Reports and Brief Communications

As usual, much of our time was taken up by the training of our candidates. In order to facilitate the training of the many candidates living far from Madrid, we organized every month two week-ends of seminars and supervision.

Between November 2 and 4 1995 the congress of the Federación de Sociedades Psicoanlíticas de España (FAPE)—the federation which unites the following Spanish psychoanalytic societies: Associatión Andaluza de Estudios Psicoanalíticos, Associatión Castellana de Psicoanálisis, Associatión Murciana de Psicoanálisis and the Associación Psicoanalítica del Norte—took place in Madrid. These are the three sessions around which the congress was organized: “The experience of ‘change’ in psychoanalysis”, “Myth and psychoanalysis” and “Trauma, phantasy and psychic change”. Dr. Alejandro Gállego Meré, the originary sponsor of IFPS in Spain, spoke about “The experience of ‘cure’ and ‘change’ in Freud, Fromm and Fairbairn”. Dr. Rómulo Aguillaume spoke of “The myths in psychoanalysis and the psychoanalysis of myths”, Dr. Miguel Angel Gonzàles's paper was centered around “The myths in art and history: the David of Michelangelo”, and Dr. Jorgelina Rodríguez O'Connor spoke about “The myth of the neurotic patient”.

In our society we also have a study group on psychoanalytic epistemology, which meets once a month for a whole afternoon. During 1995 we discussed the following two books by Adolf Gruenbaum: “The foundations of psychoanalysis” and “Validation in the clinical theory of psychoanalysis”.

Our members presented various contributions at scientific meetings organized by other institutions, for example:

• at the VII Meeting of the Galician Association for Mental Health, held in La Coruña in May 1995, Dr. Gállego spoke on “What is psychoanalysis? One psychoanalysis or many”;

• Dr. Aguillaume presented the paper “Time and psychoanalysis” at the Hospital Psiquiatrico Provincial de Madrid, and the paper “Therapeutic c