Reports and Brief Communications

The Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Society with Dr. Judith Rosenberger, as President, has had an abundance of scientific and social events this year, beginning with the Fall Welcoming Party. This party, in addition to welcoming new members welcomes Candidates and Graduates of the Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Institute, is a very social affair with lots of good food and an opportunity for new members to socialize with the rest of us.

This has been a particularly scholarly and busy year for the Society. Although I will not be able to mention all our events, workshops or presentations of papers, as they are too numerous for this column, I will highlight some of our annual events.

In November the Society hosted a presentation on “Recent Developments in Psychoanalytic Thought”. The presenter this year was Dr. James Masterson who discussed his book The Emerging Self: A Developmental, Self and Object Relations Approach to the Treatment of the Closet Narcissistic Disorder of the Self, and members found this an exciting evening.

Less than a month later Dr. Paul Stark, Director of the Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Institute, delivered a lecture on Kris and Loewald on the “Roles of Attachment and Interpretation in Psychoanalysis” for the “Masterpieces in Psychoanalytic Literature Series”.

In January we had our annual Winter Scientific Conference with Dr. Jacob G. Jacobson presenting his original paper, with a detailed overview of Freud's writings, titled “The Impact of Contemporary Theory on Classical Psychoanalytic Technique”. Dr. Roberta Schecter then presented an analytic case. In the afternoon session of this conference the audience participated in a lively discussion of these two presentations.

This Spring Dr. Hanna E. Kapit, in our “Evening With … series”, invited members to her home to share her Vienna—New York Psychoanalytic Reminiscences with us. We all look forward to her personal recollection, as her Vi