The 66th Annual Meeting of the American will be held at the Quebec Hilton in Quebec City from April 27 - May 1. Weston LaBarre, Ph.D., James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of Anthropology Duke University, will give the plenary address. He is the author of numerous publications including his books, Ghost Dance, The Human Animal and Peyote Cult.
An experimental addition to the usual format will be a seminar for analysts on “Advances in Psychopharmacology Relevant to Psychoanalytic Practice”, led by Edward Sachar, M.D., Professor and Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
The Psychological Birth of the Human Infant by Margaret H. Mahler, M.D., Fred Pine, Ph.D., and Anni Bergmann, M.A., will be reviewed by Drs. Joan Fleming and Eva P. Lester. Van Spruiell, M.D., will moderate. There will be an opportunity for audience participation and discussion with the authors.
There will be nineteen Discussion Groups, including five new groups. These will be held on Wednesday, April 27 and Thursday, April 28 to enable registrants to participate in more than one group. The seventh in a series of Oral History Workshops will be held. The current one on “Psychoanalysis in the Midwest”, will be chaired by Frank H. Parcells, M.D.
The panels featured at the meeting will be “The Role of the Father in the Preoedipal Years”, chaired by Selma Kramer, M.D.; “The Infantile Neurosis in Child and Adult Analysis” (sponsored jointly with the Association for Child Psychoanalysis) chaired by Ishak Ramzy, Ph.D.; “The Pathogenicity of the Primal Scene”, chaired by Harold P. Blum, M.D.; and “Survey of Psychoanalytic Practice, 1976: Trends and Implications”, co-chaired by Drs. Daniel S. Jaffee and Daniel Shapiro.
A Three Day Clinical Workshop on “Manifestations and Working Through of Self-Object Transferences” will be co-chaired by Drs. Anna and Paul Ornstein. The Quebec meeting will also include five Interdisciplinary Seminars, scientific papers, and audiovisual presentations. The film, The Maltese Falcon, will be shown followed by a discussion on “The Dectective Film as Myth”, led by Drs. Stephen F. Bauer, Leon Balter and Winslow Hunt.
The American Psychoanalytic Association will hold two joint sessions, with the American Psychiatric Association in Toronto. On May 2 a panel on the “Diagnosis and Treatment of Stress Response Syndromes” will be chaired by Drs. Adrienne Applegarth and Mardi Horowitz. On May 4, Paul Ornstein and Adrienne Applegarth will chair a panel on “The Curative Fantasy in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.”