Members of the American Psychoanalytic Association will participate in a panel on Friday, September 2 at the meetings of the VIth World Congress of Psychiatry to be held in Honolulu. The panel, “Psychoanalysis and the Seriously Disturbed Patient” will be chaired by Robert Wallerstein. The panelists will be Morton Reiser, Robert Rubenstein, Calvin Settlage and Robert Stoller.
Dr. Reiser's presentation will deal with the problems and opportunities associated with the treatment of patients with psychosomatic disorders. Dr. Rubenstein will deal with the application of theoretical and technical psychoanalytic principles to the treatment of hospitalized patients. Dr. Stoller's paper will discuss disorders of grossly aberrant gender identity. Dr. Settlage will illustrate how advances in developmental theory contribute to the understanding of narcissistic, borderline and psychotic disorders. The panel was organized by the Program Committee of the American Psychoanalytic Association.