A one-day seminar arranged by the Women's Psychotherapy Referral Service, Inc., and by Susanne P. Schad-Somers, President, described in the course catalog as follows:

How can psychotherapy distinguish between real and fantasized images of destruction and yet help a person who is caught among forces that are both realistic and beyond the control of the person and therapist? Today's economic, political, and social upheavals exert extraordinary stress on the individual, and this stress can give rise to feelings of helplessness, confusion, futility, and even to acute anxiety states; or catastrophes can be used as resistance in psychotherapy to undermine the process. A group of noted psychotherapists presents papers that take a last-second look at contemporary problems reflected in the mirrors of their disciplines and offer creative ways of coping with the 1980's." Topics and speakers include, "The American Family Coping with Change," Marianne R. Roncoli, Ph.D.; "Liberation as a Source of Stress," Emily Marlin, CSW; "The Hazards of Masculinity," Jack Jaffe, Ph. D.; "Creative Uses of Stress," Margo Spoerri, MS.