ABSTRACT

The first manifestation of the illness might be dementia. There will be a number of apparently healthy, but mentally disturbed young people going around in the community. The Scientific Programme Committee of Institute of Group Analysis (IGA) in its meeting of 15 July agreed that the workshop should be a joint Group-Analytic Society (GAS)/IGA event. The whole team held a final meeting a week before the workshop. The first draft of the programme had been followed by seven subsequent ones, each submitted for comments to the co-convenors and the chairman. The title of the workshop was changed a couple of times, mostly in order to avoid using words that might hurt various sensitivities. In its meeting of 11 March, the GAS Committee gave the go-ahead to organize a one-day workshop to bring together interested group analysts with people on the frontline of the acquired immune deficiency syndrome crisis.