The Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine will sponsor a symposium on “Paranoia,” March 23-24, 1991 at the Omni Park Central Hotel in New York City. Speakers will include Harold Blum, Arnold Goldberg, David Shapiro, Hanna Segal, Betsy Auchincloss, Arnold Cooper, Otto Kernberg, Eric Marcus and John Oldham. Panelists will address the subject of paranoia from the diverse clinical and theoretical perspectives, including object relations, developmental observational data, and narcissism.
The Institute for Psychoanalysis, Chicago is establishing a clearinghouse for information regarding the psychoanalytic research being conducted at institutes and societies. The Institute hopes that a communication network can be established allowing psychoanalysts to know about and discuss research with colleagues with similar interests. Brief descriptions of projects may be sent to Sol Altschul or Robert Galatzer-Levy at The Institute for Psychoanalysis, 180 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60601.
The Philadelphia Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and the Jefferson Medical College will sponsor the 22nd Annual Margaret S. Mahler Symposium, to be held at the Hershey Philadelphia Hotel, on Saturday, May 18, 1991, from 8 am to 4:30 pm. The subject of the symposium is “Tears That Lie Too Deep for Words: Non-Verbal Manifestations of Unresolved Separation-Individualization in Adult Analyses.” Salman Akhtar, Alvin Frank, and James McLaughlin will deliver papers.
The Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Institute celebrated its first quarter century as an independent institute with a scientific program October 20 and 21, 1990, and on the occasion honored James T. McLaughlin, MD, a former Director of the Institute.
The John W. Mudd, MD Memorial Fund on Clinical Psychoanalysis, in association with the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute, is interested in establishing and perpetuating an annual meeting focusing on clinical psychoanalysis. The meeting will be held at an attractive, congenial setting in the fall of each year. The first meeting is slated to take place in October 1991 in the Napa Valley.
The San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute held its first retreat October 5-7, 1990 in Monterey. Thirty-eight institute members and candidates and 17 spouses and children were in attendance. The scientific portion of the retreat was devoted to discussion groups that had no agenda and no leader and to which participants of varying levels of experience contributed clinical vignettes.
The Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute and Society celebrated its 40th anniversary last November with several presentations on the theme “The Future of Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Therapy: The Year 2000.” Among the distinguished presenters were Otto Kernberg, Samuel Eistenstein, and Judith Broder.