The Activities in the Scandinavian Societies 1980

Denmark

The Danish Psychoanalytical Society enjoyed the visits of several prominent psychoanalysts from abroad in 1980. Nevertheless the 7th Nordic Psychoanalytic Congress (mentioned elsewhere in this issue) was by far the greatest event for the Society.

The meeting program has been quite varied. Besides the foreign lecturers, some of our own members and one candidate have made contributions. At two meetings a new and more direct way of activating all participants, a sort of mini-workshop was introduced. It is our opinion that this innovation was successful.

One of our own members, Stefan Balint, Ph. D., presented a case in February. In March, Colin James, M. D., London, talked about Fantasy and Action. Later that month Joyce McDougall visited us from Paris. She spoke on Psychotic Anxieties Underlying Sexual Perversions. The following day she read a paper to our candidates: Presentation of the Analysis of a very Disturbed Patient with Borderline and Somatic Symptomatology. That same evening a meeting was arranged in cooperation with The Danish Psychiatric Society and The association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions. At this meeting Joyce McDougall talked about The Links between Hysterical and Psychosomatic Phenomena. Anna Potamianou, Ph. D., Athens, presented a paper in April for the Society, as well as one for our candidates. The topic for the members was on Termination of Analysis, that for the candidates was presentation of a case illustrating fixation and regression. The May meeting was a workshop on Interpretation, opened by Professor Reimer Jensen, President of the Society. This workshop was a preparation for one of the topics at the VIIth Nordic Psychoanalytic Congress in August. Professor Pinchas Noy, Israel, lectured in June on The Psychoanalytic Theory of the Affect. The Danish Psychiatric Society invited our members to a meeting in August, at which Otto Kernberg, M.D., U.S.A., read a paper on Diagnosis and Tr