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The Thirteenth Annual Conference of the American Group Psychotherapy Association will be held Friday and Saturday, January 13th and 14th, 1956, at the Henry Hudson Hotel, 353 West 57th Street, New York City.
Six all-day workshops will meet from 9:00 A.M. to 12:00 M., and from 1:00 P.M. to 3:00 P.M., on the 13th of January. Special registration will be required for these workshops. Topics are: The Dynamics of Group Psychotherapy; The Role of the Therapist; Resistance in Group Psychotherapy; Parallel Individual and Group Psychotherapy; Counterindications for Group Psychotherapy, and Research. Among the leaders of these workshops are: Dr. Lewis H. Loeser, Dr. Helen Durkin, Dr. Maurice E. Linden and Dr. Jerome D. Frank.
Three scientific sessions will be held, beginning Friday, at 3:30 P.M., through Saturday, 5:30 P.M.
For the morning of Saturday, January 14th, six round tables have been arranged. The subjects of these are: Differential Levels of Group Treatment of Parents of Children; Special Problems in Group Therapy; Total Group Treatment in Mental Hospitals; Group Psychotherapy with Children; Group Psychotherapy with Ambulatory Schizophrenic and Borderline Cases and a tape recording of a session of an analytic group. Films dealing with group psychotherapy will also be shown.
Inquire at the Association's office, 228 East 19th Street, New York 3, N. Y.
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The series, to be held at the Bellevue Hospital School of Nursing for those professionally concerned with the problem, will start October 20th with a discussion of “The Ad