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4. ACPP CONFERENCES 2002-2003

Dear colleagues,

Although time must not be defined because it passes –as Meltzer said during our October meeting, so interesting! (for many of us who were there)-, we often have the illusion that we will manage to deceive it, and we leave conferences for later, and the article we have in our minds half way done, and those ideas pending elaboration, and that abstract we have to submit… but not any longer. We don’t have more time, for this inexorable time.

Friday, November 8 and Saturday,November 9

November 14,
2nd Thursday at 10 PM

Seminars starting in November:

A group of alumni of the school, who are cinema fans, requested the support of the ACPP for organizing psychoanalytical discussion sessions about movies. After starting with a few sessions they plan to make them available to all interested ACPP members.

We are preparing a model certificate for ACPP members. Given the present juncture, we think that you will need certificates for the training you have received at the ACPP, for which we ask you to submit a detailed written petition (via e-mail, fax, or post) to our secretary.

Sections News

Children and Adolescents Section and Groups Section. A jointly organized meeting took place on September 25, with the purpose of reflecting on the different ways of performing prevention tasks while working with different groups: parents, teachers, educators, etc. the following was agreed on:
a) We will meet on a Saturday morning (date to be announced) to talk about the meaning of prevention, and to present different methods of prevention work.
b) Margarida Gratacós and Maria de Querol want to contact anyone interested in hyperactivity and its therapeutic approach, and Asunción López-Dòriga wants to contact people involved in prevention tasks in schools.
c) It would be useful if the ACPP made a statement for the media about the importance of prevention.

Adults section.  Continuing with the theme  "Dreaming the dreams", on every fourth Thursday, on November 28, at 9.45 PM, Ms. Sílvia Adela Kohan, Bachelor of Hispanic Philology, specialist in literary creation techniques and author of numerous publications, will talk about “The writer, the manufacturer of dreams and dreams as literature subject matter”.

AEPP News

We would like to welcome Juan José Martínez Ibáñez as the new president of the Andalusian Association of the AEPP.

We have received the program of the fifth Meetings of the Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy Group of Bilbao, for November 15 and 16, 2002, with the theme "Dreams". Participants:
Víctor Ezpeleta
Begoña Tejedor
Julián Ibáñez de Opacua
Adela Abella
Carlos Tabbia
José Antonio Loren
Pere Folch
Terttu Eskelinen
Mª Dolores Bejar
Mª Ángeles Moreno

FEAP News

We are sorry for the death of Carlos Villamarzo. He was president of the Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy Section and he was member of the Oskar Pfister association.
Our representative Jesús Gràcia informs us about the last meeting of the Board in Madrid:

The FEAP invites all members of the ACPP to the Virtual Conference Interpsiquis. Papers on the subject “Violence and psychotherapy” may be sent from the end of November 2002 to November 2003 to the following webpage: http://www.interpsiquis.com/2003/.

The FEAP has been invited by the Spanish Association of Neuropsychiatry to participate in a Table during the next Conference which will take place in June 2003. The Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy Section participates in the committee for the creation of this Table.

The FEAP plans to hold in Saragossa the next biannual meeting in April 2004. The subject: Psychotherapeutic Approaches to Psychosis. Start thinking about it.

Platform for the improvement of Mental Health

The expanded committee of the platform met on October 14, and it was agreed that a new document will be made with sufficient juridical grounds to have the necessary effect. The Permanent committee will prepare it, together with the Unions associated with the Platform, since they can provide this necessary juridical experience.

September 19, 2002: Round Table about the Monographic Seminar on mourning processes.
Dr. Joseba Atxotegui, Mrs. Montserrat Daniel, Dr. Pere Folch and Dr. Montserrat Martínez del Pozo

October 10, 2002: Adolescence and conflict: special reference to severe or risk disorders.
José Àngel Alda, Alfons Icart, Laly Navarro

November 14, 2002: Authors: Some of Donald Meltzer’s contributions to psychoanalytical thinking
Dr. Claudio Bermann

December 12, 2002: Marginalization. Regarding a group of neurotic people.
Dr. Montserrat Alabau

January 9, 2003: Date considered not suitable for a conference

February 13, 2003: Authors: Fairban.
Dr. Víctor Hernández (title to be announced)

March 13, 2003: Understanding and treating Down syndrome.
Ms. Glòria Canals, Dr. Llúcia Viloca

April 10, 2003: Authors: Kohut’s psychology of the self.
Dr. Salvador Adroer

May 8, 2003: A training project in Organization Dynamics according to the Tavistock model.
Dr. Àngel Martínez Pina

June 12, 2003: Authors: Klein and Lacan, a failed encounter.
Guillermo Mattioli


Every second Thursday, at 10 PM