A new kind of meeting of training analysis will take place in Madrid on July 22 and 23, 1983, just prior to the IPA Congress. Replacing the old Pre-Congress Conference on Training, it is called “The IPA Conference of Training Analysts” and will be an event in its own right, not dependent on the Congress, though relevant to it.
After the disappointing attendance at the recent Helsinki Pre-Congress Conference on Training, IPA President Limentani appointed a Committee whose charge was to design a new type of event which would be open to a wider cross-section of training analysts who were interested in participating as individuals rather than as delegates of institutes. The result of the Committee meeting in New York last December is the new IPA Conference of Training Analysts, with participation expanded from 150 to 400.
The subject chosen for this first meeting is “On Being a Training Analyst: Special Conflicts.” The Conference will include opening and closing plenary sessions, but the main activity will occur in small discussion groups.
Due to the increase in size of the Conference, the IPA can no longer fund all the costs (in Helsinki this amounted to approximately $25,000), but will underwrite the amount remaining after each participant contributes a $50 fee. This means the IPA will maintain its subsidy in keeping with the conviction that the meeting is of vital importance to the organization.
The Conference is open to any active training analyst who wishes to take part in it, up to the
maximum number that can be accommodated. Registration will be filled, as far as possible, on a first-come, first-served basis. However, in order to ensure that at least one representative can be present from each training institute, 65 places will be reserved for this purpose.
All active Training Analysts in North America will receive registration forms and full information later this year. They will have to be completed and returned to the Executive Secretary of the IPA in the London Office before the deadline of April 30, 1983.