1. GREETING
2. CALENDAR
3. NEWS
4. CONTINUOS TRAINING COURSES ACADEMIC YEAR 2003-2004

Dear colleagues,

In this greeting we deposit our satisfaction for a job well done. We just finished participating in an excellent Meeting organized by the AEPP, where we learned about “new contributions in psychoanalytical technique and psychopathology”. We have also attended the replacement of the AEPP Board in which a group passes the baton to the new one which from now on will be in charge of it. We said good-bye to the Board presided by Montserrat Martínez i del Pozo and we welcome the one that will be presided by Fernando Delgado Bermúdez. From Catalonia to Andalusia the AEPP transits in the search of thinkers who will make it grow. Four colleagues from the ACPP join in: Montserrat Alabau, Montserrat Pol, Maria de Querol and Yolanda La Torre, who will contribute, undoubtedly, to the development of the level between the different autonomic associations and among the colleagues who haven’t been able yet to organize themselves as a group. The responsibility assumed by our delegates is the development of psychoanalytical psychotherapy in the different areas of the AEPP, we are sure of their qualification and they must be able to count at all times on the support of the ACPP.
In accordance with its objectives, the ACPP will organize in the following month of February a Congress to foster exchanges among all its members. We think that the theme “Thinking about emotions” will arise many suggestions that we wish to be presented in the meeting. Take note in your calendars and let inspiration jolt your minds.

June 12
2nd Thursday at 10 PM.

October 18
Saturday at 10:15 AM.

Information

We inform you that on February 13, 14 and 15 of 2004 we will hold at the Casa del Mar de Barcelona the Congress organized by the ACPP, with the theme Thinking about emotions. It will be open to members and the general public.
You will soon get further information.

Training School

Academic year 2002 – 2003: On Tuesday June 3 there was a joint clinical session of the level of Initiation and Deep Study open to all alumni. The opportunity was also used to have a snack to celebrate the end of the classes although classes will in fact finish on June 13.
The evaluation of the years, both on the part of students and professors, has been positive in every respect.

Academic year 2003 – 2004: The program of the new year is already out, with some important news. The training will now be a Master’s Program, which will be recognized by the EFPP, and it is distributed in two cycles, with two courses each.

EFPP

We welcome the new EFPP President, Siv Boalt Boëthius, from Stockholm (Sweden). She was the director of the Erica Foundation, a psychoanalytical psychotherapy institution for Children and Adolescents. She was a professor at the Stockholm University and University of Copenhagen. She was the director of a psychotherapy program in groups during several years in Sweden. The subject of her doctoral dissertation gathers her experience in group psychotherapy of adult and adolescent women. She participated in the Leicester conferences and founded the Swedish Group Relations Organization.

We inform you about the Continuing Education Seminars the ACPP will offer next academic year. In a few days you will receive a booklet with extended information.
1. Bion’s contributions to understanding the mind. Deep study of “Second Thoughts”
Guillermo Bodner, Antonia Grimalt, Carmen Largo, Montserrat Martínez, Carlos Tabbia

6. Understanding speech and writing disorders and their therapeutic approach
Josefina López

7. Evolution of “senso-sensoriality” in the Primary Mental Process: from the fetus to the object relationship
Júlia Coromines, Jaume Aguilar, Josefina López, Llúcia Viloca

8. Contemporary Psychopathology: in the light of the theories of narcissism, early trauma, death instinct and the third topic
Eduardo Braier

9. The Utility of Graphs for a better understanding, evaluation and intervention in children and adolescents’ development
Martha Ortega and Teresa Pont

10. Adolescence: the crisis in normality and in pathology
Teresa Pont, Assumpció Soriano, Núria Tomàs and Xavier Vall

11. Foundations for learning how to write articles for the media