The Second Mid-West Psychoanalytic Regional Meeting will be held in Toronto, Ontario on February 28, 1981.
The theme of the meeting will be “Aspects of Working Through in Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.” Dr. Charles Brenner will be the plenary speaker and Dr. Alan Perkin the formal discussant.
Dr. Margaret Huntley has been designated organizer of the meeting. Representatives of thirteen American and Canadian Psychoanalytic Societies are now working with Dr. Huntley to prepare the program.
The format of the program will follow the successful arrangements of the First Mid-West Regional Meeting in Detroit, with a plenary address in the morning and the bulk of the day to be spent in workshops on various subtopics.
Analysts interested in participating in these workshops may reach Dr. Huntley during the day at 416-486-3422, and in the evenings at 416-483-3214.
The Mount Airy Foundation and Psychiatric Center of Denver, Colorado has bestowed its 10th Annual Gold Medal Award to William G. Niederland, M.D.
A practicing psychoanalyst, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, and Chief Consulting Psychiatrist to Altro Health and Rehabilitation Services, Inc., New York City, Dr. Niederland is a past president of the Psychoanalytic Society of New York, and the author of some 200 scientific papers and monographs.
Among previous Mount Airy Gold Medal Award recipients are Hilde Bruch, E. James Anthony, and Albert J. Solnit.
Arnold Z. Pfeffer, M.D., President of The New York Psychoanalytic Institute, announces that Dr. Jacob A. Arlow has been selected for the 1980 Hartmann Award.
The Hartmann Award Committee has also arranged for a second Hartmann Award. This second award will recognize the contributions of recent graduates (within ten years) of approved institutes of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the International Psycho-Analytical Association. This award, including $1,000, will be given for a published paper.
Please send five reprints to: Heinz Hartmann Award Committee/The New York Psychoanalytic Institute/247 East 82nd Street/New York, New York 10028.
Those who wish to make nominations should send names, curricula vitae and letters of recommendation to the same address.
The Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center has named Judith S. Schachter, M.D., to fill the Center's newly-created post of Medical Director. She assumed her duties on February 15.
One of the founders of the Center, Dr. Schachter has been associated with the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Institute and is currently Chairman of the Institute's Child Analysis Committee and a member of the Institute's Education Committee.
The Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center was founded in 1974.
Professor J. Masson, in cooperation with Sigmund Freud Copyrights, is editing a new and complete edition of the Freud-Fliess letters. He would be very grateful for any information about unpublished material relating to the relationship between the two men. He is particularly interested in finding letters from Wilhelm Fliess about his relation to Freud. His address is Dept. of East Asian Studies/University of Toronto/Toronto, Ont. Canada M5S 1A1/Tel. 978.3299.