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In the second week of October 2012, our Federation convened in Mexico City for the second time in its 50-year history, the IIIrd Forum having met there in 1970. The 1970 Forum had been organized by Erich Fromm (1900–1980), with the help of Aniceto Aramoni and Jorge Silva-Garcia, while the recent Forum was very generously and efficiently put together by Aniceto's daughter Rebeca. The IFPS meant and means very much to both of them, as shown by the fact that Aniceto Aramoni was able to give a paper at the 2012 Forum, dying just 2 months later at the age of 97.
On Monday October 8, the IFPS Executive Committee (EC) worked for the whole day (at the Mexican Institute of Psychoanalysis), and on Tuesday October 9 the Assembly of Delegates (AD) met and worked the entire day (at the Hotel Meliá), before the Forum was inaugurated on the Tuesday evening, its proceedings lasting until the morning of Saturday October 13.
The first topic of the EC's meeting (at which Christer Sjödin and myself participated as Co-Editors-in-Chief of this journal) was of course represented by Rebeca Aramoni's report on the organization of the Forum, from which I extract the following information. Of the 300 registered participants, 200 came from Mexico (among them, many psychology students) and 100 from abroad, especially from Brazil. This number was able basically to cover the expenses encountered by the organizing committee. More than 120 papers were presented, and five main guest speakers had been invited (Christopher Bollas, Franco Borgogno, Horst Kächele, Otto Kernberg, Bhikkhu Nandisena, and Irwin Yalom via Skype).
The next item was the report of the Secretary General Agnar Berle (Oslo), whose term of office came to an end in Mexico City. Besides mentioning the new contacts established by the EC, chaired by him, with new groups in Lisbon, Tehran, Cairo, and Riga, Agnar Berle was particularly proud of the work done in terms of restructuring the IFPS, and announced to us that the new Statutes, incl