ABSTRACT
The first meeting of IFTA was held on July 21, 2015 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the Bard College longy School of Music. This meeting was designed to begin to achieve the goals of the association. An international group of psychoanalysts was asked to participate in a roundtable discussion of the different contemporary models of psychoanalytic field theory. The group participants were: Elsa Rappoport de Aisemberg, Roosevelt Cassorla, Giuseppe Civitarese, Marco Conci, Beatriz de león de Bernardi, Antonino Ferro, James l. Fosshage, S. Montana Katz, Joseph lichtenberg, Claudio neri, Martin Silverman, Donnell Stern, and Juan Tubert-oklander. Twelve of the participants wrote papers in advance of the meeting. These papers were then shared among the group prior to the meeting. At the meeting itself all of the papers were discussed by the group. The thirteenth member offered a discussion of the papers.
