The 56th Annual Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association will be held in Miami, Florida, on May 2-5, 1969. On Sunday, May 4, President-Elect Royden Astley will begin his term as President of the Association. At the same time, Dr. Albert J. Solnit who was elected President-Elect in December, 1968 will take office and join the Executive Committee. Dr. Burness E. Moore, who was elected to the position of Secretary, will also begin his term at that time. The Treasurer, Dr. Edward D. Joseph, will begin a new term, having been re-elected in December. Also elected at that time was Dr. Mark Kanzer, who will begin a four-year term as Councilor-at-Large.
The Program Committee, chaired by Dr. Martin Wangh, has scheduled five panels, two to be held on Friday, two on Saturday, and one on Sunday afternoon. Their titles and chairmen are as follows: “The Development of the Child's Sense of his Sexual Identity” — Dr. Calvin F. Settlage; “The Fate of the Defenses in the Psychoanalytic Process” — Dr. Charles Brenner; “Depression in Adolescence” — Dr. Eveoleen N. Rexford; “The Ideological Wellsprings of Psychoanalysis” — Dr. Jacob A. Arlow; “The Psychoanalytic Assessment of Habituation” — Dr. Eli Marcovitz.
The Sunday morning address, entitled “Psychoanalysis Today,” will be delivered by Dr. Robert C. Bak.
On Monday, May 5th, the Association will hold its joint session with the American Psychiatric Association. The title of this session will be “Sequelae of Parental Loss in Childhood.” It will be moderated by Dr. Wangh, with Dr. Joan Fleming as chief discussant, and Drs. Margaret S. Mahler and Charles A. Pinderhughes as panelists.
The afternoon and evening of Thursday, May 1, will be devoted to the pre-registered discussion groups, of which twelve are scheduled. These groups cover a wide range of topics in clinical and applied psychoanalysis; among the latter are the study of a great novel, the problems of the college student, and community psychiatry. A new discussion group in an area of high interest is entitled “Psychophysiology and the Psychoanalytic Theory of Dreams.”