Gender issues will take center stage Gin two panels featured on the Scientific Program at this May's annual meeting, to be held in Philadelphia. The recent outpouring of psychoanalytic literature on female psychology seems to have created a renewed interest in male psychology as well. An all-day panel, The Psychodynamics of Men Reconsidered, will examine the contemporary psychoanalytic understanding of this subject. The panel will be chaired by Ronda R. Shaw and will feature a variety of panelists including Adrienne P. Applegarth, Gerald I. Fogel, Marianne Goldberger, Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel, Roy Schafer, and Robert M. Galatzer-Levy. The panel presentations will be discussed by Robert D. Gillman and Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer.
Female issues will be explored on Sunday morning of the meeting, when Ruth F. Lax will chair a panel on menopause. The presenters will include Milton H. Horowitz, Helen C. Meyers, and Dinora Pines. Owen Renik will serve as discussant.
Two other panels at the May meeting will focus on clinical aspects of the psychoanalytic setting. Warren S. Poland will chair a Friday panel,
Meaning in the Clinical Moment, that will involve three presenters: Arnold Goldberg, Charles M.T. Hanly, and Henry F. Smith. Dale Boesky will discuss the presentations. On Saturday, a Classics Revisited panel will feature Leo Stone's The Psychoanalytic Situation. Chaired by Sydney E. Pulver, the panel will include presentations by Philip Bromberg, Otto F. Kernberg, Shelley Orgel, and Morton Shane. Leo Stone himself will serve in the capacity of respondent.
The highly popular Program for Spouses, a recently added feature of the meetings, will be chaired by Stanley J. Coen and is entitled Spouses and Partners in Shakespeare. Panelists will be Elio Frattaroli, Harriet Joseph, and Jeffrey Stern, with Henry F. Smith serving as discussant.
The plenary presentation at the May meeting will be given by Lawrence Friedman, who will be introduced by Paul Gray. The Seminar for Psychoanalysts, chaired by Harold P. Blum, will focus on Freud in America. Panelists will be Saul Rosenzweig, Nathan Hale, and Melvin Bornstein. Discussants will be Sanford Gifford and Alexander Grinstein. The Meet-the-Author format will feature Retelling a Life by Roy Schafer. Chaired by Leo Goldberger, the session will have two presentations, one by Aaron H. Esman and another by Marianne Goldberger.
Although details are unavailable as TAP goes to press, other familiar formats, including the popular Film Series, will be retained. Four Seminars for Trainees will be held for psychiatric residents and graduate students in the mental health professions, and a debate will be presented in the Psychoanalytic Dialogue format. A myriad of discussion groups will also be available to allow colleagues to interact with one another around issues of common interest. Members of the Program Committee welcome suggestions and ideas for future programs.