The Program Committee of the American, under the joint chairmanship of Sydney E. Pulver, M.D. and Richard A. Isay, M.D., has finalized plans for the scientific program of the Fall meeting, to be held December 17-21, 1980 at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City.
The program will feature as plenary speakers Rebecca Z. Solomon, M.D., Immediate Past President, and Christopher Lasch, Ph.D., the noted historian and sociocultural essayist from the University of Rochester.
There will be four panels: (1) Psychoanalytic Theories of the Self, to be chaired by Ernest A. Ticho, Ph.D., and reported by Arnold D. Richards, M.D., with William I. Grossman, M.D., Otto F. Kernberg, M.D., Leo Rangell, M.D. and Calvin F. Settlage, M.D. as presenters; (2) Theory of Character, to be chaired by Vann Spruiell, M.D., and reported by Sander M. Abend, M.D., with Samuel Abrams, M.D., and Francis D. Baudry, M.D., as presenters, Dale Boesky, M.D. and Victor Calef, M.D. as discussants; (3) Clinical Aspects of Character, to be chaired by Martin H. Stein, M.D., and reported by Martin S. Willick, M.D., with Mardi J. Horowitz, M.D., and Stephen A. Morgenstern, M.D., as presenters, Milton H. Horowitz, M.D. and Samuel Ritvo, M.D. as discussants; (4) Beyond Lay Analysis: Pathways to a Psychoanalytic Career, to be chaired by Robert S. Wallerstein, M.D., and reported by Newell Fischer, M.D., with Homer C. Curtis, M.D., Robert Michels, M.D., Herbert J. Schlesinger, Ph.D., and Albert J. Solnit, M.D., as presenters.
There will be a Seminar for Psychoanalysts on Current Issues in the Philosophy of Science, to be conducted by Stephen Toulmin, Ph.D.; and two Three-Day Clinical Workshops, with Isidor Bernstein, M.D., and Jules Glenn, M.D., on Masochistic Disturbances: Their Genesis and Treatment, and Austin Silber, M.D., repeating his workshop on The Psychoanalytic Treatment of Phobias—with Special Emphasis on Technique.
Robert J. Stoller's book SEXUAL EXCITEMENT will be discussed in a Meet-the-Author session.