The panels at The American's 1995 Fall Meeting, to be held December 13–17 at New York's Waldorf-Astoria, demonstrate the vitality of psychoanalysis today. The panels will present ideas that form the very basis of psychoanalysis, trace them through their development, and point to where they may be headed.
Friday's panel on Hallucinatory Wish Fulfillment, chaired by Jane V. Kite, will feature Alan Bass, Donald B. Moss, and Barry Opatow as panelists and Gerald I. Fogel as discussant. The Couch, the Laboratory, the Brain, an all-day panel on Saturday, will deal with Memory in the morning, with Anton O. Kris, Henry Roediger, and Larry Squires as panelists. The afternoon session, The Unconscious, will feature panelists Benjamin Libert, Philip Merikle, and Barry Opatow. For both sessions the discussant will be Owen Flanagan and the chair Howard Shevrin.
Also on Saturday, Dale Boesky, Edgar A. Levenson, Owen Renik, and Robert Stolorow will serve as panelists for An Exploration of the Concept Neutrality. Robert Michels will chair.
The panel Classics Revisited: Freud's “Mourning and Melancholia” will be held Sunday morning. Panelists will be Leon Hoffman, Otto Kernberg, and Stephen A. Mitchell, with Arnold Rothstein as discussant and Edward Nersessian as chair.
The two plenary addresses deal with the importance of the mind in psychoanalysis. On Friday morning Theodore Jacobs will speak on the topic “In Search of the Mind of the Analyst: A Progress Report.” Warren S. Poland will introduce Jacobs. The Friday afternoon plenary presentation, “Metaphor and Mind,” is by Arnold H. Modell, who will be introduced by Lewis A. Kirshner.
The meeting also features two Psychoanalytic Dialogues. The first, on Friday, is entitled On Defense Analysis and will be chaired by Steven T. Levy. The dialogue is between Allan Compton and Walter Todd Davison. The other dialogue, on Saturday, features Austin Silber and Paul H. Ornstein on the topic A Dialogue between Analysts about a Patient in Analysis. Shelley Orgel will chair.
The popular Meet the Author series features Stanley Coen's The Misuse of Persons. Chair is Judith Fingert Chused; discussants are Charles M.T. Hanly and James T. McLaughlin. On Friday, in a Seminar for Psychoanalysts, Hanly will present Philosophy for Psychoanalysts. Another seminar, entitled Psychoanalytic Constructivism or Critical Constructivism, will be offered on Thursday by Irwin Z. Hoffman.
Finally, the Program for Spouses will feature Theater in America, moderated by Selma Duckler. Gary Sinise, Academy Award Nominee for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Forrest Gump, will be presenter. Glen O. Gabbard and Eric J. Nuetzel are discussants.