The 67th Annual Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association will be held May 3-7 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia. Hans W. Loewald of New Haven will give the plenary presentation on Saturday, May 6th on “The Waning of the Oedipus Complex.”
There will be a full-day panel on “Monica: A Twenty-Five Year Longitudinal Study of the Consequences of Trauma in Infancy” to be chaired by George L. Engel of Rochester, with Franz K. Reichsman (Brooklyn) as co-chairman. The panelists will be A. Scott Dowling (Cleveland), Vivian Harway (Pittsburgh), and William Hess (Rochester). A second panel, “The Interrelationship Between Academic Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis” will be chaired by Paul J. Fink of Philadelphia. The panelists will be William A. Frosch (New York), Herbert Pardes (Englewood, Colorado) and Morton F. Reiser (New Haven).
A third panel will present “New Knowledge About the Infant from Current Research: Implications for Psychoanalysis,” and will be chaired by Daniel Stern of New York, Louis W. Sander of Denver is to be the reporter. Panelists are Thomas F. Anders (Stanford), T. Berry Brazelton (Boston) and Theodore J. Gaensbauer (Denver). The fourth panel, “Conceptualizing the Nature of the Therapeutic Action of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy,” will be chaired by Robert S. Wallerstein of San Francisco. The reporter is S. Joseph Nemetz of Brookline, Massachusetts. Paul A. Dewald (St. Louis) and Ernst Ticho (Washington) are panelists; the discussants are Mardi J. Horowitz (San Francisco) and Robert Michels (New York).
The biography, A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T. E. Lawrence, will be discussed with its Pulitzer Prize winning author, John E. Mack of Boston. There will also be a Seminar for Psychoanalysts—a recent addition to the scientific programs—on “The Relevance and Irrelevance of Primate Behavior for Man,” conducted by Dr. Richard P. Michael of Emory University.
In addition, there will be approximately 20 discussion groups on diverse topics, several three-day clinical workshops, an oral history workshop on “Psychoanalysis in the South, Southwest, and Puerto Rico” (Donald E. Widmann, Chairman), and a continuation of the Open Forum on “Peer Review: Professional, Educational and Scientific Aspects,” again chaired by Sol Altschul (Chicago). The scientific papers will, as always, be a central aspect of the meeting.
At the meeting with the American Psychiatric Association, a joint session will be held on Monday, May 8th, on “Psychoanalytic Observations on Child Abuse,” chaired by Theodore B. Cohen (Narberth, Pennsylvania) and Allan Compton (Torrance, California). The reporter is David M. Ellis (Merion Station, Pennsylvania), with J. Alexis Burland (Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania), Jerome Karasic (Beverly Hills) and Brandt F. Steele (Denver) as panelists. The topic of the Joint Panel on Tuesday, May 9, is “Therapeutic Choices Within a Psychotherapy.” Allan Compton and Arnold M. Cooper (New York) will chair this panel. The panelists are Jose Barchilon (Denver), David Soghor (Beverly Hills), and David S. Werman (Chapel Hill).
Dr. K. R. Eissler has requested that the analyst who purchased an autographed letter of Freud at Altman's in December please get in touch with him.