Notes and Comments: Coming Meetings of Interest
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1961 PSYCHOSOMATICS
Notes and CommentsCOMING MEETINGS OF INTEREST
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Eighth Annual Academy MeetingThe Eighth Annual Meeting of the Academy
of Psychosomatic Medicine will take place at theEmerson hotel in Baltimore on October 12-14,1961. The opening sessions will deal with teaching, research, and diagnosis as well as basicsciences. Interview techniques will be demonstrated at the University of Maryland MedicalSchool.
The Friday sessions deal with cardiovasculardisease, headache, ocular disease, cerebral disease, plastic surgery and pregnancy. On Saturday, the problems of adolescence, epilepsy, andobesity will receive emphasis.
Speakers include the Honorable J. HaroldGrady, Mayor of Baltimore and Dr. IsadoreTuerk, Commissioner of Mental Hygiene, Stateof Maryland. Others from Maryland include Dr.Eugene L. Baumgartner, Robert Berkow, EugeneBrody, Edward F. Cotter, Albert A. Kurland,John C. Krantz, Jr., Ephraim T. Lisansky, Allan R. McClary, Jack Raber, Julian W. Reed,Bernard R. Shochet, Vernon M. Smith, HarryA. Teitelbaum and Frank B. Walsh.
Out of town speakers inclUde Drs. Bertram B.Moss, Dlinois; Edwin McH. Dunlop, Massachusetts; Louis F. Bishop, John S. La Due, MiltonRosenbaum, Henry I. Russek, Burton L. Zohman, New York; Blaine E. McLaughlin, Pennsylvania; Phineas Jack Sparer and I. Frank Tullis, Tennessee; Robert N. Rutherford, Washington.
The program chairman is Dr. George F.Sutherland. Inquiries should be addressed tohim at 3700 North Charles Street. Baltimore 18,Maryland.
• • •Eastern Psychiatric Research Association
A Symposium on "Expanding Goals of Genetics in Psychiatry (1936-1961)" will take place atthe New York Psychiatric Institute, 722 W. 168thStreet, on October 27 and 28. 1961. It is sponsored by the Eastern Psychiatric Research Association, and held under the auspices of the NewYork State Department of Mental Hygiene andthe Department of Psychiatry. College of Physicians and Surgeons. Columbia University, NewYork. Incidentally. it will mark the 25th anni-
versary of the Department of Medical Geneticsat the Psychiatric Institute under the directionof Dr. Franz Kallman. Cosponsors include theAcademy of Psychosomatic Medicine, the American Psychopathological Association. the American Society of Human Genetics and the ScottishRite Committee on Research in Schizophrenia.
The program is interdisciplinary, covering basic concepts as well as clinical considerations.Speakers from various countries will describetrends throughout the world. Inquiries should bedirected to Dr. David Impastato, Secretary, Eastern Psychiatric Research Association, 40 FifthAvenue. New York City.
• • •Aaaociation for the Advancement of
PsychotherapyThe Association for the Advancement of Psy
chotherapy will hold the Second Emil A. GutheilMemorial Conference on October 29, 1961 at theBarbizon Plaza Hotel in New York City. Thetheme is "Recent Contributions to the Theoryand Treatment of Depression." Dr. John Whitehorn. Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, JohnsHopkins University, will receive the SecondGutheil Memorial Medal and deliver the Memorial Lecture. InqUiries should be addressed toStanley Lesse, M.D., Secretary, Association forthe Advancement of Psychotherapy. 15 West 81stStreet, New York 24, N. Y.
• • •Sixth Hahnemann Symposium
The Sixth Hahnemann Symposium titled "Psychosomatic Medicine" will be held at the Sheraton Hotel, Philadelphia, Pa.. from Sunday, December 10 to Thursday, December 14, 1961. Thesymposium will present an extensive consideration of the functional aspects of medicine for thegeneral practitioner, internist, and psychiatrist,with special emphasis on the ambulatory patient. Psychoanalysis, psychotherapy and drugswill be compared in the management of thesepatients.
For program and further information writeto Dr. John H. Nodine, Symposium Director,Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital, 230North Broad Street, Phile.delphia 2, Pat