The Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine of the Society of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research announces a two-day symposium on “Transference-Countertransference in Relation to the Treatment of Difficult Character Disorders, Brief Psychotherapy, Analytic Work by and with Women and Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism,” to be held at the New York Academy of Medicine, New York City, March 14 and 15, 1981. Partial List of Faculty: Jacob Arlow, M.D., Morton Aronson, M.D., Sheldon Bach, Ph.D., Harold Blum, M.D., Stanley Coen, M.D., Arnold Cooper, M.D., Aaron Esman, M.D., Allen Frances, M.D., John Gedo, M.D., Norman Holland, Ph.D., Otto Kernberg, M.D., James Mann, M.D., Robert Michels, M.D., Helen Meyers, M.D., Ethel Person, M.D., Roy Schafer, Ph.D., Murray Schwartz, Ph.D., and Milton Viederman, M.D.
For information write to The Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine/4560 Delafield Ave./New York, NY 10471/or call (212) 548-6088.
The Second Regional Conference on Women in Medicine, sponsored by the Women's Medical Associations of New York City, New York State, New Jersey and Connecticut, Cornell University Medical College, The Rockefeller University, the American Medical Women's and the American Medical Association will take place on April 10-12, 1981, at The Rockefeller University and Cornell University Medical College in New York City.
Members of the American Psychoanalytic Association, both men and women, are cordially invited to attend. For a program folder write to Lila A Wallis, M.D., Conference Director/The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center/Room F-142/525 East 68th St./New York, NY 10021/(212) 472-6080, 472-6295.
The Department of Psychiatry of the Medical College of Pennsylvania, the Children's Unit of Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute and the Philadelphia Psychoanalytic Institute and Society are co-sponsoring the Twelfth Annual Mahler Symposium to be held at the Germantown Cricket Club in Philadelphia, PA on Saturday, May 16, 1981. The emphasis this year will be on the most recent knowledge of earliest infantile development for the general theory of separation-individuation. Thought-provoking material about human bonding and the mother-infant relationship will be presented by Dr. T. Berry Brazelton of Cambridge, MA, by Drs. John B. McDevitt and Margaret S. Mahler who will co-author a paper, and by Dr. Herman Roiphe.
The registration fee, which includes lunch, is $50; student registration is $30. Approved for 6 hours AMA-APA CME credit. For further information, please contact Selma Kramer, M.D./Department of Psychiatry/Medical College of Pennsylvania/3300 Henry Avenue/Philadelphia, PA 19129/(215) 842-4145.
The Sigmund Freud Centre at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem will be offering a Mark and Viva Kanzer Fellowship and a Paul Kanzer Fellowship for 1981-1982. It is hoped that the inauguration of these Fellowships, funded by Dr. Mark Kanzer, will stimulate further donations that will make possible the continuation of the Fellowships at The Sigmund Freud Centre. Open to physicians or psychologists or students working toward a doctorate in these disciplines with an interest in psychoanalytic applications, each Fellowship carries a $10,000 stipend, plus funds for travel and books.
The Irving B. Harris Media Award Committee of the American Psychoanalytic Association would like the members of the Association to be made aware of the fact that Mr. Irving B. Harris and the Harris Foundation of Chicago have been responsible for the funding of the Annual Media Award for the best magazine or newspaper article on a psychoanalytic subject in 1980. This year will be the Fourth Annual Prize. We are most grateful to Mr. Harris and the Harris Foundation for this very important furtherance of the American psychoanalytic movement.
Any articles which any member regards as worthy to be included in this year's consideration by the Committee should be sent to its chairman, David Dean Brockman, M.D./1030 Kenilworth Lane/Glenview, IL 60025.
The D. Reidel Publishing Company/Dordrecht, Holland announces the publication of “Today's Priorities in Mental Health,” edited by Stuart Fine, Robert Krell, and Tsung-yi Lin. It is published under the auspices of the World Federation for Mental Health. The book is the first volume in the new book series ‘Priority Issues in Mental Health,’ which has been set up exclusively for titles emanating from the World Federation for Mental Health. Address: 479-483 Voorstraat/P.O. Box 17/3300 AA Dordrecht/Telephone (0)78 135388/Telex 29245/Cables: Reipubco.