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The main theme of the 38th Congress of the International Psychoanalytical Association to be held in Amsterdam on 25-30 July 1993 will be The Psychoanalyst's Mind: From Listening to Interpretation. Focusing attention on the mental processes of the analyst at different stages, and on the inner field in which interpretations are created, the subject of the Congress leads to the core of psychoanalytic work: towards the awareness of the ways in which the analyst's work is determined—simultaneously by the crossroads of psychoanalytic theories—the concepts of understanding the psychoanalytic situation, the capacity to tolerate unknown inner states of experience, and his willingness to study these complexities.
The Programme Committee has decided to introduce some important changes to the format of the presentations and discussions. Each morning Plenary Sessions on the Monday, Tuesday and Thursday will be centred around one of these carefully chosen, and here pre-published, clinical and theoretical papers throughout the entire morning. Each presentation will be discussed first by two invited discussants, and then later from the floor. Although the main papers have been pre-published, it is planned that copies of these, as well as copies of the contributions of the two invited discussants, will be distributed in the four languages of the Congress at the entrance just before the beginning of each Plenary Session.