The chance to meet and talk with psychoanalytic colleagues from around the world. The value of this experience is indescribable, and quite wonderful.
Listen to papers and seminars on psychoanalysis with a broad infusion of international wisdom.
The Zócalo, a U.N. World Heritage Site, is a vast space sitting in the heart of Mexico City. Tourists, hucksters, concerts, parades abound and many of the most important sites in the city rim the square. The enormous dimensions of the space give you a sense of the size of Mexico City, whose population is more than eight million, roughly the size of New York City's. Embedded in the Zócolo is the Templo Mayor. These Aztec temple ruins were unearthed in 1978 by construction workers.
The Catedral Metropolitano—on the north side of the Zócolo. The cathedral was built in the 16th century and is the oldest and largest cathedral in the Western Hemisphere.
The Palacio Nacionale stands on the Zócolo's east side. Still in use as a federal government building, it contains 1,200 feet of murals by Diego Rivera depicting the history of the nation.
The Coyoacán district, a suburb on the southern end of the city. This neighborhood is where Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera lived and now contains several small museums containing their work.
Visit the town of Xochimilco, 13 miles south of the city. Its canals and gardens are astounding. It is known as “the place of flowers”
See the abandoned metropolis of Teotihuacán, once the largest city in pre-Columbian America, possibly one of the largest cities in the world in its time. Features include murals, the Pyramid of the Sun, the Pyramid of the Moon, and the Avenue of the Dead.
Prudy Gourguechon, M.D., is the immediate past president of APsaA.