ABSTRACT
The Research Committee of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA) was also Wallerstein's intellectual progeny. Although first established under his successors, Joe Sandler's, presidency, the most senior researcher in the IPA was appropriately the founding Chair. He established the March Research Conference in London. The first Conference, organized by Otto Kernberg in 1991, was an enormous success, its high point Wallerstein's end-of-conference summary of the meeting, where all attendees—both those presenting and those listening—learned what had been said. Wallerstein's most important contribution to international psychoanalytic research came during Kernberg's presidency of the IPA. The Kernberg-Tyson administration was elected with a promise of financial support for systematic psychoanalytic enquiry. Most funding came from local psychoanalytic associations or from small family foundations. Many had given up applying or learned to disguise psychoanalytic aspects of their projects. Bob Wallerstein represents psychoanalytic research for many psychoanalysts around the world.
