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Dear colleagues,

Despite the fact that this greeting inaugurates a new academic year, for us, the Board, it’s a new year different from other new years, since we can only use this section to greet you until the March bulletin. Therefore we would like to start saying good-bye, in order to start the mourning. We want to mourn what we have accomplished and what still needs to be accomplished. Perhaps many of us would like to continue, but we are aware that staying on would mean depriving others from the satisfaction they still have to enjoy: which we have enjoyed, since the assembly approved us as Board.
It’s been almost four years with the job of making available for all our ACPP colleagues the work, training and information that our forces and our capacity have allowed. For those of you who do not know, this job is sometimes fun, sometimes though, but overall, it is gratifying. We are happy to have been able to carry out many projects. We would like to be more aware and perhaps better informed about the aspects of our management that may not have satisfied you. We still have time to receive your suggestions. Also congratulations and complaints.

Many of the goals accomplished have been organizational and infrastructural; the previous Boards started the by-laws which have given us a juridical body; now this organizational structure should allow both the development of the statutes and growth. Growth, indeed, we also want to talk about growth. The number of students of the School has increased, and the attendance in the continuing education courses has increased as well, we can inaugurate this year with a first class conference, and in February, the Congress. By the way, there is still time to send in your abstracts: the deadline is November 15.
However, we hope to see you before on October 9 at the Ateneu to listen to Dr. Francisco Mora, who will talk about growth (the increase of neuronal connections), about the growth produced by the fact of understanding due to psychotherapy, which is the reason of the title of his conference, Psychotherapy and Brain.

September 27

October 2

Scientific Committee:

The deadline for the submission of abstracts for the February 2004 Congress, Thinking about emotions, is October 30.
You still have time to take part in the different commissions for the organization of the congress. Contact the secretary’s office.  

EFPP:

Remember that the EFPP is organizing the third European Conference of Group Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy, together with the SPG (Portuguese Groupanalytical Society): The individual and the group: bridging the Gap, which will take place in Lisbon on October 8, 9 and 10 of 2004.
For further information you can consult the EFPP webpage:

http://www.efpp.org

FEAP:

The Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy Section of the FEAP is organizing a Symposium on the Psychotherapeutic Approach to psychosis, National Health Prevention (Madrid), October 18, 2003. – SEE ATTACHED LEAFLET.

For registering, you may obtain further information and access the registration form on-line:

http://www.feap.es/simpsio.html

or you may fill out the form included in the leaflet attached to the bulletin.

The last book of the series Monographs on Psychoanalysis has just come out, Robert Caper’s Immaterial facts. It is available for all members. Since the ACPP is one of the institutions that collaborate in its publication, we can offer it to members with a 20% discount on the sale price in bookstores. For you, its price is 14,36 euros. If you want to purchase it, we can make it available to you on the day of Dr. Mora’s conference at the Ateneu, upon previous request at the ACPP secretary’s office.
Below you will find the index of the book Immaterial facts.


Foreword

Preface, by Hanna Segal

I. THE FREUDIAN DISCOVERY OF PSYCHIC REALITY

1. The immaterial facts
The first Freudian model of the mind
Psychic reality
The psychoanalysis of infants

2. A psychology without Psyche
The theory of seduction
A scientific fairy tale

3. The discovery of the unconscious fantasy
Child sexuality
The Oedipus complex
The dynamic unconscious

4. The structure of dreams and of neurosis
The meaning of dreams
Dreams and neurosis
Repression

5. Transference and the crystallization of the psychoanalytical method
The role of the transference in psychoanalysis
The crystallization of the psychoanalytical method
Free association
Free-floating attention

6. Gravitating confinement
The persistence of the Freud’s original model
The theory of the libido

7. A case study: little Hans
Clinical history
Freud in the middle of his development

8. Identification and the structure of the internal world
Identification
The structure of the internal world

9.Anxiety and the structure of the internal world
Abandonment of the libidinal theory of anxiety
A psychological theory of anxiety

10. Beyond Eros
the destructive impulse

II. THE DEVELOPMENT, BY MELANIE KLEIN, OF FREUD’S WORK

11. The place of Melanie Klein in psychoanalysis
Freud’s comments about Klein
Opposition and acceptance

12. The child psychoanalysis method
Klein’s approach to the psychoanalysis of infants
Klein’s technique and the analysis of children
Transference in children

13. The child construction of the experience
External repression
The child’s internal world

14. Instinct, fantasy and early psychic processes
Fantasy and instinct
Unconscious fantasy and external reality
Fantasy and psychological structure

15. Projective identification and the formation of the internal world
The formation of the Superego
Splitting and the early development of the world of internal objects
The schizoid-paranoid position
Projective identification
Projective identification and the psychoanalysis of schizophrenia

16. The transformation of the Superego: psychological integration and growth
The depressive position and the sense of reality
Reparation
Manic defenses and the depressive illness
Reparation, creativity and normal psychological development

17. The early stages of the Oedipus complex
The oedipal development of the little boy
The oedipal development of the little girl
Klein’s revision of the Oedipal complex

18. Envy and gratitude, splitting and integration
Unconscious envy and splitting
Unconscious gratitude and integration

19. Psychoanalytical knowledge
Therapeutic knowledge
Theoretical knowledge

20. Freud and Klein: a synthesis