The American Psychoanalytic Association will sponsor a weekend workshop at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City on November 19 and 20, 1983. The workshop is open to all qualified mental health professionals, and is entitled, “The Relationship of Models of the Mind to Clinical Work.” Contemporary mental health practitioners live in a world in which they are confronted by a variety of paradigms or models competing for their theoretical and clinical allegiance. This workshop proposes to explore some of the implications of this state of affairs.

The program will begin on Saturday with a brief introduction by the workshop's chairman, Arnold Rothstein. Then Arnold Cooper will give a historical review of psychoanalytic models of the mind. Following this, eminent psychoanalysts will present six contemporary psychoanalytic models. They will define their models in the broad and the narrow sense and present clinical data organized within the constructs they espouse.

The day will be organized into a morning and afternoon panel, one chaired by Sydney Pulver, the other by Charles Brenner. The six panelists will be Jacob Arlow on “The Structural Hypothesis,” Hanna Segal on “Kleinian Theory,” Edgar Levenson on “Interpersonal (Sullivanian) Theory,” Arnold Goldberg on “The Psychology of the Self,” Arnold Modell on “Object Relations Theory,” and William Richardson on “Lacanian Theory.” On Sunday morning, Robert Michels will chair a panel entitled “Conversations with the Panelists.” Joseph Sandler will be a discussant, and all six panelists will respond to the discussant and continue the discussion among themselves and with the audience.