The Association for Child Psychoanalysis will hold its Annual Meeting from March 28-30, 1980 at the Hyatt Regency, Cambridge near Boston, Massachusetts. The topic will be “Sibling Experiences: A Preliminary Report of an On-Going Study Group.” The study group consists of: Alice Colonna, M.A., Marianne Kris, M.D., Peter B. Neubauer, M.D., Sally Provence, M.D., Samuel Ritvo, M.D. and Albert J. Solnit, M.D.
Those interested in attending may write to Herman D. Staples, M.D./Chairperson, Arrangements Committee/24 Green Valley Road/Wallingford, Pennsylvania 19086.
The Association for Child Psychoanalysis will hold its International Meeting from June 27-29, 1980 at the Amsterdam Hilton. The themes will be “What We Can Learn from Pathology About Abnormal Development” and “Technical Difficulties in the Analysis of Adolescents.”
Those interested in attending may write to Congress Committee/Nijenburg 150 1081/GG Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
The Modern Language Association, representing nearly 30,000 professors of modern languages and literature, will hold its 1980 convention in Houston, next December 27-30. As chairman of the MLA Division 38, Psychological Approaches to Literature, and as a graduate of the Seattle Institute academic program, I wish to invite members of the American Psychoanalytic Association to submit papers on literary topics. The three topics chosen for the 1980 convention are (1) Feminism and Psychoanalysis, (2) Clinical Experience and its Uses in Literary Studies, and (3) Psychoanalysis and Literary Theory. Papers on topic (1) should be sent to Prof. Coppelia Kahn, English Dept., Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. 06457. Papers on topics (2) and (3) should be sent to Stephen A. Black, Ph.D./English Department/Simon Fraser University/Burnaby, B.C. V5A 1S6. Papers should be no longer than twenty minutes (7-8 pages, typed), and must be submitted before April 20, 1980.
The Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute will be sponsoring a 3-day Symposium entitled “Reflections on Self Psychology,” October 31-November 2, 1980, at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts. Through original presentations, discussions and workshops, this Symposium seeks to offer the participants an opportunity to examine self psychology and alternative points of view in an atmosphere of open inquiry. Panels will include infancy research and theoretical and clinical implications of self psychology for psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. Candidates from the Psychoanalytic Institutes are invited to attend a pre-Symposium seminar on Friday morning. This didactic experience will include the presentation of a psychoanalytic case, to be followed by related workshops.
Heinz Kohut, M.D., will be joined by a distinguished faculty, including Sheldon Bach, Ph.D., Michael F. Basch, M.D., Arnold M. Cooper, M.D., Virginia Demos, Ed.D., Arnold Goldberg, M.D., James M. Herzog, M.D., Ralph J. Kahana, M.D., Joseph D. Lichtenberg, M.D., Nathaniel J. London, M.D., Charles E. Magraw, M.D., James Mann, M.D., Helen C. Meyers, M.D., Robert Michels, M.D., Paul G. Myerson, M.D., S. Joseph Nemetz, M.D., Anna Ornstein, M.D., Paul H. Ornstein, M.D., Louis W. Sander, M.D., Gerald Stechler, Ph.D., Daniel N. Stern, M.D., Robert Stolorow, Ph.D., Marian Tolpin, M.D., Nikolaas Treurniet, M.D., Robert S. Wallerstein, M.D., and Ernest S. Wolf, M.D.
For registration information, write Mrs. Mollie L. Schoenberg/Administrative Director/Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute/15 Commonwealth Avenue/Boston, MA 02116.
The 8th Brazilian Psychoanalytical Congress will be held in Rio de Janeiro, June 4-8, 1980. Discussions will center on “clinical and theoretical aspects of subjects of current inrest” and on “the role of Psychoanalysis in contemporary and future society.” Those interested may write to Dr. Inaura Leão/President of The Rio de Janeiro Psychoanalytic Society/Rua Prudente de Moraes 371, ap. 101/ZC-37 Ipanema/20.000 Rio de Janeiro, RJ/Brazil.
The Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) will hold its next Biennial meeting on April 1-4, 1981 in Boston. A call for formal participation in the program (e.g. paper presentations, symposia, addresses, conversation hours, etc.) will be issued in May 1980.
Sir Ernst H. Gombrich, distinguished art historian from England, delivered the Freud Lectures at Yale University this past fall (October 5, 9, and 12). The series had the general title: “Impulse and Acceptance, Three Lectures in Memory of Ernst Kris on Wit and the Visual Arts.” Titles for the three lectures were: “Portrait Caricature,” “Political Satire,” and “Graphic Humor.”
Dr. Kris was on the faculty of the Yale Child Study Center at the time of his death in 1957. Sir Ernst co-authored with Dr. Kris in 1940 the book Caricature, and wrote the preface for Dr. Kris' Legend, Myth, and Magic in the Image of the Artist, recently published by the Yale University Press.
The Freud Lectures are sponsored by the Kanzer Fund, which was established in 1974 through Dr. Mark Kanzer, Yale '28, Sheffield Scientific School, of New York. Dr. David F. Musto, Senior Research Scientist at the Child Study Center, is coordinator of the Fund, which also sponsors faculty and professional seminars, graduate fellowships, and a special collection in Sterling Memorial Library.
The Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine announces that the George E. Daniels Merit Award for 1979 has been awarded to Dr. Nolan D. G. Lewis, honoring his outstanding contributions to psychoanalytic and psychiatric education. Mr. Nolan Lewis accepted the award for his father at the Sandor Rado Lecture held on November 13th at The New York Academy of Medicine.
The Sigmund Freud Society (Sigmund Freud-Gesellschaft) of Vienna announces that new members abroad will receive free subscriptions to the Sigmund Freud House Bulletin. Application forms for membership may be requested from the Society's president, Dr. Harald Leupold-Lowenthal, Berggasse 19, A-1090 Vienna, Austria.
The Columbia University School of Social Work announces a vacancy for the position of the Marion E. Kenworthy Chair of Psychiatry. The position requires a theorist and practitioner in psychiatry who has had teaching experience in a clinical or social agency setting, and is a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a member of, or eligible for membership in, the American Psychoanalytic Association.
Inquiries should be addressed to The Office of the Dean/Columbia University of School of Social Work/622 West 113th Street/New York, New York 10025/Tel: (212) 280-5189.
The Foundations' Fund for Research in Psychiatry conducts a limited program of support for scholars on sabbatical leave in order to further their research and contribute to the knowledge of psychiatric diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. The sabbatical must be spent away from the applicant's home base at an internationally recognized institution.
Applications are open to creative investigators with demonstrated research contributions in the field, who hold full-time positions in professional schools and graduate departments of universities or equivalent instiutes of research. Applicants must be U.S. or Canadian citizens or permanent residents.
The deadline for receipt of applications is August 1, 1980 for sabbaticals beginning July 1, 1981 or later. Information may be obtained from: Foundations' Fund for Research in Psychiatry/100 York Street/New Haven, CT 06511.