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It is my great pleasure to welcome you to the Yearly Scientific Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis. I am Nathan Schwartz-Salant, NAAP's president for the past year, and I will be moderating today's discussions. NAAP is in the unique position of bringing together diverse points of view about psyche. Today our topic is the borderline patient, and it is difficult to imagine a subject that could better benefit from diverse points of view! Like the alchemical Mercury it continually eludes being caught and contained, and when captured seems to always escape. How often do we read in the literature of the same school of thought that so-and-so is dealing with a different kind of borderline patient than I am?
Today we bring together proponents of the Adlerian, Freudian and Jungian points of view. That alone is quite an accomplishment! To think of these three names under the same roof, speaking about the same clinical issues is perhaps a small step towards healing the splitting in our own profession and group psyche. “Physician heal thyself” goes the ancient maxim, and if we are to attempt to heal the borderline patient, or our own borderline aspects, perhaps we must also address the splits in our larger community of psychoanalysis. NAAP attempts to do this. You are a diverse audience, both in interests