Evaluation and the Health Professions announces a call for papers dealing with all aspects of the assessment of quality of care within the professions. Survey articles, critical reviews, descriptions of specific techniques or instruments, position papers, and book reviews are invited from the special perspectives of psychoanalysts. Manuscripts or proposals may be submitted to: R. Barker Bausell, Ph. D., Editor, Evaluation and the Health Professions, University of Maryland, 655 West Lombard Street/SNB, Baltimore, MD 21201.
A Franco-American Discourse will be held in Paris on March 25, 26, and 27, 1983. The subject of the meeting will be “Two Paths, One Goal?”, presenting a comparison of psychoanalytic theories and practice in the U.S. and France. Papers by analysts of each country will be discussed by those of the other, utilizing simultaneous translation. Americans offering papers will be Drs. Dale Boesky, Robert Gardner, and John Gedo. Inquiries may be addressed to Dr. Warren Poland, 5225 Connecticut Avenue, Washington, D.C. 20015.
The American Psychiatric Association announces the relocation of its National Headquarters to 1400 K Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20005.
The next EPA Conference of Training Analysts will be held in Madrid on July 22 and 23, 1983. Training analysts who plan to attend are urged to submit their registration forms as soon as possible. A maximum of 400 participants is planned, with registration filled on a first-come, first-served basis.
Support is sought for the Freud Conference Room to be established at the new headquarters building of the American Psychiatric Association in Washington, D.C. This room will be a permanent memorial to the Freud family and will honor Sigmund and Anna Freud for their contributions to the understanding of human psychological processes.
The initial construction and furnishing of the room will cost $28,500. Any additional monies collected will be used to obtain appropriate photographs, paintings, and memorabilia for the room.
Contributions, which are tax-deductible, should be made payable to the American Psychiatric Association and should be designated for the Freud Conference Room.
The Fourteenth Annual Margaret S. Mahler Symposium, entitled 'The Infantile Neurosis or the Infantile Psychosis?“ will be held on Saturday, April 23, 1983, in the Theatre of the Twelve Caesars on City Line Avenue. Theoretical and clinical papers will be presented by Drs. Annemarie Weil, Otto Kernberg and Helen Davidoff-Hirsch.
The registration fee, which includes lunch, is $60.00; student registration is $35.00. For further information, contact Selma Kramer, M.D., Department of Psychiatry, Medical College of Pennsylvania, 3300 Henry Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19129, (215) 842-4145.
The Psychoanalytic Association of Seattle announces the publication of a collection of kitchen-tested recipes gathered, selected, tested, and edited by members and friends of the Association.
Orders may be shipped directly to purchasers or to addresses they provide as gift-lists. All proceeds enter the Association's educational funds. Contact the Psychoanalytic Association of Seattle, 4029 East Madison, Seattle, Washington 98112; phone (206) 324-6614.
The Central Office reminds all members that they are themselves responsible for notifying both the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the International Journal of Psycho-Analysis of changes of address. Publishers have complained about copies of the journals being returned to them, marked “address unknown” or “not forwardable.”