1er. semestre - Año XXV - aespat

144 Francisco Massó Cantarero
Francisco Massó Cantarero, Madrid, Spain.
Dear Friends:
In my acceptance speech for the Steiner
Award presented to me by ACAT (Asociación
Catalana de Análisis Transaccional)
this summer in Barcelona, I had the audacity
to propose the celebration of a congress
in honor of Eric Berne, in anticipation
of the centenary of his birth, just four years
from now.
It’s always preferable to celebrate a birth
rather than a death, especially if there’s
need for another renaissance, as I believe
there is now.
My proposal can only be understood in
light of the fondness and respect I have for
the figure of Eric Berne, who through his
work managed to transcend himself, perhaps
despite himself, or without really aspiring
to do so. In presenting this proposal I’d
like to make clear that I have no need for
notoriety or the promotion of my practice.
As 2010 is the year before my retirement
(well-deserved, I can’t help feeling at this
point) there would be little opportunity for
gain at any rate.
The attached draft arose from a combination
of my own musings and five obligatory
visits to Euroforum Infantes in El Escorial, a
beautiful and historic town just outside Madrid,
where I went to listen to the wing-beat
of the soul’s butterflies, as the Nobel laurea-
PUBLICIDAD DE CURSOS Y CONGRESOS /
Courses and Congress advertising
PROPOSAL FOR AN INTERNATIONAL
CONGRESS OF TRANSACTIONAL ANALYSIS
Revista de Análisis Transaccional y Psicología Humanista, Nº 56, Año 2007
FRANCISCO MASSÓ CANTARERO
te, physician and neuroscientist Ramón y
Cajal called the pyramidal neurons.
I say draft because the entire document
is highly provisional, especially if no entity
with legal sovereignty takes up the proposal
and officially launches it.
My wish is that the local TA associations
(AESPAT, ATA and ACAT) adopt it, and
bring on board the international ones (ITAA,
EATA, and ALAT) with the aim of creating a
synergy to foment the greatest degree of
collaboration possible.
The next step would be to constitute Organizational
and Scientific committees, according
to the attached plan, or any other
among the few alternatives; it’s not like we
had a lot of resources. Following that, each
person would work according to their creative
impulses, personal criteria and sense of
responsibility.
I didn’t propose myself for any post, but
I’m at the disposition of the Organizing
Committee to assume any task they might
assign me and for which I consider myself
competent.
Though by no means the first to personally
approve the plan, Dr. Junchaya, current
president of ALAT, with whom I’m in
regular contact, is certainly a significant adherent.
He assured me of his intention to
solicit the support of ALAT during the proceedings
of the association’s congress, in
Salvador de Bahia, Brazil, in September.