“Contemporary Shifts in our Theory of Technique: Participation of the Analyst's Personality” is the theme of the 86th Annual Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association to be held May 14–18 in San Diego.
The meeting starts Wednesday, May 14 with the psychoanalytic course, “Psychoanalysis and the Phenomenology of Learning,” chaired by Edgar N.
Levenson. Levenson will also chair a two-day psychoanalytic technique clinical workshop on the 14th and 15th. On Wednesday the popular discussion groups begin: topics include divorce, career development, the work of Erik Erikson, and much more.
Friday, May 16 features the Meeting of Members, along with the popular Program for Spouses, chaired by Morris Peltz. A panel on “Analyzing Transference: Contemporary Responses to Merton Gill” is scheduled for Friday afternoon, featuring panelists Otto F. Kernberg, Henry J. Friedman, and Gail S. Reed and a discussion by Arnold Goldberg. Henry F. Smith will chair this panel. Michael C. Moore is the reporter.
Evelyne A. Schwaber will present the plenary address on Friday afternoon, and will also chair a panel on Saturday, “What Do We Mean by a ‘One-Person’ or a ‘Two-Person’ Psychology?” Panelists are Christopher Bollas, Marianne Goldberger, and Theodore J. Jacobs. The
reporter is Ralph Beavment. Also set for Saturday is a panel on “Spontaneity' vs. ‘Constraint’: Dilemmas in the Analyst's Decision-Making,” chaired by Joseph Schachter. Panelists are Ronald Fleisch-mann, Diane Martinez, and Ana-Maria Rizzuto.
On Sunday the meeting concludes with an overview on “Contemporary Shifts in Our Theory of Technique” chaired by Owen Renik, with contributions from Joseph Schachter, Evelyne Schwaber, Henry F. Smith, and Robert S. Wallerstein.