Springtime in Washington, D.C. is one of life's great pleasures, so the Spring 1999 meeting of the American will be a meeting not to be missed. Beautiful parks, world-class museums, and stellar restaurants make a splendid milieu for the May 12–16 Annual Meeting at the Hilton Washington and Towers.
The program shows how psychoanalysis involves the social, the psychological, and the biological aspects of the person. On Friday, May 14, there will be a public forum chaired by Glenn Good, “Breakfast on the Hill: Privacy in Peril.” There will also be a session on “Women in Politics: The Difference They Make,” chaired by Harvey L. Rich, and a panel on “Long Analyses.” The latter will be chaired by Sander Abend, with contributions by Eva Lester, Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer, Alan Zients, and Judith Fingert Chused.
On Saturday morning, the panel “What in the World Is the Relationship?” will be chaired by Arnold Richards, with panelists Jody Davies, Arnold Goldberg, Kenneth Newmann, and Arnold Rothstein. The panel for that afternoon will be “Shame-Contempt Interchanges: A Frequent Component of the Analyst-Patient Interaction.” It will be chaired by Benjamin Kilborne and feature contributions by Joseph Lichtenberg, Barnet Malin, Andrew Morrison,
and Leon Wurmser. Also on Saturday afternoon there will be a meet-the-author discussion of Richard A. Isay's Being Homosexual (1989) and Becoming Gay: The Journey to Self-Acceptance (1996). The seminar for psychoanalysts, chaired by Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer, will feature a presentation by Drew Westen, “The Scientific Status of Unconscious Processes: Freud Is Alive and Well in the Lab.”
The final panel, on Sunday, will be a clinical study of “Modern Defense Analysis: Three Perspectives on the Same Clinical Hours,” chaired by Fred Busch. The panelists will be Steven Cooper, Emanuel Furer, and Dorothy Holmes.
A stimulating array of discussion groups and scientific papers is also planned, making this a meeting to be savored. In particular, three symposia planned by Glen Gabbard, co-chair of the Program Committee, should prove rewarding: “Dialogue Between Diplomats and Psychoanalysts,” “The Privacy Crisis,” and “Psychoanalytically Informed Principles for Intervention in Violent Communities and Organizations.”