By the time this issue of the Newsletter reaches them, members should have received the Advance Announcement of the program for San Francisco, which describes four panels, two scheduled for Friday, May 2, and two for Sunday, May 4, on the following topics: Insight: Clinical Conceptualizations (to be chaired by Melvin A. Scharfman, M.D.); Gender and Gender Role (to be chaired by Robert Stoller, M.D.); Construction and Reconstruction: Clinical Aspects (to be chaired by Homer C. Curtis, M.D.); and New Directions in Affect Theory (to be chaired by Peter Hartocollis, M.D., Ph.D.).
Ellen Fertig, secretary to the program committee, has provided the Newsletter with the following additional information:
Neil J. Smelser, The University Professor of Sociology, University of California at Berkeley, has agreed to be the plenary speaker.
Stuart Asch will repeat his 3-Day Clinical Workshop on Psychoanalytic Theory and Treatment of Depression, and there will in all probability be a second 3-Day Clinical Workshop.
New discussion groups: Separation-Individuation Theory: Its Applications in Adult Analysis (to be chaired by J. Alexis Burland, M.D.); Converting Psychotherapy to Psychoanalysis (to be chaired by Leonard Horwitz, Ph.D., and Richard K. Hertel, Ph.D.).
Also for the first time on the program, there will be a Forum on Confidentiality: The Psychoanalyst as Informant (to be chaired by Jerome Beigler, M.D.).
The pre-circulated paper, to be discussed on Friday, May 2, will be “Implications for Psychoanalytic Theory of Research on the Neonate,” by Joseph Lichtenberg, M.D.
Interdisciplinary Seminars will be held on both Saturday, May 3, and Sunday, May 4. Some will be repeats; the following are new: Separation-Individuation Theory: Its Application in Working With Children (to be chaired by Joseph Rudolph, M.D.); a seminar, to be chaired by Samuel Wagonfeld, M.D., on either The Battered Teacher, or Classroom Discipline, or a combination of the two.