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The Swedish group, which is now entering its third year of studying body-mind issues, focused during Spring term 1999 on psychosomatics. On January 26 we started with a discussion of Luis Chiozza's paper “Psychoanalytic Conception of the Body. Psychosomatics or Psychoanalysis Proper?” a paper based on epistemological approach presented in “An Outline of Psychoanalysis” (1940 [1938]). Iréne Matthis, chairwoman of the group, also presented her impressions from a visit to the Fundación Luis Chiozza and the Centro Weizsaecker de Consulta Médica in Buenos Aires. On February 23 the French psychosomatic tradition of Pierre Marty (“pensée opéeratoire”) was presented by two members of the group. Kristina Larsson, who had visited the Institut Psychosomatique in Paris, presented their clinical work, and Mikael Sundéen reviewed the theoretical papers published within the tradition.
On March 16 assistant professor Tatjana Sivik, head of the Institute of Psychosomatic Medicine in Gothenburg, presented a paper on the relationship of illness and disease to the lack of interpersonal communication, and on April 20 assistant professor Birgitta Evengård, from the Department of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska Institute at Huddinge, gave a paper on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. She is head of a special clinic for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome cases, of which they have now investigated more than five hundred. Both presentations were very much appreciated by the group and the exchange of ideas between the empirical clinical researchers and the psychoanalysts was rewarding for both parties.
The last Spring meeting, on May 18, was devoted to a discussion of Iréne Matthis's paper “Sketch for a Metapsychology of Affects,” that later was presented at the panel on “Biological Integrative Studies on Affect” at the IPA Congress in Santiago.
After the summer break the group met again, on August 20, to continue its monthly meetings. The Fall term of 1999 is mainly devoted to studies of the evolutionary