As psychoanalysts we are accustomed to crossing the borders between conscious and unconscious, between fantasy and reality, between self and other. We hope you will cross an additional border with us May 27–31, 1998, and participate in the 87th Annual Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Borders separate nations, divide people, and create barriers. Crossing the borders transforms, challenges, and inspires us.
Just take a look at the meeting's excellent program, which crosses the borders of nations, professions, and schools of thought. As usual, our discussion groups (more than 50 of them) will cover a wide array of exciting and central topics in contemporary psychoanalysis. The diverse yet integrating ideas presented in our panels and discussion groups bridge many intellectual borders. Our four panels get back to the basics of psychoanalytic thought:
The mechanism of action of psychoanalytic treatment.
The psychoanalytic conceptualization of motivation.
The impact on clinical work of the analyst's idealizations and identifications.
Classics revisited: Freud's The Ego and the Id and Inbibitions. Symptoms, and Anxiety.
Four special programs at the Toronto meeting are designed for psychiatric residents and students in psychology and social work. Our public forum, open to everybody, free of charge, deals with a serious social issue: infertility in the age of technology.
In organizing this meeting, we have had the pleasure of working closely with many people form the Canadian Psychoanalytic Association. They have been generous with their time in helping us develop an outreach strategy that will bring together many of our colleagues from both sides of the border. As usual, there will be many opportunities for all of us to meet after the program at numerous social activities being planned.
Hope to see you in Toronto this May!
Sharon Zalusky, Ph.D., is chair of the Ad Hoc Committee on Outreach for Scientific and Educational Programs.