Bulletin of the Psychoanalytic
Research Society, Volume II, Number 1, Spring, 1993
General Announcements
In each issue of the Bulletin we intend to publish announcements
about members of the Society as well as items that may be of interest to
our members. Please send relevant material (e.g., grant awards, honors,
recently published articles or books, Quests for information or collaboration,
employment opportunities) to the Editor.
- The Third International Congress on Disorders of Personality will take
place in Cambridge, MA on September 8-11, 1993. Among the invited presenters
at this conference are Jerome Kagan, Otto Kernberg, and Theodore Milton.
Special conference rates are available for graduate students, and registration
discounts will be applied to individuals registering for the conference
before June 1. For further information contact the Congress office at 1-800-343
4043 or 617-864-2252.
- The American Psychological Association (APA) Science Directorate has
established a Dissertation Award Program to assist graduate students with
funding for their dissertations. Only Student Affiliates of APA may apply
for these funds, which are awarded on a competitive basis. The dissertation
must be approved by the applicant's committee prior to application; research
may be in any area of psychology. For further Information contact Cheri
Lane at the APA Science Directorate, 202-336-6000.
- The annual Division 39 Spring Meeting will take place at the Waldorf-Astoria
hotel in New York City from April 14-18, 1993. The theme of this year's
program is "Psychoanalysis: Diversity and integration." Speakers
will include Judith Alpert, Leopold Caligor, Jay Greenberg, Frank Lachmann,
Ester Shapiro, Donald Spence and Daniel Stern.
- The 24th annual meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research will
take place on June 22-26 in Pittsburgh, PA. For further information regarding
the meeting contact Dr. Paul A. Pilkonis, Western Psychiatric Institute,
3811 O'Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213; 412-624-5591.
- The American Psychological Association of Graduate Students (APAGS)
has announced three new scholarship programs that will begin this year.
Each scholarship carries an award of up to $2200 per academic year. These
scholarships are as follows: 1) The David Pilon Scholarship for training
in Professional Psychology (designed to support the recipient's future
education and training endeavors); 2) The Scott Mesh Honorary Scholarship
for Scientific Psychology (designed to support empirical research projects);
and 3) The Ellin Bloch and Pierre Ritchie Honorary Scholarship (designed
to recognize work on an important social issue or an under-researched group.
Submission deadlines for all three scholarships are December 15; selection
of awardees takes place the following spring. For further information contact
Nancy Forest in the APA Executive office at 202-336-6095.
- Each year the William T. Grant Foundation makes awards to young faculty
whose research pertains to the development of children and adolescents.
The successful applicant's institution receives up to $175,000 (including
indirect costs) over five years to provide partial support for the young
investigator. Preference is given to researchers whose work examines the
causes, correlates and consequences of stress in children and adolescents.
Deadline for applications is July 1. For further information contact the
William T. Grant Foundation, 515 Madison Avenue, New York, NY, 10022.
- APA members can keep up to date on the latest behavioral research funding
opportunities by subscribing to APA's Research Psychology Funding Bulletin.
Funding announcements from a wide variety of federal and private agencies
are included in this bulletin. Those who have access to BITNET or INTERNET
can subscribe by sending the following command in an Email message to LISTSERV@VTVM2.BITNET:
SUBSCRIBE APASD-L your name. If problems arise when attempting to send
this message, contact the APA Science Directorate at 202-336-6000.
- The Murray Center awards grants of up to $5000 to support research
(including doctoral dissertations) investigating topics related to human
development and personality, sex differences, and personality development
in girls and women. For further information contact the Murray Research
Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138.
- The APA Books Program is seeking proposals for edited or authored books
summarizing available test instruments designed to assess personality traits,
motivations, attributes and abilities. Proposals (including a topic outline,
table of contents and CV) should be sent to Julia Frank-McNeil, Director,
Acquisitions and Development, APA Books, 750 First Street NE, Washington,
DC, 20002.
- A National Institutes of Health (NIH) consensus development statement
on diagnosis and treatment of depression is available free of charge. The
report contains recommendations regarding identification and treatment
of depression in older adults. Copies may be obtained from William Hall,
Director of Communications, Office of Medical Applications of Research,
National Institutes of Health, Federal Building, Room 618, Bethesda, MD,
20892.