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Valerie Tate Angel for the Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Society and Cleonie White for the W.A. White Psychoanalytic Society, as well as the colleagues who collaborated with them (primarily Edith Gould and Ona Lindquist), did a very good job with both the preparation and the realization of the most recent IFPS Forum, which took place in May 2016 in New York City, at the Roosevelt Hotel, right off Grand Central Station. They chose a very timely and relevant title, were able to involve some of the best North American colleagues in the plenary sessions, and attracted almost 350 participant colleagues from North and South America, Europe and Asia. Most of those involved were very satisfied with the quality of the event and the dialogue and exchange that the Forum made possible among all of us – with the help of the simultaneous Spanish translation of the plenary panels.
As usual, the IFPS Executive Committee and the Assembly of Delegates met before the Forum started, the former at the W.A. White Institute on Wednesday May 11, and the latter on Thursday May 12 at the Roosevelt Hotel. The Forum was inaugurated that same day at 6 p.m., with introductory words from Juan Flores and the chairs of the conference, and by Susan Kolod’s interview with the writer Mimi Lipson, discussing the 2013 Boston Marathon bombers, followed by songs by Cleonie White. The plenary sessions took place twice a day, and every afternoon there was time for several parallel sessions of individual papers, with the Forum coming to an end only on the Sunday afternoon at 5 p.m. We also had the fortunate chance to participate in two unique social events: on the Friday evening a cruise with dinner on a ship navigating around Manhattan, and on Saturday evening a visit to the new and very impressive National September 11 Museum at the Ground Zero location. A meeting with the Regional Editors took place over Thursday lunchtime, and last but not least, for the second time since the 2014 Forum held in Kaunas (Lith