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The XII IFPS Forum, with the theme “Potentials in psychoanalytic treatment and thought. Hope, change, growth” organized by the Institutt for Psykoterapi in Oslo, took place in May 2002. The very nice weather, the attractions of the oldest Scandinavian capital, the history of which begun 1000 years ago, and the rich social program, made the congress, chaired by Agnar Berle and Harald Stockman, a unique and unforgettable experience. The Forum started on Wednesday afternoon, May 22, with a Preforum consisting of two panels — the first dedicated to the “40th anniversary of the Institutt for Psykoterapi” and the second “In honour of the late Gerard Chrzanowski” — and continued until noontime on Sunday 26. The conference comprised 9 panels, where 26 papers were presented, and 19 individual sessions, with 39 papers. In what follows I will try to make the reader acquainted with the articulation of the scientific part of the Forum, through a presentation of a short summary of most of the main papers — which were unfortunately not available in form of photocopies, as was the case in New York two years ago.
The first panel of the Preforum was refreshing and stimulating, especially in view of the present status of and debate about the relationship between various member societies and the International Psychoanalytical Association. It gave us the opportunity to get to know the unique history, development and organization of the Institutt for Psykoterapi. As we learned from the paper presented by Kari Holm and Egil Hundevadt, “Institutt for Psykoterapi 1962-1995”, the institute was established in 1962 by three colleagues (the late E. Ugelstad, a psychiatrist, the late P. Mentzsen, a psychologist, and E. Dannevig, also a psychologist), all of whom were at the time candidates in training in the Norwegian Psychoanalytic Society, “with the explicit objective to offer systematic training in psychotherapy to psychologists and physicians”. In so doing the founders were — in the authors'