The Program Committee of the International Psycho-analytical Association, under the Chairmanship of Adam Limentani of London and Richard A. Isay (New Haven), Chairman of the American Committee, has announced the Program of the 32nd International Congress, to be held in Helsinki July 26-July 31, 1981. The theme of the Congress, Early Psychic Development as Reflected in the Psychoanalytic Process, is designed to stimulate and encourage the expression and discussion of a variety of points of view by analysts throughout the world. The Plenary Session on July 27 on this theme will feature papers by Albert J. Solnit (New Haven) and Hanna Segal (London). The moderator will be Daniel Widlocher of Paris.
There will be two Dialogues on the morning of July 28th. Acting Out in the Psychoanalytic Session will have papers by Dale Boesky (Troy, Michigan) and Eugenio Gaddini (Rome). Carlos M. Asian (Buenos Aires) will be the Moderator. The second Dialogue will be on The Relevance of the “Here and Now” Transference Interpretation To The Reconstruction of Early Psychic Development, with papers by Roy Schafer (New York) and Horacio R. Etchegoyen (Buenos Aires), moderated by Harald Leupold-Lowenthal of Vienna. In the afternoon there will be two simultaneous case presentations: one of an adolescent, with the case being presented by Jack Novick of Ann Arbor and discussion by D. J. de Levita (Amsterdam) and Alfonso Sanchez-Medina (Bogotá). Morton Shane of Los Angeles will moderate. The case presentation of a middle-aged or elderly patient will be made by Claude Ballier of Paris with Wolfgang Loch (Tubingen, Germany) and George H. Pollock (Chicago) discussants. Agustin Palacios of Mexico will moderate.
The Dialogues on July 30th will be Dreams and Dreaming in Relation to Trauma in Childhood and Analyzability in Relation to Early Psychopathology. Janice de Saussure (Geneva) and Scott Dowling (Cleveland) will present papers at the first Dialogue session, which will be moderated by Gerald Sarwer-Foner of Ottawa. The second session will have papers by Hans W. Loewald (New Haven) and David Zimmerman (Porto Allegre, Brazil). Eero Rechardt of Helsinki will be the Moderator.
The Plenary Session of Friday, July 31st, will be on Clinical Observations and Assumptions In The Assessment of the Formation and Shaping of the Oedipus Complex. Moses Laufer (London) and Serge Lebovici (Paris) will present the papers, and Ing. Villarreal of Bogotá will be the Moderator. James T. McLaughlin (Pittsburgh) will make the summary presentation on Friday afternoon of Issues Stimulated by the Congress.
All plenary and dialogue papers will be clinically oriented so that there may be ample substantiation of theoretical assumptions and a shared clinical framework for discussion. All dialogue sessions will be followed by workshops to enable thorough discussion and the exchange of viewpoints.
In addition to these formal presentations, Special Discussion Groups will be limited to 50 participants by preregistration. From North America, groups will be led by E. James Anthony (St. Louis) on The Emerging of the Child as Seen Through Child Analysis, Eleanor Galenson (New York) and Judith Wallerstein (San Francisco) on The Impact of Divorce on Children and Adolescents, Milton Jucovy (Great Neck, N.Y.), Judith S. Kestenberg (Sands Point, N.Y.) and Martin Bergman on Psychoanalytic Studies of the Effects of the Holocaust on the Second Generation, Otto F. Kernberg (New York) on Psychoanalytic Techniques with Severe Character Pathology, John E. Mack (Boston), Psychoanalysis and Biography, History and Current Trends, Leo Rangell (Los Angeles) on Leaders and Led: From Official Politics to Psychoanalytic Group Life, Justin D. Call (Orange, California) on The Relations of Psychoanalytic Infant Observation and the Psychoanalytic Process, and Robert S. Wallerstein (San Francisco) on Models for Research in the Psychoanalytic Process. In addition there will be four discussion groups led by Latin American colleagues and eight by European analysts.
An important part of the program is the individual scientific papers, which will be presented on Thursday afternoon, July 30th. These papers need not be on the main Congress theme but may be on any theme relevant to psychoanalysis. Four copies of papers submitted for presentation from North and Latin America are to be sent by October 31st to Richard A. Isay/100 York Street/New Haven, CT 06511. They are to be a maximum of 20 pages and take no longer than 40 minutes to read. Shorter papers will also be accepted.