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This issue of The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review is devoted to papers presented at The 9th Nordic Psychoanalytic Congress, held in Salt-sjöbaden, Sweden, 9–12 August 1984. The theme of the congress was “Interpretation-Holding: Alternative or Complement?” Thus, this will also be the theme of this issue.
This time, we have chosen to publish all the main papers. Furthermore, we are also publishing five of the twelve papers which opened the small group discussions. As mentioned in the preamble to these papers, they were presented with the sole purpose of opening the discussions, and the intention was not that they should be original scientific papers. The five papers have been chosen because in different ways they illustrate variations of the main theme, and at the same time represent the breadth of all that was presented at the congress.
The Scientific program was summarized and commented upon by Dr. Iréne Matthis, who also presented a paper which appears in this issue.
The 9th Nordic Psychoanalytic Congress commemorated the 50th Anniversary of The International Psycho-Analytical Congress, 1934, in Lucerne, when Nordic psychoanalysts were organized into two autonomous psychoanalytic societies, and became members of The International Psycho-Analytical Association.
At the banquet, the president of the Norwegian Psychoanalytic Society, Roar Svalheim, made the principal speech and said i.a.:
“Those who took the initiative were not autodidactists and stay-at-homes, who suddenly felt a need to break out of their provincial isolation. They were trained according to the standards of the time at the main centres of psychoanalysis in Europe: Vienna, Berlin and Zurich. … Psychoanalysis was not an unknown phenomenon among educated laymen of Scandinavia at that time. Psychoanalytic ideas flew thick and fast and flourished like weeds. Therapists who called themselves psychoanalysts had revolutionary ideas that fascinated and scared both laymen and scholars. In medical circles,