On July 18 and 19, 1986, an Anna Freud Commemorative Conference entitled “Fixation and Regression—Clinical Implications” will be held jointly by the Psychoanalysis Unit of University College, London and The Anna Freud Center, Hampstead (The Hampstead Clinic) in cooperation with The Association for Child Psychoanalysis.
The conference will take place at University College. It will be devoted to a consideration of advances in our understanding of the concepts of fixation and regression and their application in the clinical situation.
The conference will be chaired by Joseph Sandler. Papers will be presented by Clifford Yorke (in cooperation with Hansi Kennedy), George Moran, and Anton O. Kris. The final session will be devoted to a panel on the topic.
Numbers of registrants may be limited. For full information, write the Psychoanalysis Unit, University College London, Psychology Department, 26 Bedford Way, London WC1H OAP.
The seventeenth annual Margaret S. Mahler Symposium will be held on May 31, 1986 in Philadelphia. The subject will be “The Application of Separation-Individuation Theory in the Analytic Situation.” The papers will have strong clinical emphasis. The presenters will be Newell Fischer, Arthur Frank, Henry Nunberg, and Arthur Valenstein.
For registration and further information, contact Selma Kramer, M.D., Department of Psychiatry, Medical College of Pennsylvania, 3200 Henry Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19129. Telephone 215-842-4145.
The Canadian Psychoanalytic Society extends an invitation to participate in the 35th International Psychoanalytical Association Congress in Montreal from Sunday, July 26 to Friday, July 31, 1987. Montreal is the birthplace of the Canadian Society and the largest psychoanalytic center in Canada.
Montreal is an international, bilingual city, and the second largest French city in the world. It is a cultured and beautiful city, with a beautiful climate in the summer. It is also a gateway to Quebec and all of Canada.
Otto Kernberg, Chairman of the Program Committee, wishes to remind everyone that the deadline for submission of papers for the Congress is September 30, 1986.
The Third IPA Conference of Training Analysts will be held in Montreal in conjunction with the Congress on July 24 and 25, 1987.
The Department of Psychiatry of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine announces a symposium honoring its former Professor Emeritus, Margaret Mahler. The conference theme is “Drive and Object Relations in Psychoanalytic Theory and Technique.” It will be held on Friday, January 16, 1987, at The New York Academy of Medicine.
The panelists are Fred Pine (Moderator), Jacob Arlow (Development and Pathology of the Oedipus Complex), Sheldon Bach (Development and Pathology of the Self), John McDevitt (Development and Pathology of Separation-Individuation), and Robert Stoller (Development and Pathology of Gender Identity).
For information and registration material, write to Mr. Jon Allen, Office of Continuing Medical Education, Montefiore Medical Center, 3301 Bainbridge Avenue, Bronx, NY 10467. Telephone 212-020-6674.