The San Diego Psychoanalytic Society announces a two-day symposium, “Psychoanalysis and Femininity,” which will consider issues of feminine development and their impact on treatment, the major participants will be Harold Blum, Ada Burris, Esther Burstein, Virginia Clower, Calvin Colarusso, Laila Karme, Gertrude Ticho, and Phyllis Tyson.
The meeting will be held on February 11-12, 1983 in San Diego. Further information is available from Esther Burstein, Ph.D., 1020 Prospect, La Jolla, CA 92307, (619) 454-9374.
The Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute announces additional upcoming symposia as part of this year's ongoing celebration of its fiftieth anniversary. “Women and Psychoanalysis: Today and Yesterday” is planned for February 4, 1984. Participants include Nancy Chodorow, Virginia Drachman, Doriot Dwyer, Eleanor Galenson, Matina Horner, Charles Magraw., Jean Baker Miller, Carol Nadelson, Malkah Notman, George Pollock, Elizabeth Reid, Gerald Stechler, and Joan Zilbach.
“Child Analysis Today: A Clinical Perspective” will be offered on April 7, 1984. Further details of these events can be obtained from Mrs. Diana Nugent, (617) 266-0953.
The Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego announces a conference entitled “The Cutting Edge 1983: The Psychotherapy of Borderline and Narcissistic Disorders.” The conference will feature in-depth presentations by Otto Kernberg of his major work in these areas, along with workshops, which will be led by UCSD senior psychoanalysts.
The meeting will be held on April 28-29, 1984, immediately preceding the spring meeting of the American. For information, contact Dr. Robert Nemiroff, University of California Department of Psychiatry, La Jolla, CA 92093, (619) 452-4040.
The First Delphi International Psychoanalytic Symposium will be held in Delphi, Greece August 16-19, 1984. The theme of the symposium is “The Personal Myth: A Clinical Concept in the Three Streams of Psychoanalytic Theory.”
The event is sponsored by the Departments of Psychiatry of the University of Toronto and the University of Patras, Greece; the Canadian Institute of Psychoanalysis; The Hellenic Psychoanalytic Study Group; and the European Cultural Centre, Delphi, Greece. The guest Speakers will be Jacob Arlow, New York; Andre Green, Paris; Eva Lester, Montreal; Donald Meltzer, Oxford; Robert Wallerstein, San Francisco; and Ernest Wolf, Chicago.
Registration is limited to two hundred participants. Travel arrangements and postconference tours are available at special rates. Further information may be obtained through Mrs. Josephine Vile, Toronto Institute of Psychoanalysis, 33 Price Street, Toronto, Ont. M4W 1Z2. Telephone (416) 922-7770.
The fifteenth annual Margaret S. Mahler Symposium will be held on May 12, 1984 in Philadelphia. The subject will be “The Application of Separation-In-dividuation Theory to the Treatment of Infants and Toddlers.” The papers presented will have a strong clinical emphasis, as infant-mother incompatabilities require accurate diagnosis and early intervention. The presenters will be Drs. Anni Bergman, Peter Bios, Jr., and Stanley Greenspan.
For registration and further information, contact Selma Kramer, M.D., Department of Psychiatry, Medical College of Pennsylvania, 3300 Henry Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19129, (215) 842-4145.
The Columbia Psychoanalytic Center and the Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine announce a symposium on “The Public and the Private Woman: New Psychotherapeutic Issues.” The event will be held on Saturday, January 21, 1984 in the Horace Mann Auditorium of the Columbia University Teacher's College. A broad range of historical, political, and social issues, as well as important clinical and theoretical ones will be addressed by a wide range of experts of diverse vantage points.
Participants include Cynthia Fuchs Epstein, Lila Kalinich, Clarice Kestenbaum, Robert Liebert, Helen Meyers, Malkah Notman, Ethel Person, Shelia Rothman, Eleanor Schuker, Jean Strouse, and Milton Viederman.
For further information contact the Columbia Psychoanalytic Center, 722 West 168th Street, New York, New York 10032, (212) 927-5000.
The Southern California Psychoanalytic Society announces the Walter Briehl Memorial Essay Prize. The essay contest has been established to honor the memory of Dr. Briehl, who was a pioneer psychoanalyst and member of the Southern California Society and a champion of civil and human rights. An award of $1000 will be given to the individual who submits the best paper which utilizes psychoanalytic thinking to deepen the understanding of an issue or issues of significance to human rights.
This essay will be presented by the author at a weekend meeting honoring Dr. Briehl's memory entitled “The Violation of Human Rights: The Quest for Understanding.” The meeting will take place September 22-23, 1984, in Beverly Hills. Speakers will include Jacobo Timerman, Robert Coles, Muriel Gardiner, and Robert Lifton.
For details, contact Mrs. Carol Ziff, Southern California Psychoanalytic Society, 8455 Beverly Boulevard, Suite 402, Los Angeles, CA 90048, (213) 655-1634.