The fall 1999 meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association is scheduled for Wednesday, December 15, through Sunday, December 19, at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City. The last meeting of the century offers a program that is both diverse and vital. The meeting will open Wednesday morning with a wide array of interesting discussion groups.
On Wednesday afternoon will begin two workshops on psychoanalytic process and technique, both lasting two days. The first will feature Parisian analyst Alain Gibeault and will be coordinated by Henry F. Smith, of Cambridge, Mass., with Swiss analyst Betty Denzler presenting. The other will feature London analyst Peter Fonagy and will be coordinated by Mary Margaret McClure of San Francisco. Wednesday afternoon will also offer a psychoanalytic course chaired by Fred Busch.
On Thursday the discussion groups and the clinical workshops will continue. Friday will be a stimulating day, with the plenary address by Allen B. Wheelis on “Love and Shame,” scientific papers, and a public forum titled “Sports and Development: Helping Children Field Their Dreams.” Also on Friday will be an “In-Depth: Art, Culture, and Politics” program on “Dreams and Art” chaired by Lucy Daniels and Lynn Gamwell, with presentations by sculptor Sherrod Duggan, painter Gayle Stott Lowry, and composer Tom Mann. Friday afternoon's panel, “The Clinical Usefulness of the Concept of Primary Femininity,” will be chaired by Nancy Kulish, with panelists Rosemary Balsam, Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer, and Judith Yanof and discussants Ruth Fischer and Ronda Shaw.
Saturday will feature an all-day panel, “Current Perspectives on the Goals of Psychoanalysis,” chaired by Glen Gabbard. Panelists will be Arnold Cooper, Alain Gibeault, Owen Renik, and Doris Silverman, with Alan Skolnikoff presenting and Robert Wallerstein and Sydney Pulver discussing. A special treat, at the meet-the-author session Saturday afternoon, will be the appearance of Daniel Menaker, author of the novel The Treatment. This session will be chaired by Susan Levine; Stanley Coen and Theodore Jacobs will discuss.
The final panel, on Sunday, December 19, will focus on Anna Freud's The Ego and the Mechanism of Defense and will be chaired by Ralph Engle. Dale Boesky, Marianne Goldberger, and Evelyne Albrecht Schwaber will serve as panelists, with Daniel Jacobs as discussant.
Given the joys of New York in December and the vital nature of the meeting, your attendance and participation are strongly encouraged.