The Fall Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association will be held at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York City, from December 17 through 20, 1970.
Professor Jean Piaget, of Geneva, will address a plenary session Friday afternoon, December 17. His address, entitled “Affective Unconscious and Cognitive Unconscious,” was to have been delivered at the May meeting in San Francisco, but was postponed when Professor Piaget fell ill.
The scientific program will include four major panels, workshops consisting of numerous discussion groups and clinical conferences, and Sunday afternoon interdisciplinary colloquia and seminars. In addition, a “group study in progress,” entitled “Genital Development in the Second Year of Life” will be presented by Drs. Eleanor Galenson and Herman Roiphe. The panels, in varied areas, are limited to one half day each. Their titles and chairmen are scheduled as follows: “Limits of Effectiveness of Psychoanalysis: Early Ego Disturbances and Somatic Disturbances” — Sylvan Keiser, M.D.; “Psycho-Biological Studies Relevant to Psychoanalysis”—Morton F. Reiser, M.D.; “Ten Years of C.O.P.E.: Past, Present, and Future Challenges in Psychoanalytic Education”—Kenneth T. Calder, M.D.; “Review of Psychoanalytic Theory in the Light of Current Research in Child Development” — Seymour L. Lustman, M.D. Afternoon sessions will be utilized for the presentation and discussion of individual papers.
The workshops and discussion groups will cover a broad range of topics in clinical, theoretical, and applied psychoanalysis. These will be held, as in the past, on the Thursday afternoon and evening preceding
the formal commencement of the convention, and will be essentially restricted to pre-registered participants.
Important activities of the Association are actually in operation early in the week of December 12, with meetings of its major committees. On Wednesday, December 16, the Board on Professional Standards will convene, followed by the Executive Council on Thursday.
On Sunday morning Dr. Royden Astley, the immediate Past President of the Association, will address a plenary meeting; the title of his address is yet to be announced. The plenary session will be followed by the Business Meeting of the Association, at which new officers will be elected and the business of the APsaA will be transacted.