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The IX IFPS Forum was held in Florence, with the local Istituto di Psicoterapia Analitica as the host society and with V. Giliberti Tincolini and E. Benelli as presidents of the scientific and the organizing committee. Almost 500 people participated and seventeen nations were represented.
The theme of the Forum was Psychoanalysis at the Threshold of the XXI Century. The American Academy of Psychoanalysis, many of whose members are also IFPS members, held a Pre-Forum—with four paper sessions—on the same theme on Wednesday, May 11.
The scientific programme included plenary morning sessions, centered around four main themes, and special sessions, individual papers sessions, and discussion groups, in English, Italian, German, and Spanish. The afternoon discussion groups, centered around the theme discussed each morning in the plenary session and conducted by the same leaders, were continuous: the participants stayed in their respective groups all through the forum, and thus had the opportunity of both getting to know each other better and of entering more deeply into discussion.
The wonderful hospitality of our Florentine colleagues was shown not only in the beautiful auditorium in which the forum took place, but also during the following social events, perfectly organized in very unique settings: the opening ceremony held in the famous Salone dei Cinquecento of Palazzo della Signorina (once the residence of the Medici family); the organ concert held in the Basilica of Santa Croce (famous for Giotto's frescoes); and the gala dinner, which took place in the cenacolo of the cloister of S. Maria Novella—in a unique atmosphere and with a very rich menu.
The growing preoccupation with the future of psychoanalysis as a profession, together with the pleasure of exchanging ideas across linguistic and cultural barriers, was certainly one of the reasons behind the good attendance at the plenary sessions. The four themes introduced Thursday through Sunday were: “Developments of the ps