IPA Electronic Newsletter 8, December 2009

	From the Officers
	From the President Charles Hanly looks forward to the IPA's centenary
	Secretary General's Report Gunther Perdigão presents the goals of the new administration
	The Treasurer's Column Henk Jan Dalewijk is pleased to report on some cheering news

Abel Fainstein, Chair of the Programme Committee, reports on fruitful interchanges from different cultural perspectives

	Panel Reports
	Claudio Laks Eizirik - The Opening Clinical Panel
	Hugo Bleichmar: Neuroscientific Contributions to Psychoanalytic Theory
	Jorge Canestri: Unconscious theories in the Analyst's Mind at Work
	Jill Scharff: Telephone Analysis
	Ron Spielman: Comparative Perspectives on the Unconscious in Clinical Work
	David Terman/James Fisch: Kohut Today
	Susana Vinocur Fischbein: The Place of Virtual Reality in Psychoanalysis

	News
	Horacio Etchegoyen is appointed Honorary Vice President of the IPA
	New and recent books by Members 2009-2010
	Membership changes
	Events