The American Psychological Association's Division of Psychoanalysis (39) will hold its 10th Annual Spring Meeting April 5-8, 1990, at the Vista International Hotel in New York City. Co-chairing the conference, whose theme is Psychoanalysis 1990, are Gil A. Katz and Mary Libbey. Information and a brochure can be obtained from Ruth Lang, (212) 725-8177.
The third edition of the American Psychoanalytic Association's Psychoanalytic Terms and Concepts (ed. Burness E. Moore and Bernard D. Fine) has just been published by Yale University Press. For the new edition, previous editions of the glossary have been greatly revised and expanded; new terms have been added and earlier definitions clarified and updated. Copies may be ordered through Yale University Press, 203-432-0967.
At the annual Margaret S. Mahler Child Development Symposium to be held in Philadelphia in the spring of 1991, the Literature Prize Committee of the Margaret S. Mahler Psychiatric Research Foundation will present its annual award of $750 to the author of the best original paper.
The Committee is now accepting papers to be considered for the 1990 prize. Papers should deal with clinical, theoretical, or research issues specifically related to Dr. Mahler's concepts of separation-individuation in child development. Papers previously published within the year in which the prize is awarded may be submitted. To be considered for this year's prize, papers must be received by December 31.
Prospective candidates for this award, submit six copies of the paper to Marjorie Harley, Ph.D., Chair, Margaret S. Mahler Literature Prize Committee, 201 St. Martins Road, Baltimore, MD 21218.
The new editorial board of American Imago is celebrating the 50th anniversary of that respected journal with a special double issue (summer-fall, 1989).
Essays from the past include Theodore Reik on masochism, Fritz Moellenhoff on Mickey Mouse, Hanns Sachs and Paul Federn writing on psychoanalysis and social theory, Weston LaBarre discussing psychoanalysis and anthropology, and Harry Slochower on Death in Venice. Writing contemporary commentaries are Donald Kaplan, Eugene Mahon, Jonathan Scott Lee, William Manson, and Mark Kanzer.
The Sigmund Freud Center of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem will hold its Sixth Annual Conference in Jerusalem June 24-28, 1990. The theme of the conference is “Children-in-War.”
The conference will bring together clinicians and researchers from around the world who are currently dealing with children in embattled situations and with adults who as children were children-in-war.
The conference is cosponsored by the World Federation for Mental Health; the Israel Psychoanalytic Society; the Department of Psychiatry of Cambridge Hospital, Harvard Medical School; and the Center for Psychological Studies in the Nuclear Age, Harvard Medical School
For information, contact, Dr. Roberta Apfel, Dr. Bennett Simon, or Ms. Sonya Franco, Sigmund Freud Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mt Scopus, Jerusalem 91905 Israel. Tel: 02-883-380; fax 011-972-2-826-249.
The Program on Conscious and Unconscious Mental Processes of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation will host annual two-day conferences on the Psychodynamics-Cognitive Science Interface during the last week of August Neurobiological, social, and psychological scientists seeking new perspectives on cognitive processing of highly emotional topics and clinical scientists seeking new approaches to mental processes are selectively invited to attend.
This year's conference, “Person Schemas and Maladaptive Interpersonal Patterns,” will focus on intrapsychic schematization of self and others and scripts for relations between self and others. The program director is Mardi Horowitz.
In requesting further information, please indicate your university affiliation and send a reprint to PCUMP Annual Conference, LPPI, Box CSN-0984, UCSF, San Francisco, CA 94143.