At the June meeting in San Francisco, the Program Committee will introduce the university forum, a new format designed to create exchange between academics and psychoanalysts [See the update article on the program, page 7.]. At the first university forum two films, Daughter Rite and Home Movies and Other Necessary Fictions, will be presented by filmmaker Michelle Citron, with discussants, Nancy Chodorow and Madelon Sprengnether. Henry Schwartz, Adrienne Harris, and Charles Shepherdson will also participate. Complementing this event will be a panel chaired by Ruth S. Fischer, featuring Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel, Ethel Person, Barbara Shapiro, and Lynne Zeavin on “Mothers and Daughters.” Also in keeping with the theme, Two Women, the classic film directed by Vittorio di Sica, will be shown.
Another new addition is the two-day clinical workshop on “Psychotherapy:Technique and Process,” featuring Robert Wallerstein and J. Alexis Burland. There will also be a two-part panel that I will chair, entitled “Affect Regulation, Mentalization, and the Development of the Self,” featuring Peter Fonagy, Mary Target, and Gyorgy Gergely. Discussants will include Robert Michels and Owen Renik. A child analysis panel, “Alternative Pathways to Reproduction,” is also scheduled. Arthur Farley will chair this panel, and the presenters will be Isabelle Paret and Anita G. Schmukler. The other major adult panel, “What Is Our Psychoanalytic View of Gender Today?”, will be chaired by Joseph Lichtenberg. The panelists include Judith Fingert Chused, Samuel Gerson, Ken Corbett, and Adrienne Harris.
Henry F. Smith will give this meeting's plenary address on “Analyzing Action,” and James Grotstein's book, Who is the Dreamer that Dreams the Dream?, will be the subject of Meet-the-Author. The psychoanalytic dialogue will feature Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel in dialogue with Peter Goldberg on the subject of “Evil, the Body, and the Perverse.” Nancy Chodorow will chair. Paul Ekman, the renowned expert in nonverbal communications, is our guest at the seminar for psychoanalysts, where he will make a presentation on “Reading Faces and Reading Emotions.”
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Theodore Jacobs will offer a psychoanalytic course at the meeting. A two-day clinical workshop on process and technique in psychoanalysis chaired by Mary Target and coordinated by Irene Cairo will be featured as well as a two-day clinical workshop on establishing a child analytic practice, chaired by Mary Jane Otte.
Symposia at the meeting include “Reshaping a psychoanalytic organization: the San Francisco experience,” featuring Erik Gann, Maurice Marcus, Harriet Wolfe, and Bernard Gertler; “The child analyst in the inner city,” with Shahla Chehrazi, Maureen Katz, and Judith Wallerstein; and “Resilience in Childhood and Adolescence:What we know and what we don't know.” The resilience symposium is sponsored by the Liaison Committee to Schools and is chaired by Phyllis Cath with presentations by Stuart Hauser and Phyllis Tyson.
There will also be special programs for psychiatric residents, psychology and social work students, as well as one for mid-career analysts. A vast array of discussion groups has been scheduled to appeal to every registrant. We hope to see you there.