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We have Been in existence for five years and we believe this has been a productive period. What have we created and developed? We founded the Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis to carry out the purpose of advancing psychoanalysis as is so clearly stated in its name.
To implement that objective, the Association provided opportunities for people with similar interests to communicate and to contribute. For five years the Association has held monthly meetings at the New York Academy of Medicine. Scientific papers have been presented and discussed by members of the Association and by guest lecturers in allied fields. It has held monthly interval meetings which are attended by members and doctors training at the American Institute for Psychoanalysis to become psychoanalysts. At these meetings a number of new ideas have had their trial run. From these discussions have come modifications, elaborations, and additions to the original presentations. For all of us, it has been an enriching experience to participate in the creation and development of new concepts.
For the purpose of learning together in a more systematic way, the Association created the American Institute for Psychoanalysis. Here post-graduate courses in psychoanalysis are offered to physicians seeking our help in the application of psychoanalysis to their particular fields. A training program for psychiatrists wishing to become certified psychoanalysts is offered. And to meet the desire for psychoanalytic orientation on the part of persons studying the social sciences, law, theology, education, and social work, the Institute, with the cooperation of the New School for Social Research, offers courses a that institution.
From the outset we felt that our ideas should be made available in printed form. We therefore founded The American Journal of Psychoanalysis.
One of the aims stated in the constitution of the Association is the dissemination to the community of those elements in psychoanalysis which ma