On Thursday, December 14, 1967, the American Psychoanalytic Association will embark on a new public information venture—a seminar for science writers on “Psychoanalysis.”
The seminar will precede the Fall meeting of the Association; it will be held in the Waldorf-Astoria and last an entire day, to be followed by an informal reception given by the Association.
The purpose of the seminar is to inform the men and women who write about science for the lay public as to the history of psychoanalysis, its current state of development, its relationship to other sciences and disciplines, and its value as well as its limitations.
A joint sponsor of the program is the National Association of Science Writers, a professional organization representing virtually all of the important media of mass communications in the U.S. and Canada as well as public information officers in government, education, and industry whose primary concern is
the popularization of scientific research.
The Committee on Public Information regards this seminar as one of its most important projects in recent years and in preparing for it has gone to great lengths to assemble a glossary of terms frequently used in psychoanalysis. This glossary will be distributed at the seminar for the first time and those attending will be asked to appraise its value to them. Subsequent revisions will be made in the light of these criticisms and the document will be printed in final form at a later date. The glossary may prove useful to medical students, physicians, behavioral scientists, social workers, nurses, and scientists from other disciplines as well as to the science writers for whom it is being prepared. Members of the Association have devoted considerable time and effort to the task of preparing definitions for the glossary.
Dr. Charles Brenner, President, will extend the greetings of the Association to the writers at the seminar and Dr. Burness E. Moore, Chairman of the Committee on Public Information, will be the presiding officer. The format of the seminar will be informal.
The program of prepared presentations will be as follows:
Dr. Leo Rangell — “Psychoanalysis—Basic Theory and Developing Trends Since Freud”
Dr. George H. Pollock — “Relationship of Psychoanalysis to the Behavioral Sciences, Medicine and Psychiatry”
Dr. Albert J. Solnit — “Psychoanalysis and Child Development”
Dr. Herbert F. Waldhorn — “Psychoanalysis—Indications, Results and Limitations”
Dr. Bernard Pacella, Co-Chairman of the Committee on Public Information, will offer concluding remarks.
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