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October 6-7, 1994. PSYCHE '94, INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON MIND-BODY PROBLEMS.

This event was organized by Professors Yoshio Kudo of Osaka University Medical School, Sadanobu Ushijima of Jikei University Medical School, Yasuhiko Taketomo of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and Fred M. Levin of Northwestern University Medical School and the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. Papers focused on: (1) the creative tension between neuroscience, psychoanalysis, and psychopa- thology; (2) memory of mind and of brain; (3) depression and bereavement; (4) schizophrenia; (5) development, regression, and consciousness; and (6) creativity.

Echoing the theme of the meeting and reviewing a lifetime of research on schizophrenia, Dr. Hiroshi Utena, Professor and Chairman Emeritus of Tokyo University Department of Psychiatry, noted the critical need for integrating biological insights for a view of the schizophrenic patient as a whole person. He believes that significant numbers of patients can improve if they are provided with dynamic psychotherapy and training for living, and are supported with appropriate medication. Dr. Utena's “life-oriented approach” has been described in many articles as well as in his recent autobiography, Who Has Seen the Wind? The Life of a Certain Psychiatrist.

Professor Bin Kimura of the Kawai Institute for Culture and Education spoke on a new concept of mind-body correlation, emphasizing the importance of subjectivity and wholeness (the existential and spiritual dimensions of life), as well as the body's ability to adapt to stress without the mind's assistance or control. With a deep appreciation of life's mysterious side, Professor Kimura impressed the group with his attempt to bridge empirical science and rationalistic philosophy in the spirit of Husserl, the founder of phenomenology. Professor Yasuhiko Taketomo, one of the originators of the idea of Psyche '94, took up the relationship between psychoanalysis and faith considered by Dr. Kimura.

Dr. Ni