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I believe our growth and progress as an association for the advancement of psychoanalysis should be measured by the extent to which we have related our thinking and our functioning to the universal and basic social processes and conflicts, and by the manner in which we have fulfilled our obligations to a community in the throes of all the uncertainties and insecurities that inevitably succeed war.
I report the following as real evidence of this growth and progress.
The number of psychiatrists in training at the Institute has greatly increased. Applications for training continue to mount, many coming to us from distant cities and from psychiatrists who have been in service. Applicants were interested in our emphasis upon cultural rather than instinctive factors and felt that our orientation had special value for dealing with the problems and anxieties of everyday relationships.
Our training program was greatly facilitated by a very generous gift from Mr. Cornelius Crane to be known as the Crane Fund for use as loan fellowships.
There has been an intensive and extensive program of community education. In addition to our monthly meetings at the Academy of Medicine and lectures for the Auxiliary Council, several students conducted courses at various hospitals and group agencies. The attendance records of the Auxiliary Council lectures showed in some instances a five-fold increase over last year. A review of the subjects presented indicates our broadening perspective and shows that our interest extends beyond the neuroses and psychoses and concerns itself more and more with the inter-relationship between social pathology and psychopathology.
A successful innovation in our community education was a series of discussions about psychoanalysis and related subjects which took place during informal Sunday teas. This was initiated by the Auxiliary Council and members and students of the Association led the discussion.
The Association's journal has greatly increased its circulation, i