Beginning with the upcoming Fall, 1984 meeting, the Meeting of Members will be held on Friday morning of the meeting week. All members are invited to a continental breakfast (admittance by badge only) on Friday, December 21 at 7:30 AM. The Business Meeting will start at 8:30 AM, followed by the Plenary Address. The decision to switch the traditional Friday and Saturday programs and the addition of a special breakfast was made with the hope that there might be increased attendance at the Meeting of Members and a more appropriate opening format for the program.
The Committee on Scientific Activities is offering assistance to those people who might wish for consultation in the preparation of applications for grants from the fund for Psychoanalytic Research.
Potential applicants should submit an abstract of up to two pages. He or she can then meet with the committee for up to forty-five minutes during the Fall Meeting. This will allow sufficient time to use any suggestions in preparing a final draft which can be submitted to the Fund for the Annual Meeting in the spring.
In response to an earlier article in the Newsletter, the committee became aware that there are analysts who are interested in, or working on, projects by themselves but who would want to share ideas with like-minded single workers (shades of Freud and Fliess). These analysts are not yet ready to publish or to present their material in our regularly established forums. However, they do want to communicate. The Committee on Scientific Activities is acting as a clearing house to put such persons in touch with each other.
The Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine is sponsoring a symposium for mental health professionals entitled The Psychology of Men: New Psychoanalytic Perspectives at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City on January 26 and 27, 1985. The meeting is one of a series of events to be held this year to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the association and the Columbia Psychoanalytic Center.
Panelists will explore many aspects of the psychology of men, taking into account the significant social changes and clinical and theoretical advances both inside and outside psychoanalysis in recent years. Despite considerable reworking of our notions about women, male psychology has suffered relative neglect.
Participants will include Stanley Coen, Arnold Cooper, Gerald Fogel, Richard Isay, Lila Kalinich, Otto Kernberg, Frederick Lane, Robert Liebert, Donald Meyers, Helen Meyers, Peter Neubauer, Ethel Person, John Munder Ross, Roy Schafer, and Prof. George Stade.
For information, write the Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine, 4560 Delafield Avenue, Riverdale, New York 10471. Telephone (212) 548-6088
The Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis announces that the Heinz Kohut Memorial Fund is now prepared to offer financial aid to a young graduate scholar in the humanities or social sciences who wishes to pursue psychoanalytic research training at the Chicago Institute. The choice of the recipient, to be designated the Kohut Scholar, is dependent upon application and acceptance by the Institute and by the Kohut Memorial Committee. For further details, write to Dr. Charles Kligerman, 180 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60601.