Dr. Arnold M. Cooper, Chairman of the Program Committee has listed four panels in the advance announcement of the Annual Meeting in Baltimore: Psychoanalytic Treatment of Male Homosexuality; Psychoanalysis, Folklore and Processes of Socialization; The Contribution of Psychoanalytic Developmental Concepts (sponsored jointly with the Association for Child Analysis); and The History of Psychoanalysis in America.
The very popular Meet-the-Author discussion will be about Erna Furman's new book, A Child's Parent Dies: Studies in Childhood Bereavement.
On Saturday, May 8th, the Plenary Address will be given by Prof. Paul Ricoeur of Paris, author of Freud and Philosophy: An Essay in Interpretation. His address is entitled: The Question of Proof in Psychoanalysis.
The Fifth Workshop in Oral History will deal with Psychoanalytic Education in the United States: 1911-1945, and will be chaired by Arcangelo R. T. D'Amore, M.D. A Three-Day Clinical Workshop on Treatment of the Borderline Personality will be chaired by Otto F. Kernberg, M.D.
The first, Imagery-Formation and Use in Various Psychotherapies, will include papers by Drs. Mardi J. Horowitz, Mark Kanzer, Peter H. Knapp and Jerome Singer. The second, entitled Psychohistorical Aspects of Cults and Totalism, will be in the form of a panel discussion. Participants will include Drs. Robert J. Lifton, Irving Schiffer, Lester Schwartz, Leo Speigel and Norman F. Zinberg. Both meetings will be chaired by Dr. Stanley H. Cath; Dr. John C. Nemiah will be Co-chairman of the session on Imagery.
As an experiment this year, the Program Committee will review papers of 25 pages or more. One of these will be pre-circulated to members who indicate their interest in meeting its author. The paper will not be read at the Meeting. Papers for the Fall Meeting must be submitted by June 10th.