The eighty-fifth annual meeting of The American will be held May 1 through May 5 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles. One of the grand hotels in the United States, the Beverly Hilton manages to combine elegance with a family friendliness. The program affords a challenging and creative look at many cutting-edge issues in psychoanalysis.
A two-day clinical workshop with the British analyst Edna O'Shaughnessy, a gifted clinician, begins Wednesday, May 1, at 4:45 P.M. Friday features the plenary address by Harold P. Blum. Also featured that day is a panel discussion, chaired by Lawrence Friedman, of Heinrich Racker's classic paper, “Transference and Countertransference.” Panelists include Sander Abend, Michael Feldman, and Joseph Natterson. The reporter will be Kevin V Kelly.
Friday also provides an opportunity to hear a discussion of Fred Pine's Drive, Ego, Object, and Self: A Synthesis for Clinical Work. Chaired by Glen O.. Gabbard, the discussion will feature Robert Michels and Robert L. Tyson.
Also on Friday is a clinical psychoanalytic dialogue chaired by Melvin Bornstein, with discussions provided by Theodore J. Jacobs and Joseph D. Lichtenberg. The topic is “One Analyst's Spontaneous Responses, Another Analyst's Looking On.” Spouses and other interested parties will be able to participate that day in a symposium with filmmakers, “On the Making of a Film.”
A daylong panel, “The Relevance of Frequency of Sessions to the Creation of an Analytic Practice,” will be held Saturday, May 4. Chaired by Arnold Rothstein, it features panelists Lewis A. Kirshner, Howard B. Levine, Alan Z. Skolnikoff, and Milton Viederman. Discussion will be provided by Philip Bromberg, Charles M.T. Hanly, Milton H. Horowitz, and Estelle Shane. The reporter will be Arlene Kramer Richards.
Another Saturday panel, “Nonverbal Communication in the Psychoanalytic Process,” will feature original papers by Judith Fingert Chused and Evelyn Albrecht Schwaber. Chaired by Jacob G. Jacobson, the panel will include discussant Jack A. Miller. The reporter is Leslie Jordan.
Saturday also brings Robert Michels and Morton Shane together in a Psychoanalytic Dialogue on “The Problem of Training Analysis.” Sydney E. Pulver will chair.
A Seminar for Psychoanalysts is also scheduled for Saturday. The topic is “Developmental Research and the Adult Attachment Interview: Implications for Pathogenesis and Psychoanalytic Theory.” Chaired by Joseph D. Lichtenberg, it features presentations by Peter Fonagy and Mary Main.
Finally, on Sunday, May 5, a panel on “The Patient's Processing of the Analyst's Interpretations,” chaired by Stanley J. Coen, will feature presentations by Edna O'Shaughnessy and Sydney E. Pulver. Discussants are Anton O. Kris and Lucy LaFarge; the reporter is Peggy B. Hutson.
The meetings will also feature a wide variety of discussion groups and original scientific papers reflecting the broad interests of the membership.