APA's Annual Meeting in Atlanta

APA has Georgia on its mind—for the first time in nearly three decades.

In the 27 years since APA last held its annual meeting in Atlanta, the city has gone through an extreme makeover, and members who haven't visited since then will be surprised and impressed to see what the capital of the “New South” looks like now.

Among the annual meeting's highlights will be sessions both large and small that explore this year's theme of psychosomatic medicine and the integration of psychiatry and the rest of medicine. In symposia, lectures, and workshops, experts will present the most up-to-date information on the interrelationship of medical and psychiatric symptoms and illnesses and the importance of psychiatric care in treating patients as “whole” beings. The meeting theme is particularly timely as research is now confirming what psychiatrists have known all along: that mind and body are inextricably linked.

This issue of Psychiatric News contains the annual meeting's preliminary program, some help in navigating the meeting, and lots of suggestions for leisure-time activities.