The formal section of the sixty-third Annual Meeting of the APsaA will be held May 1-5, 1974 at the Denver Hilton Hotel in Denver, Colorado.
As in the past several meetings, the scientific programs will aim for active involvement by a large number of those attending. Both the panels on Termination and A Critical Assessment of the Future of Psychoanalysis: A View from Within, will be followed by groups of workshops, and there has been enough advance registration to warrant the creation of several more small working groups than originally anticipated. In addition, Dr. Margaret Mead will participate in a workshop to discuss her Plenary Session Address, The Increase in Unbound Aggression.
Another feature of this convention is the significant degree of self-observation that will be evident not only in the Self-Assessment panel, but in Dr. Anna Maenchen's Plenary Presentation, Some Thoughts about the Psychoanalyst Today. It seems the most truly psychoanalytic response to the increasing pressures from outside to attend simultaneously to ourselves and to these external realities, and, appropriately, the Program Committee is planning a future panel presenting the view of non-analyst professionals to be subtitled A View from Without. The panel on Psychoanalysis and Community Psychiatry: Reflections on Some Theoretical Implications will also undoubtedly attempt deeper self-analytic observations concerning a current issue affecting the professional lives of all analysts.
The Denver Meetings will continue the practice of having special discussion groups limited to candidates only, and a rather large number of scientific papers will be read by non-members of the APsaA. Both in subject matter and in contributors, the Association is reaching out into the larger society beyond traditional Psychoanalysis to learn from all who have something to teach us, and to extend and apply analytic knowledge to new areas of personal and community life.