Plans are being formulated for an informative and exciting 87th Annual Meeting to be held at the Royal York Hotel in Toronto, Ontario, from May 27 to May 31, 1998. The four major panel topics have been selected and many of the faculty selected.

“The Therapeutic Action of Psychoanalysis” is scheduled for Friday, May 29, and will be chaired by Brian M. Robertson. On Saturday two panels will be held. Joseph D. Lichtenberg will chair “A Return to Basics: The Psychoanalytic Conceptualization of Motivation.” The panelists will include Mervyn M. Peskin and Owen Renik. “The Impact on Clinical Work of the Analyst's Idealizations and Identifications” will be chaired by Robert Glick. Jane V. Kite, Roy Schafer, and Henry F. Smith will be the panelists.

On Sunday, May 31, a classics revisited panel will address “Freud's Final Model: The Ego and the Id and Inhibitions, Symptoms, and Anxiety.” Charles M. T Hanly will chair the panel consisting of Charles Brenner, Ruth Imber, Arnold H. Modell, and Theodore Shapiro.

Warren S. Poland has been chosen to be the plenary speaker. He will give his talk on Friday.