ABSTRACT
In July 2001, the situation of the International Psychoanalytical Association(IPA) did not seem to present any real difficulties. The extension of our member societies also took another form: the return to the IPA of societies that had separated from it three or four decades earlier, generally immediately after the war. Joseph Sandler made the decision to organize an annual meeting in London, within the university framework, on the issue of research in psychoanalysis, and he immediately invited to take part in it. Ricardo Bernardi of Montevideo was preparing a thesis on the history of the debates between psychoanalytic schools, based mainly on the discussions that had brought together Kleinians and Lacanians on the Rio de la Plata in the 1960s. Perhaps one of the most stimulating parts of activity as president was to contribute to the development of many groups of psychoanalysts, particularly in Europe and in Asia.
