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The XI IFPS Forum was organized by the W. A. White Institute and was dedicated to the memory of Erich Fromm, born in Frankfurt in 1900 and one of the founding members of the institute itself (1943) and of the International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies (1962). The Forum was held at the Marriott Hotel in Brooklyn—thus allowing New Yorkers to get out of town and foreign participants to walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. Carola Mann chaired the conference committee, which did an excellent job both at the scientific and at the organizational level—profiting also from the collaboration of the New York Postgraduate Society. For financial reasons, no simultaneous translation could be organized, but copies of the single papers were available for the more than 250 participants. The Forum started on Thursday afternoon with a Pre-Forum on “Values in psychoanalysis” and continued until noontime Sunday, comprising 6 panels, with 20 speakers, and 4 individual paper sessions, where more than 70 papers were presented.
The Pre-Forum, chaired by Valerie Angel (USA) and Sonia Gojman (Mexico), centred around the theme “Ethics and values in psychoanalytic training: the effect on IFPS standards”, that was dealt with by Jose Duval de Albuquerque (Brasil), Mary Beth Cresci (USA) and Michael Ermann (Germany). The first paper set the historical and epistemological frame-work in which the issue of training is to be placed. Cresci dealt specifically with the training problems we nowadays face in our institutes. For example, the difficulty of maintaining adequate ethical standards in face of the diminishing number of analytic candidates—and the peculiar phenomenon of an increasing number of institutes. Analytic neutrality, upon which the training has to be based, is harder to maintain in the smaller institutes—in which training analysts are more easily seduced into taking on some kind of parental role. Furthermore, as far as the United States are concerned, a growing number of clinical so