During the Midwinter meeting of the American, CAPE is planning a wine and cheese party, to take place at its Hospitality Suite in the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, Thursday, December 18, 1980. Members of the American and their guests are cordially invited.
The San Diego Psychoanalytic Society will present a Symposium on “Challenges in Self Psychology: Current Developments in Clinical Psychoanalysis,” January 23-25, 1981, at Vacation Village, San Diego, California. Approved for 14 hours Category I credit. For more information write: Sanford Shapiro, M.D./737 Pearl Street/Suite 209/La Jolla, California 92037.
The Association for Child Psychoanalysis will hold its annual meeting March 20-22, 1981, at the Del Coronado Hotel in San Diego. The main topic of discussion will be “Dreams in Child Analysis,” with Ted Becker, M.D. as one of the panelists. On Sunday, March 22, the first Marianne Kris Lecture will be given by Prof. Selma Fraiberg. Her tentative topic is “The Promise of Psychoanalysis for Infant Mental Health.”
Also, on Thursday, March 19, 1981, the Association will sponsor its first One-Day Institute. The topic will be “Child Therapy from an Analytic Perspective.” Melvin A. Scharfman, M.D. will act as moderator, with E. James Anthony, M.D. and Eleanor Galenson, M.D. as participants.
The University of Wurtzburg in Bavaria has recently honored William G. Niederland, M.D. with a Doctor Honoris Causa. Doctor Niederland has been an Active Member of the American since 1957.
The Columbia University School of Social Work is renewing its search for qualified candidates to fill the Marion E. Kenworthy Professor of Psychiatry Chair. Responsibilities involve teaching and leadership of the Psychiatric Sequence in the curriculum. The position requires a theorist and practitioner in psychiatry who has had experience in teaching in a clinical or social agency setting, and preferably is both a member of or eligible for membership in the American Psychoanalytic Association and a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.
Address inquiries to: The Office of the Dean/Columbia University School of Social Work/622 West 113th Street/New York, New York 10025/(212) 280-5189.
The Topeka Institute for Psychoanalysis announces the reelection of Jerome Katz, M.D., as Director, and the reappointment of Cotter Hirschberg, M.D., as Secretary, and William Tarnower, M.D., as Treasurer. Their terms will run until May 31, 1982.
The New England Schizophrenia Foundation is planning the publication of a journal to be called PROCESS. In the hope to expand the content of the literature, its format will be less restrictive than is usually encountered. It will include case studies, reviews, essays, letters, as well as more conservative work. Its publishers especially invite the views of radical therapists and hope to also publish the productions of patients at times, with comments by their therapists. There will definitely be political and humanistic overtones as to stir controversy and provide a forum for give and take.
Each issue will run about 200 pages; four issues per volume. U.S.A. subscriptions, $40 for the first volume. Foreign, $60 including air post. First issue sample $10, $15 foreign, deducted from a full subscription should you later subscribe.
Psychoanalysis: The American Experience, the historical exhibit prepared for the International Congress in New York in 1979, is now on view in the Museum of the American Psychiatric Association in Washington, D.C.