The ninetieth Annual Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association will be held in New Orleans, La., May 2–6, 2001, at the luxurious Fairmont Hotel. New Orleans in May is a city of great beauty and great fun. The locale, combined with an interesting and lively meeting, promises to make this a very popular meeting, so register and reserve your place as soon as possible.
The meeting begins on Wednesday, May 2, with a wide range of discussion groups and two-day clinical workshops. On Thursday morning Eve Fortson will chair an oral history presentation on “Jazz, Race, and Psychoanalysis.” Thursday afternoon will feature a course on “An Object Relations Theory Approach to Psychoanalytic Technique,” chaired by Otto Kernberg. The class is a great opportunity to study the work of this renowned analyst. A diverse set of discussion groups will also meet on Thursday.
Friday morning starts with a real treat, an “In Depth: Art, Culture and Politics” program on “Madame Bovary, Cest Moi (Gustave Flaubert): How a Man Finds the Soul of a Woman,” chaired by Morris Peltz. Francis Baudry, Ted Jacobs, Jane Kite, and Paul Schwaber will contribute. Friday afternoon offers a symposium on “Psychoanalysis and Community-Based Violence Prevention” chaired by Joy Osofsky, with contributions from Judge Cindy Lederman, Steve Marans, and Howard Osofsky. Later in the afternoon there will be a panel on “Meaning in Clinical Psychoanalysis: Created or Discovered?”. Robert Glick will chair, and Henry Friedman, Arnold Goldberg, Jay Greenberg, and Ted Shapiro will be the panelists. A seminar for psychoanalysts will also be held on Friday: “Cruel and Unusual Punishment? Psychoanalytic Considerations on the Death Penalty,” chaired by Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer, with a presentation by Donald Moss and discussions by Deborah Fins and James Gilligan. Friday's events culminate with a plenary presentation by Ralph Roughton on “Rethinking Homosexuality: What It Teaches Us About Psychoanalysis.”
Saturday morning features a panel on “Being Gay and Becoming a Psychoanalyst: Across Three Generations.” It will be chaired by John Munder Ross, with presentations by Jack Drescher, Ubaldo Leli, and Ralph Roughton and discussion by Kenneth Lewes and Susan Vaughn. An afternoon panel on “The Analyst's Uncertainty and Fear” will be chaired by Jill Miller, with contributions by Judith Chused, Steve Frankel, and Warren Poland. The ever-popular “Meet the Author” session will feature Douglas Kirsner, author of Unfree Associations.
The final panel on Sunday morning is “Catching the Ball: The Role of Play in Psychoanalytic Treatment.” It will be chaired by Paula Bernstein, with presentations by Roy Aruffo, Glen Gabbard, Morris Peltz, and Judith Yanof.