The program of the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), to be held December 26-31, 1967 at the Hilton Hotel in New York, will include a panel entitled “Psychoanalytic Studies in Child Development — Biological and Social Deprivation in Early Childhood.” The panel will occupy a full day on Dec. 27, and will be chaired by Dr. Albert J. Solnit, Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry and Director of the Child Study Center at Yale University, and a member of the Faculties of the Western New England and New York Psychoanalytic Institutes.
Although the APsaA has long been an affiliate of the AAAS, this is the first time that an AAAS program has included a panel organized under APsaA auspices. It was scheduled after considerable discussion over an extended period between the AAAS and the APsaA's Committee for Liaison with the AAAS, chaired by Dr. George A.
Richardson.
The panel participants and the titles of their papers are as follows:
Justin D. Call, M.D., Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, Los Angeles. — Some Observations of Sex Differences in the Behavior of Newborn Babies: Implications for the Psychoanalytic Instinctual Drive Theory
Selma Fraiberg, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Child Psychoanalysis, The University of Michigan Medical Center. — Parallel and Divergent Patterns in Blind and Normal Infants
Reginald S. Lourie, M.D., Director, Department of Psychiatry, Children's Hospital of the District of Columbia. — Preventive Implications of Constitutional Vulnerabilities in Early Ego Development
Seymour L. Lustman, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, Child Study Center, Yale University — Theoretical Considerations in the Development of Impulse Control in Early Childhood
Charles A. Malone, M.D., Training Director, Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic, Philadelphia. — Notes on the Deviant Development of Pre-School Children from Disorganized Slum Families
Sally Provence, M.D., Professor of Pediatrics, Child Study Center, Yale University. — Mother-Child Interactions—Developmental Considerations