians: James Grotstein, M. D., from Los Angeles; Roberto Oelsner, M. D., from Buenos Aires; and Marilyn Charles, Ph.D., from East Lansing, Michigan.

I want to thank the invaluable Past Chair, Scott Lines, Ph.D., for his ongoing support, and my hard working committee members, who include Ann Johnson; Bronwen Lemmon, MFT; Kiana Ghannam, Ph.D.; and Elizabeth Lewis, Ph.D.