All Members of the Academic Community are invited to
      Participate in an Interdisciplinary Conference on
          Crosscultural Studies in Child Development:

          CHALLENGING THE CHILD TO FIGURE THINGS OUT:
            Frustration, Mastery and Individuation
            in Inuit (Eskimo), East Asian, Pacific,
                   and Western Child Rearing.
  Parent-Child Interactions in Ethnography, Fantasy and Art
                        Sponsored by
The Psychoanalytic Anthropology Interdisciplinary Colloquium
          of the American Psychoanalytic Association
                  in a Joint Meeting with
            The Canadian Psychoanalytic Society

      Saturday, May 30th, 1998, 9:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M.
          The Royal York Hotel, Toronto, Canada

Presenters:
Jean L. Briggs, Ph.D. (Anthropology, Memorial Univ. of
    Newfoundland, St. John's, Nfld.)
Daniel M. A. Freeman, M.D. (Child Psychoanalyst, Jenkintown,
    PA)
Dan Merkur, Ph.D. (Comparative Religion, Univ. of Toronto)
Peggy J. Miller, Ph.D. (Psychol. & Communications, U. of IL,
    Urbana-Champaign)
Masahisa Nishizono, M.D. (Psychoanalyst, Fukuoka, Japan)
Fitz John P. Poole, Ph.D. (Anthropology, U. of CA San Diego,
    La Jolla)

Discussants:
Anni Bergman, Ph.D. (Child Psychoanalyst, New York, NY)
Paulina F. Kernberg, M.D. (Child Psychoanalyst, White
    Plains, NY)
Richard Preston, Ph.D. (Anthropology, McMaster University,
    Hamilton, Ont.)

This conference will consider child-rearing strategies used
by adults to stimulate children to mature, individuate and
self-regulate within the framework of their culture's
expectations and values.  Parents in many cultures, at one
or another stage of child-rearing, become less educative and
directive and create an emotional environment which
challenges a child to figure out how to adapt to family and
community standards.  They sit back, put responsibility on
the child to pull things together, and patiently wait until
the child finds his or her own way of accommodating personal
strivings and identity with societal norms and
responsibilities.  There are differences in when this occurs
in the course of the child's development and how parents
pose the problem and put the child 'on the spot' to decide.
 This approach contrasts with the parental technique of
setting specific rules and requirements, telling the child
what is expected, and enforcing compliance.  Differences in
developmental experiences lead to cultural variations in
impulse control and conscience mechanisms and in the ways in
which interpersonal processes and internal self-regulatory
mechanisms subsequently interact in decision-making during
adulthood.

Registration Form:
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      "Challenging the Child to Figure Things Out"
Interdisciplinary Conference.  Saturday, May 30th, 1998.
Please mail to:  The American Psychoanalytic Association,
                 309 East 49th St.,
                 New York, NY 10017
Name_______________________Degree:______Phone (___)_________
Address_____________________________________________________
Please indicate: ___ Academic faculty or student. No
                     registration fee.  (Please bring ID)
                 ___ Pre-registering by 5/1 for entire
                     convention ($200).  (No added fee for
                     this meeting)
                 ___ Mental health professional
                     pre-registering for this conference by
                     5/1/98, enclosing $50 check to 'The
                     American Psychoanalytic Association.'
                     ($75 at the convention)
For questions or further information, please call Dr. Daniel
 Freeman, at (215) 884-3568.